/lit/ - Literature

>>12030843
GAAAAAH I WANT TO DROP OUT I WANT TO DROP OUT I HATE UNI SO FUCKING MUCH GAAAAH ! EVERY YEAR I TELL MYSELF THIS IS MY LAST YEAR IM GONA TO TAKE A YEAR OUT NEXT YEAR TO SORT KYSELF OUT BUT THE YEAR ROOLS IN AND I DONT DO ANYTHING GAAAAH! I DONT KNOW WHAT IM GOING TO DO I HAVE A USUELESS DEGREE WHO THE FUCK WANTS TO EMPLOY SOMEONE WHO KNOWS A LOT ABOUT GAY ASS IMANUEL FAGGOT KANT GAH IMSOFUCKEDIMSOFUCJED!!!! I HATE EVERY FUCKING MOMENT OF UNI AND EVERY MOMENT OF MY LIFE IS CONSUMED BY UNI I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE LIVING IN THTHE CITY AND BREATHING TRAFFIC FUMES I HATE TRAVELING I GATE FUCKING SEMINARS AND RETARDS WHO TALK DURING SEMINARS I HATE LECTURES AND WASTING MY TIME GOING TO THEM WHEN THEY JUST REGURGITATE THE TEXTBOOKS I HATE THE TEXTBOOKS BECAUSE I HATE NY SIVJECT BUT ITS TOO LATE NOW IVE MADE MY BED I FUCKING HATE UNI GAH IM SO FUCKED

SOMONE FUCKEING WAKE ME UP IM SO FUCKEDIMSO FUCKE!d NO!

I HAVE NO SOCIAL LIFE I HATE BE PEOPLE ON MY COURSE I HATE NOT BEING ABLE TO WVER MAKE ANY CONNECTION WITH THEM BECIASE I DIDNT MAKE ANY FRIENDS IN FIRST YEAR AND NOW I DONT KNOW ANYONE AND IM SO FUCKED WHEN I LRACE JESUS CHRIST WHAT THE FUCK AM I GOING TO DO WITH MY LIFE I WANT TO GO OUT INTO THE WOODS AND FISH AND BUILD A HUT I LIE AWAKE ALL NIGHT WATCHING THOSE PRIMITIVE TECHNOLOGY VIDEOS AND THINKING ABOUT THE UNABOMBER I JUST WANT TO LEAVE IT ALL BEHIND EVEN IF I COULD JUST GET A JOB BUT I CANT I CANT EVE GET A FUCKING FORMAL REJECTION THEY JUST IGNORE ME AND NEVER GET BACK TO ME FUCK FUCK FUCK GAAAAAAAH

I DRINK SO MUCH FUCKING COFFEE JUST TO STAY AWAKE MY DOET IS SHIT I GOT TO TGE GYM THREE TIMES A WEEK BUT IT DOESNT HELP ANYMORE GAH WHAT THE FUCK AM I GOIGN TO DO AFTER UNI I HAVE NO SKILLS IM A VOOKWORM FAG URBANITE WITH NO SKILLS

I HAVE PICTURES OF HOMESTEAD PLANS ON MY PHONE PIC RELATED AND IVE CRIED LOOKING AT THEM BEFORE IMAGINE HAVING SUCH A SIMPLE LIFE AND PROVIDING FOR YOURSELF AND NOT FEELIG GUILTY ALL THE TIME BECAUSE YOU ARENT DOING ANYTHING BESIDES STUDYING AND WATCHING MOVIES AND FEELING GUILTY BECUASE NO ONE IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD EMPLOY YOU GAH FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCKF CUKFCFJS NOOOOOOOOO

I JUST WANT TO BE ANLE TO BELIEV IN GOD BUT I CANT EVEN DO THAT NOTHING IS HAPPENING IN MY LIFE EVERY WEEEK IS THE SAME NOTHING CHANGES FUCK FUCK FUCK I WANT TO DO SOEMTHING BUT THERES NOTHING TO DO FYCK FUCKF CUFKC FUCKF CUFKC TUCKF CURKCHR KEKF CUKCCHFKVUFKVFUVK

I WANT TO DROP OUT I WANT TO DROP OHT BUT I CANT I HAVE NO MONEY AND MY PARENTS WOULD STOP SUPPORTING ME BUT I NEED TO DROP OUT BUT I CANT FUCK FUCK FUCK

UT Austin, Mathematics
currently Bourdieu's Distinction. im a closeted humanities fag so i read sociology/philosophy in my spare time
nah, math's based and i will prob get a cool job at kikebook or jewgle. real analysis is kicking my ass, however.

>>12030882
based and redpilled

>>12030843
Uni in South Wales, Engineering
Started Ulysses but almost done with Siddhartha also
Yes, very much so

>>12030882
this

school fucking sucks
commuting sucks
you know in the back of your mind that you're a debt slave
these worthless assignments suck
you arent learning anything
everybody just wants to go home and be anywhere else
everyone gets high or drunk to forget about the bullshit and be able to tolerate the living hell

>>12030843

school: princeton university

reading: seigel's "idea of the self"; prokopios' "wars of justinian" de Rougemont's "love in the western world"; hacking's "the emergence of probability"; lovejoy's "the great chain of being"; bejan's "mere civility"; "melville's "moby dick"; and for mathematics, oakes/kaufman's "methods in social epidemiology"

do i regret it? no, it's not quite what i expected, but it is what it is, it opens opportunities, there are some smart people here, it's beautiful out right now, and i'm happy.

