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School is for Fools [celebration thread]

Vann DirasVann Diras Registered User regular
edited May 2009 in Social Entropy++
so this fall I'll be attending the Herron School of Art and Design for my first year in big bad college! I'm excited and ready to move out and go learn how to art stuff

you may think it's a little early for a [FRESHMEN] thread but I don't care because it turns out that I'll receive enough money in scholarships and grants to completely pay for my tuition, books and apartment rent! for the entire year! and most of it renewable! with money to spare, even.

and just as a kicker, today in the mail I got a letter from Herron saying my portfolio won their Portfolio Scholarship, and that I would receive $1,750 for the year because it was so rad

so SE++ tell me how much college sucks or how my youthful idealism will be raped anally or other incoming freshmen what up

or just celebrate my current good fortunes with me

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  • The Far SideThe Far Side __BANNED USERS regular
    edited April 2009
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    REPRESENTIN DOGG

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  • Little JimLittle Jim __BANNED USERS
    edited April 2009
    i write my last final on monday

    done with post secondary education forever

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  • ascotascot Registered User
    edited April 2009
    More like Heroin School of Art

  • JedocJedoc Registered User
    edited April 2009
    Four projects to turn in, and I'll be a Master of Library Science. Which sounds cool if you don't know the word "library."

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User
    edited April 2009
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    REPRESENTIN DOGG
    why does that say "Cuum Est"

  • SnowbeatSnowbeat The thing to remember is that everyone is humanRegistered User regular
    edited April 2009
    good job vann diras

    I'll be going to community college next year via my high school's full-time dual enrollment program

    hopefully my courses will not include any that require me to wake up before 7

  • The Far SideThe Far Side __BANNED USERS regular
    edited April 2009
    that's a T

    Tuum Est

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  • Johnny FabulousJohnny Fabulous Registered User
    edited April 2009
    I get to graduate at the end of the next fall semester. I am so glad.

    We tried nothin' and we're all outta ideas.
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  • AMP'dAMP'd Registered User
    edited April 2009
    I finished finals Thursday. A month more and I will be halfway out of high school.

    Yesss

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User
    edited April 2009
    i'm not very proud of my school

    we have USG elections coming up, the USG that never ends up doing anything. this girl came up all telling me to vote, i replied that my major concern is how shiny our building is and if that will change under new leadership. she didn't get the hint.

  • Vann DirasVann Diras Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Snowbeat wrote: »
    good job vann diras

    I'll be going to community college next year via my high school's full-time dual enrollment program

    hopefully my courses will not include any that require me to wake up before 7

    thanks dogg

    you're still in high school? for reals?

  • Vann DirasVann Diras Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    ascot wrote: »
    More like Heroin School of Art

    aw yeah

    8-)

  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS
    edited April 2009
    I'm headed down south for school this fall

    Going to stay with my grandparents since the school is ten minutes from their house

    Also going to work in their restaurant for some money under the table

  • AMP'dAMP'd Registered User
    edited April 2009
    What sort of artsy stuff you gonna do, Vann?

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  • Little JimLittle Jim __BANNED USERS
    edited April 2009
    college is a pretty stupid thing i think

    i find myself infuriated that i had to get a classical liberal arts education

    so much wasted time and money

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  • ascotascot Registered User
    edited April 2009
    Been out of school exactly one year at the start of May
    done nothing so far related to my degree

    aw jeah 8-)

  • Punsie McKalePunsie McKale Registered User
    edited April 2009
    my transfer got accepted

    I'm back at school in the fall after what will have been a 1.5 year break

    so ready, so so ready

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  • Vann DirasVann Diras Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    AMP'd wrote: »
    What sort of artsy stuff you gonna do, Vann?

    I'll be going for just a degree in general fine arts, focus in illustration

    if I can get my teaching license while I'm doing it that'd be super

    I'd love to get some animation experience too, but I don't think they have anything like that

  • The Far SideThe Far Side __BANNED USERS regular
    edited April 2009
    gap years own/suck at the same time huh, skull man

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  • DadouwDadouw Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    fuck your college and ''freshmen'' shit

    hurray for cegep

  • SquallSquall hap cloud Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Snowbeat wrote: »
    good job vann diras

    I'll be going to community college next year via my high school's full-time dual enrollment program

    hopefully my courses will not include any that require me to wake up before 7

    Dual Enrollment and AP credit are the best things. All those basic level courses everyone takes when they start college for their pre-professional that are taught by the crappy profs? Yeah, you dont have to take them or pay for them.

  • potatoepotatoe Registered User
    edited April 2009
    Little Jim wrote: »
    college is a pretty stupid thing i think

    i find myself infuriated that i had to get a classical liberal arts education

    so much wasted time and money

    well, yeah, it's stupid if you get a stupid degree

    I tried to write "but that" and my hands naturally wrote "butt hat", which is vastly superior in every way.
  • FizFiz Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    I did the Music major in my college days. The vocal performance requirements were so weird that it was listed as the second hardest degree to get at the university, behind this weird computer biological blah blah blah

    But it was totally fun for me. I did about 10 operas there, did a lot of solo work in the regular choirs, composed some pieces that I am proud of, and made some connections which helped launch my actual career in opera.

