Reflections on college visits
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Familiar a bit with UCLA and a bit with USC. Like you, I like both campuses. But, not a "fan" of the area around USC once you step off the campus. To me, it is pretty rundown area. I know that they have volunteer "police" that patrol the neighborhoods outside of campus proper and provide walking escorts, etc. as needed, but I still would not feel real safe there. UCLA is to me, in a much better neighborhood.
@taiwan_girl said in Reflections on college visits:
Familiar a bit with UCLA and a bit with USC. Like you, I like both campuses. But, not a "fan" of the area around USC once you step off the campus. To me, it is pretty rundown area. I know that they have volunteer "police" that patrol the neighborhoods outside of campus proper and provide walking escorts, etc. as needed, but I still would not feel real safe there. UCLA is to me, in a much better neighborhood.
We noticed that too. Also the university has a deal with Lyft for free rides for students in the evenings within a certain radius of school. There’s a reason the place is so expensive.
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@Klaus said in Reflections on college visits:
At UCLA, did you see the Jim Morrison locker?
Nope. They didn’t mention it.
@jon-nyc said in Reflections on college visits:
@Klaus said in Reflections on college visits:
At UCLA, did you see the Jim Morrison locker?
Nope. They didn’t mention it.
That locker was in the computer science building when I visited UCLA.
It's full of stickers, and it is said that most stickers are laced with cocaine
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By the way, we saw the college republicans setting up a booth at Berkeley. Brave young souls.
The whole reason we call them illegal aliens is because they’re subject to our laws.
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@jon-nyc said in Reflections on college visits:
@Klaus said in Reflections on college visits:
At UCLA, did you see the Jim Morrison locker?
Nope. They didn’t mention it.
That locker was in the computer science building when I visited UCLA.
It's full of stickers, and it is said that most stickers are laced with cocaine
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By the way, we saw the college republicans setting up a booth at Berkeley. Brave young souls.
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Why did you folks tour UBC?
Sorry of the signage, btw. (We colonists have to acknowledge & apologize).@blondie said in Reflections on college visits:
(We colonists have to acknowledge & apologize).
You're not a colonist and you don't owe anyone an apology.
More generally, why is it we recognize how foul and dangerous it is to tie ethnicities to territories when the European right does it ("Blut und Boden") but somehow its ok when "First (sic) Nations" do it?
Also, why is the second to last group to conquer a territory special? Why not third to last? Or fourth?
The whole ideology is intellectually vacuous.
The whole reason we call them illegal aliens is because they’re subject to our laws.
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@jon-nyc said in Reflections on college visits:
He’s narrowed it down to either medicine or aerospace engineering. With a minor in music.
That's quite amusing. At his age I also still had no realistic idea of what I actually wanted to do.
@AndyD said in Reflections on college visits:
At his age I also still had no realistic idea of what I actually wanted to do.
I still don't.
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@blondie said in Reflections on college visits:
(We colonists have to acknowledge & apologize).
You're not a colonist and you don't owe anyone an apology.
More generally, why is it we recognize how foul and dangerous it is to tie ethnicities to territories when the European right does it ("Blut und Boden") but somehow its ok when "First (sic) Nations" do it?
Also, why is the second to last group to conquer a territory special? Why not third to last? Or fourth?
The whole ideology is intellectually vacuous.
@jon-nyc said in Reflections on college visits:
@blondie said in Reflections on college visits:
(We colonists have to acknowledge & apologize).
You're not a colonist and you don't owe anyone an apology.
More generally, why is it we recognize how foul and dangerous it is to tie ethnicities to territories when the European right does it ("Blut und Boden") but somehow its ok when "First (sic) Nations" do it?
Also, why is the second to last group to conquer a territory special? Why not third to last? Or fourth?
The whole ideology is intellectually vacuous.
Word up. There isn't a square mile of desirable land on this planet that hasn't been conquered and occupied, some many times over.
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I’m sure we can all agree to that. But not all the vacuousness comes from the left. The Zionism project rests on a vacuous appeal to some historical snapshot of real estate musical chairs as well. And of course their opponents’ perspective does too.
But the only honest way to frame real estate ownership is whomever has the power gets the land. But modern humans don’t like honesty at that level so we talk around it with various euphemisms and falsehoods.
Education is extremely important.
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By the way, we saw the college republicans setting up a booth at Berkeley. Brave young souls.
@jon-nyc said in Reflections on college visits:
By the way, we saw the college republicans setting up a booth at Berkeley. Brave young souls.
I have to wonder, were they Republicans before they went to the school? If so, kinda dumb choice unless they specifically want to be provocative. Or are they youth rebelling against the authority?
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