The School/Uni Thread

[cookiecutter]

So far I have seen zero Asians here at my school. I guess Asians don't like the cold.

Tons in Toronto

 

[Sigma]

Just came back from my Computer Programming course...and there are no computers in the classroom...

 

[Ben_t]

Tons in Toronto

Oh yeah there's a lot. I was there some time last year for work. They have some really good asian restaurants though.

 

[unknown]

Just came back from my Computer Programming course...and there are no computers in the classroom...

seems appropriate

 

[Death Aflame]

8,500 is nothing.

A semester for me when I was in college was around 15,000 dollars.

Tuition alone? Cause if so that is ridiculous. I got a bursary this term and only had to pay around $1000 compared to $2500 that I usually pay per semester.

 

[Zephyrus]

Oh yeah there's a lot. I was there some time last year for work. They have some really good asian restaurants though.

I had dim sum there a couple years ago. It was nothing like the Americanized stuff you get in Chinese restaurants in the US.



I just got back from my first college class, Intro to Ocean Science. It looks like a lecture course on subjects I've covered in earth science years before. Should be a breeze...

 

[The Ozzman]

Tuition alone? Cause if so that is ridiculous. I got a bursary this term and only had to pay around $1000 compared to $2500 that I usually pay per semester.

Tuition was about 12,500 and then some other shit was thrown in for administrative fees and what not.

I went to a damn good school though. I got about a third of that in scholarships and the rest in loans though.

I am looking at post graduate education and that is up to twice the amount I paid a year in undergrad.

 

[skeptik]

A friend of mine is going to Furman University in South (?) Carolina. He pays upwards of $40,000 a semester and they raise it substantially every year. Needless to say he's getting royally fucked over.

I'm sitting on my ass in the library at the moment, I have a half hour before my Politics And Culture course. Socrates And Plato should be an interesting course to expand upon what I've already learned but in greater detail. I hate when professors use up the entire class period for introductory classes though...it's just annoying.

 

[Έρεβος]

Currently debating finishing high school. I'm extremely skeptical that university will ever be able to teach me more about literature, art, and music than my own studies. Or if I want to learn about what they pass off as "literature" in modern academia.

 

[ThisIsACoolName]

Got to love high school kids who think they know it all.

 

[Έρεβος]

Got to love high school kids who think they know it all.

Gotta love college students who think they know it all.

Like reading books without biased inserts from tried-to-do-what-they-teach-about-and-failed professors teaches *so* much less.

 

[ThisIsACoolName]

Gotta love college students who think they know it all.

I'm not the one doubting that college could teach me things.

 

[Έρεβος]

I'm not the one doubting that college could teach me things.

I've been to college. I kept myself busy correcting the professors' obvious and plainly idiotic mistakes and laughing at the twice-my-age students failing pathetically at what I'd perfected in elementary school. I dropped the courses (philosophy and writing) half way through with near perfect scores on all completed work.

 

[ThisIsACoolName]

Well then you should probably just drop out of school.

 

[Έρεβος]

Well then you should probably just drop out of school.

Sarcasm?

I've home-schooled myself for the past year. Right now my dad is trying to get me to go to a school for the highly gifted, which, due to my fucking retarded mother not sending anything to the state regarding my home-schooling for that year, as she was supposed to, seems the only way for me to get my diploma. That's what I am debating on, or just testing out for a GED.

 

[cookiecutter]

Went to college without ever graduating high school...

I smell some bovine feces in these parts

 

[Έρεβος]

Went to college without ever graduating high school...

I smell some bovine feces in these parts

Do you have any idea how many pre-grad programs there are for taking college courses?

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

He's smurt.

I have my first classes tomorrow...Art Concepts I and Drawing I. Drawing, not really looking forward to it...I'm a graphic design major, but Drawing is a basic art course all art majors need to take...I hate getting lumped in with those people sometimes, but whatever.

For Intro To Ethics, I had to buy 5 books (there's one more but it was out/unavailable, so I'll get it eventually)...Nietzsche's The Twilight Of The Idols and The Anti-Christ (should be good), Thoreau's Walden (fucking Christ...), Dante's The Divine Comedy (also good), The Confessions Of Saint Augustine (shoot me), and Great Dialogues Of Plato (haven't read anything really). Pretty psyched, despite the heavy load (or, seemingly heavy).

 

[cookiecutter]

Do you have any idea how many pre-grad programs there are for taking college courses?

Sorry, we just be them common folks, who do nurmal things like go to school and become edumucated.

 

[Vimana]

I personally can't wait for the winters. It's by far the best time of the year.

What!:zombie:

Winter is boring and depressing and all the leaves are off the trees, its a boring stay-inside-and-watch-Tv season.

Did anyone know February is the month with the most suicides?