Where do/did you go to college? [Archive]

Rei

10-18-2007, 03:07 PM

the university of the public library with borrowing rights, with masters in my own libraries.

I admire guys like you. :thumbsup:
Sure the name of your college/ university matters.
But someone who's self-taught usually knows the subject matter soooo much better than the guys seated at the back of a 200-strong lecture theatre, blanking out the professor's chatter with their own plans for the week-end.

I completely agree. I realized recently that my love for history will never translate to my love for history courses. It sucks having to learn something in a certain order or constricted to a syllabus.

Unfortunately, I need some stupid piece of paper to prove my abilities to stupid future employers. *sigh*

I've had my fair share of bad chemistry teachers. I think all chemistry teachers are horrible teachers. They have an inability to make things make sense. Even the easiest concepts sound more complicated coming from them.

Whoa there. Be careful making generalizations like that. My high school chemistry teacher was amazing. Freshman chemistry was a breeze for anyone having high school chemistry with her.

But yeah, I mentioned it before I think, but I go to Iowa State University.
You're probably right. I think I just suck at chemistry in the first place, the abstractness and yet, not abstract enough to be pure math. It REALLY doesn't help that I haven't had a good chemistry teacher/prof EVER. Every chemistry teacher in both the high schools I went to were horrible.

thegnat

10-18-2007, 04:20 PM

I think it really does depend on the teacher you had - I had an AMAZING Chem 1 and AP chem high school teachers. So that made freshman chemistry in college a breeze.

It's so unfortunate people have bad teachers though.

Chemistry can be really fun. I think it should be a requirement for teachers to do more demos in class. Because demos are awesome.

Or do things like make liquid nitrogen ice cream or tie dye your own shirts with dye you made. Demo potassium, sodium, etc going into water, thermite reaction....those are always fun. liquid nitrogen is awesome by the way :)

Intro chem should also have half as many titrations as they do. Freshman chem in college you do SO FREAKING MANY. OK. I can swirl an Erlenmeyer flask while making a burette drip at a decent rate. FANTASTIC! I haven't had to use a Burette since. Now that I say that I'll have to. haha.

College intro chemistry for majors is a lot like AP Chem but I really do believe the professor really does make a difference. At Kenyon we have a non-majors course called Solar Energy OR Neuroscience. At Ohio Northern (I transferred here from there) there was a non-majors course - I heard it was a joke.

People afraid to take college chemistry: I think non-majors chem courses are probably a hell of a lot more entertaining AND the profs won't expect you to know shit about it. So they teach it a lot better. They also try to make it more fun because they know you probably are coming into it not thinking you'll enjoy it and just taking it cause you have to. They gotta keep your interest in a subject they're so passionate about. If I take Solar Energy cause I want to do environmental studies maybe or just for the heck of it - I'll tell you about it. But I heard it's really basic chemistry and more on environmental impacts of stuff...

OK. I've went off enough here....

Firelie

10-19-2007, 04:37 PM

I'm going to Portland State University for Graphic Design.

And yes, everyone here realizes that Portland isn't a state. * :thinking:

generalowk

10-19-2007, 08:25 PM

I have a friend from another message board who just graduated from Portland State!

I have a degree from the University of Wisconsin.

ShaiGar

10-19-2007, 09:26 PM

I admire guys like you. :thumbsup:
Sure the name of your college/ university matters.
But someone who's self-taught usually knows the subject matter soooo much better than the guys seated at the back of a 200-strong lecture theatre, blanking out the professor's chatter with their own plans for the week-end.

I completely agree. My sister(ISFP) doesnt like to read, she doesn't read international newspapers, doesnt follow world news, doesnt know who chomsky is, doesnt know what the monroe doctrine is, doesnt know much history, and yet somehow got a bachelors of international relations, majoring in tourism. also she drinks far too much.

That's the sort of person who you're lumped in with, "oh, you've got a masters in business? so did the last person, but he got drunk all through university and doesnt know the subject, how do i know you do?"

I completely agree. *I realized recently that my love for history will never translate to my love for history courses. *It sucks having to learn something in a certain order or constricted to a syllabus.

Unfortunately, I need some stupid piece of paper to prove my abilities to stupid future employers. **sigh*

the syllabus thing though is precisely why i failed high school. all through primary school we learnt Egypt, Roman, Greek history. all through high school we learnt egypt, greek, roman. i got tired of it when i wanted to study mayan, khmer, inca, celtic, steppe, arab, persian, korean, chinese et cetera and fucked off to the town library to read instead.

as for the employer thing, i never liked being an employee and always wanted to invest in real estate like my parents or start my own ventures. so screw the paper.

Figmentum

11-06-2007, 04:28 PM

University of Alaska, Anchorage next year.

Paul V

11-06-2007, 06:21 PM

Kennedy University, next year.

Gabrielle

11-07-2007, 05:22 AM

Kings College London, 1st year medicine.

HarleyQuinn

11-07-2007, 01:12 PM

brewmaster

11-07-2007, 01:50 PM

I have degrees from the University of Minnesota and Purdue

justmeiguess

11-07-2007, 01:59 PM

University of Leeds.

Final year, BA Broadcasting (TV Production). True, it sounds like a bit of a doss course, but I fancied a change from all the essay writing I've had to do for the last God knows how many years of school. It also meant I learnt something new ie. how to use a camera, and got me interested in script writing.

thegnat

11-07-2007, 08:25 PM

Me: Colby-Sawyer College (Senior)
Sister: Clark University (Junior)
Cousin 1: UMass (Graduated)
Cousin 2: UMass (Graduated)
Cousin 3: UC Santa Barbara (Dropped out IIRC)
Mom: Kenyon College. Syracuse University for Grad School.
Dad: UMass. Syracuse University for Grad School.
Uncle 1: Clark University
Grandfather 1: Bowling Green University

That's all I know of off the top of my head...

Woo! Another Kenyon Lady!

With BGSU I have a couple friends that go there.

Let's see - for some of my relatives,
Drew University (aunt)
Syracuse U (aunt grad school)
Virginia Tech (aunt, uncle, father)
Wooster (grandma)
Harvard Law (grandpa)
University of Washington. (I *think* - he's into video game programming - cousin)
Kenyon College (2 cousins great uncle taught here, and of course yours truly)

those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head...

Jezebel

11-07-2007, 08:42 PM

Nobody in my family has graduated from college yet (and I'm including all my aunts, uncles and cousins in this). Just curious - am I the only one here that comes from a family like that?

deicruxified

11-07-2007, 09:10 PM

de la salle university - manila (philosophy minor in literature... gravest mistake... graduated last '06)
st scholastica's college - manila (music)

i actually took both but as per priorities, i finished at dlsu first then i'll be continuing my music studies in a few month's time since i only got 2 years left. then after i finish music, i'll take up masters either in japan or in the u.s. ... it's gonna depend on dad.

as for the rest of the brood

younger sister: de la salle university - manila (psychology... currently teaching some courses at the same university)
cuz1: never took college coz he's focused on his restaurant business
cuz2: patts college of aeronautics (aeronautics engineer)
cuz3: adamson university - (psychology)

(i got a lot of cuz's actually but i just added the ones i know)

unc1: patts college of aeronautics (aeronautics engineer)
unc2: university of the philippines - los banos (doctor of philosophy in philosophy)
unc3: university of sto tomas - (medicine and physical therapy.. is now a doctor in chicago)
mom: university of the philippines (marketing)
dad: we're not that close so i have no idea but i know he's a nautical engineer

we got a lot of engineers and doctors on father's side. mother's side are into liberal arts and music (painters, "philosophers", musicians, sculptors). so i'd say, genetics would be the reason why i'm a balanced brained intj

Firelie

11-07-2007, 10:27 PM

cielo market

11-07-2007, 10:33 PM

Nobody in my family has graduated from college yet (and I'm including all my aunts, uncles and cousins in this). Just curious - am I the only one here that comes from a family like that?

my family's like that. none of the older generations even graduated from highschool. me and my cousins are the first to pass that. my older sister will be the first to break the college thing. curious, are you first generation American, Jez?

Henry

11-08-2007, 01:06 AM

UC Davis. Great academics, excellent food, shitty social scene, expensive living, hot summers.