    Ate a ton of Panda Express while I was there. The line was always really long so they never had any food sitting out for more than 10 minutes before it was replaced with fresh stuff, so it is different than the stuff I found at other malls. Probably spent more on that food than you earned in scholarships. The people working there knew me so well that they wouldn't even have to ask what I wanted to order. Pile on those chilis and I was happy

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  • Mr. Henry BemisMr. Henry Bemis Registered User
    edited April 2009
    this semester i will finish the last requirements for my 2 year degree

    turned 18 in Feb cool.gif

    All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.
  • Little JimLittle Jim __BANNED USERS
    edited April 2009
    potatoe wrote: »
    Little Jim wrote: »
    college is a pretty stupid thing i think

    i find myself infuriated that i had to get a classical liberal arts education

    so much wasted time and money

    well, yeah, it's stupid if you get a stupid degree

    a degree in pure mathematics should not require course after course of retarded busywork

    nor should any

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User
    edited April 2009
    Dadouw wrote: »
    fuck your college and ''freshmen'' shit

    hurray for cegep
    is that some sort of STD?

  • TossrockTossrock too weird to live too rare to dieRegistered User regular
    edited April 2009
    I guess I go to college, yeah

  • Punsie McKalePunsie McKale Registered User
    edited April 2009
    gap years own/suck at the same time huh, skull man

    they really do

    on the one hand I got to work and write and just have a killer time for a while and not be all wrapped up in academia bullshit

    on the other, much more important hand I felt like a layabout dirtbag the whole time and turns out I love academia bullshit

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  • potatoepotatoe Registered User
    edited April 2009
    Little Jim wrote: »
    potatoe wrote: »
    Little Jim wrote: »
    college is a pretty stupid thing i think

    i find myself infuriated that i had to get a classical liberal arts education

    so much wasted time and money

    well, yeah, it's stupid if you get a stupid degree

    a degree in pure mathematics should not require course after course of retarded busywork

    nor should any

    major: computer science :: very little busy work
    minor: mathematics :: fucking fuck busy work

    practical degrees 8-)

    I tried to write "but that" and my hands naturally wrote "butt hat", which is vastly superior in every way.
  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User
    edited April 2009
    Little Jim wrote: »
    potatoe wrote: »
    Little Jim wrote: »
    college is a pretty stupid thing i think

    i find myself infuriated that i had to get a classical liberal arts education

    so much wasted time and money

    well, yeah, it's stupid if you get a stupid degree

    a degree in pure mathematics should not require course after course of retarded busywork

    nor should any
    i disagree. i think it should be split down the middle. this is the reason engineers can barely function in society, the schools don't enforce enough liberal arts ed. at least i'd help.

    but also i really love taking history. description of a course i'm taking next semester:

    TOPIC: SOUNTRACKS: HISTORY AND ITS MUSIC IN MODERN
    AMERICA. THIS COURSE EXAMINES THE DEVELOPMENT OF
    AMERICAN POPULAR MUSIC THROUGH THE PRISM OF HISTORY. IT
    FOCUSES ON BOTH STYLISTIC DEVELOPMENTS AND THE
    HISTORICAL CONTEXT IN WHICH MUSIC SUCH AS THE BLUES,
    FOLK, SOUL, ROCK, DISCO, PUNK, ALTERNATIVE ROCK, AND
    RAP EVOLVED IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY. THE
    CONNECTION BETWEEN POPULAR STYLES AND THE CHANGING
    NOTIONS OF RACE, GENDER, AND SOCIAL CLASS AS WELL AS
    THE IMPACT MUSIC HAS HAD ON AMERICAN SOCIAL AND POLITIC
    HISTORY WILL BE EXPLORED.

    fuck yeah. with my favorite professor too.

  • The Far SideThe Far Side __BANNED USERS regular
    edited April 2009
    gap years own/suck at the same time huh, skull man

    they really do

    on the one hand I got to work and write and just have a killer time for a while and not be all wrapped up in academia bullshit

    on the other, much more important hand I felt like a layabout dirtbag the whole time and turns out I love academia bullshit

    for rizzle

    i graduated march of 08 and the only thing i've really done is the obama campaign and that's been over for like 5 months now

    cannot wait to move out in julllyyyyy

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  • FizFiz Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Tossrock wrote: »
    I guess I go to college, yeah

    Sounds like we've got an English Major up ins

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  • potatoepotatoe Registered User
    edited April 2009
    Faricazy wrote: »
    Little Jim wrote: »
    potatoe wrote: »
    Little Jim wrote: »
    college is a pretty stupid thing i think

    i find myself infuriated that i had to get a classical liberal arts education

    so much wasted time and money

    well, yeah, it's stupid if you get a stupid degree

    a degree in pure mathematics should not require course after course of retarded busywork

    nor should any
    i disagree. i think it should be split down the middle. this is the reason engineers can barely function in society, the schools don't enforce enough liberal arts ed. at least i'd help.

