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  1. Johnathan says:

    So true

  2. Elwood says:

    “Hey, Jake. Gotta be at least seven dollars worth of change here.”

  3. Seddah says:

    Goddamn, I need quarters.

  4. Scott says:

    Thank god I now live in a building where the laundry is done by card ^_^

    • fizzle says:

      You lucky bastard.

    • gnn1 says:

      ugh, I SO need that. I’m ALWAYS scrounging for quarters (am right now actually)

    • CBinNH says:

      I love and loathe it! They don’t keep the card refill machine actually in my building, I have to walk to clubhouse to put money on the card. I really shouldn’t complain about the walk, but I’m so used to convenience!

      And we have parking meters that accept credit/debit cards now… is that happening anywhere else?

  5. Eric-in-STL says:

    Or, if you’re me: “2 more of these babies and I can buy myself a SODA!”

  6. n8 says:

    Good times. Flannel shirts, coffee houses, late-night bull sessions… damn I miss college. And the late 90′s in general. *is old*

    • Kuromisa says:

      Is college really like that, then? It’s not just the rose-lensed Hollywood ideal of college? I can’t wait! *is young*

      Eight more months…more or less.

      • Yeee says:

        Mmm, student loans!

      • Philip Shade says:

        College, if done right, is pretty awesome.
        And by done right I mean get yourself a Bachelor of Fine Arts. No math classes. You can blame smelling like alcohol on turpentine. And hanging around in record stores and coffee shops is just “job training.”

        • Kuromisa says:

          Ugh, definitely no math classes if I can help it. I want to be a bio or biotech major, though, so I think a certain amount of math is unavoidable. It’s sad, but it’s the price I have to pay for the ability to make kittens glow in the dark.

          I’m working on a novel, though, so hanging out in obscure coffee shops and the like is practically required.

          • Me says:

            I was genetics and had to take two semesters of calculus, never to be used again. Dumb, but you’ll be stuck with math in any BS. I do miss undergrad to a certain extent, life was easy then. Class, study, maybe sleep, test, party, repeat.

            • Kuromisa says:

              Genetics? Awesome! I’d like to have a job doing something genetically-related after college–any advice?

              Calculus…not so awesome. But I’ll muddle through it somehow, I guess. I didn’t do so well in AP Calc last year, but at least it won’t be entirely new material.

            • gnn1 says:

              I’m going meteorology and need 4 semesters of calculus -__-

              • Alcar says:

                Aww cheer up.
                I’m doing 3rd year physics and just finished my 7th of some form of maths.

                Most of which I will never use again.

                • emily says:

                  you all are lucky. i’m an engineering major, 6 semesters of Calculus then all that crappy specialty engineering math. then classes entitled “Concrete”

            • Picardkid says:

              Are you kidding? Calculus is the best!
              Anything that can find the slope of a point (including Chuck Norris) is freakin’ sweet. Calc was my best class last year (iz a senior). All you need are two real equations that are both easily adaptable. Advanced math becomes
              T R I V I A L

              • Kuromisa says:

                Please bottle some of that and send it to me…I suck royally at calculus and would love some of that enthusiasm and skill.

      • Phaelin says:

        Hollywood makes college look fun. If you keep an eye on what frats do without getting involved, it can be funny, though. They mostly get arrested and kicked out the back door of the college and no one knows the wiser.

      • n8 says:

        Hollywood college always centers on frats and drunkenness. That’s fine for some, but for me college was slacker heaven. I drank some really good coffee with some really good friends, played a lot (I mean A LOT) of games (video and otherwise), geeked out on the fledgling internet, and occasionally went to class. I always was a good test-taker, so I was able to coast along without putting in too much effort. I look back on it now and regret absolutely nothing. I’m even glad that my directionlessness resulted in a five year tenure. I’d love to go back for five more. :-)

        • Kuromisa says:

          Aaah…sounds perfect. That’s exactly what I want from college. My older coworkers are always waxing poetic about it, and it sounds amazing. I can’t wait til I get to go out and do it for real.

