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Anonymous Tue Nov 27 23:01:42 2012 No.10135056 [DELETED]

This grad school application shit is killing me, /jp/. It's like having to go back and face every single embarrassing detail of the string of fuckups that is my life, which I ran away from and pushed deep into my subconscious all these years because I wasn't man enough to own up to my shortcomings.

I somehow have to write about my past 5 years in higher education, my life before that, and what I hope to accomplish by coming to grad school. It's all gonna be lies. I spent college masturbating at traps and posting on 4chan, passing by cramming in the bus on the way to the exam and coasting through assignments by rushing 2 weeks of work in 2 hours a day after the deadline. I don't have any goals. I just want a sinecure that earns me a safe, decent income and a job with little social interaction or oversight so I can keep wasting my life.

Of course, I can't just write that, I'll never get accepted. So I have to write nice things. Normal person things. There's not one damn thing about my life that I can reasonably put in that's actually true, because none of it reflects positively on me.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 23:03:42 2012 No.10135061 before we continue,can you please explain what the fuck is grad school application?

>>	Hobo Girl !!WV1jKRT1S/h Tue Nov 27 23:04:27 2012 No.10135065 Congratulations for most off-topic thread on /jp/

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 23:05:12 2012 No.10135067 ...if you actually got that far through the education system while being a /jp/sie, I'd assume you're used to bullshitting your way out of things more than enough for it not to bother you.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 23:05:42 2012 No.10135071 >I just want a sinecure that earns me a safe, decent income and a job That's one of the things I despise in normals. No dreams, no passions, nothing. Disgusting sub-humans, they are. Btw, is this copypasta?

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 23:05:42 2012 No.10135072 tl:dr

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 23:06:28 2012 No.10135074 write about how you were poor as shit growing up and that you need to be educated to avenge your father that died on his job as a trash man just so he can put food on the table for the family

Anonymous Tue Nov 27 23:07:42 2012 No.10135080
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Oh god damn!
I need to do that in one more year, I haven't thought about the application at all! Do you really need to write those things? I've never filled an application before, I went to a community college for general courses and transferred into university right away without the need for that, other than my transcripts.

I've only been working on what I'll present in grad school and studying for the GRE.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 23:08:27 2012 No.10135083 >>10135071 And what's your big, beautiful dream?

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 23:08:27 2012 No.10135087 >>10135067 But this bull is nothing like anything I've shat before. It's on a whole different level. >>10135071 I do have ambitions. Unfortunately, they are not viable, or not viable sources of income.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 23:09:27 2012 No.10135092 >>10135071 Uh I don't have any dreams or passions, I just survive purposelessly. And I think I belong here.

Anonymous Tue Nov 27 23:12:57 2012 No.10135106
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>>10135080
>>10135056
Goddamnit you queers. I come to /jp/ to take it easy and forget about how fucked up my academic career is and will always be.

I literally want to blow up every electrical transformer and cell phone tower within a ten click radius of your homes just so you will not be able to post for an hour.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 23:12:57 2012 No.10135107 I'm really jealous of you. I spent a couple years in college before dropping out and I could never "cram" anything. I spent entire days studying and memorizing things and my scores were terrible.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 23:15:12 2012 No.10135116 At the very least make this thread 2hu related. "Which touhou is most like your thesis advisor?" Or something like that. Mine's like Sakuya

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 23:16:57 2012 No.10135127 >>10135107 my professor was retarded and the tests he gives us are easily accessible online. thanks to him i can remember 200~300 question test answers easily without any mistakes. i always get one or two wrong on purpose though.

Anonymous Tue Nov 27 23:18:57 2012 No.10135139

>>10135080
Well I've been telling myself for the past 3-4 years that "I should get started on preparing for this stuff soon so I have plenty of time to make it perfect" but I just kept procrastinating because I didn't know where to start and I thought I would make a shit job of it and I didn't want to deal with it. Fast forward to a week before the deadlines and I'm desperately trying to get everything done at the last minute.

You basically get asked about everything.

>awards you received
I don't have any!

>scholarships you earned
I didn't!

>work experience
It wasn't an actual company!

>publications
If I had opportunity to publish at the school I went to, I'd stay there for my PhD!

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Anonymous Tue Nov 27 23:21:42 2012 No.10135156

>>10135116
I would prefer Reimu. She would be serious and just strict enough to keep me disciplined. Marisa and Sakuya would definitely be on my thesis committee, and I would bring in Cirno even though I know she would ask me really tough questions and make it difficult for me to get her to like me.

Anonymous Tue Nov 27 23:24:12 2012 No.10135173

>>10135139
Oh wow that's demoralizing....
I just get by on standardized 1 time test scores, like SAT and ACT. My GPA is always shit and I can't get scholarships. I think right now its like 2.7. I hope the GRE isn't too hard.

