/lit/ - Literature

NEET
no major
it sucks
night stocker at the grocery store sounds doable
ICON by CJ Grindley

UF
English with minor in Innovation
Hate it
Prob military cuz im emasculated
In Cold Blood

>>11350285

>yes
>tech
>it's okay
>tech or the arts
>endzone

>>11350299
How old are you anon? You should enroll in a community college

>>11350313
Old. I don't want to participate in this shitty world.

And I've tried community college, twice, years apart. It was degrading.

>>11350348
Grow up

>>11350364
I'm sorry who are you? Just because I'm a NEET now doesn't mean I haven't achieved amazing, difficult things that you would have quit at. Please, go.

>school
La Trobe University
>major
Linguistics
>how you like it
I love linguistics but I hate my uni with a passion
>intended career track
Academia. I intend on being a lecturer
>favorite book
I know it sounds basic, but, Crime and Punishment.

>>11350386

How do you reconcile hating university with wanting to work in academia?

>>11350406
Short answer is I don't.
My alternative career choice is being a gardener. (my only other passion outside of language).
The closer I get to the faculty and the more I learn about how corrupt and stupid the bureaucracy is, the more I learn to hate it. Especially because my field falls under arts and social sciences, and the whole department is so politically charged. Even in fields like linguistics, my uni doesn't really allow people to be apolitical. It's really frustrating because I like to keep politics out of the social sciences as much as possible.

>>11350311
Hey another UF student on here

>>11350423

That sucks. Could you elaborate? As in what ways do they force you to be political?

Purdue
Pharmacy
S'good
Something pharmacy related. Maybe teach for a little bit too
Been reading brothers karamazov and really liking it.

>school
not saying it, but outside people's radar


>major
Arts. Visual arts.
>how you like it
I regret it. It was shit, I don't recommend it. I was blind, but now that I'm out, I see it. If you are interested in arts, you have to dig online furiously and then try to get into expensive atelier courses.

The only thing that I miss are the readings and discussion on education and philosophy. This academic knowledge is a double edged sword. It engulfs people and make them thing they have the truth above anyone else, but on the other hand if put it to correct use and if one is emotionally intelligent enough to handle its practical effects, then it can dramatically upgrade the quality of the work done in the classrooms and ateliers.

>intended career track
Become an editorial illustrator and sell paintings on the side. I'm working as an animator, but not happy.

>favorite book
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Glasgow
Economics
It's okay but I feel empty
Become a hermit, don't really wish to be another cog in the machine
100 Years of Solitude

>>11350348
>I don't want to participate in this shitty world.
you know what to do anon

University of Lisbon
Modern Languages
Pretty good
Translation
Crime and Punishment, maybe

>>11350502
oh a fellow pharmacist, what other books do you like my man?

>>11350285
>none
>none
>i quit
>transcend reality
>none

>>11350523

>If you are interested in arts, you have to dig online furiously and then try to get into expensive atelier courses.

tell me more

>>11350367
How old are you? If you are a NEET and under 25 you need to get in shape and then join the military. Guys like you could benefit from being broken down and then given actual skills.

>>11350548

what if he was already in the military

Clemson
Physics and Mathematics
I really like it, wish I did more research earlier on tho to set myself up better
Grad school in physics and/or industry
Cats Cradle

>>11350559

Then he's lived long enough and experienced enough to know how to NOT become a NEET.

University of Virginia
Econ and History
They're alright. Just started my history major so not too sure about the courses yet. Econ is boring but will hopefully get be a job.
Probably end up homeless, wandering bars.
The Sound and the Fury

>>11350536
Not picky and nothing close to refined taste. Recently read the Gulag Archipelago and Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao. Myth is pretty cool too

>>11350527
>Become a hermit
No you won’t.
>>11350540
>transcend reality
No you won’t.
>>11350600
>Probably end up homeless, wandering bars.
No you won’t.

Can we not have pointlessly romantic answers like this please.

drop table faggot

>>11350622

Contrary to your sad existence, some of us have actually been able to pursue "romantic" goals. Fucking faggot.

>>11350629
Like what? Wandering bars? Cool.

>>11350285
just watch this retarded /soc/ thread will stay up while threads about lit will get deleted i hate these mods

>>11350643

Well, no. But that was a stupid thing for that anon to say. I was thinking more about how I've been able to buy land out in the country, spend most my time alone writing and flyfishing. I've gotten to do a lot of traveling as well. Romance isn't dead, but it's always been hidden away.

>>11350687
But how did you get the money for it?

>>11350695

My uncle was a wealthy farmer with no children. I have a trust fund. It's hardly the point. 99% of my money just sits and hasnt been used to live "romantically". I paid my own way in college to stay in Brazil for two months. It isn't hard anon but you have to have A LOT of gumption.

>>11350714
>It's hardly the point
it's precisely the point you stupid faggot

>>11350714
>I have a trust fund
This has got to be a bait post

>>11350726

You don't get it. Romance is out there for anyone that wants it. However, MOST people will have to choose between a romantic life and one that is stable/profitable. It is, as you realize, very unlikely that one can maintain both.

If you honestly think you are entitled to both then you are the stupid faggot

>>11350748

>person dies
>taxes are paid
>literally thousands of acres of farmland in an important growing region gets sold
>money is put into trust which can be borrowed against so to be used to gain more capital

This happens everyday in America you moron

>>11350760
I don’t have a trust fund and no one Ive ever met has one either. But thanks for your shit reply anyway.

>>11350726

it's not though. did you not see where he said 99 percent of it does nothing? that's how it works, it's literally just accumulating numbers in an account that you never use, and inefficiently run, annoying to dispose of, poor margin of return investments if it's not all liquid

>>11350752
>trust fund
>bro, you just need to want it and have gumption, trust me, I worked for two months of studying abroad
has to be bait

>>11350765

yeah dude I'm not 7 foot tall and I don't know anyone that tall people that tall must not exist

>>11350779
You haven’t understood anything about this conversation. Stop wasting my time.

>>11350771
>regular payouts
>never used
>we should listen to Lord Fauntleroy about anything

>>11350773

I didn't study abroad. It had nothing to do with school or work. I've had jobs since high school, and the only expensive part was the plane ticket. I stayed at a pousada in Bahia spending a lot of my time traveling around and visiting old churches and exploring Salvador.

>>11350714
You’re a spoilt little retard. Go do some more flyfishing and stop pretending you’ve ever had to earn anything.

>>11350786

Fauntleroy is unironically a family name on the Virginian side of my family so your insult fails.

>>11350789
fuck you

>>11350794
Actually, that makes my insult work even better, dumbass

>Glasgow
>Biochemistry & Pharmacology
>Love it
>Research
>Frankenstein

>>11350803
>>11350798
>>11350794
>>11350791
>>11350789
>>11350783
>>11350779
>>11350773
>>11350771
>>11350765
>>11350760
>>11350752
>>11350748
>>11350726
>>11350714
>>11350695
>>11350687

Wow. You people are idiots.