>>12030843

Low-status state university in PA

Gibbon's Decline and Fall

No

>>12031009
Princeton is a good place to go, but when you're some schlub at a cheap state directional school like me studying humanities, it's not quite the same.

>>12031014

i feel you, i understand. it's odd living out the difference.

Good ol UVA
Reading Middlemarch and the Sun Also Rises.
Don't really regret it. Pretty dank school. They also pay for everything.

UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY, WEST POINT SIR

READING MOBY DICK FOR THE 4TH TIME SIR

YES SIR IT'S A BIG CLUB BUT NOT EVEN CARLIN'S CLUB IT'S A CLUB OF JOCKS AND LITERAL RAPISTS WHO ARE ONLY HERE BECAUSE OF THEIR PHYSICAL POWER OR SPORTING STATUS THERE IS NOT A SINGLE INTELLIGENT PERSON HERE WHY DID I DECIDE TO DO THIS I CAN'T BELIEVE I DIDN'T JUST GO TO ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE OR MY STATE UNIVERSITY THIS WAS A MISTAKE I NOW HAVE TO COMMIT 5 YEARS OF MY LIFE BECAUSE I THOUGHT THIS SCHOOL WOULD DO ANYTHING MORE THAN A NORMAL COLLEGE SIR

>>12031005
THIS THIS THIS

GAHHHHHHH IMAGINE GOING TO A PLACE YOU DONT WANT TO BE FOR MOST OF YOUR DAY FOUR FIVE DAYS A WEEK TO HANG OUT WITH PEOPLE WHO ALSO DONT WANT TO BE THERE AND YOU DONT EVEN GET ANYTHING OUT OF IT AT THE END HOW FUCKED IS THAT

HELL IS PROBABLY JUST A NEVERENDING SEMINAR, AT LEAST EVERY SEMINAR I GO TO SEEMS LIKE SOME FORETASTE OF DAMNATION.

FUCK FUCK WERE SERFS, WERE LOWER THAN SERFS, WERE LESS DIGNIFIED THAN CATTLE, HOW DID IT ALL GO SO WRONG??!!

>>12031031
I really hope you don't become a butter bar you weak, limp twisted dodo.

First year in college, I go to Wayne state, it's a sub-par research university.
I'm currently reading the stranger by camus
And so far... I dislike it, maybe it's because of the college I go too, it's hard meeting anyone because i commute so it's been lonely lately. I got into better universities but I couldn't afford them so I had to settle for this one, the only good thing about this university is that it's in downtown Detroit, so I spent most of my spare time walking around exploring places alone. Maybe itll get better once I meet people but I'm not at all sure.

>>12031041
just think of all the time and money you are throwing away on something you despise, and weep for me

>>12030882
fpbp fuck university

>>12031051
I have no choice to not be one.
It's an awful experience, though

>>12031041
>Privileged to afford training to obtain legal documents
>Doesn't want to waste the money, but is wasting the money
>We're less dignified than cattle
That's confusing.

>>12030843
On my Placement year at Huddersfield University studying Business Studies. I wish I did Economics or at least Business Economics. Never-mind, one year to go and I can finally read whatever I want to again.

>>12031041
t. over privileged brat
Kys you waste of space

Almost done with local community College, transferring to state college in January.

I'm reading Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches.

Well, as far as school I guess I regret initially flunking out, but now I really value it, so I guess it all worked out. As far as work goes though I have a great job which makes not worrying about school a lot easier.

still not sure if I should go to uni. But what will I do if I don't go? (yes am underage)

>>12031298

you should, but do something practical that's in demand

>>12031345
what would you recommend? im an englishfag mainly

>>12031031
my ex gf went to west point. she prob got railed by dick 24/7 there, sad. it struck me as a respectful place but the cadets were not very clever tbqh. still respect for being willing to die for israel

University of Houston, STEM Major
Reading Moby Dick, The Iliad, and a couple of works by Seneca.
No regrets so far, and also it's enjoyable I get to choose to spend the majority of my time alone.

RUM, English with Linguistics Track
The Iliad
Not at all,I wish I could get more majors in philosophy and history, but have to choose one. I need friends btw

>>12030843
University of Chicago, English major

Blood Meridian

Not particularly, but I wish someone had told me that college was not about learning new skills, but applying them and building connections to the real world.

>>12031764
why do you study english?

the school of hard knocks

Generitive linguistics and philosophy at the Hebrew University (gonna get a lot of love because of the triple parentheses thing...)
Reading Thinking fast and slow, some cognitive psychology that is. Also No more human.

