<p>It’s just a story in relation to America’s most prestigious institution, geesh. Do you take everything so seriously?</p>
<p>@kmazza You keep trying to win this stupid agrument that no one even cares about anymore. Can’t you just accept that everyone has his/her own opinion and that yours isn’t the only one.
P.S I hope you’re having a fun 10th year at community college, while ■■■■■■■■ kids on forums.</p>
<p>argument? I’m just bored and rambling but do have something to complete. My friends with stimulating conversation are currently buried in schoolwork or getting laid. Give me a good argument and I will make sure I lose. </p>
<p>If no one, including you, doesn’t care, then why do you continue to write self defeatists posts then? Talk about pointless, pointing out the obvious, and considering it profound. </p>
<p>Thanks though! I have fun in all I do, and see life as a form of play. Even studying and screwing up the curve in CC is fun for me. The teachers see that I’m actually there to learn so we laugh at the same things.
I love seeing those 4.0 students faces when they get their first C or D in CC. I’ve had a few teachers make a few students cry saying ‘but I thought your were a 4.0 student’ <sarcastically> ending off with an oh well or boo hoo, rubbing it in haha.</sarcastically></p>
<p>SMC was the most fun when sunk a few dozen students (most who were cheaters and the studiers thanked me) grades down a notch or two. I love haters especially the LA ones with their ‘Like oh my god I like got a C because of like that like shaggy haired SF stoner hippie freak, like I am so like mad right now’ </p>
<p>PRICELESS!!!</p>
<p>All of you are arguing over something that really does not matter. There are much more important things in life than winning an argument on the internet, especially something like ‘prestige’ in school. Therefore you all deserve a link to this vid teehee. xD [YouTube</a> - Eraserhead Part 9/9](<a href=“- YouTube”>- YouTube)</p>
<p>Dude, bullies like yourself will never get anywhere in life. How about instead of trying to put a dent in the number of cc to UC transfers, which is already low enough, you should try helping them. I was a one year CC to UC transfer, but I never saw myself as better or smarter than anyone else there.
For example, when I got study groups together, I didn’t care whether someone was completely blazing through the course or struggling to keep up with the basics; as long as the person wanted to study for the test, thats all that mattered.
The transfer rate at my CC was 17% and I, for one, would like to see that number go up not go down.</p>
<p>Twistnswif, you rock! You and your choice of youtube videos ahhahahahaa</p>
<p>collegeis4losers, glad to hear, point taken and totally agree but me a bully, bahahhahaha you so misinterpret my character, posts and intent. I’m actually a extremely nice person who sincerely likes to help students and realize its tough starting out. Why is me here teaching about the education system or sharing stories a bad thing? I wish I had better guidance on how the system worked and had to spend years figuring it out from the local to legislation level myself since counselors were useless. I like to debate but didn’t even know it was an argument until GT showed up again insulting me again. keep up the good work!</p>
<p>Oh man… ****ing hilarious, this whole thread. And now we’ve got goingmeta sitting on kmazza’s lap, like… what’s that tiny annoying creature that sat on Jabba the Hut’s tail in Star Wars? Salacious Crumb?</p>
<p>kmazza: “blah blah bleh useless long-winded nonsense”
goingmeta: “ehehehehehehehe! eheheheheh!”
somebody else: “kmazza, you -do- realize you’re ■■■■■■■■, right?”
goingmeta: <em>claws and hisses</em></p>
<p>Just awesome.</p>
<p>Anyhow: Yeah, I’m kind of an *<strong><em>, but… what really gets me going here is peoples’ staggering inability to spot </em></strong>. kmazza is 39 years old yet spends what seems to be every waking moment on these boards, claims to have “chosen to be homeless,” claims to have detailed information about every single community college or university campus that comes up, to have worked at two dozen different college campuses, to have inside information about the admissions procedures / etc all over the place, claims to have been accepted at UCLA, UCB and just about every other prestigious university that gets mentioned in any substantive way, has alternately claimed to live in a dozen places, and now claims that one of his “best friends” is worth “3/4ths of a billion dollars” and that he knows several multi-millionaires…</p>
<p>…c’mon guys. Really? I mean… hell, I know deception detection is more difficult online. You lose all the micro-expressions, postural cues, super informative inflections, tones and all those fancy nonverbals, and that makes it tough, but… seriously, use your *<strong><em>ing heads. The guy’s full of *</em></strong>, and I don’t much care if he’s the god damn Pope or Jesus or Gandhi: if you’re full of ****, I’m going to call you out on it.</p>
<p><em>grabs crotch at kmazza</em> Your move, chief.</p>
<p>Hallelujah! Glad to see I’m not the only one that caught the stench of B.S going on around here.