None. Did a stint at a LibArts uni but dropped out due to being psychologically fucked and short on money. Got out before my student loans got too crazy
No major, am going back to CC for compsci degree
I'll see how I like it I guess
Probably will end up in CC but I'd like to either write or do New Media in the future (though that's looking fucked)
Grendel, though I'm starting to love Don Quixote

>>11350285
>school
uc berkeley
>major
eecs
>how you like it
indifferent
>intended career track
neet
>favorite book
i doubt i'm well-read enough to meaningfully have a favorite
maybe brothers k

>>11350529
I'm actually working on it, anon. I only want to be closer to God. That's all I've ever wanted since I was a child. And I suspect that's why I'm such a bad fit for this doomed wealth-generating prison.

>>11350559
Good guess anon. Army, two enlistments.

>>11350981
>doomed, wealth-generating prison
boomer_wojack.jpg

>>11350367
please list your achievements

>>11351024
I have nothing to prove, and I don't seek the praise of anons on a congolese basket weaving forum. I only wish anons would not presume so much or tear each other down for no reason.

>>11350311
>innovation minor
wtf is that lmao

>>11351089
yea na you're a loser and you should stop with the cognitive dissonance and improve your life

accusing people of "tearing you down" when your life is clearly a mess is a defense mechanism and an excuse to stay stupid

>>11350964
EECS
EECS
EECS
EECS

>>11351020
>relating the reticence to give flesh to the cannibal monster machine with the unthinking submission to capital and unimaginative cowardice of the boomers
this board is pure evil now, beyond the pale entirely

>>11351132
Thanks for proving my point. You are spouting exactly the type of ignorance I want to escape. Comparing oneself to others, obsessing over wealth, status, achievements. Determining the value of a person from those figures. None of this matters, bro. The entire world is sick.

>>11350285
>>school
Utah Valley University
>>major
English
>>how you like it
I don't. But it's easy
>>intended career track
Law
>>favorite book
The Count of Monte Cristo

>ICL
>computing
>classes alternates between very boring and very interesting, with nothing in between. but i can do well without trying that hard, so it's ok. socially i like it a lot
>software dev, writing in spare time
>the bell jar

>school
University of Rennes 2, France

>major

Masters in English lit & civilization

>How you like it

Love the discipline, the formation is shit though

>intended career track

English Teacher, probably going to teach High school first, maybe uni down the road

>favourite book

The Third Policeman

>Princeton
>History
>it's okay. The classes are amazing. A lot of people are retarded, but there's some really smart, much smarter than me people here.
>hs history teacher
>Pic of Dorian

>>11351160
hey I'm gonna be there next year, but to study French lit instead

>>11351141
You're literally a fucking boomer

>>11351145
no, you're twisting my worlds as an excuse to be a loser again

how have you personally, relative to yourself, improved yourself? do you have any hobbies that you enjoy actively? how do you partake in them?

you don't have to be wealthy or "accomplished" in a way that impresses others, but if you do nothing to further yourself relative to your own interests then you're a loser and a waste of life

your entire rhetoric refutes objective notions of value (which i disagree with, personally, but that's not my point here) yet is in and of itself stubborn and unwavering. do you not see any issue in that?

if you just say "i don't have to explain myself to you" or "ur wrong and proving my point" lmao then you're kind of proving MY point, aren't you? you should have valid reasons for your beliefs

>>11350285
>University of Iowa
>English
>Love it
>Lawyer
>The Canterbury Tales

>>school
A university in my shithole country
>>major
Forestry engineering
>>how you like it
I really like some aspects of it but hate anothers
>>intended career track
Not sure yet, I'll probably do a master's
>>favorite book
Lost Paradise

>>11351175
No, i'm a millenial and I have nothing in common with the boomers at all ideologically or behaviorally, you're a retarded faggot

>>11351168
Really? What are the odds...

Don't get your expectations to high about the uni itself, I found the teaching very superficial, especially in Masters because we only had like 6 hrs of classes a week which is ridiculous if you want to study anything in depth.

I don't know about the French Lit dept though, are you doing a Bachelor?

Anyway, Rennes is a great city to 'study' in

>>11350285
Uni of Leicester
Psychology
Was good! Favourites were evo psych and neuroscience in relation to mental ills/drugs
I wanted to do Clinical Psychology but it's all very competitive so may not desu, I am now in one of the jobs that gets you the kind of exp you need for it though so I'm doing better than most.
Crime and Punishment

>>11351191
too high*

>>11351177
>you're kind of proving MY point, aren't you?
No, I'm just not interested in listing ITT my accomplishments, hobbies, and how I have lived. It's not relevant to the discussion and more importantly I refuse to be assayed by someone who doesn't know me. Your judgment is bound to be flawed, and should not matter to me anyway.

You've told me several times now that I need to be improved or otherwise educated, specifically by a college program, and I've already told you secular college is not for me. If I do enter religious life I will take those theological courses which are necessary for the vocation. Thanks for your concern such as it is but it seems you are more interested in fixing something that is not broken and convincing me to your way of thinking than actually listening to what I'm telling you about how I see the world.

I am giving you permission to feel good about yourself for your contribution in this discussion.

And in future I'd appreciate it if you didn't call anons you haven't met "losers" thanks.

>>11350285
>nameless state school
>english
>just graduated, but wasn't crazy about it
>was going to teach, now i'm going to work a string of shit jobs while i work on writing fiction and comedy
>a farewell to arms - hemingway

>>11350629
>um ackshyewally contrary to your sad existence I actually AM homeless, sir
lol

>>11350714
>it’s easy you just need gumption
>oh also a trust fund
how r u this fucken dumb, 8/10 b8 now go kill yourself

Look at all these midwit, at best, universities on here. No wonder there is no independent thought.

You're all at that low IQ and / or working class or lower-lower middle class level where you think any degree is an intellectual achievement.

>>11351245
whats your favourite book

>>11351191
Ah that's too bad.

Yeah, I don't really post on /lit/ that often, so this is the first time I've actually seen one of these threads. I'm going to be doing a bachelor, so hopefully the experience is a little different. How are the people?

I'm glad you like Rennes, at least. I'm from not too far away, but I haven't spent that much time there. It seems like a fun place, though.

>>11351208
>It's not relevant to the discussion

It literally is

>more importantly I refuse to be assayed by someone who doesn't know me

Then allow me to get to know you :)

>You've told me several times now that I need to be improved or otherwise educated

That was somebody else, only
>>11351177 and >>11351145 are me

>convincing me to your way of thinking than actually listening to what I'm telling you about how I see the world

Um, no... you're projecting. You haven't listed a single reason, elucidation, or example to support your worldviews. I have requested that you do so several times and you have turned me down every time

So, you're not really telling me about how you see the world. Not only that, but you're also guilty of "not listening" as you've done nothing but insult me and, again, refuse to explain anything!