>>12031843
And - No regrets. School is 3 years, tuition is low and I'll manage as a not so wealthy person

>>12030843
>Where did* you go?
UMBC
>What are you reading?
Nothing at the moment because I'm concentrating on NaNoWriMo
>Do you regret your decision(s) so far?
Very much so. I bought into the STEM meme because I was told I was "good at computers." If I could go back 15 years to when I was starting high school I would have smacked myself in the head. I was such a little turd back then.

>>12031823

I've always been told that I've a knack for writing, so, I figured it'd be easier to develop a skill I'm good at rather than learn something from scratch. If you were on that /pol/ thread about literacy last night, I was the tutor.

>>12031843
Double Major?

>>12031865
Indeed

>>12030843
The University of Kansas
Rayuela and the Divine Comedy
Not yet

>>12031920
>tfw sufficient iq to do it, but too mentally ill and lazy

>>12030843
Study Law at Cambridge.
Currently reading Nietzsche's BGE.
Regret is a strong word, but certainly I have found more to dislike about Cam than to like. I find the average student kind of frustrating to deal with. A lot of my peers are very arrogant but also intellectually insecure people--it makes for an unbearable mix of obviously fake modesty, combined with the tendency to shy away from difficult/interesting conversations because they're terrified of saying something stupid (everyone says dumb things, get over it). I find it pretty easy to make friends with most people I meet, but in Cam more than anywhere else I find it more of a struggle to find unpretentious, confident and non-arrogant people.

>>12031026
I'm here as well. Did you go to the Inauguration thing? I heard he's pumping in even more funding for tuition.

Reading: Pinion, The Poetry of Robert Frost, and finally getting around to Paradise Lost.

Ohio University, getting masters in electronic navigation systems
reading Spinoza's Ethics
dont regret it, airplanes and spaceships are cool

>>12031009
UChicago guy here as always. Anyone want someone to talk about philosophy or humanities-related things with?

>>12031009
Cool readings, what do you study? Are you in a history/philosophy of science stream?

Since you're reading Hacking and probably have some taste for historical ontology, how are you finding Lovejoy? I found it really interesting to try to guess at his ontological commitments (what he thinks an "idea" is) based on how he talks about them.

>>12032243
Oops, didn't mean to quote Princeton dude twice.

>>12032243

cool, i'm the princeton guy. i'd love to start a dialogue. thoughts on how to do so?

i'm actually on a woody-woo track for public policy with a minor in applied math; philosophy and history are my electives

i think lovejoy is excellent--i can see why you find it interesting to approach him as you do. for my own purposes, i've been trying to map lovejoy's history unto other major histories of western ontology--hence the hacking, and i recently finished auerbach's "mimesis", lowith's "meaning in history" and wolin's "vision and politics." i'm curious when a certain type of subject emerged in the world--one that saw their interior life in certain spatial terms, and how this interiorization of spatiality relates to the notion of "antinomeanism." in short, i'm most attracted to the history of "unreality" (e.g. the sensory world is a veil, is false, etc.) that lovejoy traces across the breakdown of traditional hierarchical political molds and finally ending in the advent of the celebration of diversity/pluralism in the modern era.

what do you study? what are you into? personally, i think UChicago is probably the best school in the US

>>12032243
I'm always down for abstract concepts

how's there ivy leaguers on 4chan rofl

>>12032562

UChicago guy (1 of 2 I think?)

I stay pretty contained to /lit/, but you'd be surprised at how difficult it is to start a dialogue about literature in an Ivy when there are so many students who'd rather lock themselves up and learn or spend the night drinking with their bros

Senior at NYU
Philosophy major, Math minor
Currently reading The Tunnel for fun, various articles on politics, philosophy of mind, and epistemology for class
NYU is fine, I regret minoring in Math, it was supposed to be a major but I was never that good even though I really loved it and I just couldn't cut it, pretty depressing desu. I know I'm never gonna use it for a job so I feel like I should have double majored in politics or something to boost my GPA and set me up to get into a better Law school or other grad program, oh well.
Other than that I can't really complain, living in New York is cool, I couldn't care less about most of my peers but I made some great friends at my part time job at a fancy restaurant that pays really well. The philosophy program is supposed to be the best in the world but the professors are really hit or miss, I'll never forget studying the Critique for a semester with one of the greatest living Kant scholars though, philosophy of mind has also been excellent, walking into the offices of some of the leaders in the field to talk about their papers is really fun.

any other medfags here regretting going into medicine, getting disillusioned and jaded?

>>12032694
don't worry it's only for the rest of your life

What’s oxbridge presence looking like on lit (and brits generally)?

>>12032694
what med school

>>12032792
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiraz_University_of_Medical_Sciences

>>12030843
Undergrad Philosophy

Reading Julien Offray de La Mettrie's 'Man a Machine'.

It has been educational and informative thus far. I might get my PhD just to state my general position on things and unironically waste my savings on whores an alcohol until I die from liver poisoning, venereal disease, poverty, or some combination of the three.

>>12032664
That sounds pretty cool. I don't attend a large or prestigious university but I'd love to transfer somewhere with this kind of rich academic culture. Getting deep into Philosophy has really made me want to get educated on mathematics and biology.

