The Official September 2014 Study Group Forum

[BillPackets]

Just lol

Do u see that phrase a lot on or r u making a huge generalization regarding expectations within any given thread on this website

Pretty big generalization. Not that lol though, unless you guys are actually larger than average, black men - in which case my B

Colonel plz fucking strike thru your incredibly insensitive use of the phrase "big" and change to the more PC "larger than average" k thx -bill

ETA: also strike thru dude m use man cuz dude is fucking archaic

[AOT]

Just lol

Do u see that phrase a lot on or r u making a huge generalization regarding expectations within any given thread on this website

Pretty big generalization. Not that lol though, unless you guys are actually larger than average, black men - in which case my B

Colonel plz fucking strike thru your incredibly insensitive use of the phrase "big" and change to the more PC "larger than average" k thx -bill

My issue wasn't your use of "big" - it was the whole: big black men are so FUNNY thing that seemed in bad taste.


Edit: I'm really not trying to start a forum flaming battle here. Just annoyed me and thought I should call it out. Do with it what you will

[Colonel_funkadunk]

Just lol

Do u see that phrase a lot on or r u making a huge generalization regarding expectations within any given thread on this website

Pretty big generalization. Not that lol though, unless you guys are actually larger than average, black men - in which case my B

Colonel plz fucking strike thru your incredibly insensitive use of the phrase "big" and change to the more PC "larger than average" k thx -bill

Idk bro I actually think these days big is common parlance and more PC bc larger than average makes stereotypes and biases about the average

[BillPackets]

My issue wasn't your use of "big" - it was the whole: big black men are so FUNNY thing that seemed in bad taste.


Edit: I'm really not trying to start a forum flaming battle here. Just annoyed me and thought I should call it out. Do with it what you will

Thx for letting is know AOT

[Colonel_funkadunk]

My issue wasn't your use of "big" - it was the whole: big black men are so FUNNY thing that seemed in bad taste.

I mean if you were in this thread for any of the context of statements*, and the pages previous it's obviously not that big black men are funny just funny that someone pictured one of our regulars so incorrectly.

*this is different than you hopping in to flame

[BillPackets]

My issue wasn't your use of "big" - it was the whole: big black men are so FUNNY thing that seemed in bad taste.

I mean if you were in this thread for any of the context of statements*, and the pages previous it's obviously not that big black men are funny just funny that someone pictured one of our regulars so incorrectly.

*this is different than you hopping in to flame

yeah pretty much what the colonel its a running joke cuz of my avatar even tho im not anything like my avatar every1 pictures me as such but srs THANK YOU SO MUCH for hopping in here and letting us kno what these statements look like out of context we really need sum1 to hop in here like that i mean yeah maybe look thru and see what else might b able to b taken out of context thx

[sfoglia]

What entrance exams has every1 studied 4 excluding SAT\ACT so just grad school I also took GRE anybody done GRE + GMAT
One if my recommenders joked and asked if I had taken all the entrance exams yet so yeah

GRE and Literature GRE.

We ex-lit people should gather round the fire and recite the proem to Canterbury Tales! What did you focus on in grad school?

MCAT and GRE here. LSAT way harder than GRE and harder/different than the MCAT.

MCAT! Let's TRADE! I've always wanted to do medicine. I love science, generally.

I studied 19th century American women writers from undergraduate through graduate, with a focus on gender and sexuality. You?

[BillPackets]

What entrance exams has every1 studied 4 excluding SAT\ACT so just grad school I also took GRE anybody done GRE + GMAT
One if my recommenders joked and asked if I had taken all the entrance exams yet so yeah

GRE and Literature GRE.

We ex-lit people should gather round the fire and recite the proem to Canterbury Tales! What did you focus on in grad school?

MCAT and GRE here. LSAT way harder than GRE and harder/different than the MCAT.

MCAT! Let's TRADE! I've always wanted to do medicine. I love science, generally.

I studied 19th century American women writers from undergraduate through graduate, with a focus on gender and sexuality. You?

my fiance is in a MFA program the ppl in her program say the GRE lit test is like the stupidest test they've ever taken that its just impossible to know everything they want u to know for that test confirm/deny?

[sfoglia]

MCAT! Let's TRADE! I've always wanted to do medicine. I love science, generally.