Trying to figure out grad school and what exactly I'm doing in that respect. Will probably either be a stats MS or a low ranking econ doctoral program. Can't decide which, although I need to get cracking for 08.

deicruxified

11-08-2007, 02:18 AM

UC Davis. *Great academics, excellent food, shitty social scene, expensive living, hot summers.

Trying to figure out grad school and what exactly I'm doing in that respect. *Will probably either be a stats MS or a low ranking econ doctoral program. *Can't decide which, although I need to get cracking for 08.
same here... i still can;t decide as well... ms physics vs ms clinical psych... and a lot others... i do have a lib arts bachelorette's degree but i don;t mind extending years and taking extra units for grad school.

Jezebel

11-08-2007, 02:40 AM

Nobody in my family has graduated from college yet (and I'm including all my aunts, uncles and cousins in this). Just curious - am I the only one here that comes from a family like that?

my family's like that. none of the older generations even graduated from highschool. me and my cousins are the first to pass that. my older sister will be the first to break the college thing. curious, are you first generation American, Jez?
Yeah, none of the older generations in my family graduated from high school (including my parents, aunts/uncles), and only a couple of my cousins have so far. I was the first to go to college at all, but I dropped out for financial reasons. My family has been in America so long they can't even agree about where we came from in the first place.

Henry

11-08-2007, 03:39 AM

same here... i still can;t decide as well... ms physics vs ms clinical psych... and a lot others... i do have a lib arts bachelorette's degree but i don;t mind extending years and taking extra units for grad school.

My research interest is economics, specificaly the macroeconomics of conflict, but I don't have the math to get into a top program, hence the MS stats or

Also kicking around religious studies...it woudl be easy, and funding a cake, but job wise not so many options.

How about you? *Any research or career interests driving the desire for higher education?

Rei

11-08-2007, 10:08 AM

I completely agree. My sister(ISFP) doesnt like to read, she doesn't read international newspapers, doesnt follow world news, doesnt know who chomsky is, doesnt know what the monroe doctrine is, doesnt know much history, and yet somehow got a bachelors of international relations, majoring in tourism. also she drinks far too much.

That's the sort of person who you're lumped in with, "oh, you've got a masters in business? so did the last person, but he got drunk all through university and doesnt know the subject, how do i know you do?"

the syllabus thing though is precisely why i failed high school. all through primary school we learnt Egypt, Roman, Greek history. all through high school we learnt egypt, greek, roman. i got tired of it when i wanted to study mayan, khmer, inca, celtic, steppe, arab, persian, korean, chinese et cetera and fucked off to the town library to read instead.

as for the employer thing, i never liked being an employee and always wanted to invest in real estate like my parents or start my own ventures. so screw the paper.
I totally missed this reply...
But yeah, most people who go to university go for the sake of getting a higher pay afterward. People don't go to learn anymore. Some people who do enjoy/get things out of it. But Probably not until about 3rd or 4th year of their studies.

Especially business majors. I rarely meet business/econ/industry majors who don't go get drunk every weekend... or even in the middle of the week... Of course, the ones that do really know their stuff (and it's probably because they read things outside of school syllabus instead of drinking).

Yeah, none of the older generations in my family graduated from high school (including my parents, aunts/uncles), and only a couple of my cousins have so far. I was the first to go to college at all, but I dropped out for financial reasons. My family has been in America so long they can't even agree about where we came from in the first place.
*raises hand*
Well one of my uncles on my dad's side went to University. But no one else from the previous generation.
My mother dropped out of junior high, and she had to push for that too; money was a real issue. I don't know about my dad, but both of them have taken courses in community colleges down the road to get "qualification" for jobs.

Rei

11-08-2007, 10:11 AM

Kings College London, 1st year medicine.
OMG you're one of those people I'll always be jealous of because you get to go into medicine straight out of highschool!

Gabrielle

11-08-2007, 01:11 PM

Kings College London, 1st year medicine.
OMG you're one of those people I'll always be jealous of because you get to go into medicine straight out of highschool!

May I also say that I had absolutely no social life and sixteen 5's on my AP exams and one 4 in my AP European History? I never went out, and all I did was study, eat, sleep, extra-curricular, school, work, volunteer, and oh, practice personal hygiene. Trust me, it did NOTHING to boost my confidence (which I have quite a lack of), help me get more socially able... in fact, it alienated me from the rest of the class since by the end of 1st semester Senior year my life was... set.

My life revolved around freaking out about exams because a 99 would not be good enough, freaking out during debate and speech tournaments because 2nd place was not good enough.

Normal way is the way to go. I have a friend who got into Northwestern med school at age 18. Looks gorgeous? Check. Extremely smart? Check. Awesome soccer player? Check.

The sad fact is... have neurotic parents who are never satisfied with his achievement? Check. Is on antidepressants? Check. Is a WoW Junkie (I have nothing against WoW, by the way...)? Check. Although he is already in med school at the youthful age of 18 AND lives in a Freshman dorm, he is (and I know this because I'm on the phone with him) currently playing... World of Warcraft.

You have to pay for everything. In my (and his case), mental stability and social incapability were our prices.

cielo market

11-08-2007, 03:42 PM

Nobody in my family has graduated from college yet (and I'm including all my aunts, uncles and cousins in this). Just curious - am I the only one here that comes from a family like that?

my family's like that. none of the older generations even graduated from highschool. me and my cousins are the first to pass that. my older sister will be the first to break the college thing. curious, are you first generation American, Jez?
Yeah, none of the older generations in my family graduated from high school (including my parents, aunts/uncles), and only a couple of my cousins have so far. I was the first to go to college at all, but I dropped out for financial reasons. My family has been in America so long they can't even agree about where we came from in the first place.

Ahhh gotcha. I'm first gen. American btw

tubaglue

11-08-2007, 04:45 PM

University of Kentucky - Bachelor of Music
University of Louisville - working on Master of Music
Indina University? Arizona St.? UCLA? U. of Illinios? - DMA of Music? We'll see... hopefully a gig!

Even though I'm a turncoat I still bleed blue for my Wildcats!

justmeiguess

11-08-2007, 05:43 PM

Nobody in my family has graduated from college yet (and I'm including all my aunts, uncles and cousins in this). Just curious - am I the only one here that comes from a family like that?

I'm the first in my family to go to University - possibly ever (at least in recent history). Quite a few went to college but most went straight from High School to work at sixteen.

INTJoe

11-08-2007, 06:32 PM

I received my Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Houston in 2002.

Bossy Mom

11-13-2007, 04:36 PM

I went to Missouri Western University. My husband went to MIT and Northwestern University. My son went to the University of Minnesota and the University of Michigan. My daughter is still in high school.

bucolic_

11-13-2007, 05:23 PM

Henry

11-15-2007, 02:53 AM

Currently attending UC Davis? Me too. CS major for now..

Graduated. 05. I miss the food in Davis...Jade Garden, Mi Guadalajara. Huge, delicious meals for under $5.

Don't miss the heat or overpriced housing though.

cielo market

11-15-2007, 06:47 PM

University of Houston. Notorious for their golf carts running into pedestrians, but they're working on that now.

rocksteady

11-19-2007, 08:21 PM

I am currently working on an Associates in general studies at a Community college, then it's probably off to UCONN for economics for me.

btw, i didn't realize so many of you were college age, don't know why, but I assumed people here were mostly older (could be all the stimulating convo)

Lucid

11-19-2007, 09:40 PM

Both my parents went to ivy league schools. I go to Metro state college of Denver (certainly not very prestigious :undecided:) for a bachelor's in communication. It's taken me about 7 years to get my degree because working while in school makes it take forever.
I will graduate in May. Finally! ;D

INTJoe

11-20-2007, 02:33 PM

University of Houston. Notorious for their golf carts running into pedestrians, but they're working on that now.

What year did you graduate and in what discipline? I posted a handful of posts above yours. I went to UH 1997-2002 for my Architecture degree.

- INTJoe

Gaius Baltar

11-20-2007, 08:19 PM

I consider myself self educated. Yeah, that doesn't really fly with anyone, so I usually just avoid the subject. I'd figure a group like this would be able to get what I mean, though.

