Space Cadet

Prorogued. :tongue: The whole world gets to see how incompetent our government is just in time for the Olympics! :bomb:

Good luck, guys. :inquisitive: Actually I think that Snow Patrol are definitely one of the bands with both the ambition and the talent to go big, but they've kind of coasted musically on their last couple of albums. They're capable of so much more artistically than they've settled for. If they have another jump forward like they did between When It's All Over... and Final Straw they have a chance.

^Yes, yes it is.

Now when it's all slow and not working and it's driving you so crazy that you're checking it on your phone on the bus which takes forever to load anyway and it finally loads and there's nothing new there... Yeah. :disappointed::embarassed:

^:lol: Absurdist humor with a point. :laugh4:

Heh. *points at post count* I don't think I could really spam if I wanted to.

Yeah, figured :thinking: Sorry :shrug: At least it's made our lives a little more entertaining. :P

Stuck at home for Christmas with nothing to do or something?

Someone's bored. :p :laugh4:

:laugh3: Clearly you underestimated him. :P :laugh3::laugh3::laugh3:

:whistle: So about 12 to 13 thousand dollars. In other words the price of a good used car. :stunned: I hope you're planning to have a special cabinet or something built to protect it and show it off.

EEEEeeeee! :dance: Congrats! I'm so relieved that the globe of all things is going to a good home. Fingers crossed the paypal issues get ironed out.

I can't find a single mention of this on any news site. The article is unprofessionally written and the site it was posted on doesn't work. I'm calling hoax until further info surfaces. :dozey:

I'm not suggesting you were. But like I said, I ended up in a completely male-dominated trade. The chances of me ever working with another woman are pretty slim. So I have a pretty good idea of how daunting and worrying it can be when you're trying to figure out how you'll fit in. I disagree, actually. You need a balance between interests and aptitude. You can be good at something, but if you don't like it your life will eventually become kind of meaningless and frustrating. And like you point out if you're terrible at something you love, life will be pretty frustrating too. BUT if you find something you're passionate about AND competent at, you've found the magic formula.

Lack of sleep and processed meat nitrates. The guaranteed way to make any little kid hyper. And yet in the category of different brainstyle, people who genuinely have ADD tend to be night owls. Sure you can wake them up early for school and force them to get 8 hours of sleep a night, but they'll still be a bit tired all the time because they're fighting their body's natural rhythms. And seeing how it takes them two hours to focus long enough to actually get ready for bed, the chances of actually getting 8 hours are slim. Voila, sleepy person with ADD who really can't concentrate because they're overtired. The basis for any good self-perpetuating myth.

^Looks to me more like he's the one with the electric eyes.

An old regular around here used to have some sort of dinosaur-like thing named Pickles as an avatar.

Drink lots and lots of water. It should help with the headaches, or at least it did for me. Sleep was the reason I gave Ritalin up in the end, so I'm afraid I'm not much use there, though if you figure out the half-life of the dose you're taking it might help you time when you take it better so you get more sleep. Good luck to you. :hug: You're where I was about 8 years ago. You have a very long road ahead of you and there will be ups and downs, but it does get better as you learn to figure yourself out. I don't entirely think so, because when you have ADD some days are worse than others, just like with anyone else. But in my experience it's not so much that you get used to it and it's normal as that you know something is wrong because your whole world comes collapsing down around you every day. And just when you feel like you stuck with it and accomplished something, and actually lived up to expectations for once, that one thing you forgot comes along to blindside you. As far as just concentrating, it's sort of a chicken and egg thing. You can learn to concentrate better, but it takes a lot of practice and effort. Practice and effort take concentration, which you don't have. Unfortunately that is the biggest problem that I've found- behavioral training works much better than drugs in the long term, but most of the advice out there is really terrible. It seems like the people and experts out there with the most suggestions are highly organized and think that that's the key to "fixing" us. But they're coming at it from the perspective of someone who can concentrate. For instance you can't keep a list if you don't remember to write things down and forget some of the things while you are writing them down. The list doesn't help you if you can't remember to take it with you, and you lose it all the time when you do take it with you. Sure, a big notebook will help keep your lists organized- providing that you get around to making them, but it's that much more of a burden to remember and not leave on a ledge at the bustop or somewhere. :bomb: ...I've said it a million times before and I'll say it again. ADD is modern society's way of trying to force people with incompatible brainstyles to conform to modern society's liner definition of what "normal" is. And because people with ADD will never be able to conform no matter how much they want to, they will be branded failures and dismissed. And it isn't true. :tongue:

What is it with pickles and dinosaurs around here anyway?

