College and its assorted kickassery

[DoTheFandango]

I knew about parties, you SLC-Punk watching piece of shit. You're probably the one with the nose ring and Rancid shirt playing chords from some shitty gutterpunk album that no one likes, and you don't either deep down inside of you but you wanna be hardcore.

See, I can make asinine assumptions too.

[roxxkatt]

T

owned.

[phata$$]

I wouldn't know. I decided to go to a community college and enter the real world earlier like a dumbass. God I really regret not going to a university. -_-

[Ubik]

ROFL I used to live 5 mins from campus. Joke school :P

[Ubik]

some of you tards goto UF and UCF? figures. i said pass to those gayass towns. gainesville is like a giant trailerpark, orlando..eh.

im nice and tan up in jacksonville with all the beach babes. osprey alum. CAW CAW motherfuckers (never been to a school event, but anyway)!

Orlando > Jacksonville.

Jacksonville smells like paper.

The Washington Post put it best: "Jacksonville makes Tampa look like Paris!" GG Tony Kornheiser is God.

[Cops]

[project dragon]

We have big hawks.

[Zeebu]

ya well, the colts have held spring training at my university for the last few years

break out ur weiner measurin devices

[Cops]

We have big hawks.

and good parties.

[SEAL]

Interesting article from wall street journal

Don't worry, The Netherlands only has about 10 public holidays. Most countries hover around 10-15 public holidays. He's probably including vacation time in which case I get 28 days off, like most people.

I´m not including public holidays. But we do have fewer of them. About 8 if i calculate quickly. So that would make it 29+8. Here´s a pretty interesting article from wall street journal that i read a few weeks ago. (sorry for the long text, but you need a subscription to read the article, so i cant post the url)




By ARTHUR C. BROOKS
It is vacation season once again, giving occasion for the usual homilies about how Europeans are having a much better and healthier time of it than we are when it comes to work. You've heard it a thousand times: Americans "live to work," while Europeans "work to live."

By almost every measure, Europeans do work less and relax more than Americans. According to data from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, Americans work 25% more hours each year than the Norwegians or the Dutch. The average retirement age for European men is 60.5, and it's even lower for European women. Our vacations are pathetically short by comparison: The average U.S. worker takes 16 days of vacation each year, less than half that typically taken by the Germans (35 days), the French (37 days) or the Italians (42 days).

Why these differences? There are two standard explanations, neither of which casts Americans in a particularly good light. First, we are emotionally stunted. According to Time Magazine, "In the puritanical version of Christianity that has always appealed to Americans, religion comes packaged with the stern message that hard work is good for the soul. Modern Europe has avoided so melancholy a lesson."

Second, we are under the yoke of hard-bitten capitalism. The London Telegraph reports that the heavy U.S. work effort does not result from a special affinity Americans have for work; rather, it is because we are "terrified of losing [our] jobs" in a labor environment in which workers have few of the protections Europeans enjoy.

According to either explanation of the high American work effort, we would be a lot happier if we could somehow throw off our chains -- both emotionally and legally -- and demand shorter work weeks, longer vacations and bulletproof tenure until our early retirements. A tidy hypothesis, to be sure -- until we look at the facts.

The truth is that most Americans don't feel particularly shackled. To begin with, an amazingly high percentage of us like our jobs. Among adults who worked 10 hours a week or more in 2002, the General Social Survey (GSS) found that 89% said they were very satisfied or somewhat satisfied with their jobs. Only 11% said they were not too satisfied or not at all satisfied.
Of course, some would argue this statistic must be hiding big differences between people with "good" jobs and those with "bad" jobs. Presidential candidate John Edwards, in an argument fit for the French, tells us that we are two nations: "One America that does the work, another America that reaps the reward."

No doubt there is great job dissatisfaction among people with low incomes and little education -- the folks working in factories and on farms; the people who sell you socks and serve you lunch -- right? Wrong. There is no difference at all between those with above- and below-average incomes: nine in 10 are satisfied, as are people without college degrees. 87% of people who call themselves "working class" are satisfied.

