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Astrid
post Feb 10 2004, 10:29 AM
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Sitting here in the school library between classes, ultimately bored and exhausted, I've come up with an idea some of you may either immediately disregard as a waste of time or find some interest in. What is it that we do? How many of us are high school students? College students? Which major? How many of us have completed that tedious part of our lives and achieved a career?

I'm a college student, who after months of trial-and-error has finally settled on Philosophy as an appropriate major. I entered school as a psych major, then chem, then physics, then math, then philosophy and physics, and now just philosophy beigebigrazz.gif I finally realized that I wasted entirely too much time trying to pick one and just decided to go for the shortest and most enjoyable. Nothin' better than arguing with a classful of people about the validity of the substance of an inanimate object :D Anyway, I plan to eventually become a professor and mess with my own students' minds. I'll throw enough Nietzsche, Plato and Descartes their way to make them question society and reality all the way to the looney bin. I love my major :D How about you guys?

Also, hobbies. Other than gaming, do you guys like anything? I used to take martial arts for a very brief period of time, but temporarily injured my knee, so I'll switch to archery until it heals. I'd call myself an avid comicbook fan, but after recieving more disappointing news in the direction of the X-Titles, I plan to quit them cold turkey (I've said this at least a million times in the past).

Any writers out there? If so, please participate in the FFXI role playing game on http://www.geneticrevolution-home.com (Heh! Shameless plug beigebigrazz.gif)

Anyway, this happens to be the aftermath of my sleepless, in-between-class, Tuesday boredom. beigebigrazz.gif


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"So this Zealot comes to my door, all glazed eyes and clean reproductive organs, asking me if I ever think about God. So I tell him I killed God. I tracked God down like a rabid dog, hacked off his legs with a hedge trimmer, raped him with a corncob and boiled off his corpse in an acid bath. So he pulls an alternating-current taser on me and tells me that only the Official Serbian Church of Tesla can save my polyphase intrinsic electric field, known to non-engineers as 'the soul.' So I hit him. What would you do?" -- Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan
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Layrinn
post Feb 13 2004, 01:00 AM
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QUOTE (drunken_chibi @ Feb 11 2004, 07:33 PM)
i gathered that. just an "eh" in general. besides, i'm not interesting enough to merit rambling about myself for any great lenght of time.  beigelaugh.gif

Then just make it a short post, chibi. ;p

Myself? I'm a college student... still. I graduated from Virginia Tech with a degree in electrical engineering about a year ago. Since the job market sucked ass (and still does, really) I decided to go on to grad school. I also decided I'd had enough of the east coast, having lived there over a quarter of a century, so I moved out to Colorado... only to find out that one college town is about the same as any other. Oh well... I made some new friends, and kept all my old ones, so it's all good I s'pose. Anyways, I'm out here studying robotics to earn my Master's degree in EE. I should finish that up in a year or so. After that, who knows. \o.o/ I support myself with a TA position, (I'm teaching the electronics lab for the second semester in a row) which is where the whole Professor 'Rinn thing came from. ;p

Hmm... other hobbies besides playing video games? Uuhhmmmm..... >.>;;;;

*has to think for a minute* ;p

Well, I'm into fast cars (surprise) and doing stuff to fast cars to make them even faster. (again, surprise >.>) I know my way around an engine bay pretty well, and I've worked on some pretty serious projects in the past. There aren't any projects currently in the works... cars can be a pretty expensive hobby, and that TA job doesn't pay that well. I can barely afford what I drive now, never mind trying to modify it. ^^; Besides, it's pretty damn fast already. ^.~

Every so often, my artistic side rears it's head. I've done a little digital illustration and a little roleplay/fiction writing. If you dig around the forums, you can find some of both. Unfortunately, my inspiration for both seems to have left me around the end of last fall. =/

And, of course.. there's gaming. Currently on my plate are: FFXI, FF Crystal Chronicals, R-Type Final, and Metroid Zero-Mission. (which I just beat tonight ^^)

Ok, so enough about me.... who's next?
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Astrid   The personal side of AT   Feb 10 2004, 10:29 AM
HC82   Hey, you all know what I'm not about. I like c...   Feb 10 2004, 12:35 PM
Astrid   HC, your post is USELESS! I already knew what...   Feb 10 2004, 04:58 PM
HC82   Have we been bitten by the "shyness bug?...   Feb 10 2004, 06:45 PM
drunken_chibi   eh?   Feb 11 2004, 05:38 PM
HC82   QUOTE (drunken_chibi @ Feb 11 2004, 05:38 PM) eh? ...   Feb 11 2004, 08:13 PM
drunken_chibi   i gathered that. just an "eh" in general...   Feb 11 2004, 08:33 PM
Layrinn   QUOTE (drunken_chibi @ Feb 11 2004, 07:33 PM)...   Feb 13 2004, 01:00 AM
drunken_chibi   ok ok ... i'm an on-again, off-again writer/...   Feb 13 2004, 05:53 AM
Afroforce   Um, yeah not much to say about me... I'm a hi...   Feb 13 2004, 07:50 AM
drunken_chibi   haha... nm.. i used to live in that horrid place f...   Feb 13 2004, 02:29 PM
Dorian   Ok... Ok... My turn. How to start... Him, name se...   Feb 13 2004, 04:17 PM
Woe   i guess i'll share too. well i am 23 years...   Feb 13 2004, 05:03 PM
ArekuReiesu   Hmm I'm usually shy about this but here it goe...   Feb 13 2004, 05:23 PM
AC9breaker   Im Michael. In my veins flows the blood of the an...   Feb 14 2004, 12:16 AM
Marn   Well... I'm a 16 year old Junior in high schoo...   Feb 14 2004, 08:58 AM
Ferra   Pfft, I'm going to break the mold of these lit...   Feb 15 2004, 02:54 AM
Astrid   QUOTE I'm leaving for Japan for a study abroad...   Feb 16 2004, 04:35 AM
Kazicht   Okay, I'm gonna try to break it down as best I...   Feb 17 2004, 11:38 PM
Marn   A tad off topic, but Kazicht, is this V-K? http:/...   Feb 18 2004, 12:31 PM
drunken_chibi   re: jp bands -- it's all about yellow machineg...   Feb 18 2004, 02:39 PM
Kazicht   QUOTE (Marn @ Feb 18 2004, 12:31 PM) A tad of...   Feb 18 2004, 05:11 PM
Astrid   So we're listin' music favorites now, ...   Feb 19 2004, 10:05 PM
Maxx   muuusssiiiic! i am a fan of music. favorite b...   Feb 19 2004, 11:24 PM
Sheik   Ok, I will feel guilty if I read this post and don...   Feb 20 2004, 02:02 AM
unitself   hello. I don't remember much about where I cam...   Feb 20 2004, 09:44 AM


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