Post your colleges, job, and favorite book.

>Miami University
>Lawyer (please fucking kill me)
>The Brothers Karamazov

fuck off I'm not giving you my data for free you data collection agency shill

>>9766175
Is this a joke

>>9766175
Oh hush, it's just another jack-off thread. Who doesn't like those

>>9766163
William and Mary
Walmart kiddie
The Cantos

>>9766163

UMD, College Park

Unemployed

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (or the Brrothers Karamazov, if only fiction)

>>9766224
>UMD

yuck. Enjoy your tossed bar culture and black neighborhoods

>>9766231
I fucking love Maryland and Baltimore in particular (of course College Park is closer to DC, but its still only 45 min from Baltimore). Great food, great culture, and we drugs are cheaper and easier to get than pretty much anywhere else in the US.

Out of all the states I've been to or lived in (a lot of them) Maryland is my favorite, and out of all the American cities, Baltimore is the best.

Of course the degenerate, ghetto black culture can be off-putting, but overall, I love this place.

Undergrad: Cornell
Occupation: Grad student at Duke University (Genetics)
Favorite Book: My top three books are Brave New World, Solaris, and Oryx and Crake

>San Joaquin Delta Community College dropout
>Carl's Jr Assistant Manager
>V.

University of Texas at Dallas
Student
Paradise Lost

UC Berkeley
Undergraduate Student
Confederacy of Dunces

VWCC
CompSci
The Way of Kings

>None
>McDonalds
>None

I wish I were joking

ONLY I HAVE THE BRAINS TO RULE LYLAT

University of Guelph
Student
Sorrows of Young Werther

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>all these people listing student as their job
oh, fuck off. Just admit that you're jobless.

>Aber Uni
>Sterilisation Specialist
>The Old Man and the Sea

Fell for the STEM meme, now i'm an overpaid, over glorified cleaner. At least my patients are proud.

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>>9766163
>ETH Zurich
>Teaching assistant
>Ruffen

>>9766261
My chemistry teacher suggested Oryx and Crake to me in the cutest way. He wrote it on my homework when he was marking it. When i saw it in class we made eye contact and he winked.

Wright state (lol)
TA-teach entry level English
Gravity's Rainbow

>University of Michigan
>volunteering and studying for grad school exams (bleh)
>The Catcher in the Rye

Regretful grad student but I might as well finish
Work as an office manager at law firm
100 years of solitude, even though I've only read it once. I'm planning on waiting quite a while before I reread

>>9767708
you still in North Wales?

>>9768162
No. Returning to see friends soon though.

West Virginia State University at Hicktown
Polymath/NEET
Infinite Jest

DePaul University
Undergrad, currently have financial entership within bank
For fiction, The Great Gatsby (judge me)

>>9767708
Fucking lmao dude, I'll be starting there in the fall

That being said
>Aber
>Library Page
>Confessions of Augustine

>>9767570
damn lol

>>9768070
I found out about it from a colleague of mine, a microbiologist. She asked me how I liked it and I said it was very inspirational, and we had a laugh about that.

It's great to meet scientists who like literature, because it seems lately we have become too specialized. We need to revive the "Renaissance man" meme.

>University of Adelaide
>Unemployed
>Molloy

>A no name state school
>IT/Comp Sci student
>Watership Down

>>9766163
>UofT
>Unemployed
>The Recognitions

Russell Group uni in the UK
Grad student in physics
The Complete Cosmicomics

Northeastern University
Lab fag
The Legend of the 10 Elemental Masters

akron
premed student
the trial or infinite jest

>>9766163
>College of DuPage
>None
> Catcher

> Law school in Italy
> Copywriter
> Confessions of a mask

University of ____________
Computer Science
Favorite book is a silly thing.

>>9766163
Merrimack College
Unemployed/Part time pizza delivery
The Sorrows of Young Werther

data mining thread, remember to doublepost fake answers as always

>>9766163
NC State
Musil // The Man Without Qualities
Photojournalist

>>9766224
Hello fellow Terp.

>>9766163
>UMD
>Antique store employee (formerly journalist, it was terrible)
>A Confederacy of Dunces

>>9768793
How shitty is UAdl?

