Okay, you have more than one partner in the span of your previous test to your next, then you should get tested regularly.  Obviously if you're married and not having affairs, it's unnecessary.

Just because it's not as much as you've paid, doesn't mean it isn't a lot of money.  20k in any circumstance is a huge chunk of money.  Or is your life, the amount you pay, the jobs you've been offered, and the salary you'll be making the new standard?

I have MP3s.

And welcome fellow newbie.

Also, I guess my other concern is reforming homeless people.  Into what? Working poor?  Even a Bachelor's degree is starting to become worthless and I doubt the government will reform them through that much schooling.

I agree that people shouldn't live in life support.  I think that is a waste.  But I also have a huge moral conflict with it because when it comes down to it, that handicapped person is someone's sister, brother, son, daughter, cousin, wife, etc.  If my sister got into a car wreck and became severely handicapped, I'd have a huge problem is the state swept in and put her down.  If you mean handicapped CRIMINALS...well, that doesn't make sense to me.  Kind of hard to rob a bank if you can't chew your own food. 

Didn't America begin as a bunch of criminals that were shipped over?

Of course there were ducks then.  They didn't just evolve out of nowhere.

Heh. What was that Aerosmith song? Dream On?



 

What was that George Michael song? Faith?

COME ON, think happy thoughts Peter Pan.

I wonder if this would be considered resurrecting of the thread is already at the top of the page.

Whether or not you can skip class and still succeed depends more on your major.  I'm an English major.  Everything I do is reading, literary analysis papers, creative writing, and then in class discussion.  I can pretty much go whenever I want and still get a B or better.  I do go to all my classes though because hey, I'm paying for them.  But when I was working on my Associates and had to take math and science courses, I'd pretty much screw myself if I didn't go.

As far as being totally unprepared, yes I agree.  Most kids (I'm included in this age gap) are playing with student loan money which, for now, is just free money to squander.  You can do what you want because you're an "adult."  Most of my peers from high school can be seen on Facebook in various photo albums of them being drunk and stupid.  I'm pretty sure I'd be in their shoes if I didn't opt to stay in my home city and go the cheaper route which is 2 years of community college, then two years at the satellite campus, and working my tail off at crap jobs.

But a tangent on the party note - I wonder if the phrase "Work hard, play harder" really applies.  You spend all this time in class, studying out of class, and oftentimes working a 20-30 hour a week job.  There's no balance, so it's pretty easy to give into partying when it seems like it's the only relief you can have from the perpetual stress load. 

I think the biggest despair I have is a) What the hell am I going to do after school? and b) The injustice felt of investing all of this time and money into an education that probably won't pay very well.  I realize my degree is a crapshoot since it's a liberal arts degree, but there are a lot of business majors, economics majors, and whatever other stereotypically practical majors that are struggling to find jobs.  I don't know if this is because of the increasing gap between upper class and lower class leaving fewer middle class jobs that a Bachelor degree would ordinarily guarantee you or the fact that pretty much any idiot can get through a university with a Bachelor's degree. And THAT fact, that any idiot can get a Bachelor's degree, drives me bananas.  I currently work as a tutor in our university writing center and I see kids in an upper division courses with papers that a fifth grader could write.  Who let them get that far?   This is supposed to be higher education.

In any case, I'm in my senior year in this program, and I'm too burnt out to even think about graduate school.  Apologies for the long rant, this one sort of gets me going.

I don't think biological viruses are alive since they lack the ability to reproduce on their own.

Just because a virus can't reproduce on its own, doesn't mean it can't reproduce at all.  It still has the ability to reproduce under the right circumstances.  There's also some argument about whether viruses adapt to the environment or not, but if you look at it on a small scale environment (that of the human body which is always changing and developing new immunities), viruses do adapt and change to the environment of the body. 

DIAF

Does that count?

Do it and...
Die in a...

Nope. No clue. 

I don't think Wikipedia is credible enough to be used as the basis for defining life.  It just seems silly.

Who're you? Thanx for the grats, but, again, who're you?

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