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Posted on 5/5/15 at 5:23 pm to finestfirst79
Posted on 5/5/15 at 5:23 pm to finestfirst79
English Major at Berkeley?
Prepare for your son to end up being brainwashed into a douche, self hating liberal SJW.
Prepare for your son to end up being brainwashed into a douche, self hating liberal SJW.
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Posted on 5/5/15 at 5:30 pm to deltaland
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Prepare for your son to end up being brainwashed into a douche, self hating liberal SJW.
Compared to a brainwashed douche, world hating conservative.
Like you?
Posted on 5/5/15 at 5:30 pm to hipgnosis
27 yo so he should be able to discern -- stay away from Berkley at all costs
Posted on 5/5/15 at 5:49 pm to Rig
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If he's 27 can't he kinda figure it out on his own?
Sure he can. I just want to learn as much as I can and offer advice if he asks for it. He has kinda sorta nixed UCLA not because of the school but because of LA. We'll see. For the poster that mentioned USC - despite the name it's a private school. ~$49K tuition alone for 2 semesters. Compared to UCLA and other state schools at ~$13K (which will be waived, but it wouldn't be at USC).
Posted on 5/5/15 at 5:52 pm to Masterag
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...and make him get a double major in something more generally useful like comp sci or economics.
That's a good one, thanks. We're pretty far past the point of me "making" him do anything, but I can still knock him on the head.
Posted on 5/5/15 at 6:09 pm to finestfirst79
Does he want a career as a tenure-track professor?
Or perhaps he would like to be a novelist/playwright/etc?
Or perhaps he would like to be a novelist/playwright/etc?
Posted on 5/5/15 at 7:24 pm to FarmersFight
I'm sure he hasn't narrowed it down that much and chose English for the same sorts of reasons his father chose engineering (good at math and lots of possibilities vs. good at English/comp and lots of possibilities). At one time he wanted to be a lawyer but I think that has passed. I can't see him teaching at any level.
Posted on 5/5/15 at 7:25 pm to finestfirst79
Go Westwood son.
Posted on 5/5/15 at 7:30 pm to finestfirst79
UCLA he can graduate and go write mindless sitcoms to make his daddy proud
I keed I keed don't blow up my house
I keed I keed don't blow up my house
Posted on 5/5/15 at 8:50 pm to finestfirst79
Besides teaching, what possibilities could an English major get you? Seems like a waste of a degree imo
Posted on 5/5/15 at 8:52 pm to hipgnosis
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Compared to a brainwashed douche, world hating conservative.
Like you?
I didn't even finish college and I have my own business, so suck it
Posted on 5/6/15 at 3:02 am to finestfirst79
Ucla or Berkeley would be my choices. Just don't let him go to Davis. Nobody wants to be landlocked there.
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Posted on 5/6/15 at 3:41 am to finestfirst79
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California is going bankrupt
Posted on 5/6/15 at 7:08 am to finestfirst79
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. He has kinda sorta nixed UCLA not because of the school but because of LA
This is the reason I would go with UC Irvine over UCLA. Orange county is a lot different than LA.
Irvine city
Posted on 5/6/15 at 7:25 am to deltaland
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Prepare for your son to end up being brainwashed into a douche, self hating liberal SJW.
Jesus. If a 27-year-old man can't think for himself, no college in the world is gonna help him.
Posted on 5/6/15 at 7:45 am to FarmersFight
I think if he is going to school for an English degree and he is stuck on going to a UC, he should go to Davis. It is probably the cheapest option in terms of cost of living. I would not call Davis "remote." It is 15 minutes outside of Sacramento, which I guess is a smaller city in California (~500k in city and ~2.1 million metro).
I went to UCSD, which is not one of his options, so I don't have strong feelings about these other schools. However, my sister went to UCD for undergrad and eventually med school and I always enjoyed visiting her for Picnic day. Overall, I think that he will receive a great education and have a good time wherever he chooses to go.
I went to UCSD, which is not one of his options, so I don't have strong feelings about these other schools. However, my sister went to UCD for undergrad and eventually med school and I always enjoyed visiting her for Picnic day. Overall, I think that he will receive a great education and have a good time wherever he chooses to go.
Posted on 5/6/15 at 10:32 am to BioBobcat
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I would not call Davis "remote." It is 15 minutes outside of Sacramento, which I guess is a smaller city in California (~500k in city and ~2.1 million metro).
Yeah, you're totally right - I had not looked at a map in a while!
My memories of Davis were driving/dining through there on the way to Tahoe - it's 2hrs (I think Google is being generous here) from towns on the Peninsula.
Sacramento seemed like it was in another state.
Posted on 5/6/15 at 10:32 am to finestfirst79
Berkeley
Posted on 5/6/15 at 11:24 am to finestfirst79
Make sure that he knows not to have sex with another college student. The risks are too great (affirmative consent).
Berkeley is full of bat-shite crazy SJWs. I think I would punch a random moron every day if I had to visit that campus.
Berkeley is full of bat-shite crazy SJWs. I think I would punch a random moron every day if I had to visit that campus.
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