First Day At College
CommunistWithAGun
Local Propaganda Guy Join Date: 2003-04-30 Member: 15953Members
Local Propaganda Guy Join Date: 2003-04-30 Member: 15953Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">Interesting to say the least.</div> Well my first day at wisconsin tech came and went. First of all my financial aid didn't come so I was bookless. The prof I had for my Accounting class is the same one I had for my Cisco 1, 2, 3, 4 classes during high-school. It was...weird. Everyones so laid back and nice. Really mature. Half my class is adults over 40! I only have this account one because it comes with my major... CIS Micro-computer specialist. Oh it was fun. Kinda...As fun as school can be. Even though it didn't feel like school....
Idk Why I posted this...maybe.....err nm.
Idk Why I posted this...maybe.....err nm.
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I'm surprised your class had so many older students in it... my Accounting class is primarily sophomores like myself, and the rest freshmen. I think there's 1 or 2 students over 40.
But yeah, have fun and party after you finish your homework. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
I have a class that lasts 4 hours long every thursday and friday. Culinary arts stuff.... =D
I had to buy one of them professional knife sets...cost me $130 for 5 knives.
I'm surprised your class had so many older students in it... my Accounting class is primarily sophomores like myself, and the rest freshmen. I think there's 1 or 2 students over 40.
But yeah, have fun and party after you finish your homework. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
I was to. I have a feeling my programming class will have more 18-20's then my Accounting class did
I'm still waiting for the fun to kick in, though <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->.
--Jane
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EDIT: i just realized i wont be abe to play NS when i get into my teaching career becuase ill have no time, as of now my social life also came to a big boom, im usually out at night and at the gym during the day and macking it with da girls <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo--> , i hope ill be able to play NS when i get to college <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->
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Does anyone else here find the amusement in hearing that the Communist is taking accounting classes? I thought you guys just divided your goods by the number of people in the room, and had no need for money?
XD
Just another hippycrite...
<i>Commie = pwned</i>.
Middle East Gov't & Politics. Gonna drop that one faster then a Frenchman his rifle.
(My Courses are as follows: Effective Speaking*, English Composition*, History II (1500-today), Principle Of Computer Systems*(Computer Literacy), Middle East Gov't & Politics, Badminton^
* = Castleton State College required course, ^ = Second half of Semester.
So many pretty college girls around campus, too bad none of them will give me the time of day.
and before MonsE even thinks of making fun of the fact i'm at a STATE college, yes, I know, but it was the only college close enough to my girlfriend not to make me have a "side-dish". Castleton, for the under-educated masses, is in Vermont, 14 miles from the New York border. and 3 hours from my GF.
yah, college is cool. I jsut have motivation problems (can't get my self to do the work for classes I just don't care about. Thus why I am taking a year, or so, off)
All I gotta say though:
Get a freakin work ethic FAST <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->, this coming from a should be Junior (I never had to actualy work in HS, despite going to one of the best schools in the country) But once I got to college (Oberlin) I had to start realy working. This year I am gona be living in Oberlin, tohugh I will be suporting my self compleatly. Should be interesting (I generaly like jobs better then school so I get he bonuses of having all of my friends around with out having to do work I hate (I hope <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->))
so yah, GL to all of you <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
My big college recommendations:
1) PLAN your courseload ahead of time. Once you know your major, figure out what the requirements are, and draw a roadmap that allows you to dodge as many unpleasant classes as possible.
2) Once you've done that, you have a certain number of electives. Take classes that sound interesting, not classes that sound easy - the easy-sounding classes end up being boring, and the interesting classes end up being easy because the work does itself.
3) Don't trust your advisor. Check over your major requirements yourself. Count your units. Double-check and check again. I had to take summer school this summer in order to graduate because our transcript software had a bug in it, and my advisor didn't catch it until it was too late.
1) and 3) are closely related. I'll give you a couple of examples from my own experience.
