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What he was expecting, enrolling in a SanFran local college? No I don’t think Sam Olson was expecting to enroll in San Francisco local college. I think Sam was looking for a more immersive college experience like Berkeley, but then he got drunk, lazy and forgot about his dreams. 😉
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Campfire 'Bwana
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It seems Sam has achieved his dream of immersion in crap beer and ganja. 
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I dropped out of college.
(big surprise)
Spent a couple years working in my uncle's grocery store.
Did concrete work in Bozeman for 7-8 years.
Went broke, got lazy and moved back home. Probably never so happy to work your ass off.
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
--Pat Parelli
American by birth; Alaskan by choice.
--ironbender
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Campfire 'Bwana
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In his first college math class the instructor told the students that everything they knew about math was a product of white supremacy and racism, and they would first have to unlearn things before they can be taught. I'm afraid your nephew is a lot nicer than I am. I'd have had to raise my hand and ask the teacher, probably in a loud voice............... "WTF does white supremacy and racism have to do with MATH.......................1+1 = 2 no matter what your skin color, Pythagorus came up with a theorem that still seems to hold true no matter what f'n continent ones ancestors came from, and I enrolled in this class to learn MATH. If I wanted lessons in Social Studies I'd be in one of those classes right now, so get to scribbling some figures on that chalk board" Then again, I'm old and grumpy, and before I was young and grumpy and still had issues with BS. Good luck to your nephew. PS you're an insider I've heard..................is this part of the Joo plan to conquer the world? 
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men.
In it is contentment
In it is death and all you seek
(Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Hoo boy, I got curious about how this “White Privilege Math” thing could possibly work. The answer is of course that it doesn’t. If ya wanna read a bunch of crap, here’s an example..... https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/524199/
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Non-White Math that worked; teach in English and everyone worked their a$$es off. Of course this came from a Bolivian so he prob’ly didn’t get it.... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaime_Escalante
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
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Notice the preponderance of professors of Education in the production of that bullshit. Colleges of Education have long been repositories for the weakest students on campus.
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That first one lost me at the third paragraph...................she didn't "feel" comfortable approaching her own math teacher? I'm not a feelings kind of guy I guess. The rest of it wasn't understandable to a guy a like me. As to Escalante................well Mike, you do realize he's probably not really "non-White". I bet there's a Spaniard in the woodpile somewhere. I feel terrible for my younger relatives, nieces and nephews and their children. I won't be around to see the New World as they will.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men.
In it is contentment
In it is death and all you seek
(Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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Notice the preponderance of professors of Education in the production of that bullshit. Colleges of Education have long been repositories for the weakest students on campus. mathman, is that an alternate take on "Those who can't.....................teach" ? and those who REALLY can't..................teach teaching??? 
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men.
In it is contentment
In it is death and all you seek
(Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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Tell him find a trade school.
Read.
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Notice the preponderance of professors of Education in the production of that bullshit.. Yep, first thing I noticed too. I can only assume that, in the age of Critical Race Theory, from here on in Education Professors are gonna be selected for being even dumber. All this Critical Race folderol reminds me of of Academics in Hitler’s Germany and their “Aryan Science”.
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
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“A lot of times in whiteness literature, we talk about the refusal to pathologize whiteness, and this is a case,” Battey explained. “For African Americans, for Native Americans, for Latinos in mathematics, we attribute something internally to the child or internally to the culture that's making them achieve lower. We don’t do that for white students … producing some deficit idea about who whites are.” This is from Birdwatchers link. I can remember back when people from Arkansas were considered backwards hillbillies, by most of the nation, no matter how educated they were. Most people here did not get upset about it. miles
Look out for number 1, don't step in number 2.
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I'm still trying to figure out why Mexicans go to college for free! Your nephew needs to look at colleges outside of Cali.
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I'm still trying to figure out why Mexicans go to college for free! Your nephew needs to look at colleges outside of Cali. lost me at that one also......bob
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My nephew thought I'd be angry when he told me that he was dropping out and was going to trade school (most likely to be an electrician), but I told him that I'm incredibly proud that he thinks for himself and saw what was going on. Plus, I told him that he'll be much happier as an electrician than if he had graduated with some liberal arts degree and had to work in an office. That's a great move on a lot of different levels, esp the trades direction.
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“Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life”, according to Dean Wormer. IMO, raise a kid raised with good values and good examples will usually end up doing ok. If parents walk the walk the kid will be pretty BS proof. Teach them to think for themselves and they’ll make you proud. Like the poster who’s kid wants to be a doc, sometimes you’ve got to navigate the minefield. One can disagree without being disagreeable. Lots of paths to a good life.
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“Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life”, according to Dean Wormer. IMO, raise a kid raised with good values and good examples will usually end up doing ok. If parents walk the walk the kid will be pretty BS proof. Teach them to think for themselves and they’ll make you proud. Like the poster who’s kid wants to be a doc, sometimes you’ve got to navigate the minefield. One can disagree without being disagreeable. Lots of paths to a good life. Very True!
I Learned a long time ago to Separate My Want's from My Needs!
A man's Gotta Do What a Man's Gotta Do!
Know Thy Self!
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If a kid has a good head on their shoulders, they know how to sort the wheat from the chaff. Part of life is figuring out how to deal with jerks. Jerk clients, jerk acquaintances, jerk bosses, jerk teachers, etc. Sometimes you can’t run away from them. My guess is in his heart he knew that college and a college based career wasn’t really what he wanted to do with his life. Nothing wrong with that, and identifying his interests early will save time and money. In any event, good for him for making a decision to better himself and to follow his gut and heart. Yep. And an engineering degree is usually not bad.
Conduct is the best proof of character.
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Smart decision. My youngest son knew college wasn't for him. Went to trade school, became an electrician, and bought his house at age 24.
The 24-year-olds where I work act like babies whose only aspirations are waiting for the next video game to become available.
Son tells me he loves his job, and looks forward to going to work every day. What a blessing!
"No good deed shall go unpunished!"
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Maybe this white math thing came about because all of the laws of math, physics, chemistry, etc. were discovered by educated whites. Not created by whites but discovered by them. The laws have always been there for anyone to discover but it's mainly been whites who have done it.
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
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