The School/Uni Thread

[Dazed and Brutal]

Bah, stay in America!

I have about a month and half left of school. I'm only a fucking sophmore.

 

[Pessimism]

What kind of system are most of you on? Quarter? Semester?

 

[Dazed and Brutal]

Quarters for me.

 

[s_a_o]

Nay, I will not stay in America!

It's off to the UK for Susan!

Just to let the UM Brits know -- I plan on drinking up with you. It's going to happen.

 

[Dazed and Brutal]

You have to drink/smoke with me first.

 

[unknown]

Damn, that isn't a bad price at all. I was thinking about UCR, as their philo dept is one of the best around on this coast. Of course, that is in Riverside...and I don't have the vehicle to make those trips


Well, if I ever just start shitting money, I can go to the clairemont colleges haha....so much money it takes

I thought about UCR...they're one of the few schools in california that offers a degree in Creative Writing. CSULB has a creative writing minor and a Master's creative writing program (which is pretty competitive, but they all are) but no goddamn Bachelor's. whatever.


for all you highschoolers that are/will be graduating, do you have any ideas as to what you want to major in?

 

[Cythraul]

I was going to graduate this month but I decided I didn't want to leave town so now I have a second major and I will be sticking around here for another year. I'm in the middle of finals. It fucking sucks. That is all.

 

[entanglement]

That's why I decided not to go for a Master's degree. It would mean another two years (at least) on top of what I'd already done and I was kind of done with school by that point. And also in the industry I work in (IT) a Master's degree doesn't really offer all that many additional job opportunities over a Bachelor's degree (infact pretty much none).

The only reason why I would have considered it at all would be having class mates that possibly actually give a damn about what they are doing (something mostly lacking in the classes I was in which towards the end of my study kind of started to kill my own motivation for studying) and maybe some more interesting higher level subjects. But shrug, I was 24 when I got my Bachelor's so by the time I'd get my Master's I'd be about 27.

I'm in the second year of my bachelor's course in IT and I can relate to that situation... not even 20% of the population is truly serious towards what they are doing. Sometimes I wish I was better at chemistry, so I could have gotten admission at a better university.

I'm not going for a master's either.. the same reasons you mentioned.

 

[s_a_o]

You have to drink/smoke with me first.

I do? Okay then.

I never deny a free drink.

 

[skeptik]

DONE

 

[~Derek~]

I finished my freshman year of school yesterday at UT Martin, I got 3 years left there.

 

[Skepticism]

I thought about UCR...they're one of the few schools in california that offers a degree in Creative Writing. CSULB has a creative writing minor and a Master's creative writing program (which is pretty competitive, but they all are) but no goddamn Bachelor's. whatever.


for all you highschoolers that are/will be graduating, do you have any ideas as to what you want to major in?

You said it in your post, creative writting.

 

[MasterOLightning]

You said it in your post, creative writting.

With a minor in creative spelling, right?

 

[Dazed and Brutal]

for all you highschoolers that are/will be graduating, do you have any ideas as to what you want to major in?

Anthropology.

 

[unknown]

With a minor in creative spelling, right?

oh snap!

I'm thinking of doing my master's in creative writing...but MFA programs are always really tough to get into. If I don't get accepted into any, I'll just get my masters in English

Anthropology.

that should be interesting. tough...but interesting

 

[Hell Awaits Us All]

1 more week until it's all over for me

summer will be fucking awesome, lots of free time to work out and try to get laid as often as possible

 

[MasterOLightning]

Creative writing is hard. Good luck to anyone going through with that. I'm majoring in journalism. I've got one year to go in that. So far I've been published in Chicago Parent and Chicago Baby. I'll see about some other things this summer. I still don't have a job lined up yet.

 

[unknown]

I have to send in one of my stories to a lit magazine for my fiction writing class. should be fun

 

[Pessimism]

Anthropology.

Which subsection - linguistical, religious, cultural, physical, etc.?

 

[swizzlenuts]

I just had my best semester yet. Whoo!