حلال Connor Bible - Everyone's Favorite Molly Ringwald loving, adoption hating, aspiring writer and bellybutton fucker

[Dudeofteenage]

Western Civilization post-1689.

Aww man, you're gonna miss the Glorious Revolution!

 

[Silver]

You still haven't answered me on what kinds of concepts you were/are covering in that math class.

 

[Golly]

You still haven't answered me on what kinds of concepts you were/are covering in that math class.

He mentioned "basic math" a few times, though, so until further elaboration, I think it's just safe to assume Connor is working with the four basic operations, decimals, and fractions.

 

[Philosophy Zombie]

Who is your avatar?

 

[MerriedManJr]

Eh, I'm just taking a history class. It's a follow-up to a course I took a while back, with the same teacher (who is awesome, I might add.)

I'm owning the math this semester. You could say that it is my bitch.

You do realise that you're not gonna graduate until like 2039 at the rate you're going, right?

 

[Conrix]

Congratulations on breaking almost 300 pages of people calling you Fatty Ding-Dongs™ and Whiny Fat Faggot™.

 

[DN 420]

You do realise that you're not gonna graduate until like 2039 at the rate you're going, right?

Actually though. Are you just doing college as a time killer/to have something you can say you're doing? Are you going to take on a heavier load next year? I'm never not baffled by your actions.

 

[Chan the Wizard]

@Connor why are you only taking one class this time? I thought before it was because you struggled with math, but if you're not taking math, why not do more? Community college is usually a 2-year degree, you're going to be there for decades taking one class at a time.

 

[Picklechu]

@Connor why are you only taking one class this time? I thought before it was because you struggled with math, but if you're not taking math, why not do more? Community college is usually a 2-year degree, you're going to be there for decades taking one class at a time.

Without summer classes, roughly twenty years. With summer classes, just under seven. (Assuming,of course, that there haven't been previous semesters during which multiple classes were taken.)

 

[ToroidalBoat]

If I were to hazard a guess, I'm guessing Connor taking so few classes at a time may be due to an aversion to change in routine, and maybe also due to putting off a huge upcoming change in routine - life after college.

At least Connor doesn't live on campus at a university with the course load he has - I believe that universities usually require a minimum amount of credit hours (far more than just one class a semester) in order to reside on campus.

 

[Chan the Wizard]

Yes, I know mine required a minimum of 12 hours, but I don't think community colleges typically offer housing. I mean if he had a job or other obligations, taking a smaller course load would make sense, but certainly not a single class.

 

[Conrix]

I'd hate to sound like some white knight here, I don't think we should be kissing Connor's ass if he's just talking big about his work to fish for asspats, and I'm sure others have made similar points. But if he's really trying to improve himself, maybe we should try to sound a little more encouraging. As it is now it just sounds like "lol you suck until you're taking 6 calculus/physics/neurobiology classes and working two jobs at rival hardware stores" and that could be discouraging from his path to improvement, since all he probably sees is that he has to immediately take up each of those endeavors or he will never be good enough for you. We have to remember that he thinks a little differently from most of us, that's he's wired differently. He makes a big deal out of relatively minor things, such as you guys chiming (not a typo) about your 6-figure jobs and 12 hour college classes, and as a result he may think that he'll never be worthy of being a normal human being (e.g. not having a thread here) if he can't be on your exact level overnight. It's like that "bully you to help you" paradigm in the now closed "fatpeoplehate" thread; we're picking on Connor and talking about how much more we work than him to "help" him (also because it's funny to pick on him), but it's probably not helping, and even potentially discouraging him from improving himself.

I'll bet I'll get a response to this saying "Connor always lies for asspats" or something along those lines but half of me believes that he does have a desire to improve and probably a simple problem with willpower compounded by poor emotional control. I'll probably also get a bunch of "Dumb" and "Autistic" ratings if I said screaming at him and piling on him every time he posts won't help him at all if that's his problem, but because of that he probably thinks we're against him for who he was born to be, for who he is and who he can be, rather than the road he is going down now. It's simply not true that we hate him as a person, but we hate that he's wasting his gift of life on a story from middle school and only one college class, but like I said Connor sadly probably takes anything we say to him as a personal attack on him. This is especially because it's hard to convey or read emotion through text on a screen anyway. I'd understand his position because I tend to keep my guard up a bit while interacting with this community.

