give me a break man. i have no sympathy for someone who's not some sort of minority who complains about how "fair" socieity is. try being me. to tell you the truth, it's not really that hard, but if you could see the world through my, or another minority's eyes, you'd change your tune.
FYI, GZ is Japanese. I'm sure his experiences growing up in life are all relative to his surroundings. Just like yours and mine are all relative to our surroundings.
Good for you! I scold my parents to this day because they just vote with the party. They stick with the Republican ticket no matter what eee gadz people, think for yourselves!
In all unbiased honesty, is there really any difference??
For our state senators, I voted Democrat.
For our state controller, I voted Republican.
For our governor, I voted Green. I knew he wouldn't win, but I like that dude. And I like voting for someone who openly wants to legalize marijuana.
did you not read what he wrote? UC schools don't have affirmative action anymore. get good grades in HS, quit making excuses, and if you get in, you get in. if you don't, you don't. have you heard of the notion that admissions boards don't always just take the people with the highest scores and/or grades? this is especially true in grad school. schools don't want a bunch of egg head clowns who study 24 hrs a day and have no lives or real revelant personal experiences. they want diversity. the guy with the 1200 SAT score who's from the hood, who worked his butt off to pay for school, who had no father, etc(this isn't me. i played video games and chilled by the pools at the apartment complexes i lived at while i was in college. have you seen the girls in austin) is just as valuable to his class as the guy with a 1500 SAT score who spent his grade school years in a rich neighborhood and went to school with a bunch of richie rich mofos.
if at first you don't succeed, try, try again. you, honestly, can't possibly know the exact reason why you were passed over. you weren't there when the decision was made, and if you had any kind of inside track on getting in, i would imagine your contact would have done something to help you.
Yes I read what he wrote. I am not applying to college today, I'm not that young. Also, who is making excuses? I stated that reverse discrimination happens and it shouldn't.
FYI on my background.........I went to high school with a lot of well to do or at least upper middle class people. My parents sacrificed a lot to send me there and I definitely felt a class separation. I caught rides to school and the bus home (I'm talking over 90 minutes on the bus). I busted countless backpacks because my books broke the shit out of the straps. My high school is arguably the best educational one in the state and certainly in the top 2. I was a 3 year letterman. My grades were pretty decent (read slightly above B average), but not stellar. Based on this I should have a pretty decent shot at the California college system, but no go. FYI every single other college I applied to I got accepted to, including one where I hand wrote the application in 5 minutes, didn't even type it (but if I was an admissions guy, I would have said no go to an idiot who handwrites an application like that ------> penmanship sucked).
It is a well known fact at the time at which I was applying that the California system was trying to get less asians especially the schools I applied to. Based on the other 100% acceptances what am I to think? I agree that colleges want more well rounded people, hell for all I know the other colleges accepted me because they didn't have enough Asians (which would really piss me off).
The issue is that you go to college to learn and affirmative action is still running rampant in the selection process. I disagree with it and it's my right, just as it's your right to want it. I have issues with people being handed things, I don't think it's right, I think you should work for what you get.
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Now I'm just laid bad - G35Princess
R.I.P. MBC
growing sense of entitlement? you mean like the sense of entitlement that caused multiple dealers to scowl at a 25 yr old black guy buying a 38K car? how about the ones that cause people to look at me like i stole my G 'cause they don't think someone like me should have something like that? maybe it's the sense of entitlement that's causing the gentrification of our inner cities which is kicking poor minorities out of the homes they've owned and lived in for years. hell, it could even be the sense of entitlement that causes whites to leave when affluent minorities move into neighborhoods that they once exclusively lived in.
give me a break man. i have no sympathy for someone who's not some sort of minority who complains about how "fair" socieity is. try being me. to tell you the truth, it's not really that hard, but if you could see the world through my, or another minority's eyes, you'd change your tune.
I'm not white UT, I'm not the man.
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Now I'm just laid bad - G35Princess
R.I.P. MBC
For our state senators, I voted Democrat.
For our state controller, I voted Republican.
For our governor, I voted Green. I knew he wouldn't win, but I like that dude. And I like voting for someone who openly wants to legalize marijuana.
My friends theory is he votes for any non-incumbent. I am disenchanted by our selections for politicians (although a gal I went to school with has made it her life's work to represent the west side of Oahu). I'd vote for her if she was in my district since I trust her, but the other gal from her area is incredibly crooked.
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Now I'm just laid bad - G35Princess
R.I.P. MBC
The trouble is that the sponsoring legislator mixes in so much bs into their bills that often times you cannot vote on something you like because it's tied up with something you are opposed to.
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Now I'm just laid bad - G35Princess
R.I.P. MBC
eee gadz people, think for yourselves!