I'm not having this discussion to prove you wrong. I don't care -- you're some guy on 4chan. I'm just curious as to your reasons and experiences. I'm offering my own worldview as an antithesis. In the end my goal is to advance my own understanding through some sort of dialectic, and ultimately do the same for you

My worldview is what I currently believe, and I am not stating it as some sort of ontological truth. Meanwhile you are. I would appreciate if you could be open-minded enough to reciprocate my approach

>I am giving you permission to feel good about yourself for your contribution in this discussion.

Hahaha I don't need your permission

I'm pretty fulfilled in both a "societal"/objective sense, and a self-fulfillment personal sense. Any problems I do have, I feel comfortable with confronting and working on. Your defensive attitude indicates the opposite

Georgetown
Philosophy and English
Fuckin' sucks, culturally. But it keeps me busy and I can meet some interesting people so hey, hey, what can I do
Environmental Law then writing, because I'm a relentless idealist
Changes all the time, but Leaves of Grass

>>11351257

I meant >>11351132, not >>11351145

UChicago

Community College
Business Administration
Hate it
Fashion industry
Stoner

>>11351217
loser

>school
USW
>major
Mech. Engineering
>how you like it
completely despise it
>intended career track
I wish I knew
>favorite book
Portrait of the artist

>Cornell
>Mathematics
>hate it, but partake in Stockholm Syndrome
>Graduate School to study AI
>Gravity and Grace

>>11351276

I am extremely jealous. I dont see how the fuck anyone could see any subject as more intellectually and practically worthwhile than math

>>11351286
Philosophy

>>11351286

My negative feelings are much more so in reference to Cornell as an institution than mathematics as a discipline.

As for your contention, I am of the view that there exist sundry fields as rigorous and as rewarding as mathematics, though some of us are more tailored for math, others for literature, others for music, etc.

>>11351269
That's ugly. You're bringing ugliness into the world, anon.

>>11351257
>you've done nothing but insult me
Read my posts again. I have never once insulted you. You, however, have called me a loser at least twice and been condescending throughout. That's why I gave you the hint: you can feel good about yourself now. I'm not interested in talking to you any further. Keep kidding yourself about participating in a dialectic while putting your interlocutor down. Learn from this. Bye.

>>11351276
Is Ho Plaza aptly named?

Oxford
PPE
It's fine
Some government role eventually
Sound and the fury

>State School
>Biology
>Really like it actually. A lot of our upper level classes focus on us doing actual work for assignenments, so it feels like it actually has a purpose.
>Psychiatrist
>As generic as it sounds, War and Peace.

>>11351292
>My negative feelings are much more so in reference to Cornell as an institution
Why's that?

>>11351294
If it were located half a mile to the south, then yes.

>UCI
>Pure Math
>I love it most of the time but sometimes there are moments of doubt.
>I plan to kill myself after graduate school, but I do want to write and so I'm conflicted. Writers tend to come into their own in their 40's and so I'm unsure.
>Ulysses

>>11351293
YOU HAVEN'T BEEN CONDESCENDING?

Holy shit you're fucking retarded. I will never get the past half hour back.

I hope your mom kicks you out of the house, kill yourself you fucking loser

>>11350629
>this entire thread

all of you who need to kill yourselves know who you are pls and thank you

>>11351302
Not him, but if only you could see how much you're embarrassing yourself.

>>11350623
>people really want to know about my super secret Anonymous imageboard

pls kill yourself

Berkeley
Psychology
It was good/fun. Most classes were very up to date with the literature, for many our textbook was basically current journal articles. Also lots of research opportunities.
Was clinical psych, now psychiatry.
Blood Meridian

>>11351245
Poo

>>11351297
Quite a long story, though, in simplest terms, it's too big of a school for me, much too pre-professional and graduate-focused, much too dominated by Greek Life and opulence. But the campus is gorgeous and you'll find hundreds of brilliant people in your graduating class alone. That said, different strokes, different anons.

>>11351295
>Some government role eventually
please don't

>>11351322
Oh for sure. The campus is beautiful. Is the pre-professional focus the main reason someone pitches their personal self into a gorge every semester (also Ithaca would be perfect for a murder-mystery series).

>>11351326
Sorry m8, with this degree i'll probably end up in the cabinet or even prime minister eventually

>>11350285
Reed
Philosophy
Transferred here, I really love it.
Professor/ Own a coffee shop
Karamazov Brothers or Whatever

U of Tulsa
Poli Sci and Econ
I'm enjoying it, only recently got serious about the work tho
Going to grad school to continue studying. Would like to teach, maybe, someday.
In the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton Sides

>>11351322
I went to Cornell and I felt the same way, especially since I was a bio major and almost everyone around me was a premed.

My life got a lot better after I left.

Just hang in there.

>>11351295
Oh shit the Oxford Bros are here

>uni
irrelevant tier state school in the Midwest
>major
Doing German, going to add Business this next semestor for a double major
>major
Love it, I get to shit on English/Philosophy majors because they are going into debt in order to learn how to read, while I basically do the same thing, but it's not useless cause mastering a foreign language is actually a skill.
>intended career
I'm going to sub for a while once I have my Bachelor's while attending school for a little longer until my Unibux run out, maybe teach, maybe go into something Biz related, try to write on the side.
>favorite book
Ironically Houellebecq is my favorite author, probably enjoyed Submission or the Elementary Particles the most.

>>11350760
>inherets thousands of acres of farmland
>sells it
M I S T A K E

Oxford
Hist & Econ
Should have done philosophy/ppe instead of history
NEET
Dubliners

>>11351322
The Pre-Professional problem is at a lot of other schools too, I think people don't see these elite universities as elite because of the brilliance of their faculty, but because of their access to elite professions. GF goes to Uchicago and the same problem there, best friend at Harvard says the same, Berkeley is like that too. Its kinda sad.

>>11351175
No, a boomer would drive a Harley or something

>>11351347
>Mastering a foreign language is actually a skill
Oh the things you'll learn

>>11351276
>Cornell
>Engineering
>First two years were hell but they got better
>Pay off the 6 figure debt and practice short story writing until confident enough to publish
>Sons and Lovers

>>11351378
It's everywhere now. It's because of capitalism. Everything gets turned into a hollowed-out puppet appendage for generating money, only superficially resembling what it is actually supposed to be, and what it is still claimed to be so that dipshits will keep thinking they're experiencing real culture.

Universities are warehouses for churning out technocrats, and even worse, for servicing and bribing the technocrat class at large by allowing them to send even their run-off failure dud children to guaranteed technocrat sinecures. So you don't just have to put up with the place replacing bildung with a phony veneer of bildung for business-servitors, you have to put up with them stuffing the fucking classrooms with even their stupider children, because gotta do something with the duds.

