Also, if you're not interested in politics and/or the merits of wearing Burberry, you're an outcast at this school.
Yeah, if I went east coast it would be Emerson, NYU or Bard, and Bard kinda creeped me out when I toured there, Emerson is two buildings on the Boston Commons and NYU is in New York, which I don't know if a San-Diego-born Yokel like me could handle.
Bard is a fucking surreal place. I toured there with my brother a few years ago. NYU is alright, but you need to be ready for the fact that you're going to school in a city where studying and going to class can easily be forgotten about.
My final three schools ended up being Wake Forest, Brown and Stanford.
Hey, I'm in my last year of high-school in B.C. I heard that you don't need Provincial Exams if you're applying to a university in Ontario. Does anyone know if this is true or not?
because liberal arts school force you to take courses that have nothing to do with your major
Congratulations, you know what a liberal arts school is.
They're not about preparing you for a single walk of life, they're about teaching you about everything so that you can approach your post-college life with a more enlightened frame of mind than eight years of learning about one subject could ever teach you.
Like I said, I envy people who are happy at pre-professional schools. It's just not for me.
I thought the exact same thing, and your avatar makes it laugh out loud funny. Great post. A++ would read again.
On topic: Im just about to move into my second year at uni. Its been a mixed year.
Protip: Have fun. Nearly every university degree at the moment is a solid 2 year course stretched over 3 years, just because 3 years, at least in Britain, is the arbitrary norm for your stay.
I nailed my first year without putting in any effort to studies at all. That said, im not suggesting you goof off, Im just saying, the experience is definetly part of the package.
People who go to university just to study hard and succeed are kinda missing something important in life.
I am in college, and I just got the game Silent Storm.
Boy am I disapointed. The game got great ratings, but it runs assy on my Geforce 6800/1gig of RAM PC. (The 6800 was the absolute best you could buy in early 05', and Silent Storm came out in 03') It handles most things that should be handled within menus via an in-game interface that's a pain in the ass. For example, if you want a new rifle, you have to walk to the armory within the in-game engine, and THEN the weapons menu comes up. Superfluous to the max. I know, I know, but when you have to walk to three or four different areas (world-map, armory, recruiting room, medic, etc.) with load times and fancy buillshit in between, it gets pretty annoying. There's something about this game that's just so slow paced, it kills me. I'm not talking about how it's a turn-based game. I love turn based games...if the combat in this game ran as fluidly as it does in games like Fallout 2/Tactics, etc. then I would probably fucking love it. However, the game moves slow and sloppy. Every action requires a couple seconds to be carried out. I feel like the game is submerged in glue...
Ugh. That's my stupid rant. You don't get your 30 seconds back. It seems like I'm nit-picking, and I'll admit I am, but it's all I've said above x 100, basically.
because liberal arts school force you to take courses that have nothing to do with your major
Congratulations, you know what a liberal arts school is.
They're not about preparing you for a single walk of life, they're about teaching you about everything so that you can approach your post-college life with a more enlightened frame of mind than eight years of learning about one subject could ever teach you.
Like I said, I envy people who are happy at pre-professional schools. It's just not for me.
don't you understand that learning things that have nothing to do with your major just turns you into a pompous git (like yourself!) and doesn't actually help you in the career you set out to do
for the love of christ, i've got a liberal arts major and I can't stand liberal arts schools
because liberal arts school force you to take courses that have nothing to do with your major
All schools do that, Kusu.
none so much as liberal arts schools
Well, couldn't say since I never went to a liberal arts school, but my state school still had plenty of bullshit nonsense that was totally inapplicable to your degree no matter what major you were. I decided it was the nature of bureaucratic education systems.
because liberal arts school force you to take courses that have nothing to do with your major
All schools do that, Kusu.
none so much as liberal arts schools
Well, couldn't say since I never went to a liberal arts school, but my state school still had plenty of bullshit nonsense that was totally inapplicable to your degree no matter what major you were. I decided it was the nature of bureaucratic education systems.
liberal arts schools make you take the most banal classes you can think of to "enlighten" you
because liberal arts school force you to take courses that have nothing to do with your major
All schools do that, Kusu.
none so much as liberal arts schools
Well, couldn't say since I never went to a liberal arts school, but my state school still had plenty of bullshit nonsense that was totally inapplicable to your degree no matter what major you were. I decided it was the nature of bureaucratic education systems.
because liberal arts school force you to take courses that have nothing to do with your major
All schools do that, Kusu.
none so much as liberal arts schools
Well, couldn't say since I never went to a liberal arts school, but my state school still had plenty of bullshit nonsense that was totally inapplicable to your degree no matter what major you were. I decided it was the nature of bureaucratic education systems.
liberal arts schools make you take the most banal classes you can think of to "enlighten" you
Seriously, based on my experience, what you are talking about is "college", and not necessarily this specific subset of schools that you are attributing it to.
t cel: well then transfer to a liberal arts school and get the experience, ace.
