The "What Are You Doing This Moment" Thread
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Episteme
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Blind Guardian
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Krigloch the Furious
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Mondays are only decent when they're spent doing fuck all. Hence today, but I'm bored as fuck.
Well, you could say that as the score, but when it comes down to how many I personally had, probably only about 3. I did not search, I helped hide the eggs (the worst idea anyone could think of, no one could get the eggs I hid), pointed out some to the little ones, decorated an egg, threw an egg at my brother, and ate an egg. But that is about it.
No egg? I'm taking it as you don't celebrate Easter? Well, if you want, you could always come down here and find/clean up the remains. You'll get atleast a couple hundred.
I'm only moderately upset. I wanted to go visit her for the weekend, but my family wanted me to be there for Easter, so I had to postpone my trip 2 weeks. I haven't had any sort of vacation or even been out of the fucking state since June of last year, so...
It wasn't like it was such a big deal, either. We went over to some family friends house and I hung around in the kitchen and talked for a while and then went and watched Alien with the kids. I don't get the big deal about family. I saw them all last Monday anyways...
Did you try to reason with them? I mean, it'd probably be no help now since you had to postpone your trip. Only since last year of June? I never get to vacation anywhere. I been out of the state once and it was not even fun (I was 8 and going to a wedding). I thought I'd rant a little. But, I guess if you are used to traveling and you don't do it as frequently, it can bug you. Do you travel a lot?
If that is all you did, then if I were you, I would of fought my way through leaving. I mean, there is nothing wrong with spending quality time and relaxing with family and friends, but if you don't have a good time doing it, it is not worth it, at all. I'm not sure if you didn't have a good time, but it seems like you wanted to go on this trip a little more
Xorv
Drug the Priest
Fuck why do I get the most retarded professors. What kind of man lectures for 30 minutes (the class is 50 minutes) then hands a quiz of fucking 78 questions and expects us to finish on time? holy shit the number of people that ran after him when class ended as he walked out, FUCK.
Srontgorrth
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Nah, they just said "oh, it'd mean a lot to us if you stayed" and basically I could have gone but it would have meant saying "fuck you, I don't care."
Sitting on a bench at UCR right now, dreading having to go to work.
My knee is all kinds of fucked up to so I'm walking with a pretty distinct gait. I should never have started jumping in that children's size jumper Saturday at my girlfriend's birthday party.
And no she is not eight god dammit.
My knee is all kinds of fucked up to so I'm walking with a pretty distinct gait. I should never have started jumping in that children's size jumper Saturday at my girlfriend's birthday party.
And no she is not eight god dammit.
Srontgorrth
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Srontgorrth
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So how is it, and what are you majoring in? I have to basically choose between that or UNLV (or waitlist@ UCI).
Badbird
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It's good.
Campus is a damn good size (1,112 acres/4.50 km2), and the freeway offramps were designed really well, there is damn near no congestion (fucking unheard of in Riverside/California/anywhere heading towards L.A.)
I can't comment on living here because I don't - I drive 100 miles a day (which is why the first thing I mentioned is the damn offramp
), but the surrounding area is damned nice. The student apartments are cheap (and one complex is built into a move theater), situated in a huge area filled with restaurants. The campus is clean, and I haven't met anyone who is flat out fucking stupid in any of my classes (breadth or upper-division). Even the larger scale breadth classes max out at about 500-550 people, but the seating situation and the T.A. system they have here makes it simple to situate and compose oneself. Typical class sized range from ten students to at most twenty five/thirty.
I'm a philosophy and genetics major. We have quite a few world renown professors in every department, and it seems that every one of them that I have met have either come from Harvard or Yale. Most left teaching at those schools because they didn't like the environment.
Plus it's a quarter system, so each session lasts just ten weeks. They have a myriad of programs depending on the type of fields you are in, usually ending in Ph.D's.
All in all it is a pretty damn good school. Tuition is only about $2600 for me (I'm not sure if they passed the 30% increase in tuition fee's - so if they did expect more) - but the cost of tuition covers all unit costs, so in essence you could take either 4 units or twenty and it would still be the same price.
I should also mention that the college itself is divided into three main disciplines. There is CHASS (humanities and arts subsection), the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, and the Bourn's College of Engineering. Most of the time you will be doing your research in these subsections of the school unless you are interdisciplinary, and they are all very well set up. Each college houses it's own giant library complex, and each individual building on campus also houses another library dealing with specific literature relating to the field the building is designated for. The school is also opening the medical wing for medical doctorates by 2012, so if you plan on taking that route it will be open to you.
Honestly, it's a damn good place to get your B.A/S. or Masters. It doesn't have the greatest name (like any of the ivy league's, M.I.T. or Berkeley) due to funding issues (no where near as many anonymous benefactors, so the budget is no where near those schools), but that doesn't make it any less of a damn good institution. In my opinion, it's a good idea to come here, finish up to your masters (if that's what you wish) and transfer to a school to start your Ph.D if you care about the name of the school you graduated from. I have to admit though, the doctorate programs here are not "shoddy" when compared with any other school.
Weather wise: It's California. Right now it's raining, next week it will be sunny. Riverside has some moderate to high temperatures - as expected with summer approaching; it will definitely be cooler than Nevada.