>>12030843
>Where do you go?
Moscow State University
>What are you reading?
Writing a book on hatred
>Do you regret your decision(s) so far?
Yes, all of them

>>12030843
>studying
history/political science
>do you regret it
yesss. At least I didn't pick law

>>12032295
Damn that sounds like a really interesting project, and great readings as well. Hadn't even heard of Wolin. Do you do anything with Benjamin, like Buck-Morss' Dialectics of Seeing type shit? Philosophy and anthropology/history of perception is blowing up so much lately. Other random recs just in case: Koyre, Polanyi, Koselleck.

Also do you do much with the effects of the Reformation? There's a book by this Catholic historian, whose name I forget and I've been trying to google for ten minutes now, about how the Counter-Reformation tried (sort of unwittingly) to beat Reformation theology at its own game by showing that Catholic religious experience of God could be just as "interior" and pietistically direct as a Protestant's. Part of the argument was that this contributed to dissolving medieval corporatism and subsidiarity in the Catholic parts of Europe as well, so that all of modernity had its umwelt similarly "disenchanted." But I think it had a bit of a perceptual component as well, something about how the ideal connection to God was ontologically re-constituted as this direct, one-to-one phenomenological experience, in a sort of void. But I might be projecting this back onto the book from other things, so.

I'm in philosophy (more or less) and interested in similar sorts of things, I think. Interested in holistic approaches to the history of ontology (or epistemes or gestalten or whatever useful buzzword), tracing the relationships between how perception is actually a part of ontology, how (like you say) spatiality being conceived differently might be dialectically intertwined with more traditional conceptions of ideology, culture, epistemes, but also technics and embodiment, how the subject is constituted (both empirically and phenomenologically/transcendentally). So many people who study these things just don't seem to understand how primordially this kind of a critique has to go, as a form of depth psychology. They stop at this conventional level of intellectual history that implicitly presumes ideas are just "ways of talking about things" but that the form and structure of experience itself can never change. Drives me insane. You often end up finding deeper insights in weird or old-fashioned corners than in promising-sounding mainstream academic books purporting to be the new hotness.

UChicago is an exciting but sometimes difficult place to be for sure. Do you think you'll try for postgrad studies, or aim for a think tank?

>>12032541
Are you the UChic guy in >>12032573? I'm down to hang out, as long as you don't mind me being autistic as fuck (as you can see from this post).

>>12033027
Not that anon, but what is UChicago like? What was your experience getting in their?

Tell me about St. John's.

>>12033299
all reading all the time (with some papers). you can have some pretty cool discussions in class if you and your classmates care about the material. tutors are generally intelligent and accomplished. the campus and population is small but it doesn't really bother anyone. I can't say much about careers after St. John's, but graduates have gone into a wide range of fields

>>12033299
fancy college for rich losers

>>12033361
>>12033299

I'm a sophomore; I can say this is pretty accurate
There's plenty of information online, but the main point is concentrated learning through the study of the Western canon alongside peers. It's a traditional way of collegiate education, yet effective.

I had doubts at first, but I love it here. It's also got some expansive history to it. (it's the 3rd oldest college in the U.S.)

>>12032837
foreign med schools dont count as med school

University of South Alabama.
Web Application Hackers Handbook and Хóббит.

Anyone go to Marquette? It's one of the schools I've applied to. Might not be prestigious and whatever but I thought Milwaukee was comfy and I like the religious affiliation (as I'm a Catholic). Anyone studying philosophy/history there mind telling me how is it?

>>12033027

yeah both of those are me, my schedule's hectic but so is everyone's, so, I'm down

>>12033296
ANOTHER UChicago student here. Getting in was honestly a crapshoot, and I happened to get lucky with being what they wanted that year. But now that I'm here, I love it. Everyone has a different field of knowledge so every conversation has the potential to be a learning experience. As the other anon said, though, there's a lot of people who either only part or live hermetically, so it's kind of hard to meet people outside of housing and classes.
To answer OP, I don't have much by way of regrets. While I don't really enjoy my field of study anymore, there are enough classes in other disciplines that I don't have to worry about getting into enough courses.

>>12030882
Based and redpilled

>>12033506
look at all of us

Probably applying for Uppsala University next year, heading for medicine.

Not that anyone here has the slightest clue what uni that is.

Take a guess

Philosophy at Wilfred Laurier University, in Ontario, Canada. Last year a TA played a clip of Peterson on tv in her tutorial. The diversity office lied about someone in the class filing a complaint and they made her cry when they threatened her with a hate crime, was pretty funny
Reading Plato, Aristotle and either/or
I dont regret coming here although i do often wish there were more classes

>>12030843
WCUPA. A literal who school, for accounting. I graduate next month.
Currently reading War and Peace and Sapiens.
I don't regret it at all. I have a job waiting for me in January, based on internships I enjoy the work, and I can handle the hours. I lived like a degen for the first two years of school but came along.

>>12033707
>The diversity office lied about someone in the class filing a complaint and they made her cry when they threatened her with a hate crime, was pretty funny

And this is why I go to Trent. The only thing they care about here is Indigenous Rights.