I did do college for a while. Was an excellent student, honors program, 3.8 GPA, etc. I quit because it was such a huge waste of time, money, and energy for me. I suppose it was pretty bad because I also had to hold down a fulltime job at the same time to put myself through school. I also already had about 95% of the knowledge and skills I was going to school for, so it felt like I was just going through the motions.

I come from a long line of self made men. Great-grandfather invented the roller bearing, apparently. I suppose I'm just the latest to uphold that tradition...

lhsimm

11-21-2007, 02:18 PM

I originally attended Washington University in St. Louis as an illustration major. However, the program was not what I wanted, so I took a leave of absence. It took me nine years to find what I wanted. I just recently completed my Bachelor of Science in Visualization at Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

cielo market

11-21-2007, 03:02 PM

What year did you graduate and in what discipline? I posted a handful of posts above yours. I went to UH 1997-2002 for my Architecture degree.

- INTJoe

I'm a current (junior) student going for my Graphic Communications degree :)

Henry

11-22-2007, 03:46 AM

Warren_Wong

11-22-2007, 08:58 PM

Cornell University. I failed a semester and still managed to get both my bachelors and masters in 4 years :-P

Fissiongrid

11-22-2007, 09:05 PM

Just submitted my early application to Dartmouth. Wish me luck!

I'm also applying to Colby, Bowdoin, Brandeis, and my backup school is Colorado College.

terencec

12-10-2007, 04:03 PM

University of Michigan (go Wolverines...nah, not really)

I also graduated from there. Go Blue.

radioactivez0r

12-10-2007, 04:18 PM

It took me 9 years and 4 schools to finish my English degree, and a little over a year later, I can technically say that it helped me get a part-time website writing gig.

Spent a year at Berkeley (and wish I had not taken it for granted), 3 1/2 years at Sac State before failing out due to complete lack of interest in doing the work (went to class most of the time, just didn't do homework), spent some time at community college getting re-accustomed to the life, then finished out at National University, it of the evening and online classes.

I'm pretty sure I will go back for a grad degree, but I haven't figure out what it will be, and in the meantime I'm trying to improve my market value in an area completely unrelated to my major.

terencec

12-10-2007, 05:06 PM

May I also say that I had absolutely no social life and sixteen 5's on my AP exams and one 4 in my AP European History? I never went out, and all I did was study, eat, sleep, extra-curricular, school, work, volunteer, and oh, practice personal hygiene. Trust me, it did NOTHING to boost my confidence (which I have quite a lack of), help me get more socially able... in fact, it alienated me from the rest of the class since by the end of 1st semester Senior year my life was... set.

I graduated almost 10 years ago. I also like you. In college, I never had any social life because grades were very important to me. I was very obsessed about my GPA. One time, I almost had a nervous breakdown! I think if I was not so worried about the grades, I would do better (I could go to my 1st choice graduate school at Palo Alto). I still got very good GPA but .... Now I really don't see that is very important now. (I could not see that when I was still in college due to my obession). It is not that important to go to the best engineering school too.

Looking back, I regretted I did not have any social life in college. I should have joined some clubs and worked with other students so I could develop better soft skills. Getting high GPA should not be the only purpose in college. One should develop social life, leadership etc. The social skills, leadership, EQ etc is much more important in the real world than the Grades in school even one is doing research. There are almost no jobs nowaday one can do it alone by himself/herself.

If I could redo it again, I would just have more social life and would rather have lower grades. So I will learn something much more valuables than just something in the books. Engineering or medical fields change so fast. What I study today, it will be outdated a few years later. I have to learn new things anything. So, is it really so important to get A in every class? Even for the perfectionist INTJ, IMHO it is just irrational and meaningless to do so.

I really think everyone should get a job and work for a while before they go to college especially graduate school and professional schools. So they know how the real world works and make sure they know what they really want to do in the life. Getting all A+/A won't guarantee anything in the real world. Nobody cares about the grades after the first/second job. It is all about the experience. GPA 4.0, 3.9, 3.8, 3.7 ..... There are not much different unless one got very low GPA and I am doubt any perfectionist will get very low GPA! Just what to share my experience.

terencec added to this post, 40 minutes and 23 seconds later...

OMG you're one of those people I'll always be jealous of because you get to go into medicine straight out of highschool!

I agree.

In US, one cannot go into medical school straight out of highschool, he/she has got a BS degree first. I know someone got a music degree and they got into medical school. So, in US, it takes total 12 years to complete the degree.

I hope you like your field and it is not only because of money, your parents or peer. Medical is a "depressing career" in general especially one works in the hospitial., sees patients dying everyday. I heard some doctors are depressed working in hospital.

The money is very good in US. One can make $500K~1 million per year with 3+ year experience. Cosmetic doctors will make much more!

WavesSootheMe

12-10-2007, 11:32 PM

I'm at UCLA for a few more years.

A UC rival :suspicious:

Question Everything

12-10-2007, 11:40 PM

Vanderbilt! Graduating in May 2008. Neuroscience and philosophy.

Go 'Dores! Or something. I don't really care about sports, but they tell me I'm supposed to get excited and say "Go 'Dores!" when the surrounding company starts talking football and basketball.

Disclaimer: I am not a snotty rich kid like the majority of Vanderbilt students.

mielikki

12-11-2007, 01:52 AM

Spent some time at the University of Victoria
Spent a little more time at the University of British Columbia
On and off at Malaspina University-College

Thinking of heading over to Royal Roads for some Environmental Management credits in the new year (if I can afford it)...... I may eventually finish a degree in SOMETHING before I turn 60.

Nobody in my family has graduated from college yet (and I'm including all my aunts, uncles and cousins in this). Just curious - am I the only one here that comes from a family like that?

No. My Dad got a B.Ed when he was 57. Other than that - the only degree in all my extended family is one cousin with a BScN.

banzai

12-11-2007, 11:10 PM

self taught. :)

Hypomanic

12-12-2007, 08:33 AM

ASU.

cylontoaster

12-15-2007, 02:19 AM

I'm a 4th year Electrical Engineering/Computer Science student at Berkeley.

Provided that I don't fail my classes this semester, I'll only have five more credits to go.

You're probably right. I think I just suck at chemistry in the first place, the abstractness and yet, not abstract enough to be pure math. It REALLY doesn't help that I haven't had a good chemistry teacher/prof EVER. Every chemistry teacher in both the high schools I went to were horrible.

There's plenty of math in chemistry, its just that they only show us at first, oversimplified intuitive models, that while being sort-of-correct are not quite right. It always amused me that in chemistry the models still had practical use even when they weren't absolutely correct. Of course this forces us to memorize a ridiculous number of exceptions as well.

At any rate, I've always seen Chem Majors to be a little crazy. ;)

An observation of my Intro to Organic Chem class:
The fire alarm goes off in the lab.
People start groaning.
"Everyone get outside."
Half of the class responds, "Um, can we finish the lab?"

Booko

12-15-2007, 02:50 AM

I've had my fair share of bad chemistry teachers. I think all chemistry teachers are horrible teachers. They have an inability to make things make sense. Even the easiest concepts sound more complicated coming from them.

I seem to have had an unfair share of good chemistry teachers.

My students never complained I made things sound complicated, but then, they mostly aren't and I tried to relate them to things that people already understood.

Most Chemistry is no more than kinda fussy cooking when you get down to it.

Booko added to this post, 15 minutes and 46 seconds later...

At any rate, I've always seen Chem Majors to be a little crazy. ;)

An observation of my Intro to Organic Chem class:
The fire alarm goes off in the lab.
People start groaning.
"Everyone get outside."
Half of the class responds, "Um, can we finish the lab?"

Oh yeah, that was like the time they cut the power lines and the hoods were off and we were doing ether extractions and were pissed we had to stop.

Wow was I sick as a dog later that evening though.

Chemistry majors brew the best ale though. :D

the demented shrew

12-15-2007, 07:55 AM

senior year of nursing at St. Mary's/ Samuel Merritt College

gandalph

12-15-2007, 08:59 AM

Albright College, Reading Pa. i am majoring in Business Administration

Caramel

12-15-2007, 09:35 AM

Leiden University. (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.).

My chemistry prof (teaches bio chem and organic chem) is amazing. She makes even the most complicated subjects easy.

