Stressed out finals rant...
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jeunemotard
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Sincerely I was in the same boat as you 3 weeks ago (studying as mechanical engineering technician, it's another way around to get to university in the same field)
I had a shitload of project to finish for my technical design classes , engineering tolerances classes, cnc manual programming, metrology and the mighty physics where I struggle a bit. I had to cut all the shit that was distracting me and work my ass like never. Going to school during the weekends and staying as late as 10pm every night to study and work on my projects.
Compared to my first year it was hell, I was used to have nice grades doing less then the majority , this is my second year and I have learned something that if you want to succeed you better work for it.
At the moment I am on vacation but next semester I will be prepared. I hope you also learnt something from this semester and will keep on working to finish your degree in mechanical engineering.
I had a shitload of project to finish for my technical design classes , engineering tolerances classes, cnc manual programming, metrology and the mighty physics where I struggle a bit. I had to cut all the shit that was distracting me and work my ass like never. Going to school during the weekends and staying as late as 10pm every night to study and work on my projects.
Compared to my first year it was hell, I was used to have nice grades doing less then the majority , this is my second year and I have learned something that if you want to succeed you better work for it.
At the moment I am on vacation but next semester I will be prepared. I hope you also learnt something from this semester and will keep on working to finish your degree in mechanical engineering.
There goes my plans of vacationing this summer. I'll be spending it at community college making up for all this fucking up I did.
I already emailed my dean seeking guidance... hopefully I can figure this out, but more importantly, not have my parents castrate me with a rusty spoon for flunking this badly.
I already emailed my dean seeking guidance... hopefully I can figure this out, but more importantly, not have my parents castrate me with a rusty spoon for flunking this badly.
Basement rat
Over 1,000 Posts
USAF, This is close to what I do. The trade course said its 76 days... Mine was a week short of a year and I learned about three more trades on top of this.
http://www.airforce.com/careers/detail/aircraft-structural-maintenance/
Mine, I'm in the video 8 seconds in, tall guy on the far left (I have pictures to prove it).
http://www.forces.ca/en/job/aircraftstructurestechnician-52
I couldn't afford to be where you are now. I joined the RCAF because I wanted to do all the stuff I saw on Monster Garage, Biker Build off, Motorcycle Mania, Junk Yard wars, etc... and I am!
I've never been out of the country for vacation, and I do not have a god damn car in Malta. My travelling is limited to work (three weeks in Idaho, four in Kansas IN MY LIFE!) and traveling through a few states from Ontario to Manitoba to visit my family for a few weeks.
Sort your shit out, forget about the weed and partying. Otherwise you will be like 99% of everyone I know who went to University or College. $25,000 in debt with nothing to show for it flipping burgers living with mom trying to pay for it.
http://www.airforce.com/careers/detail/aircraft-structural-maintenance/
Mine, I'm in the video 8 seconds in, tall guy on the far left (I have pictures to prove it).
http://www.forces.ca/en/job/aircraftstructurestechnician-52
I couldn't afford to be where you are now. I joined the RCAF because I wanted to do all the stuff I saw on Monster Garage, Biker Build off, Motorcycle Mania, Junk Yard wars, etc... and I am!
I've never been out of the country for vacation, and I do not have a god damn car in Malta. My travelling is limited to work (three weeks in Idaho, four in Kansas IN MY LIFE!) and traveling through a few states from Ontario to Manitoba to visit my family for a few weeks.
Sort your shit out, forget about the weed and partying. Otherwise you will be like 99% of everyone I know who went to University or College. $25,000 in debt with nothing to show for it flipping burgers living with mom trying to pay for it.
No shit guys, I get that. of course vacation is my last thoughts.
Don't think I don't understand the whole you have to work hard for what you want thing. My father grew up in poverty in malta. moved to australia at 17 with one pair of jeans. worked so fucking hard shoveling asphalt on a daily basis that it was simply impossible for him to eat enough food to make up for what he lost. by the time he got married at 21, he was around 140 pounds, 5' 10", and not a spot of fat on him. Moved to the US after telling his son of a bitch boss to fuck off and selling the house i spent my first two years in. Came here penniless. Worked 4am-9pm every night for the past 16 years. Just recently got his insurance taken away by some fuckers hes put up with for the past 15 years. on top of it all he has to deal with my bitching mom (another success story in her own right), which he doesn't deserve.
