are you self-dependent?

[Hooahguy]

i am.
i can do my own wash, dishes, sewing, ironing, cooking, shopping, ect.
i am so ready for college!
how about you?

[Strike For The South]

College is all about cheap alcohol and loose women. Everything about academics is a lie. I took no notes and dont study at all and still pulled a 3.2. Granted I'm a genius but still.

As for being self dependent Im not. My laundry gets done maybe once a month. My teeth often go without a good brushing. The rats have moved out. Every night before I go to bed I sob for my mum. My diet is atrocious. All I think about is weights, booze and how Im going to get laid. I spend allot of time on the ORG when I should be sleeping or studying.

Other than that I'm pretty well adjusted.

[Ibrahim]

semi independant. I have me job, I run my business, have joined several groups, can cook good pizza, do dishes, run errands, and actually study for college, and make a 4.0, and when I don't study, I make a 3.5(you hear me strike?)... I also clean myself obsessively, and people think I best fit in the prussian army, thats the discipline level.

that said, I let my family do the laundr for me, and drive me around: I can't drive because I can't get a license, as my left eye isn't good enough by law.

EDIT: the 3.8 was my cumulative. damned math.

[Hooahguy]

whoa. ibrahim- long time, no see!

[Ibrahim]

whoa. ibrahim- long time, no see!

where were you in the EB2 forumz?

been helping Moros in the saba'yn stuff. been busy with real life too.:shame:

[Hooahguy]

heck, ive been here and the backroom. moved on from EB.... :shame:

[Alexanderofmacedon]

In a situation where I'm forced to (university next year) I will be able to do most things. I don't now simply because my mother does things better, cooks healthier, and is overall just really nice enough to help in my last year at home.

Next year I'll be in Europe with an entire ocean between me and anyone that will help me. I will have to begin then...

[CountArach]

I can do everything except cook, but I don't clean my own clothes and all because my mum does it (I do know how to, however).

[desert]

I'm hoping to go to Colombia University in a few years. It is a good school, and is within an hour's subway ride from home! Bwahahahahaha! :laugh4:

So self-sufficiency won't be necessary.

[Megas Methuselah]

I can cook simple food, such as fried baloney, chili, etc. supplemented by canned foods (enough to satisfy an Indian on a poor rez), can keep my clothes in good condition, and can clean quite well (when it's your turn to be sober so your cousin can get drunk at a party and miss the toilet at home in the early hours of the morning, you kind become an expert). I'm also awesome at shopping for clothes, and have the most stylish t-shirts, fancy casual-dress shirts and the like. I'm alright at shopping for food and other such essentials, but people notice I sometimes miss sales declared in very bold letters on a nearby sign.

I have a good job, too. Old people give me great tips.

I'm not good at dishes, though. Never tried doing it too often, no dishwashing machine. Other people do it for me. :smile:

[Thermal]

Not really very dependent, can cook basic things and sleep :laugh4: oh and i can bathe by myself. :balloon2:

[desert]

Finding clothes is too complicated, Meth. If I can't find stuff on the internet, then I'll just always dress like this: http://images.inmagine.com/img/photoalto/paa351/paa351000024.jpg

[Husar]

Well, I live alone, but I gotta say kinda as I cannot really live from the money I earn with my student job.
Also my mom washes my clothes, would do it myself but I'd have to invest into a washing machine or somesuch and that would be too expensive, my mom really appreciates that I come every second weekend anyway and usually wants me to stay as long as possible. ~D

[Fragony]

I live on my own, but 10 minutes from the mom so I love comming over for a cup of coffee with a bag full of laundry.

[Vuk]

I used to live by myself, work, go to school. I hate doing laundry, so I end up doing like once a week. :P I love cooking though, so I usually have my self a delicious meal each day. Other than breakfast I live off of canned fish and bottled tea. :P It is harder for guys than most people know. The first time I did my laundry I put in black socks, white socks, white T-shirts, and black night shirts. When I got it all out I had grey socks, grey socks, grey T-shirts, and grey night shirts. :P
What I ended up doing was having my girlfriend move in next door, and I would start her car for her, fix her computer and car, fix her sink, etc, and she did all my laundry and cleaned my bathroom. :P Now that I am in Hungary though, I gotta start doing it all myself. I forgot how irritating it was to vaccum floors, clean bathrooms, and do laundry. :P Everything in Europe is so damned different, that I gotta learn it all over again. :P I am thinking I may just hurry up and tie the knot when I get home, then I would never have to do my own laundry again. :P
So I guess I am, but not willingly. :P

[Rhyfelwyr]

Well financially I am completely dependent on my parents. But in the house I do nearly everything for myself, the only thing I can think of that I don't do is the laundry.

[Uesugi Kenshin]

Financially I am completely dependent, but based on your definition I am completely independent.

Oh and by financially dependent I mean I have a job, don't make much money, have savings, and could never put myself through college without my parents' help, but I foot the bill for pretty much anything else, especially when I'm at school.

[Scurvy]

Very independant at uni, but don't really cook anything but microwave food (but I do my own laundry etc.)

financially i'm dependant on student loan + job, so not sure if that counts

[Monk]

College isn't as hard or complex as you are led to believe by High School. In fact I dare say, aside from finals, its the easiest period of schooling I've ever experienced. I'm self-dependent in the fact that I do my own laundry and make my own meals, that sorta thing.

I don't work regularly but I recently landed a job as a freelance tech for a company based in Arlington, Virginia/DC. I did a pretty good job on site, and i'm hoping it leads to more gigs. ~D

[Megas Methuselah]

I find uni is more difficult than high school. Larger essays, you practically have to do your homework so you won't fall behing, everything goes much quicker, so it's easier to fall behind. And the finals. Ooooh, they bad.

High school was a breeze. I got a couple awards at graduation without even trying, barely studied for finals. The only time I put in an effort was for the essays, all required to be only about a meagre 6-8 pages. Heh.


Hey, Monk! Don't forget to send me a gig of ram with a postcard, eh? :clown:

[||Lz3||]

Somewhat.... transport is my major gripe. (and cleaning... I hate cleaning)

I'll need to be in 4 months...

[Monk]

Hey, Monk! Don't forget to send me a gig of ram with a postcard, eh? :clown:

:laugh4:

Would if I could, Megas. Unfortunately one of the first things they teach you in IT is to regularly inventory what a specific case has. That way you can spot when someone is stealing stuff to use in their home machines. :whip:

[seireikhaan]

Eh. Mostly and mostly not. I'm highly independent in most things- I can cook a bit, I do laundry, when I need to grab something at the store, I can buy it myself(UNI books included :wall:). However, I'm highly dependent on my dad in the sense that if I didn't have him doing paperwork stuff for financial aid, I'd be outta UNI faster than a camel army squishing a roasted cadre of knights in the desert.


EDIT: Per College- it aint that hard- I studied a bit and still pulled a 3.8 my first semester. This semester's definitely a bit harder though, probably the 18 credit hours I signed up for.

[tibilicus]

I could be, but choose not to.

I pretty much pay people to do everything, ironing, washing so on so forth.

[desert]

How does college work, anyway?

Are there classes that you have to take every day, or do you just attend lectures?

[Monk]

How does college work, anyway?

Are there classes that you have to take every day, or do you just attend lectures?

Here in the states you schedule classes based on what you'd like to take. Those classes are only held during certain hours and on certain days. Therefore you may end up with a schedule where you go for only 2 days a week, but you go from 8am-2pm on those days. Or a schedule where you go everyday of the week, but for only 2 hours a day, and so on.

How many hours a week you schedule determines whether you're a part-time or full-time student. I think 12 credit hours a week is the minimum for full-times, below that and you're considered a part-time, which is a big thing concerning financial aid and health inssurance that requires you to maintain full-time enrollment.

As for the actual classes most i've taken have a lecture format, but also throw in lab days where you either spend most of the class period writing a paper or doing hands on work, ala my IT/networking class.

[Beefy187]

I could be self dependent, if I got time, space and freedom. I got none of them atm

[drone]

I don't work regularly but I recently landed a job as a freelance tech for a company based in Arlington, Virginia/DC. I did a pretty good job on site, and i'm hoping it leads to more gigs. ~D

Welcome to the machine (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbifrXX2Ltw&feature=related). :bow:

[naut]

i am.
i can do my own wash, dishes, sewing, ironing, cooking, shopping, ect.
i am so ready for college!
how about you?
Same here. The only thing I don't have is enough capital to move out. And I don't think I'll be able to for a while yet.

[Furunculus]

ha, i'm gone thirty so i'd better be!

[Ibrahim]

EDIT: Per College- it aint that hard- I studied a bit and still pulled a 3.8 my first semester. This semester's definitely a bit harder though, probably the 18 credit hours I signed up for.

that's actually how many hourse i've taken these past two semesters (18).

I just made a 98 in a biology test. class average is 66. I rulz!

[LittleGrizzly]

I think the majority of us here are top of our respective classes, or equals in classes with a higher level than average in terms of intelligence, i would imagine gamers are more intelligent than tv slob... generally (thats a guess) then strategy games usually attract more intelligent gamers than fps's, the .org then attracts the mature (which usually indicates greater intelligence) audience... thus we have lots of people who are more intelligent than the average man on the street...

Im fairly self dependent in terms of doing things for myself, i think the only think i can't do is ironing, i can cook a decent range of food, and can probably cook alot more things if i looked up a guide or recipe on the internet, washing is simple (until we get to specialist items...)