Transfer to a CSU or UC and find out it's exactly the same, champ.
I once took "Intro to Leisure Studies" because it fulfilled a necessary GE component. Read that again. I took that class. It was horrifying. I was required to do it.
because liberal arts school force you to take courses that have nothing to do with your major
Congratulations, you know what a liberal arts school is.
They're not about preparing you for a single walk of life, they're about teaching you about everything so that you can approach your post-college life with a more enlightened frame of mind than eight years of learning about one subject could ever teach you.
Like I said, I envy people who are happy at pre-professional schools. It's just not for me.
don't you understand that learning things that have nothing to do with your major just turns you into a pompous git (like yourself!) and doesn't actually help you in the career you set out to do
for the love of christ, i've got a liberal arts major and I can't stand liberal arts schools
Yeah, the career thing? That's the fucking point of a liberal arts school.
If there is one career that you want to do, and you know it's what you want to do, YOU'RE AT THE WRONG SCHOOL. YOU FUCKED UP. Stop taking it out on me. You do not belong at a liberal arts school. Maybe it's all you could get into though, in which case I'm sorry.
Haha! And it sure is a good thing taking peripheral classes makes everyone pompous ever, while directed courses turn out nothing but good, honest people!
Also, if I'm already a pompous git, and I go to a school that makes me a pompous git, will I:
t cel: well then transfer to a liberal arts school and get the experience, ace.
Transfer to a CSU or UC and find out it's exactly the same, champ.
Kusu -- I once took "Intro to Leisure Studies" because it fulfilled a necessary GE component. Read that again. I took that class. It was horrifying. I was required to do it.
It's not necessarily the fact that they make you take bullshit classes: it's that they require more bullshit credits than a uni.
Just comparing my graduation requirements with my friends' has taught me this.
Liberal arts schools churn out people who are going to end up teaching at liberal arts schools down the road. They're a self-sustaining organism.
I don't really agree with that...I think History and English/Lit degrees only make people who teach those classes and who appear in videos that those classes watch...but liberal arts schools also make pretty much every other career that isn't menial labor, doctors, lawyers, business-types or some scientists, and those people aren't all teaching.
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because liberal arts school force you to take courses that have nothing to do with your major
All schools do that, Kusu.
none so much as liberal arts schools
Well, couldn't say since I never went to a liberal arts school, but my state school still had plenty of bullshit nonsense that was totally inapplicable to your degree no matter what major you were. I decided it was the nature of bureaucratic education systems.
Ditto for University of California.
"Oh ok let's see it says here you're engineering so um here we go you need to take Anthropology."
"Why?"
"Because you need to be well-rounded."
"Why?"
"Because if you don't take the breadth classes we don't give you a diploma, you little shit."
t cel: well then transfer to a liberal arts school and get the experience, ace.
Transfer to a CSU or UC and find out it's exactly the same, champ.
Kusu -- I once took "Intro to Leisure Studies" because it fulfilled a necessary GE component. Read that again. I took that class. It was horrifying. I was required to do it.
It's not necessarily the fact that they make you take bullshit classes: it's that they require more bullshit credits than a uni.
Just comparing my graduation requirements with my friends' has taught me this.
Yeah, it varies school to school. It was like 60 bullshit credits at SFSU, then just 48 at HSU. It's all a mess. I also once took "Integrating Masculinity and Femininity" because it was in a section legislated by the state bureaucracy for the CSU system. I almost dropped out again over that one.
Guys, just come to Brown. We'll get you through school without worry about shit because hey, you went to an Ivy League school. You're guaranteed a job.
Liberal arts schools churn out people who are going to end up teaching at liberal arts schools down the road. They're a self-sustaining organism.
I don't really agree with that...I think History and English/Lit degrees only make people who teach those classes and who appear in videos that those classes watch...but liberal arts schools also make pretty much every other career that isn't menial labor, doctors, lawyers, business-types or some scientists, and those people aren't all teaching.
You have never been to college.
You do not know what it's like.
Stop acting like you do.
I'm in the "college of liberal arts" but I'm double majoring in Journalism and Political Science. Just because it says "liberal arts" doesn't automatically make it bullshit, necessarily. Hell, they only let 80 people into the Journalism School a term here.
Guys, just come to Brown. We'll get you through school without worry about shit because hey, you went to an Ivy League school. You're guaranteed a job.
Oh man, if I had to go to an Ivy League, I'd go to Brown. I'm sure you know more about it than I do (very, very, very sure) but I hear it's the most laid-back of the Ivys.