@ kmazza Man, I lost you after you told the story about the slut at USC. I mean c’mon! Theres porn and there’s reality; If you went to a real university you would know that hot girls are plentiful, and they do not need to **** the professor to get an A.</p>
<p>Lol@ me sitting on his lap. Yeah buddy, having some expectations in a discussion obviously means I’m taking sides.</p>
<p>Nice argument by the way. Get a little less mad next time.</p>
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<p>You should -totally- make Salacious Crumb your avatar. ;z</p>
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Do you not see that kmazza is *<strong><em>ing ■■■■■■■■? Hes god damn 40 years old, attending community college, and thinks he knows everything. Hes hating on our generation for wanting to attend Big Brand Name schools just for the prestige of saying we attended it. I mean, this guys has a chip on his shoulder, yet he portrays himself in such a way that its hard to see that hes just a *</em></strong>ing ■■■■■. I don’t believe any of the crap hes been putting on here, and quite frankly, I think hes just a loner that’s trying to make himself feel better by sounding intelligent on these boards. Tarrant is right, he can post whatever he wants, but if its ******** I’m going to call him out on it.</p>
<p>I haven’t read all of his posts and I’ve only seen him here recently.</p>
<p>I don’t know how you know that many details about his life (has he actually given information away or are you just assuming?). I also don’t know why you’re bothering to attack him if his ideas are so ridiculous. I’d have a lot more respect for you if you just laid out the reasons behind why you think he’s wrong–but you’re not doing that. </p>
<p>So who should I listen to? The teary-eyed kneejerk-response dip**** squad or somebody who can actually participate in a discussion?</p>
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I don’t think he’s in the wrong for doing so either; it is a shallow attitude to have.</p>
<p>I can find maybe half a dozen threads, with people calling him out on ******** or something related to that. Hes got a elitist’s mentality, although in reality hes probably nothing; and he has to prove his point ever single time. Just because hes being politically correct about it, and I’m not, doesn’t mean *<strong><em>. If you want to go into the credibility issue then fine, lets take that route shall we?
Kmazza, himself, has stated that he has been at community college for 10 years and yet he knows all this info on every undergraduate, graduate school you can think of?? Why is a man so intelligent still at a cc? Is he there for kicks or what? Look I don’t like the guy and frankly I think hes full of *</em></strong> but hey that’s just me and apparently a handful of other users here. Come back when you finally get off his nuts.</p>
<p>I don’t think you even understand what you’re saying.</p>
<p>How is he being politically correct? What does the name calling have to do with anything? How is he the elitist (out of all of you) if he’s the one that doesn’t care about the name recognition or prestige?</p>
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<p>If that’s really what you’re thinking here, you’re fundamentally misunderstanding something. We’re not crying, or whining, or particularly angry or anything. We’re amused. We’re laughing – not to the point of tears, mind you… although that’d be somewhat meta, wouldn’t it? :p</p>
<p>You obviously have a strong sense of social justice and – I’m going to make an assumption here – seem to believe that everything can be worked out, every problem solved, through rational discourse and logical consideration. You’re going to find out in the next few years that this is not always the case. It simply isn’t true, and it won’t make sense to you at first. It’s bothersome and counter-intuitive and feels wrong. But you’ll eventually come to terms with the fact that humans are ultimately not rational entities, whether interacting at individual levels, in groups, or together as nations.</p>
<p>If we sit here and try to have a civilized, cogent “argument,” as you’re fond of saying, with kmazza, we’re not going to get anywhere because the guy isn’t playing with a full deck – people like that need to be called out and have their ******** exposed through literary Jiujitsu, not syllogism.</p>
<p>The information that others and I have referenced is readily available should you search for kmazza’s threads and posts – and there’s actually a significant amount of outlandish claims and laughable BS that none of us have bothered to bring up yet, but we’re not building a dossier here. We’re just trying to get the job done – that is, call out a ******** artist.</p>
<p>Finally, as for your most recent post, the very fact that he claims to have no regard for the name recognition or prestige of any particular university should immediately cause you to consider that something might be wrong here.</p>
<p>It’s not a rational position for a college student to have (even if he is 40 years old), as name recognition and prestige – whether we like it or not – are fundamentally important. Whether the relationship is causal or correlational, it has a bearing on faculty and thus general academic program quality, research opportunities both graduate and undergrad, and future employment prospects. This reality is inescapable and has nothing to do with our opinions – we can like it or dislike it all we want. This is not an arguable position. It’s demonstrable fact, although kmazza is trying to use an all-or-nothing fallacious argument to somehow suggest that occasional exceptions render this entire construct invalid.</p>
<p>Now, why do we give a damn? Just like you with your well-developed sense of justice, some of us juuuuust don’t much care for people who are full of ****, particularly when they loudly purport not to be. That’s all. It’s no more complicated than that. :)</p>
<p>I enjoyed the first part of this thread: the comparison of SDSU and UCLA, as I transferred from SDSU to UCLA.</p>
