rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

college libraries are not even that good of a place to study unless you go into one of the attic cages and seclude yourself -- otherwise you could distract yourself for hours just by running into ppl you know and/or people watching

i think most ppl go to just to be like "i got out of the house, which is something that humans do"

how v human of them

it depends on the library, the one at my school goes like 5 stories underground and was super isolated and quiet + no cell phone service

yeah there were a couple of spots that i had where i knew i could get an afternoon's worth of quiet but i mostly just went because something about the act of driving to campus made me feel like i was really 'studying' rather than just doing problem sets in btw bouts of xbox

lamp otm

also I like how some white people at the UCs still think we're 'letting in these asians' instead of (at this point) 'letting in white people w/ worse test scores'. any school w/ a sizeable # of asian-americans applying has, in effect, affirmative action for white kids.

it's like 50-50 right now but will probably be 90-10 within the next decade

― iatee, Wednesday, March 16, 2011 10:54 PM (11 minutes ago)

ppl go to college libraries for books?

libraries are the best place to study if you have ~your spot~

what if theres an asian in yr spot talking on the phone

or a fake-body made of chinese food

we only 'let in' the better class of azns it wasnt a uc school i mean jeez

they all spent their time talking on gchat in the computer labs

otherwise you could distract yourself for hours just by running into ppl you know and/or people watching

i needed a bit of low-level background distraction to really get things done, college library was the perfect environment for me as an undergrad

i prefer a cafe, constant coffee, flirty baristas

there were never enough seats at my college library

i write in cafes; libraries are too quiet or something.

as a history major i spent/spend a lot of time with the microfiche. which was GREAT. because nobody else is ever using the microfiche, even during finals week. and the microfiche machines were next to these huge windows looking out over the girls' soccer field.

microfilm i mean. not fiche. i don't even know what fiche is.

microfiche are like large slides with a bunch of pages on them, that you move from side to side and up and down. it can give you a serious headache if you spend a lot of time w/it.

yeah, ok, not those. the rolls. with the little trigger you press and it goes vvvvvvvVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE and then you KU-CHUNK it still and try to read 17th-century cyrillic.

that would be microfilm. for both of those i'd just print out the portions i needed and read them at home.

http://www.finchhaven.com/vhs/f07vhs/Girls_Soccer_practice_082907/tn/0217_VHS_Girls_Soccer_practice_082907.med.jpg

our microfilm printer cost money and was sort of weird and finicky so i just frantically copied stuff into a notebook. except once when i discovered a totally undocumented room on a totally different floor of the library marked "MICROFILM SCANNING ROOM" and when i opened the door and found the light switch and plugged various things in it turned out to be a closet with a microfilm machine connected to a computer, so that you could dump stuff to PDF. but it didn't work very well, and the whole thing felt wrong anyway, so i went back to the windows.

pretty badass ball, there

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgbbz2AaJ31qgllp5o1_500.jpg

http://www.theonion.com/articles/conde-nast-launches-the-new-yorker-for-black-peopl,19708/

i like how the racist girl has an "epiphany" midway through the video that maybe these people are trying to get in touch with family affected by the tsunami, and then she has to awkwardly navigate around the fact that she just undercut her own argument.

our library was gross--a disastrous monument to 60s concrete architecture and a place without a single soft surface--so in general i just got in and out asap.

lol i just found out that a couple of local music people i know (one of whom is a white rapper who released an album with 'wigger' in the title) have a podcast called "Is This Racist?"

apparently the girl is quitting UCLA.

I thought it was supposed to be fake/ironic/parody... She's real?!

haha doesnt seem that unbelievable to me tbh

thats a sad 'haha'

why would this be unbelievable in any fashion?

we're talking about a country where a professional LPGA golfer once asked the LPGA to limit the number of Asian golfers allowed on tour once because she "they had a lack of emotion and didn't attempt to speak English". not surprising at all.

white people at the UCs are pretty horrible

white people at the UCs are pretty horrible

at the uc I went to a shitload of white ppl in the engineering dept would refer to asians as changers

like if something needed to be done, they were like "lets just get a changer to do it"

she'd fit in better at usc anyway

xp hilarious obv but I mean

uh oh - what uc has a shitload of white ppl in the engineering department??

lol I actually had a post clarifying that point

by shitload of white ppl in the engineering dept I meant a shitload OF the white ppl in the engineering dept

I wonder if wallace was a transfer student

as in did her GE at community college rather than entered as a freshman?

right

what makes you wonder that?

not used to a high number of asians in a library?

there are a lot of Asians at CA community colleges. Library facilities aren't as good, though.

what makes you wonder that?

cause she is an idiot and it's a bit easier for an idiot to transfer to UCLA than get in from hs.

(not saying everyone who transfers is an idiot!)

is UCLA hard to get into?

yes