Posted on 04/05/2007 4:51:05 PM PDT by goldstategop
Yes, I heard her. She didn’t sound all that bright to me—Rush does tend to flatter young people who call, in my opinion, but maybe I’m being too demanding.
The remark that “it’s all about me” seemed jarring, but I interpreted it as being the sort of thing that comes out sounding worse than it’s meant. I (charitably?) interpreted it as meaning that the girl justly perceived that the election will turn on persuading people like her, people who are undecided and are looking for leadership.
She did not sound whiny to me, and as the mother of two teens I’m sensitive to whining. ;-) She seemed like a kid who had had a very tough row to hoe and was putting her life together, but was also frightened about the future and about the debt she was racking up. She is clearly working very hard. I was left wishing that Rush had urged her to change her major to something more lucrative than art history and political science. She sounds like she’s fighting a tiring battle to keep an open and free mind when surrounded by all the leftists on campus. That’s a hard thing to do.
Thanks, Fairview.
Political Science. What is the science in political science; how to rig a poll to influence public opinion. She can go to work for Rasmussen or Zogby. It was a good exchange. I heard it driving my daughter back from college. I told her here is a kid going to grad school and she hasn’t figured out yet what she wants to do with her life. Sad.
Yes, I had to step out later in the call but I’ll catch up on what I missed after the commercial break. Later...
I agree. Hey, she's only got a 3.0 . These days that's probably equivalent to the 2.0 of 40 years ago.
My take on her was that she was self absorbed and was looking for someone or something else to finance her life choices. No one is making her go to college and double major. No one is making her go to grad school. I know a lot of young adults who are carrying loans from college and grad school. They're not complaining about it and they're not expecting help from anyone.
40 years ago there were no computer science classes. Electrical engineering was more about laying cable than designing ASICS. Human Resources Management was called "Personnel." Imagine how much more history has to be learned now versus 40 years ago? Every specialty you can think of, with the exception of buggy-whip making, has advanced exponentially in terms of technology, terminology, and depth of knowledge. Is the subject matter easier today than it was 40 years ago? Absolutely not. Are teachers grading on an easier curve? Probably. All in all, I think it's a wash.
It sounded to me as if she had had a very bad early life and had decided to turn it around. So many don't do that. I really do congratulate her. She emphasized that she is alone, she is working 3/4 time, and of course if she comes from a bad background she isn't properly prepared for college so earning a 3.0 is a struggle. My own kid, who was an honor-roll student at one of the top high schools in the US, was really stunned during her first year in college when she found out how hard it is, and she wasn't trying to work 30 hours a week. So I'm not down on this young girl. She just sounded lonely, scared, and exhausted to me, deeply worried about her college loans, and wondering if she'd made the right choice in taking on those loans. It's okay to feel some doubt sometimes!
I keep asking my oldest daughter to think about what she wants to do with her English Comp degree (she’s a great writer). I told her once, if she would pick up a physics minor (she was straight A’s in math and science in HS), I could build a company around her writing technical documents (a lot of companies take techies who can’t write or writers who can’t comprehend the science to write manuals). She’ll probably become a conservative Erma Bombeck. Now my youngest already knows what she wants, (and has since she entered high school). I just think that long before you get to grad school, you have to know what you want to do with your life. I wish Jenny well, but she needs to have some goals.
Bull. I was a physics major in 1967 when LBJ forgave student loans for those that were getting teaching degrees and actually taught for a year. My student loan (about $300) certainly wasn’t forgiven.
Smart daddy. There are a kajillion poeple who are fantastic writers but not many who can write technical material well. Picking up a physics minor is pretty darned hard for most people, though it sounds like your brilliant child could do so without breaking a sweat. One possibility: Johns Hopkins University offers a one-year master’s program in science writing that your daughter might appreciate. It would give her a credential she could use to get jobs as a science writer. Because the fact is that the vast majority of science writers do have advanced degrees, so if she’s competing with them either in her own business or in the broader market, she will need some letters after her name. Lots of her competitors will have PhDs.
Just a thought, sent with best wishes for a very gifted young lady. Every success to her!
Thanks. I’ll mention the Johns Hopkins program to her. I had an uncle who worked for Johns Hopkins Labs. He had several of his creations and experiments on planetary missions, and was hanging around the labs and going to the Cape after he retired. He worked on proximity fuses during WWII. The basement of his house was like a electronics museum when I was a kid.
BIngo, the call was total BS.
A) WOrkers 30 hours a week, makes 8 K a year? What does she get paid, $5.30 and hour? (you do the math that is what I get)
B) Poverty stricken and is going for Art and POLYSCI major? Is ANYONE that stupid?
C) Doesn’t want to gove up dog to move? WTF?
D) SOunded like that the girl was all about MMMMMeeeeeeeeeee
/rant.....
later read
That was a cheap shot.
But, if you had chosen to teach for a year, would it have been?
One cannot overcome years of indoctrination in one small step or in one conversation. But the seed was planted.
IMHO, this may be one of the first indicators of the progress Rush would have made on this 'skull full of mush'.
my chief of staff this morning, told me that you had some doubts and that some people told you that you're going to be mistreated on the program,
Time and again the left paints a false picture of the right (in general), and Rush (in particular). He treated her well, those who told her otherwise were proved wrong. Each time she hears others, those who have never listened or talked to Rush, berate him, she will know different. Thus she will begin thinking: 'what else are they saying that they have no clue about?'
The seed has been planted and she will grow into a conservative.
My BS-Physics was not adequate for teaching credentials. Even then, liberal arts schools were indoctrination centers for socialists/communists. SDS (Students for a Democratic (read socialist) Society) was burning flags, books and shouting down any conservative voices. Arizona was a Barry Goldwater state but the Viet war changed all that due to lies, ect.
Little known FACT. The Eisenhower Interstate Highway system was in full swing during the early 60’s. After LBJ stole the White House with voting fraud (documented true), he canceled the freeway system.
By that time, however, all states had had plans submitted and approved so it was of NO consequence. EXCEPT Arizona. We had yet to submit a solid plan.
As a result, we still have not finished even a rudimentary functional system. And we have done it with minimal federal funding.
It has been rumored that LBJ commented when he dumped the project that it would teach that (nasty/crude euphemism for Jew) a lesson. Yes, Goldwater had a Jewish heritage.
Hell, LBJ didn’t even have the sniper rifle powder residue washed from his hands when this happened.
Your post made me smile, with pride in America. Thank you.
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