>>10135106
Well sorry mister, but my mom makes me go to school or I can't live with her and have to get a job. You know what makes me angry too though? Rich faggots here in those figure and room threads with all their fancy stuff, and I live like a poor piece of shit bum that has to pay his tuition deferments months late.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 23:24:57 2012 No.10135179 I've been dropping out of university repeatedly. Yet another go in autumn. Are you really to publish and get awards and such? That sounds Ivy League.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 23:30:42 2012 No.10135209 >>10135173 So go complain about it on /r9k/ or wherever. I have exactly $143.19 in my bank account and I like the fig threads. They're like window shopping.

Anonymous Tue Nov 27 23:31:42 2012 No.10135215

>>10135173
>I think right now its like 2.7
Oh damn. You won't enjoy the applications.

Mine is slightly higher but still way below the "norm". It seems like if you didn't go to some shitty school with grades inflated out the ass so your GPA isn't 3.8+, committees treat you like some "special" applicant.

Anonymous Tue Nov 27 23:32:57 2012 No.10135221

>>10135209
I hope you're not subtly suggesting I get out of /jp/ you little turd. I didn't make this thread. I don't mess with the fig threads, I'm just saying that its silly to get mad at anyone who goes to university because you're jealous, yet not get mad at fig threads where people have nice jobs or rich parents to afford those things.

Anonymous Tue Nov 27 23:35:27 2012 No.10135237

>>10135215
Yeah, I wonder why they even take GPA into account. I've had professors that practically give you a free grade. A chemistry 1 professor literally gave everyone a 100 on their labs for just showing up, it was insane. Others drowned you in homework as if we were in gradeschool.
Standardized tests seem like a better way to gauge applicants I think...

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 23:35:27 2012 No.10135239 Grad school isn't worth it, just get a job.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 23:36:12 2012 No.10135248 >>10135239 It's not about money. It's about avoiding work and getting prestige to frame on your wall.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 23:40:11 2012 No.10135259 >>10135248 >I just want a sinecure that earns me a safe, decent income and a job with little social interaction or oversight so I can keep wasting my life. Grad school won't get you that. Just getting a job now will. Who care's about prestige anyway?

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 23:42:11 2012 No.10135265 >>10135259 I wasn't OP. I also don't believe I'll be able to find decent work as an Engineer with only a 4 year degree, unless I take a lowly entry level position.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 23:43:57 2012 No.10135270 >>10135265 Ah, my apologies. Enjoy your Master's then.

Anonymous Tue Nov 27 23:43:57 2012 No.10135273

>>10135237
I saw one statistic saying that the single most important element of the graduate application for committees is the GPA, and closely after that test scores.

I think they use it as a filter. If your GPA is high, they don't care because plenty of people get high grades easily because they have easy classes, but if your GPA is low, it's instantly a red flag and you have to compensate in other areas.

I had classes where I repeated the same exact class with the same instructor, and ended up getting a much worse grade the second time. Either I somehow "forgot" what I learned the first time around in a few months, or grades don't mean shit.

Anonymous Tue Nov 27 23:45:12 2012 No.10135275

>>10135265
>>10135270
>>10135259
It's very difficult to get a job without an advanced degree in my field.

Besides, you have to dress properly and show up on time to real jobs, and you can get fired. You also have to talk to people and make them think you are a professional, enterprising go-getter.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 23:45:12 2012 No.10135274 >>10135221 I am telling you to get out of /jp/ because you are perpetuating a thread that is not /jp/-related.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 23:50:57 2012 No.10135293 /jp/ Normalfag problems / General

Anonymous Tue Nov 27 23:51:12 2012 No.10135296

>>10135275
>Besides, you have to dress properly and show up on time to real jobs, and you can get fired. You also have to talk to people and make them think you are a professional, enterprising go-getter.
Then, as an underachieving channer, why go that route?

Anonymous Tue Nov 27 23:51:42 2012 No.10135298

>>10135221
It's going to university or having a job that's a problem. It's about shitty off-topic blogging about your university life or job in a shitty off-topic blog thread that irritates people.

The people in figure threads are contributing to an on-topic thread, not random blog shit that would be better off in /r9k/.

>I hope you're not subtly suggesting I get out of /jp/
There wasn't anything subtle about it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 23:54:27 2012 No.10135310 >>10135298 Sorry, that should be "It's not going to university or having a job that's a problem." We have a lot of those and everyone knows it.

Anonymous Tue Nov 27 23:54:57 2012 No.10135314
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>>10135298
You didn't use the epic marisa meme so I couldn't understand you. Please, don't bully me. I think you're too high strung for /jp/ and you're the one who should leave. What do you want, just 5 threads on the entire board?

