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Okay, so I'm part of this scam research class that meets for six weeks in the summer, entitled TURC Research. TURC is the Tulsa Undergraduate Research Challenge, something Tulsa got involved in with the wave of undergraduate research programs across the nation. It started out in the computer science program in the engineering college, but it eventually got around to the arts and sciences and college. Except, it's a bit more difficult to come up with tangible results for research compared to biology or chemistry labs (unless you go to a conference and present). Random rich people donate money to pay us a small stipend and room an board during this time.
So, the class got the motivational speech from the TURC arts and science director, Dr. Stromberg, professor of anthropology. He's a bit of a cynic, though he endorses capitalism (though he stresses he's NOT a Republican). He coughed, and then he dropped into a castigating tone.
There's something that your high school teachers and even your college instructors fail to tell you. You might start a job, let's say 40,000 if you're lucky. When you start a job, you have obligations. Over time, you learn to do less and less to meet your obligations, just enough to get buy. You settle into a pattern. Heck you might get promoted, and could be making 75,000 at the end of your career. You live this way for awhile, and then you hit retirement and you look back on your life, and you wonder what happened.
You're smart people, you make A's and B's, which are fine grades. But A's and B's don't mean anything in the real world. But that's the great thing about capitalism. They give you just enough rope to hang yourself.
Capitalism separates the mediocre from the extraordinary. Our system is great because it allows those who work hard the better opportunity to succeed for the most part. So I urge you to excel in your projects.
Because a whole lot of TURC donors better get their money's worth.
Look, we make you do progress reports but you can fool me, you can fool your advisor. But the only person you're fooling is yourself.
Well, after that bit of fire and brimstone, we were a bit silent. But we all knew that he was right.
Hey, what's this rope doing around my neck?
So, the class got the motivational speech from the TURC arts and science director, Dr. Stromberg, professor of anthropology. He's a bit of a cynic, though he endorses capitalism (though he stresses he's NOT a Republican). He coughed, and then he dropped into a castigating tone.
There's something that your high school teachers and even your college instructors fail to tell you. You might start a job, let's say 40,000 if you're lucky. When you start a job, you have obligations. Over time, you learn to do less and less to meet your obligations, just enough to get buy. You settle into a pattern. Heck you might get promoted, and could be making 75,000 at the end of your career. You live this way for awhile, and then you hit retirement and you look back on your life, and you wonder what happened.
You're smart people, you make A's and B's, which are fine grades. But A's and B's don't mean anything in the real world. But that's the great thing about capitalism. They give you just enough rope to hang yourself.
Capitalism separates the mediocre from the extraordinary. Our system is great because it allows those who work hard the better opportunity to succeed for the most part. So I urge you to excel in your projects.
Because a whole lot of TURC donors better get their money's worth.
Look, we make you do progress reports but you can fool me, you can fool your advisor. But the only person you're fooling is yourself.
Well, after that bit of fire and brimstone, we were a bit silent. But we all knew that he was right.
Hey, what's this rope doing around my neck?