HackerX

12-17-2007, 08:08 AM

Nobody in my family has graduated from college yet (and I'm including all my aunts, uncles and cousins in this). Just curious - am I the only one here that comes from a family like that?

I am the first in my family to graduate university (Queensland University of Technology To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.). Dad almost finished his engineering degree back when he first left school, but started full time work for an engineering company and never went back.

AgentofGaming

12-17-2007, 05:41 PM

University of Toronto
2nd Year - Computer Engineering

We have the flexible curriculum for 3rd/4th year, I don't know what to choose.
The list is quite huge and I can't take all the things I'm interested in like, Internet, Hardware, Software, Graphics. You can also take a mix of Electrical Engineering courses.
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iamnotspock

12-30-2007, 04:08 AM

hurricanereno20,

You got to fix your life now, bro'. Can't go on like that. I turned down a six-year med program out of high school for that reason. You got to live, man! Fact is, all that studying won't even make you a good doctor...

Rei,

Not everybody's a grade grubber. I didn't give fvck all about my gpa in high school or college. I learned more by feeling free to argue with prof's, read off the syllabus, and thinking for myself than regurgitating pre-digested outlines and plug and chugging on the exam. And in my experience, a lot of employers didn't care too much about GPA. With grade inflation it doesn't mean a lot anyway. They want to see and hear you think.

In the real world, a lot of the 4.0 types fail. They simply can't think for themselves. They can just get into law school and spend their life whining on behalf of their clients. Just like they did for their grades in college!

ScottH

12-30-2007, 05:44 AM

I've never been to college. Rather, a few community college courses, such as electronics, economics and the like. No certificates, no degrees.

I tried hard not to let school (or lack thereof) interfere with my ravenous hunger for knowledge, and I seem to have done well enough on my own.

I know I'm career limited without a degree; I cannot move from engineering--which I love--into management--which I don't love--because of it. Darn ;-)

Maitri1970

01-01-2008, 11:04 AM

B.A. Art history - UW-Madison
M.S. Higher Education Administration - UW-Milwaukee

Jgib5328

01-02-2008, 09:56 PM

I'm a sophomore at the University of Rochester

uberosity

01-02-2008, 10:29 PM

UC Santa Cruz - introvert haven!

terencec

01-02-2008, 11:02 PM

UC Santa Cruz - introvert haven!

I lived in Silicon Valley a while ago, have been there before. Santa Cruz is nice place. The house is expensive though. I recall there is a beach, hate to drive HW 17, it is so narrow and the one side is just a cliff.

Kfbr

01-02-2008, 11:09 PM

University of Utah :toot:

edalz

01-04-2008, 03:40 AM

I spent 2 years at St. Olaf College, which was cool, but got to be too expensive (small private liberal arts school= $$$). I'm currently attending University of Wisconsin, Superior (small public university= $, yay ;D).

I'm an Economics and Math double major. I've got about 3 years left, so 5 total, which isn't too bad. god I love Econ. :thumbsup: And I'm not drunk, btw...but I know a few who are...even in class sometimes.

I also had an amazing high school chem teacher, but a ridiculously boring and awful college chemistry experience. Titration. Blah. College chem lab was just cook-book bs. I actually got to blow things up and make chemiluminescent stuff in high school.

Snuggles

01-08-2008, 09:55 PM

I saw a couple mention there mom/aunt graduated from my University...

SYRACUSE! Go Orangmen!!!

karen

01-09-2008, 01:50 AM

Portland State University
Major: Organismal Physiology/Zoology
Minors: Organic Chemistry, Geology

I am the first person in my family to graduate college, but both parents almost had technical degrees, and little brother has an associates in general studies simply because he had nothing better to do and my parents made him go to school.

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Oh! and I have had some good and bad Chem teachers (and one bad for general chem turned out to be awesome in organic). I hope I'm a good Chem teacher :)

emaleth

01-09-2008, 07:36 PM

Faculty of Philosophy in the city of Zagreb in Croatia :)

Zilal

01-10-2008, 04:59 PM

I'm at the University of Rhode Island, majoring in geosciences. It's nice.

A long time ago, I attended UCONN as an English major.

My experience jives with the idea that chemistry is a difficult thing to teach well. Which is too bad.

Thanks to terencec for the reminder about grades... I've become somewhat GPA-obsessed and I know it only hurts me. But I wasn't that great in high school and the first time I went to college... mostly mixed As and Bs, some lower grades... I don't think I was prepared for getting As in everything on returning to college. Now I have this stupid 4.0 that I'm afraid of messing up. I know logically that it doesn't matter but I am stuck in this place where I stress about it. I took a wicked hard class last semester that I was sure I was going to get a C or something in and break my streak, but no, another A.

I know I am not going to be lying on my deathbed thinking, "I sure wish I'd put more than 50 hours a week into studying when I was in school!"

mxdntz

03-26-2008, 09:52 PM

UC Santa Cruz - introvert haven!

University of Texas at Austin - introvert hell! Just kidding, I love it. :thumbsup: I secretly root for OU football because Mack Brown reminds me of GWBush (who was denied admission to UT by the way, so he went to Harvard)

integratedvelocity

03-27-2008, 02:10 AM

Harvard College - econ or gov concentrator

I tend to feel awkward about telling people, they either expect me to be brilliant or rich, and I probably don't count as the first and definitely don't count as the second.

bubbles

03-27-2008, 03:31 AM

University of California, Los Angeles - Computer Science

I don't like the traditional computer science curriculum they have here...it's in the School of Engineering :(

enigma

03-27-2008, 04:56 AM

university of indonesia
faculty of psychology

ginandsour

03-27-2008, 06:38 AM

I went to high school in Portland, Oregon where I didn't care whatsoever about GPA. I didn't even try.

I went to college at a small regional university not particularly well known for anything where I remained "at sea" academically, drifting from physics to philosophy and finally graduating with a history degree only to discover I should have studied political science the entire time.

Armed with some sense of direction in life, I'm now working my ass off to compensate for abysmal grades so I can break into graduate school somewhere and eventually become a professor.

Honestly? I couldn't be happier. ;D

schmidt

03-27-2008, 09:31 AM

Things are a bit different over here in Sweden, but I attended a 3 year gymnasium (which, if I recall correctly is about the same thing as two years college) and then another two years in a vocational school earning what is called a "Kvalificierad Yrkesexamen" in Swedish.
Subject was System Administration of GNU/UNIX systems

And the whole thing went down in Stockholm, Sweden. First 'Martinskolan' and then 'Jensen Education'

Introvertguy

03-27-2008, 08:26 PM

Oxford (the one in England)

eternaltriangle

03-27-2008, 10:17 PM

undergrad: University of Toronto (U of T is a great school - no social life, all work! Well I did debating)
Phd (2 years down almost, 3 to go): Indiana University (my adviser rules... He is also a possible INTJ, though he is probably INTP). I turned down Chicago to come here (they didn't give me much money though), and don't regret it (except on the off days that I think of my classmates who went to Yale/Harvard... what is funny is that whenever I was in the same class as them, I did better...). All with a GPA that was torn asunder in my first year by a D in calculus (though I beat the average engineer by a good margin on the math part of the GRE).

Um... Go local sports team? (if I were to wear the clothing of any team, it would be Purdue, just to piss off my fellow Hoosiers)

PRBori

03-27-2008, 10:41 PM

No College for me. I just went to a technical school to get a something saying "I know computers" and then took off from there on my own. Pretty much self-taught in the IT field.

I can do just about anything and reverse engineer any process in order to learn it. Currently I'm getting ready to study for my CISSP and CAP in order to exceed in my career, but again is not college.

In my field, those certifications have much more value than a college degree and adding the experience I have, let's say I'm good. At this point in my life I prefer to save the 40K in college.

Eventually if a company feels is necessary for me to have it, then if they pay I will go, but until then I will do certifications only. I make enough money that a degree will not make much of a difference, I will reach my goal faster... but what good will it be to reach it and be in debt?

Debt FREE and goal reach sound better for me.... I can save the money I make instead...