Good grief. Just when I thought it all couldn't get any more Donnie Darko they post a video that has Guy in rabbit ears. :freak: :wtf: I am amused. ...and finally sorted out getting my vinyl copy. Just wish it didn't have to take so long. :nice:

I looked into architecture when I first started going to university after having given up on graphic design. The way my school had their program set up was really weird, but at least it let us take an introduction to architecture as an elective before going into the program full-time. I came to 2 conclusions: -There are two things that most people think about becoming at some point in their life. One is a vet, and the other is an architect. (I think third might be psychologist.) -The intro course was a weeding out course taught by a jerk. So I don't have many warm fuzzy feelings for the profession. I will say this though, if you really love it already, and you take it, and you survive it, you will never regret it. Even if you don't become an architect it will open millions of doors for you for the rest of your life. There are so many careers that you've never even thought of that an architect's background will get you into. The proffesion is NOT male-dominated. Maybe something like 60-40 (just a guess), but there are a lot of women involved in major areas of it. Based on the view from the ground-level, there's much less of a glass ceiling in architecture than a lot of even female-dominated professions. Yes, the Frank Gherys (sp?) of the world seem to be all male, but a lot of the most amazing things are built by women. And even if you did end up as the only woman in a male-dominated office, I can say as one of the only women in a male-dominated trade that it isn't that bad. I quite like it actually. Want a great example of what women can do, look at this new racing track hotel in Abu Dhabi. The complex will cost billions of dollars by the time it's done, and it was built in part by a woman, Lise Anne Couture. http://www.asymptote.net/ I will warn you though, the profession does attract a lot of pompous, narcissistic jerks. If you don't know how to deal with high-stress situations and difficult people, you will have trouble. The good news is that the skills you need for coping can be learned. YOUR PORTFOLIO: Not that hard. You're still in highschool, so they're not expecting anything spectacular, just something that demonstrates competence and a good eye. When I realized I needed one for college in grade 12, I took an 8-week life drawing course and used my best projects from the course along with some photography. Even with intense competition the program I wanted to get into loved what I put together. It's nothing to stress over as long as you have a little bit of raw artistic talent. One thing you do need a really good grasp of is math and physics. If you don't understand basic relationships between things, you will be useless. If the math is a problem area for you, it's nothing that can't be overcome as long as you're willing to work really hard. If you hate them in general, you will end up hating your life. (Lots of architects hate their life. I never understand why they don't just do something else. Please don't hate your life.) One of the greatest things about architecture is the way it combines the creative and the analytical. But it also means you have to have an aptitude for both. If you're weak on one of them, shop around. Different schools emphasize different parts of the equation- some are geared more toward industrial engineering while others focus more on artistic merit. Talk to different schools. Admin people will tell you what you need to get in and many schools let you set up meetings with the profs to see which school will be a good fit. Visiting makes a huge difference. Now liberal arts. If you have 20 thousand dollars lying around for tuition, by all means, it could be wonderful and enriching and I would highly recommend it. It's completely and absolutely useless in the real world though, so avoid it if you will need a student loan. Everyone has an arts degree these days. It will mean the difference between a job behind a cash register, and a job managing a couple of people who are behind a cash register for an extra 50 cents an hour. Make sure you have a backup plan for afterward or your degree will just be something nice to hang in your taxi. Don't stress too much about what you choose in the end. Most people who go to university switch programs in their first year. Sometimes several times until the find what fits. Good luck.

*blinks* .... Dude! I've never had a thread before! :cheesy:

edit post > advanced options If you edit the first post in the thread you should see a title above the post text.

You know, if you now created the thread according to the board, shouldn't you be able to change the title if you want?

That is a very, very big picture. :stunned: