IMDB, Metacritic, and Rotten Tomatoes all have it about 80% at the very least...

But OT's over here like "still isn't good enough."

Said the same thing about The Dark Knight, and that was critically and commercially also a smash success.

I'm noticing a pattern...

A lot of elitists up in here. Still smells like OT to me. lol

Anyway, I loved it. I thought it was a perfect homage to the old films while perfectly setting the stage for the films to follow.

A lot of it is really dependent on the city where the campus is. I'm in the Pac Northwest, and rent is getting CRAZY high, so they calculate that into their algorithm for cost of living.

If there is an option to do bare minimum just for the year and not for all of your schooling, then I'd do that to see if you can live off of it. Overall though, going in, you know they want you to borrow more, so don't forget that.

I am well on my way to be a fully fledged adult.

But I will not compromise my interests, hobbies, and passions for the sake of "growing up." Nope, I'll love board and video games, music, Star Wars, and whatever else catches my fancy, and not really care if people don't like it.

The biggest non surprise?

No women present. Honestly, that is probably the biggest demographic Trump has turned off the most.

@supa_badman: Also how Nietzche basically rejected false religion, or any sort of religion which blocked you from accessing and assessing yourself.

As a Christian myself, I actually agree with this response.

I'd compare my own beliefs, however, to a Soren Kierkegaard or Thomas Merton, both of whom worked and tested their own beliefs to see if they truly propelled them to be "better," to have a purpose, and to benefit not only themselves (which I indicated first) but those around them. Foraying into whether God is worthy of contemplating about is an important question. For me, I contemplate about Him/Her often, for I find myself to be continually renewed in my thinking, doing, and "being" when I look through or at least towards a source outside of myself, and outside of the constructs of society itself. This is why I spend a great deal of time focusing on how Christians lived prior to Constantine; many people assume Christianity has always had a fairly dark history, but it wasn't really until Constantine hijacked the religion that it became narrow-minded and warlike. To sum up, I have overcome my anger, my narrow-mindedness, and my ignorance by looking to an absolute model or standard of a person and doing whatever I can to act like them.

Progress for its own sake worries me because no matter how altruistic someone's or some society's progressive agenda is, if something beyond is not looked to as the "final answer" or "final judge," it seems the progress could become easily corrupted. We see this also in another thread on the page with the 1st amendment/PC discussion. It seems "progressive" to arrest/make illegal hateful or prejudiced comments or speech, but if they are outlawed, where then do you stop? Where will the line end?

Book smart.

Reason to be pissed? You bet.

Reason to resort to swearing? Probably not.

Working as a teacher though, singling out students, unless in a positive light, is incredibly unprofessional and really petty.