The only thing you can do with a worthless dud is "professionalize" it, polish it, so that's what they do here. It's sickening. You can't recognize the few accidental real people left in the sea of hyperprofessionalized rich brats, so you can't even find those people anymore and befriend them, all you can do is wade through a sea of the glassy-eyed unconscious children of overpaid lever-operators as they consume free food and overpriced coffee and wear expensive clothing. At any given moment you're awash in a sea of overfed fucking piece of shit rich people's failure kids simply because they didn't have anything else to do with their time or their lives, and their parents needed a ready escape chute for disposing of all the kids who didn't turn out to be plausible Captains of Industry capable of furthering the family business by investing in investing and paying lawyers to tell them how to hoard money until it's self-sustaining.

I went to a few paper presentations recently and all the sweater-wearing doughy brats all reached out to take free pizza and cookies and I could hear their rich parents dodging taxes with every bite they took, so that they could sit in a classroom and pretend they care or know anything about 19th century ethnomusicology. I fully spaced out as I listened to their synchronized chewing at the middle of a weekday while most of the population is forced to work for a living at debt slavery subsistence. I enjoyed their $400 eyeglasses and the nothingness that came out of their mouths after complementary food went into them. There is nothing good left at any of these places. It is turd polishing, thousands of mathematically perfect cylindrical turds rotating like neutron stars to blind and dazzle you and prevent you from noticing they're just pieces of shit. There is nothing left. It's time for this society to die.

>Duke
>STEM
>Pretty nice
>Tech Consulting followed by farming or some similar endeavor
>Islands in the Stream

>>11351463
hit the nail on the head

>>11350600
Based. Go to law school for practical application of logic, philosophy, economics, etc. Also total patrician career desu

>>11350285
>"21 century University"
>Law
>It's way too easy, to the point of reading everything the day before and getting 95%. They're all the same on this shithole country tho, and I get the same title
>Maybe politics, don't really know. Whatever is fun
>Le count of Montecristo

>>11351245
Seriously, who the fuck are you?

>>11351245
So then you did not go to college, have no major, did not enjoy it, have no plans, and no favorite book?

>>11351245
mdaemereply

I didn't go to college, I went to film school. Then I dropped out of film school, and went to films.

>>11351656
>>11351679
>>11351685
>>11351255
>>11351318
I’m an NYU Film School graduate, SUCKA! And The School of Visual Arts, And The Academy of Art University San Fransisco. You’re NOTHING. You’re a DISGRACE.

>>11351689
>went to films
t. pic related

>>11350285
>School
Universidad Técnica de Manabí (Ecuador)

>Major
Pedagogy of languages

>How you like it
It's so easy i barely have to make an effort. I could already speak english and french fluently before getting in so i'm basically a god here.
>intended career path
I don't know. I'll probaly be a teacher and get a comfy position at college, but i also would want to do some translation work.

>>11351711
You don't know who any of those people are tho

>school
Oxford
>major
Modern Languages
>how you like it
Fucking love it, though I feel I'm focussing way too much on fun/Oxford life than I am actual studying.
>intended career track
No idea, probs foreign office though.
>favorite book
No idea really. I like Proust.

>>11351245
Based anon putting these midwits in their place.

Shitty NJ University (I've lived in NJ all my life so I guess it's not bad)
English and maybe a creative writing minor
Wanna fucking die. Everyone's on their phones and no one wants to talk.
Mom told me to learn Japanese so I can be an English teacher in Japan. Honestly not a bad idea. My friends say i'm pretty funny so I might try comedy.

>No Name state uni
>STEM
>Hate it
>Working in the auto industry (high paying wageslavery) for a few years, then either do CS masters or Law
>Brothers Karamazov

>>11351463
I feel the exact same way, and I used to beat myself up for going to a shitty instate uni on scholarship instead of going to U of M and digging myself a massive debt hole. Then a friend of mine informed me that even the top tier unis are filled with the same weed smoking, corner cutting, casual cheating, meme culture obsessed, "depressed under layers of irony" type students with a glazed over look in their eyes. Professionally, they all care more about landing a good internship, building a resume, making professional connections than actually learning. This is the new generation of yuppie faggots coming out of STEM programs, the ones who have the best padding in their resumes get the best positions. Turd polishing ad nauseam.

The non-quiet floors at my uni library are the equivalent to a highschool cafeteria in terms of conversation topics and decibel levels. This institution is an expensive daycare for 20 year olds.

>>11351245
I fell for the college meme, autodidacticism FTW.

>school
University of Vermont
>major
Poly Sci, minors in Russian and History
>how you like it
SJW hippies everywhere, food is bad, winter is too long, no parties, a lot of weed, professors oddly non biased
>intended career path
might master in accounting cause my major is useless...or might join military/gov or take over my grandfather's private investigator and polygraph business
>favorite book
Demons by Dostoevsky

>school
Private religious school
>major
IT undergrad going for technology masters and MBA in a year
>do I like it
it’s a good avenue for business ladder climbing
>intended career track
CIO or CTO
>favorite book
Thus spake Zarathustra

>>11350285
>school
University of Washington
>major
Electrical Engineering
>how you like it
It's alot of work and bullshit
>intended career track
any company that pays alot
>favorite book
illusions by richard bach

Georgia Tech
Physics
Interesting shit but quite stressful, though that's almost entirely my fault
Grad school, then research
The 42nd Parallel

>>11351463
Thank you for your service to this otherwise mediocre thread.

>>11351463
you coulda just called them failsons.

>>11351463
Well now I don't feel so bad about not being able to make any connections my freshman year.

>>11351301
Don't do it anon, the world needs smart people like you

>>11351463
sincerely great post.

>>11351293
>You're bringing ugliness into the world, anon.
just like your mom did faggot

>>11350533
Como é estudar em Letras na UL?

> University
> Law
> It's fucking brutal, and there aren't enough jobs at the end of it
> Barrister
> The Hobbit

>>11351463
These kinds of rants are pretty pointless though. You still need a degree to do basically anything nowadays.

>>11351463
fantastic post

>>11350285
U of L
Political Science
I recently graduated and had a good time. Wish I was going back
I was thinking of law school (currently studying for LSAT). If not then grad school. Probably something about nuclear proliferation (shits tight).
A portrait of the artist as a young man.

>>11351245
i was going to argue but this is fucking based
t. state uni midwit

>>11350285
>school
Cal State Bakersfield
>major
Pure Mathematics
>how you like it
I like learning but hate college
>intended career track
Working in Nasa or AF
>favorite book
Leftism: Revisited or God Love You

>>11351911
we hate you and we’re winning just so you know fag, please continue your smug faggotry we’re going to bury your kind

>No name school in Colorado Springs
>English Secondary Education
Graduated, In hindsight I liked it but from an educational perspective I hate the way lit classes are run (structurally) in uni
>Teaching high school
already have a job lined up in August, so I get to take the summer off.
>Favorite book
Tie between Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac and Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon

state uni
microbio
it's ok
singer/songwriter. the second coming of jeff mangum
ofotcn

>>11351463
Imagine knowing you're going to die one day and legitimately believing this shit. I hope you're happy my man.

