Did you know that the Olsen twins go to NYU?

[JohnKleeb]

Why if I had that kind of money, Instead I have to work my way through school the old fashion way. Edited because I am a dumbass.

[Maddy McCall]

1. One dropped out...the one with anorexia

Seems like I remember reading that her illness resurfaced, due to the stress of college life.

Can't remember which one she is...Mary Kate?

[JohnKleeb]

2. I dont know

and I can tell you this, Ive seen many more pretty girls whose names you won't read about in the papers.

[JVS]

28. She didn't have anorexia

They claimed it was anorexia and that she was getting treatment, it was really a cocaine addiction and she was in rehab

[Maddy McCall]

38. Seriously?

She also had scars on here wrists, which looked like she had attempted suicide. :shrug:

[JVS]

39. I just remember how a scandal broke out here at DU when it was...

revealed that she used a serious problem like anorexia to cover for her coke use

[Lenape85]

3. Of course

As long as you have an empire like that, you can do anything you want

[JohnKleeb]

6. Heh what I thought of

(Push It To The Limit)

Push it to the limit
Walk along the razor's edge
but don't look down, just keep your head
and you'll be finished

Open up the limit
past the point of no return
You've reached the top but still you gotta learn
how to keep it

Hit the wheel and double the stakes
throttle wide open like a bat out of hell
and you crash the gates
(crash the gates)

Going for the back of beyond
Nothing gonna stop you
there's nothing that strong
So close now you're nearly at the brink
so, push it

(Ooo yeah)

Welcome to the limit
(The limit)
Take it maybe one step more
The power game's still playing so
you better win it

Push it to the limit
(The limit)
With no one left to stand in your way
you might get careless, but you'll never be safe
while you still feel it

Welcome to the limit
(The limit)
Standing on the razor's edge
don't look down just keep your head
and you'll be finished

Welcome to the limit
(The limit)
(The limit)
(The limit)
(The limit)

Push it to the limit
(The limit)
(The limit)
(The limit)
(The limit)

(The limit)
(The limit)
(The limit)
(The limit)

Push it to the limit
(The limit)
(The limit)
(The limit)
(The limit)

[mark414]

9. oh shit kleeb

did you seriously just do that?

[JohnKleeb]

14. I copied and pasted

I plead the fizzith.

[Placebo]

4. My friend at NYU sees one of them all the time...

One of the Olsen twins has class in the classroom right before my friend.

[JohnKleeb]

8. thats interesting

You mean the twin actually goes to class? Wow.

[Placebo]

13. Yup!

Amazing I know.

On a sidenote, my friend feels so alienated at NYU sometimes because all the people there are coming from such rich backgrounds. They don't have to work, and have parents making millions. Some of them left their homes on 5th Avenue to live in the dorm just to get away from their PARENTS. No cares or worries at all, money wise. Living the life of Riley.

[JohnKleeb]

17. damn, yeah not having to work and set for life

I am just a waiter's kid and a government worker's kid, my mom really had to work hard to get us where we are now, she came from a lower middle class background, I imagine lots of her college contempories were of wealthy backgrounds.

[Placebo]

20. Most of them never even applied for Financial Aid!

They're like "Oh just pay full price, no bother." :eyes:

[JohnKleeb]

23. jesus christ

thats amazing.

[mark414]

22. ha

maybe our friends know each other...cause that's just about the exact same story...

[msgadget]

5. But think of all that free privacy you have.

No papparazi following you around or worries about classmates selling tall-tales to the tabloids. Just today I read the students of NYU staged a protest against their W* clothing line. See, you don't have to worry about being embarassed like that.

[mark414]

7. exactly

i would rather have my privacy than millions of dollars

i have a friend who's a freshmen at NYU who has seen them around once or twice...she says they're a lot uglier in person

[JohnKleeb]

12. heh now thast just freaky, you and placebo both know someone

yeah I dont find them attractive, I really have seen some very pretty girls in my time, and lemem tell you, no one knows who they are :) in the press corps at least.

[msgadget]

16. ROFL!

You seem a little...bitter. LOL! :bounce:

[JohnKleeb]

11. Of course

believe me I just think its unfair just because you were in a couple of kiddie movies as a kid and made a lot of money, you get to go to school pretty much everywhere you want but thats just the depression era mentality I inheirted.

[mark414]

15. hey man you're not alone

granted the work i'm doing right now isn't technically paying for school, i'll have a whole hell of a lot of debt to pay once i get out...it's all good man just remember how lucky you are to be going in the first place...i tend to forget that sometimes

[JohnKleeb]

19. I know

Its just sick how there are some people who are set for life and others who are good people but have to suffer a lot to get success. Its the quasi commie in me, kidding more so the populist.