:idea:

Gabrielle

03-28-2008, 07:05 AM

Great. We have Oxford and Harvard. Man I feel dumb :-P

Which college are you in, Introvert? My ex is at CHCH :-P

Introvertguy

03-29-2008, 02:42 PM

Great. We have Oxford and Harvard. Man I feel dumb :-P

Which college are you in, Introvert? My ex is at CHCH :-P

Nowhere as posh as Christchurch (although older), and I was there a long time ago. It was on the High, if that narrows it down! I didn't enjoy it much if that's any consolation - too introverted :thinking:

integratedvelocity

03-29-2008, 03:13 PM

Great. We have Oxford and Harvard. Man I feel dumb :-P

Seriously, don't feel dumb. Leave that to me when I find myself sitting right on the peak of the curve, or no more than one standard deviation in either direction. Often to the left when in math or CS courses. Maybe I should just take subjective literature courses for the rest of my life...

Gabrielle

03-29-2008, 05:48 PM

ahh, I don't have grading anymore! (does a happy jig) Med school does pass/fail... otherwise I'd be a nervous wreck...

Jgib5328

03-29-2008, 05:52 PM

Seriously, don't feel dumb. Leave that to me when I find myself sitting right on the peak of the curve, or no more than one standard deviation in either direction. Often to the left when in math or CS courses. Maybe I should just take subjective literature courses for the rest of my life...

I don't see how you could consider yourself dumb, you go to the best college in the country, and probably the world. You are most likely much smarter than the average person. You may be middle ground at Harvard, but you are still at Harvard, where the 'best and brightest' reside.

thod

03-29-2008, 08:55 PM

London University.

Gabrielle

03-29-2008, 08:57 PM

Oo, which one! I go to one too!

Tenacious B

03-31-2008, 08:22 AM

University of Texas at Austin - introvert hell! Just kidding, I love it. :thumbsup: I secretly root for OU football because Mack Brown reminds me of GWBush (who was denied admission to UT by the way, so he went to Harvard)
And the grand total of Longhorns I like increases to 1. Kidding:p

University of Oklahoma - BS
Texas A&M University - MS

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Great. We have Oxford and Harvard. Man I feel dumb :-P

University reputations are vastly overrated imho, but that is a whole different thread.

Merle

03-31-2008, 09:07 PM

Another one for Oxford here.

I also studied Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design... did that straight after secondary school, dropped out, then worked for a couple of years before coming to Oxford to do English Lit.

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Nowhere as posh as Christchurch (although older), and I was there a long time ago. It was on the High, if that narrows it down! I didn't enjoy it much if that's any consolation - too introverted :thinking:

Univ?

Toby

03-31-2008, 09:08 PM

At Flensburg University of Applied Sciences (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.).

pallasathena

03-31-2008, 09:12 PM

I went to Ohio University for a year and got kicked out because I didn't go to class. I was burned out on school and I hadn't declared a major. If I could do it over again, I'd get a job right out of high school and then figure out what I wanted to do. I can't say college was a total bust. I met a lot of interesting people and some spirits. Did I mention that this place was haunted? That was a weird year. These days, I'm in culinary school, part-time. I'm studying to be a personal chef. If I could swing it right now, I'd love to study at Johnson and Wales or the Cordon Bleu and get a real classical culinary education.

Fej

03-31-2008, 09:53 PM

Does it really matter where you get your education from?

I'm asking this because I'll probably go to an "average" state university.

*I want to study Finance btw

Jgib5328

03-31-2008, 10:03 PM

Does it really matter where you get your education from?

I'm asking this because I'll probably go to an "average" state university.

*I want to study Finance btw

It does and it doesn't. Some schools give better education than others, that is a fact, but often times you can get a decent education at regular schools. Elite universities have the name recognition factor though. If you have Harvard on your resume, you are going to get the job pretty often. If you want to break into the finance world in NYC or a big city, the name recognition and your GPA are big factors.

Gabrielle

04-01-2008, 01:33 AM

Another one for Oxford here.

I also studied Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design... did that straight after secondary school, dropped out, then worked for a couple of years before coming to Oxford to do English Lit.

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Univ?

... I'm not a direct answerer of the question, but what do you mean, univ? He went to Oxford... I think that was cleared up...

eternaltriangle

04-01-2008, 02:21 AM

University of Texas at Austin - introvert hell! Just kidding, I love it. :thumbsup: I secretly root for OU football because Mack Brown reminds me of GWBush (who was denied admission to UT by the way, so he went to Harvard)

Boo UT Austin. This isn't sports related, it is just that in Canada when you say you went to U of T, they all know you are talking about University of Toronto (my alma mater). Down here when "U of T" slips out, people think I mean Texas. I demand the satisfaction, sir!

vkut79

04-01-2008, 02:42 AM

I don't see how you could consider yourself dumb, you go to the best college in the country, and probably the world. You are most likely much smarter than the average person. You may be middle ground at Harvard, but you are still at Harvard, where the 'best and brightest' reside.

Not necessarily true. It just has the greatest name recognition.

Tenacious B

04-01-2008, 04:29 AM

Not necessarily true. It just has the greatest name recognition.
And the largest endowment, which correlates well to university rankings.

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Does it really matter where you get your education from?

I'm asking this because I'll probably go to an "average" state university.

*I want to study Finance btw
The name on your diploma might help you get in the door, but what you know will keep you there (or not).

The most important aspect of your education is what you decide to put into it. You can slack off and skate by in a top university and you can bust your rear to really learn something at XYZ State (vice versa of course). It is really up to you.

A "better" school will have some advantages other than name, like facilities, research opportunities (if you're interested) with distinguished faculty, and more course options (comparing a large, well funded department to a smaller one).

kovsky

04-01-2008, 06:04 AM

Going to Pennsylvania State Univeristy this fall

Antares

04-01-2008, 07:11 AM

Jgib5328

04-01-2008, 09:17 AM

Not necessarily true. It just has the greatest name recognition.

Yeah, that's pretty much what I meant, but Harvard still is one of the top schools in the world and will pretty much always be.

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Oxford and Harvard students in this forum?! :scared: Oh man. I'm going to feel so down when I get rejected out of those schools... And I'm years from applying. I know the university you graduate from doesn't really say everything about your capabilities, but like others before me mentioned, I really want to bank on the reputation to give me an advantage. Successfully applying would mean that I would have to really pull myself together before my Sophomore year, which means no procrastination allowed, which means eternal damnation (exaggerating, but you can see there's many things I'd rather be doing). But maybe the saying's right... "No pain, no gain." You know what? Since I'm going to have to go through this anyway... I'm just going to blow my Freshmen year (this one) and have all the fun I can. Screw Honor Roll.

Antares, my best advice to you, is to really really work hard in high school to get all A's and do extracurriculars and gain leadership positions in them. Reading your posts, I can tell you are already a very intelligent and dedicated person so I'm sure you could do it. But yeah being in college, I realized how easy high school was in comparison and how I wish I gave it my full effort, even though I ended up in a good place anyways.

Merle

04-01-2008, 10:22 AM

... I'm not a direct answerer of the question, but what do you mean, univ? He went to Oxford... I think that was cleared up...

I was asking if he went to University College - he said it was one of the older colleges, on the High... so maybe Queens or Univ.

Theodoric

04-02-2008, 12:56 PM

Albright College. Yeah, I know you never heard of it. Small private liberal arts college in Pennsylvania.

Digital Media and Fine Art, with a little bit of Computer Science courses thrown in. Loved it because for the most part I could go and pursue my own interests and my own work rather than dealing with rote memorization and writing pointless essays (except for first year 100 level classes, which are the same no matter where you go).

The best part about it? Since the place was so small it was not overwhelming and the class size was small, both the professor and you would usually be on a first name basis.

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Antares, my best advice to you, is to really really work hard in high school to get all A's and do extracurriculars and gain leadership positions in them.

Or make sure your daddy is well connected and / or wealthy. Seems like a lot of idiots that have these are able to get into the ivy leagues.

Politicians anyone?

TheLastMohican

04-02-2008, 02:03 PM

Or make sure your daddy is well connected and / or wealthy. Seems like a lot of idiots that have these are able to get into the ivy leagues.

Politicians anyone?

