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Author Topic: I'M GETTING SO OLD! (Not really, but it feels like it)  (Read 17576 times)

Flying Dice

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Re: I'M GETTING SO OLD! (Not really, but it feels like it)
« Reply #30 on: May 04, 2012, 09:22:04 pm »

I've written papers on a typewriter. We've still got a couple working ones back home. Pretty good way to teach yourself to think before you start writing.
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Re: I'M GETTING SO OLD! (Not really, but it feels like it)
« Reply #31 on: May 04, 2012, 09:22:35 pm »

...I still have a typewriter in my house.
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Re: I'M GETTING SO OLD! (Not really, but it feels like it)
« Reply #32 on: May 04, 2012, 09:26:56 pm »

Incidentally, the only people allowed to use Courier (other than screenplay writers and the failed versions thereof) are people who have used typewriters. Seriously, it's a law. Snobbery is only fun when it is officially sanctioned, neh?  :P
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Re: I'M GETTING SO OLD! (Not really, but it feels like it)
« Reply #33 on: May 04, 2012, 09:29:34 pm »

Incidentally, the only people allowed to use Courier (other than screenplay writers and the failed versions thereof) are people who have used typewriters. Seriously, it's a law. Snobbery is only fun when it is officially sanctioned, neh?  :P
What about people in the upper forums who want to make color-coded, evenly-spaced DF diagrams?
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Re: I'M GETTING SO OLD! (Not really, but it feels like it)
« Reply #34 on: May 04, 2012, 09:30:35 pm »

Incidentally, the only people allowed to use Courier (other than screenplay writers and the failed versions thereof) are people who have used typewriters. Seriously, it's a law. Snobbery is only fun when it is officially sanctioned, neh?  :P
What about people in the upper forums who want to make color-coded, evenly-spaced DF diagrams?
I suppose that's a noble enough cause.
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Re: I'M GETTING SO OLD! (Not really, but it feels like it)
« Reply #35 on: May 04, 2012, 09:34:29 pm »

Incidentally, the only people allowed to use Courier (other than screenplay writers and the failed versions thereof) are people who have used typewriters. Seriously, it's a law. Snobbery is only fun when it is officially sanctioned, neh?  :P
What about people in the upper forums who want to make color-coded, evenly-spaced DF diagrams?
I suppose that's a noble enough cause.
They're not really writing, anyhow. That's closer to making word art.
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Re: I'M GETTING SO OLD! (Not really, but it feels like it)
« Reply #36 on: May 04, 2012, 09:35:56 pm »

Incidentally, the only people allowed to use Courier (other than screenplay writers and the failed versions thereof) are people who have used typewriters. Seriously, it's a law. Snobbery is only fun when it is officially sanctioned, neh?  :P
Fortunately for me, I borrowed a typewriter from the college where my mom works way back when I was, like, seven or eight years old. It was awesome.
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Re: I'M GETTING SO OLD! (Not really, but it feels like it)
« Reply #37 on: May 04, 2012, 09:42:26 pm »

I was forced to the computer when I started typing so fast that the hammers were getting stuck together. Also, I'm a chronic editor.
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« Reply #38 on: May 04, 2012, 09:42:59 pm »

18 as of February here, the past year alone has gone too damn fast... This may sound naive, but I can't wait to start my life in the real world once this high school bullshit is through.
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« Reply #39 on: May 04, 2012, 09:45:17 pm »

This may sound naive, but I can't wait to start my life in the real world once this high school bullshit is through.
I absolutely agree, but I also have a feeling that I should try to get everything set up ahead of time while I'm being housed and fed without needing to work. Problem is, I don't really know how to do that.
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« Reply #40 on: May 04, 2012, 09:53:22 pm »

Just a tip: start working now, start saving now. If you can put a few hundred into a savings account every year until you're done with uni, that's great. If you've got a few grand in checking by the time you have to start worrying about tuition, that's also great. But more than anything else, don't slack off. One of the things I really regret is being completely apathetic in high school, because I ended up graduating with only a 3.6 unweighted GPA (Was something like 4.2/4 weighted, because I was taking college level courses my junior and senior year, but hey! those don't count for shit, even if they took my GPA way down. If I'd been taking standard/Honors or AP courses, I think I could have swung a 4.0 with the same complete lack of effort). If I had put in any effort at all, I could have had a 4.0 anyhow, which would have meant $6,000 more in scholarship money every year. It sucks, but do the work, because a bit of effort in secondary school is far better than going into debt for a bachelor's.
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Re: I'M GETTING SO OLD! (Not really, but it feels like it)
« Reply #41 on: May 04, 2012, 09:55:16 pm »

This may sound naive, but I can't wait to start my life in the real world once this high school bullshit is through.
I absolutely agree, but I also have a feeling that I should try to get everything set up ahead of time while I'm being housed and fed without needing to work. Problem is, I don't really know how to do that.

I'm doing just that as we type (or at least I should be, If I weren't so fucking lazy  :D ), but I do have the job part temporarily.
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Re: I'M GETTING SO OLD! (Not really, but it feels like it)
« Reply #42 on: May 04, 2012, 10:07:05 pm »

18 as of February here, the past year alone has gone too damn fast... This may sound naive, but I can't wait to start my life in the real world once this high school bullshit is through.
I feel the exact opposite. I wish I could just go back to school and stay there forever, without this "real world" bullshit getting in the way.
I don't function well without orders.
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« Reply #43 on: May 04, 2012, 10:40:09 pm »

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Re: I'M GETTING SO OLD! (Not really, but it feels like it)
« Reply #44 on: May 04, 2012, 10:42:59 pm »

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