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I know the feeling. Sometimes I want to be the kid that scores well by being a dick. But I like to challenge myself. Picking the easy way is just .

Probably why I look forward to class and hate exams. I don't want to be tested on this , I just want you to tell me more. I'll figure out if I'm good or bad at it on my own.

EDIT: And why, even though I'm not great at them, I still prefer essays. At least you have to have an opinion there, rather than tick the right box.

I wouldn't have cared if it was just for their fields of study. These people just didn't seem to care about anything beyond their stupid part-time jobs, friends and passing the next round of exams. That's what I liked about business school, despite everyone there being total douches. At least they were interested in getting done.

The problem is the inflation of education. The market of people with bachelors degrees is super saturated. Having said degree is now nearly the equivalent to having a HS diploma a few decades back. It's nearly the baseline of education these days. As a result everyone feels that they natural thing to do at the end of HS is to go to college; sadly, there's little thought put into why.

Now theoretically this would be a good thing, but it's not. It is in a university's best interests to churn as many degrees out as possible. So the larger the volume of students the more they have to lower their standards. HS never ends and a bachelors degree is just grade 13. All of these kids go and find a career path that is practical or either because it pays well or they suck least at it as a subject. Around me it seems that English teacher was the catch all for easiest degree that ends with a reasonably steady job. Nobody went into it because they love literature and want kids to learn. They go into it because they figure "I can already speak it, how hard can it be to teach it." They spend a lot of money a few years at school for a piece of paper that declares they are fit to teach it.

These people find classes as something to simply endure. They just have to "make it through" the classes to get the degree. They don't actually actively pursue the degree. They don't realize that the classes are teaching them skills and knowledge that they need to apply later.

tl;dr - People are apathetic about education. They are in college because they have to be as the new minimum of standard education. They don't earnestly care about these topics and haven't graduated from HS mentalities.

The skill of pretending to have skills.

I saw that documentary a few years ago too. It was really interesting, and screwed up!

I guess I should work of getting some skills too. I can pretend to have skills which I guess counts.

Yeah, and it kinda pissed off the North: N. Korea threatens S. Korea again - UPI.com

Wouldn't surprise me if they threw everyone who read those pamphlets and their family into prison camps and filled those villages with people from other parts of the country.

I read somewhere (don't know how legitimate the article was), that it's illegal to make and distribute literature against the regime. If found, it should be destroyed. It's also illegal to deface any picture, effigy, sculpture, etc. of Kim Jong Il. No big surprise on either of those.

It gets funny, though. At some point the South Koreans flyer bombed areas of North Korea along the border with anti-NK literature. It was telling them how much better things are else where, and stuff like that. The literature also had a picture of Kim Jong Il on there. So the citizens, government workers, etc. didn't know how to handle it. It's supposed to be destroyed, but it has their leaders picture so it can't be destroyed. I love devious and clever.

I know they have sent balloons with anit-NK flyers across the border before, with money attached to it. Makes me think the other flyer story is plausible.

As of this moment it's too soon to tell whether The Man may or may not be behind China's rise to power.

The Chinese might be trying to take over?

I think the most defiantly are

Well no I wont. My mind will be blown and I'll be dead.

you'll woo after I come up with something so interesting it'll blow your mind

Woo?