And if that doesn't work, just claim you are the illegitimate offspring of (enter dead wealthy guy here). By the time they prove you wrong with DNA tests, you will already be too famous to get rid of.

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Oxford and Harvard students in this forum?! :scared: Oh man. I'm going to feel so down when I get rejected out of those schools... And I'm years from applying. I know the university you graduate from doesn't really say everything about your capabilities, but like others before me mentioned, I really want to bank on the reputation to give me an advantage. Successfully applying would mean that I would have to really pull myself together before my Sophomore year, which means no procrastination allowed, which means eternal damnation (exaggerating, but you can see there's many things I'd rather be doing). But maybe the saying's right... "No pain, no gain." You know what? Since I'm going to have to go through this anyway... I'm just going to blow my Freshmen year (this one) and have all the fun I can. Screw Honor Roll.

Now don't be so defeatist. Leave the computer and go make yourself worthy of Oxford and Harvard!

integratedvelocity

04-02-2008, 04:09 PM

When I was a freshman, I still hadn't ruled out a few small public universities. I didn't decide to apply to Harvard until partway through my senior year. I'm guessing that my "edge" was the sheer amount of music extracurriculars (not necessarily leadership positions) and self-education. They definitely look at if you go out of your way to create opportunities. And yes, there are people who bought their way into Ivy Leagues, but they are not as common as you probably believe. I have met very few people who didn't deserve to attend.

Introvertguy

04-02-2008, 04:36 PM

I was asking if he went to University College - he said it was one of the older colleges, on the High... so maybe Queens or Univ.

You guessed it. Me and Bill Clinton (although not at the same time!) ;). Not one of the better known colleges for some reason, even though it's the oldest (founded in 1249 I believe)

Merle

04-02-2008, 07:33 PM

And yes, there are people who bought their way into Ivy Leagues, but they are not as common as you probably believe. I have met very few people who didn't deserve to attend.

While there are no fees here (or negligible fees in comparison to the states) there is still a real perception that money can get you a place at Oxford... and sure, private school pupils are vastly over-represented... but that isn't a question of those students having parents that have the money to send them to Oxford but of their parent's having the money to afford a better education than most state secondary schools can provide... which is pretty terrible but absolutely not the same thing.

I too have very rarely met anyone in my time at Oxford that didn't seem like they were truly intellectually capable and deserving of their place.
However, the problem of over-representation of private school students is only made worse by the public perception of the university being a place for *rich* people and all bright state school pupils are done a massive disservice by the media representations of Oxford and Cambridge as bastions of privilege.

vkut79

04-03-2008, 01:45 AM

Oh and I go to Haverford College, a liberal arts college outside Philadelphia.

apotheon

04-03-2008, 02:38 AM

I will be starting Uconn in Aug.

nocturne

04-03-2008, 03:13 AM

The University of Amazon at Amazon.co.uk. Books are fun.

Antares

04-04-2008, 07:33 AM

Now don't be so defeatist. Leave the computer and go make yourself worthy of Oxford and Harvard!

A very practical advice; if only I can make myself (don't worry, I'll try :thumbsup:)

Santana28

04-04-2008, 01:56 PM

Nobody in my family has graduated from college yet (and I'm including all my aunts, uncles and cousins in this). Just curious - am I the only one here that comes from a family like that?

Same here...well...until June. My younger cousin will be the first to graduate from college - he got a full ride as valedictorian of his high school. Is he smart? sure. Is he smarter than me? Not by a long shot. The difference was that while his father (my uncle) was raising him in a stable, loving, supportive family home - I got the other end of the stick and spent the majority of my high school years bouncing between places to live after being thrown out by my father, and then recovering from a major illness which almost killed me (right before graduation). How i still managed to get As and Bs with the very very little effort i put into school, i will never know. And i even managed to get the 2nd highest test scores of the entire school district (which i might add was also known for being MUCH more difficult than my cousin's). When i wasn't in school, i was working in order to keep a roof over my head and food in my mouth... while he had his tutors, and loving supportive parents. I wish him well - but if i said i wasn't a little jaded, i'd be lying.

But hey - college ain't about intelligence.. its about "perseverance" :-P i guess i have none of that, do i? give me a break.

geonerd

04-10-2008, 11:07 AM

undergrad - Smith College (math)
grad - will start UT Austin in the fall (geology)

Knikes Black

04-10-2008, 12:13 PM

Freshman at Texas Tech University. Introvert to extrovert ratio has to be 1:20,000. :blank: After my first year here I think its safe to say I came to the wrong school :(

My older brother goes to Harvard law so now I have to get into MIT to match him..

yea right :(

OddFactor

04-16-2008, 04:55 AM

University of Oregon

I see there are a few other Pac-10 members here. :)

MCR

04-17-2008, 10:25 AM

Seton Hall the first time around (graduated) and later the University of Tampa (graduated there as well)

I was the first person in my family to go to college and finish it all the way through. I have some much younger cousins who attend NYU and are close to graduating but that's about it. Most of my family has been left higher education to pursue business opportunities. Some have been successful...some have not. :)

acrossthefourthwall

04-18-2008, 01:43 PM

Oxford and Harvard students in this forum?! :scared: Oh man. I'm going to feel so down when I get rejected out of those schools... And I'm years from applying. I know the university you graduate from doesn't really say everything about your capabilities, but like others before me mentioned, I really want to bank on the reputation to give me an advantage. Successfully applying would mean that I would have to really pull myself together before my Sophomore year, which means no procrastination allowed, which means eternal damnation (exaggerating, but you can see there's many things I'd rather be doing). But maybe the saying's right... "No pain, no gain." You know what? Since I'm going to have to go through this anyway... I'm just going to blow my Freshmen year (this one) and have all the fun I can. Screw Honor Roll.

Hey, don't pressure yourself too much. There can be no doubt that Oxford and Harvard are amazing places academically, but it's so important to find a college that feels like the right fit overall, not just in terms of its reputation. I was accepted (in the spring of 2005) to ten colleges, including one Extremely Exclusive College, one Very Exclusive College, and a variety of Kinda Exclusive Colleges and Not Particularly Exclusive Colleges. Now, being the first student from my high-school ever to be accepted to Extremely Exclusive College naturally made me want to choose it automatically. However, after a last-minute tour of both Extremely and Very Exclusive Colleges, I was forced to admit to myself that I loved the environment of Very but didn't much care for that of Extremely. After thinking it over, I opted for Very, and I've adored nearly every minute spent there. Not that I would necessary have been unhappy at Extremely, but Very turned out to be the better match for me; I've actually had to thank myself for considering the decision as carefully as I did.

(For the record, neither of the ones I'm talking about is either of the ones you mention; I didn't get into Harvard, and I didn't apply to Oxford.)

Tenacious B

04-19-2008, 03:27 AM

Hey, don't pressure yourself too much. There can be no doubt that Oxford and Harvard are amazing places academically, but it's so important to find a college that feels like the right fit overall, not just in terms of its reputation. I was accepted (in the spring of 2005) to ten colleges, including one Extremely Exclusive College, one Very Exclusive College, and a variety of Kinda Exclusive Colleges and Not Particularly Exclusive Colleges. Now, being the first student from my high-school ever to be accepted to Extremely Exclusive College naturally made me want to choose it automatically. However, after a last-minute tour of both Extremely and Very Exclusive Colleges, I was forced to admit to myself that I loved the environment of Very but didn't much care for that of Extremely. After thinking it over, I opted for Very, and I've adored nearly every minute spent there. Not that I would necessary have been unhappy at Extremely, but Very turned out to be the better match for me; I've actually had to thank myself for considering the decision as carefully as I did.

(For the record, neither of the ones I'm talking about is either of the ones you mention; I didn't get into Harvard, and I didn't apply to Oxford.)
You brought up a very important point. Going to college isn't about going to the best school, but rather going to the best school for you.

vkut79

04-20-2008, 12:15 AM

You brought up a very important point. Going to college isn't about going to the best school, but rather going to the best school for you.

