The College Thread

[Assertn]

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.

[Deblas]

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?

[Phoenix20578]

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]

[Deblas]

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.

[ChaosK]

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

[KitKat]

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.

[Cal_kashi]

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."

[masamuneehs]

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.

[Ryllharu]

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...

[Paulyboy]

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

[Phoenix20578]

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.

[Tofu #2]

Originally posted by: Phoenix20578
She got up randomly and threw a shoe out the window at some guy playing music.

QFT

[XanBcoo]

What's college night?

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

[Eurasian]

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!!

[badass]

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.

[masamuneehs]

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

[XanBcoo]

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.

[Freki]

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.

[SK]

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~

[Cal_kashi]

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 =(