The Flame-Free Confession Thread II

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9791

Well, my take away is that other’s have it comparatively easy to how we had it.

I don’t know anyone from my CS-programme that got by on anything less other than essentially studying more than full-time.

Today, I’m a professional, working on harder stuff than what we did then but even so - going back, then I would probably not be able to finish even half of the coursework by only putting in three hour days and that is solely working on assignments (disregarding lectures and exam studies).

To clarify, we normally took two courses in parallell, and so in essence one course should take 20hrs/week and vice versa. To be fair, courses are scheduled so that if one is more intense, the other is a bit more lax to compensate. I usually put in about twelve hours of work every day during my studies. And I was an above average student, which also I suppose cost me some efficiency as I wouldn’t settle for just barely passing.

But even the most lax ones that got through were at least on campus from 9-18, with added work during the weekends - especially during exam season.

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9792

Well I did Journalism and put zero effort in, so admittedly my perspective of study time may be skewed.

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9793

Fair enough on the fallacy. I was more providing anectdotal an anecdotal story than trying to equivalate the two.

Still though - a 96% on an exam I think would make anyone happy.

9794

Nah: not fair at all. I was just using your comment to springboard a punchline, haha. I didn’t see it as having any malice.

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9795

I am not dyslexic, and I did the same thing.

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9796

I confess I’m way too happy that @samul finally corrected the most knowledgeable lifter in the world after they used the term “medial delts” for the billionth time. Made me all warm and fuzzy inside.

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9797

I find my sainthood is being tested

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9798

“Yes, abandon” …

“Yes, abandon” …

“Yes, abandon” …

Ah whatever. I think he really needs to hear it.

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9799

This is truthfully why I left Catholicism.

But also, elected victimhood drives me nuts.

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9800

I appreciate the choice of words here. One doesn’t normally “leave” a belief.

9801

Perhaps “excommunicated” would be a better choice.

9802

I was commenting on the fact that people “leave” organisations, businesses, cults etc.

Normally people “abandon” or “outgrow” beliefs. I thought it was an important distinction that you felt that it was an organisation rather than a belief first and foremost.

9803

Nah, I caught it: just wanted to leverage a joke out of it.

It was a poor fit for me.

9804

I wonder what the popes thoughts on high rep deadlifts are?

9805

The new Pope is pretty awesome. I bet he is for them.

Because much like the messiah, even though some claim they are dead, they can never stay that way.

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9806

It only took a couple of days after the announcement of their death for them to reappear, so they might be really special.

Who knows? We might even get a lifting based holiday out of it.

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9807

New guy at work was talking about working out. Said he could get 9-10 reps at 315 on bench. Dudes big, but he’s just fat. I called him on it and told him there is no way he can do that. He then proceeded to back up his claim by saying he was in the 1,000 pound total club in high school. I let him know that’s still weak as shit. The real kicker is he then claimed he was benching 315 for said reps IN HIGH SCHOOL with a total of 1,000 pounds :man_facepalming: Poor guy was having this conversation in front of a group of guys and I was in a douche bag mood.

New guy no longer likes me :man_shrugging: Idk why

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9808

Maybe he was going SUPER old school, back when the 1000lb club was for 1000lb squatters.

9809

Hey, I was part of this!

We used bench, hang clean, and trap bar deadlifts, though…and rep maxes.

9810

Now I have to stalk his activity to find this…

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