>school
UCL
>major
Neuroscience
>how you like it
Love it
>intended career track
Research
>favorite book
The Idiot

Northwestern
Film/Japanese
Have some problems with the institution but overall I'd say I am happy with the time I've spent here
Probably grad school, academia
Sons and Lovers/The Futurological Congress

>>11351711
You sound like you’re going to have the worst existential crisis of us all. Have fun offing yourself *fedora tip*

>>11351463
based

>Ohio University
>Electrical Engineering
>Don't like it but too far to quit
>Been experimenting with photography and filmmaking for a while. I think I have some genuinely good and original ideas but it's still a pipe dream and I know that. Probably going to work as a software engineer to make $$$ to support my filmmaking.
>Ulysses I guess

>>11350285
>rowan
>journalism
>far too easy
>leveraging my previous experience with motion graphics and animation to produce documentaries
or a writer I guess, not sure if I'm any good at it
>the sun also rises

>>11352705
EE turned software engineer reporting in, make your cash, but get out as fast as you can.

>>11352718
Doing an internship at a large tech company right now. Making a lot of money, but this place is so lifeless. If anything, it inspires me to work way harder on other shit just in hopes I don't get trapped in a place like this.

>
>International Relations/History
>Enjoyable to acquire knowledge to btfo NEETS on /lit/ with
>ha ha
>The Valhalla Exchange

>>11350299
>>11350527
>>11350540
>>11350600
>>11350964
>>11351301
BASED

>school
A non-elite one. I went to a top 30 university, developed schizoaffective disorder, demonstrated to the world that I was utterly insane, withdrew, and now am in a local state college
>major
Biology
>how you like it
Could be worse. I don't know if I would choose Bio again but at least I'm set to enter the health profession and I'm learning marketable, valuable skills at the lab.
>intended career track
I want to write about medicine and biology on a professional basis
>favorite book
Toss up between Dubliners and Portrait of an Artist

>>11351182
I am from the area!
raised in CR

Grinnell
History
Absolutely love my classes and the school culture
Lawyer??
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me

>not a famous one
>Japanese Language & Literature
>It's pretty fun hanging out with other weebs with a similar sense of humor. The study program apart from the language instruction is sheer garbage
>Media
>Botchan by Soseki Natsume

>>11350285
Colby
Art/Hist/Geology (minor)
Great
Ideal: grad school then teaching at uni/college
The Recognitions

>>11351339
>U of Tulsa
no way fellow OKfag

nowhere important
english
its ok
not sure
the book of disquiet

>>11352024

Not that anon, but there is a God you know. Everyone who calls another man a fag will be made to have great buttlove sessions with a piping red hot stake in hell. Not even mad, I'm just saying.

>>11351463
lol what the fuck

>>11353066
It's so obvious that denying it makes you look retarded. Might as well be a flat earth theorist.

>>11351182
Don’t you think the franklins tale is horrendously underrated ?!?!?

>>11351463
You are correct

Any other chumps fall for the English degree meme and completely fucking regret it? I'm thinking about getting a second degree that's probably something /out/ related.

>>11352190
"Bakersfield" rip dude, i'd rather be sent to the gulags

>>11353144
why do you regret it?
i fell for the stem meme and switched to english and i like it much more

>>11350494
>As in what ways do they force you to be political?
I'm lucky that I haven't been subjected to it in any particular way yet. However, my teachers all need to sign these agreements declaring that they agree with certain contentious political notions. Particularly regarding transgenderism, sexual identity and gender expression.
On top of that, there's kind of an unspoken rule/culture that centrists and right-wing people don't get hired. I remember once having a conversation with my Spanish professor who was a centrist, and he said he always kept his head down and always avoided anything relating to politics, because he said all his superiors and the vast majority of his colleagues were avid supporters of socialism and didn't make a very supportive environment for dissenting opinions.
I guess it's becoming common across the anglophone world with what came out of Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada

>>11353144
I'm halfway through my philosophy degree but also want to pick something else up. I was thinking about linguistics but not sure of the value

>>11351463
>There is nothing left. It's time for this society to die.
People are reading Ted Kaczynski

Uni of Tokyo

>liberal arts

starting sep this year hope there arent too many fat weeb girls

not a fucking clue

american psycho

any japanons out there by any chance? im not local tho

Williams
Philosophy
love it, good variety of courses
either union organizing or law
War and Peace

>>11350285
QUT
Dual degree in Business (marketing) and Fine Arts (writing)
Its pretty deece but full of gumbys
No idea, will prolly try and start my own business at some point
Heart of Darkness

>>11353250
why do you keep all that toilet paper up there and not next to the toilet?

>>11353271
Qut sucks dick

holy FUCK what do i major in all you guys seem so fucking ruined college seems like such a meme

>a SUNY
>Philosophy and exercise science
>fun stuff
>doctor or lawyer; I'll make that choice when the time comes
>Plato - complete works

>>11350714
I'll be darned if this isn't bait.
Count on some detached trust-fund aristocrat to claim romance is alive and well lmao

>>11353284
don't go to uni. I regret it.
I should've done a trade. The only reason I didn't was because a physical condition. But I would rather break my back and be in a wheelchair at 40 than suffer through the university system

>>11352325
I like you.

>>11353283
Yeah righto pal keep that nose turned up & don't let the coins fall out

>>11353302
Just having a laugh mate no need to take it seriously, you a non white or something?

>>11353304
I'm actually a 6th or 7th generation Australian of Irish and Polish descent. Do you study?

what's the point of these threads when only those from top 30 universities actively participate and everyone else just self-deprecates

>>11353308
Same desu (being 7th generation Australian) but I'm English/Scottish only
I study Law and Philosophy

>Instituto de Profesores Artigas
>Literature
>Not much to say, as I fancy myself a humanist it's only natural that I feel pretty comfy here, been thinking of pursuing a degree in Philosophy, too.
>Teaching the world classics to dumb brats, maybe take a shot at Academia later down the road, and of course writing.
>Crime and Punishment

>>11353363
How are you finding philosophy? If you're not at QUT is it UQ? UQ was basically grade 13 for the school I went to so I was pretty keen to avoid it

All these fucking wannabe lawyers.
You're not gonna make it.

>>11353374
Philosophy is great, best thing I ever did. Law is such garbage in Australia seems like such a waste of time, all I ever wanted was to become a legal academic anyway so it's better to understand the logical structure behind fields than the necessary semantics of a field itself.
UQ is not bad I went there for 2 years, but I moved interstate so I don't go there anymore, but definitely enjoyed my time there

>>11353380
Who studies law to become a lawyer? Bottom of the barrel profession

>>11353383
I'm considering phil after finishing my current degree but unsure if it's worth pursing in an academic sense or if I should just stay in the armchair.