Mechanical Engineering at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

I regret every single decision I've made so far. When I entered engineering, I thought I'd go through the course no matter how lame it was with ease and the success I'd have in my professional life would make up for it, so that I'd be financially well off and dedicate my free time to read, draw and watch films.
But the course is extremely hard, the professors are terrible, I hate every single subject, and the market is so unstable I just barely got an internship (which I'm lucky to hold), but that has little to do with mechanical engineering itself and is really lame. Furthermore, during my graduation, international scholarship programs were extinguished, so I couldn't study abroad (a dream I had when entering the course), and I'm always so tired after work and college, I have no time to do the things I'm actually passionate about.

I don't see myself getting out of the line of work I'm in right now, I have no perspective to follow my artistic dreams and will never move to another country.

The thing I have going for me is the perspective of moving out of my parents' house as soon as I graduate, which will give me maturity and Independence, but might be dangerous to my mental stability.

I'm currently reading The Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce. Amazing prose, the man is a genius. Not an easy read, if you really want to get into it.

>>12033296
Can't speak much to undergraduate unfortunately, I only came for grad. I do remember seeing this in the Maroon though:
https://www.chicagomaroon.com/article/2018/5/3/university-chicagos-acceptance-rate-plummets-7-2-c/

Frankly, every university seems to be a crap shoot these days. It's a nice school though. Definitely has an upper class and wealthy feel to the student body, I gotta say. All my poor friends here have commiserated about how it was subtly hard to fit in because of that .Also:
https://www.chicagomaroon.com/article/2018/11/2/students-beaten-cars-burned-teen-attack-halloween/

>>12033433
>>12033506
>>12033541
I'm down if you guys are. I'm in my late 20s though so if you guys are both 18 or some shit and would rather avoid that, honestly, totally fine.

>>12033769
>As the New York Times recently reported, Chicago still has amongst the least socio-economically diverse student bodies among the "elite" universities.

>>12033783
isn't Chicago full of niggers

>>12031843
(((generative linguistics)))

> where did I go
An average at best university in Canada, but decent STEM

> what are you reading
A man in the high castle, notes from underground, meditations

> regrets?
graduated 6 years ago, STEM wasn't a meme, met my expectations

everything else I dont really give a fuck about, irresponsible with money but who cares, unironically YOLO

>>12030882
Stay strong senpai

>>12030843
I go to the University of Michigan and attend the Ross School of Business within that. As a freshman I am not taking any core business classes yet.

I'm reading "Case in Point" by Marc Cosentino. I'm trying to get into a business club next semester and this book is helping me prepare for the intensive interviewing process.

So far, I have no regrets. I like it here and the people and culture are amazing. I don't know what I want to study particularly in business but I fear that I will live to regret making the wrong decision.

>>12030843

>Berklee College of Music
>The Master and Margarita
>Not yet. But I know I will

>Pratt Institute
>White Noise by DeLillo
>I hate it here

>>12033769
22 here, not a total zoomer, can't speak for the other though.

>>12031829
ayy lmao

>>12030843
UAH
Imitation of Christ
I have nothing to compare this to. I guess I’m doing ok. But I sometimes find it hard to motivate myself to do anything.

>>12033707
I went to WLU a couple years ago before the whole Peterson shitshow. Comfy campus, comfy small town.

I recommend taking Rockney Jacobsen's "Philosophy of Mind" course, and Neil Campbell's "Freedom, Determinism, and Responsibility." I dunno if they're still teaching there. These two courses were the most interesting for me, and they're both passionate profs. Best of luck man

I'm depressed and jealous that STEM majors here are so well read. Most STEM-fags I met at school didn't even read for pleasure, let alone classics like Iliad.

>>12030843
Went to Umass.

reading some sci fi as usual, nothing to write home about.

I picked a hard major and also went for my masters when I probably could've gone without it, I also could've gotten away with an easier major and done just as well.

>>12031053
I considered applying to Wayne state, they made it seem like a had a very good chance(and I probably should've becasue I got denied by all the other PhD programs). Being in Detroit turned me off, though, would you say its fairly safe there? How's the school?

>>12034149
STEM-fag here, I always read before class while waiting for the professor, classmates would always be like "wow, you read a lot don't you?". Nobody ever read except one other guy and it was great when we first realized and talked about books.

>>12033398
Can't speak personally but heard only great things, I'm from mke and know people there

Amazing coffee around the area too

I go to Ohio University, studying history and political science. I'm reading like 5 books at the same time right now, trying to juggle readings for a historical research project I'm working on and things I just want to read for fun. Though right now I'm focusing on The Russian Revolution by Richard Pipes.

I'm mostly okay with my decision so far. Despite being a mid level state school I've had some suprisingly great professors, especially in history and philosophy courses. OU is a great place to be a college student, too. My only problem is that I've found I have no interest in working in politics when I graduate, so if I don't law school or grad school I might have some problem finding a solid career.

>>12032842
NYU guy here. If you feel like you could get a lot more out of your education somewhere else, and you have enough time, you should really consider transferring. I transferred to NYU after my freshman year elsewhere and it was a good choice. It's worth the effort.

>>12034096
University of Alabama in Huntsville my nigga?