          • n8 says:

            Make sure to take classes that “sound interesting” but don’t really contribute to your major. You’ll meet really cool people that way. Hell, by the time I graduated I nearly had a minor in Philosophy & Religion. :-D

            • Kuromisa says:

              Sounds great! I want to take a philosophy class for sure. Then I’ll comb the course handbook for likely-sounding titles. A friend of mine took a class on vampires last year, for example–that sounds amazing. Maybe something with “Star Wars” in the course name.

              By the time I actually get to college, I’ll already have more than a year’s worth of credits with all the dual-enrollment classes I’m taking this year. I’ll have a lot of time for fun. Damned if I’m getting stiffed my four years! ;)

              • n8 says:

                Ha! Just remember you’re paying for the privilege. I graduated in ’99 and I’m still paying student loans!

                • Kuromisa says:

                  True…I’m starting off at a community college and transferring to a state school for just that reason. And my parents started a college account for me practically the day I was born, and it has about $7,000 in it now. Just a drop in the bucket, but a start, at least.

                  • Dana says:

                    What you do is you make straight As and then search like mad for scholarships to apply for. If you’re lucky you’ll only have to pay for the first few terms and then smooth sailing from there.

                • kr0w says:

                  Hmmm..should’ve graduated high school in my state…they have scholarships for everyone who graduates HS in the state to the state universities (granted you have to up-front the tuition and maintain a min GPA..but is still free, they reimburse based on GPA.

                • Jane St.Clair says:

                  I have NO student loans because I was a loser who lived at home. On one hand I feel I missed out on the whole college experience, on the other, I still haven’t found a job in my major yet, am making very little money, and have no idea how I’d be paying off that “experience” if I’d had to take out loans.

                  • n8 says:

                    I majored in info systems and got a job coding for the gov straight out of graduating, so no pain there. Loans are manageable, and the work doesn’t exactly get outsourced, so times aren’t as hard for me as they are for many.

                    • Jane St.Clair says:

                      Elementary Education. You would think that would get me a job, after all NCLB says we want “highly qualified” teachers. Well, turns out what the principals in my area thought they meant by “highly qualified” was actually “who has the better connections” and with me being an Army brat I have no personal connections to any of the schools. I’ve been slogging away as an aide and a substitute and finally this year I am doing a long term subbing position which I hope will lead to something permanant next year. *sigh* Now I’ve just depressed myself…

                      • n8 says:

                        Keep trying, Jane. Now that we have a decent president, perhaps education will get the attention it deserves. Where are you, geographically? I know the DC schools desperately need good teachers.

                      • mellenmack says:

                        Jane, not sure where you are, but keep your head up! I don’t know if it is just this place or what, but we hire new teachers every friggin year. I think part of it is because we are near a military base and so we always have some people leaving. Keep in mind though that this base contributes at least 30% of the total population. DON’T GIVE UP!

                • Alcar says:

                  Ahh, the joys of a European education :)
                  No loans, as long as you finish within 10 years. And still only 1500 a year if you’re that big of a slacker.

            • Philip Shade says:

              Ditto, I ended up with BFA in illustration and almost minor in religion because I had just taken enough classes.

              • pdq says:

                ?!?! Good gravy, did you go to Grunewald Guild??

                • Philip Shade says:

                  No, Syracuse University. But I went to catholic school for 7 years. My mom’s a a Presbyterian Sunday school teacher. I used to work the youth group. Bsaically I only know one guy I’m afraid to go head to head against in Bible Trivial Pursuit and that’s because he speaks ancient hebrew.

                  • lowly grunt says:

                    Yay! We should play sometime!!
                    I’ve totally forgotten the Hebrew I had to learn for ordination but I know where to find resources!!

                    I find Proverbs sorta boring; what about you?

            • gnn1 says:

              god… I have ‘minors’ in psych and criminal justice (for METEOROLOGY!). But I dont regret any of it

        • Seddah says:

          Oh, coasting. How I miss it. I’m a Music Major, so all my classes WERE really easy, until I’d taken every music course they offered and now I’m in English (actual work), Philosophy (assigned reading), and Film (which is still coasting, but with exams).