>>11353392
I don't know you but I would hazard that Phil would be probably more enjoyable than fine arts, so if you like that you would enjoy Phil.
The good thing is that it combines the private aspect of enjoying it with the actual study, at least for me. So I'm just doing essays and readings for stuff I'm already interested in which supplements my personal time which is usually spent reading anyway. It doubles up which I like

>>11353380
no i know im going to run away as soon as i finish my degree im not going to law school

>>11353399
That's how I feel about fine arts at the moment. I like the idea of integrating my studies into my hobbies etc. cheers for the advice

>>11353405
All good, best of luck anon

>>11353267
N E S C A C
E
S
C
A
C

>>11350981

>Laments "doomed wealth-generating prison"
>Is a part of a system that actively promotes and engenders both of the adjectives used to describe the prison

>>11350386
>La Trobe University
what campus, friend?

>Harvard
>Computer Science
>Ehh, it's not what it's cracked out to be.
>Software Engineer maybe?
>Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Tasteby Pierre Bourdieu

West Aus
Neuroscience and Philosophy
Content is good, combo keeps me interested. Uni is shit, pleb standards despite the prestige, lots of cost cutting, basically end up self educating. Some real tards here too.
Research or move home to farm
Can't pick

>>11353469
hell yea except the part about the white supremacist institution

>>11351286
I study literature and math. Both are rewarding but certain math courses suck and certain are amazing

>>11350311
Holy shit

UF
Comp Sci/Engineering Leadership Minor
This school is shit, but it's locally prestigious
Software Developer, preferably not web development
In Cold Blood

>>11350311
I just graduated from UF
History
It was nice
Military
The Master and Margarita

>>11353562
Why are there so many UF students/alumni in this thread?

any state/unc/duke ppl here?

>>11353569
Because like the average /lit/ poster, UF students like to jerk themselves over how smart they are when in reality we're a bunch of pseudo intellectuals located in a cesspool, drenched in our own sweat while being afraid to go against the norm out of fear of being perceived as stupid.

In my time at UF I can tell you straight up that our liberal arts and journalism programs are average, our sciences and engineering are great, and our business school is meant for retards who know they should major in something that can get them a job.

Also please entertain me while I describe the type of person each major generally attracted.

>English
Head up ass morons who thought they were intellectuals and were generally insufferable to be around.
>Journalism
Fucking kek, among the most insufferable people here. English majors who use way too much social media and think their opinion matters.
>Poli sci
Mouthbreathing retards from the subarbs who believe they'll be part of the upcoming revolution
>Sociology/Anthropology/the like
White girls in sororities looking for a husband and dumb people who couldn't hack it in any other major(generally minorities) who think they should be taken seriously while in reality their major is a fucking joke. Doomed to the life of a housewife or a "community activist."
>History
Generally the more level headed people here, right behind the econ majors. Still had its fair share of retards, but generally the people viewed things objectively.
>Philosophy
Smart people with their heads up their own asses. Generally very fake people based off my interactions with them.
>Economics
Smart people who tended to be a bit boring. Very clear minded and level headed.
>Engineering
They all wanted to kill themselves
>Anything premed/dent
See above
>Anything Business related
People who couldn't think of anything else to major in and want a job when they graduate
>Any other STEM field
Nerds with no social skills who seemed to all wear the same thing.

Also we have a shit ton of FOB Chinese and Indians in our Engineering and Chemistry programs. They tended to isolate themselves from everyone else and some did not believe in hygiene, which is even worse considering this school is literally a fucking swamp.

>>11353617
>come to /lit/ to read about books
>bullied by anon for it

In reality, like I stated UF is really a pretty mediocre school. The only reason I'm here is because the school is known as a decently prestigious state school.

>>11353631
Hey man I'm talking about the majority of UF students. I'm hoping you're not like the rest. And yeah, since we recently hit number 9 in public uni rankings we will never fucking hear the end of it. The school is trying their best to be on par with Michigan, UCLA, and UVA, but it seems to me they're only focusing on STEM, business, and graduation rates. They literally don't give a shit about the humanities, but since it really doesn't make any money no one really cares.

>>11351148
Ayy, Aggie here. We should be friends.

>>11353190
>need to sign these agreements declaring that they agree with certain contentious political notions
That sounds horrible

>University
>History
>it's okay, but incredibly pointless
>No idea. I despise journalism, worked in academia for a while (assistant) and didn't really like it, also don't want to become a teacher. Those seem to be the only options, so I'll maybe do an apprenticeship just to have some options
>The Magic Mountain by Mann

University of Turku
Masters student in economics
Really love it
Want to continue to PhD and work in research
Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann

>>11353641
Nah, I was just poking fun. There is a slack channel that is used by a lot of people in Computer Science, and you really get a nice look at the superiority complex the average UF student has. It's quite bewildering desu

>>11353744
You in the UK? I do history but I'm also considering an apprenticeship - this degree doesn't seem to have too many options at the end of it. What apprenticeship would you do?

>>11350285
>Mediocre school in shithole country
>Pharma
>I absolutely hate it
>MS from US - work their for couple of years - come back to my shithole to start a business

UPS
Mathematics
Cute place, but honestly I should have chosen a more competitive school.
Finance? I kind of want to sell my soul.
The Magic Mountain, Mann.

>>11353847
>Favourite book : crime and punishment

>>11350548
ah yes, actual skills like shooting people you don't know and getting blown up by achmed and the gang for this shit society

>>11353420
>>11353872
We are all sinners, anons.

>>11350364
yes he'd be much more "grown up" with a useless degree and 50k of debt wouldn't he?

>>11350313
why should he do this?

>>11353771
Why not Uni of Helsinki?

>>11351784
>SJW hippies everywhere
Epic style

some csu hell
computer science
I think it gets a bad name but some of it is deserved
I honestly haven't a clue
right ho, jeeves

>>11352325
Why did you major in Neurosci anon? Thinking of switching my major

>>11353267
How the FUCK did you get into Williams

>>11351301
I want you to live. Don't do anything dumb. If given time, I think you'll find your place in the world

>>11354171
>>11351928
Calm down. Half the people on this fucking website say they're suicidal, it means nothing.

>>11351192
de montfort?

Bump.

We can do it lawfags, dont give up!

Middlebury
English
It was fun while it lasted. The winter makes me feel alive. Culture was really preppy, but certain pockets were okay.
Probably gonna kill myself soon desu. Teacher/Lawyer seem like my best bets but neither of them really do anything for me.
Swann's Way

>>11351270
Why do you dislike it?

>>11352034
Se ainda estás por aqui:
É fixolas. A faculdade tem condições péssimas, mas o ambiente e os professores são, na maioria, bons. Também há que sublinhar o facto de existirem mesmo muitas cadeiras e línguas à tua escolha.