I go to a high school in country town australia

am reading war and peace, it's a slog but i'm loving it

I pretty much just drink and party, but i'm not some kind of chad, I have no one to talk to about good literature so that's why I am here with you bots

Why is uni so unfriendly to commuters?

I can barely attend any social events because I have to get home, and that’s where 90% of networking occurs.

>>12030882

fpbp

>>12033606
I go there. It’s a nice place.
Just wish I had had the balls to choose something lit-related instead of this IT bullshit that I suck at anyway.

>>12030843
I go to the Humboldt university in Berlin, studiying German Literature and German Linguistic.
I'm basically just doing the first one at the moment, because I didn't pass my linguistic exams thid summer. Mostly because I didn't even try, which is the main problem. Still, I don't like it that much, so I've gotta see wether I'll change to something else.
Literature is ok atm, got some nice courses, but right now I should be in one, but am instead liying in my bed, having heavily overslept. Might have something to do with me not reading the required text for this session. Also depression, which is probably the biggest problem of why I can't engage as much as would be necessary and as I would like. But I started therapy and probably gonna start antidepressants soon so yeah, maybe it gets better then.
Some concret literature for this semester is basically everything by Jenny Erpenbeck, The Time Machine by Wells, Communistic and Futuristic manifest(s), some Perry Rhodan. As I said, courses and primary literature are pretty great, but I often struggle with secondary texts, even if they are interesting. I'm feeling as if I'm missing a certain reflectice capacity to really use their potential.

Have a Dutch masters degree in Jurisprudence and Legal Philosophy. Now I am doing a Masters degree in Law at Heidelberg University. My focus is on constitutional law and philosophy of law.

At the moment I am reading Walden.

I decided to go to Ontario's equivalent of community college because I only have to pay about $8000 for a two year program which includes two work placements.

Some of my teachers are rude and seem to get off on singling people out and shitting on them. It hasn't happened to me yet, but it doesn't make for a comfortable learning environment.

I've had my depression relapse recently and have been missing class a fuck ton. I have 100% in three of my five courses, and am doing well in the rest, but the program head won't stop telling me that I need to come everyday, nor will the teachers. They're just concerned about their pass rates. The academic policy of the college is that attendance will not be used in grading or assessment of learning outcomes.

I go to class and don't learn a goddamn thing. We just do the textbook exercises that are assigned as homework anyways. We have hard copy "Homework sheets" that simply say your name and the chapter of the textbook. You need to hand them in for your work to even be graded, and its an obvious ploy to increase attendance. Its hard to convince myself to go to a small three hour class with content that could be covered in thirty minutes or less.

I feel out of place and depressed, but I don't think I regret it. Its cheap and might land me a decent job. I've learned a lot about what people do to make themselves feel important as well.

>>12032071
Which college are you from lad?

IT Tafe at swinburne (AUS) , hopefully they accept me into 2nd year compsci degree from prior learning credits
The book of disquiet
Not a moment goes by where i dont

I am going to the University of Pittsburgh. Naturally, all I heard about last week were the 11 million jews who died at the hands of an evil white man, and that all whites need to be disarmed. I'm a transfer student, and this is my first semester here. Assuming I adjust well enough, I'm going to try and do the Honors Politics and Philosophy major. If not that, history, polisci, or linguistics.

Calvin College
Fear and Trembling by Kierkegaard, but haven't had much time to read lately

>>12034279
It's really safe desu, wayne has their own police department and with funding from large corporations downtown they're able to maintain a solid police force. The school is fine, there is constant construction and renovation on the campus, and every year they're funding more research. I know it's a meme on this board by Detroit has improved a lot, at least downtown, it's a good place to be in.

>>12035725
>IT
>TAFE
>Swinburne
JUST

>>12034734
you know it

>>12030843
University of Iowa, English major
Currently reading a lot of books (all for class)
I regret college. I started out as a great student, and now I can barely think about anything other than killing myself due to my inability to think about anything other than killing myself and so on.
I've decided that I'm dropping out to learn a trade, because the alternative is suicide.

>>12030843
> Cairo University
> Forty Rules of Love, Infinite Jest, The Complete Lovecraft (mainly focusing on the first one though)
> No because it's my best option despite being really shit.

>>12035523
Neat. I assume you're part of a Nation? What's that like?

I initially wanted to attend Karolinska, but after reading about the way they educate physicians, and the complete lack of cross-faculty student activity, I figured Uppsala was a better choice. Living in Uppsala seems way comfier than living in Stockholm too, and I've wanted to visit the city ever since I watched Fanny and Alexander.

t. gothenburger

>>12030882
The camping dream hits home.

>>12035850
Yeah i know, im surrounded and am pretty much a retard. I already got my CCNA and next year will know if i get into CompSci
What about you ? Are you a doctor making 300k a year ?

>>12030882
wtf I thought I was the only one with the homestead aspirations

>>12035858
Nice. My girlfriend is from Huntsville so I go up there a lot. Lots of growth going on right now. I'm from $SmallTown, Alabama so it feels like a large city to me.