But I'm far from being the moral authority on Kiwi Farms (and I may sound like a hypocrite as the author of a Doom wad about an exaggerated version of his life, at that); that was just my humble opinion on the matter and we may one day have to choose between keeping our pet lolcow Connor and cheering him on as he improves himself. Well that choice really isn't ours it's more like whether Connor chooses to keep whining at us or do a 180 on his life and just get away from his own lolcowhood.

Wow so that was a three paragraph expository that could be seen as "stop being mean to coner guis" and rated as Dumb/Autistic, but I see it more like "tl;dr - tough love is cool and all and might help him but remember that Connor handles emotion differently than us and we should be a little more careful if we really do want to see him improve without feeling discouraged". I'm trying to see both our perspective and Connor's perspective here, one side that he needs to improve and our tough love can help him if he took our advice, and the other that we seem to be hostile to him and that makes it difficult for him to rationally process anything we say. Whichever you see that as is up to you, but for the record, we should discourage him from lapsing again and remind him of the life he wasted and could be wasting if he doesn't make effort to improve.

 

[Chan the Wizard]

I've told @Connor before that I do not hold any ill will towards him and only wish him well. I'm certainly not saying he needs to take a full course load. Just that a single class is not optimal use of his time. I'd say take 3 classes that interest you and count towards your degree. If you're taking history, why not a creative writing and an English or if they have one available a class on film studies. It's only 3 classes, no math, and it would combine your interests.

 

[Conrix]

I've told @Connor before that I do not hold any ill will towards him and only wish him well. I'm certainly not saying he needs to take a full course load. Just that a single class is not optimal use of his time. I'd say take 3 classes that interest you and count towards your degree. If you're taking history, why not a creative writing and an English or if they have one available a class on film studies. It's only 3 classes, no math, and it would combine your interests.

I thought he was taking the history in addition to the math so just one more would have done, I was actually thinking he could gradually increase the workload depending on how much he can tolerate instead of staying at three classes that way the more he tackles the faster he gets that degree. My post was more addressed at those posts that really come off as comparing our workloads to Connor's to look better in comparison; just saying we should take more care and try to be relevant to our cause with those.

 

[Dr. Meme]

Connor always lies for asspats

Rates agree

 

[The Knife]

I thought he was taking the history in addition to the math so just one more would have done, I was actually thinking he could gradually increase the workload depending on how much he can tolerate instead of staying at three classes that way the more he tackles the faster he gets that degree. My post was more addressed at those posts that really come off as comparing our workloads to Connor's to look better in comparison; just saying we should take more care and try to be relevant to our cause with those.

I'm not sure that's the case. Connor's implied a few times that his parents pay out of pocket for his classes and that they will only allow him to take one class at a time for financial reasons (he's free to correct me if I'm mistaken), in spite of the fact that if he were a full-time student, he could easily receive Pell Grants which would cover his entire tuition with some left over. In addition, while community colleges are used to accommodating non-traditional students who have to take unusual course loads, eventually someone's going to haul Connor into the advisement office and ask him what are his goals with this one-class-per-semester thing.

If the thing about his parents is true, I'm wondering if it's just a poor understanding of how financial aid works (perhaps a concern that it will affect his SSDI) or if it's outright sabotage on their part.

 

[Sonic Hoo]

Nice try on making a lolcow thread, Connor.

If a lolcow is someone who a person finds eccentric and funny, wouldn't a lolcow of a lolcow actually be a fairly normal person?

 

[Philosophy Zombie]

Right now might be a good time to start working on your résumé, assuming you're not as bad at history as you are at math.

 

[GV 002]

STILL no resume?

Seriously Fatty Ding-Dongs, I've been away for a couple of weeks again and there is still no resume? Colour me upset.

So, maths is your bitch, eh? Well, once you've wined, dined and bedded that slag, ordered a pizza and smoked a fag, what's next for Batty Ping-Pongs?

EDIT - Ah, history class. Right. Still no English lit then. No, no, it's fine. Really. I just...oh dear.

 

[registereduser]

@Connor needs to come back and tell us why he's only taking one class again. His excuse last term was that he's really bad at math (but he made it his bitch, I guess?), so is he going to say that again for history?

Advice: Take a writing classes each term. The assignments will have grades and due dates to keep you accountable for getting them done, and you'll get the benefit of learning writing techniques. I'd say for sure to take more than just creative fiction classes. It's good to learn technical skills and practice all forms of writing.

But this is if you actually have goals for your schooling and aren't just using community college as an answer for what you're doing with your life.