OT: The Avalounge but every time someone posts the quality declines

[Foppberg]

Applying for Graduate School and getting irritated, lol.

My school wants me to submit an unofficial transcript for "all colleges attended", so that means I have to get an unofficial transcript from the Community College I went to 11 years ago. Now normally I'd understand why they want this, however I already sent them an official transcript from that school when I transferred over 2 years ago. I have credits from that school on my unofficial transcript with Wichita State!

So now I'm just sitting here, waiting for that college to send me my unofficial transcript via email, so that I can move on with the application.

[taps fingers on desk]

What're you looking to get into?

 

[RockLobster]

What're you looking to get into?

Like for Grad School or career?

Applying to Grad School because I still have a desire to learn and my job here at WSU will cover 6 credit hours for me every semester.

Career wise...I actually really like working at WSU and would like opportunities for advancement. A Masters Degree would be beneficial to have in that regard.

 

[UncleRisto]

Like for Grad School or career?

Applying to Grad School because I still have a desire to learn and my job here at WSU will cover 6 credit hours for me every semester.

Career wise...I actually really like working at WSU and would like opportunities for advancement. A Masters Degree would be beneficial to have in that regard.

There's work at a University with a Bachelors?

 

[RockLobster]

There's work at a University with a Bachelors?

There is, but the better jobs usually want you to have a Masters.

I actually don't have my bachelors yet, this is my last semester of undergrad, will graduate May 12 and figured "Eh, tuition is covered, just keep going"

 

[Bonzai12]

Sopranos talk made me think about the Christopher Moltisanti and Adrianna storyline.

I forgot how it all ended and had to look it up. Almost got me intrigued enough to watch the sopranos for like the third time through.

I forgot about the Christopher-Paulie battles jealousy tiffs too. So good.

 

[Foppberg]

Before long we'll have to refer to RL as professor RL.

 

[member 116861]

School is stupid

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

Met Zack Smith and a bunch of other sens on Sunday. He was a very humble and polite dude. Didn't want to go over to the rest and bother them though.

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

The Sopranos had its stumbles like any show, but IMO it was largely brilliant work.

Some shows I think were truly groundbreaking television:
The Wire
The Sopranos
Six Feet Under
Battlestar Galactica (the modern version of course, but I still love the original)
Mad Men

Have not yet sat down to watch True Detective or Breaking Bad, but I'm told those two are right up there as well.. My personal favorite TV show of all time is Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, which was hugely groundbreaking from a Trekkie perspective at least.

WOW is it really time to hash up the tv series topic? It's been like 2 months already huh? LOL

Sopranos is awesome Mad men is good but no way can you put it up there. At the end I was like what was the point?


GOT and Sopranos are tier above anything else.

Let me know when it's the music talk's turn.

 

[RockLobster]

But we JUST did music!!!

 

[Foppberg]

But we JUST did music!!!

The Beatles aren't music.

 

[agentblack]

I dont know why but i find debating and talking about music impossible because its just so personal
like i dig the Beatles but ive never been moved by them or any other "important" bands and just find myself nodding and agreeing when people talk about them or Zeppelin or the Stones,

 

[Foppberg]

I've never been a big music guy. I LOVE music, but I don't get deep into it like some do. I could never go to a concert again and I'd be fine. I have my spotify and I'm good.

 

[RockLobster]

The Beatles aren't music.

 

[ASmileyFace]

For the record. I'm having a hard time remembering who is who now that everyone has these playoff avatars. I ain't got no time to read your name.

 

[The Abusement Park]

For the record. I'm having a hard time remembering who is who now that everyone has these playoff avatars. I ain't got no time to read your name.

Lol same. It’s a real pain.

 

[RockLobster]

For the record. I'm having a hard time remembering who is who now that everyone has these playoff avatars. I ain't got no time to read your name.

That’s why I had Risto make one out of Jon Snow...

And I just f***ing realized what I SHOULD have had him put instead of “Actually Died Once” ...

