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    animal companionanimal companion xenomortis Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I am going to graduate this year and I am fully terrified

    I was never so happy until college and it is all being yanked out from under me

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    celandinecelandine Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    the wook wrote: »
    celandine wrote: »
    So where do you go to school Wook?

    UC Irvine

    I applied to a ridiculous number of schools but not to there.. :cry:

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    Shazkar ShadowstormShazkar Shadowstorm Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    i coulda graduated a semester early now i am regretting not doing so that was silly of me, wasting my parents money basically

    but at the same time i kind of like it here

    i talked to my friend who graduated early he is in buenos aires, i coulda done that tho or something like that so i am dumb

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    celandinecelandine Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    No, man, bright college years.
    Or whatever they say at your school.
    I could technically have gotten out in three years with AP credit, but I would have had less time to do neat college stuff (of the academic and non-academic variety) and my parents wouldn't hear of it.

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    Shazkar ShadowstormShazkar Shadowstorm Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    your parents wouldnt hear of spending 51k less or whatever


    hm

    yeah i am taking cool classes this semester and whatnot

    and on ski team
    and back at jiu jitsu

    so that's good

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    celandinecelandine Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Well, they're not paying anywhere near full freight.

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    <3<3 Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    celandine wrote: »
    the wook wrote: »
    celandine wrote: »
    So where do you go to school Wook?

    UC Irvine

    I applied to a ridiculous number of schools but not to there.. :cry:

    I, however, applied to UCI.

    Wook, we can be besties.

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    MorgensternMorgenstern ICH BIN DER PESTVOGEL DU KAMPFAFFE!Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Ferrus wrote: »
    I'm going to my philosophy tutorial in a few minutes. Maybe I get that half-assed essay back everyone had to do. Also, we're discussing Kant right now. :?

    Protip:
    Kant is like Metallica. Old and somewhat overrated.

    I will fuck your mother like a silly goose if you besmirch the name of Metallica again.

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    “Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.” - Loren Eiseley
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    FerrusFerrus Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Ferrus wrote: »
    I'm going to my philosophy tutorial in a few minutes. Maybe I get that half-assed essay back everyone had to do. Also, we're discussing Kant right now. :?

    Protip:
    Kant is like Metallica. Old and somewhat overrated.

    I will fuck your mother like a silly goose if you besmirch the name of Metallica again.

    Obviously you don't know my mother.
    Or good music.

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    I would like to pause for a moment, to talk about my penis.
    My penis is like a toddler. A toddler—who is a perfectly normal size for his age—on a long road trip to what he thinks is Disney World. My penis is excited because he hasn’t been to Disney World in a long, long time, but remembers a time when he used to go every day. So now the penis toddler is constantly fidgeting, whining “Are we there yet? Are we there yet? How about now? Now? How about... now?”
    And Disney World is nowhere in sight.
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    MorgensternMorgenstern ICH BIN DER PESTVOGEL DU KAMPFAFFE!Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Ferrus wrote: »
    Ferrus wrote: »
    I'm going to my philosophy tutorial in a few minutes. Maybe I get that half-assed essay back everyone had to do. Also, we're discussing Kant right now. :?

    Protip:
    Kant is like Metallica. Old and somewhat overrated.

    I will fuck your mother like a silly goose if you besmirch the name of Metallica again.

    Obviously you don't know my mother.
    Old and somewhat overrated.


    Your last spoiler is now more accurate.

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    “Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.” - Loren Eiseley
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    the wookthe wook Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    celandine wrote: »
    the wook wrote: »
    celandine wrote: »
    So where do you go to school Wook?

    UC Irvine

    I applied to a ridiculous number of schools but not to there.. :cry:

    I, however, applied to UCI.

    Wook, we can be besties.

    yeah, and I'll totally be able to pick you out as the Asian guy

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    hectorsehectorse Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    The new school thread.

    I just got an email from a faculty at UCSC saying that I will most likely be admitted (with funding!). And there are a couple of get-to-know-you questions.

    I'm very excited!

    Talk about university admission here.

    Dude, congrats! UCSD and San Diego rock so much (San Diego more than UCSD)

    And SDSU is just about 15 minutes from LaJolla in case you actually want to have fun so

    I haven't got squat! That spells bad for me. You applied to comp.eng. or comp.sci.?

    You should post your result here http://www.thegradcafe.com/survey/index.php?t=m&pp=250

    Now you can finally stop being sad

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    JordanthehuttJordanthehutt Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    So I need to apply to grad school come the fall, what does everyone recommend for GRE prep? I need to check still to see if any of the potential places I want to apply require the biology subject test, which could be scary.

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    hectorsehectorse Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    So I need to apply to grad school come the fall, what does everyone recommend for GRE prep? I need to check still to see if any of the potential places I want to apply require the biology subject test, which could be scary.


