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TL;DR: Drifting and Distracted Online

TL; DR.

Too long; didn’t read. TL; DR. I am fascinated by the abbreviation. On first thought it seems altogether reasonable: sometimes people ramble incoherently, go on for too long. You start reading an article and, at some point, deem it a waste of your precious time. But here’s the interesting part: with the TL; DR, you state the fact that it was a waste of your precious time. As Charlie…

  “I was going to work just as hard in the arts as if I was in the medical field,” Perry said.  At some point during his third year, he didn’t feel the [art] program offered him anything of value.  “I understood that everyone was in a different place as an artist.  It wasn’t about natural talent but about how bad someone wanted it.  I constantly pushed myself and ended up making more work outside of school than in school.  Many of my classmates weren’t putting in the same effort.”  America, to Perry, had tied the notion of success with attending college, resulting in millions of kids who hate reading and writing spending thousands of dollars a year to go to college (many who drop out and carry around debt like an albatross).  Perry noted that the status quo is backwards.  “Eighteen-year-olds don’t need a reason not to go to college.  They need a reason to go.  If anyone is going to pay all that money, it better be for a good reason.  Only when someone knows where they want to go can they take the first step in that direction.  College is too expensive for wandering.”

Watch the Wheel of Time

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