Paying for a child to live in college is not an umbilical cord (and yes, I know your speaking metaphorically, you don't have to clarify that as you did in a previous post.) You really need to step down off your high horse, maybe just long enough to cite something other than anecdotal evidence. It sucks that you had to pay for your own college, work, take on debt, or whatever, but you really shouldn't come post on a random internet site that students who were supported by their parents were really just leeches suckling at the tit of their parents well past their time. You are completely entitled to your opinion and its great that you want to play the victim because you had to watch your friends go out and party on their parents dime while you were forced to work 2 jobs that you had to walk to, in the snow, uphill both ways. So what I guess this rant is trying to say is, unless you can actually show me some hard evidence that because I took money from my mom to pay for school, books, room, and food, that I am somehow a worse student than you or somebody else that paid their way through college, you should really just sit down and keep your thoughts to your self. But what do I know, I was apparently busy partying, drinking, and banging random girls with my mom's money.
First of all, you're making a major assumption of what kind of help I've received or how much I had to work through college. Where did I ever say in my posts what my situation was? My conclusions come off observing my peers in general, not my specific situation.
Some people that wouldn't even have to work choose to do so to keep themselves busy. Other people that don't have to work, choose not to in order to have more time for social activities. In my experience, the friends that I have that don't work, party more and do leisurely things much more so than invest this extra time for more studying. So how is this really "focusing on your education.", as people seem to claim? As I asked Hal, how could you have survived in college without changing your lifestyle if it wasn't for your parents providing everything for you? Without doing so you would starve, therefore you fit the profile of an umbilical cord college baby.
I didn't make the first post about the subject. Someone said "cut the umbilical cord", Hal came on and said knock it off, then I posted my opinion that in many cases college students are still attached to their parents by a cord whether you like to admit it or not.
You fit the profile perfectly. If my statements had no truth, then obviously they wouldn't have struck enough of a nerve for you to reply. I think we have another umbilical cord baby here in denial!
As far as posting evidence which you ask me to provide, where's your's refuting your claim that you weren't an umbilical cord college baby? Lets get real, we aren't going to court over this Christ. It's funny how people always ask where's your evidence, then state a counter claim without providing any themselves.
There's no reason to get upset over this debate unless you're feeling guilty. Sometimes the truth hurts.
You're the one clearly become defensive by claiming I'm calling you "a worse student" or a bad person. I'm not, it's clear though that these few posts have possibly given you enough of a rise to have to come out and defend yourself against a claim that wasn't even directed towards you.
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By your logic, I guess those that attend the Navy Academy have an umbilical tied to the Navy's uterus. After all the Navy is paying for their every need.
You're a 20 something know-it-all punk kid that isn't out of college and hasn't proved a damn thing in life except for thinking you know more than people with years or even decades more life experience than you. Your lecturing me is both pathetic and humorous.
Have fun carrying that big chip on your shoulder. Be careful so the burden doesn't overwhelm you.
Hal, I have in no way attacked your character or was ever even lecturing you. I've been stating my opinion that's all. I'm sorry if all you like to here is "Yes Sir." If I was under your command, that's how it would be, but I'm a civilian. Obviously no one will defend me on here as I don't really care if they do or not, but if people go through and read the whole thread they'll see you're the one stepping out of line. You're supposed to be the one with experience and professionalism yet you call me "a know it all punk kid" over a harmless debate.
Your example fits the definition of "pathetic" if you want to get down to it. The people who receive a full scholarship to the Academy, any one of them for that matter, have to repay what they are given with a
service obligation. This sacrifice, sometimes ends up costing them their lives. How is your example even similar or relevant? I know you know that, but you're the one who brought up the example which might work on a 10 year old but not a "20 something college punk."
I guess in some cases, you could be right though. The kids who are accepted to the academies for their connections, and not their outstanding achievements, fit the definition of an umbilical cord baby very well just in a slightly different way.