Actually, do you know how many posts I make here every single day? How much I brainstorm and write down notes during lectures so I can make better quality posts and threads on this board? No, of course you don't. Like it or not, /jp/ is practically MY board. You know what, I think you should get out of my board. I don't like you.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 23:57:42 2012 No.10135332 >>10135314 Thank you very much for your contributions. Keep up the good work. We all appreciate it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 23:59:27 2012 No.10135343 >>10135314 You don't own /jp/. If you think you do, you should reevaluate your thinking or get out.

Anonymous Wed Nov 28 00:01:27 2012 No.10135353

>>10135314
>Actually, do you know how many posts I make here every single day? How much I brainstorm and write down notes during lectures so I can make better quality posts and threads on this board?
Goddammit anon, you made my day. I feel the bittersweet realization that I'm not nearly as devoted as you are, and from now on I will work extra hard to be a quality poster like you.

Anonymous Wed Nov 28 00:02:27 2012 No.10135357

>>10135343
No, I've thought plenty on it.
I make so many contributions, its the same as me owning a majority share of this board. If anything, I should be the janitor or moderator here.
Does the janitor or moderator contribute anything to this board? No, they don't. All they do is detract from it. They should have no say on our internal matters.
/jp/ is my board, you're all my girlyboyfriends, and that's the end of that.

Anonymous Wed Nov 28 00:02:42 2012 No.10135358

i have to try to get back into my uni this year. i feel like i'm qualified in terms of grades and experience (work + a lot of volunteer work the past two years), but i'm a bit nervous to say the least. my first year at uni was pretty bad. never went to class and then i wanted to kill myself. i danced out of campus after failing my finals and hopped on 4chan when i got home.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 00:03:57 2012 No.10135366 >>10135357 To add to this, do you think these staff persons even care about you as I do? Do they delete the /r9k/ and /cgl/ threads? No. I've spent countless hours spamming those threads to the ground until they're barren, and I will never stop.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 00:06:42 2012 No.10135384 >>10135056 Story of my life Also, what is 'grad school', that's for like master and doctorates right?

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 00:08:27 2012 No.10135393 Wanna fuq? I can play trap really good

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 00:10:57 2012 No.10135400 >>10135314 >What do you want, just 5 threads on the entire board? If they are on-topic then yes. Furthermore all Touhou should be grouped into a single thread.

Anonymous Wed Nov 28 00:12:27 2012 No.10135411

>>10135298
Why are threads like these a problem? They'll get 200 replies in a few hours and then fall off the board like they always have. No one here is stopping you from posting in your "how do I learn japanese so I can move there and become true nihongo" threads

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 00:15:42 2012 No.10135424 >>10135393 I guess the anser is no..

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 00:15:57 2012 No.10135425 I usually just fudge the truth. If I masturbate to hentai all day and listen to 2hu remixes I would write that I have "an intense interest in foreign arts, in which I have done extensive personal research" or something like that.

Anonymous Wed Nov 28 00:19:58 2012 No.10135452
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Six years in and I still don't have my shitty biology degree.

I just can't pass that damn foreign language CLEP. I bomb the listening portion every time.

I can't even imagine applying to grad school.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 00:20:12 2012 No.10135456 >>10135425 Do you think tasting your semen and collecting cum rags count as "independent physiological research"?

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 00:22:42 2012 No.10135471 >>10135456 Yup. Sitting alone in my room for extensive periods of time is meditation and personal reflection time, and masturbation is exercise.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 00:25:57 2012 No.10135487 File: 681 KB, 685x1674, vpon this mortal plane.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10135357 >you're all my girlyboyfriends Do I look like some butt loving cock robber to you?

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 00:31:12 2012 No.10135513 >>10135487 >simian warfare >network Fucking failed there.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 00:34:12 2012 No.10135534 >>10135513 Isn't the simian warfare part because the orginial had "gorilla" instead of guerrilla?

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 00:34:12 2012 No.10135536 >>10135452 Beats me. I'm on my 4th year in college and I'm just applying to get into a department. Doubt I'll finish in 2 years.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 00:35:42 2012 No.10135548 >>10135487 I would like to make one like this, but themed as a Roman mosaic or wall fresco, and in painstakingly researched, fully idiomatic and historically accurate Latin.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 00:37:42 2012 No.10135560 File: 921 KB, 674x4632, 1340720710271.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10135548 I find them fun to make

>>	Hobo Girl !!WV1jKRT1S/h Wed Nov 28 00:38:12 2012 No.10135571 File: 99 KB, 505x527, youre cracking me up.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10135560 That's pretty funny The original is that Ragnarok Online one right?

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 00:39:42 2012 No.10135576 >>10135513 Network should've been council or order.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 00:41:57 2012 No.10135591 File: 115 KB, 685x600, 1351121248900.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10135571 Yeah

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 00:42:12 2012 No.10135594 >>10135560 You could have updated the BR part though, maybe have given them some ridiculous cockney accent or something.

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