(6:40:45 pm)davelydave:Teenagers invest in something for low returns?
(6:40:48 pm)davelydave:That's YE.
(6:40:52 pm)bengoodger:YE is a simulation for children, run by adults. My company is a real company, run by adults.
(6:41:12 pm)bengoodger:It is not a Business Studied project..
(6:41:18 pm)davelydave:I did YE. There were no adults involved.
(6:41:35 pm)davelydave:In my "project," I made a lot more than you did in less time.
(6:41:42 pm)davelydave:Stick that up your pooper.
(6:41:51 pm)bengoodger:Indeed.
(6:42:04 pm)bengoodger:Hence, mine was a failure.
(6:42:27 pm)bengoodger:I am fully aware that it's a failure.
(6:42:30 pm)davelydave:Again, what's wrong with YE?
(6:43:38 pm)bengoodger:I can't answer that without involving contempt for the system and such.
(6:44:10 pm)davelydave:Aren't you a student?
(6:44:27 pm)davelydave:You're part of the system.
(6:44:48 pm)bengoodger:I am probably not going to be one for much longer.
(6:45:15 pm)bengoodger:And I have consciously hated the necessity of participation for a number of years.
(6:45:34 pm)davelydave:Go on.
(6:46:42 pm)bengoodger:When I was 11, I was a bright young mind, full of potential.
(6:47:18 pm)davelydave:...
(6:47:38 pm)bengoodger:As the strain of trying to work with other people consumed my motivation to learn, however, I began to resent the method by which I was being forced to do so
(6:48:29 pm)davelydave:Yeah.
(6:48:33 pm)davelydave:All schools are like that.
(6:48:48 pm)davelydave:But university is about that finally not being the paradigm any more.
(6:49:09 pm)davelydave:About breaking free of pedagogy into autodidacticism within a sheltered framework.
(6:49:10 pm)bengoodger:Ah, yes. I have heard this a lot from various people.
(6:49:46 pm)davelydave:But?
(6:50:31 pm)bengoodger:I can state categorically that, within my experience of the University of Kent, the teachers are equally underqualified, the students equally obstructive, the subject matter equally redundant and the system equally rigid.
(6:51:11 pm)davelydave:Uh
(6:51:12 pm)davelydave:Ben
(6:51:14 pm)davelydave:It's
(6:51:18 pm)davelydave:The University of Kent
(6:51:21 pm)bengoodger:I had to get a doctor's letter to convince my tutor that I was not a retard just because I sleep through all my morning classes. I have not yet convinced him that my surname is not pronounced "good-guh".
(6:51:24 pm)davelydave:What were you expecting?
(6:51:27 pm)davelydave:You're better than it.
(6:51:30 pm)bengoodger:Well, quite.
(6:51:42 pm)bengoodger:Where do you suppose I should have gone?
(6:51:52 pm)davelydave:Oxford.
(6:51:58 pm)bengoodger:It was a miracle I managed to get into it in the first place.
(6:52:01 pm)davelydave:Imperial maybe.
(6:52:06 pm)davelydave:What were you studying?
(6:52:17 pm)bengoodger:compsci, but I want to do economics.
(6:52:35 pm)bengoodger:They rejected my application to do economics and said I could transfer later.
(6:53:04 pm)davelydave:And let you reapply for Compsci?
(6:53:04 pm)bengoodger:This was a lie, so far as I can tell.
(6:53:10 pm)bengoodger:Yarp
(6:53:21 pm)davelydave:Do Economics at LSE or Imperial, or PPE or Statistics at Oxford.
(6:53:28 pm)bengoodger:They won't let me.
(6:53:34 pm)davelydave:Who?
(6:53:40 pm)bengoodger:Oxford and Imperial.
(6:53:49 pm)bengoodger:My A-level grades were EDDC.
(6:54:07 pm)davelydave:Okay.
(6:54:09 pm)davelydave:First: why?
(6:54:14 pm)davelydave:And second:
(6:54:16 pm)bengoodger:I don't know
(6:54:23 pm)davelydave:Late application is totally different.
(6:54:48 pm)bengoodger:I attended every day for three years, I did all the work, I studied when I could, I understood the topic, and for three years I got appalling exam results
(6:55:20 pm)davelydave:I played hooky two days a week
(6:55:23 pm)davelydave:I didn't revise
(6:55:31 pm)bengoodger:Did you not say that you got four As?