The College Thread

Ok, so tomorrow I set off to University of Maryland College Park.. As a freshman .. Everyone hates being a freshman at least Ill be in college now.. No more parental figures bossing me around (only over the phone).. Anywhoo .. Who else is shipping off and leaving their homes? Just think of all the good times (drinking) and the bad times (drinking) you have ahead of you..
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So where are you gonna go? I told you.. now you post?
Intended major? Mine is Japanese.. yeah go figure

If you are already in college like a plurality of you are..then TOo bad this topic is not for you ..j/k you can drop by and mention where you go and what horrible hazing rituals us n00bs have in store..

I'm at my last year at Seton Hall as a history major. Oh University of Maryland? My friend just graduated from there, you'll like it.

I'm also heading off to college this year. I'll be going to Rowan University as a pre-med/biochemistry major (as Mut said, "just like an Injun", lol). I'm looking forward to it, can't wait to get out on my own.

I'll be going to the University of Texas in Austin. Starting the 31st.

I was there over the summer, so I've already got the feel for it. Being on my own is really cool, but I did start to miss home.

Major: Liberal Arts, Undeclared <--the most ambiguous and open ended (if not potentially useless) major

it would be nice if you guys could give some advice to the high school seniors here (like myself) on how to fill out our college apps, personal statement, interviews, etc. well maybe not interviews. that's something we hav to pull out of our asses on our own [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img]. but yeah, just thought it would be cool to get some advice from my seniors. right now, i'm looking at a writing major. what type of writing i can't really say yet as i haven't really focused my strengths very much. so, any schools in mind anyone? [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]

I'm lazy, so all applications I filled where for the common application... hence I only filled one... And I didn't do an interview, seemed like a waste of time for me... But I do recommend doing one if you can...

Just make sure you make your essays original and well written... I think they like that kind of shit...

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it would be nice if you guys could give some advice to the high school seniors here (like myself) on how to fill out our college apps, personal statement, interviews, etc. well maybe not interviews. that's something we hav to pull out of our asses on our own [img][/img]. but yeah, just thought it would be cool to get some advice from my seniors. right now, i'm looking at a writing major. what type of writing i can't really say yet as i haven't really focused my strengths very much. so, any schools in mind anyone? [img][/img]

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I'm starting college this year and I never applied to any colleges, or any scholorships... I was planning on going to the military until july...

then I enrolled at the nearby college and had a 75% scholorship... and qualified for pell grant....

but apparently that really uncommon (not the pell grant) so I wouldn't bank on it. But its happened before.

I'm starting my second year at Arkansas State University, I'll be a senior this time, my major is English.

I'm in my senior year so I'll be going to the university next year. I'll go to the UPR (Universidad the Puerto Rico) in Rio Piedras. And then I'm planning to get a transfer in my second or third year.

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I'll be going to the University of Texas in Austin. Starting the 31st.

I was there over the summer, so I've already got the feel for it. Being on my own is really cool, but I did start to miss home.

Major: Liberal Arts, Undeclared <--the most ambiguous and open ended (if not potentially useless) major

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Dude UTA all the way, im a junior in high school, Eastern Hills, its cool you live in Texas. Ill be going to A&M, what high school did you attend to?

@konoha rek:

how did you get a 75% scholarship?? O__=... my guess would be it had something to do with your previous idea of joining the military. but anyway, i heard about the pell grant and did a little research on it (more like glazed my eyes along the words), as well as FAFSA. i don't really know how to get a pell grant. what made you qualified to get one?

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Dude UTA all the way, im a junior in high school, Eastern Hills, its cool you live in Texas. Ill be going to A&M, what high school did you attend to?

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I went to St. Thomas High School in Houston.
I've got a few good friends going to A&M. Good luck

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@konoha rek:

how did you get a 75% scholarship?? O__=... my guess would be it had something to do with your previous idea of joining the military. but anyway, i heard about the pell grant and did a little research on it (more like glazed my eyes along the words), as well as FAFSA. i don't really know how to get a pell grant. what made you qualified to get one?

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Anyone who applies who doesn't make an outtrageous amount of money will be accepted for the Pell grant, the FAFSA is the form to get it. The grant is $2,025 every semester and it's free money. I check the loan box to get an extra 2,500 a semester which I do have to pay back 6 months after I'm out of school.

Which I've been in FOR FUCKING EVER UGH.

Hehe I should've gone for a scholarship. My tuition just rose again to 32k a year. What a waste of money.

columbia university this year.
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it would be nice if you guys could give some advice to the high school seniors here (like myself) on how to fill out our college apps, personal statement, interviews, etc. well maybe not interviews. that's something we hav to pull out of our asses on our own [img][/img]. but yeah, just thought it would be cool to get some advice from my seniors. right now, i'm looking at a writing major. what type of writing i can't really say yet as i haven't really focused my strengths very much. so, any schools in mind anyone? [img][/img]

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Just go to the counsellors and they'll give you every single form you need. As for going into writing, there are a lot of different programs (e.g.: journalism, creative writing) in which you'll have to fill out a seperate application form for, accompanied by an interview and a portfolio. But you actually declare your major in second/ third year. Or at least, that's what it's like where I'm from....

I'm starting my fifth year of EECS at Berkeley Monday, All i can tell you all is that you have a great deal of drinking ahead of you. ALOT

i just graduated from cal state fullerton last year with a BFA in entertainment art. college was a blast, all of you about to start are going to have a great time. my only suggestian for those about to graduate from high school is to start at a junior college. you'll save a ton of money while getting rid of those bullshit gen. ed. classes they make you take the first 2 years. then transfer to the college of your choice and concentrate on your major classes while you're spending the big bucks.

I'm taking the primary courses for an Accounting major at a local community college, then transferring to University of Central Florida when I'm finished with those courses to take the upper division courses.

I currently go to University of Texas at San Antonio, this is my second year and it is a blast, I love the CS program here, its pretty easy. I dont drink that much but I guess thats because im 24 and I can just go buy my own beer and shit so there is no need to goto house parties. My only words of caution are this: if you goto alot of parties be carefull otherwise you might end up with a MIP or something which you dont want. If the party gets to wild you may want to leave before the cops come break it up [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img]

Hmm well Im in college now..and my roommate doesnt mind my JROCK so Im cool... if you need help with college applications .. this is not the place to put it. I dont mean to seem cruel ( only a bit ;/) but that is a bit off topic.. Anywhoo..yay college [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]

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I currently go to University of Texas at San Antonio, this is my second year and it is a blast, I love the CS program here, its pretty easy. I dont drink that much but I guess thats because im 24 and I can just go buy my own beer and shit so there is no need to goto house parties. My only words of caution are this: if you goto alot of parties be carefull otherwise you might end up with a MIP or something which you dont want. If the party gets to wild you may want to leave before the cops come break it up [img][/img]

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I've got about 15 friends from high school going to UTSA (most of them because they couldn't get into UTA and are doing that program where you can transfer after a year or whatever). Sounds cool - though I'm not much of a partier anyway.

I'm in somewhere in the vicinity of my 7th year at Purdue University. I started in Mechanical Engineering, made a brief foray at Electrical Engineering before realizing that I hate Laplace and all things involved with it, and Fourier is pretty close to Laplace, so equally hated. Then I changed to CS, added Psychology for a double major, and tossed in a Philosophy minor for kicks. Then I switched to a part-time student, because I'm working to pay for myself, and couldn't carry a full time job and a full time CS courseload.

Yep. It's been a long road. And it's still stretched out before me a bit.

Back to the question on the first page: The two biggest concerns I'd say for writing college application essays is this: Be interesting. High schoolers all write exactly the same damned essays, all full of boring minutae and self-aggrandizement, dull answers to dull questions. The way to make yourself stand out above the crowd in that field is to write an essay that's actually interesting to read. Something that, if you handed it to a stranger on the street, they might actually read to the end. But most schools (almost all publicly owned universities) are more concerned with your GPA, test scores, and how deep your high school education was than the entry essays.

And yeah ... alcohol loses the magical attraction a bit, after you realize that it's no big deal to just head out and pick up a fifth of something.

Here's another alternative for your bright future:

http://travel.discovery.com/ne...cml_news_toiletcollege

it was 2nd on my application list [img]i/expressions/rolleye.gif[/img]

Man, I really fucked up taking an ENTIRE class about John Milton.

I'm going to the university at thursday, but I'll not leave home as it's located in the city next to my little village. I'll be educating myself towards the honorable career of a teacher...

*pause here so everybody can laugh for a while*

Yeah I know it's funny.

Kid: Who's that guy on your shirt?
Me: ...you don't know?
Kid: No.... his haircut is kinda gay and-
Me: IF YOU CALL YZAK GAY AGAIN I SWEAR TO MY HAIR THAT I WILL RAPE YOUR FAMILY AND SAW YOU OPEN WITH A PAIR OF RAZORBLADED MITTENS THAT I FOUND IN THE SAME SWIMMING POOL WHERE I DROWNED YOUR DOG
Kid: ........................

Anyway, I figure "why not". Since I just graduated I'm just gonna try some random education, so chances are I'll quit this uni after a semester or two. Or whenever I find a job or something.

And yes, I'm going to die young and broke.

Poor terra, do what you love is what I believe. Luckily my parents agree because I'll be going to a graphics college and my brother is going to a wrestling school XD

that would be so awesome if Terra was my teacher. Go for it! Teach a modern film class and show anime all the time.

I'm going into my Junior year at Cornell University. I'm a member of the Kappa Sigma chapter up there. It snows and rains alot here, but that makes us drink all the more harder. Our women are considerably heftier than most other college girls because the bitter (and long, about 5 solid freezing months) winters affront the will to exercise and stokes the coals of food intake, plus when everyone's wearing parkas, who can tell who is hot?

Next semester, if all goes well, I'll be studying in Italy, hopefully at the University of Bologna.

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Man, I really fucked up taking an ENTIRE class about John Milton.

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I happen to love Milton...

I'm a Government and Italian studies major, but I English and literature are dear to my heart. But writing, along with film, are things I am not very adept at, despite being things I love to death.

@Terracosmo: They'll let YOU become a teacher? I thought Sweden had good schools...

Silence, bitch!

Also, you were wrong. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img]

TERRA SWEARED TO HIS HAIR!!!

That's the queue

http://mywebpage.netscape.com/Assert...-Raikouken.jpg

After I finish my Master's in Physics from SUNY Buffalo, I'm going to get a Bachelor's in Robotics Engineering from RPI and go on to study Nanotechnology at SUNY Albany.

When I'm equipped with all that knowledge, I'm going to build an army of aerodynamically designed nanomolecular robots that live inside my body. Among other things, these robots will serve medicinal purposes such as killing any diseases or malevolent cells in my body, including the stabilization of any poisons I may consume when I fuck up Sasori.

Then I'm going to go Aburame Shino on the rest of Akatsuki.

soldier, seek mental help, thats an order!

i think soldier means he's gonna join the army in the intelligence department or something =P

anyway, anyone know a good search engine for colleges? i'm gettin a little anxious about what i should do in the future considering i'm basically failing high school and the majors i'm looking at aren't what you'd really call profitable, or specific =\ (writing). i can get the other forms from the counselors as was suggested earlier. i just want to know what to use to look for a good college for my major.

An old high school acquaintance of mine took a 2-year Journalism program at a college and now she writes for a newspaper full time.
You never know what is profitable or not. Maybe you have a knack for it. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

Who says writing isn't profitable? Stephen King and J.K. Rowling say otherwise.

There's a lot of profitable career paths for a writer. With a journalism degree from NYU, Columbia, ASU, or especially the University of Maryland (UMD is highly renowned in the fields of Law and Journalism), you could get investment money and other means of funding to start up your own magazine and be on your way to your very own media empire. You could intern at NBC for their news division or late night comedy shows such as Conan O'Brien's. You could write for the Associated Press and get to do fun shit like visit Baghdad. You get paid as good as the President for the really groundbreaking stories, like how you finally found the WMDs and how they're linked to a worldwide conspiracy to install the Antichrist in Israel.

I mean, really, use your imagination as a writer and you could be a regular Hunter S. Thompson, especially with the help of bountiful amounts of the ganja that you'll find in college. Maybe write your own movie scripts, comic strips, erotic literature on the days you're lonely, love poems on the days you're not, etc. If writing is what you're interested in, you've been lied to if you think it's not profitable. Publications actively recruit Journalism graduates and you build up some enviable credibility in the process.

I could be a writer, but I'd rather build nanorobots and go Aburame Shino meets The Punisher.

Edit: It looks like 2:25 beat me to the punch. But I also forgot to address your request for a college search engine. My obvious choice was to check out CollegeBoard.com, and I found their college search page. It lets you search by major, cost and financial aid, or in your case by admission because if your grades sucked like mine, then you'll want to find one that accepts slackers, which usually means public, state-sponsored universities. Also, I may have made it sound like a journalism degree is the holy grail of writers. In all actuality, you could do as well with an English major, but that shit is boring because they make you read faggoty Shakespeare bullshit.

Damnit... going back to college in 3 hours

Ahhh the undergraduate college days. I miss them. Now I have to show up 6 in the morning at the hospital, Talk to fat diabetic patients, give them rectal exams, and get pimped by the attending physician. And here is the best part, I have to pay to do that. all in the name of education.

Enjoy the undergrad while it lasts.

haha, terra remembered [img]i/expressions/heart.gif[/img]

man.....you guys have no idea how nice it is to never have to worry about school ever again. The campus life experience rocks, but the classes can be horrid.

Worst experience ever: Photojournalism. I had to go out every week and hunt down random people I don't know (that also don't go to college or look the age of a college student) and ask to take pictures of them. Like....30+ pics. Needless to say, my weekends were the most stressful days of the week because of that shit.

I'm really lost in what the hell I'm going to study once I get to college. I'm a big nature guy but also I've been taking an interest in technology. Is there anything that deals with both aspects?

Theres always architecture, building that go with nature beauty, or you could do agricultural technology.

Me i'm a business major, because i like to boss people around [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img]

Whoa. Architecture?[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-shocked.gif[/img] That's a lot of geometry isn't it? And geometry is math. Nooooo way. Me and math really don't get along too well.

medical major, sure i'd like to help people [img]i/expressions/rolleye.gif[/img]

Well, I'm going into my last year of university, and I can't wait to be done. I'm majoring in Engineering Physics and minoring in Linguistics. My advice for the highschoolers is: don't go into engineering unless you're prepared to give up your life for 4-5 years. It's a LOT of work, and failing out is a huge waste of money. Although, engineers tend to make up for the reduced frequency of partying by increasing the intensity of partying.

One of the things we do to our frosh in the engineering faculty is we make them take a math test in frosh week, before classes start. The frosh are told that this test will be used to place them in tutorials for the year. However, all the questions on this test are fourth year calculus and physics questions that none of the frosh have a hope of being able to solve. We let them sweat it out for a while, and we also plant upper years in the testing rooms to pose as frosh who either really annoy the crap out of frosh sitting beside them or get some poor frosh to be accused of cheating. The accused is then given a lecture about academic dishonesty by the prof in the room and hauled out. Of course this is all a joke, but sometimes people start crying and we have to reassure them when the get out of the class that it's not serious. After a certain period of time, a huge group of upper year engineers rushes the classrooms and rips up the tests.

@Deblas: If you want something to do with technology, you're going to have a hard time avoiding math. The two usually go hand-in-hand. Maybe try international development. I work with an organization called Engineers Without Borders and we do a lot of work in developing communities that's technology centred, but the technology used is simple enough that a technical background is not a prerequisite for using it. In fact, we have quite a few people with arts backgrounds in the organization. Frequently the projects we work on have an environmental focus i.e. water filtration and sanitation. It's too bad you don't get along with math because Environmental Engineering (sometimes this is a stream of Civil) combines both nature and technology.

Im gonna chime in here and pretty much agree with what's been said already about engineering. ITS AN OBSCENE amount of work. Especially project classes. To quote one of my TA's " When you take cs152 its gonna be like having to bend down and get an unlubed keyboard shoved up your ass every day, 7 days a week, for 8 hours. Thats right a keyboard up the ass for 8 hours, because thats how long ur gonna spend on the project all semester everyday. Also, if you dare to use the xilinx built in divide operator on our FPGA's, John will beat you and xilinx will run over your dog."

Any other political science people out here? Just throwing it out.

Oh, and I recently heard from a friend of mine who was at Tulane when the hurricane hit. He finally got evacuated and is no taking classes for the entire semester at another school. now THAT sounds like a sucky college expirience.

My university is picking up any students that went to colleges down there if they used to live locally. No tuition for them and they can sign up for classes at any of the campuses.

Yeah Engineering is really hard and a lot of work (I'm entrenched in the cirruculum now) but it's a whole lot more rewarding than having a degree in business.

Here's to hoping I graduate...

College night for me is like on the 12th and 13th of school. What about you guys?

My college night is being kept secret until that day. WTF!?

I just finished my first week of class. It was ....... interesting. My english teacher is an insane feminist. She got up randomly and threw a shoe out the window at some guy playing music.

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She got up randomly and threw a shoe out the window at some guy playing music.

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QFT

What's college night?

oh, and also, does anyone else here have a facebook account?

college night? isn't that something in high school? like people from different colleges will come and explain the different types of colleges to you (like public or private).

haha facebook. don't get addicted.

move-in day is next saturday!! i'm so excited!!

Facebook is pointless to me. It's better to meet new people at your college by actually going out and being social. As far as keeping in touch goes, if you didn't have a way to communicate before Facebook (email address, phone number, AIM, MSN, etc.), you probably weren't friends anyway.

Facebook is like Starbucks is like LiveStrong bracelets is like Tiffany bags is like popped collars is like the pet rock is like Kira Yamato in GSD

They are all acts or institutions of "pop" conformity which lack individuality, dominate social settings and are often used as gauges of how "cool" people are (except for Kira, he's just a hopelessly self-righteous model-kit-selling whore)

And I hate them all

The only cool thing about facebook is the search function. You can find anybody w/an account, which is really cool when it comes to looking up old classmates. That's really what I've been using it for.

Haha reading this thread has made me even happier about dropping mechanical engineering as my major. I never would have made it through 4 years, hell I was sick of all the work halfay through the first project in my intro to engineering course.

I'm a senior in high school and thinking of becoming a lawyer so I have something to do. I'm going to either University of Massachusetts or Worcester State College here in Mass, and I'm going to major in history or philosophy.

~1~

I was admitted into Berkeley's EECS program and spent 2 whole years trying to transfer to Mechanical engineering but my GPA was too low =(

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I'm a senior in high school and thinking of becoming a lawyer so I have something to do. I'm going to either University of Massachusetts or Worcester State College here in Mass, and I'm going to major in history or philosophy.

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SK, you're gonna be the type of lawyer that ALWAYS factors in the race card

Assertn, any lawyer who DOESN'T pull the race card is a crappy lawyer. It is obviously one of the great remaining sociological divides that can exploited to cast various lights on people based on something that almost always has little to nothing to do with the crime.

thats why people hate lawyers

haha i second that opinion.

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I'm a senior in high school and thinking of becoming a lawyer so I have something to do. I'm going to either University of Massachusetts or Worcester State College here in Mass, and I'm going to major in history or philosophy.

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SK, you're gonna be the type of lawyer that ALWAYS factors in the race card

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Ofcourse I will.

~1~

Well people, finals are upon us. They are really pissing me off. I just took two, and I still have 3 this week....

I've only got 2 left, Philosophy and Government. I'm ditching my last one (chemistry) 'cause I can escape the class with a B if I don't take it.

Good luck everyone else.

I still have 6 left. 3 tomorrow on New Nation, Biology, and Economic History, then World History and Wilson-FDR on wednesday, and then Germany on thursday.

I finished my Intro to Business exam and my Comp. Sci. exam. I still have English, Business/Internet Politics,
and PreCalc. The thing that sucks is I need to take PreCalc for Business next semester [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img]

Today, yesterday and tomorrow are the three worst days I've ever encounterd in college thus far.... mostly due to my own damn procrastinations...

Yesterday: Take home prelim due at 6PM (12 pages long, single spaced, regarding US Social Policy)

Today: 9AM: Philosophy Final: Knowledge and Reality. Epistemology, Plato, Bertrand Russell, Liar Paradoxes, Ayer, Inductive reasoning, Grue, A priori knowledge, existence of external things, among other subjects making an appearance on that final

Today: 6PM (but just handed in [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img] ) Social Policy project. Projecting the effect on equity that the proposed change to Social Security might have (for, well, not much discussion of, but good information for anyone who actually cares, see http://forums.gotwoot.net/mess...amp;keyword1=security)

Tomorrow: 6PM 2 things.
First is a 8 page short story written entirely in Italian. Si parlo la lingua, ma non sono bravo.
Second is a 12 page paper about the effects of food on Italian culture. I haven't started this one at all yet...

Tuesday night and wednesday: BOOZE FINAL!

Hehe I feel your pain. I've been doing nothing but papers for all my classes. I probably wrote 100 pages this semester on over 20 books.

I had an easy ass test in contemporarypoetry and my only final left is Fiction on wednesday, whoo

Wow, I guess I've had it pretty easy as far as writing goes. 2 8-page papers (one over existentialism and the other over Japanese art) and 3 2-page papers (all for Philosophy 301). Not a lot compared to some other people...

Edit: @masamuneehs: I just went over the earlier posts in this topic, I have a cousin who studied in Bologna. Are you still planning to go there next year?

i've got 4.

mmm ... finals, eh?

I've only got one final, but it's in a class called compilers. In this class, we had to write a compiler. The process of writing a compiler was 40% of the grade. The final is another 30%, with the midterm being 20%, and a single homework being 10%. Looks like I can pull a C, with a B on the final... so lots of studying, the whole second half of the week.

But more importantly, I've got a paper that's due wednesday in my other class. And that's not gonna be pretty, 'cause I've barely even started constructing an outline of it, and it's not going to be an easy topic to turn into a decent paper.

Hah, suckers!

After four years of the most brutal exams ever (usually 5-7 exams per semester) I finally have the most awesomely wonderful exam schedule (yay thesis courses)! I had one last week, and my only other exam is today. It's linguistic morphology, only worth 30%, and the only reason I'm still studying is to try for an A+ in the course. After today, I'm freeeeee for the holidays!

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Hah, suckers!

After four years of the most brutal exams ever (usually 5-7 exams per semester) I finally have the most awesomely wonderful exam schedule (yay thesis courses)! I had one last week, and my only other exam is today. It's linguistic morphology, only worth 30%, and the only reason I'm still studying is to try for an A+ in the course. After today, I'm freeeeee for the holidays!