>>12033953
Ross starts in second year. What are you talking about being a freshman within Ross?

Also, I went to UofM for my undergrad and I had the time of my life. I envy you, I miss Ann Arbor every day. It is the greatest place on earth, even though I didn't care one bit about sports.

Go check out the bookstore Literati on E Washington St, it is a very magical place. Also, go into the law school library, take a right, walk down all the way to the end, take a left, walk past the printers, and open the doors. You will find yourself in a cafe area with a glass ceiling. You will see (down the steps) there are doors leading to a quadrangle of sorts with windows all around a courtyard. Open the door (press the latch) and you will enter a very very beautiful and well-kept courtyard right in the middle of the law school, it's a big secret and no one knows about it. But, I felt I ought to share it with you. Take girls on dates there, they love it. All best!

University of Toronto Law School

Criminal Law and Procedure 11th Edition. For fun, Lord of the Rings, the Return of the King.

Not really. A bit. I wish I had either gone to med school or gotten into a top 3 US law school (Harvard, Yale, Stanford). But both those things rope back to the overarching wish that I had actually applied myself in university and not skated by without doing any work.

>>12035578
hang in there bud

Temple University
>inb4 North Philly, SJWs, poorfag normie school
I quite like it despite the city being kind of disgusting and unrelenting at times, and I have zero student debt cause they gave me a scholarship.
I'm reading Marx for the billionth time for a political philosophy class, I'm a sociology major so you end up reading him for almost every theory class. I'd like to read more literature but right now I'm just looking over research journals. I just finished rereading The Trial so that was a nice break.

>>12036257
>But both those things rope back to the overarching wish that I had actually applied myself in university and not skated by without doing any work.
Nice humblebrag dweeb

>>12036257
where'd you do your undergrad/are you canadian
also uoft law is still like a 3.8 so you probably worked pretty hard

>>12035531
Mein Humboldt Neger! Studying English and history in my Master of Education program in my first semester. I'm currently oscillating between feeling superior and arrogant due to other students and feeling like a piece of shit which is studying for several years already and feeling inferior to students/lecturers with vast knowledge and I'm bad at remembering dates. Currently I'm not reading much besides course texts but sometimes I read Pride and Prejudice before bed or Appians history of the Syrian/Mithridatic Wars. I don't really regret it but the courses kind of piss me off, especially pointless didactic courses where we learn about statics and constantly hear about inclusion. The English courses suck because the topics and choice this semester was abysmal, I'm enjoying the history courses the most right now.

>>12030882
fpbp

I am a history fag who just transferred to CSU Bakersfield.

I am really far behind in my reading and i have 35 pages of work due at the end of this month I have been procrastinating on. I should just buy a laptop and wall myself off in the library for a few hours a day. I know I should just pump out a page or two on each paper every day but i keep getting distracted

>>12036300
University of Michigan/Canadian citizen

yeah but I was very 'talented' at what I did in undergrad so I rarely ever worked hard, it led to developing very bad habits which are negatively impacting me in law school. I wish I had really gone all the way and tried my very best, I regret not doing that, who knows where I'd be now.

Also as a side note, people say law school is boring. It is not boring, they are lying. It is very exciting and interesting, at least to me.

>>12036315
I did also study history (and religious studies) for a year in Potsdam, but I really didn't enjoy History. I did enjoy religious studies though, which pisses me of because it isn't offered at HU, but would make the perfect combo with german literature for me.

>>12033299
p gud pharmacy program, but the career itself is p bloated

>>12033869
mcgill?

>>12030843
Sttending Moo Cow University at Austin, for a B.S. in Mathematics
Reading Homotopy Type Theory: Univalent Foundations of Mathematics
Currently regretting having not hanged myself last month

>>12030908
Are you taking Real with Gompf or with Caffarelli? Or do you mean the graduate analysis course?

>>12030843
I go to Reed College and this place is a meme. The phil is all autist analytic and I hate being here. Im tryna get an econ masters somewhere else hopefully somewhere else.

IR and Politics at the LSE, last year.
No regrets big enough to mention really.

There's a lot of American students who come here to do a year abroad and talking to them has made me really want to pursue my Masters but fuck it is expensive. Don't know how you fellas do it.

Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Medicine.
I don't regret anything.

>>12036705
It's an illusion of self-selection. There are a large amount of American university students, so even though it's generally only the rich ones who go abroad, there are enough rich people that an objective fuck ton of them end up abroad.

>>12036049
I haven't really engaged in any activities at my Nation, I just go to the pubs and some events. They're very cozy.
If you're looking for an active student life and lots of opportunities to meet new people then Uppsala is absolutely the way to go. Quite a beautiful city, too.

Higher School of Economics, Moscow. It's okay. Bit liberal.

>>12036817
Liberal generally, liberal for Moscow, or liberal for Russia?

UCL
Computer Science
Best decision I've ever made I think.

>>12036821
Liberal for Moscow, which by extension also means liberal for Russia. By Western standards I guess less liberal. For instance, we often discuss ethnic aspects of military conflict in class, something which my friends tell me would be taboo in Europe.