[mark414]

25. i know what you mean

i get torn sometimes because i have some family members that are absolutely loaded and some that are broke as fuck...it's a really interesting dynamic actually...and sometimes i feel bad when i bitch about rich people cause some of them are my family...so i go back and forth on it a lot

when i was real little we did good, but then my dad quit his job cause he couldn't handle the corporate world anymore...he and my mom went back to school and now they both work in high schools...which is a comfortable salary, but then you take into consideration 4 college aged children and all of a sudden it's not that much...

[JohnKleeb]

27. well

I think I had the opposite situation as you, my parents actually met while they were waiting tables, and my mom after graduating as a business major started off as a sectertary for the department of labor but my dad then tried to have his own business which failed, he also worked as a pizza shop manager, and taxi driver, he actually had his cab stolen. We're well off now but not really I Guess since my dad is pretty much retired, taking care of my 3 year old brother.

[msgadget]

18. Pardon my language,

they were pimped mercilessly by their parents.

[JohnKleeb]

21. and I am not denying that but still

[Cadence]

10. Why bother. They're already billionaires.

I would just call it good and kick back.

[progmom]

24. Why bother to go to school?

Isn't the hunger for knowledge a basic human desire?

I think it's pretty damn cool that they're trying to live normal-ish lives.
I'm no Olsen apologist by any stretch, but...but...heck, what was I saying?





:bounce:

[Cadence]

45. Yeah but the hunger for knowledge doesn't

only have to be satisfied in the form of school. I'm a huge bookworm and I've learned more from independent study because I want to know about a certain topic than I ever learned in college.

[JVS]

26. You can't buy being a Rhodes Scholar, dude

It's an award, not a course of study carrying a big price tag

[JohnKleeb]

29. heh I didnt say anything about being a Rhodes Scholar

[JVS]

32. Did you read your original post?

"Why if I had that kind of money, I would be a Rhodes Scholar. "

[JohnKleeb]

33. oh fuck

Thanks but wouldn't there be a way with all htat money.

[JVS]

34. It's always a long shot.

Basically you have to have a combination of perfect grades and an ability to gladhand those who are responsible for making the school's nomination for Rhodes Scholars. Only after you have convinced the school to nominate you will your nomination be considered (and most often rejected)

[JohnKleeb]

36. I didnt know that, thanks and I edited it

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

30. I always said that if I ever won the lottery ...

I would still stay in school and I would still live in a dorm ( that's just me ) . I have the brains and then I would have the money , so I would just go to college and study for the rest of my life learning at as many universities around the world as I could - studying in Europe was so cool . That's just the brainiac in me .

[JohnKleeb]

31. I would love to go to europe honestly

That osunds neat, where in europe did you study?

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

40. I studied in Germany .

Uni-Hannover . It originally started off as me taking a German language course but then the teacher said I spoke well enough German that she thought I would like to sit in on some lectures pertaining to US-European Relations . This was in the fall of 2002 , right when the talk of the war began . It was a changing time in my life that I will never forget - the time that I finally started to say what was on my mind . I was the ONLY American in this room of 30 people . I defended my country and the views of citizens that did not agree with this war while learning from people who lived all over Europe . I began to see not only America differently but the world as well . The one thing I have learned is that we are all so much alike , we just don't realize it .

I was always political - I even decided to major in PoliSci in college but I left after one year because I needed a BREAK - so I moved overseas , my eyes opened , I learned the language very fast , I became so much more Political after seeing things from an international perspective , which led me to these lecture classes ( I did not plan on getting into this class . ) and this led me back home because I wanted to vote for Kerry in person . I did not trust absentee voting . Kerry did not win unfortunately , but I still feel inspired to continue my studies stateside and continue my original dreams which include someday going to Yale ...

[JohnKleeb]

41. Germany sounds cool

I would love to see it sometime, I actually had a very German dinner last night.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

43. Was haben Sie gegessen ?

Translated : What did you eat ?

I really miss German food ! Oh I am off to the kitchen now .

[JohnKleeb]

44. sausage and sauerkraut

We really should have sauerkraut at my house more often, its damn good, there's actually an Austrian place in town a little ways.

[Placebo]

35. If I won the lottery...

I'd finish out school, then start a Production company to get my films attention and hopefully some work in that area. I'd set up residences in NYC, Maine, London, and Paris, try and get a book published, and do a bunch of stuff after that!

I can always dream can't I? ;)

[JohnKleeb]

37. what kinda films?

I am in a film course, heh I even acted in one thing we did, I got stabbed to death by a crayon, it was lovely.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

42. Dreams are what keep us alive ...

I am working to make my dreams REALITY ;)

But not only would I go back to school , I would open up an independent music label for myself , publish some of writings , get my artwork shown , continue traveling around the world while writing , composing music , staying politically active , and doing photograpy . I have A LOT of interests , I can't choose just one ;)