Azelma wrote:
Hmm, I suppose this makes sense. I only got a business degree because my parents pretty much told me I had to. Thinking back on my business classes, I didn't really learn much that I couldn't have figured out on my own. I learned significantly more about business doing an internship and working than I ever did in the classroom.
This might just be an indictment of higher education itself.
That being said, I had multiple job offers when I graduated. The degree certainly got my foot in the door, but I assume I interviewed well enough and was able to demonstrate enough skill to warrant aforementioned job offers.
Also, from a practical standpoint, getting a music, theatre, history, english, art, etc degree doesn't exactly lend itself to getting hired out of college. I know many of my high school friends who are now working at Applebee's with their amazing Philosophy degrees. I know even more who are simply unemployed with loads of student debt. By contrast, every business major I know has a decent job that isn't some minimum wage hellhole.
I'd agree that higher education is retarded, and I'd put those other majors in the same basket.
Azelma wrote:
I don't specifically aim to have a certain number of friends...it's no quota. I have many friends, however. It's not because I feel I need approval, or that I can't speak up if I don't like something about someone. Quite the contrary, if i don't like someone, I simply won't be their friend. However, I think I have a large capacity for empathy. I enjoy the company of others and can relate to a wide variety of people. I'm also not a mean person, so I find that people find me to be quite amiable. Therefore, I am able to form many relationships in my life and have great friendships with great people. I fail to see how this makes me morally incorrect.
It doesn't. I'm referring to people who boast about how many friends they have, or actually think that saying "you have no friends" is anything but laughable.
Azelma wrote:
I think we have different definitions of dating. I am currently dating people because I am trying to find romance. Sex has entered the equation, but I am not going out with girls just to get into their pants. I am genuinely interested in meeting a nice girl, and getting to know her. Dating is the forum with which you can get to know a girl who you don't interact with on a daily basis (at work or whatever). I meet people through normal social events (out at a bar, party, whatever) and I have gotten a few numbers from girls...I then call that girl...and take her out in an effort to get to know her better. To me, that's the function of dating. Some people do date simply to get laid, not all do.
Same difference. I don't see the point of dating. If you meet someone you enjoy spend time with them. Doing contrived things or going through a ritualized process is a study in futility. It is there or it is not.
Azelma wrote:
The trick is finding compatibility and love...which is quite possible.
No. All that matters is compatibility. If you are compatible you will come to get along. There is cool love and there is hot love. Cool love is what you want in a marriage and it is inevitable with the compatible. Put a rooster and a hen in the same room long enough and they'll make a nest.
