HAHA, I'm outta this hellhole... or, my disoriented litany of F-YOUs

The BBQ Pit
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Here’s my first Pit thread, and hopefully my last Pit thread. In just one weekend, my life’s changed. I’ve gotten my dream job offer in my hometown. My parents are tossing their old house to me. My professors have agreed to monitor my thesis progress out-of-state. I’m alternating between extreme happiness, and depression, and anger, and bitterness. It’s such a strange rush of emotions. So, spurred by extreme emotional-ness, the following rant will be quite disoriented… if you don’t understand, don’t bother trying to understand.

HAHAHAHA. Suckers. I’m escaping this miserable city. I’m escaping this miserable job. I’m escaping this miserable school. So, I’ll do my gloating here.

F-YOU, school, for priding yourself on being second only to Gallaudet when it comes to accomodating the deaf. In reality, your idea of accomodation is “assume by default that all deaf people are retarded idiots who know no English and will never succeed in a rigorous academic setting.” I’ll get my Master’s in Computer Science … no thanks to you.

F-YOU, professors, for assuming that just because I’m the only girl who’s not 200 pounds overweight in my program, I must be very bad at math. I long to rub my math credentials in your face, but I’ll stick to daydreaming of doing so.

F-YOU, unnamed coworker, for causing me to cry in my office and giving me nightmares untold times. I’m out of this workplace hell. Here’s some advice to all you job seekers. NEVER EVER go work someplace where nepotism rules… unless, of course, the nepotism is in -your- advantage.

F-YOU, my Western NY city, for existing at all, and for deciding to have your coldest winter in years plus breaking the record for most consecutive days of snowfall while I decide to live there.

But let’s give credit where it’s due. I wouldn’t have been in this situation if it weren’t for this one person.

So, the biggest F-YOU goes to, well, myself.

F-YOU, dre2xl, for thinking it was a good idea to get a MS in Computer Science when it was painfully obvious that the dotcom bubble popped. Why couldn’t you have gone to veterinary school?

F-YOU, dre2xl, for not listening to your father and not sticking with the college dorms and finishing the MS in time. You finished all your classes in just 4 trimesters. And look at you now, you’ve been “finishing” your thesis for, what, your third year now. You would’ve escaped hell an year sooner.

F-YOU, dre2xl, for going back to a school that you’ve already transferred from once because it was so miserable, back in your freshman year in 1999. Who was it that said that the definition of insanity was doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result each time?

F-YOU, dre2xl, for being a lazy, stupid, insensitive asshole in general who doesn’t know her limits.

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Well, this may be too “happy” to be in the pit, but: congratulations on landing your dream job! Best of luck in the future, and I’m happy you’re getting to leave a situation you despise!

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Thanks, norinew. It happened so fast, my knees are still shaking. Sorry for it not being pit-worthy enough… I’m trying to cut down on my unprofessional language, or I’d have spelled out the F-word. :smiley:

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Well, at least you understand accountability… :slight_smile:

Sam

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Oh, I think your OP was perfectly Pit-worthy. Unfortunately, my response, not so much.
:smiley:

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I’ve never ever heard this stereotype/correlation before. Weird.

Good luck with your new and improved life!

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Thanks. :slight_smile:

The 200-pound thing should’ve been phrased a lot better, but a lot of girls really are judged on their math/science/“geek” abilities based on their looks or even ethnicity.

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This is not an option. Been there for two and a half years. Now I’m starting to realize that my future will probably not include screwing around with jet engines. Duh!

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Congratulations!

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Lemme guess, UB?

Yor first two sound an awful lot like my wife’s rants towards her Alma Mater.

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I suspect it’s actually the Rochester Institute of Technology. They work on trimesters and pride themselves on having a large deaf population.

This time last year I was there working on my Master’s in Computer Science. But I was offered a transfer and a promotion with my job, so I left the cold and snow of western NY for the cold and snow of the Twin Cities (kinda like moving up from Triple A to the majors*). I also left my desire to get a Masters degree in the third floor bathroom of the Gollisano building. If anyone finds it, please give it to Hans-Peter. He knows how to contact me.

*Ya see, the Minnesota Twins Triple A club is the Rochester Redwings. Cute they way I made that little connection, eh? :wink:

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Yep…to add onto your post, the deaf portion of the school is called NTID (National Technical Institute for the Deaf, IIRC) and works closely with RIT.

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This brings back memories. I thought about going there, but:

a) tunnels to get to and from class? :eek: (this was a terrible shock to someone hailing from Texas, you understand)

b) dude. I have to take an English proficiency test to participate in mainstream classes?! (referring to the OP’s bit about the assumption that deaf folks are idiots who don’t understand English) :eek: :dubious:

While I might have been resigned to the prospect of living like a mole for four years… b) tore it for me. At the time, I was an uppity youngun that felt that this rule was an insult to my intelligence. Nowadays I can understand a bit more of their rationale after several years of watching the bilingual debate, I guess, but it still gives me heartburn when I think about it for, more than, say, five seconds.

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Good luck to dre2xl in her new career!

scurries back into lurkerdom

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Yes, you got it, it’s RIT. wonders if she had any classes with milquetoast

The tunnels are mostly for dorms only, so you can mole your way over to the cafeteria in your pajamas without having to dress up in full winter gear. It was hard for me, someone from Western NC, to adjust to the cold and snow–it’d be even more so for Texas.

I’m not in the mood to elaborate more on their philosophy of dealing with the deaf, but if you’re a college-bound deaf student and your intelligence is easily insulted… run away from RIT. HARD.

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And, yes, I do remember the English profiency tests. :rolleyes:

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Wow, I had no idea that there were other RIT people here (I finished up in May). It always seemed to me that NTID took almost everyone, so that might be why their expectations were so low that they were insulting. I wonder if you would have faired better if you had enrolled through RIT instead of NTID. RIT takes almost everyone too, but the people that can’t do the work seem to be weeded out a lot earlier.

Good luck with your new position.

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Just for the record, I think the vet-school bubble burst a while back, too. All those nerds you see going around wearing long plastic sleeves on just one arm? They’re vet-school posers, too late for the big ground-floor bucks and glamor.

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[QUOTE=dre2xl]
wonders if she had any classes with milquetoast/QUOTE]

I suspect not. I took only night classes because I was working full-time during the day. Plus, I was taking undergraduate level classes at that point. I had to take a series of bridge classes before starting the official graduate program. Apparently some people feel that a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology doesn’t adequetly prepare someone for Master’s level computer science courses. Personally, I think those some people are in love with thier mothers and want to kill their fathers. But hey, that’s just me. Had I stuck with the program, I would be just starting my first graduate level course this term (which I’m guessing started yesterday).

And congratulations, dre2xl! I hope the job and the house and the everything work out for you.

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When we all know that the correct way to judge girls for math/science/geek abilities is by a combination of:
(a) breast size
(b) Monty Python and/or Simpsons quoting skill
(c) Magic: The Gathering ability

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jackelope: yikes… didn’t know there was a bubble at all when it came to vets. I mentioned vet school mostly because I actually, y’know, like animals. :slight_smile: Then again, maybe not quite enough to make a career of shoving my fingers in their anus…

milquetoast, wow, that’d be rough. Hopefully you’re doing well at your new job, analyzing the psyche of geeks or whatever you’re doing. :wink:

The “house” is actually is a dilapidated, old little cabin on the property that my parents have been staying in until their new house is finished in February. I think that they were going to tear it down after they finished the house, but they’ve had to practically remodel it due to a strange case of hives that Mom got. :frowning: And then there was that $6000 plumbing bill… :eek: So they’re not quite so eager to use it for firewood now. :smack:

MaxTheVool: ROTFL.

And, of course, thank you everyone for all your congratulations. :smiley:

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They might be late for the bucks, but they’re prepped to tell if the doe is ready!