Update for Everyone III - The Whinge Binge

[warandwar]

I had to drop my first class of the semester because today I got an email making vague but ominous allusions to hundreds of pages' worth of reading that I'm expected to already have done that nobody told me about. I decided that playing catch-up was impossible.

Couldn't you have just explained your situation to the Professor? Or are teachers at your university unusually intransigent/uncaring?

I could have--I've heard he's a great guy--but I decided against it because the class:

1. Was seven hours a day for seven days, which I chickened out of committing to, and:
2. Also involved a field trip to  ing Andover. Andover is in the Merrimack Valley, up near the New Hampshire border, and I have a long commute already--Porter Square to Boston University is about an hour each way. It just wasn't worth it.

Besides, the class I added to replace this one, Buddhism in America, is a lot more in my wheelhouse anyway.

I'm surprised that it's an hour from Porter Square to BU. Years ago I covered that regularly by bike in about 20 minutes or less. Is this not at the main campus?

BTW my daughter lives near Powder House Square.

Powder House Circle, you mean (I lived down the block in the parsonage on College Ave. when I was small).

[Antonio the Sixth]

My new Spanish teacher is a Bernie Sanders supporter

Siente el Bern?

[HagridOfTheDeep]

I had fish and chips for the first time in ages. Enough calories for the whole day in one meal, ugh. But they were so good...

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

muon, it is in fact at the main campus. I'm taking the T, so it's ten to fifteen minutes on foot from the apartment where I'm staying my friends to Porter Square, then about twenty minutes from Porter Square to Park Street, then waiting in Park Street for a few minutes, then about fifteen or twenty minutes from Park Street to BU.

Starting on Saturday though I'll be living in my permanent place for the next year or two and I'll have a much easier commute, Newton Center to Fenway and then to BU on foot. That'll be about half an hour.

[muon2]

I didn't think about the transfer at Park. I lived in Newton (West Newton) when I first started grad school. I invested in a bicycle from the start and found it invaluable getting around Boston and the inner suburbs: Waltham to Cambridge and points in between.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

Oh, I'll definitely have a bicycle for when the T won't avail me.

[Simfan34]

I am at my cousin's college orientation and the councillors are giving their preferred pronouns. God help us.

All so far have been normative, however.

e: Ahh, there we are.

[Simfan34]

Why was that necessary for them all to do that? Why couldn't the transgendered man just introduce himself as such-- give his name, and we would've gotten the message. Will we all need to start giving our preferred pronouns?

[Simfan34]

They're also talking about their "gourmet" dining hall. That word is now officially deader than a doornail. Although the video makes it look nicer than the dining hall at my college

[Simfan34]

There's a Wizard of Oz themed video for their wellness center.

RECEPTIONIST: What's your name?

MALE STUDENT: I'm Dorothy!

Distinctly nervous laughter from the audience

[Simfan34]

They're also talking about their "gourmet" dining hall. That word is now officially deader than a doornail. Although the video makes it look nicer than the dining hall at my college

I take that back.





Now I know why college costs are spiraling out of control. And the place is huge!

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

Where is this place?

[Simfan34]

Rowan in South Jersey.

Food reminds me of the Dig Inn (anyone been to one of those?) on my block that I eat at often. And it's probably much cheaper.  I actually just had a proper four course lunch- if you count that little pork as a course and not an amuse-bouche (seriously, something that could pass for an amuse-bouche in a college dining hall!). I could have gone for the soup and made it five. Just... wow!

[TDAS04]

My area got heavy rain last night, some homes flooded.  Fortunately, mine did not (unlike five years ago).

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

So Hurricane Erica might hit me.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Oh yeah, I really love Fireball too

[Antonio the Sixth]

I've been 45 hours without eating anything (and not really feeling any hunger either). That's what traveling does to me.

[Classic Conservative]

I'm going to a Ted Cruz event tomorrow so I'm wicked excited!!! then I start school on Monday

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I'm going to a Ted Cruz event tomorrow so I'm wicked excited!!! then I start school on Monday

Luckyyyyyyyyyyyyyy...

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

I'm going to a Ted Cruz event tomorrow so I'm wicked excited!!!

[Classic Conservative]

Met Ted today it was fabulous, also got a selfie with the presidential selfie girls.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

I'm going to a Ted Cruz event tomorrow so I'm wicked excited!!! then I start school on Monday

I saw him in 2013. Pretty damn good speaker.

[Classic Conservative]

I'm going to a Ted Cruz event tomorrow so I'm wicked excited!!! then I start school on Monday

I saw him in 2013. Pretty damn good speaker.

Great speaker really nice guy too.

[Boston Bread]

The first day of my first ever job begins tomorrow, I'm excited.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Met Ted today it was fabulous, also got a selfie with the presidential selfie girls.

who?