USyd here

Smallish Midwest University
Student
I'd have to say Hobbes Leviathan at the moment.

>>9772828
Never heard of SMU before.

>>9768070
>sexual harassment

>>9773020
I'm not revealing my University to some 4chan hackers!

man these replies are all so fucking depressing

>University of Wisconsin
>Car Buyer
>Moby Dick

Got a biology degree. Spend over a million at car auctions a year. Expensive paper.

>>9766163
>University of Minnesota
>Freelance web dev but work so little it feels like NEETdom. Ideal desu.
>The Brothers Karamazov

>>9766170
Why is every lawfag so goddamn miserable?

>not american
>lab doctor
>book of the new sun

why am I in this thread?

>>9773689
I need to know the answer to this.

>University of British Columbia
>Lifeguard
>Just started Tropic of Cancer and picked up Perfume again. Don't really play favorites but right now it's Perfume

>>9774871
Disregard title

>>9766224
>>9771182
>>9771188

tfw just graduated, double major English/CS

I'm gonna be there to meet my qt tomorrow but if someone wants to hang out in the student union (dunno if the restaurants are in business during the summer) mid day, gimme a (You)

>>9774887

oh i guess i forgot to say that my fave book is The Divine Comedy

> Top French Grande Ecole de Commerce
> Financial Consultant
> the Black Company by Cook (fiction), Myth of Sisyphus by Camus (non-fiction)

I often feel miserable, distraught and aliemated from this world. France sucks.

University of St. Petersburg
Counter-Intelligence Information Systems
The Art of The Deal

>>9766163
>University of Massachusetts
>Supervisor at Amazon Site
>This Side of Paradise

Fordham

Unemployed/flipping Photography shit, records and video games I get from different places. I did have a real job a few months ago as an AML BSA analyst but I got fired. Before that I worked at a record store.

Favorite book is the History of the Pelopennesian War.

Northern Arizona University
Sushi Chef
Ficciones

>>9774887
Would love to but graduated last year and no longer live anywhere near College Park.

>tfw I hated it when I lived there
>tfw I reminisce about it now and miss it

No university

Prosthetic technician

Dubliners

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>>9766163
fdu creative writing with pre dental requisites
dental technician
six four by hideo yokoyama

>>9775108

that's ok. I live across in VA now again and I'm glad to be back in NoVA. Something about Maryland doesn't really feel as good as VA -- there are less green parks, there's a higher density of people and it never gets less dense unless you go into the farm country at the outskirts of Montgomery County (which is lovely). Baltimore is kinda crap and Annapolis, while very pretty, gets tiring after a while, since you can memorize the whole downtown too quickly. The UMD campus feels a bit industrial to me for some reason, and there are too many hills. Also I got screwed over and had to get parking in Lot 4 for the final 2 semesters even though my first class was either in Tawes or the Art-Psych building both semesters (first as an undergrad TA for an english class, then for an elective).

The head of the English department (if he still is at least), Prof. Moser, is based as fuck though. That man is great, loved him, best professor in that kinda otherwise par curriculum. Most of the other english professors are somwhere between ok and good.

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Hispanoamerican Literature in México.

Clerk in a Hardware Store

Voyage au bout de la nuit

hate my job, can't fucking wait to finish college to leave this shitty town and get a job not so damn lousy.

>>9775166
Why did you go to UMD if you live in Virginia? I wish I lived in Virginia for in state tuition to UVA. And paying out of state tuition for UMD seems not worth it. Like I miss it, but not that much.

Also you're right about everything you said about Virginia and Maryland. I plan to move to VA soon, but not NOVA.

NOVA is by far the worst part of Virginia.

>>9766163
Harvard
Unemployed
Harry Potter

>>9775190

UVA didn't want me and I got a major scholarship somehow despite being a C student in high school. I had a very high SAT and like a dozen AP classes which I think put me over the edge. Also a lot of my family went there so I guess "legacy' or something benefits. I got into some other schools like NYU but that shit's expensive as fuck.

