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11687821 No.11687821 [Reply] [Original]

>you will never be an American attending the colonial and prestigious St. John's, reading and discussing the greatest books in human kind and seeing through the eyes of Newton, Hume, and Shakespeare

Why live?

>> No.11687832

>>11687821
Because life means more than sucking the dick of almus pater, anon.

>> No.11687841

>Undergrad at Imperial
>MSc at Cambridge
>PhD at Karolinska

>> No.11687865

>>11687821
>There was some association with the Freemasons early in the college's history, leading to speculation that it was named after Saint John the Evangelist.[11] The College's original charter, reflecting the Masonic value of religious tolerance as well as the religious diversity of the founders (which included Presbyterians, Episcopalians, and the Roman Catholic Charles Carroll of Carrollton) stated that "youth of all religious denominations shall be freely and liberally admitted". The College always maintained a small size, generally enrolling fewer than 500 men at a time

hm. . .

>> No.11688788

>>11687821
Academia is a racket.

>> No.11688800

>>11687821
>never being a burger

thank god

>> No.11688815

>not going to a degree mill
somebody missed the point

>> No.11688936

>>11688815
whats the point ?

>> No.11688944

>>11687821
Uh, yeah, SJC grad here. The books are truly great, and the students have become intolerably awful, consisting of bougie or upper middle class twitter/Tumblr gen SJWs who selectively despise the expensive education they've chosen.

>> No.11688946

>>11688944
Which campus?

>> No.11688957

>>11687821
>>11688946
>>11688944


Johns Hopkins > UMD College Park > SJC

>> No.11688973

>>11688957
If you weren't in new mexico you missed the point.

>> No.11688975

>>11688973
>new mexico
>only place in the united states to still have reported cases of the plague

yeah, nah

>> No.11688979

>>11688975
Well yeah, that's part of the experience.

>> No.11688984

>>11687821
i was accepted here and visited for two days in april, it was too fucking weird for me and now i'm going to school in LA

>> No.11689005

>>11688984
actually it's also really cute and endearing and everyone i talked to was welcoming, just wasn't big enough.

>> No.11689022

>>11688984
fuck off we're full
unless you mean Louisiana

>> No.11689023

>>11689005
What're you studying?

>> No.11689071

>>11689022
I'm from here! :-)
>>11689023
English, thinking of doing philosophy.

>> No.11689123

>>11688946
Annapolis. Fe is by all accounts better at the moment.

>> No.11690092

>>11688944
This isn’t true. There are great people at the college and the professors are top notch

You must be talking out of your ass

>> No.11690817

>>11690092
I didn't say anything about the professors (who we call tutors, btw), but the students are fucking cretins. I mean, unless you think they're on the right track with their vying to get a year where all junior and senior preceptorial options are by women only, and you're fine with their desire to replace program authors wit pic from the last century.

>> No.11690849

>not going to oxbridge and working in an illustrious publishing house 3 days a week whilst working on your novel and dating the daughter of russian nobility

a life undistinguished

>> No.11690850

>>11690817
>their vying to get a year where all junior and senior preceptorial options are by women only
Woah...so this is the power of annapolis...

>> No.11690883
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11690883

>>11687821
>not payig out of your ass for (((humanist))) shit luke warm copy of a classical education to support all those affirmative action niggers which campaign to strip the uni in question from all cis white males which built it

>> No.11691407

>>11688936
to get credentialed and get out, with minimum effort and maximum debauchery. if you actually want to learn something about the humanities you need to do it on your own time

>> No.11691410

>>11690849
>russian
dating a 5/10 western girl is more impressive than dating a turkic snownigger queen

>> No.11692746

>>11687841
Fuck off STEM nerd

>> No.11692979

>>11687821
>Implying US university is more than overpriced daycare.

>> No.11692982

>>11692979
>daycare
it actually teaches you less social skills, basic life skills, abstract reasoning or self soothing than daycare. i think if you put 21 year olds in actual daycare they’d probably have better mental health outcomes (def related to neotenization and im well aware of daycare for adults schizophrenia among the aging female and sub-male populations)

>> No.11693199

idk man i go to northwestern its supposed to be top 15 but it fucking blows

>> No.11693321

>>11693199
North American academia is a joke no matter where you go. Even the Ivy League schools are full of trust finders and try-hards who study the material only and have no other intellectual interests.