Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for January 11, 2015

c’est la vie

Well, of course!!! After all, a “rookie adult” is really just “Life, Stage II”….

Maybe, but I don’t think this is just about Luann. This fits each of the characters as we’ve seen them in the past few story arcs, struggling to figure out what to do next and maybe not making the best choices at first. - So many examples! Bernice trying to get along with new unseen roomie by letting roomie’s friends take advantage of her. Luann trying to figure out what major to pursue and not feeling confident about any of them. And of course, Gunther following Rosa to a place he wasn’t sure he wanted to be, and Rosa deciding to let her Good Samaritan heart rule her decision-making, instead of following her parents directions…

Nobody really prepares you for what’s in the real world. Just what’s happening in a book. I think having at least some business classes in high school would have been—and still would be—great

“In A Roundabout Way"“TwentyTo Life”“Seventeen Years Of Orientation…”“Full Circle And Square One”“It’s Not Over Till It’s Over”“Sane Old Sun In Brand New Day”“Gettin’ Up To The Big Leagues”“The More You Know, The Less You Remember”“There’s More Where That Came From”“Out Of The Frying Pan…”or“Spin Cycle, Hold The Spin”

It’s the circle of life…it’s the wheel of fortune </elton john>

Q: “How are things holding up?”– A: “Hmm? Oh, it Depends™….”

“…you can sure take a silk purse and turn it into a sow’s ear…” ^Same way I like to rewind the commercials back and forth, just to have them keep on going to the “before” picture…and then back to the “after”…– Especially if it’s a “diet shake” or “hair regrowth” one…..

Wonder what happens when you “play a country song backwards”…

How did you change the name?

Shotbird

Like this?

Yeah, that’s defenitely important!

Very cute preschool Luann. Should we tell Luann that George Washington didn’t discover America (Caribbean) in 1492, or just giggle and snerk?

Well, since it starts with a “pound(#)” sign, maybe it’s “Hash Tag Blue”….

Hey, yeah, how do you do that one?

@IamJayBluE-I couldn’t get the reply function to work, but now I can do this. Thanks for the info on marquee effects; think I’ll go take a look at that now. Night, all…

Gee Lu. You FORGOT, “Spending the Next 15 years Paying Back College Loans, Losing Your Job Promotion to Someone LESS Qualified, and Having to PAY Ever Increasing Local, State, and Federal Taxes.”

Welcome to the real world

I think that’s the best thing about life: There’s always more to learn. BTW, little Lu in the first panel is so cute!

perfect cartoon

When did college become all about getting a job (when that’s not in the way of athletics of course) and not about education?

“When did college become all about getting a job (when that’s not in the way of athletics of course) and not about education?”

There was no suggestion that it was all about getting a job, but if you give it no thought you may experience a lot of unemployment.

At my advanced age I still don’t know it all – just bits and pieces.

You go to college and then you find out that everything they taught you in high school is only half the truth, and here’s the real story…keeps on like that through graduate school.

In a bachelor’s program, you learn nothing about everything. In a master’s, you learn a lot about a little. In a PhD’s, you learn everything about nothing.

So, is this strip implying that Lu might be approaching a change of school (i.e. from Pitts CC to Moony Uni)? Especially since there might be another new student matriculating there (or, maybe, cashing in on a “deferred admission” program)?

And now begins… the Forgetting.

Here’s where Elton starts singing ‘The Circle of Strife’…

…..And it would also seem to have come about, when the “powers that be” realized that those kids “searching for vocation/preparatory” could be counted at “X” amount of $s “per head”… and that some parents of those kids would shell out (or do their best to dole out) those dollars… – …And also when the bill for those “tenured ones” started adding up, since some seem to prefer not to “huddle up with the masses” on public transit, housing, etc. (at least some in my area). Some of them seem to prefer the “comforts” that a prof’s salary would permit… not to mention the boards of the institutions… – It seems to also lead to schools trying to get their name out there (a lot of commercials for the Universities and C.C.s on the air, where I live, as well as the “money machine” of televised sports at the schools)…

Yep, that’s how it works a lot of the time.

Thanks! (8^)) – But I didn’t mean to suggest that it wasn’t possible for us to link anything, it’s just that in my reply up there, I was intending to show the difference between the two (between the ordinary typing of a name and coloring it, without any tags and what GC does, in having our profiles linked) to explain how it was done…. (though I use the old way, “<a href=, ‘etc’.” for when I link things)….

@drickard“In a PhD’s, you learn everything about nothing.”.Not really, but you still have what you already learned from all sources.And depending on the major, you learn plenty in a Bachelor’s program.Vector analysis, tripple integrals, thermodynamics, dynamics, statistics, statics, strength of materials, tensors, special relativity, fluid dynamics, electrical circuits including phasers for AC circuits, power plant systems, finite element analysis, Fourier transforms, control systems, matrix algebra, differential equations — to name a few and definitely not all..Masters degrees programs teach more. PhD programs go further.

DHG: You’ve got that right! And I notice all of the examples involve some kinds of math! But, don’t forget Environmental Science, Biology (all forms of it), Accounting, Chemistry (all forms of it), Physics (all forms of it), and so on and so forth… (math isn’t included in my list as it gives me a headache!)… ;)

Yup. That’s about it. That’s called “life.”

I’m 22 and I miss my childhood. There’s no worries, no stress just innocence, happiness and…well imaginary freedom

That’s the way it is.

I wonder if when luann was in pree school, she had her real parrents