I wish I had half of his drive. But thats not to say I don't understand hard work. I helped build the house I live in, and I have pictures of me stripping lead paint (maybe thats whats wrong with me) at the age of 9. I know how to work hard. I simply lost sight of the goal for a while.
Anyway, none of that matters.
My dean was helpful. she dropped my two courses that I can no longer take because I needed calc and chem as a pre-requisite to them. I have some catching up to do, but i figure by next fall I can be back on track. Waiting till after christmas to break the news to my parents.
but for now, during this break, the only things I have to do once I make my schedule for next semester is wait for it to come. and that means finishing what I haven't before. which means doing my bike.
If I can't finish whats already been started I'll have a hard time scooping up the pile of shit that sits not too far ahead. So for now, I'll be working.
Don't think I don't understand the whole you have to work hard for what you want thing. My father grew up in poverty in malta. moved to australia at 17 with one pair of jeans. worked so fucking hard shoveling asphalt on a daily basis that it was simply impossible for him to eat enough food to make up for what he lost. by the time he got married at 21, he was around 140 pounds, 5' 10", and not a spot of fat on him. Moved to the US after telling his son of a bitch boss to fuck off and selling the house i spent my first two years in. Came here penniless. Worked 4am-9pm every night for the past 16 years. Just recently got his insurance taken away by some fuckers hes put up with for the past 15 years. on top of it all he has to deal with my bitching mom (another success story in her own right), which he doesn't deserve.
I wish I had half of his drive. But thats not to say I don't understand hard work. I helped build the house I live in, and I have pictures of me stripping lead paint (maybe thats whats wrong with me) at the age of 9. I know how to work hard. I simply lost sight of the goal for a while.
Anyway, none of that matters.
My dean was helpful. she dropped my two courses that I can no longer take because I needed calc and chem as a pre-requisite to them. I have some catching up to do, but i figure by next fall I can be back on track. Waiting till after christmas to break the news to my parents.
but for now, during this break, the only things I have to do once I make my schedule for next semester is wait for it to come. and that means finishing what I haven't before. which means doing my bike.
If I can't finish whats already been started I'll have a hard time scooping up the pile of shit that sits not too far ahead. So for now, I'll be working.
400+ active chemicals in pot was that covered in your class? Second thought im asking the wrong person. Just think when your a stock boy at walmart in a few years you will have the koolest cafe racer in the parking lot. just a thought deal with your shit like a man and go at school 100% or drop out.
Staffy
It's not yours 'til you cut it up.
Folks, I think Rocan gets the point.
One golden rule I always go by, is you never jump onto a person when they apologise or admit a mistake. As far as I'm concerned, Rocan figured out what has gone wrong for him pages ago. I can't help but wonder what benefit there is to carry on rubbing his nose in the issue when he's already admitted his mistakes. Best leave that shit for now and give the brother some due praise for coming to terms with his own faults and failings. Let's face it, we've all cocked up with our decisions somewhere along the line.
Rocan, I'm sure you're gonna get your shit together at your own pace and find your own way. Just keep asking yourself, what is it that you really want.
One golden rule I always go by, is you never jump onto a person when they apologise or admit a mistake. As far as I'm concerned, Rocan figured out what has gone wrong for him pages ago. I can't help but wonder what benefit there is to carry on rubbing his nose in the issue when he's already admitted his mistakes. Best leave that shit for now and give the brother some due praise for coming to terms with his own faults and failings. Let's face it, we've all cocked up with our decisions somewhere along the line.
Rocan, I'm sure you're gonna get your shit together at your own pace and find your own way. Just keep asking yourself, what is it that you really want.
Im not the one to sugar coat any thing ive lost five friend to drugs to date. Do you have any idea what it is like to watch some one kill them self. To catch friend that you went clear through school with tring to break in to your house looking for twenty bucks for a fix. just the day befor yesterday my buddy was full of smack and cut his wrist with a razor and dam near bleed out. Why is it so hard to see? I have looked back at there lives pot is where every one of those guys started, a few years later coke then herion. Tell your self your in control and that wont happen to you. Do you think for a second they did not tell them selves the same thing. Im not out to rub your nose in any thing, im not out to save you. I want you to understand that the only thing that seperates you from my five dead buddy is expermentation with harder drugs and time. How much easier would life be with out pot?
Would you have passed, would your bike be done ,who knows
The choice is yours you make it
Would you have passed, would your bike be done ,who knows
The choice is yours you make it
bradj, I would rather not think about my friends I've lost to drugs. I saw a good friend overdose on heroin a few years back, so no, you do not need to sugar coat it, but at the same time you do not need to remind me.
