Mrenter's view on College -

[José Mourinho]

This one was posted before on the General thread by me, but I'm putting it here for further discussion.

He tweeted about wanting to taking a course in Animation.

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[ASoulMan]

This one was posted before on the General thread by me, but I'm putting it here for further discussion.

He tweeted about wanting to taking a course in Animation.

Spoiler

I take he's never attempted to land some scholarships and grants? Those can get you money without taking out loans you know.

 

[A Ghost]

I take he's never attempted to land some scholarships and grants? Those can get you money without taking out loans you know.

yes but that would require work and we know enter doesn't like to do that

 

[SpessCaptain]

I take he's never attempted to land some scholarships and grants? Those can get you money without taking out loans you know.

He's not talented/active enough to land a scholarship.

 

[chimpburgers]

With how much he prides himself as a writer, he's sure either ignorant about those scholarship opportunities, plain lazy or not as smart as how he likes to portray himself.

 

[A Ghost]

With how much he prides himself as a writer, he's sure either ignorant about those scholarship opportunities, plain lazy or not as smart as how he likes to portray himself.

ignorant or not willing to look into things you be the judge

 

[Gazelle_Bro]

The more time Enter would spend in college, the less time he has to complain at cartoons for hours on end.

 

[chimpburgers]

The more time Enter would spend in college, the less time he has to complain at cartoons for hours on end.

That would actually mean that he'd have some chance of also having a life too but it seems he's been so jarred by the education he got, he's reluctant to give anything a chance now.

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

I'm not going to say that it was all his fault he had such a hard time in school, a lot of public schools are pretty fucked up and there are teachers who are just plain assholes, but his belief that he's going to make it in the animation industry with no education is delusional. I wonder if Enter himself truly believes that his cartoon will become a reality.

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

@Piga Dgrifm: He probably does - he wouldn't put this much time into it otherwise.

 

[chimpburgers]

The only "drawing" he's ever done has been for those abysmal looking title cards he puts as thumbnails for his videos that look like they were put together with MS Paint. With that level of skill, he's got a long way to go if he ever wants to become even half decent at drawing. Even in animation school, I imagine that he'd need to have some kind of portfolio to get in one of those.

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

Don't forget about his traced Pokemon and MLP stuff!

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

The whole idea that he can simply waltz into an animation class with as much drawing talent as he has infuriates me.

I've been drawing for nearly a decade at this point; I've gradually developed my style, studied the works of my artistic heroes, learned how to shade characters and use perspective, come up with original ideas and characters... And still I'm not that good.

 

[Reverend_Lovejoy]

The whole idea that he can simply waltz into an animation class with as much drawing talent as he has infuriates me.

I've been drawing for nearly a decade at this point; I've gradually developed my style, studied the works of my artistic heroes, learned how to shade characters and use perspective, come up with original ideas and characters... And still I'm not that good.

Sometimes it's nice to read between the lines.

 

[Konstantinos]

He's not talented/active enough to land a scholarship.

More than that he's just lazy and apathetic. He thinks that he's perfect already and that he doesn't need to strive towards self-improvement. He could make up for his lack of talent with effort and determination and score a scholarship somewhere. But because this is Enter we're talking about, we know that's never going to happen.

 

[YI 457]

Teachers: "If you're not good at this thing, you're going to have a hell of a time in college" she said to the teenager who sucked in school due to social anxiety and asperger's syndrome.

Teachers (again): "It's not about what you're learning in college, it's the people that you get in touch with" he said to the teenager with social anxiety.

Sucks to be you, kid. We can't deny that.

 

[Simplicity111]

No wonder he insulted Alex-Theman for being in college a while ago. Pathetic, it's not like he's gonna succeed with GA without going to college.

 

[Ferls]

I forget exactly what thread I found this in, but someone linked to this whiney blogpost on his old wordpress called "30 Things I Learned In School" (archive.md). It kind of sheds a light on the kind of experience he had in his previous education. It reads like a passive aggressive Facebook "vaguepost", but directed at the American education system. He's just complaining about things in a way that excuses him from elaborating.

Spoiler: 30 Things I Learned In School

Posted on August 8, 2011by speculara
People keep asking me what I have against school, why did I always hate it so much. I never really was able to tell them because I thought I would be offending them for some odd reason, or maybe I was just shy. Who knows? I also remember back then people asking me what I learned in school, and one answer was always the right answer: nothing. Now that I’m older, I realize that’s something that just isn’t true. Some I’m going to shoot both questions down with this list of “30 Things I Learned in School.”

