Dude, I want a career
on July 2, 2016 at 12:01 am- Hey, CGI background! I modeled Squad 128’s apartment unit (badly) for an animation project at art school, and I decided to use it here, why notsies.
- I am making fun of a real-life commercial for an educational institution not terribly unlike my art school. Completely and utterly self-aware.
- Rule of threes!
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I kinda feel like this should’ve been moved slightly because the strip after this happens immediately after the strip before this. Chronological order and all that. Oh well, doesn’t matter.
Think of this as “Meanwhile, in Squad 128’s Apartment”.
2. It’s not really self-aware. It’s just a complete scam.
(see also Poorcraft: “DON’T GO TO A COLLEGE WITH TV COMMERCIALS.”)
Aaah, for-profit colleges. (My mom the college admin HATES them. Check their retention rates check their employment rates check EVERYTHING because they’re probably scams.)
I got my degree from a commercial-airing for-profit tech school. They probably still aren’t accredited, but at least there was a real building we took classes in and the teachers were mostly vendor-certified IT professionals.
But you’re right that their retention and placement numbers are generally terrible. I started in a class of 30, and by the time we got to the final project there were seven of us left.
It got me into the industry, and the place was still there last time I drove by, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You CAN succeed despite someone else’s best efforts! Just as a rule, try somewhere else.
I think Willis is calling *himself* self-aware there. (Probably sarcastically.)
And if the name “TRUMP” is in any way, shape, or form associated with it, RUN LIKE HELL!
Squad 128’s apartment is made out of Martian technology?
Martians sure have good taste in decorations.
Willis is really channeling 70s-Doonesbury here.
It won’t last 4 years ! only 48 months 😀
You know, I have a friend who majored in VCR repair at Slackass. I hear business ain’t doin’ so well these days, though
Why is Jason watching TV and reading his newspaper at the same time?
I dunno, probably the same reason I sit in front of the television with a laptop.
And your smart phone (if you’re even a little like me)
To conceal an erection?
I just got back from driving eight and a half hours round trip to see a friend for like an hour (yay getting NO time off), and during her panel, I browsed the internet.
Some things don’t need your full attention.
He’s watching the bloated middle section of a Netflix show.
I think UK citizens have forfeited the right to make sneary remarks about other countries after the past week. (Of course, that all changes back if Trump wins.)
Well, this was originally posted in 2001, so I guess Jason can still complain.
Why notsies?
Because Germanies felt humiliated after WWI.
This also seems like a bit of self-criticism, unconscious or not. After all, Joe just got his dream career handed to him on a silver platter. He went through college and some grad school first, but it’s still sort of like the “instant eligibility” fantasy some schools peddle.
4. Rule of threes broken!
I’ll point out that Slackass University may be offering a normal four-year program except without vacations. 30 months gives you 32 1/2 weeks for each year of instruction, which is roughly what you get at an ordinary college.