I had a shitload of AP classes with 5s so I basically was able to get through much faster than is normal. Made the cost less an issue. Also even if UVA wanted me, they wouldn't have expedited my degree that quickly.

> NOVA is by far the worst part of Virginia.

I mean, I grew up first in Montgomery County until I was like 4, and then a more secluded (at the time) part of Fairfax County until now. I am extremely attached to the area I guess. I love going to the mountains and apple orchards in the Port Royal end of 66, I'd probably live there right now if they had CS jobs. Far from the noise of DC and yet still has the climate of NoVA.

Where in VA you moving?

>>9775208

*Front Royal

sorry

>>9766175
Don't you know everyone posts fake information to throw them off?

>>9775208
Richmond area, if I can find a job there. Though my degree is much less valuable than a CS degree.

I like the young vibe of RVA and all the bars/restaurants/music/art shit that is always happening there. I'm also a huge Civil War buff and think it'd be cool to live in the capital of the Confederacy, though I'm sure most of the other twentysomethings there just want history pushed aside and all the statues taken down.

And I like how it's basically a 1 hour drive to the mountains and a 1 hour drive to the mouth of the Chesapeake. I do a lot of kayak fishing and I'd love to get out by the CBBT and catch cobia and red drum and stuff like that. MD's part of the bay is great, but we don't get those species up here in our waters very often. Hell, I would just move to Norfolk or Virginia Beach, but there's too many military people down there and not as many qts as in Richmond.

MIT

Pro Grammar

Night Watch (Pratchett)

>>9773247
Who is this 4chan?

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>>9773276
See if this helps:
I went to the same school you're considering
I'm a two-time Nobel Laureate in the field you're interested in
I have the same favorite book as you.

Sciences Po

Idle rich

Oblomov

>>9766163

>Unschooled pleb
>Call center tech support
>Hitchhiker's Guide

I've only ever read light fiction. Trying to get into GEB at the moment, read the introduction a couple of days ago.

>>>/fit/thread/42184385

>/fit/ has kids going to Stanford, Princeton, and Toronto
>/lit/ has kids who went to mid-table state schools

Uhhh, guys?

>>9775341
There are a lot of smart, well read people at mediocre and affordable schools and a lot of fucking dumbasses at prestigious and expensive schools.

>>9775341

> being pretentious about your piece of paper

how to tell that somebody hit their peak when daddy paid for SAT classes

>>9775353
That's true, but there's no reason to assume that /fit/izens are dumbasses. On the contrary, lest we forget our Juvenal: mens sana in corpore sana. :^)

>>9775364

most channers don't assume they are. I know a lot of built (or at least fit) people who are intelligent. A lot of long-time members of creative boards decide "fuck it" and head over to /fit/ and get fit at some point.

Many people who act stupid on 4chan are some degree of intelligent.

>>9766163
>Universidad de la República Oriental del Uruguay

>Diplomat

>Cien años de Soledad

Blue Cliff (trade school)
Construction
I dont have an absolute favorite. I just like to read. Currently reading A Collection of Essays by George Orwell.

>>9775355
Not trying to be a troll but seriously. Nigga has a point.

We need to get our shit together

>>9775191
lol

>>9773306
High end cars?

>>9775393
Ok, I'll go into massive debt just to have some internet strangers be impressed.

Johns Hopkins (undergrad), Cornell (grad)
Engineer
The Name of the Rose

>>9775448
Good schools will admit you on a need-blind basis and meet 100% of your demonstrated need, anon. No need to assume a ton of debt if you're academically qualified! :)

Also, as a quick rule of thumb, cut out the passive voice before /crit/ calls you names! :)

>>9774842
>>9773689
bumping this

>>9774961
lol
spying on some Trump administration you hacker?

>>9775393

what's the point? getting into harvard (as an example) means one of three things:

1. you're a genius of liberal arts (a modest number of them)
2. you're black and got a 3.7 and like an 85th percentile SAT, or you got like a 3.2 GPA and 50th percentile SAT and your dad raped you with his cocaine fingernail as a kid and you wrote your essay about it (and you're black)
3. daddy bought you tutors for every class, micromanaged you throughout your life at private school to ensure a 4.0 GPA, and made you play varsity golf and crew and tennis all day

or you can go to a normal school and just rely on merit. That includes upper schools like UCLA or UVA that are near Ivy but not as overblown as harvard, and are still very merit-based

>>9774975
For the History of the Pelopennesian War you get some respect from me.

