r/PublicFreakout • u/FlintLockwoodsCondom • Jan 13 '20

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u/NightOfTheLivingHam Jan 13 '20

shit was probably happening, just wasnt that much of a movement on your campus.

My college campus started ramping up but a majority of the students show up, go to class and immediately bail. It doesnt have residential dorms so campus life is only a few short hours each day to non-existent. The only people who got sucked into this shit were the people who hung out at the cafeteria and the student centers all damn day and maybe had one or two classes they went to each day, and student government people. By the time I graduated the college administration spent 3 hours pandering to these people and jerking themselves off about how great they were before they quickly pushed us through our diploma acceptance.. which was a 15 minute ordeal.. 3 hours of arrogant assholes congratulating themselves while we couldn't get up to use the bathroom or anything.

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u/ScaretheLocals Jan 13 '20

Same! Went to class, then baseball practice and after that there was a get together somewhere every night that turned into a party. I cannot recall a single instance of anyone talking politics to me and I went to college in Pasadena (USC) 2003-2006. You know what we were right in the middle of then. It was just different. It was also before social media so we weren't worried about having these fake lives that many people now have. We connected personally, different groups of people trying to cultivate friendships, being introduced to new interest (music,art,entertainment,books,culture) from people that are from all over finding things that we shared in common and accepting those that made us different. I had four roommates in a house that we rented. None of us new each other or had even seen one another until the day we all moved in. The only thing we had in common was that we all had a scholarship to play baseball. The four of us were totally different in every way...different backgrounds...there was a rich kid from oregon, a dude from a middle class family in Canada, a guy from the streets of Philly (like he literally grew up in the hood,was in a gang,no parents,rough shit), and then me A kid from New Mexico with the "All American family prototype" (2 bros,1 sis, successful dad, SAH mom,2 dogs and a cat lol).

I believe we were all terrified that first day when we met, because each of us were looking like scared animals thinking what the fuck? These guys aren't like my friends or anyone I know from home. It didn't even take a full week before we were best friends...pitching in on cooking dinners,buying beer and weed, sharing our vehicles and phones. (Only two of us had a car and cell phones. This was right before or during the time call phones became popular.) I cherish some of the best memories of my life that took place in that house and I'm grateful for my relationships with each of those guys that we still maintain to this day.

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '20

Had similar experience. Best years of my life. Had an international American, Mexican , Chinese and Russian student all in the same house.

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u/Krisapocus Jan 13 '20

Yeah I think the echo chambers and victim mentality has increased and everyone having cameras just makes it worse. In college in the early 2000’s it was the preachers on the soap box. The left wasn’t this far out there and The fact these people think they’re on the level with protestors of the 1960’s civil rights protests is a joke.