          But I AM FREE in two semesters! (Current semester included)

    • pdq says:

      Coffee houses, endless midnight-to-dawn arguments over technique, hauling @ss all over town on foot, Ren faires… the early ’80′s was fabulous. *is even older den u*

  7. mary says:

    Amen to that! Oh, I miss those days…

  8. mrshammett says:

    i found a dollar yesterday and i felt so rich! i hate being poor, haha

  9. Gustave says:

    If you’re smart enough to get into college, hopefully you’re smart enough to know that 2 dimes and 5 pennies make a quarter.

    Anyone who truly thinks that way, college student or not, have been failed by their respective education systems.

  10. Leland Dantzler says:

    I am personally OVERJOYED to see an actually funny lol that isn’t about the past election. GLORY.

  11. Christine says:

    Or, you can go to an awesome college like mine where laundry is free!
    (And where your basketball team gets slaughtered by UNC in the first round of NCAAs last year)

    • Jazzberri says:

      meeheehee! UNC rocks baby (chapel hill–er, side, is it?) Yeah that’s where I go. :]

    • Alcar says:

      Or, you could not live in a dorm and use the 20-year-old washing machine that was there as long as any of your house-mates remembers.

      • Maxwell Silverhammer says:

        We dont talk about the thing that washes our clothes. It just is… it always has been, and always will be… just…. there……

    • Paul says:

      We actually just got new machines in the dorms the year before is started at my college which is conveniently also the year that they instituted the free laundry policy.

  12. Seola says:

    They REALLY need a “random” LOL section. :D

  13. maggie says:

    I spent $7.50 doing laundry yesterday because the machines here suck. But they’re also done by card thank God, or else I’d be begging for quarters on the street. Because of my recent laundry escapade, I truly appreciate this LOL. Also, you can go to an awesome college like mine where the basketball team slaughters everyone they set their sights on. Rock Chalk!

  14. Tessie says:

    I seem to recall that the sex, booze, sex, pot, sex, caffeine, sex, studying, and sex lobes of the brain were quite dominant over the laundry quarters lobe, but then, memory is always subjective and selective, isn’t it?

  15. Jazzberri says:

    Psh, come on, no one under thirty cares about anything below quarters–except when they wanna dump it on your register at the grocery store. They will sit there for 15 minutes to count out $5 worth of change just so they can get rid of it. :[
    And sometimes they try to pay with foreign money! Come on people, dump it in a jar like everyone else and go to Coinstar in four years!
    Common courtesy, anyone?

  16. hotsauce says:

    *sigh* Yet another display of the clear bias of the people who run this site. I mean really, you can clearly see the Democratic presidents’ portraits on their coins, but of the seven pennies in the picture, only one of them shows the picture of Lincoln, a Republican, and it’s blurred.

  17. x-bert says:

    Has anybody got a dime?

    Somebody’s gotta go back and get a shitload of dimes!

  18. FaileV says:

    >.>
    dimes and pennies are NPC and PC markers in DND.

  19. minerva146 says:

    I still need laundry quarters. My apartment has crappy machines, but it’s too much of a pain to drive the laundry somewhere else. I give the cashiers the $.06 on a 5.31 bill so as to maximize my quarter intake.

    • Maxwell Silverhammer says:

      I betcha you get strange looks sometimes from the ones that dont understand math when you’re at the register.

      • Jane St.Clair says:

        Only if they haven’t been a cashier very long. Customers are weird, it’s best just to plug in what they gave you and let the machine figure it out. That way when they DO do something stupid you can enjoy the look on their faces when you hand them their dollar back and say, “I guess we didn’t need that.” I sometimes feel like Crowley in Good Omens, spreading low grade evil to lots of people. :D

        • minerva146 says:

          Sometimes I do have to tell them the correct change, like if they put in 6.00 instead of 6.06 I wish they’d teach how to count back change in school. *sigh* I learned at a young age running a till with no register at a family business.

          • froofrou says:

            I learned how to count back change quick at the grocery store I worked at. Especially after the time the power went out for 24 hours and we had to log everything in manually. *shudder* And I’m still damn fast on a 10 key from having to type in so many checks :-)

            • Maxwell Silverhammer says:

              I find it amusing that at work my co-workers who arent in the office, oogle
              how I type without looking at the keyboard, and fill in entire order numbers and comments without looking at what Im typing. It amazing how averaging 135 words
              a minute constitutes as damn near magic to the technologically handicapped.