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I'm dropping my current course after this semester. Unfortunately I have to finish an exam first to reel in my "points of merit" [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img]
After that I'm gonna work for a year. Bad pay, but hey, I'm so fucking tired of books.

ooh compilers, damn.
Databases and Graphics myself.

Finally done with all my finals, I'm on break til January 7th! [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

1 more final for me which is Biology on Monday. Then freedommmmmmmmmmmm! [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]

screw you all!

I have a 2 physics finals to go. Saturday i have Statics, then monday i have Mechanics. Then i get a 13 day break (not even 2 full fucking weeks....). After that, im back with anotehr 5 physics courses.....fucking engineering

God...Studying for Philosophy is doing my head in. Thankfully it's my last final.

Good semester I'd say.

Oh, man, reading all this made my day. Am I soooooo glad I have co-op until March. No finals and getting paid to read and post on this forum pretty much all day is fun as hell. Although, not looking forward to going back to school in April.
Used to be a mech eng major, loved the math, hated the theoretical, unpractical bullshit, so I changed to IST.
Back to Drexel on April 3rd, yippe.....bah!

Does anybody here use facebook?

I'm gonna start soon. Couple friends told me about it.

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Yeah, I do. I don't use it often though, it's just a crappy version of a blog w/out the essential blog-ness. PM me if you wanna add me.

Well it's not really a blog since you need to go to college in order to get an account. It's to connect college people together and to find old highschool friends.

And yet you still didn't add me [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img]

For you conspiracy nuts out there, be sure to read the Facebook's privacy report in its entirety; that'll be sure to keep you up night upon night. Kukukuku...

I, myself, REFUSE to sign onto Facebook for it IS TEH DEVIL!!!111one111!!!

Ahh, finals... They have this uncanny knack of sneaking up on you. In fact, it feels like I was only unpacking my dorm things only yesterday...

had Grapjics (cs) and Crime control and deviance (soc) today, 6 hrs of finals is heinous
finally done w/ databases on tuesday.

I'm done!!!! I so deserve a shopping spree.

wow.. wtf.. didnt I start this topic before I went to college >>.. and it hadnt died till this month .. oh well [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-blush.gif[/img]... heheh .. I use Face book.. I should be the Only Yale at University of Maryland College park

What do people even use facebook for, it seems useless to me. Now I am completely socially impotent but still, what is the point of facebook, so you can see where people from your high school went to college, who cares.

And why are finals so god damn difficult, as has been said an infinite number of times before, if you think you can accurately judge someones knowledge of a subject that took 4 months to teach them in 3 hours you are an idiot. Does one night of playing DotA and talking to my friend instead of studying mean i'm bad at statistics? I think it means i'm bad at time management and have a DotA problem...

Well, I just started to use facebook and its a great concept. It helps me stay in touch with all my old friends all over the country. I just created mine. Send me a PM if anyone wants to add me to thier freinds.

Only a week and a half untill spring semester....woo hoo.... [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img]

Classes start 10 AM tomorrow for me. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img] Taking 19 credits but it's going to be my last semester.

*High Five*

My last semester too. I'm going to be so glad to graduate. School is fun, but I'm ready to be done and start paying off my overwhelming student loans.

Hehe yeah I know what you mean. What's your major btw?

Engineering Physics and Society. If you're wondering about the society part, it's this add-on that you can have with any type of engineering at my university, and it extends your undergrad to 5 years, but you get to take other fun courses that break up the really tough technical ones (and also allows me to minor in Linguistics, which I love).

whee!

It's a new semester, and I've found a new vigor for the subject matter. It's surprising, I think I'm just riding a "high" wave from getting an unexpectedly good grade in compilers.

This semester: a class on database engines, and history of early modern philosophy! Oh, and working somewhere like 40ish hours a week at my job all semester, because my university's collections office lied to me. Whee! (And they wonder why I've been so negligent of the forums lately [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img])