What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[Erik_Twice]

Dobby shouldn't have read the last few pages of this thread. Bad Dobby! Dobby knew better. Dobby has to punish himself now, sir.

[elmagicochrisg]

Sup guys

[jfrost]

Got into the Master's program I was working so hard for. Finally!

[dsheinem]

Got into the Master's program I was working so hard for. Finally!

congrats man, that's awesome! Where are you going and for what?

[Forlorn Drifter]

I read back on the last couple of pages... uhh, I'm glad I missed out on that. I think I've been in one of those arguments before on here.

[jfrost]

Got into the Master's program I was working so hard for. Finally!

congrats man, that's awesome! Where are you going and for what?

Same school I got my Bachelor's degree, Federal University of Pernambuco. I'm studying communications.

Now, let me just take something from my chest. I'm not really friends with anybody in the forum and I doubt anyone will care too much either way, but I'll say it regardless.

Getting into this program was made all the sweeter because right now I'm working my ass off in a job I just got. I'm teaching English in a small, poor town at a social project aimed at people with little education. Then I got the news I passed, it was just great. Not only I'm at a good (if temporary) job right now, in which I think I'm making a difference in these people's lives, but when my contract expires, I'll start studying again, which is what I love. Everything fit.

Before taking this job, I was really trying to get back into academia, but poor prospects drained my motivation.

I went and studied quite a bit, took some classes, honed the project I wanted to work on at the university and this time it worked. Last year I tried to get into the Master's program in Design (I even asked for your advice, ds) but ended up failing. I'm glad I could learn something from that failure, because there was a time pessimism was eating me up.

It just feels now that I could turn the tide in my life and this is a great feeling to have. Shaking off the pressure I put on myself.

Now hopefully I'll be able to get back into playing games, something I haven't done in months.

[J T]

Congrats jfrost! Nice work.

[Stark]

Got into the Master's program I was working so hard for. Finally!

congrats man, that's awesome! Where are you going and for what?

Same school I got my Bachelor's degree, Federal University of Pernambuco. I'm studying communications.

Now, let me just take something from my chest. I'm not really friends with anybody in the forum and I doubt anyone will care too much either way, but I'll say it regardless.

Getting into this program was made all the sweeter because right now I'm working my ass off in a job I just got. I'm teaching English in a small, poor town at a social project aimed at people with little education. Then I got the news I passed, it was just great. Not only I'm at a good (if temporary) job right now, in which I think I'm making a difference in these people's lives, but when my contract expires, I'll start studying again, which is what I love. Everything fit.

Before taking this job, I was really trying to get back into academia, but poor prospects drained my motivation.

I went and studied quite a bit, took some classes, honed the project I wanted to work on at the university and this time it worked. Last year I tried to get into the Master's program in Design (I even asked for your advice, ds) but ended up failing. I'm glad I could learn something from that failure, because there was a time pessimism was eating me up.

It just feels now that I could turn the tide in my life and this is a great feeling to have. Shaking off the pressure I put on myself.

Now hopefully I'll be able to get back into playing games, something I haven't done in months.

Love it. Good job dude.

[Ziggy]

Smile: This came today...

[Menegrothx]

American slavery doesn't compare to Nazi-ism.

It bugs me how certain things are taboo to debate. There's basically one view people in this country are allowed to have about the Civil War, and any other opinion is purely racist and evil.

The same thing also applies for national socialism. It's impossible to discuss about national socialism as an idea in an objective manner because most people immediately associate it with Nazi Germany. Yet communism, which has killed a lot more people in multiple countries around the world doesn't get the same treatment (ie "communism is evil and inherently leads to genocide"). History is written by the winners, in this case The Union and Allies.

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate."
- Noam Chomsky

For the record: I'm not saying that CSA was as bad as the NSG nor advocating nazism (and neither is Noam, he's a socialist and Jewish)