Matriculation....Let's talk about it

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deadeye
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edited December 2012 in The Powder Room
Ladies...

at what point in your life would you say that you fully matriculated?

Was there any particular event that led to your matriculation...such as becoming sexually active, giving birth, getting your first full-time job, marriage, etc.?

Or...was it more of a state of mind in which you felt like you reached a certain level of self-awareness and confidence that you hadn't yet previously attained?




For the ladies who don't yet think that they've fully matriculated, are there a set of goals and/or accomplishments that you feel you need to meet in order to reach that point in your life...or is it something that you don't even think about that will just happen when it happens?



Please feel free to share your input ladies.


It would be greatly appreciated.

@sixsicksins

@MissK

@Taeboo

@Bookworm

@Ms.Jones

@Skyler_White

@Empress

@AmbitiousOne

@tabatha_

@MzGrahamBitches

@KU_Beezy

@Ms.Southern

@Covet






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  • A1000MILES
    A1000MILES Members, Writer Posts: 13,287 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    They used to use this word sooooo much at Morehouse...
  • Kat
    Kat Members Posts: 50,667 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Was such a fancy word needed for hey did ya'll go to college?

    shiieet..maybe I need to get on the ball with my matriculation.


    But yeah, I tried for it straight out of high school, but working full time, plus the shock of what's expected in college compared to high school, and the fact that I had just graduated and wanted to have fun meant something had to give and college was it.

    That's one of the things in my life I wish I could do over, but I'll get there. I've managed to make a decent income without it but I know the sky's the limit if I were to add a degree to my resume.

    One of my goals for 2013 is to enroll in college and finally get my degree.
  • KingJamal
    KingJamal Members Posts: 20,652 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 2012
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    Deadeye loves that word lol

    Could be an interesting topic tho
  • deadeye
    deadeye Members Posts: 22,884 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 2012
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    Was such a fancy word needed for hey did ya'll go to college?

    shiieet..maybe I need to get on the ball with my matriculation.


    But yeah, I tried for it straight out of high school, but working full time, plus the shock of what's expected in college compared to high school, and the fact that I had just graduated and wanted to have fun meant something had to give and college was it.

    That's one of the things in my life I wish I could do over, but I'll get there. I've managed to make a decent income without it but I know the sky's the limit if I were to add a degree to my resume.

    One of my goals for 2013 is to enroll in college and finally get my degree.

    @MzGrahamBitches

    Not about college at all Kat.

    Plenty of booksmart people with degrees and PhD's don't have any common sense at all.

    I was more referring to a state of mind and/or sense of accomplishment.

    Basically, when you got to a point in your life where you felt like you "got it" or had your ? together.


    Props on going to college next year though.

    What are you gonna be majoring in?
  • deadeye
    deadeye Members Posts: 22,884 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    KingJamal wrote: »

    Could be an interesting topic tho

    I hope so.

    People have different views of what that actually means and I'm interested in hearing those perspectives.

  • deadeye
    deadeye Members Posts: 22,884 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    still not there yet...so idk.

    What do you think is holding you back?

    Is it a feeling or state of mind...or is it goal-related?

  • Kat
    Kat Members Posts: 50,667 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    How is it not about college when dictionary.com told me it was about college?

    ma·tric·u·late/məˈtrɪk yəˌleɪt; məˈtrɪk yə lɪt/ Show Spelled [muh-trik-yuh-leyt; muh-trik-yuh-lit] Show IPA verb, ma·tric·u·lat·ed, ma·tric·u·lat·ing, noun.
    verb (used with object)
    1. to enroll in a college or university as a candidate for a degree.
  • Kat
    Kat Members Posts: 50,667 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    deadeye wrote: »
    Was such a fancy word needed for hey did ya'll go to college?

    shiieet..maybe I need to get on the ball with my matriculation.


    But yeah, I tried for it straight out of high school, but working full time, plus the shock of what's expected in college compared to high school, and the fact that I had just graduated and wanted to have fun meant something had to give and college was it.

    That's one of the things in my life I wish I could do over, but I'll get there. I've managed to make a decent income without it but I know the sky's the limit if I were to add a degree to my resume.

    One of my goals for 2013 is to enroll in college and finally get my degree.

    @MzGrahamBitches

    Not about college at all Kat.

    Plenty of booksmart people with degrees and PhD's don't have any common sense at all.

    I was more referring to a state of mind and/or sense of accomplishment.

    Basically, when you got to a point in your life where you felt like you "got it" or had your ? together.


    Props on going to college next year though.

    What are you gonna be majoring in?

    Business degree of some sort..I'm leaning toward Logistics and Supply Chain since I've already been in this field for nearly three years.
  • deadeye
    deadeye Members Posts: 22,884 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    That's not the only definition though and wasn't he context in which I was using that word.