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    Got me a 750 quant when all I was getting were 600's

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    <3<3 Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    hectorse wrote: »
    The new school thread.

    I just got an email from a faculty at UCSC saying that I will most likely be admitted (with funding!). And there are a couple of get-to-know-you questions.

    I'm very excited!

    Talk about university admission here.

    Dude, congrats! UCSD and San Diego rock so much (San Diego more than UCSD)

    And SDSU is just about 15 minutes from LaJolla in case you actually want to have fun so

    I haven't got squat! That spells bad for me. You applied to comp.eng. or comp.sci.?

    You should post your result here http://www.thegradcafe.com/survey/index.php?t=m&pp=250

    Now you can finally stop being sad

    SC not SD

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    <3<3 Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    also i just got an email from berkeley saying they got all my stuff.

    ugh such a cocktease.

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    hectorsehectorse Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    So this semester I am going to be teaching at the local university... go me

    The pay is awful
    also i just got an email from berkeley saying they got all my stuff.

    ugh such a cocktease.

    Yeah, got that one too

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    satansfingerssatansfingers Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    i keep getting random info e-mails about degree information or whatever from denver and it always fakes me out

    my hopes get so high and then so crushed

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    bowtiedsealbowtiedseal Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I am wavering between super-excited and petrified for grad school (I'd say it's about 80-20, and the percentage will shift the closer it gets I'm sure). I just want other schools to get back to me now so I can make a final decision and look for housing and whatnot.

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    John MatrixJohn Matrix Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    In May I will have been out of college as long as I was in it. This makes me feel ridiculously old. College only seemed like a year or two ago.

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    HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    In May I will have been out of college as long as I was in it. This makes me feel ridiculously old. College only seemed like a year or two ago.

    I graduated college in 2000. In the spring/summer of this year I will be out of college a decade. I feel like Druhim watching Murder She Wrote while eating prunes.

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    FerrusFerrus Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Oh man I've just now been to a management psychology lecture and the professor was totally rad. He even talked about the PS3 and how the guy coming up with the backwards compatibility fucked up.

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    I would like to pause for a moment, to talk about my penis.
    My penis is like a toddler. A toddler—who is a perfectly normal size for his age—on a long road trip to what he thinks is Disney World. My penis is excited because he hasn’t been to Disney World in a long, long time, but remembers a time when he used to go every day. So now the penis toddler is constantly fidgeting, whining “Are we there yet? Are we there yet? How about now? Now? How about... now?”
    And Disney World is nowhere in sight.
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    satansfingerssatansfingers Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    i figured the anxiety of being done with applications and having nothing to do but wait would be less than the anxiety of having a shitload of applications to finish

    this is not in fact the case

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    the wookthe wook Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    i figured the anxiety of being done with applications and having nothing to do but wait would be less than the anxiety of having a shitload of applications to finish

    this is not in fact the case

    go out now and get as much bone on as possible

    there's no time for that in college

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    bentbent Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I have so much work I should be doing, but I'm so ill.

    I have two websites to be finished by the end of February, a music video and I'm starting iPhone development next week. Harrrrrghularaghra

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    Viscount IslandsViscount Islands [INSERT SoKo HERE] ...it was the summer of my lifeRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    the wook wrote: »
    i figured the anxiety of being done with applications and having nothing to do but wait would be less than the anxiety of having a shitload of applications to finish

    this is not in fact the case

    go out now and get as much bone on as possible

    there's no time for that in college

    I've been lied to!

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    What spring does with the cherry trees.
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    KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    the wook wrote: »
    i figured the anxiety of being done with applications and having nothing to do but wait would be less than the anxiety of having a shitload of applications to finish

    this is not in fact the case

    go out now and get as much bone on as possible

    there's no time for that in college

    I've been lied to!

    In most colleges if you try to get your bone on, they'll clip the end of your dick off.

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    SquallSquall hap cloud Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Ugh I just learned yesterday that apparently my advisor lied to me about my senior year. I was told the nanotech option I'm taking needed only a design project senior year, but now I'm being told I need to do research, which means three semesters of getting a project with a professor and working constantly in a lab.

    I do not have time for this with a full class load and a co-op! So I need to either find a way around it or switch to the products and processes option.

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    Shazkar ShadowstormShazkar Shadowstorm Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    how do humanities people do it, i am in ONE literature class because i thought it would be cool to do one before i graduated, but there is so much reading

    i'm used to math classes with problem sets that i spent 1-4 hours on a week not reading where i need to read all the time every day, i need my free time

    and then there are people who take multiple history/lit classes at once, preposterous

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    celandinecelandine Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I'm the opposite way. If I'm taking a humanities class, I know that's the class I'm getting an A in.

    You curl up with a book and a blanket. You read. Then you go to class and talk about it. It's delightful.

