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Re: Leverage/Re: Being forced to go a modernist university
« Reply #40 on: September 19, 2019, 03:00:25 PM »

[....] to teach in a secondary school it will be a nest of vipers. [....]

If you are under your parents' authority you are bound to obey them.  Once you no longer are under their authority, you can ask for their advice but are not bound to take it. [....] So attempt to prepare for independence asap

In this instance, embedding the quote from ‘Nadir’ above does indicate my endorsement.


[...] keep in mind that 1 crucial short-term goal for you is to untangle yourself from your parents' purse-strings.

Using the Internet, it's vastly easier than ever to acquaint yourself with the academic interests and leanings of your school's faculty, and gravitate toward those who provide the most congenial fit.  If it's a school in which faculty are required to publish research as a condition of career advancement, descriptions of research interests can not only help identify the faculty with whom you'd be most compatible, but also the faculty that might have on-campus paid assistantship jobs to offer to undergrads[*]I was blessed or fortunate to arrange one, decades ago; it was formally only 1/2-time, its hours officially limited by the school so it didn't use up all of an undergrad's potential studying time.  But it was adequate to pay my minimal state-U. tuition, housing, and frugal living expenses (with only a bicycle for transportation, not a car).

Don't overlook adjunct faculty, many of whom have "real jobs" off campus, although they might only be able to offer barely-paid or unpaid internships[**].

Alas, college costs have reportedly risen so disproportionately (relative to currency inflation) that money that sufficed for frugal undergrads in my generation might only put a dent in costs for your generation.

Footnotes follow.  As a student at a university, you need to stop fighting them like the typical adult United-Statesian (assuming that you haven't already stopped doing so), and embrace them for the additional information & commentary they provide.

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Note *: Asssuming that the school provides or allows assistantships to undergrads.  Beware that work assigned to paid undergrad assistants might be so tedious that it evokes tears (because by definition, you're not expected to have the knowledge of your field that'd be necessary to apply any actual judgment or make decisions on your own initiative), but it would get you a regular paycheck.  How this would fit in with the scholarship I believe you claimed, I have no idea.  Nowadays, I'd expect your school's Dept. of Student Financial Aid to have the necessary info on the Internet, but if not, visit its office.  Useful info about how things really work in your major dept. might also become available by socializing with the clerical staff in its main office, at least eventually[], and then maybe only when the chair of that dept. is out of the office[×].  Altho' I confess that undergrads are at a substantial social disadvantage with faculty & staff, so undergrads might be more effectively advised to seek a sympathetic grad student, and then take care to heed their office hours.

Note #: An internship off-campus might unavoidably incur expenses (e.g., off-campus commuting) that eats up all of whatever financial compensation it provides, which over at least the short term, would be counterproductive to "untangl[ing] yourself from your parents' purse-strings".  Be that as it may, it could eventually be a great source of useful contacts for short-term jobs, or maybe even an agreeable career.

Note †: Success might require you to develop your social skills to include a sociably gregarious & genuinely charming personna.  I suspect that I'm not the only CathInfo reader who's perceiving the anonymous writer to be a loner most comfy inhabiting a Catholic chapel enclosed by a bunker.  Perhaps adopting the personna of the stereotypical confused freshman would be an unchallenging but effective first step.

Note ×: Except that the "nest of vipers" quoted farther above might also be a fitting metaphor for the departmental environment in which you train for teach[ing] in a secondary school".   I'm imagining a modernist "Catholic" university at which its education faculty, including its dept. office, is disproportionately populated by feminist "nuns on the bus".  Without divine intervention, prospects might be quite grim for extracting practical info by socializing with them.

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Re: Being forced to go a modernist university
« Reply #41 on: September 20, 2019, 10:19:21 AM »
I feel like sharing my experience will help you. I am in a public university not a "Catholic" one so my problems can be slightly different but I found that spending all the time locked in my room which is outside of campus either reading / studying or praying helped me get through the 5 days of the week I am here. This place is like sodom and gomorrah I never found one single catholic not even novus ordus, everyday I see drunkeness and depraved customs of these students. Usually at night I go for a walk to relax my thoughts, meditate and talk to God. The first weeks will be very dificult I wont lie but one has to carry his own cross and with the help of almighty God later find eternal rest.
OP here. Thanks for sharing! I found that spending time praying in my university's chapel has been very calming. I think things are getting better for me overall. Like I mentioned in a previous post, I've befriended some fellow Catholics, even they may not understand the problems with the NO.  They still seem to be on a similar wavelength to me. It seems like your surroundings are worse than mine. I don't live on campus, so I don't see that stuff go on. Keep up the good fight. Keep the faith. I'll pray for you.  


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Re: Being forced to go a modernist university
« Reply #42 on: September 20, 2019, 10:42:08 AM »
OP here. These past few days have been better overall. I still don't like university, but it's gotten more manageable. The only class that really poses a problem is the one I mentioned the teacher telling us about the false docuмentarian theory. The class is only a first semester class for freshmen, but it screams of liberalism. I utterly despise it. The other classes and teachers are far more tolerable in comparison. I've made some friends on campus, including a seminarian in my education class. 
There wasn't a meeting on Wednesday, I'll actually be meeting with the young men's group this upcoming Wednesday. 

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Re: Being forced to go a modernist university
« Reply #43 on: September 20, 2019, 10:51:19 AM »
Tell your parents, "although it is true we will have to put up with these types of people in the world, BUT we do not have to give them money for it nor waste or time listen to them."
You would be better off dropping out of that college and go learn to be a truck driver!
OP here. I've told them that, but they tell me that it would be worse to send to me to a public university. I've tried telling them that perhaps look into another kind of job, but they won't listen. They'll say that training for a trade would be stressful, but I argue that college is more stressful. I'm better off talking to a wall than my own parents. Sadly, they've been too brainwashed by modernity. 
I still love them though. 
Maybe I should look into that! I've heard that, although stressful, being a truck driver pays well in return.
 

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Re: Being forced to go a modernist university
« Reply #44 on: September 20, 2019, 11:01:30 AM »
Young man, I have decided to call you John.
John, it is my understanding that if you cause too many waves in these institutions of higher brainwashing, your intelligentsia professors will give you a failing grade.
With all due respect, your parents sound naive. Are they democrats?
OP here, thanks for the nickname. That's true. I have to be careful. Unfortunately, it seems that they are naive. They're republicans, which makes things a bit more confusing. But then again, conservatives don't conserve anything in this country. They gave up doing so when they started shilling for Israel. One of the reasons why I have a deep hatred of democracy.