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RomaVicta

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  1. That says an awful lot about our education systems. You shouldn't be able to get an undergraduate degree if you cannot express your thoughts lucidly. It's part of being learned. You're right about specialization. It's the result of turning universities into job training. Engineers don't need no writin' and thinkin' courses. It explains a lot about A&M.
  2. The process for earning a masters or PhD has become, seemingly to me (an idiot), an assembly line of templates and specific directions for writing. Passive voice. Over-describing a single item. Adoption or creation of words that are not needed. Recently, I read a description of a process where I work. If done correctly one might hope to attain "connectedness" with another person. There's already a word for what the writer wanted to convey, but the person's mind and writing were full of academic sounding words and forms that are tedious and sometimes obscure. It's my guess that back when graduate degrees were rarer, the candidates were actually gifted intellectuals who did not worry about articulating their thoughts and discoveries. They arrived to grad school having already established a voice and ability to array information in a natural way. I cringe when I hear someone talk about what the data says. Where I work, we must seek "data-driven" solutions. This shit will all pass when some other arcane or needless phrase appears from some doctoral candidate striving for a new expression to distinguish their largely useless investigations from the other useless investigations conducted on nearly the very same subject. Don't get me wrong. I'm sure the elite intellectuals who defined graduate degrees in the past are still present in that system and doing brilliant, useful work. I also think peddling grad degrees as a resume enhancer is a racket kind of like student loans. $$$$ I write for a living. I'm sensitive to overuse of the arcane. I'm not an elite writer, but I know what I'm doing and don't copy a template. Those who need one are not elite intellectuals in my humble opinion.
  3. Some cruel fuck raised a thread on TexAgs from last July. Routine Aggie fact generation: And confirmed Aggie Fact.
  4. Innovation at A&M. Look and learn, ye lesser programs! Here's a biggy: The plan? It's pretty complicated. I hope you can understand it. I'm scared. They're wearing this notion of the importance of Reed being the announced starter thus receiving more reps and improving beyond your wildest dreams completely out. He was just a baby when he went in for the Aggies. A little baby. Widely known, but I laughed at the below as an example of understatement in the name of copium. But so close to one. So close. A last revelatory goal. I guess somebody told him he absolutely had to have eight storylines. He likely negotiated down from 12.
  5. Well said, @bolverk. Sometimes, the next position of the wipeout Gaza crowd is that if we can't name a solution, then what else can possibly be done? The Gazan people become a Gordian Knot to be put to the sword. I hate what Israel is doing. I hate even worse that we're complicit. Biden's soft shoe wasn't enough to change that. Trump in a cheerleading outfit is mortifying.
  6. 😁 I agree with you. I've worked with social work professionals and they usually fit the mold you describe. I have a jihad against what grad school is doing to writing and language. Not crazy about the increasingly weak assumption that a higher degree means a lot. On resume's and job interviews, it seems to mean everything. Graduate degreed bosses are hiring same so they can all confirm how smart they might be. I have a graduate degree myself, but it wasn't the usual path. I'm sure yours required more rigor. Maybe all the grad school grads randomly being axed from government makes this post fit the the thread. I'm sure the never-Trumpers don't deserve it!
  7. Chances are that she's not all that caring to begin with. She treats trauma victims with regurgitated grad school jargon which likely is indeed helpful to some of them. She likely applies the regurgitation in the same passionless way that a mechanic fixes a motor. Fortunately for the mechanic, he doesn't have to speak (fill his space) with arcane gradstudent-ese. I imagine the conversation between the woman and her husband was filled with double-talk and obscurity. I must be self-actualized about the cajas llenas de mierdo (God how we loved that book by Culogrande!) that crowd my truth space. She's seems sort of self-important to begin with. Fuck her.
  8. If you're ever on fire very near me, I will piss on you.
  9. Remember those all important February recruiting rankings! Elko is killing it!
  10. Ummm, it says "hard commits" to A&M. They're not going anywhere.
  11. The Unselect Committee. Stings.
  12. We're a beleagued populace. The socialists tried to make us cut back on hamburgers. Lord knows how many perished during that horrible period in our nation's history. Those unsettling days of wondering if Big Macs would be always available, were made worse by the not-knowing whether the electricity coming out of the socket and plugs was from, gasp, clean energy sources. Woke energy from windmills or solar panels could be flooding our homes without us even knowing! Talk about your post-Trump interregnum conspiracies. We were being constantly radiated by woke energy that was compromising our precious bodily fluids. God Bless President Trump for saving us!
  13. When you have no choice, you may as well volunteer.
  14. I think we can say mission accomplished on building the new culture, Michael.
  15. I don't know what the prospects of war with Canada are. It sounds so strange. Lifted out of the rational world and considering the malign idiot running our country, I can imagine Trump thinking that everybody in the US unites when we attack somebody. Usually we do so with an absurd fairy tale of how we're actually defending ourselves. Afghanistan is the only exeception that I can think of. Trump cannot be expected to have any notion of what war is actually like. He ran away from it as a young man and has neither the curiosity or imagination to visualize it. He's one of the idiots who thinks, "neato!" watching the tanks roll. He'll get to watch all the best battle footage. Vicarious thrills and bravery! If any other president spoke like this in the past, we would question his sanity. Plans to erase the Palistinians to build a resort is lunacy. His abuse of power is manifest in his moves against government and persons he resents. He feels nothing doing so. He's sociopathic. I can certainly believe that Trump has images in his head that make attacking Canada seem like a glorious plan of action. I just can't see anyone carrying it out. I guess maybe he could keep firing generals until he finds the right psychotic, but the whole chain of command would presumably be revolted at the idea. Sorry to muse at such length. I'm taken wholly by surprise that so many of you conclude this is very possible. Can't get my head around it. I'm rooting for a junta. Strange days. Apt.
  16. Taxing them is the nicest of the options for what to do with them.
  17. Real discouse heads toward a conclusion even if it's disagreement. The "republicans" shown and all over the place start from conclusion and move towards argument. This is bad. I was told that. Now I must argue with people who are wrong about why it's bad. If they don't get it, that's on them because we all know it's bad. Argument proof. Persuasion proof. It will, as many say here, take pain. They must keep touching the hot stove they worship until it's unbearable. Most will have to burn through flesh to the bone before it dawns on them that they do not have to keep burning their hands.
  18. I watched some of it. I'd never heard of the man. I think he looks like a great introduction to politics and discourse. The format is entertaining which is required to hold attention. He argues well. The way he thinks is how things should operate in discussion about serious matters. Two thumbs up.
  19. From today's NYT webpage: USA! USA! USA!
  20. I like the detail of someone dressing the shot with those toy cars: What a fucking dick.
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