Posted by alexandra_k on September 24, 2018, at 19:43:20
In reply to Re: Partlycloudy, posted by alexandra_k on September 24, 2018, at 19:31:06
because you gotta train people to work for money.
and then you gotta train people to give you money for whatever it is that you want to do.i see a great number of scholarships and i think most of them are sham. data collection is all. there isn't a list or anything of past recipients. though maybe that's what i should ask before applying... for that. to see if they are legit.
they want you to write an essay or whatever. basically do a task that wastes your time. sometimes they want to hear about how poor you are. sometimes they want to hear about how you would choose to invest the money.
i see now that's what people are obsessed with in this city: how would our smartest people invest their money?
and i have come to see: our smartest people certainly would not tell them.
why do they ask?
i suppose that is a test.the medical class of (i don't remember what year) offers a scholarship to someone who can demonstrate need to be awarded on the basis of what they plan to do with it. so you are supposed to tell them how poor you are and how you can make them billions with some pyramid scheme?
i think it is just taking the piss. i mean, really. because of the idea that poor people should be allowed to study medicine, too. or that people who are not their own first born sons (or, hell, why not their second born sons as well, or hell, why not their daughters?) should get to do.
i guess i see now not to waste my time applying for such things. because they aren't real. they aren't legit. you don't go around sticking your hand up that you are poor because people (dhbs and the like) will think that is their lisence to treat you like crap...
only... i guess that's what is in the rich peoples advantage to have others believe! that's why we should be so happy about them taking their rightful place according to their birthright!
this is all awful.
it's philosophy that gets me in my head thinking things round and round and round. because a thesis is a whole blah blah blah on the one hand blah blah on the other hand blah blah...
it's philosophy that makes me reminiscent and round in circles and winding myself up (trying to care). trying to get into teh spirit of it. trying to *enjoy* it if i can.
i don't do it for the money.
i don't do it for the enjoyment.
i don't do it becuae it is good for me.something would be wrong with me if i wsn't feelign like shooting my face off, right now.
what a wonderful city that they made!
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