<p>What's the point of graduating with honors from a top 40 school if you are going to end up financially and emotionally worse off than your slacker friends from high school who went to lousy state schools, studied lame subjects, and ended up with GPAs lower than 3.0?</p>
<p>There isn’t one. </p>
<p>Do what makes you happy, please.</p>
<p>Chicks will pretend to be interested in the topic of your bachelor’s thesis for like five minutes before they go have sex in the back of a pickup truck with Joey who has an eyebrow piercing and works at the Exxon Mobil on route 202. That’s got to be worth something.</p>
<p>Quit whining and live your life, please.</p>
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<p>Undergrads at my alma mater are not required to write a thesis…Oh well.</p>
<p>Eyebrow piercings are gross. : (</p>
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<p>Errrrr…The race starts only after you graduate. And a good pole position, like the one you say you had, comes with no prerogative or guarantee. None.</p>
<p>If you’re only realizing that now, you’ve got some serious growing up to do.</p>
<p>What did you expect? You’d graduate and move on to some imaginary place where quality of life is determined by what school you graduated from and how well you did on your midterms?</p>
<p>Despite what a lot of CC posters want you to think, that’s not how life works.</p>
<p>Maybe it’s because you’re always on the internet about yourself instead of doing anything.</p>
<p>you should probably ask your slacker friends for advice then. haha.</p>
<p>Maybe if you weren’t on here whining about how horrible your life was, and actually DOING something about it, it wouldn’t suck so much.</p>
<p>Moire, you have already started a thread about this. According to your previous thread, you majored in mathematics, while your “slacker” friends majored in “lame” subjects like sociology.</p>
<p>First of all, lose the elitist attitude. Lousy state schools? Slacker friends? Lame majors? Who are you to judge? Maybe your friends went to state schools because of financial reasons, and maybe they chose liberal arts majors because they were better at reading and writing than quantifying. Just because someone is not good at the hard sciences/mathematics doesn’t make him/her a slacker. So please get off your soap box.</p>
<p>Secondly, don’t cry over spilled milk. Maybe you were misled, maybe you weren’t; it doesn’t make much difference now, so you need to do something about it, instead of wining about it on an internet forum.</p>
<p>Hmm a bachelors degree is almost worthless these days. Go to graduate school.</p>
<p>^no wayyyyy… that’ll just make him think he’d deserve to retire at 40 even more.</p>
<p>I thought we had already established that there was no point in you going to school, that other people agreed that there was no point in you going to school (or at the very least to the school you actually went to), and you should have become a construction worker. Did I miss something?</p>
<p>I don’t really get what the point is of you bemoaning that you should be doing better than your “slacker friends” are doing after studying “lame subjects” when you don’t think you should have studied any subjects at all.</p>
<p>I personally think the poster is too picky about jobs. I’m sure if he sucked it up and applied to jobs he didn’t 100% like, he’d find a decent paying job. You have to compromise in life. Do you want to work a job you completely enjoy and make less or work a job you partially dislike and make more? (I don’t even know if you enjoy your job now, just assuming.)</p>
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<p>Well if they’re now better off financially than you (presumably because they’re getting paid decent salaries in their careers) then perhaps they weren’t actually “slacking off” as much as you think they were…</p>
<p>The main issue here seems to be your entitlement mentality that somehow your degree entitles you so lots of money and a great lifestyle… it’s doesn’t. </p>
<p>I really like the car racing analogy someone else put out there. Your top degree might give you a good starting position in the ‘race of life’ but if you slack off you can quickly find yourself bring up the rear…</p>
<p>Moire, you’ve been told the same thing on all your threads…I’ll put it in bold, though…</p>
<p>**stop whining(and therefore making useless threads) about your unfulfilling lifestyle and find a goddamn job. virtually everyone starts at the bottom(including your slacker classmates) - ie lower your expectations</p>
<p>maybe your slacker friends had the will to be the best at what they did, instead of populating cc boards w/ their depressing thoughts on life</p>
<p>just find a ***ing job already and move on to the next phase of your life</p>
<p>So your friends are all on that baller status and you’re stuck free basin’. Bummer.</p>
<p>Stop making threads about your “horrible” life and try to improve it instead.</p>