The EECS major at Cal requires 45 units of engineering credit. Most of this is covered by required courses, but it leaves you with a certain number of engineering "electives" to fulfill. As a freshman, I had the option to take CS 3 (introductory programming), but instead took a placement test and skipped to CS 61A (intro to CS theory). I thought I was saving myself work. But guess what happened? I ended up being ONE UNIT SHORT on engineering credit, and had to take E120 (Principles of Engineering Economics) over the summer to get that credit. (There are very few engineering courses available over the summer.) MOST BORING CLASS EVER. CS 3 would have been WAY more interesting, even if it was something I could have placed out of, and it would have made CS 61A much easier. And it was worth 4 units of engineering credit. With those units, I could have not only skipped E120, but also E36 (introductory statics), which was a two-unit course. Man, did I kick myself when I realized that. Of course, having taken CS 61A, I no longer could get credit for CS 3.
In high school, I took AP Calc, which let me get out of Math 1A. As a freshman, though, an advisor told me I'd be better off taking Math 1A anyway. So I did. Got an A with no problems, since most of it was review. 4 units of A on my transcript. Woot! Fast forward to early this summer. My transcript, which I had been basing my graduation plans on, had a bunch of AP unit credit at the top, but didn't say what any of it was from. It also had the 4 units of Math 1A. Guess what my advisor tells me, after I thought I'd graduated? The Math 1A nullified the Calc AP credit, but the software didn't take that into account. I was 3 units short for graduation. Had I skipped Math 1A, I could have taken advantage of my AP units, and instead of retaking basic calculus as a fresman, I could have taken something more useful, and had another 4 units of fun fun elective.
As things were, I think I took only two or three classes that weren't required by my major, because poor planning forced me to take things I didn't need to. Don't let this happen to you. <!--emo&::nerdy::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/nerd.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd.gif'><!--endemo-->
Idk Why I posted this...maybe.....err nm. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Does anyone else here find the amusement in hearing that the Communist is taking accounting classes? I thought you guys just divided your goods by the number of people in the room, and had no need for money?
XD
Just another hippycrite... <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
LEARN TO READ EVIL MAN! EVIL! (I said my major is CIS Microcomputer specialist)
PS: Threadjacker. <!--emo&::asrifle::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='asrifle.gif'><!--endemo-->
PS: Threadjacker. <!--emo&::asrifle::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='asrifle.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Wow, that's even worse. So you're going to go out and be a capitalist tool of the corporate machine, doing the bidding of IT departments everywhere? Boy, I bet Lenin is spinnning in his glass case over this one. Why don't you just get a job on Wall Street while you're at it. Tsk tsk...
XD
wait... but <i>he's</i> the communist with the gun. why don't <i>you</i> want cookies, mister evil? if they're <i>fudge</i>, they qualify as evil, too.
on a relevant note, kinda, first day of school was yesterday. it was okay. same as any first day.
PS: Threadjacker. <!--emo&::asrifle::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='asrifle.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Wow, that's even worse. So you're going to go out and be a capitalist tool of the corporate machine, doing the bidding of IT departments everywhere? Boy, I bet Lenin is spinnning in his glass case over this one. Why don't you just get a job on Wall Street while you're at it. Tsk tsk...
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Same with all the Anarchists. They all end up working for the <a href='http://www.prudential.co.uk/' target='_blank'>Prudential</a>, or joining the <a href='http://www.libdems.org.uk/' target='_blank'>Liberal Democrats</a>.
Monse is Joe McCarthy's son!
Sometimes these forums are worse than reading <a href='http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/' target='_blank'>http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/</a>.
God bless the <a href='http://www.telegraph.co.uk' target='_blank'>The Telegraph</a>.
Not to mention the newbies party... when they're around it means shaved hair and other nasty things...
Don't be scared, though, this does not happens in all colleges, but still older students will sometimes get a kick from doing the forum admin thing (no offense) with newbies.
On the other hand, good things fully compensate for this. For one, parties are... well... let's just say you'll understand what I say when you go to your first one. Just remember no to get drunk.
A little piece of advise: try to study each days the subjects you've been given, that way you'll have more time to spend and you'll need to study less for the exams.
Avoid frat parties. I was in a fraternity, take it from me. Nothing but bad beer and people who can't get enough of it. *shudders*
Bwahahahahaha!
Hahahaha!
Ha!
*giggle*
Monse hates communism more than he hates me.
Oh wait... <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->
Now a true republic, aye, that's the best government.
Two Consuls (or P.M, or Prez, or something), a TRUE Senate and a TRUE House of Represenatives.
On the subject of captialism, I h8 the textbooks ($140 bucks for a textbook just so I can do the problems!).