    my school forced everyone to take a lot of general education courses, lots of liberal arts
    majority of CS/EGR students still couldn't function in society

    I tried to write "but that" and my hands naturally wrote "butt hat", which is vastly superior in every way.
  • BedlamBedlam Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    potatoe wrote: »
    Little Jim wrote: »
    potatoe wrote: »
    Little Jim wrote: »
    college is a pretty stupid thing i think

    i find myself infuriated that i had to get a classical liberal arts education

    so much wasted time and money

    well, yeah, it's stupid if you get a stupid degree

    a degree in pure mathematics should not require course after course of retarded busywork

    nor should any

    major: computer science :: very little busy work
    minor: mathematics :: fucking fuck busy work

    practical degrees 8-)
    Pfft computers are totally a fad.

  • Punsie McKalePunsie McKale Registered User
    edited April 2009
    gap years own/suck at the same time huh, skull man

    they really do

    on the one hand I got to work and write and just have a killer time for a while and not be all wrapped up in academia bullshit

    on the other, much more important hand I felt like a layabout dirtbag the whole time and turns out I love academia bullshit

    for rizzle

    i graduated march of 08 and the only thing i've really done is the obama campaign and that's been over for like 5 months now

    cannot wait to move out in julllyyyyy

    moving is a big part of it

    the school I'm transferring to is a few hours away, my current school is just in my hometown

    I spent my senior year of high school at college anyway, so it was never like Woo!

    my mom being the associate dean of my college was a drag too

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  • AMP'dAMP'd Registered User
    edited April 2009
    gap years own/suck at the same time huh, skull man

    they really do

    on the one hand I got to work and write and just have a killer time for a while and not be all wrapped up in academia bullshit

    on the other, much more important hand I felt like a layabout dirtbag the whole time and turns out I love academia bullshit

    for rizzle

    i graduated march of 08 and the only thing i've really done is the obama campaign and that's been over for like 5 months now

    cannot wait to move out in julllyyyyy

    moving is a big part of it

    the school I'm transferring to is a few hours away, my current school is just in my hometown

    I spent my senior year of high school at college anyway, so it was never like Woo!

    my mom being the associate dean of my college was a drag too

    It is basically my goal to get accepted to a lot of colleges far away from my home.

    I don't want to be like my cousin, who drives home every few weekends.

    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
  • Little JimLittle Jim __BANNED USERS
    edited April 2009
    potatoe wrote: »
    Little Jim wrote: »
    potatoe wrote: »
    Little Jim wrote: »
    college is a pretty stupid thing i think

    i find myself infuriated that i had to get a classical liberal arts education

    so much wasted time and money

    well, yeah, it's stupid if you get a stupid degree

    a degree in pure mathematics should not require course after course of retarded busywork

    nor should any

    major: computer science :: very little busy work
    minor: mathematics :: fucking fuck busy work

    practical degrees 8-)

    no i'm talking about the forced option courses

    things like music and literature

    i don't need these things

    responding to faricrazy, i have no problem functioning in the real world because i'm an actual human being

    i read, write, listen to music, converse regularly and socialize just fine

    i'd have been much happier if my post secondary education was focused on my field choice

    especially when i'm paying for it

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  • Vann DirasVann Diras Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    oh man TFS I am so insanely ready to move out

    gettin' into an apartment of my own (ignoring the two dudes that will be living with me)

    gonna be wonderful

  • potatoepotatoe Registered User
    edited April 2009
    i went to college about 3 hours from home (2 hours if i felt like going 90-95), and that seemed like a pretty solid distance

    close enough that i could visit
    but far enough that it was impractical to do so but every couple months

    I tried to write "but that" and my hands naturally wrote "butt hat", which is vastly superior in every way.
  • The Far SideThe Far Side __BANNED USERS regular
    edited April 2009
    AMP'd wrote: »
    gap years own/suck at the same time huh, skull man

    they really do

    on the one hand I got to work and write and just have a killer time for a while and not be all wrapped up in academia bullshit

    on the other, much more important hand I felt like a layabout dirtbag the whole time and turns out I love academia bullshit

    for rizzle

    i graduated march of 08 and the only thing i've really done is the obama campaign and that's been over for like 5 months now

    cannot wait to move out in julllyyyyy

    moving is a big part of it

    the school I'm transferring to is a few hours away, my current school is just in my hometown

    I spent my senior year of high school at college anyway, so it was never like Woo!

    my mom being the associate dean of my college was a drag too

    It is basically my goal to get accepted to a lot of colleges far away from my home.

    I don't want to be like my cousin, who drives home every few weekends.
    My school is 1,117 miles away from my home

    could not be happier about this fact

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