He thinks he has a chance making it as an author or philosopher

do people really want to make it as a philosopher?

>Handsome
>Tall
>Asian

Which one doesn't belong? (Hint it starts with the letter A)

Stay jealous, gweilo

I'm fucking an asian chick atm

tell me chink boy, can you say the same?

Yes. Between being handsome, tall and going to Princeton University, sex has never been a problem with any race.

No, that would require going outside. As would welfare or unemployment checks.

Maybe doing chores for mom is his career path.

>Korean is a higher IQ race
You gave your self up too easily friend. Koreans are the Mexicans or Greeks of East Asia.

i go to an ivy and everyone here is retarded

what im saying is, if you couldnt even make it in to one youre hopeless

Honestly, fuck ivy and all its rich, smug, new english cunts.

this

>asian american
hows your tiny weenie working out

>He thinks success as an author is dependant upon anything but whatever shit normies happen to latch onto
Have fun pandering to idiots, or making less than minimum wage writing """""good""""" novels to pass around to "refined" readers.

If you're looking into libarts as a career and aren't going to Ivy you're literally sub-100 IQ anyway, Ivy libarts programs are piss easy to get into

Of course, only STEM degrees matter as the people doing robot upkeep and population management will be the only ones not culled

>Thinking grades are what keep people out of Ivy
Don't you have a Pumpkin Spice latte to buy with daddy's money?

What are you hoping to contribute to the world, user?

Exactly.

>tfw did STEM at a top ivy (no dartmouth/upenn/cornell/brown bullshit)
>tfw didnt go to class ever
>tfw paid some asian kid to do all my homework
>tfw bribed TAs for tests
>tfw make $250k a year 2 years out of undergrad
>tfw its less than the money i get from my trust fund but i do it to keep daddy happy

feels good to be a patrician

>Not majoring in a liberal art to get into med school
Literally the best of both worlds, why would anyone do anything different?

>He thinks he has a chance of making it as an author or philosopher
>He went to school.

FUCK why didn't i drop out. Not even memeing. Should have flunked out of highschool and spent the next 6 years doing literally nothing but writing and reading constantly.

No point in reading shit that you wont use and don't enjoy to write papers you don't care about.

>Posting on Veeky Forums
>To say everyone Veeky Forums is a waste of space.

What are you trying to accomplish exactly? Trying to prove it to yourself? I can't imagine that a person that's genuinely happy with their STEM life feels the need to profess it to what he thinks are the "wastes of space".

Greatness isn't for the meek. So go ahead and spend your time on the safest "career" while everyone else that has the balls to pursue what they really want and what really proposes true success AND risk try and learn.

TL;DR neck yourself you delusional faggot.

>implying you would have read and written if you dropped out
Sure, if you could be yourself now in your younger self's body (so to speak...)

It's like my underachieving friends and relatives who say that they don't have to go to uni because you can read and listen to lectures online.
Yes, but DO they? Fuck no. They have the same mentality they did 10 years ago.

In many cases the school you go to doesn't have shit to do with your merit and intellect as a person. I thought this was common knowledge by now but apparentky not. I know very successful, smart people who went to a meh college, or none at all. I know some impressively trivial people who went to great colleges.

Friendly reminder every great philosopher wasn't an individual that went to a great school, rather, an individual that spent time on their own in solitude musing over all their knowledge and thoughts and scribbling them down for months at a time.

I'm so glad I found Veeky Forums. Is there any better board for watching pompous autists screech at eachother?

literally the only response there that's sincere is the first one
welcome, newfriend

That's just life user.

I think that if I had dropped out it would almost inevitably be either A) Complete loser videogame / porn addict living at home. Or B) somewhat talented artist of some sort.

I think regret is so painful because it doesn't ever go away. Its painful self-awareness of your own waste of time that you can't take back. The idea of being able to force yourself into one of two situations for better or worse almost seems desirable to the thousands of possibilities that you're open to every day.

That's why you see so many people on Veeky Forums (especially /pol/) who really want a war to break out, because at least then it would stop the monotony and even if they risked dying it would be a situation where they would be forced either to succeed or fail at something.

Instead almost everyone gets stuck between one, two, or more things trying to get some semblance of "balance" when balance is the least useful thing in practice.

It's like Wrestling: doesn't matter if it's real as long as I'm entertained.

Wrestling^1 is real. It's just that it is a fake reality instead of a real reality.

^1. Here I use wrestling in the manner of a 70 IQ white American from Alabama. The noble sport of the Ancient Greeks bears no resemblance to the American barbarity.

I don't know, it depends on what you mean by balance.

Part of the problem is that we don't often get to see our heroes have pointless arguments, clean the toilet, or read a book they don't particularly like. The monotony is distilled from their life when it is presented to us. And social media is doing it to everyone so that we have this shitty expectation that life should feel significant and exhilarating all the time.

Second, it's this focus on the self rather than the work. There is the sense that one needs to be an artist rathet than just create something. There is also a sense of urgency about the magnum opus, and that people need to find their niche by a certain age. So a lot of people seem to pretend they have found it very early on (20s and 30s), and get stuck there, OR they just give up trying to find one.

the classical revival will arise soon. death to academia

>tfw dropped out highschool
>tfw started job at lumber mill
>tfw learn everything i could
>tfw quit and started my own company
>tfw company grew to over 250 employees in 3 locations
>tfw bought out for 45 million dollar by larger conglomerate
>tfw 31 and never have to work again

have fun working the rest of your life wageslave

>Material wealth in any way being important to happiness
I wish you luck in gaining possession of yourself, user.

I mean balance in terms of time mainly.

No one can function if they're "unbalanced" mentally for instance. Or not many anyways.

But the idea that you can't go to far into one thing or another, or getting "obsessive" is just crabs-in-a-bucket phenomenon. No one gets good at anything by doing it as a hobby.

I lead a "balanced life" by going to the gym regularly, making progress, playing some music, reading, and doing work. But its just a jack of all trades bullshit. I don't want to lose any one thing for the sake of the other because its part of my identity now.

But if I gave everything up except for reading and writing? I'd clear up 4+ hours of time every day and have at least a tiny possibility of decent success.

Or i could spend 4+ hours just practicing violin and perhaps with lessons be decent enough for an orchestra.

But I wont do it. Because its unpredictable and risky and I'm a pussy like most people are.

gibs me dat.

You literally have no self-ownership until you pay off your debt, wagey

Don't worry though, when you're 75 you might be free

Can you please pay off my debt and set me free?

>He thinks I'm referring to legal or monetary ownership
>Not Boethian possession of self
It's okay to admit you're confused, user.