#asuperfluousman

[br4vest]

61, 77, 116

61: Do I prefer talking on the phone or video chatting online?

I like both! There's an intimacy with each of them and I adore just being able to spend time with someone like that

77: How can you win my heart?

Make me laugh, be patient with me, be kind, and give me lots of smooches

116: What concerts have I been to?

Ooh I like this question, not enough concerts to be honest. I've seen James Blunt, Akon, twenty one pilots, Everything Everything, Providence, The Ataris, We Shot The Moon, Bombay Rockers

[marinahanna]

Hey

1. First impression: I remember when I first stumbled on your tumblr and I thought omg this guy is super cool and we both followed each other at the same time and i was like ah meant to be <3 hahaha

2. Truth is: you lived up to my expectations of being cool and I think we’ve been friends for like three years now.

3. How old do you look: I’d say 24-25. 

4. Have you ever made me laugh: Loaddddss of times yeah

5. Have you ever made me mad: Umm, not that I can recall tbh. 

6. Best feature: You got good legs for hiking and a pretty awesome beard. 

7. Have I ever had a crush on you: Yeah for sure

8. You’re my: closest friend on tumblr that I’ve actually met irl. Hiking mountains and exploring Asheville, NC was one of the highlights of my life and I’ll never forget that. 

9. Name in my phone: Tony H*****

10. Should you post this too? If you’d like! 

[whiskybentandhellbound]

LA is just for ginger nerds~

excuse me, g***** is a slur 

[ijo0oji]

yooooo you disappeared or something?

nah my old account was termed bc i uploaded copyrighted music -___- then i was bummed cause i had a lot of memories and stuff saved on that tumblr and just *poof* so i wasnt tumbling much at all but yeah here i am yaaay haha

[basedbirbblob]

Floridians and Californians don't irk me like Texans because Texans pride themselves on their toughness and all that ridiculousness. Californians are just cultural imperialists and think weather trumps everything as they sit for 17 hours on the 405. But who thinks of Florida, ya know?

fair haha. Californians know the have it easy in terms of whether (tho i agree, that doesnt make up for the other bullshit). I have no idea what’s going on in the collective consciousness of Florida... 

[roxygen]

asuperfluousman said: This is what drives me crazy about the debate. It’s not conceivable to avoid any standards. And more school funding, the policy proposal since the 70s, won’t fix those underlying problems when nothing else changes

Yeah, I think that people miss the point that you have gather data and institute some measure if you even want to make the argument for funding. What are you going to fund or attempt to fix if there is no process by which you can measure trends or problem areas? You can’t indiscriminately throw X amount at a district, when there could be underlying issues--administrative or in terms of instruction--that could be negatively impacting students and their performance. People also miss that this isn’t a running record to make students feel like shit. It’s a commentary on the quality of education they are receiving; not their potential or smarts. 

It’s so funny, because people also complain about how there are higher standards for educations abroad, but the amount of testing and the weight that testing places on where a student goes or the perceived quality of institutions is far greater in other countries.  Testing or education standards in the US are far from stringent.

I don’t rightly understand what they want. Do they want education to be more decentralized then? Less standards to adhere by? We could go back to school boards being more powerful, but then they would complain about the uptick of bans on text books as we’ve seen in states like Texas. 

[outdoor-anarchy]

$11k for the first year? I had about $10k by the time I graduated and was able to pay it off quick. But oof. Do your best to keep loans as low as possible.

Yeah. Honestly it’s the room and board that’s really screwing me for this upcoming year. I’m going to Nevada instead of a California school, since it’s actually closer to where I live, and I’m in this program called the Western Undergraduate Exchange which is really nice because I get discounted (by about 50%) tuition, but one of the stipulations is that I have to live on campus for the first year, which is so expensive. Although I’m free to do whatever I want for the next three years after, so I may just move back home, and if I continue to get that amount of scholarship money for those years I will basically be going to school for about $1000 a year which will be really nice. But yeah, I feel like I’m responsible enough to pull it off and not dig myself too deep into a hole. I’m only going to borrow the very bare minimum, and I’m planning on working as well, so hopefully it’ll all work out alright haha.