>>9775100
hows Flagstaff?

>>9775483
This is arguably the biggest secret with applying to colleges. So many of my friends went to direction-state-uni and left with near six figure loans. Those of us who (sorta) knew our asses from our heads looked at the top 25/15 LAC and did that for much less debt.

>>9775494
As someone who teaches UCLA undergrads, I can tell you they're idiots and you'd be better off at Harvard. Don't go public; our sports are so much more important than our academics.

>>9775510

dude, undergraduates are all fucking retards. There are very few who are intelligent people before they graduate, and that includes harvard.

Don't go public or private, go to a fucking library; harvard will get you better connections and professors, but a smart person will learn from books almost entirely, with a few small directions from their professors at most.

>>9775534
>ITT: the Autodidact

>>9775584

unless you are going to college for philosophy (which you will need your hand held through) then you have no reason not to be reading and understanding on your own. There is very little you can get out of most professors that you can't get from their literature or recorded lectures, unless it's philosophy in which case you are a brainlet until you're through a PhD program and even then you're kind of a brainlet.

Going to read books or write books is a total crapshoot

>>9775534
the thing is, the ratio of those you can encounter at harvard who are truly interested in whatever is much high than at wherever else. cf. Deresiewicz's lack of controls.

>>9767570
wow

>>9766163
Potential student in I.T (Field Technician)
Kitchen Hand
Catcher in the Rye (I understand I am a normie)

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>>9766261
>>9766425
>>9766496
>>9767646
>>9766261
>>9769320
>>9769427
>>9769937
>>9772828

being a student isn't a job, dumbasses

>>9775688
sure it is. or at least should be
fuck your capitalistic notions

>>9769937
Didnt akron discredit their degrees?

>>9775688
Then why am I getting paid a stipend?

>Swinburne University of Technology
>High school tutor
>The Crying of Lot 49

>>9774961
Top kek

>>9775796
>get monthly gibbs because I'm jobless
>why isn't not having a job? checkmate

>>9775796
>being a child isn't a job
>then why am I getting paid an allowance?

>>9771163
I work near MC. Let's hang, brother.

>Arizona State
>wedding caterer
>idk, No Longer Human

>>9774842
Lawfag here. Soulsucking hours, tedious work, surrounding by ultra-competitive faggots at all hours of day.

>>9776899
Why do this to yourself

>>9775748
It might have, i'm part of a program in another school, so i'm not really getting a degree from akron

>>9776909
parents dont just please themselves dude

>>9777025
Will they be pleased when they find you dangling from a rope in a poorly furnished apartment? Seek help now.

>>9767577
Underrated post

>>9776899
You just picked the wrong field of legal study man?

>>9777025
Could not be a more accurate assessment of why I went to law school.

Still in my twenties though. Attempting to leave asap

>>9775688
I get paid disphit

Edinburgh College, Granton
Work with a agency doing bar/waiting/barista work for whatever jobs I choose, currently learning to be Personal Trainer
Anything by Darren Shan

>>9778936
>Darren Shan
extremely my shit when I was 13

>>9778953
Aye. The only one I didn't like so much was The Thin Executioner. It didn't really grab me as much as his other works.

central university of venezuela.
work in a call center.
crimen or punishment by Dosto / fictions by Borge.

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>>9768013
My grandma used to read me this. That picture conjures up a range of emotions i havent felt in a long time..

>>9766163
>Otis college
>none
>true porn clerk stories

>>9771378
Not bad, the arts got funds cut though so I feel like they're not as great as it could be. Only been there for a semester though

>>9766170
>>9766224
>bros k as favorite book

sick, absolutely sick

>>9766163
ill bite

n/a professional dropout (in a coding bootcamp rn)
unemployed
camus the fall

>>9766496
wya senpai

cal
ug
nadja

> University of Pennsylvania
> Investment banking
> Dream of the Red Chamber

>Rowan University
>Real Estate Broker Admin Assistant
>A Clockwork Orange

Can we get some more /lit/ law stories?