    This is what I had in mind when I used that word:


    Matriculate


    Matriculate - To age, mature, or to improve/make better.

  • Kat
    Kat Members Posts: 50,667 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I didn't see another definition on dictionary.com besides this:

    2. to register (a coat of arms), used especially in Scottish heraldry.

    Didn't figure that's what you were talking about...lol.

    But duly noted, learn something new everyday.
  • MissK
    MissK Members Posts: 4,103 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @deadeye

    I'm still very much a work in progress.
  • LUClEN
    LUClEN Members Posts: 20,559 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    tbh you don't need anything more than a C cup
    anything more than that is just gravy
  • Bookworm
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    still working on it deadeye
  • deadeye
    deadeye Members Posts: 22,884 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    MissK wrote: »
    @deadeye

    I'm still very much a work in progress.
    Bookworm wrote: »
    still working on it deadeye

    What specifically are you two ladies working on to become fully matriculated?

  • SixSickSins
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    I'll be matriculated when I'm done getting my degree. I'm still young but I don't think it will all be fully mounted upon life events...it'll be a mental state as well. I'll know it when I feel it.
  • _Goldie_
    _Goldie_ Members, Moderators, Writer Posts: 30,349 Regulator
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    99% of the mfs who read the OP went and googled the definition of matriculation....
  • deadeye
    deadeye Members Posts: 22,884 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    99% of the mfs who read the OP went and googled the definition of matriculation....


    2bcjkj.jpg


    Not even gonna front...I probably should've done the same thing because I had no idea that the word is only really used in a collegiate/educational context.


    I thought it could also mean attaining a certain level of achievement or reaching a certain plateau in life.


    'Still do to some extent.

  • Trollio
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  • MissK
    MissK Members Posts: 4,103 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @deadeye

    I am working on finding contentment.

    At the end of my life and through all the good times and bad I want to be able to say

    "tell them it (life) was wonderful"

    As long as I attempt and work on my list of goals I can say that.

    A few of those would be completion of education, finding a partner, travel, etc.
  • --vincenzo--
    --vincenzo-- Members Posts: 142
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    Was such a fancy word needed for hey did ya'll go to college?

    shiieet..maybe I need to get on the ball with my matriculation.


    But yeah, I tried for it straight out of high school, but working full time, plus the shock of what's expected in college compared to high school, and the fact that I had just graduated and wanted to have fun meant something had to give and college was it.

    That's one of the things in my life I wish I could do over, but I'll get there. I've managed to make a decent income without it but I know the sky's the limit if I were to add a degree to my resume.

    One of my goals for 2013 is to enroll in college and finally get my degree.

    roflmao...fail

    college aint you girl haha

    reminds me when one of my ? told my other homeboy how he has been exmatriculated. dude called me and told me some ? want to exterminate our boy
  • Kat
    Kat Members Posts: 50,667 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Was such a fancy word needed for hey did ya'll go to college?

    shiieet..maybe I need to get on the ball with my matriculation.


    But yeah, I tried for it straight out of high school, but working full time, plus the shock of what's expected in college compared to high school, and the fact that I had just graduated and wanted to have fun meant something had to give and college was it.

    That's one of the things in my life I wish I could do over, but I'll get there. I've managed to make a decent income without it but I know the sky's the limit if I were to add a degree to my resume.

    One of my goals for 2013 is to enroll in college and finally get my degree.

    roflmao...fail

    college aint you girl haha

    reminds me when one of my ? told my other homeboy how he has been exmatriculated. dude called me and told me some ? want to exterminate our boy

    Keeping reading ? .
  • JDSTAYWITIT
    JDSTAYWITIT Members Posts: 12,910 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    ohhhhhhhhhhh.......... i completely had this word wrong... lol
  • goldenja
    goldenja Members Posts: 6,351 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 2012
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    i just slid thru cuz I never heard of this word "Mat.ric.ul.ation"...
  • taeboo
    taeboo Members Posts: 4,669 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I haven't reached my full potential yet...
  • LUClEN
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    deadeye wrote: »
    Was such a fancy word needed for hey did ya'll go to college?

    shiieet..maybe I need to get on the ball with my matriculation.


    But yeah, I tried for it straight out of high school, but working full time, plus the shock of what's expected in college compared to high school, and the fact that I had just graduated and wanted to have fun meant something had to give and college was it.

    That's one of the things in my life I wish I could do over, but I'll get there. I've managed to make a decent income without it but I know the sky's the limit if I were to add a degree to my resume.

    One of my goals for 2013 is to enroll in college and finally get my degree.


    Plenty of booksmart people with degrees and PhD's don't have any common sense at all.

    like who?

    I hear this all the time but honestly when the hell do you ever meet a ? with a PhD?
    I doubt they exist