>>11350285

>uni
>intended career

i think you mean trade school, you pleb

>>11356313
Not my preferred uni choice also not the course I wanted to do

>>11350285
>school
no name school

>major
biomedical engineering

>how you like it
haven't even started and I'm already stressed

>intended career track
doctor. Because I believe I have the ability to do it.
Also, it's not like I have anything better to do with my shitty, apathetic life.

>favorite book
Kokoro

>>11356570
>Doctors
>Lawyers
>Teachers
>Engineers
>Nurses
>Architects
These are all careers that can achieved through vocational training at universities

>>11350502
>>11350536
pharmacist bros

EU here I wish I was paid more, in contemplation of the US workforce.

>>11350285
>CSUP
>business administration
>hate it (help)
>i have no idea (help)
>4chan

>>11353579
Yeah, this is me >>11351542

>>11350285
asu

ee

its great

research

kjv bible

>>11356698
nice statefriend here
unc can go to hell, you ppl are actually smart

Generic shit state school
English and TESL
It's easy enough and I get to work on something that I actually enjoy.
I've been taking arabic because I plan on teaching in the middle east, dont really know what I want to do after that but I have ideas. Arabic is beautiful but fuck the grammar is dense and nothing is even remotely similar to English.
Cat's cradle.

>>11350580
physics research is for autists and guys who overcompensate for a lack of sexual prowess by getting a PhD to feel superior to those that rejected them

>>11356736
>being this butthurt about failing physics in high school

>>11356719
Haha yeah fuck carolina. I visited and toured state's campus right after I first toured Duke, and I thought it was nice, but pretty spread out. It would've been a serious contender for me if the financial aid for out of state students wasn't so atrocious. How are you liking it?

>>11356948
it's nice. i like the independent vibe. most of the students are >>11351463 or dumb hicks. trying to keep my gpa high because i havent a fucking clue what i want to do so at least ill have options. how's duke

>>11356967
All in all I like it, there are some really smart people and there are some people who just have the connections/parent-funded resume to get in, but that's true of anywhere really. Academically it's the best of both worlds (to me at least) being able to study stem while also taking electives from and being in the environment of a strong liberal arts school. Socially it's good, the social scene itself is great but I'm an introvert so it's not always easy. Are you taking any interesting classes next semester?

>>11357029
19th century philosophy. ive had the prof before and hes good. looking back i shouldnt have majored in bio or stem but im too far in to change. might double up but that will take extra time and money.

hbu?

>school
Queen's University
>major
Computer Science w/ Cognitive Science specialization
>how you like it
Not bad. I think I have a natural talent for that kind of thing but most of my interests lie elsewhere.
>intended career track
AI would be ideal but I'd probably need a phd. No fucking clue, honestly.
>favorite book
Douglas Hofstadter - I am a Strange Loop (I want to read G.E.B later)

>>11357041
I wanted to take a class centered around the works of the pearl poet, but that just wouldn't work with my engineering requirements so I'm taking a class on Faulkner instead. The professor is supposed to be good though so I'm looking forward to it. Why do you regret majoring in stem? I mean it isn't a guaranteed six figure job like people make it out to be, but it's still a good career path, especially if you don't want to end up in academia.

>>11356648

and those are trades

sorry, mate. it's all trades now. if you go to school to expressly get a job and not for education solely then you have reduced university to a trade school.

i blame americans.

>>11357069
the faulkner class sounds cool.
i wouldnt do stem again. i think ill either write/play music (pipe dream ik) or be a lawyer.

>>school
U of Q
>>major
Mathematics & Philosophy
>>how you like it
I like it enough to not want to drop out. First year courses suck arse though because they just cover shit you already know or are very limited in their exploration of topics for an intro course that is supposed to get people interested and frame the rest of their study. Some lecturers fucking suck ass my dude.
>>intended career track
Popular conservative political commentator > Med school for Psychiatry > Data Science or AI
>>favorite book
Whatever, Houellebecq or Northline. Vlautin

So to those English majors. . .
I'm going to be graduating high school soon. I have always kind of expected myself to major in English and go straight into academia but looking here and in other places it seems like I'm going to screw myself over.

What are some majors that would really lead to a "literary" life?
My biggest fear is that I won't be able to be published if I don't major in English or get an MFA in poetry/fiction

>>11357078
Accurate desu
Being knowledgeable and learning should be valuable in of itself and not just as a stepping stone to working

>>11350285
University of Alabama
History
I hate it, but at least I'm on a full ride
enlisting in the Coast Guard because I like boats and would kill myself in a sedentary job
Lord Jim

>>11357107
Don't pick your major assuming you will go into academia. Do not do this. Do NOT do this. I know Lit PhDs from Princeton who ended up teaching at private high schools. The market is incredibly saturated.

how do you pick a major ??

>>11357218
You get a hat (a medium sized one, I prefer a baseball cap) and insert four(4) large dice inside
Then ask each of your friends to submit a potential major for you up to a maximum of 24 possibilities
Have your friends label them all chronologically based on when they were written by each friend and then rank them reverse alphabetically
Shake the hat and fling the dice into the kitchen sink and then once you add the numbers up choose the major that corresponds with the number on the dice
Alternatively choose whatever major you like and seems relevant

>>11356266
.....Eric?

>>11351245
Well you didn't have to be so rude bout it, anon.

UCI
English
It was nice, I got to frat it up for four years and didn't read a single book in any of my syllabuses. Being an English major made me hate reading, but ever since I graduated a couple of weeks ago my love for reading has returned and I've finished four books in two weeks.
I want to become a professional MMA fighter, though I am going to teach English abroad and continue to train.
The Sun Also Rises

>>11357084
There's no reason to give up on your dreams so easily, anon. For example, you could do freelance writing and music gigs and tutor some as a side hussle. That is, unless you're so unwilling to work with stem that you wouldn't even teach it part time to high schoolers for money, in which case going for the double major might be the move. Intellectual property law is also getting big, could do that for a while then live the literary lifestyle. Granted I'm a stranger on a Maori chihuahua breeding forum whose only thing in common with you is that our schools are close, but it's food for thought.

>>11351258
Always nice to see someone else from Georgetown. Agree about the shitty culture. What year are you?

>>11350285
>university of melbourne
>computer science
>better than anything else
>software engineer
>norwegian wood

>>11357299
hahahahhahahahahahah

>>11357299
>Melbourne
Oh no no NO NOOOO

>>11352705
O U OH YEAH!

>>11351463
based

>>11351724
>>11352412
I WOLKED BOB DYLAN UP ON STAGE. YOU WILL NEVAH BE ANYTHING, NEVAH!

>>11350285
U of South Carolina
Law
Hate - In my head way too much and have become socially alienated but I am my own ruin
Inquisitioning paedophiles
Toss up b/w Paradise Lost or Crime and Punishment

>>11350285

northwestern
philosophy + english major with a minor in classics
i like it
prob go to law school try to get a judicial clerkship see where to go from there
stoner really moved me unlike anything else as much of a meme it has been in recent years

>>11351335
were u in Mark's class?