 

[Murzu]

Oh it hurts. I would had gotten a very interesting job for next summer that would had helped my career so much but I have to decline because the pay would be so much lower than what I'm making now..

Well, I applied for only a couple of jobs and I immediately would had gotten an upgrade compared to what I'm doing now. Maybe I can get a good job in the future too.

 

[MarkT]

Applying for Graduate School and getting irritated, lol.

My school wants me to submit an unofficial transcript for "all colleges attended", so that means I have to get an unofficial transcript from the Community College I went to 11 years ago. Now normally I'd understand why they want this, however I already sent them an official transcript from that school when I transferred over 2 years ago. I have credits from that school on my unofficial transcript with Wichita State!

So now I'm just sitting here, waiting for that college to send me my unofficial transcript via email, so that I can move on with the application.

[taps fingers on desk]

My grad school application process back in the day was also a pain. I think they do it on purpose to weed out the quitters.

Oh, and The Wire > everything else

But Sopranos, DS9, Game of Thrones, Oz, Firefly, and some Dr Who is pretty great too.

 

[Arcade Fire]

I've never been a big music guy. I LOVE music, but I don't get deep into it like some do. I could never go to a concert again and I'd be fine. I have my spotify and I'm good.

I'm the complete opposite lmao. Think I attend a concert every 2 or 3 weeks. There's just something unbelievably wonderful about your favourite music/bands coming alive and being right there in front of you while everyone around you is feeling the same way as you do. I saw Franz Ferdinand a few weeks ago and if that wasn't the ultimate reason to never again skip a concert then I don't know what is. Lesson of a lifetime right there.

 

[MarkT]

I'm the complete opposite lmao. Think I attend a concert every 2 or 3 weeks. There's just something unbelievably wonderful about your favourite music/bands coming alive and being right there in front of you while everyone around you is feeling the same way as you do. I saw Franz Ferdinand a few weeks ago and if that wasn't the ultimate reason to never again skip a concert then I don't know what is. Lesson of a lifetime right there.

I wonder if it's an age thing. In my 20s I went to so many concerns I doubt I could give you even close to an accurate count. But there comes a point where you've seen everyone you want to see (several times in some cases) and you don't really need to see them again. And even new concerts just get compared mentally to past ones. I'm not saying I don't still enjoy concerts, but the drive to go to them all the time is gone.

I also second the idea of music being a difficult subject because it's so personal. For example, I've rarely in my life met anyone who has ever a strongly similar taste in music to me, but I've met tons of people with very similar tastes in TV, movies, and books.

But for the record, Franz Ferdinand shows are indeed awesome.

 

[Bubba Thudd]

I go to a few concerts a month.
But now I do local venues, not the big venues with the top name bands.
Small shows, locally, with a crowd of folks where half of us know each other from going to the same shows.
Good times.
Just bought my Sick Puppies tix the other day.

 

[Foppberg]

I wonder if it's an age thing. In my 20s I went to so many concerns I doubt I could give you even close to an accurate count. But there comes a point where you've seen everyone you want to see (several times in some cases) and you don't really need to see them again. And even new concerts just get compared mentally to past ones. I'm not saying I don't still enjoy concerts, but the drive to go to them all the time is gone.

I also second the idea of music being a difficult subject because it's so personal. For example, I've rarely in my life met anyone who has ever a strongly similar taste in music to me, but I've met tons of people with very similar tastes in TV, movies, and books.

But for the record, Franz Ferdinand shows are indeed awesome.

I'm in my early 20s and I've only been to.. 8? concerts. Maybe it's from my millennial, multi-tasking ways but the last one I went to I was bored. It's just not my thing I guess.

 

[henchman21]

I'm seemingly at a concert every week or so... About once or twice a month I'll go out of my way to see a band in the general area (Denver, SLC, Boulder, Springs).

 

[Papa Francouz]

I don’t go to many concerts because all of my favorite bands are either dead or too old to perform.

I am going to see Childish Gambino in Seattle in September, though. That’ll be my first concert in a few years. I’m pretty excited for that.