Also, Kusu, what LA schools do your friends go to? Because at Pomona and Pitzer, it is possible to knock every breadth requirement out of the way Freshman year without taking a FULL COURSELOAD.
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Bard is a fucking surreal place. I toured there with my brother a few years ago. NYU is alright, but you need to be ready for the fact that you're going to school in a city where studying and going to class can easily be forgotten about.
My final three schools ended up being Wake Forest, Brown and Stanford.
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none so much as liberal arts schools
Congratulations, you know what a liberal arts school is.
They're not about preparing you for a single walk of life, they're about teaching you about everything so that you can approach your post-college life with a more enlightened frame of mind than eight years of learning about one subject could ever teach you.
Like I said, I envy people who are happy at pre-professional schools. It's just not for me.
Yes.
YES YES YES.
I thought the exact same thing, and your avatar makes it laugh out loud funny. Great post. A++ would read again.
On topic: Im just about to move into my second year at uni. Its been a mixed year.
Protip: Have fun. Nearly every university degree at the moment is a solid 2 year course stretched over 3 years, just because 3 years, at least in Britain, is the arbitrary norm for your stay.
I nailed my first year without putting in any effort to studies at all. That said, im not suggesting you goof off, Im just saying, the experience is definetly part of the package.
People who go to university just to study hard and succeed are kinda missing something important in life.
Boy am I disapointed. The game got great ratings, but it runs assy on my Geforce 6800/1gig of RAM PC. (The 6800 was the absolute best you could buy in early 05', and Silent Storm came out in 03') It handles most things that should be handled within menus via an in-game interface that's a pain in the ass. For example, if you want a new rifle, you have to walk to the armory within the in-game engine, and THEN the weapons menu comes up. Superfluous to the max. I know, I know, but when you have to walk to three or four different areas (world-map, armory, recruiting room, medic, etc.) with load times and fancy buillshit in between, it gets pretty annoying. There's something about this game that's just so slow paced, it kills me. I'm not talking about how it's a turn-based game. I love turn based games...if the combat in this game ran as fluidly as it does in games like Fallout 2/Tactics, etc. then I would probably fucking love it. However, the game moves slow and sloppy. Every action requires a couple seconds to be carried out. I feel like the game is submerged in glue...
Ugh. That's my stupid rant. You don't get your 30 seconds back. It seems like I'm nit-picking, and I'll admit I am, but it's all I've said above x 100, basically.
don't you understand that learning things that have nothing to do with your major just turns you into a pompous git (like yourself!) and doesn't actually help you in the career you set out to do
for the love of christ, i've got a liberal arts major and I can't stand liberal arts schools
I only got in trouble with the assistant dean. Guess I'll never get my own college movie.
As a networking major.
I will strive to have a life more boring than anyone has ever dreamed of having.
muh.
Ditto for University of California.
They're pretty rank. It's awesome.
t cel: well then transfer to a liberal arts school and get the experience, ace.
I once took "Intro to Leisure Studies" because it fulfilled a necessary GE component. Read that again. I took that class. It was horrifying. I was required to do it.
Yeah, the career thing? That's the fucking point of a liberal arts school.
If there is one career that you want to do, and you know it's what you want to do, YOU'RE AT THE WRONG SCHOOL. YOU FUCKED UP. Stop taking it out on me. You do not belong at a liberal arts school. Maybe it's all you could get into though, in which case I'm sorry.
Haha! And it sure is a good thing taking peripheral classes makes everyone pompous ever, while directed courses turn out nothing but good, honest people!
Also, if I'm already a pompous git, and I go to a school that makes me a pompous git, will I:
(A) Become a double-pompous-git.
(B) Become an anti-pompous-git.
(C) Be made the Dean.
or
(D) A-splode?
Just comparing my graduation requirements with my friends' has taught me this.
I don't really agree with that...I think History and English/Lit degrees only make people who teach those classes and who appear in videos that those classes watch...but liberal arts schools also make pretty much every other career that isn't menial labor, doctors, lawyers, business-types or some scientists, and those people aren't all teaching.
"Oh ok let's see it says here you're engineering so um here we go you need to take Anthropology."
"Why?"
"Because you need to be well-rounded."
"Why?"
"Because if you don't take the breadth classes we don't give you a diploma, you little shit."
"...oh."
Yes, I hope the same for you.
You do not know what it's like.
Stop acting like you do.
but i have more friends here than you
also probably in real life
Oh man, if I had to go to an Ivy League, I'd go to Brown. I'm sure you know more about it than I do (very, very, very sure) but I hear it's the most laid-back of the Ivys.
Also, Kusu, what LA schools do your friends go to? Because at Pomona and Pitzer, it is possible to knock every breadth requirement out of the way Freshman year without taking a FULL COURSELOAD.
I'm pretty sure that's better than most unis.