Once you get to college you will realize that the prestige of your institution matters very little. The quality of the institution in those departments that you will study in matters significantly more. And even more importantly, your motivation, ability, and dedication will matter the most. A motivated student at a state school will have much more success than a lazy student at Harvard. Seriously, as long as the school you get into meets certain specific quality standards for you, its all pretty much down to you and not the school's reputation as far as success down the road is concerned. Harvard's name may open some doors at first and get some "oohs" and "ahhs", but is that worth sacrificing a lot of your precious time during your high school to sell yourself in order to get into these schools? You would be much better off to take it easy and spend that time doing something more productive.

azelismia

04-20-2008, 12:55 AM

university of anchorage, ak.

INTJCanuck

04-20-2008, 04:24 PM

I'm attending the University of Toronto, St. George Campus (the old-fashioned one downtown).

I started out in the Engineering department but transferred into Computer Science, mostly because of money issues and partly because Engineering seemed like such a fake program, one not worth the crippling workload. I love the CS department. The professors are fantastic, the material is challenging, and we have a modern & clean IT building with up-to-date equipment, not to mention the number of extremely high-quality jobs available exclusively to CS grads. The rub is that you have to be willing to work, and i mean work HARD, for your grades.

KarmicKaos

04-21-2008, 03:51 AM

I have a B.S. in International Business from Johnson & Wales, Denver and a minor in something very uncommon for an INTJ I think - Human Resources Management. I got that mostly cuz the teacher was an easy grader. I couldn't imagine doing it in real life.

I also went to St. Michel Business College in Fribourg, Switzerland the year after high school just for fun. Right now I'm pursuing an MBA at Sejong University in South (not North) Korea.

I'm considering getting another Masters degree in information technology in the future but have almost no educational background in computers. I thought I wanted to be a computer programmer for a while and took a few classes in undergrad but hated it. Anyone have any advice for me? I think the IT and Business Masters degrees would excellent for my future career (I'm 23 at the moment).

Zirka

04-21-2008, 05:08 PM

we have a modern & clean IT building with up-to-date equipment, not to mention the number of extremely high-quality jobs available exclusively to CS grads. The rub is that you have to be willing to work, and i mean work HARD, for your grades.

Are you talking about Bahen Centre? That's one wicked building, although I don't spend much time in it (being in Life Science)

Totally agree about having to work hard for your grades. Its been such a massive shock to see my grades go to hell (in my opinion, my friends think I'm insane because my grades are still relatively good for U of T)

However, I don't regret going to U of T, because I've met some awesome people, and I really enjoy the atmosphere (other than Robarts.... that place is like a prison).

It is true that the "best" universities aren't necessarily the best for each individual (case in point, my ESFP sister, who is dead set against coming here, and plans to go to McMaster instead)

MrEPenguin

04-21-2008, 06:45 PM

I am going to the Florida Community College of Jacksonville for an AS in radiology. After I get my AS, I'm transferring to the University of Florida to get an MS in Neuroradiology. Then I'm off to Johns Hopkins or Harvard for a doctorate. ;D

INTJCanuck

04-21-2008, 11:59 PM

Zirka: Yep, the Bahen Centre for IT, my home away from home. It's a pretty remarkable building, and is the best for lectures, tutorials, everything. It's got a TON of tutorial rooms to crash if you're looking to work with a group somewhere and you need a spacious chalkboard, or to just get away from the commotion outside. Haha I recommend the rooms on the 3rd floor at the far north wing of the building. There's rarely people in them.

In terms of marks, I think I discussed this in another thread, but my grades generally fell from A's in high school to B's at UofT. I'm very happy with marks like that since the averages are usually C's [or even lower in the weeder courses; MAT and STA courses are particularly painful] and a lot of people routinely fail courses. In CS you must get over 40% on the exams to pass no matter what your term mark was.

UofT is a tough school and I know we're at a disadvantage compared to other places in terms of marks. But deep down, I wouldn't want it any other way. I perversely enjoy the abuse haha.

AgentofGaming

04-23-2008, 09:58 PM

Interesting, I goto class in Bahen almost everyday of undergrad.
The only qualms I have is with the lecture halls is when I sit at the back and the professor doesn't use a projector: I can't see.
Instead of raiding the tutorial rooms however I goto the ECE Common Room, saves the trouble of room searching. I like Bahen a lot more than Sandford Fleming, the washroom quality alone is quite a difference between the two.

Skylla

06-15-2008, 03:40 AM

University of Michigan (go Wolverines...nah, not really)

My homestate's MI. Grew up in Hamtramck and then moved to a small town in the thumb. In my early twenties, I moved to NC where I finished my bachelor's at Western Carolina Univ.

My cousin graduated from U of M - Ann Arbor. He's working for NASA out West now, while I manage an architecture firm here in NC. Seriously, I don't think he would've got the call from NASA if he hadn't attended U of M, or a like-ranked school. He was an engineer working for GM when he received the call. Sometimes, I wish I would've made a point to attend a higher-ranking school. A point to ponder for grad school...

Monte314

06-15-2008, 08:07 PM

I did my undergraduate work (mathematics) at Rice University in Houston, Texas, and my graduate work (mathematics) at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York.

ssrprotege

06-16-2008, 01:00 AM

I got admitted to Dartmouth College this year. Now that I am admitted, graduating from Dartmouth will matter a lot to me. I am thinking of majoring in math to study cryptology in the future. But I love psychology and philosophy a lot as well...to the point I want to major in it, especially psychology.

dax0410

06-16-2008, 01:21 PM

Undergrad in Economics at UNC Chapel Hill, Go HEELS!!!

Plan to persue a graduate level math degree, but I want it to be targeted in finance and investing.

demvesalius

06-16-2008, 04:20 PM

Finishing up a degree in Anthropology at UC Davis...will be finished in about a month.

SeaCzar

06-16-2008, 09:29 PM

Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, VA

University of Maryland, College Park MD

True Rune

06-17-2008, 03:12 AM

I'm currently at Cleveland State.

ASUSharon

06-17-2008, 04:01 AM

Undergrad at Arizona State University, degree in psychology.

Taking time off before pursuing law school in 2009, still unsure of where I will end up.

punkyplatypus

06-17-2008, 10:54 PM

University of South Florida, 5th year :laugh:
I've changed majors from Undecided to Mass Communications to Computer Program to General Education (for an AS degree I had all the classes for) and now to Electrical Engineering. Hopefully I can stick to this major and finish up within the next few terms. Otherwise I think I'm going to join the armed forces :rolleyes:

Linza

06-17-2008, 11:24 PM

Owls representin... that's awesome.

(I didn't go there, but I wish I had.)

konec

06-18-2008, 12:08 PM

Delft University of Technology

This is my faculty going up in flames a month ago :(

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AutisticCuckoo

06-18-2008, 03:11 PM

Umeå universitet, 1986-89 (theoretical physics).

rawr

06-18-2008, 04:26 PM

I am currently going to a place called Wright State University for a B.A. in Economics. I was in the process of transferring to Miami University, but they screwed me on transfer credit hours. I'm planning on going for a doctorate in economics or to law school.

tichila

06-19-2008, 07:06 AM

Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Anyone from Thailand?

AutisticCuckoo

06-19-2008, 08:23 AM

Not me, but we've got a temple dedicated to King Chulalongkorn not too far from where I live (central Sweden). :)

disquared

08-31-2008, 02:47 PM

University of California - Berkeley, double majoring in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) and Math

eastman

08-31-2008, 07:12 PM

The College of New Jersey (Go TCNJ!)

cncracer

08-31-2008, 07:15 PM

UNCW (Seahawks) , and UNC (Tarheels)

tzu

09-01-2008, 10:05 PM

Kennesaw State University in Georgia, and apparently the only one here. Undecided major, but leaning towards Psychology. Any suggestions/words of wisdom?

superjo562

09-01-2008, 10:41 PM

UC San Diego, Political Science/Economics 2008 <--wish I went for bioengineering/"hard" track -_-

AncientOfDays

09-02-2008, 02:08 AM

University Of Alberta, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering. Engineering rules!!!!! :D

LexR

09-05-2008, 03:47 AM

Look guys, for those of you who feel you come from "average" universities, here's where I am. I am at Mahidol University in Thailand. It is famous here (best university for science), but ranking wise in the world, it would not even match your "average" universities in the states. Nowhere near. Plus, we don't have huge financial support from the government (it is somewhat state-owned - pretty hard to explain) and our professors are recycled from average US universities who come to Thailand more out of trying to chillax, see the beaches or pick up a thai lady than to teach. We often lack scientific equipment, stuff takes tooooo slow to do and well...