I studied 19th century American women writers from undergraduate through graduate, with a focus on gender and sexuality. You?

my fiance is in a MFA program the ppl in her program say the GRE lit test is like the stupidest test they've ever taken that its just impossible to know everything they want u to know for that test confirm/deny?

Confuckingfirm. You want to know my score on that shit? Well less than 50th percentile. Seriously the most ridiculous test I have ever taken in my life. It asked questions on ALL canonical literature ever in addition to ALL theory.

Is she MFA for writing? Or art?

[AOT]

My issue wasn't your use of "big" - it was the whole: big black men are so FUNNY thing that seemed in bad taste.

I mean if you were in this thread for any of the context of statements*, and the pages previous it's obviously not that big black men are funny just funny that someone pictured one of our regulars so incorrectly.

*this is different than you hopping in to flame

yeah pretty much what the colonel its a running joke cuz of my avatar even tho im not anything like my avatar every1 pictures me as such but srs THANK YOU SO MUCH for hopping in here and letting us kno what these statements look like out of context we really need sum1 to hop in here like that i mean yeah maybe look thru and see what else might b able to b taken out of context thx

I've been on this thread for a while (lurked since the beginning actually and maybe posted 4 or 5 times). I did get the context, and it still struck me as off.

If you think I'm completely off the mark then lets just leave it at that. I've just heard that big black men shit so much it gets tired.

I'm not going to bore you at length, but just so that you get where I'm coming from:

One of my brother's friends recently was all "I wanted to be friends with him, because no one's going to fuck with me when I'm with a big black dude amiriggghht?! haha". Which, similar to the stuff you guys were saying was pretty inoffensive, and obviously not meant will any ill intent at all (and I didn't say anything). But the reasons he was saying that - big black men are perceived as scary and dangerous, also cause a LOT of problems for my brother.

So when you guys are all "he talks shit like a big black dude" and telling stories about how one big black man you met cussed at you and then did big strong black man shit, it just doesn't sit right, no matter how friendly the context.

Anyway, I'm really done derailing this thread. Just wanted to come here to procrastinate and talk about the LSAT. Hope there's no bad feeling and that I can still do that

[BillPackets]

Confuckingfirm. You want to know my score on that shit? Well less than 50th percentile. Seriously the most ridiculous test I have ever taken in my life. It asked questions on ALL canonical literature ever in addition to ALL theory.

Is she MFA for writing? Or art?

MFA in poetry

[sfoglia]

Confuckingfirm. You want to know my score on that shit? Well less than 50th percentile. Seriously the most ridiculous test I have ever taken in my life. It asked questions on ALL canonical literature ever in addition to ALL theory.

Is she MFA for writing? Or art?

MFA in poetry

Oh my gosh, she's a poet! Is she brunette? Please describe.

I've always wanted to be talented enough to write poetry!

ETA: I realize I also just said that I've always wanted to be a doctor. Both are true. I want to be a poet-writing doctor who spends time abroad helping to provide medical care to third-world nations, and also be intelligent enough to understand theoretical physics, because astronomy was actually my first "I've always wanted to be." In addition, I would have bigger breasts.

(P.S. That last part was definitely a joke.)

[BillPackets]

Oh my gosh, she's a poet! Is she brunette? Please describe.

I've always wanted to be talented enough to write poetry!

uh not brunette more of a redhead...idk how tall she 5'3" maybe...real curly hair...got her hair cut awhile back where its shorter on one side and longer on the other dk what thats called but it looks good...part of the front is dyed blonde on one side...studied poetry in undergrad, also teaches comp and a creative writing course where she is getting her mfa from

[Valamar]

One more day of review, then starting 8:30 am PTs on Friday. Forcing my body to fall asleep at 10pm every day will be an interesting challenge

[BillPackets]

honestly thought bill was going to be a big black dude for some reason

He talks shit like a big black dude

glad to see i'm not the only one who has troube looking past the tar... you'll always be a massive black dude in my eyes bill

Reminds that today I asked a big black guy to move his car bc he had me blocked in at a gas pump. He cussed at me then moved it

offs...

is this expected on any threads that aren't explicitly URM?

