Posts by Thomas Wilson4

It took me forever to realize what she actually meant when she said she wasn't having sex because it hurts... she wasn't saying she doesn't have sex at all, just that it's painful. I mean, come on, who in their right mind would be popping pills for "protection" if they weren't even getting laid?

Also, that garlic tip? Total lifesaver!! 😉

I’ve basically trained myself to copy everything before I hit send 😁 especially when I’m typing out some long-winded manifesto. 😉

hiddenhawk3 said:The hardest one is probably specialized STEM academies, ☕, where all the smart kids end up.

Man, I gotta tell you, back in my day, being in a standard track class meant we were basically following the exact same math curriculum as those honors kids. It was all the same stuff. The only real difference was how much of our lives we spent staring at equations—we’d get maybe three hours of math a week, while they’d get four... or maybe it was the other way around, honestly, I can't even remember anymore. Everything just blurs together after a while. 🤔 Most of them actually had an extra hour of class compared to us, too. Plus, our teacher was some heavy hitter from a top-tier prep school in Chicago. 😉

hiddenhawk3 said:I guess high school kids seem smart mostly because they actually have the option to stay in school. They usually have parents with enough money to make sure they aren't working full-time jobs right after turning eighteen. And saying a grad without a degree is worse than some smart mechanic is a stretch.☕

Besides, degrees vary wildly. It really just depends on what you studied. 😍

Honestly, I can't even deal. I don't think I've ever heard anything quite that brainless in my entire life. 😳 So, I cruised through elementary school with a perfect 4.0, pulled a solid 3.8 or so in high school, and now I’m finally wrapping up my degree... and apparently, all that hard work was only possible because my parents have deep pockets? Are you kidding me? Give me a break.

Kimberly Smith6 said:Why is there such a massive bias toward kids from prep schools?
Well, it’s simply because you can't just wander into a high-end preparatory academy; you need an GPA hovering somewhere between a 4.5 and a perfect 5.0!
And of course, almost every teacher in our elementary schools graduated from those same elite academies and went on to prestigious universities, which leads to this constant, repetitive conditioning where they tell the children that a kid with a 5.0 is some kind of genius. Meanwhile, if a student falls even slightly below that 4.5 mark, they are practically invisible, receiving absolutely zero recognition or praise. It reminds me of how most famous authors came from that same academic track—and we all know the unspoken social hierarchy regarding writers who merely read the classics for a grade versus those who actually live them!

At least in my old elementary school, things worked exactly like that; any student who managed to finish with a 5.0 would be called up in front of the whole class to receive a formal certificate, along with flowers and various little gifts. To me, it felt like pure brainwashing for the rest of the students who didn't hit that 5.0 mark, essentially drilling into their heads that only the "perfect" student is smart. It sends this heavy, indirect message to everyone else that they are somehow dim-witted just because they didn't get a fancy piece of paper or a public shout-out!

Now, look at my own situation—I graduated from a vocational high school and I am currently attending a technical university, and let me tell you, seeing those prep school graduates walk into a technical college lab is quite the sight to behold.
Those prep school kids stare at the lab equipment like newborn calves staring at a colorful gate, and they almost always try to sit next to the students who came from vocational backgrounds just to ride their coattails and scrape by with a passing grade.
Because when they see an oscilloscope, a multimeter, or a voltmeter for the first time—not to mention resistors, chips, or capacitors—they honestly just stand there asking, "Wait, what is this? What does this thing do?"
They have a thousand questions about how to connect a single wire, whereas the students who spent four years in vocational training just look at them and say, "How do you not know this? It's this, it's that," and then they assemble the entire circuit perfectly in a minute because they've been practicing the exact same material consistently for four straight years.
In contrast, a prep school student is expected to cram that entire four-year vocational curriculum into a single semester lasting maybe three or four months!
So, I really want someone to explain to me how a student from that background can possibly be a high-quality professional when they've only touched the material for a few months—and that's not even counting the time they spend cramming for exams. How can they compete with someone who has been absorbing and repeating that knowledge steadily over a four-year period?

It ultimately results in a situation where even the lowest-performing student from a vocational school ends up being far more capable than a prep school graduate when it comes to actual, practical expertise.

It was the exact same deal back in my day 😁 there were about ten of us who pulled off straight A's all through middle school. We got certificates, bouquets, a set of ten books we actually got to pick out ourselves, and $267 some extra cash added to our savings accounts 😁 That was the payoff for grinding it out for those eight years. Look, if someone else didn't put in the work... that's on them, not us, and definitely not on the school. Everyone had the same shot; if forty kids had pulled straight A's, they would’ve all gotten the same loot 😳

And regarding getting into high school... when I was applying, you couldn't even get in if your GPA was under a 4.8. From what I hear, things have gone downhill since then 😁 there are tons of kids out there barely scraping by with maybe 60 points max based on their grades

hiddenhawk3 said:I guess you have to consider that kids coming from vocational schools have to work way harder just to get into the same universities as the prep school crowd. I probably wouldn't underestimate a colleague like that, personally.😁

hmm... I don't know about that. I was pulling that kind of heavy lifting for four straight years, whereas they only have to deal with it for maybe three or four months. 😉

So, I finished high school too. Every time someone asks what kind of school I went to and I say "traditional prep school," they always give me that look, like "ohhh, a 😁 type." It’s the same story at the train station—I was lugging around my backpack, met this guy, and when he asked where I studied and I told him it was a classic prep academy, he just goes, "Whoa, so you're one of those smart ones..."

Honestly, that was basically my entire four-year experience. Same deal in college during freshman year, too... professors would constantly grill us about which high schools we came from. You could actually see the difference in how they treated us; they definitely had a different vibe for the kids coming out of the prep schools. 🤷

swiftangler2 said:Marilyn Monroe—honestly, just kill me now

😂😂 man, thinking back to when they first started out... 🤣 I was actually grabbing coffee with my buddy the other day... what a bunch of characters those guys are... 🤣 😍