Debate Social Interaction and Isolation (Read 6505 times)

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i mean having a small number of close friends is great but having that and a bunch of more disposable friends are not mutually exclusive! I've probably got like 6-7 really close friends, and a bunch of friends that are pretty disposable but i still enjoy hanging out with them and they make great conversation! i GuEss i jusT can'T live wiThout nice verBal communication with people, it's the only thing that doesn't really get old to me.
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i really feel like the whole fact that this topic exists means that she at least thinks that she MIGHT not be completely satisfied with her life, who makes a topic about how swell their life is going?
i think there is a lot of misinterpretation going on, maybe on your part, maybe on mine.  i thought the reason she made this topic was partially for validation and partially for curiosity.  it seemed like she was saying I'M OKAY WITH THIS but my friends disagree, what do you guys think?  it would be a legitimate discussion topic if it came from someone like ME or STEEL and i do not think people would read so heavily into it if this were the case.

also ffff this topics movin so fast...
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whoa panda

http://www3.uta.edu/fao/portal/?d=page&pid=sp111&parent=31

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For the 2009-2010 academic year, UT Arlington will provide grant assistance to cover all fall and spring in-state tuition and fees for undergraduate Texas residents who have a family income of $65,000 or less, receive a Federal Pell Grant, and who are admitted and complete the financial aid application process including all required forms by April 1, 2009.

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yo ryan if you never get your game together you are free to live with me rent free if you wash the dishes and are okay with couching it and possibly being illegally in someone's apartment. you are Cool Enough.

Well Bud you should be washin my dishes to pay off that $4000 debt u owe
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yo ryan if you never get your game together you are free to live with me rent free if you wash the dishes and are okay with couching it and possibly being illegally in someone's apartment. you are Cool Enough.
I wanna top this by adding "In Sweden, not far from the beach" and "But you would also have to clean around the place and maybe bring breakfast to my bed once in a while."

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what i thought was really dumb at the start was the obese comments and then someone kept on asking for pictures.
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wahts funny about this topic is dissonance and velfarre are chattin it up in irc right now
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I need somewhere to live and a way to pay for grad school

anyone got any ideas?
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if you are the type of person who POSTS HOW SICK THEY ARE in whats on your mind, i think i can draw some pretty safe conclusions about exactly how rich and varied your life is (isn't).

see that's what i'm saying though, it takes three seconds to type a post saying UGH I'M SICK, and a lot of people did that in that topic...how does that make MY life so awful?

a lot of times my life IS kinda boring, but fuck, i have so much schoolwork that it's kind of hard, and who's life doesn't fall into a typical routine a lot of the time?  but, that doesn't mean ALL i do is go to school and sit on the internet, i spend a lot of time with my family (i'm hardly online at all when i'm at home), i walk around town with people i know, when it's the summer and i have more free time i go out on picnics with friends, go fishing, hell, last summer i taught a summer camp for kids and learned i like to play cornhole, the thing is i TRY things in order to see what makes my life more interesting, i don't let things COME TO ME, just because i sometimes get stuck in a routine most people do doesn't mean my life is sit around on the internet
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uta looks really awesome. they pay my tuition cuz im poor and they have a pretty high acceptance rate. on collegeboard though is says they require highschool transcripts from everyone so that might fuck me. i woudl def consider going there if we went together panda... we could be roomies. think of the possibilities. sittin at home on a friday talkin about how all of our classmates are fuckin tools.
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ffff i meant ut austin.  god you got me so pumped and then i was like YYAAAAHWWWW NO its arlington.  i dunno if austin does that but i hope so.
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bein poor rules!!
i had like a 500 dollar pell grant but there was apparently a computer mix-up and nctc just upped my TPEG to almost the price of tuition and i was chill but i don't think my family's actually that poor which is kinda bullshit though because they're not supporting my through college at all.

panda i'm pretty sure all schools in texas do. don't quote me on that.
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i used to think the outer world was filled with idiots and I was better of alone with my comp, but when I found friends that I really enjoyed spending time with and other important people, that really changed for me. I stillenjoy my own time playing games or whatever, but there's a whle new part of me that's very social that I didn't know existed.
So even though now you might think your friend is wrong, maybe you'll change in the future.
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well frick. ut austin has about half of the acceptance rate of ut arlington (44%)

be more specific next time!!!
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Is it so bad to avoid social interaction and isolate yourself from others?
Speaking from personal experience, I have to say yes. Very bad.
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If you willingly do it, derive pleasure from it, enjoy your life, and still manage to not act unadjusted when you DO go into public, can you still be labeled psychologically unhealthy?
Not really, if you are able to act normally around people then I'd say your mind is healthy.
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Is everyone on GW going to universities and becoming super people? I feel so worhless now >_<
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dude youre broke.  get better grades and they'll take you!!  we can.....we can be together


like trihan and mel

actually i might look into ut arlington, man.  if they cover all INSTATE shit for people under 65k (my parents combined make like 120 or some shit buuuuut my dad makes under 50 i think and theyre divorced so i can use his income and not both) then that would rule.  idk much about arlington but if it is WARM//BOHEMIAN thatd be nice.  i know i'm going to grad school anyway so i dont think my undergrad alma mater matters too much.  idk i have to look into it.  FREE SCHOOL would rule tho
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uh guys could we please keep it on topic?
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i have pretty good grades. like a 3.something but i've only finished 4 classes so far so it would be easy bringing them up. my mom makes like 35k per year Lol (ironically she went to college) (not totally as bad as it sounds, her work pays for her insurance and shit but that rules for me because it looks better on paper)

arlington is right between dallas and fort worth.
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suck a dick dx this topics now the panda and ryan college planning thread.

dont like it?

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this is gw

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