Financially im completely dependent on my mum, i could possibly get a grant from uni but have never got around to it, regardless that still wouldn't make me completely self dependent... for financial self dependance im probably looking at a good 4 years minumum...

[Hooahguy]

I think the majority of us here are top of our respective classes, or equals in classes with a higher level than average in terms of intelligence, i would imagine gamers are more intelligent than tv slob... generally (thats a guess) then strategy games usually attract more intelligent gamers than fps's
what if we play both? :sweatdrop:

[Ibrahim]

what if we play both? :sweatdrop:

still better than the average. I don't care if ye be the love child of the devil or that evil guy who's now a vegetable(whose name shall not be mentioned), If you play strategy, you are smarter than average.:yes:

at least as I see it-I'm a loose thinking fellow (i.e, open to interpretations)

[desert]

I think the majority of us here are top of our respective classes, or equals in classes with a higher level than average in terms of intelligence, i would imagine gamers are more intelligent than tv slob... generally (thats a guess) then strategy games usually attract more intelligent gamers than fps's, the .org then attracts the mature (which usually indicates greater intelligence) audience... thus we have lots of people who are more intelligent than the average man on the street...


Nop. A baseless generalization, that is.

Also, "guess" != excuse.

[LittleGrizzly]

what if we play both?

You have an inner idiot and genius fighting it out for control.. ~;)

I would just say strategy tends to attract higher IQ players than most other games, playing other games would not paticularly detract from that because even the brightest people like thier mindless violence... I quite enjoy FPS's as well, and theres a certain level of intelligence to a few of them...

[desert]

FPS's are hardly "mindless violence". Many have engaging and well-realized plots. They only have a bad rep because of the state of their online communities.

And a good story is more enjoyable than ZERGLING RUSH KEKEKEKEKEKEKE (although Starcraft was a good RTS).

Aunque, this is off topic and I can easily see it getting out of hand.

One type of game is not inherently superior to others; let's just leave it at that.

[LittleGrizzly]

FPS's are hardly "mindless violence". Many have engaging and well-realized plots.

like i said

I quite enjoy FPS's as well, and theres a certain level of intelligence to a few of them...

One type of game is not inherently superior to others; let's just leave it at that.

I never doubted they were, my 2 favourite games are an FPS RPG combo and TW, i was only claiming strategy games generally attract a more intelligent crowd, this is because they usually involve more thinking than FPS's which means they tend to attract more thinking people...

[desert]

I never doubted they were, my 2 favourite games are an FPS RPG combo and TW, i was only claiming strategy games generally attract a more intelligent crowd, this is because they usually involve more thinking than FPS's which means they tend to attract more thinking people...

What do you mean by thought? What thought is required in strategy games, really? Build up and then destroy the enemy with your best stuff (or alternatively attack as quickly as possible and wipe them out). Shooters require quite a bit of thought; you cant just run out with double guns a blazin' (well, usually) and expect to win, unless you are extraordinarilly good.

Often people who prefer games like RTW over games like Halo are just fundamentally different people, and not necessarily intelligence-wise...

[Hooahguy]

FPS's are hardly "mindless violence". Many have engaging and well-realized plots. They only have a bad rep because of the state of their online communities.

And a good story is more enjoyable than ZERGLING RUSH KEKEKEKEKEKEKE (although Starcraft was a good RTS).

Aunque, this is off topic and I can easily see it getting out of hand.

One type of game is not inherently superior to others; let's just leave it at that.
good point. i play Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, where you need strategy to survive. no run-and-gun like in CoD and such.

[LittleGrizzly]

like i said... generally...

Reactions (or hand 2 eye coordination) are most important for shooters... that doesn't mean they require no thought

Thinking (or strategy if you prefer) is most important for strategy games.... that doesn't mean they require no good reaction speed

generally people like what thier good at, the best example would be to compare it to a game of chess, which you could almost call a very basic strategy game, and then something like a fast exciting sport... like hockey or football... chess will naturally attract more intelligent people...

This is not to say football or hockey require no intelligence or that all those players are dumb, just they are usually people with really good physical traits...

there are of course cross over games like ghost recon, or the TW's, reactions needed in real time battles thinking needed on campaign map...

[desert]

I guess you could say FPS's are the most tactically-minded.

Naturally a product like Norm Koger's The Operational Art of War III wouldn't appeal to most shooter-lovers. It requires a lot of patience and doesn't reward you with much thrill or excitement, other than the abstract pleasure of having encircled your opponent's salient and trapped his battalion/division/army within it.

Eh, I'm getting carried away. But you get the idea. Someone might be a genius who has pioneered advancements in the field of quantum physics, but he might prefer the quick decision-making required by shooters, and the accompanying adrenaline rush to a game that offers no such reward and could take potentially hundreds of hours to complete.

[Husar]

You have an inner idiot and genius fighting it out for control..

That description fits me very well.