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a large, fruit-eating bat.: How to Win at College, by Cal Newport [Abridged!]

parisoutthebackdoor:

1. Don’t do all your reading

2. Be class privileged

3. Be class privileged

4. I wasn’t kidding about that class-privilege

5. Don’t have ADHD

6. Be White

7. Be allistic

8. And don’t have social phobia or non-normative ways of communicating

9. Be White

10. Be so…

Wow.  This was incredibly baseless and idiotic.  Someone could easily make a counter argument called “How to go to college for free” and the answers would be “be underprivileged, be anything but white, be lgbt, have a disability, etc”.   In any accredited university or college in America, if you see discrimination going on (which is what this post suggests) it should be reported.  However, if all students attending the school are being treated fairly and given adequate attention, but certain “classifications” of students are performing poorly compared to others, don’t pull the discrimination card. 

Sometimes, discrimination is a real and serious issue.  But when you point out things that are clearly *not* examples of discrimination and paint them as if they *are*, you make our whole entire standpoint look irrelevant.  Holy crap.  This makes me almost as mad as Feminists who want to outlaw pornography. 

(Source: as-cool-as-i-am)

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    acquire PTSD while you’re...college. 16. Don’t have dyslexia. Or
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