Oklahoma State University
Dishwasher (yes lmao it pays rent)
I am the Messenger

Oglethorpe University
I sell Coke
The Magic Mountain

McMaster University
Book Editor
The Count of Monte Cristo

University of Virginia
Tech Sales
Things Fall Apart

>Notre Dame
>Philosophy
>City of Saints and Madmen

/lit/ Law folks can you put me in contact with you via this thread please? Mods seem to have removed every other thread that dares to mention Law School.

Reed
Work at Aesop
Temple of Golden Pavilion

>>9766163
Colby College
Assistant Contractor (summer job)
Infinite Jest

>>9784255
bitch ur gonna lose Bedlam

>>9784294
>Montecristo
>taking his work home with him
Talk about a busman's holiday.

>>9784526
Tell me more about yourself? I've seen a few Notre Dame people on here and I have been looking into the school for graduate studies.

>>9776899

Hence why I am doing my masters in Legal Philosophy. I find the law fascinating, but studying law is a pain.

>>9785183
Good idea. I took the LSAT recently so I'm looking at Law Schools but I think I might continue my studies afterwards with a philosophy PhD.

>>9776899
So would being in a practice like Property law (being a real estate attorney) be much less stressful than being involved in criminal law (Defense attorney, prosecution attorney)?

>>9785186
I want to take the LSAT eventually, but I have an insanely high sensitivity to the newer artifical light. Gives me a migraine after 20 minutes. I'm currently at a high percentile but I'm afraid to continue studying because I know my ability to take it hinges entirely on them putting me in a different room.

>>9785222
Really? I honestly think the white light from LEDs is a lot better for me than the older warmer and brighter lights. I'd love to hear more about your master's program and maybe even find a way to discuss study habits as well as the law with you.

>>9785186
>>9785222
Any tips and recommendations for studying and how to study for the LSAT? Any amazing resources you guys used?

>>9785186
>philosophy phd
Not gunna happen, kiddo

>>9785236
You need to straighten yourself out there bucko.

>>9785192

Probably not, especially if there are transactions worth millions going on.

If anything it would be more stressful than being some poor schmuck's public defender.

>>9785232
>>9785234

I used the three powerscore bibles (~$130 total used), and did mostly what they asked for and changed a few rules here and there to suit me better. Once every two weeks, I took a timed practice test and have improved almost every time. Right now I'm doing one test at my leisure (taking me a few weeks) with the goal of getting as close to a 180 as possible, then I'll pay special attention to the few problems I missed given all the time in the world. I believe I'll plateau at around 175 and then really have to change how I work to improve further.

So I'm averaging ~165 now and I have another few years of casual study before I finish my bachelor's. Really, anyone can learn this shit. I'm surprised more people don't do it as 'bathroom puzzles'.

>QUT - maths/comp sci
>"Electorate Officer" (glorified government office job)
>c&p

Yale
Working on my PhD in philosophy
Nick Land

>Montclair State (I know there is another one of us out there... find me)
>none
>Mao II

>Didn't go to college
>Janitor
>Don't really have a favorite book, but I read a lot of paperback fantasy novels and old Sword & Sorcery shit.

Currently reading through a portion of Dostoevsky's work. I'm enjoying it more than I thought I would but he has a tendency to get off track and ramble.

>>9787044
No wonder lit has been going downhill.

>>9787049
Yeah. Fuck me, right?

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>>9787054
You wish I would. Poster... easy on the faggot act.

>>9786945
Embarrassing

>>9787061
Jealousy on lit? I never would have guessed!

>>9787059
I don't understand.

>Posts forced memes
>Says that other people who actually contribute to the thread are the reason his board is going downhill

Which part of my post illicited a response from you? That I didn't go to college, that I read genre fiction, or that I'm currently reading Dostoevsky?

University of Oregon
Writing Instructor
Père Goriot

>>9787089
do you tell your students about Balzac's subtle treatment of the JQ in your class? If not, why the fuck not?

>>9787080
Not the same poster but obviously the first one idiot.

>>9787074
Projecting and reaching? On lit? I never would have guessed!

>>9785186
>>9785222
>>9785234
Practice makes perfect has never been more true. I have one more year of undergrad left. I plan to attend law school in about 5 years, but that doesnt dissaude me from studying for the LSAT.

The LSAT is not hard, it is designed with the purpose of scaring the shit out of you and to convince you that you can't do it, but you can. It's a giant puzzle. Slow and steady will win this race.

The LSAT is like a foreign language. Understood by relatively few, and it takes a lot of practice to become fluent in it. Just like you would learn a language you have to practice it EVERY DAY for a least an hour.

Don't do time tests right away. Start with logic games since those are considered the most difficult, and arguably so. They're the most foreign thing to a good majority of test takers. Study each type of game. Learn it inside and out.

That's all I'll leave you with anon. Good luck!

>>9777032
yes actually

>>9787094
I don't teach Balzac. But yeah, sure, that's definitely something to keep in mind. What is your favorite text of his, anon?

>>9787097
I didn't have any parents to pay my way through. Never had any friends or a support group to show me what I had to do in order to get my foot in the door.

I have terrible credit, and it's my own fault. And I don't have anyone to co-sign on a student loan.

I could take a class at a time at a community college, but I don't even know what I would want to do with a degree. I'm so out of touch with the world anyone, I would likely fail at going back to school the way I failed at everything else in life.

>>9787122
Not Le Pere Goriot, thanks to a shit teacher in school. But I enjoyed it a lot more after reading Drumont and all the other antisemitic 19th century stuff that puts it in context (Toussenel).

But I like his shorter texts and stories very much; Sarrasine, la Recherche de l'Absolue, Le Chef-d’œuvre inconnu, Melmoth, etc.
His writings on music are an unknown treasure.

>>9787153
That's unfortunate. I feel that Balzac is usually unheard of at the high school level, and tragically neglected at the college (undergraduate) level as well.

Agreed. Have you read Barthes' analysis of Sarrasine? It's wonderful.

>>9787208
Secondary school in France, that was. And yes, have read S/Z although I don't approve.
>MA Thesis on music in that line of literature.
Pierre Brunel's annotated edition is the best.

>>9787122
PS: since you're a writing instructor, be sure to check out the writing guides by Antoine Albalat, they're available online on Gallica and Internet Archive. Among the best I've ever read in any language. Prominent early 20th century right-wing literary critic.

>>9787218
Ah, understood. Really? I guess we can't all like the same things. He certainly has some keen insights which I've yet to disagree with. At least, what little I have read of Brunel's has struck me as quite compelling.
Thanks for the recommendation, anon. I'll be sure to look into it.

Who the fuck are these schmucks who hate law? I pity all of you little shits.


t. works on tax law

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>>9766163
Community college
No Job
Gravity's Rainbow

>>9785460
>>9787113
Thanks, anons. I'll do my best.

>>9787113
If you are almost done with undergrad why put off staring law school for so long?

>University of Northern Colorado
>Marketer/WebDev
>Albert Camus - The Stranger

London School of Economics and Political Science
Still studying, aim to design RPGs after
Le Petit Prince

St. Cloud State University (undergrad)
Office Of Disciplinary Counsel (intern)
The Denial of Death

>St Mary's, London
>I work with retarded kids
>Great Expectations.

>>9788298
By design what do you mean specifically?

>>9788298
On reflection, Cicero's collected letters could equally be my favourite book

>>9788312
Come up with rules and an interesting setting with a good story, plus writing campaigns/scenarios. Basically I want to live the /tg/ dream

>>9788131
Not who you're responding to but in my case i knew was too immature mentally to give the effort and dedication that law school requires. Also, I offset the amount of loans needed by working and saving.

University of North Carolina
Beer store
Crime and Punishment? Maybe Blood Meridian

>>9787137
Good luck, I believe in you. You aren't a failure, just keep doing your best to make ends meet and build a good life with other people when you can

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>>9788331
Good post anon.

>>9766163
>you now realize that most of the bodies in these exhibits are executed chinese political prisoners

>>9788422
Really makes you think.