This is a great video showing how people can overcome adversity..and ride mechanical bulls.
After laughing till my ribs hurt, I wondered: where the fuck are her friends; why would the let her do that? I felt kinda bad, because I realized that she probably didn't have many friends...then I clicked the replay button and repeated the process.
Monday, August 31, 2009
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
UH overcrowded?
Okay, so I pick up today's Honolulu Advertiser, and on the front page I see the headline "UH semester starts with fewer classes, more anxiety"...Now what is all this anxiety from? The fact that the state cut out 70+ million bucks from their budget. Because many classes--and faculty--have been cut, classrooms are overcrowded. So here's my question: Why are we--I'm a UH student as well--paying so much for tuition???
Now you're probably thinking to yourself, "I'm paying the tuition to get an education and support my university you dumbshit!" Correct, we can't expect the UH system to support itself, right? I mean, how can they reduce the cost of tuition AND address the rise of enrollment, with budget cuts? It appears to be necessary...BUT, it's not.
The reason why the UH system is so broke can be summed up with a single word: waste. We have allowed this STATE institution to have too much power. They can do whatever the fuck they want.
A month ago I went to a newly built classroom at UH Manoa (new being less than 5 years old). In this classroom, there were 20 electrical plugs...of these, 10 electrical plugs worked! I thought, alright, maybe it's just this room. The next day we held class in a different room. Again, there were 20 electrical plugs, but this time only 8 worked! Now let me explain how this is "waste".
In Hawaii, we have this idea of Ohana...you scratch my back, I scratch yours. So what happens is UH sells the contract for this building to one of their "friends". This company gets the contract not because they are the best on the island, but more because "eh, I went school wit one guy, who went to dis school where he wen meet one nada guy dat knows da head guy of dis school". And so the work is completed and UH finds out that it's a shit job...but guess what, "no can make stink. I know da guy, who know da guy, who know da boss of da company." And so the work is left as a shit job.
Now this is just one example of "waste", and unless you guys ask for it, I won't bore you with more details. I will tell you what we can do about it, though...Stop going to UH.
WHOA WHOA, what? Stop going to UH? The only way that we, as students, can get any type of power is by going on a "strike" of sorts. I don't know when, and I don't know how, but somewhere the student body lost their clout. Remember, the University is providing us a service...not the other way around. And yet we follow them like sheep. They waste our money and we just look the other way because "ah, there's nothing I can do about it..." But I really think there is. We have to show the UH system that we will not tolerate this.
I'm just a single blogger with no followers, but I really think that passing these type of ideals can help society, in general. UH is lacking in providing quality education...so lets do something about it. Whoever reads this, I don't know who, please tell other UH students to take a look. They may not share the same philosophy, but that's okay...Just trying to spread some awareness.
Now you're probably thinking to yourself, "I'm paying the tuition to get an education and support my university you dumbshit!" Correct, we can't expect the UH system to support itself, right? I mean, how can they reduce the cost of tuition AND address the rise of enrollment, with budget cuts? It appears to be necessary...BUT, it's not.
The reason why the UH system is so broke can be summed up with a single word: waste. We have allowed this STATE institution to have too much power. They can do whatever the fuck they want.
A month ago I went to a newly built classroom at UH Manoa (new being less than 5 years old). In this classroom, there were 20 electrical plugs...of these, 10 electrical plugs worked! I thought, alright, maybe it's just this room. The next day we held class in a different room. Again, there were 20 electrical plugs, but this time only 8 worked! Now let me explain how this is "waste".
In Hawaii, we have this idea of Ohana...you scratch my back, I scratch yours. So what happens is UH sells the contract for this building to one of their "friends". This company gets the contract not because they are the best on the island, but more because "eh, I went school wit one guy, who went to dis school where he wen meet one nada guy dat knows da head guy of dis school". And so the work is completed and UH finds out that it's a shit job...but guess what, "no can make stink. I know da guy, who know da guy, who know da boss of da company." And so the work is left as a shit job.
Now this is just one example of "waste", and unless you guys ask for it, I won't bore you with more details. I will tell you what we can do about it, though...Stop going to UH.
