Take comfort in the fact that every time someone types out the phrases "should of (sic) complied" or "play stupid games win stupid prizes" a spirit appears like in A Christmas Carol and shows them the future where they die alone without ever having known the love of another living being.
We hear you, we see you, and we know - as you do - that you're a miserable sorta-excuse for a human being who will never know a moment's happiness let alone be tolerable to any other person. Your existence is a cancer on the world and everyone forced to encounter you, even for a moment, is worse off for it. And unlike this woman shot down in cold blood, the moment you die will pass entirely unnoticed and unremaked upon. It will be like you never existed, and you know every word I said here is true. That's why you act the way you do and talk the way you do - because at night, when you're alone, you know all of this. The only thing that never occurs to you is that everyone around you knows it about you, too. You think your act fools anyone, and that's the scariest thing to you: the possibility that people see you for the coward you are.
They do. We do. Sleep tight. ...
It takes an enormous amount of courage to stand there, keep filming, and scream "What the fuck, you asshole" at someone wearing a badge who just shot and killed one of your neighbors in cold blood.
If you're grasping for anything to feel good about right now - and that's a very difficult thing to find - feel good about the fact that not everyone is as much of a spineless, collaborating coward as our elites. Total strangers will risk their lives to stand next to you. ...
J. Dryden says:
Oh yes, that was definitely my experience as well. Fifteen minutes on health benefits, parking, expectations of professional development, and 3 hours on "for the love of God, don't fuck your students or call any of them racial/ethnic slurs. And try not to mention God, Jesus, or anything that might make them think that you want to convert them. Mostly, though, don't fuck them." However, in their defense, I found out pretty quickly that an alarming number of my fellow graduate students were, in fact, fucking the undergrads, so the adminstration's paranoia was well-founded.
Desargues says:
I started grad school twice in America (had to move, didn't like the first program). At St Louis U they totally tried to strike the fear of god into us lest we get any ideas about sleeping with undergrads (like those nubile young women have nothing better to do but have sex with grad school nerds and dorkos). At Johns Hopkins, it all came down to 'if you really can't control your urges, at least use a condom — and don't do it in exchange for better grades; we can be sued for that.'
BillCinSD says:
Engineering Grad School and University, that was not in the orientation at all. Well maybe the faculty one, but with most people being on research stipends, not much interaction occurred with the undergrads and we weren't involved in grading, so sex wasn't as explicitly forbidden in grad school.
VALIS says:
I guess I'll take the fact that I was not explicitly told not to fuck the undergrads as tacit support for the activity.
David says:
To quote a professor friend of mine who I'll leave unnamed.
"Fuck the system. It's nobody's business who you sleep with. And fair is fair, if they're screwing you, they probably deserve better grades."
Ah, cowtown academia….
j says:
Was there any mention of it being Opposite Day?
Annoyed says:
HA! I'm a grad student at a different Ga University. We were never told not to fuck the undergrads. But we ere given advice to not fuck the faculty.
Ike says:
I totally need to finish my B.A. so I can apply to grad school.
Craig says:
With the long hours, short pay, and ritual humiliation that comes from being on the very lowest rung in the system of Academic Feudalism, I imagine the sex would be about the only attractive thing about grad school.
It's got to be a narrow window in which the 18 year old undergrads are so taken by one's maturity, prestige and experience that it overcomes one's waning beauty, waxing body mass index, and daily growing bitterness and cynicism. I would think grad students of any gender and persuasion should make their hay before the Sun sets.
Patti says:
But –
Can you still fuck WITH the Undergrads?
Robert Nagle says:
More thoughts .
“the only purpose of a college education is to reduce the time spent thinking about the opposite sex from 80% to 60%.” John Finley.
Dave says:
Oh dear god, Grad School, I've been doing it wrong.
kelly says:
hahaha, we got the "DO NOT HAVE SEX WITH THE CHILDREN" speech, but were told it was not against the rules for the grad students to sleep with the faculty if both parties were cool with it