<p>I just wanted to clarify a point that many people were wrong on: SDSU does have Ph.D programs, which is why you’ll hear it cited as the nation’s “top small research institution.” It qualifies as a small research institution is because it has somewhere around 10 Ph.D programs.</p>
<p>I wondered about that before but wasn’t sure, thanks! and these are actually self sufficient PhD’s at SDSU or some hybrid, yoked, or joint with other colleges especially with digital and cuts? Id prefer SDSU over SJSU or SFSU for what I want to do. </p>
<p>Anyways, I don’t know whatever happened to this thread either; I was going to tell another past harvard and stanford story but decided not too. When I get old though I will return to Cambridge and work at Harvard, hell they even have a job right now I could do and pays like 5 grand plus++ a month but just have other plans. Like finishing up in california and attending college in Canada or Australia or New Zealand on scholarship versus the cost of doing a year internship and graduating from a UC and where I may settle since it could be a rough decade for California. I haven’t fully decided but do know the names and a bit about most colleges including the prestigious programs pretty much throughout all the English speaking countries worldwide. I’m more required to think of things more internationally in my field plus tons of Americans attend school overseas so its not really a big deal. I’d sure love and been working hard towards qualifying for a full or at least 3/4 to 1/2 paid scholarship overseas and even guaranteed 20 hours a week schedule which is all I want anyways. I didn’t get into Berkeley’s COE, Hass, or CS program but I could have done a year at Cal doing hard boring program i just wasnt feeling just to intern my senior year in Australia at one of Cals prestigious partner schools I really like doing a paleontology/museology major I wanted to do. Unfortunately the prestigious colleges for what I want to do even in Australia tend to be located in not as desirable locations as I would rather be if went there than LA or SB. </p>
<p>The budget cuts and tuition raise turned me off to UCB so decided I’d rather go to UBC in Canada instead. I decided not to go to UCLA undergrad for just whatever unless got into their film program which is difficult. It would be much easier for me to get into a great film school in Australia or east coast LAC or even USC realistically over UCLA’s program, which is too bad since is my favorite and makes sense if continued on to grad school at UCLA. For an alternative that left me with attending UCSB by taking a year concurrent with SBCC so wouldn’t affect me too much, then a year at UCSB and a year at like UQL Brisbane. I just wanted to do 6 months there and really the other 6 months studying, partying, and surfing hard at the Gold Coast campus but stupid stipulations prevent me from doing it that way unless find a way around it. </p>
<p>Ok I figure I will mention one of my ‘prestigious’ friend who has so much money he could double just what he has now not even including assets literally a billionaire in his 20’s if continues to play and stay smart and sharp. He could get into stanford, but there really isn’t any need too, and I wouldn’t even know what to recommend him for what he’d fit into there for undergrad. I mean what another billion easy in ones lifetime doing 5 years of medical plus 5 years of law, thats just too mind boggling@@!!! No way he wants nothing to do with that. He just want to finish up a real estates certificate although I have been trying to encourage him to just take the GE classes get em over with to get his associates degree. He doesn’t want or really need to attend a prestigious college and can just hire someone to teach him. He’s quite informed and goes to occasional meetings and specialized seminars… I think I’m making progress though on him at least thinking about taking some more GE classes</p>
<p>My piece of crap vehicle that is broken right now and working on is worth more than what he’s driving around with! He keeps running these cheap boring ass cars into the ground and just goes out and gets another pos totally uncool car and does the same thing over again instead of bringing them in for service or just buy a bland but nice new car I tell him. We buy each other lunch and I mentioned how his current car was starting to stink in a bit that I thought a bad way and how his stereo system is just too much f for it. He now wants to buy a new car and got him to test drive a couple of them which we did. I can’t believe he STILL wants to buy some of the most boring cheap ass ugly cars but just a bit newer when we been seeing incredible deals for him on nearly any sporty or prestigious car you can imagine without going overkill. I get his logic and where he is coming from and that he doesn’t want to stand out in his 20’s to early 30’s having an expensive even prestigious car just because he likes it and totally respect that.</p>
<p>Oh my -god- lmao</p>
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I think an effort should be made to resolve disagreements with civility.</p>
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Then you know what you do? You hold his feet to the fire. If he begins to ignore information which contradicts his opinion, then the only thing you have to do is make a post saying “this individual has ignored this and that information for some period of time.” If he’s just wrong, then correct him. If you do this everytime he tries to make a similar point, then either 1) the readers will form a similar opinion to yours–that he is in fact full of ****–or 2) kmazza will just stop posting. </p>
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<p>My impression of his argument was that “name recognition doesn’t necessarily mean the school has the best programs in all possible disciplines”–which is true. I’m doing computer science. Harvard has a big name, but would I want to go to Harvard to study computer science? No, because it’s not a leader in the discipline (obviously I’d take the opportunity if CMU, Berkeley or MIT wasn’t an option). This is completely reasonable.</p>
<p>TBH, I stopped reading his posts once he decided to tell his stories.</p>