But even if we are satisfied with our jobs, might we still be happier at the beach? Imagine asking people something like this: "If you were to get enough money to live as comfortably as you would like for the rest of your life, would you continue to work or would you stop working?" Certainly a high percentage would answer in the affirmative? Wrong again: In 2002, the GSS found that number to be less than a third of all workers. And once again, there is no difference between those at different levels of income or education. 69% of working class folks say they would keep working even if they didn't have to.

For most Americans, work is a rock-solid source of life happiness. Happy people work more hours each week than unhappy people, and work more in their free time as well. Even more tellingly, people with more hours per day to relax outside their jobs are not any happier than those who have less non-work time. In short, the idea that our heavy workloads are lowering our happiness is twaddle.

Obviously, there is a point beyond which work is excessive and lowers life quality. But within reasonable bounds, if happiness is our goal, the American formula of hard work appears to function pretty well.
This may be one reason why Americans tend to score better than Europeans on most happiness surveys. For example, according to the 2002 International Social Survey Programme across 35 countries, 56% of Americans are "completely happy" or "very happy" with their lives, versus 44% of Danes (often cited in surveys as the happiest Europeans), 35% of the French and 31% of Germans. Those sweet five-week vacations and 35-hour workweeks don't seem to be stimulating all that much félicité. A good old-fashioned 50-hour week might be a better option.

The bottom line is that this year, I will not flinch at any mocking European glance as I write emails from the beach -- or skip the beach entirely. For I am happy.

[Galleleo]

That article doesn't really put the numbers in the right context, as said in the opening Americans live to work and Europeans work to live, now I know for Europeans this is generally pretty true. Which means that 50 hour work weeks wouldn't make us happier. While if what is said for the Americans is true, it would for them.

Also I know of Dutch surveys with the question: If you win the jackpot would you stop working or..? And always the biggest part of the people questioned say that they will keep working, so it's not like America is special in that. If I win the jackpot (later on, not now) I would also keep working, maybe not 40 to 50 hours a week, probably more a part-time job, or seek out something I really wanna do which could mean waiting for the right opportunity, but I would probably keep working.

If I would win it now, I would take a year off from Uni and see how far I can get if I really practice golf..

[Heroin Bob]

[banzi fuq]

rofl, UF is rated as the third? party school of the nation not to mention a great athletics and academics program.

UCF isn't rated as high as UF is but it sure is a hell lot better than hicktown, USA you got braggin over there...beaches...wtf u talkin bout beaches, jacksonville aint got shit. in fact if it wasnt for one ditsy girl back in my high school who wanted to explore the major of glass blowing i would of never figured there was a school in that area of florida. go fuck your sister and dont ever talk to the civilized world again.

oh wow. half of gainesville goes to the community college because they want to be gators. UF has great academics, sure football and other athletics but fucking christ. parties are parties. ive been to a million parties in gainesville..same as the parties ive been to in orlando or in jacksonville. it's a party school because there are 50k students at UF alone+SFCC right there and its a dinky town. jax is huge with fccj+unf having what 20k total?

im not saying jacksonville is the shit, nor am i saynig unf is the shit. im saying gainesville is horrible shit. if there was no school there, it would not be there. you've gotta drive through towns like Waldo and Stark to get there.

unf is top 5 in the country for value/education. i got everyclass i needed, when i wanted them, and Jacksonville has a real economy so i can get a nice job in a nice town now. not one driven off students & alum money. maybe its a matter of taste, but the southside of jacksonville/the beaches are what i choose over gainesville/orlando.

i wouldnt goto a football/basketball game if i lived in either of orlando/gainesville so i dont give a shit about athletics. its school for 4 years of my life and im out. did you read my post or are you just a uf fanboy? go do your gator chomp in the mirror a few times. ill be on the beach tho

[DoTheFandango]

Shut up and accept the fact that Florida sucks. Period.

[gran guerrero]

look at me, i went 2 unf and i dink it is greatest edumacation evar but i kent reed cauz i dinks dis guy goes to uf even dough he postd pic of ucf

Bite me dickfist

Shut up and accept the fact that Florida sucks. Period.

get aids