>>11350285
>St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas
>Economics
>Great school, could invest more in the econ department
>Loved it, graduated 2016
>Working at a multifamily real estate tech startup
>Favorite: High Rise by JG Ballard
>Objectively best book I like: French Lieutenant's Woman by Fowler
Most people out of Texas aren't familiar with the school, but its more or less the private school you go to if you didn't want to go to UT Austin. I'd say its probably close to UT in quality of professors, but the education is a little better because the classes are smaller. Unfortunately we don't have the brand so our grads don't get recruited as heavily outside of Texas cities/cities in nearby states. Everybody in my year in my program (economics) got good jobs though.

Also read French Lieutenant's Woman you fags I never see it talked about on /lit/

>>11351784
damn stalin must've got major proletariat pussay

>>11353469
what year CS are you? i'm there too but CS51 rekk me

>>11358379
me, forgot to finish post
>Harvard
>CS, probably gonna switch to history though
>I think I like the Boston area more than the school itself, overall it's nice and the school's generous, met some cool people too
>Something in tech hopefully
>Master of the Senate

>>11358402
>>11353469
I am curious what y'all think about an undergrad comp sci degree. I know there's more to it than coding and software architecture, but is it something I can meaningfully learn on my own? Its a subject I'm interested in, but am already making good money in consulting so I won't go back to school for it. I just know that it'll be a good boost to marketable skills/paycheck if I can learn what you are learning.

>>11358411
>is it something I can meaningfully learn on my own
Most definitely, you can check out CS50 on edX. I think it's one of the best intro courses out there. That course teaches C, which I feel like wouldn't be used in consulting (I'm assuming since it's data driven you'd be using Python/R). In any case CS is more about the thought process and once you have that down, switching to one of those aforementioned languages should be very easy.

>>11350285
UCSD
Poly Sci /// Con Law
Rigorous, but stimulating and great
Aiming to get into Columbia Law next year, planning on being a civil rights attorney, might get into politics
Tie between C&P and Idiot

>>11350285
>Poitiers
>Art History
>Too many dumb communists
>Shopkeeper at antiques store
>The Doll by Prus

>>11358561
>Shopkeeper at antiques store
cute desu

>yes
>computer science
>love it
>idk as long as i ended up in mars
>bible

>>11351347
>mastering a foreign language is actually a skill
>Doing German
Sorry to break it to you bud, but most Germans probably speak better English than you do.

>>11350285
Texas A&M
Wildlife and Fisheries Science
It's cool
Something with Amphibians
Wildlife Biologist, probably a consultant of some sort.

>school
Euro city college, no real campus
>major
Medicine
>how you like it
meh, interesting but I can never talk about medical/biological type stuff with friends because they study lit, history, films etc. I get pretty jealous of their coursework
>intended career track
dunno, maybe research
>favorite book
Diary of a Country Priest

>>11351463

>There is nothing good left at any of these places. It is turd polishing, thousands of mathematically perfect cylindrical turds rotating like neutron stars to blind and dazzle you and prevent you from noticing they're just pieces of shit.

Inspired anon, truly.

>>11350285
FU Berlin
no
expected more
IT
Boйнa и миp

Now I am become bugman, the destroyer of souls. Here in the computer science lab of my third tier commuter school, I have watched the suburban rot of American capitalism poison everything sacred and literary about academic culture. This university should not exist. It is not a university. It is not even a trade school. It is a node on the great tumor of Washington, D.C., a malignant parasite that quietly feeds upon Northern Virginia's economic bloat--its congestion, its corruption, its overpaid government workers and contractors, its skyrocketing immigrant population, its feelgood unfettered liberal consumerism. The Koch brothers recently purchased the economic and law departments. They even renamed the law school. There are Islamic prayer rugs in every other building. My classmates dream of joining the ranks of government contractors like Booz Allen and Lockheed Martin who murder children, destroy the environment, bribe politicians to invade the Middle East, and illegally spy on you as you read this post. Many of them will.

But I am not resisting anymore. I am narcotized. I take my pills. I torrent Netflix original movies. I eat Chipotle. I am learning to code, meaning I too will someday soon become dependent on the region's bloat.

I have joined the Hive. And thereby, I will one day acquire the means to escape it, if it doesn't destroy me first.

>>11350285
Fairfield University
Environmental Studies
I don't know my career track but I am working for a financial consultant and while he wants me to be more involved in the business and also make more money, I'm not sure, but at the very least I will be licensed by the end of the summer, though>>11351463 hits a bit too close to home in that regard, idk how I exactly feel about his post. And it's kind of how I feel about my school too, back and forth on it, not doing amazing in classes and not really making any friends. Overall it's been alright but I hope I can make it better this semester.
I haven't been reading for long but maybe Catcher in the Rye in all honesty

>>11357293
Ha! I felt pretty alone in the thread. Junior year, how about you?

>>11350285
>school
Arkansas State University
>major
English with Writing Concentration (meme-ing myself, I know)
>career
Probably attempt to return to college to get an Environmental Studies degree to open up some actual job prospects. Idk, something /out/ related
>Yosemite - John Muir

>>11352346
im transferring to northwestern this fall any advice?

>>11357268
Not Eric, but I think I know who you're talking about.

>University of Warsaw
>International Relations
>I like it quite a lot, but sometimes I want to kill myself for choosing this one
>Honestly I don't know. I intendend to specialize in buisness and politics of India, but we'll see, I like to keep my options open
>For now probably Brothers Karamazov

>top one school
>philosophy
>couldn't be better
>Oil Barron
>Thus Spoke Zarathustra

>>11350285
>UPAEP (Uni in Mexico)
>I study International Relations my major would be International Politics (We have a very different system to yours, we don't go throught some general bachelor's degree and then pick Med school or Law school, so I don't really have a major but my terminal line is International Politics, my best friend's for example is International Law)
>I fucking love it
>Probably research and journalism
>Lord of the Rings

>>11350285
>school
Ryerson (somewhat of a joke uni here, but has a reputation for being good in what I study)
>major
Journalism
>how you like it
Easy, and not very intellectually stimulating. Just came here for the BA to add to my resume
>intended career track
Work for a newspaper or broadcaster if I get lucky I guess? But knowing the current job prospects in this industry and my current work ethic I doubt I'll end up there. I might just be a copywriter or technical writer honestly, because very few people nowadays actually end up in news media even in this major.
>favorite book
No Country for Old Men

>>11359984
Junior too, we'll have to have another DC meet up in the fall

>school
A noname public uni in the jungles of south america
>major
Architecture
>how you like it
I really like it. Dropped out of civil engi. for this and I can't say I regret it. It sucks always having constant deadlines ahead though
>intended career track
hopefully get to be an actual architect with creative liberty, which is probably very unrealistic and not gonna happen. I'd like to write some book on aesthetic theory one day.
>favorite book
I don't read much fiction, but Lolita.