1. Learning happens in spite of education; not because of it.
2. You can’t choose your friends. They choose you. And they will unchoose you if you don’t do as they say.
3. Adult life will suck, and adults will repeatedly remind you that adult life will suck until child life starts to suck too.
4. If you ever finish all of your work then there’s just more work to do. So don’t finish the work until the last second, and procrastinate half the time away before you start to achieve previous said goal.
5. People are morons. It’s just human nature.
6. Every job you will ever have in your lifetime will suck entirely no matter how prestigious or well-paying it is (see future post for examples).
7. How to tune out people screaming at your face while looking totally, and utterly alert.
8. The best way to sell a crappy book: get a teacher to like it. As it becomes mandatory reading, sales just go up every year. Who cares if the book ends up in a landfill?
9. Friendships come and go. They complain that you don’t have any friends, and once you do they spend every waking moment keeping you apart.
10. When you laugh the world laughs with you. When you cry the world laughs at you.
11. You can’t please any of the people… ever.
12. How to convincingly feign being sick, and how it can solve virtually any problem.
13. You can’t rely on other people to take care of you, protect you from bullies, do their job, be sane, be competant, or be decent human beings. Expecting anything else sets you up for disappointment.
14. If there’s something you don’t understand or don’t like you can make fun of it until it goes away, or kills itself.
15. What seems petty now may traumatize you for years to come.
16. A single letter on a crumpled piece of paper put there by a person you utterly hate for reasons that you don’t care about has the power to turn the world against you.
17. Technology moves forward. Public schools don’t.
18. Proxies are the best things since sliced bread. They aren’t just for people under oppresive governments anymore.
19. Anyone who ever said that “high school is the best time of your life” should be convicted of assisting a suicide and get mental help. Immediately.
20. Anyone and their dog, and their dog’s fleas can become a substitute teacher.
21. Society doesn’t like you. It laughs at your misery. You must be a terrible person.
22. If you learn something the first time and it isn’t interesting, it won’t be interesting the next time you learn it, or the fourth time after that.
23. You are your own best friend. Loners may be freaks, but freaky is cool. And some of the sanest people I’ve ever met are loners.
24. Total strangers leave you alone. Friends are allowed to take things without permission, punch you (two for flinching), and impose. Family members are allowed to outright humiliate you because… you know, you’re family.
25. Kindergarten teachers learn from Marx. The best way to teach sharing is not taking a toy away from someone who is content and give it to the other kid who just looked at longingly.
26. Suicide prevention doesn’t do much if it relies on the person who probably doesn’t want to be stopped.
27. Everybody lies. Trust no one.
28. Just as school kills creativity, it kills logic. “Homework is to help you do well on tests. Tests determine your grade.” Acing all tests and doing no homework nets you a failing grade.
29. A private school does not mean a good school, or a safe school.
30. The human stomach is absolutely amazing considering it can digest all the crap they put in school food when it’s supposedly young, weak, and still developing.

If I ever have kids, I’m homeschooling them. Don’t tell me schools will improve because they won’t. They’re using the same outdating methods they’ve used for the past two centuries. If this sounds like satire, it isn’t. I learned a hell of a lot more from school, but I’m trying to keep this light-hearted. You don’t want my nightmares. Trust me.

It's extremely cynical, and obviously he's taking his singular experience to speak for the entire education system.
I can't imagine what it'd be like for him to homeschool his kids...

 

[c-no]

MrEnter wrote a blog about his views on college in response to receiving criticism for his lack of expertise.

http://mrenter.deviantart.com/journal/My-thoughts-towards-higher-education-519434130#comments

To summarize this article, MrEnter blames his social anxiety and autism for not doing well in school, and believes that student loans are intended to make big banks loads of money instead of giving people who aren't wealthy an opportunity for an education. He never really addresses the idea of learning more about the medium he is interested in, he just complains about the state of colleges.

In regards to autism and education, I'm friends with one guy that has high functioning autism and another who is an acquaintance that has autism as well. Both of them attend the college I go to. It's not too hard for them unless they somehow ended up taking a course that can literally be way out of their league.

Who on earth cares about a bronies opinion on anything?

Those that just want to see how their world view is. Seeing the world view of a lolcow, furry, brony, or otherkin can at least show how much they know, how ignorant they are, and how much laughs can be had from said ignorance and such.

I take he's never attempted to land some scholarships and grants? Those can get you money without taking out loans you know.

If he knew about them, he could complain on how some of them put some requirement he could never meet, even though there can be a scholarship for anything related to something, be it ethnicity, some field in college, something related to a career, etc. One would ask if he even knows about other types of aid that is for collage such as FAFSA or the Bog Waiver (if for the latter, he has some ties to the military via family member).

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

@Ferls: Ain't it cute? He thinks he's Daria Morgendorffer.

But seriously... The general feeling that he probably went to a really shitty public school probably comes from the fact that he apparently lives in Bumfuck Nowhere, from what I know...