              • froofrou says:

                I can’t do 135 wpm, but I can get around 90-100 depending on what I’m typing. And you’re right, it’s met with looks of shock and awe as I do it without looking. My poor boss (who has a good excuse, his fingers are fat) can only type with two fingers. He gets about 30 wpm, and it drives me nuts! I usually push him out of the way and finish what he’s typing for him.

                • Dana says:

                  I did an admin job in the Army and when I was in training for it, one of the graduation requirements was typing 20wpm. I did like three times that anyway because I’d taken typing in high school. There was this one guy who could not learn to save his life–he’d always hunt-and-pecked. But when H&Ping he could do 20wpm. Unfortunately the requirement was for touch-typing. He barely made it.

                  • Eh, I average 42wpm when I am dickering around at work. When I am chatting, I ramp up to about 90 or more cuz I am just typing instead of trying to filter stupid into words while trying to type notes for the corporation’s requirements.

              • minerva146 says:

                Stop waving your WPM around!! I’m computer savvy but I don’t measure up to that impressive score…

                • Maxwell Silverhammer says:

                  Ive always been quick with my fingers….
                  hehehe…. Paging Dr. N. Uendo!
                  I blame my extremity dexterity on those looong looong nights…. of playing Megaman 3

  20. Pennyforth says:

    Whattaya mean, college students? I’m in my 30s and I still look at quarters as laundry/car wash money. When I was a college student, I looked at quarters as video game money, and then whatever was left went to laundry….

  21. Artichokey says:

    The laundry machines at my school don’t take quarters. Only $5, $10 and $20 bills :(

  22. Terapyn says:

    My grandparents would collect quarters for my sis (she’s 7 years older than me, they had died by the time I got to college). When she moved into a townhouse with three other girls and they had a washer and dryer, my grandparents continued to collect quarters for her.
    When I went to college, I would just got to my bank and take out $20 in quarters – in a roll please. Of course, that only worked when I actually had that money in my account…. Sigh, 30 and still wish I had that kind of money in my account.

  23. Mike says:

    Dimes have a higher currency density (whether defined as value/mass or value/volume) than quarters.

  24. emily says:

    Dimes are good for buying pizza. Except for the pizza guy wants to murder you. But I have in fact used dimes to buy pizza…. and beer. =)

  25. sztool says:

    SO TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    and the loonies

  26. aliceflynn says:

    I’m old.
    sigh
    still save pennies
    college was in the ’70′s.

  27. oranegreen says:

    As a college student who lives at home (my college doesn’t have dorms)
    This is inaccurate. Quarters are for the vending machines!

  28. AngelMax says:

    HAR!!
    Being a college student bites.

  29. UNTChris says:

    This is extremely inaccurate. The mind of a college student is “MONEY!!! Lemme have it all! Please, I’m so poor…”

    No college student in their right mind would pass over any money. We’ll roll it and take it to the bank if we have to, but money is money!
    I know from personal experience =(

    • Trent says:

      That’s just because you go to North Texas. The most overly priced/overly hyped/overly everything school in Texas. My advice: change schools, especially if you’re a music major.

      I’m glad that my college has washers that don’t require cards or change. It’s completely covered in our room/board fees. The only problem with that is that they’re almost constantly full of the theater guy’s cloths, and we only have one washer and one dryer for 36 guys to use.

  30. stevie w says:

    And a small portion of the decline of university intellect is partially due to the fact that morons like Bill Ayers are on the school boards. (so many other things contribute, of course)

    The people that decided to put that unrepentant Communist terrorist on the university board should be fired. Then put into a mental institution.

    Yeah, on 9/11 … ON 9 FREAKING 11, he was quoted, “I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.”
    Asked whether he would advocate bombing again, he answered: “I don’t want to discount the possibility.” Or as he writes in his memoir: “I can’t imagine entirely dismissing the possibility.”

    Bill Ayers: 1995 Campaign FUNDRAISER for Barack Obama.
    They go way back.

  31. D-Day says:

    so true.

  32. Sarah says:

    I’m happy I have free laundry in my dorm!


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