UCI... is a damn beautiful school (the surrounding cityscape stomps Riverside and most of California to dust - the school itself looks like UCR though), and is rated one of the highest in my field (for logic). It's damn near crime free, but when a crime does occur it is always on par with the most famous of serial killers/sniper shootings - I'm not exaggerating. One thing that sucks about Irvine though is that it is so damn expensive to live there; I would need to triple the amount of my student loan just to live easily there for each school session. Also, it's kind of boring; I've heard they have a good "greek life", but I don't give a shit about that. UCR has a huge "greek life" too, but I'm more interested in the campus talks from authors and famous scientists and all the other jazz that goes on that happens on a daily basis.
Campus is a damn good size (1,112 acres/4.50 km2), and the freeway offramps were designed really well, there is damn near no congestion (fucking unheard of in Riverside/California/anywhere heading towards L.A.)
I can't comment on living here because I don't - I drive 100 miles a day (which is why the first thing I mentioned is the damn offramp
), but the surrounding area is damned nice. The student apartments are cheap (and one complex is built into a move theater), situated in a huge area filled with restaurants. The campus is clean, and I haven't met anyone who is flat out fucking stupid in any of my classes (breadth or upper-division). Even the larger scale breadth classes max out at about 500-550 people, but the seating situation and the T.A. system they have here makes it simple to situate and compose oneself. Typical class sized range from ten students to at most twenty five/thirty. I'm a philosophy and genetics major. We have quite a few world renown professors in every department, and it seems that every one of them that I have met have either come from Harvard or Yale. Most left teaching at those schools because they didn't like the environment.
Plus it's a quarter system, so each session lasts just ten weeks. They have a myriad of programs depending on the type of fields you are in, usually ending in Ph.D's.
All in all it is a pretty damn good school. Tuition is only about $2600 for me (I'm not sure if they passed the 30% increase in tuition fee's - so if they did expect more) - but the cost of tuition covers all unit costs, so in essence you could take either 4 units or twenty and it would still be the same price.
I should also mention that the college itself is divided into three main disciplines. There is CHASS (humanities and arts subsection), the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, and the Bourn's College of Engineering. Most of the time you will be doing your research in these subsections of the school unless you are interdisciplinary, and they are all very well set up. Each college houses it's own giant library complex, and each individual building on campus also houses another library dealing with specific literature relating to the field the building is designated for. The school is also opening the medical wing for medical doctorates by 2012, so if you plan on taking that route it will be open to you.
Honestly, it's a damn good place to get your B.A/S. or Masters. It doesn't have the greatest name (like any of the ivy league's, M.I.T. or Berkeley) due to funding issues (no where near as many anonymous benefactors, so the budget is no where near those schools), but that doesn't make it any less of a damn good institution. In my opinion, it's a good idea to come here, finish up to your masters (if that's what you wish) and transfer to a school to start your Ph.D if you care about the name of the school you graduated from. I have to admit though, the doctorate programs here are not "shoddy" when compared with any other school.
Weather wise: It's California. Right now it's raining, next week it will be sunny. Riverside has some moderate to high temperatures - as expected with summer approaching; it will definitely be cooler than Nevada.
UCI... is a damn beautiful school (the surrounding cityscape stomps Riverside and most of California to dust - the school itself looks like UCR though), and is rated one of the highest in my field (for logic). It's damn near crime free, but when a crime does occur it is always on par with the most famous of serial killers/sniper shootings - I'm not exaggerating. One thing that sucks about Irvine though is that it is so damn expensive to live there; I would need to triple the amount of my student loan just to live easily there for each school session. Also, it's kind of boring; I've heard they have a good "greek life", but I don't give a shit about that. UCR has a huge "greek life" too, but I'm more interested in the campus talks from authors and famous scientists and all the other jazz that goes on that happens on a daily basis.
Srontgorrth
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Thanks a lot for the response, interesting stuff! And yeah Irvine is a great area, I literally lived across the street from it in Laguna Hills a few years ago. I looked at pricing for the UCI area and its pretty frightening ($1,000 a month for a 1bd apartment wtf).
Riverside seems pretty nice though, and do you know how the Psychology department is there? Thats my planned major. And do you still get the full credit amount in a ten week session or what? How does that work? Here (at CSN, I'm in hs and college) the courses run 16 weeks and the 3 credit classes are basically 3 hours a week.
If tuition would be that low for me I would go, but sadly the out of state tuition cost is $30,000+, but I'm still waiting to see what I get in financial aid. My gf got her aid package from UCI and they gave her $20,000 in grant money cause of her financial situation, but theres still a tuition difference of around $11,000 and the housing costs, plus personal expenses, and textbooks.
I really hope I'll be able to get a good amount from UCR, but at least UNLV will only be about $500 per semester based on the scholarships I get.
Riverside seems pretty nice though, and do you know how the Psychology department is there? Thats my planned major. And do you still get the full credit amount in a ten week session or what? How does that work? Here (at CSN, I'm in hs and college) the courses run 16 weeks and the 3 credit classes are basically 3 hours a week.
If tuition would be that low for me I would go, but sadly the out of state tuition cost is $30,000+, but I'm still waiting to see what I get in financial aid. My gf got her aid package from UCI and they gave her $20,000 in grant money cause of her financial situation, but theres still a tuition difference of around $11,000 and the housing costs, plus personal expenses, and textbooks.
I really hope I'll be able to get a good amount from UCR, but at least UNLV will only be about $500 per semester based on the scholarships I get.
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