I have experimented with other drugs. Thankfully I never really saw the point nor do I have an addictive personality. I am one of the lucky ones.
And yes, most people start with pot, because its logically the first place to start. but to say that smoking pot makes you try other drugs is like saying buying a gun makes you into a murderer. The will to do something is up to you. of course, once addiction sets in, that all changes. but those who tried heroin, cocaine, or any other drug that has such dire addictive properties, without considering the effects is someone who did so without considering the implications of possibly being addicted to said drugs.
Heck, even when i dabbled with them, I realized what I was doing. I was just young and far too depressed at the time to have cared if it stopped my heart or ruined my life.
so fuck it, leave it at that.
I have experimented with other drugs. Thankfully I never really saw the point nor do I have an addictive personality. I am one of the lucky ones.
And yes, most people start with pot, because its logically the first place to start. but to say that smoking pot makes you try other drugs is like saying buying a gun makes you into a murderer. The will to do something is up to you. of course, once addiction sets in, that all changes. but those who tried heroin, cocaine, or any other drug that has such dire addictive properties, without considering the effects is someone who did so without considering the implications of possibly being addicted to said drugs.
Heck, even when i dabbled with them, I realized what I was doing. I was just young and far too depressed at the time to have cared if it stopped my heart or ruined my life.
so fuck it, leave it at that.
t71ford
Over 1,000 Posts
Err...not really sure what tack this is taking now. Guy gets on here to complain how he is failing at everything he touches, due to the things we all have been telling him would make him fail for 3+ years. But then he doesn't want to hear about it, and tells us everything is under control, and describes his superhuman abilities.
David, as I said before, I'm not one to try to upstage you. But no matter your abilities, opportunities, or your intelligence, you have have been relegated to the "fail" side of the room. You're hitting the bottom, and no matter how much you tell yourself that you have the skills, that you have worked hard in the past, or been great in the past, to your university and to yourself you have been a failure. You are getting measured by the world's standard now, kid. You might have made this realization, but it seems you are just vocalizing it, without getting what it really is. I really feel bad for your situation, and I hope that you can turn it around.
But I am not holding my breath waiting. I have seen this same thread played out half a dozen times before for you. You rant about how your life sucks--then everyone gives some advice--and then you get mad at everyone's advice, telling them how you know all that, and how you built your house with your own two hands. The funny part is that if any of that mattered, you wouldn't be in the position you are. But you just don't seem to get it, and you do it all over again.
So suck it up, get in your basement, and finish that bike. Then go to school in January, and take your education back. Those are things that you can control and make happen, right now. Everything to this point doesn't matter.
Is this actually looking for help/ guidance--or is this a junior prom episode? I can't really tell. But I guess drama sells...we all keep tuning in.
Thanks for not putting this in your bike build thread, btw.
David, as I said before, I'm not one to try to upstage you. But no matter your abilities, opportunities, or your intelligence, you have have been relegated to the "fail" side of the room. You're hitting the bottom, and no matter how much you tell yourself that you have the skills, that you have worked hard in the past, or been great in the past, to your university and to yourself you have been a failure. You are getting measured by the world's standard now, kid. You might have made this realization, but it seems you are just vocalizing it, without getting what it really is. I really feel bad for your situation, and I hope that you can turn it around.
But I am not holding my breath waiting. I have seen this same thread played out half a dozen times before for you. You rant about how your life sucks--then everyone gives some advice--and then you get mad at everyone's advice, telling them how you know all that, and how you built your house with your own two hands. The funny part is that if any of that mattered, you wouldn't be in the position you are. But you just don't seem to get it, and you do it all over again.
So suck it up, get in your basement, and finish that bike. Then go to school in January, and take your education back. Those are things that you can control and make happen, right now. Everything to this point doesn't matter.
Is this actually looking for help/ guidance--or is this a junior prom episode? I can't really tell. But I guess drama sells...we all keep tuning in.
Thanks for not putting this in your bike build thread, btw.
Dirty Dan
Tasty waves and a cool buzz.
bradj said:
Seriously, that's all I have to say about that.
But Rocan, you and me sound a lot a like... Both in pretty similar situations almost down to the last detail, sort of weird, really. Things only get better when you want to make them better (and actually do something about it). I've found that once you start making changes, even if you think they're small, things stat to get a lot better a lot quicker than you'd think.
Sounds like you're on the right track...
Merry Christmas Rocan. Enjoy the festivities and get your head down next year.