Did I mention classes are boring? (most of the times)

On the bright side though, we have hella good beaches. Cool nightlife and "more" (it's bangkok eh?).

Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Anyone from Thailand?

Haha... you snotty girls that wear long white socks during freshman year and tensely guard your territory around siam and MBK? ;-)

How's it going? :D

Edit:
P.S. Chula versus Mahidol. It's SOOOO on! *aims bazooka at tichila*

Valiyn

09-05-2008, 06:55 AM

Savannah College of Art and Design. Sequential Art major, Conceptual Art minor.

cognosco

09-08-2008, 02:44 AM

UC Davis. BA in Philosophy.

Autoptic

09-08-2008, 02:49 PM

UNC Charlotte, BS in computer science, minor in philosophy

I'm starting to think the BS part is right, and it's a minor in literature.

zippikay

09-14-2008, 12:21 PM

Loyola University Chicago
finance major, and i also have computer science associate...

I wonder what kind of MBTI would fill most of the Ivy league...

tp6626

09-14-2008, 12:46 PM

I spent 5 years studying a Masters in Product Design and Manufacture at The Wolfson School of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University, UK.

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aok

09-14-2008, 04:35 PM

New York/Vermont

dragonsscout

09-16-2008, 02:43 AM

UC Davis. I'm going for a BA in Economics and either a major or minor in History.

sophie

09-20-2008, 10:33 PM

Purdue University, majoring in Pharmaceutical Sciences

Tigress

09-22-2008, 01:47 AM

UCLA - PhD program for chemistry

Krazy P

09-22-2008, 02:09 AM

Reed College, Portland, OR. MBA from UCLA

Hegel, Kant, Marx, Spinoza, come on Reed, hitum on the nosa!

3 kids went to Yale (go bulldogs! boola! boola!)
1 to Tufts (go jumbos!)
1 still in school

mother to U of Montana, father U of Washington

grandparents did not go to college

Actually my high school was pretty impressive.. Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Craig McCaw, Mark Pigott...

"That's alright, that's OK, you'll all work for us someday!" (that was the fight chant at my high school... lots of truth in it.

rjr

09-22-2008, 05:00 AM

ASU !! go sun devils

Karamazov

09-22-2008, 08:04 PM

UT. BA in Psychology

Ligda

10-04-2008, 05:58 AM

Go Aggies!!!

UC Davis, Psychology B.A.

San Jose State, Experimental Psychology M.A. (in May 09)

and hopefully somewhere for a Cognitive Science Ph.D., but I'll let you know in the spring.

dragonsscout

10-04-2008, 05:41 PM

It seems like there are a lot of Davis people here...

Muse

10-04-2008, 09:40 PM

Belmont University, I've declared a political science major but honestly I'm still not sure.

Avital

10-05-2008, 08:59 PM

UNLV - Informatics major (its like applied Computer Science).

Deliberator

10-06-2008, 12:16 AM

James Madison, VA
Almost done with a BS in health science, dietetics
Minor in Spanish

Should've done biology or biochemistry but changed my personality halfway through college. I was a videography major before I was a language/philosophy major before I switched to science.

An awful lot of us have done philosophy. INTJ's? I'm shocked.

dragonsscout

10-06-2008, 12:49 AM

Philosophy is basically the art of arguing and logic. It's very INTJ in some respects.

disquared

10-06-2008, 02:28 AM

I attended high school at Davis Senior High lol.

schmidt

10-07-2008, 05:29 PM

I went to vocational school, but I am planning a MSc in CS at the Royal institute of technology in Stockholm starting next year (autumn 2009).

College is a not a common term here in Sweden...

Ricky

10-08-2008, 02:15 AM

Reed College - BA
Lewis & Clark College - JD
George Mason University - MS
[Insert Australian University Here] - PhD?

shalalith

10-08-2008, 03:24 AM

Sophomore at Wright State University in Dayton Ohio. Give me a ring if you are over here/go to this school, i have yet to find more people.

CaptainA

10-08-2008, 11:06 AM

School of Life. Been attending for more years than I can count, and will keep going till the end.

Canegrande

10-08-2008, 11:11 AM

LeMoyne-Owen College and Memphis State U ( now University of Memphis )
I attended public and private primary schools but my most meaningful education was through household tutors. My grandfather was suspicious of state run " herd mills " institutions. I only went to institutions for the social aspects and the lambskins. Both dad and mom went to college but left without taking degrees to pursue business.

Deliberator

10-11-2008, 06:18 PM

Reed College - BA
Lewis & Clark College - JD
George Mason University - MS
[Insert Australian University Here] - PhD?

Heh, my husband is going to George Mason. Hopefully my dad will too.

DRG

10-17-2008, 11:44 AM

Nobody in my family has graduated from college yet (and I'm including all my aunts, uncles and cousins in this). Just curious - am I the only one here that comes from a family like that?

I was the first in my family to go to college. We didn't get it right, it was a comedy of errors and I was miserable. I stopped going to class and was eventually asked to leave.

Despite not having a degree I excelled in my career and everyone assumed I had a degree. It was only a problem when discussing my salary with HR when I was being hired for new jobs.

This summer, 20 years after I graduated high school, I completed my degree at Strayer University (it's a for-profit enterprise that trades on NASDAQ). I enjoyed and learned more from Strayer than I did at the state university in New York where I went after high school. The lesson learned is that choosing the right school is more important than simply going to school.

Solaris

10-17-2008, 01:09 PM

Nobody in my family has graduated from college yet (and I'm including all my aunts, uncles and cousins in this). Just curious - am I the only one here that comes from a family like that?

My mom started attending community college during my senior year of high school. She eventually graduated. Then I went, then my sister went, and then my youngest cousin went. Prior to that, nobody graduated, though I think my aunt took some classes. My mom and sister and I, I just realized, are the most college educated "pod" in the family -- how funny.

I received my Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Houston in 2002.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be an architect for a while. I used to play architect with blocks. The other kids thought I was weird.

You brought up a very important point. Going to college isn't about going to the best school, but rather going to the best school for you.

You'll get a much more fulfilling education if you choose the right school for you. That might mean a small school where you get more face time with profs, or a huge school where you can be anonymous and be left alone (or take advantage of the opportunities there). It might be a school with a very focused program, or one that's more general so you can find your niche in a field.

alphawolf

10-17-2008, 05:29 PM

Unfortunately, I need some stupid piece of paper to prove my abilities to stupid future employers. *sigh*

Only if you want to work for stupid employers.

Gone7

10-17-2008, 07:10 PM

2nd year at ITT tech Major- Information Technology Computer Networking Systems
mainly self taught cause half the people do give a F .. but there are a few good teachers there.

But after i get my associates i want to try and get into MIT for my bachelors (big dream want to make a reality :idea:) Plus I want to go really in depth in my field ..

Colette

10-17-2008, 07:28 PM

Victoria University of Wellington - LLB (Hons), 4 years fulltime and 1 year part-time (working and completing a Masters paper)

Vicious

10-18-2008, 08:07 PM

I'm a sophomore at UC Santa Cruz; I'm majoring in Philosophy. I like it here.

pinkroger

10-19-2008, 09:15 PM

Columbia University!

schwartzie

10-19-2008, 10:44 PM

Seraph

10-23-2008, 05:40 PM

Duke University- double majoring in International Comparative Studies and Linguistics.

TheUndeadLawyer

10-23-2008, 10:11 PM

I'm a current (junior) student going for my Graphic Communications degree :)

Wow, someone else who is in my field! I am currently in my second year at Georgia Southern University.

Autoptic

10-23-2008, 10:23 PM

Nobody in my family has graduated from college yet (and I'm including all my aunts, uncles and cousins in this). Just curious - am I the only one here that comes from a family like that?

Here too. Maternal grandparents were stupid mill workers turned share croppers then back. The next generation staid mill workers at best as was Father though he was a supervisor at least and apparently an amateur archaeologist (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.).

School of Life. Been attending for more years than I can count, and will keep going till the end.

Check the year on your birth certificate and subtract that from the current year.