/lit/ - Literature

>>13200582
Yeah

>>13200582
Yes
That quote is true

Yes but I still need to go to college because my gf is pressuring me to. She is an antisemitic trad sort and wants to be a housewife but I don't even have a car, lol

>>13200582

Yes, but I still have to buy some books because the libraries don't have everything, and I don't want to pirate e-books because I told want to risk getting caught and having to pay a $40 million fine then go to prison for 40 years and then get raped and have to pay $40 million for asshole reconstruction surgery.

>>13200595
is she romanian by any chance?

>>13200595
Jealous of you anon
Go to a trade school

>>13200696
No, but it's funny you should mention that because she converted to Orthodox

>>13200717
She wants me to be a lawyer, apperently she decided after I got her into Carl Schmitt

>>13200739
>Carl Schmitt
BASED

>>13200582
No, my library card is frozen due to late fees and I cba to pay them.

>>13200626
https://mega.nz/#F!4ih3CY7D!CSU8HmnToLKQ9xUKpbffVg

HAVING

FUN

>>13200824
holy shit, thanks

anyone got more links like this?

ISN'T

>>13200626
why won’t you use lib gen

>>13200582
>reading at the library is a more effective learning strategy than attending a post-secondary school
>Ah yes because simply reading books is equivalent to asking the professor questions, spending hours each week listening to an expert on the topic lecture to you, doing assignments, getting feedback on assignments, being motivated to learn in an intellectually stimulating environment, discussing/competing/growing with likeminded (and otherwise) peers who are approximately at your skill level, and having access to university resources/events/clubs/workshops.

I do not think that tuition fees in North America are reasonable, but I also think that mindsets like that of OP's image reduce the entire university experience to a mental data dump. Yes I am aware that of the points listed above, it is improbable that any of us will experience all of them all the time. But if even one or two of them are true, then it is already better than sitting and reading a book by yourself in the library. Inb4 seething wagecuck or whatever you want to call me, i'm not defending criminally high tuition fees, I am trying to call to attention that there is more to learning than just absorbing information from books. It truly is characteristic of the /lit/ pseud to think that reading a book is the same as true comprehension.

Yea I pretty much only read from my university's library

>>13201713
It's a quote from a movie...watch the movie, Damon's character isn't exactly making a mature argument

>>13200885
Here's one for Accelerationshit, if you're into that
https://mega.nz/#F!lkNUwIYI!cugQ-Yoclk6AEnzWbfMA6Q

>>13200582
Yes, every day for work. I never use public libraries.

>>13201713
S E E T H I NG wagecuck

HARD

>>13201713
found the seething wagecuck or whatever

>>13201713
Sure but you cant be in school forever (well you can but not many fo)

WHEN

>>13200582
You dont go to university to learn but to network and improve your job prospects.

YOU'VE

>>13200582
I'm not homeless, so no.

Its basically a daycare for undesireables at this point, book collection is pretty meh anyway. Used books are so fucking cheap so who cares

GOT

>>13201713
Watch good will hunting retard

>>13203448
Exactly. Right now I am in the USAF as a sergeant, and I am more knowledgeable and well read than the entire officer corps in my squadron. Unfortunately, I need literally ANY degree to be able to make as much as them as a pilot.

>>13200582
i've never been inside a library

Pro tip: Matt Damon didn’t play Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting

>>13201713
Very good post.
Regardless of what Good Will Hunting argues;
>>13201749
>>13203500
there are plenty of people who argue the quote without nuance and see it as a genuine rebuttal of higher education as a whole, and this is a good counter to those retards.

>>13200582
the quote is true
college curriculums are okay, and they do teach you, but what you're paying for, and what you're showing up for is the certificate that says you do your homework and show up on time
you could learn all of it by reading the source material and using free online education resources for the things you can't grasp

>>13200626
Just use a VPN, faggot

>>13200582
this picture is how i imagine 99% of /lit/ posters

>>13200582
Yes. Do it for books I can't pirate or buy.

>>13200595
You should kill yourself

>>13200582
I probably should if there's nothing but guys reading about Hitler there

>>13201713
>asking the professor questions, spending hours each week listening to an expert on the topic lecture to you, doing assignments, getting feedback on assignments, being motivated to learn in an intellectually stimulating environment, discussing/competing/growing with likeminded (and otherwise) peers who are approximately at your skill level, and having access to university resources/events/clubs/workshops.
Have you actually been to college?

>>13205919
Clearly he hasn’t, This is the complete opposite of fucking college, that sounds like fucking high school, a good high school i.e.

>>13201776
thanks anon

>>13200582
wow... so powerful

>>13205919
have you not taken humanities classes above 400 level? seminars are legitimately like that

>>13200595
>>13200720
>>13200739
If you don't marry her and make lots of children, I'm going to find you and kill you.

>>13206246
Wow, incel much?

>>13206232
>have you not taken humanities classes above 400 level? seminars are legitimately like that

>>13205919
I pity you for your unfortunate experiences in community college

>>13206267
t.stem major that took a philosophy 200 course where the teacher just whined about trump all semester

>>13200595
You are going to be KEKED by a blue collar Chad.

I'd love to but I live in a city with a university, so it's really hard to find a place to sit there.

>>13200595
>Having the opportunity of a trade wife
>Wasting it away

>>13200582
Yes, mostly to studdy though.

>>13200582
>Please, Mr. Employer, hire me, I read all the books on engineering in my local library!

Only retards think the average person goes to college to learn

>>13208105
>t. never watched good will hunting

>>13208105
You go to college to get both. An education and a certificate of your education.
Self study is pretty hard for most people.

>>13208107
???

>>13208107
I have I am just saying lad

>>13208113
I know, but that quote is so reddit. You can read all you want, it won't get you hired 99% of the time and everyone knows it. Most people wanna go to college and learn stuff to be able to work like you said, those things are inseparable now. I wish I could read all day at my own pace and research stuff I like but sadly it will lead me nowhere (economically speaking).

>>13200591

Not for Europeans, here it's almost for free :DDDDDDDDDD

>>13200824

>pdf

A

LIBRARY

CARD

>>13208698
>>13208709
>>13208719
What about them?

>>13200739
>wants to be your trad wife
>tells YOU what to do
L O L

>>13200739
>Carl Schmitt

No :3

>>13200591
Imagine thinking you can get a college level education from books alone.

>>13201713
Based

>>13208737
>Imagine thinking you can get a college level education from books alone.
Fucking brainlet. I can get university level education. I can find all the textbooks online for free.

>>13208737
Imagine thinking a college level education is better than reading primary sources and having an unbiased, unfiltered interpretation of them.

This applies to Philosophy, Theology, older or newer mathematics, astrophysics, everything. :3

My library lets homeless people sleep by the building. I read mostly pdfs now.

What if you already have a decent job and just self study for the hell of it?

>>13200582
You wasted 1.50 in late fees at the public library on an education you coulda got for free on your e-reader or phone

>>13208746
Nobody cares about books in academia lol it's about interacting with the professor and being given tasks that actually challenge you and reveal new ways of thinking. Reading books alone can't do as much in as little of time :)

>>13200582
Homeless bums that stink and get their greasy hands all over the keyboards and magazines

>>13208791
>boo hoo the poors make me cringe epically

>>13200582
I do as my little guy loves to read too. It's nice to get out and spend some time reading as a family. Then again I live in a rural place so don't have to deal with much scum.

>>13200582
Of course. It still exists for a reason.