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[Zephyrus]

If you learn French first that will make learning Italian easier than doing it the other way around.

 

[Der Morgenstern]

French. It's the most widespread out of those.

He`s studying engineering and involved in the sciences. Why would you recommend French over German

 

[Vimana]

Because I didn't know what he was studying.

 

[unknown]

German. It's actually a pretty easy language to study

 

[zabu of nΩd]

I plan to study german later this year

 

[King Richard]

He`s studying engineering and involved in the sciences. Why would you recommend French over German

Ya, that's why I was leaning more towards German. Speaking of which, I just found out my school offers a dual engineering/German degree and you get to study abroad for six months. I think I'm going to check in to this. Did your school offer anything like this?

 

[damnromulans]

I'm seriously considering studying a foreign language next semester. The problem is I'm torn between German, French, and Italian. I think I prefer them in that order, but I can't decide.

Study German, it will make you want to switch to Mandarin because the grammar is so fuckingawfulomg --> barely any grammar at all!

 

[Der Morgenstern]

Ya, that's why I was leaning more towards German. Speaking of which, I just found out my school offers a dual engineering/German degree and you get to study abroad for six months. I think I'm going to check in to this. Did your school offer anything like this?

Not for my major which had such a small enrollment to start with. I wasn't in the sexy mechanical or process engineering majors. I know they had multitudes of different co-ops and 'degree enhancements' you could take.

My 'degree enhancements' consisted of spending time at the National Disease Control Center and going to Plum Island.

 

[Blind Guardian]

Wheew I passed. Unfortunately two of my classmates didn't, so they were told to pack their bags and leave. What's even worse is that they were hired by another company for this program; one which requires them to pay the company back several thousands of euros for the expenses they've paid for. Talk about a shitty situation.

Is this for that job in the Netherlands?

All right I was just asking, there's no hard feelings if you really don't want to reply. I just thought it would be interesting to hear, since I seem to remember you mentioning something along the lines of getting employed for some aviation-related stuff in the Netherlands.

 

[Blind Guardian]

No hard feelings whatsoever, you Scanian WT dreg. Smelly goose blood drinking farmer piece of shit.

 

[-CC-]

Yeah it's for the job in the Netherlands, moosefucker.

 

[Cronopio]

Since when is CC Scanian?

 

[Blind Guardian]

He's from Malmö.

 

[-CC-]

This noll-åtta needs to lurk moar.

 

[Blind Guardian]

Yeah, what a noodle lol. This calls for a Malmö exposé.

 

[Jimmy... Dead.]

So I've been living in another State for awhile now and I've become completely depressed and self loathing. Thoughts of suicide have been consistent but nothing serious. I think I'm going to quit my bullshit life/job and try to be a real person.

 

[Zephyrus]

Funny that you got into Maine not long before I'm about to leave it. What of Israeli chick?

 

[Dak]

I think I'm going to quit my bullshit life/job and try to be a real person.

Most of the "developed" world probably needs to take this advice.

 

[A1a23]

So I've been living in another State for awhile now and I've become completely depressed and self loathing. Thoughts of suicide have been consistent but nothing serious. I think I'm going to quit my bullshit life/job and try to be a real person.

Don't become like your username.

 

[Zephyrus]

So after smoking way too much pot last night I started freaking out and had a major crisis. I woke up this morning and I'm still feeling anxious over all of it.

I am morally bankrupt, utterly.

I've become addicted to sex, to the internet, to Facebook, to making myself stupid every night with marijuana. I've become an animal, and rather unsociable. I'm neglecting my friends, my family, my roommate, and isolated within this world of base desires and short-term gratification.

All I want to do is to take a library of classical texts with me and live in a monastery. I want to cut off all interest in drugs, women and media and focus solely on regaining the intellect I once exercised so strongly when I was an undergrad. I've degenerated from an insightful thinker and writer, down to a petty translator, and now all I do intellectually is read Latin and Greek. It's one thing that I've improved in, but at the cost of so much else.

I've realized in this past year since graduating just how intrinsically unmotivated I am. I've gotten so used to the world handing everything to me, and that includes academic work. I thrive in an environment where there are deadlines and assignments, but when it's time for my own initiative to undertake such projects, I just don't have the gumption.

I've completely stagnated. I don't seek out new music anymore, instead just listening to the same limited amount of music over and over.

This all needs to change, and it's going to be royally difficult to do so, but it will require monumental sacrifices. I need to refocus on my goals, my purpose in life, and stick to that every waking hour.

I've lost all sense of value in everything. While I may be civilized on the surface, deep down I view everyone, women especially, as objects of conquest and nothing more, means to an end and possessing no inherent value beyond the gratification of my own fleeting and fluctuating passions.

I know it's not the best or easiest way to try to make a polar shift from abject hedonism to utter asceticism but a gradual approach seems just as difficult.

I could just be overreacting but it's really worth resetting my priorities as I prepare for graduate school and an academic career.

We'll see how this goes...