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    DrZiplockDrZiplock Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    So, I'm looking at this teaching certificate thing more and more.

    Teach high school english, have them pay for my master's and then go on to teach at a college or university, either english, PR, communications...whatever.

    Hm.

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    vermiculturevermiculture Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    teaching at university like get your phd and teach at university? You already have the dr title.

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    Shazkar ShadowstormShazkar Shadowstorm Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    celandine wrote: »
    I'm the opposite way. If I'm taking a humanities class, I know that's the class I'm getting an A in.

    You curl up with a book and a blanket. You read. Then you go to class and talk about it. It's delightful.

    i mean, i'm not saying it is hard in terms of the grades, but my grades don't matter, i get A's anyway, and this is my last semester

    i'm saying it's hard in terms of time and me being totally ADD

    like i can't read fast, i take a long time to read things, and i reread passages because my mind wanders while i read sometimes

    i just feel like 170 pages of dostoyevsky is a lot for 2 nights for me

    not to say i don't enjoy the reading, i do, that's why i'm taking this class, it is just a lot of reading in a very short amount of time and demands a mental focus that math problem sets don't as much

    i think the key to it all is mental focus which i lack, but i'm not gonna go on pills or nothin though i could probably be prescribed them due to my past diagnoses... but side effects ain't worth it since i get by as is


    woo russian literature!

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    Dead LegendDead Legend Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    i didn't get the handout for something i was supposed to read for english today

    was planning on just printing it out this morning

    virginia woolf liked to write a lot didn't she

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    FAQFAQ Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    got two more results, A and a B, still have the grade for my best exam to come

    8-)

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    celandinecelandine Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    celandine wrote: »
    I'm the opposite way. If I'm taking a humanities class, I know that's the class I'm getting an A in.

    You curl up with a book and a blanket. You read. Then you go to class and talk about it. It's delightful.

    i mean, i'm not saying it is hard in terms of the grades, but my grades don't matter, i get A's anyway, and this is my last semester

    i'm saying it's hard in terms of time and me being totally ADD

    like i can't read fast, i take a long time to read things, and i reread passages because my mind wanders while i read sometimes

    i just feel like 170 pages of dostoyevsky is a lot for 2 nights for me

    not to say i don't enjoy the reading, i do, that's why i'm taking this class, it is just a lot of reading in a very short amount of time and demands a mental focus that math problem sets don't as much

    i think the key to it all is mental focus which i lack, but i'm not gonna go on pills or nothin though i could probably be prescribed them due to my past diagnoses... but side effects ain't worth it since i get by as is


    woo russian literature!

    Lucky you with your pretty grades.
    No, no don't take pills! Hot cup of tea. Nice music. Cozy couch. Death, destruction, and lots of Russian Orthodox Guilt. Go get 'em, tiger.

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    DrZiplockDrZiplock Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    teaching at university like get your phd and teach at university? You already have the dr title.

    Well, you can teach at a university with a master's generally. You just kind of work towards your phd while you're there.

    Though, I suppose I should just walk up and say "I'm already a doctor, employ me."

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    Shazkar ShadowstormShazkar Shadowstorm Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    these russians were grim dudes man

    goodness

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    <3<3 Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    celandine wrote: »
    celandine wrote: »
    I'm the opposite way. If I'm taking a humanities class, I know that's the class I'm getting an A in.

    You curl up with a book and a blanket. You read. Then you go to class and talk about it. It's delightful.

    i mean, i'm not saying it is hard in terms of the grades, but my grades don't matter, i get A's anyway, and this is my last semester

    i'm saying it's hard in terms of time and me being totally ADD

    like i can't read fast, i take a long time to read things, and i reread passages because my mind wanders while i read sometimes

    i just feel like 170 pages of dostoyevsky is a lot for 2 nights for me

    not to say i don't enjoy the reading, i do, that's why i'm taking this class, it is just a lot of reading in a very short amount of time and demands a mental focus that math problem sets don't as much

    i think the key to it all is mental focus which i lack, but i'm not gonna go on pills or nothin though i could probably be prescribed them due to my past diagnoses... but side effects ain't worth it since i get by as is


    woo russian literature!

    Lucky you with your pretty grades.
    No, no don't take pills! Hot cup of tea. Nice music. Cozy couch. Death, destruction, and lots of Russian Orthodox Guilt. Go get 'em, tiger.

    I took Greek/Roman mythology and Slavic folklore. You read kickass stories about awesome shit. So the reading was worthwhile.

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    bowtiedsealbowtiedseal Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    i figured the anxiety of being done with applications and having nothing to do but wait would be less than the anxiety of having a shitload of applications to finish

    this is not in fact the case

    at one point I thought I had checked a wrong box and applied for the wrong MA program. pretty sure my heart stopped beating long enough for me to be considered technically dead. that was probably as stressful as it got for me!

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