What's with all this "big black dude" crap?

you get where I'm coming from:

One of my brother's friends recently was all "I wanted to be friends with him, because no one's going to fuck with me when I'm with a big black dude amiriggghht?! haha". Which, similar to the stuff you guys were saying was pretty inoffensive, and obviously not meant will any ill intent at all (and I didn't say anything). But the reasons he was saying that - big black men are perceived as scary and dangerous, also cause a LOT of problems for my brother.

So when you guys are all "he talks shit like a big black dude" and telling stories about how one big black man you met cussed at you and then did big strong black man shit, it just doesn't sit right, no matter how friendly the context.

idk im pretty sure every1 ITT has a certain level of political consciousness and that level is high enough to recognize that symbolic racism is very much alive and well in the US and obvs the two situations u r describing r very diff (one IRL where the implication is pretty obvs) vs ITT where everything was going off a legit joke bout my tar and how ppl will always picture me like chandler jones even tho im nothing like him so like yeah im aware of racism and all its subtle forms but like to project what has happened to your brother onto this thread doesnt seem right but i can see how it would remind you of that incident but im still going to say theyre different and the implication that was present IRL is not present ITT sry wasnt going 2 respond but its hard not 4 me 2 not respond to stuff like this most of the time

[sfoglia]

Oh my gosh, she's a poet! Is she brunette? Please describe.

I've always wanted to be talented enough to write poetry!

uh not brunette more of a redhead...idk how tall she 5'3" maybe...real curly hair...got her hair cut awhile back where its shorter on one side and longer on the other dk what thats called but it looks good...part of the front is dyed blonde on one side...studied poetry in undergrad, also teaches comp and a creative writing course where she is getting her mfa from

I taught introductory composition while studying for my MA! I want to be friends with her!

[BillPackets]

One more day of review, then starting 8:30 am PTs on Friday. Forcing my body to fall asleep at 10pm every day will be an interesting challenge

i think its easier to ease into it rather than go from going 2 bed at 12-1 to right at 10 but idk what ur sleep schedule is like when do u normally go 2 bed?

[vracovino]

For all you Lit majors with grad degrees why not just go for that PHD and try to get a professorship? Is it because the market is so bad?

Anyway, fellow lit major here. Still in undergrad but if I stink up the LSAT I'm gonna consider grad school next cycle. I like cultural theory / media studies

[ErgoSum]

PT 61 cut off my dick with it's light saber in our duel this morning and is hanging it as a trophy over it's fireplace :'[

166 on it. Lowest score I've earned so far

[Gray]

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[Valamar]

One more day of review, then starting 8:30 am PTs on Friday. Forcing my body to fall asleep at 10pm every day will be an interesting challenge

i think its easier to ease into it rather than go from going 2 bed at 12-1 to right at 10 but idk what ur sleep schedule is like when do u normally go 2 bed?

Horrible. Case in point: posted in this group around 330 last night. I'm thinking about doing one of those 48 hour resets where you pull an all nighter then crash at 9-10pm the night after haha

[BillPackets]

One more day of review, then starting 8:30 am PTs on Friday. Forcing my body to fall asleep at 10pm every day will be an interesting challenge

i think its easier to ease into it rather than go from going 2 bed at 12-1 to right at 10 but idk what ur sleep schedule is like when do u normally go 2 bed?

Horrible. Case in point: posted in this group around 330 last night. I'm thinking about doing one of those 48 hour resets where you pull an all nighter then crash at 9-10pm the night after haha

my fiance swears by that method

[ErgoSum]

PT 61 cut off my dick with it's light saber in our duel this morning and is hanging it as a trophy over it's fireplace :'[

166 on it. Lowest score I've earned so far

I think everyone ITT has had a terrible time with the early 60s. I was in full struggle mode for 60-64. Don't beat yourself up.

Thanks

I got all the questions from the last game incorrect and I messed up on the RC horribly

Much review/drilling after work

[BillPackets]

I taught introductory composition while studying for my MA! I want to be friends with her!

haha yup she has two comp courses of 24 students this semester. these kids kno nothing

[Colonel_funkadunk]

I taught introductory composition while studying for my MA! I want to be friends with her!

haha yup she has two comp courses of 24 students this semester. these kids kno nothing

Is she gon publish