WHOA WHOA, what? Stop going to UH? The only way that we, as students, can get any type of power is by going on a "strike" of sorts. I don't know when, and I don't know how, but somewhere the student body lost their clout. Remember, the University is providing us a service...not the other way around. And yet we follow them like sheep. They waste our money and we just look the other way because "ah, there's nothing I can do about it..." But I really think there is. We have to show the UH system that we will not tolerate this.
I'm just a single blogger with no followers, but I really think that passing these type of ideals can help society, in general. UH is lacking in providing quality education...so lets do something about it. Whoever reads this, I don't know who, please tell other UH students to take a look. They may not share the same philosophy, but that's okay...Just trying to spread some awareness.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
PS3 Slim confirmed!!! It's about goddamn time
So in today's conference, Sony finally announced the PS3 slim. Hardly a surprise, but it's been a long time coming. Perhaps even more important is this: the price drop. Yes, the PS3 will FINALLY get a decent price drop to $299. While this still makes it the most expensive console, to me it places it in a more competitive seat.
For the past three years, the PS3 has gotten its ASS whooped by Nintendo and Microsoft. Everyone knows that Sony has the best hardware, but that price was just ridiculous; remember, it started out at $600. At $299, consumers can breathe a little easier digging into their pockets...that's about the same price as an iphone 3gs w/contract, and obviously people have had no problem dishing out money for those.
Monday, August 17, 2009
Biggest Pyramid Scam: Universities
Okay, so here's my theory: Universities are the biggest pyramid schemes on the planet! Before clicking on the back button of your browser, hear me out. Lately, Universities have become more focused on money and less focused on quality of education. How much do some of these universities charge? 30, 40, 50K? Are you fucking kidding me? And some of these are state institutions! For that kind of money, they should be producing scientists capable of curing cancer and economists capable of fixing the U.S. depression...right?
Wrong. What the fuck are we paying thousands of dollars for? Some douchy ass professor who has his TA read the papers? Right now I'm in graduate school at the University of Hawaii at Manoa...I am paying three times the tuition, but I'm getting absolutely nothing out of this program! I'm paying over a thousand dollars per class to have a professor give me weekly readings and grade my papers. I could have found these same articles on the internet, and I could have had a friend read and respond to my papers...what's the point?
The point, to those who are still reading, is this: we are taking out massive loans that take away years of our salaries so that we can get a stupid little piece of shit paper saying: "hey, I guess he can read and write...here's a bachelors, masters, or doctorate."
At what point in history did we give so much power to these fucked up institutions? If you're thinking "hey, you can't get a job without a degree", well you're right! you can't get a decent job without some type of degree, but do these degrees mean anything anymore? I say no...I say these degrees mean absolutely nothing, because for the most part these Universities don't give a flying fuck about education...they are just in it to make a buck.
*This is not to say all Universities are like this...but I think that most large institutions have definitely lost focus on what they are supposed to be doing. I had a very good experience at UH West Oahu, but have since had nothing but horror stories.
Wrong. What the fuck are we paying thousands of dollars for? Some douchy ass professor who has his TA read the papers? Right now I'm in graduate school at the University of Hawaii at Manoa...I am paying three times the tuition, but I'm getting absolutely nothing out of this program! I'm paying over a thousand dollars per class to have a professor give me weekly readings and grade my papers. I could have found these same articles on the internet, and I could have had a friend read and respond to my papers...what's the point?
The point, to those who are still reading, is this: we are taking out massive loans that take away years of our salaries so that we can get a stupid little piece of shit paper saying: "hey, I guess he can read and write...here's a bachelors, masters, or doctorate."
At what point in history did we give so much power to these fucked up institutions? If you're thinking "hey, you can't get a job without a degree", well you're right! you can't get a decent job without some type of degree, but do these degrees mean anything anymore? I say no...I say these degrees mean absolutely nothing, because for the most part these Universities don't give a flying fuck about education...they are just in it to make a buck.
*This is not to say all Universities are like this...but I think that most large institutions have definitely lost focus on what they are supposed to be doing. I had a very good experience at UH West Oahu, but have since had nothing but horror stories.
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