The College Thread

[XanBcoo]

Originally posted by: Wilik
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]

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.

[Hikyuu]

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]

[complich8]

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.

[Munsu]

Here's another alternative for your bright future:

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

[ChaosK]

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

[The Heretic Azazel]

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

[masamuneehs]

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.

Originally posted by: The Heretic Azazel
Man, I really fucked up taking an ENTIRE class about John Milton.

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...

[Terracosmo]

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.

[Kagemane_no_Jutsu]

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

[XanBcoo]

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

[Terracosmo]

Silence, bitch!

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

[Assertn]

TERRA SWEARED TO HIS HAIR!!!

[Terracosmo]

That's the queue

[soldier]

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.

[masamuneehs]

soldier, seek mental help, thats an order!

[GuardianShado]

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.

[2:25]

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]

[soldier]

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.

[Munsu]

Damnit... going back to college in 3 hours

[To Young]

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.