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#1606

http://www.famousfootwear.com/en-US/Product/54913-1035829/Dr.+Martens/Black/Mens+Tevin+Slip+On.aspx

I want these shoes. They are classy, yet stylish, and apparently comfortable.


#1607

I had a pair of Doc Marten boots that lasted me for years. I miss them.


#1608

Hiya everyone :blush: How are you all doing?

Goosh…it has been almost 5 months?!


#1609

Uhh well, I’m wondering if my Dad might be dying and America just suffered the worst mass shooting since…ever. Yeah.


#1610

And it’s my birthday. What a day to be alive!

Sorry to hear @DG_Nick.


#1611

I’ve read the news about the mass shooting. I’m sorry to hear about your father. Does he have a disease or is it age? It’s okay if you don’t feel like talking about it.


#1612

Happy birthday chapel!


#1613

Another happy birthday @chapel

Remember my internship guys? I’m almost done with it. Thursday should be my last day. It was quite the experience to say the very least.

All I have left is one test around July and my graduation project on the next semester (Sep-Feb), then I should be finally done with college life and ready to start a new life. I’m also planning on getting my driver’s licence in the Summer.


#1614

What are your plans once you’re done with the graduation project? Have you started looking up potential future employers?


#1615

Try to see if you can get hired by the company you’re interning with since you already have a relationship with them.


#1616

Yo @RpgN.


#1617

Spanish sucks.

I’m so terrible at learning languages.


#1618

Have you tried any other foreign language? Spanish is the easiest language that I have studied, not counting auxiliary languages like Interlingua.


#1619

@archnemesis
There are no definitive plans yet. It’s possible that I might work at the company where I’m going to prepare my graduation project for, but I still need to work with them and see if they’re suitable first.

@DG_Nick
I would rather try out other companies before thinking about working with this company. They have their pros and cons, I want to see if there are better options out there.

I have been thinking a lot about the path I want to take. What kind of function I’m going to fill, which companies I want to seek etc. It hasn’t been easy since I’m still developing and trying to decide what to focus on to further develop my strongest skills. The only thing I am clear about is the following: I want to further develop my language competencies (Arabic, English, Dutch, German, Japanese and Spanish) along with my intercultural/cultural experience, management, business focused and analytical competencies. Ideally, I want to work with an international orientated company where I get to use those languages, keep relationship between different companies/branches/clients/customers/etc. with different cultures and be able to become a manager with a certain function that has to do with the previously mentioned competencies. I’m not very experienced with knowing about the jobs that are available and how you can define a job in mind. I’m open to suggestions if you guys have any.

@Leo
Yo Leo! How have you been?

@OneEightZero
Arch is right, Spanish is considered to be one of the easiest languages. I have also experienced this myself. Are you learning traditional Spanish or South American Spanish?


#1620

Good. Still trucking on in school. I reckon I have 2-3 more years to go before I get my engineering degree.


#1621

Japanese. And I agree, Spanish is so much easier than that. But I’m terrible at memorization and both the vocabulary and the tense switching fucks me up.

Granted, I only have a few more weeks left. As long as I make a C, I’m golden.

I’ll be done with my undergrad. :slight_smile:


#1622

This morning I saw a guy ā€œshavingā€ with a lit match inside a train. Weird.


#1623

#1624

What an attitude! This woman is on fire…

But this video did bring up a good point. Why are are Americans so difficult when it comes to prohibiting guns or at least certain gun types to citizens? I 've read so many reports where Obama tried to do that only to be stopped by the congress (Republicans).


#1625

A fortressed gun culture has arisen around the preservation of the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution.:

  • A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

A healthy fear against the rise of a government that’s not checked by the people it governs continues to this day in the United States. The right to bear arms (whatever that means exactly is still being debated) is something a lot of gun nuts feel strongly about, to the point that politicians continue to stress gun rights in legislation in order to maintain their offices with those votes.