>>12036805
Sounds pretty good! I'm not the type of person to party every weekend, but I certainly wish to meet new people and be part of something.

>>12030843
cuny queens english major

as of now just stuff for school. want winter break already to read whatever I want.

I dont regret it but I dont like it very much either. i would feel the same way anywhere else.

>>12030843
I regret listening to my parents demand and staying in the country. I was originally going to attend ETH in Zurich, but go to a state university instead.

Trinity College, Cambridge.
Aside from many texts for my course, I read Cavafy's poems.
No, I don't.

UC Santa Cruz undergrad in Linguistics, now doing a master's in comp sci (basically) at Uni of Arizona. Pretty good stuff but difficult.

Cal Poly Pomona
Mechanical Engineering
Book of the New Sun
Its a decent school, mostly commuters so there are less college life retards running around, Engineering is also neat

>>12030882
fpbp

>>12030843
>Where do you go?
Local public University in Massachusetts.
>What are you reading?
Almost done with After Dark by Murakami, gonna start Lolita by Nobokov once I'm finished.
>Do you regret your decision(s) so far?
Biggest regret was slacking off during my years in public education and not being able to get into a better college as a result; although my cousin was able to transfer from a small college to MIT for his sophomore year, so I'm looking to follow his lead by transferring somewhere else, most likely NYU.

>>12032172
Nope, I think I was out of town for that. I wouldn't have gone anyway.
What year are you?

university of arkansas (not /lit/ I know)

currently reading
>Abstract algebra 3rd edition by Beachy and Blair
>Too loud a solitude by Bohumil Hrabal

>>12030843
USP (University of São Paulo), MechEng
The Phaedo
Definetly. I just hate being surrounded by dudebros with who I can’t discuss anything at all besides tits and parties. Though I blame myself for not getting admitted into Oxford and not getting to do Maths and Philosophy.

>>12036649
I dropped out of Reed, I regret not doing something earlier when transferring would be easier. I think some of the profs are smart, but I don't think the teaching style is good and the school is too full of itself.

>>12036649
Could you elaborate some?

>>12038286
I was going to apply to the Math/Philosophy program at Oxford but I didn't have the necessary APs in time. Honestly, it's ridiculous that they require AP Cal BC done junior year. Quite a few American high schools, especially some of the less rigorous, only let seniors take it.
>>12038298
I feel like Reed is selling an off brand Ivy/UChicago experience for intellectual students who get rejected from top schools and can afford the markup.

>>12032243
How’s the environment at Chicago? Thinking of applying but not certain yet.

I attend the worst public university in Virginia

Originally came here for the supposedly well-ranked art school--BIG FUCKING MISTAKE (no shit! it's art school! why the fuck would you PAY college tuition to have somebody tell you how to make art? are you mentally retarded?)

When I walk around campus I feel ashamed. When I mention my school's name at family gatherings, a small part of me dies

This is a school for C students, stoners, slackers, and 105 IQers (at best). moot dropped out of here, which is sort of neat.

>>12038417
>art student makes poor decision
Wow, I'm fucking shocked. Bantz aside you shouldn't let it get to you, most people don't even go to college and you it's not like going to your dream school would actually make you happy.

>>12038343
I don't think it's some sort of scam. I think there is definitely a pessimistic environment though, but the college doesn't profit off it. If I had to hazard a guess as to the cause it would be that the Reed identity got built around counterculture and being a little ivy. Now those two elements don't seem as productive. I think someome has to ask the question at Reed how being different REALLY improves things. Because as it was when I left it seemed like there wasn't enough academic direction and nobody was really benefitting from that. They'll parade their grad-school statistics, but I think you can make any curriculum arbitrarily more difficult and the students that survive will be stronger. Reed also has a large amount of people who don't make it.

Pardon the ramble, I probably shouldn't preach about these things.

>>12038471
I don't know—I think "ivy culture" is in general a negative cultural phenomenon. Most of the elitism isn't warranted, and you'd likely find a cohort of students stronger than the 75th percentile at some T5s among land grant colleges and state colleges. The issue though is that there's no test administered after undergrad to ascertain aptitude (this is a huge problem in engineering fields), which means that employers have to play a law of averages game and hire from more prestigious universities without any other indication of skill.

> Where
NTNU Media Studies
> Reading
Neuromancer and some artbooks
> Do you regret your decision(s) so far
I became disillusioned once I learned the quality and the system itself is designed. First is the placed importance of community among students, but since I'm off better alone, I haven't put stock to making friendships or enter a colloquium to study with classmates out of personal reasons.
Second was how you can use the system to pass mediocrily by going into previous semester archives and guess what questions that may come up. Then there are the texts. Interesting, but it involves a whole lot of historical and essay reading, when I enjoy much more of the systems, practice and effects research.
1/2

>>12030843

University of Arkansas

50 shades of gray unironically

Yes, it's a terrible school and I haven't learn anything for my computer science degree.

>>12039175
cont.
What really got me was the liberal mindset and low qualification/criteria to enter exams, as its just a few assignments. It fosters an atmosphere where a laxed student body isn't instilled with an academic rigor and demand in mind, reading on own terms and accord. Something I cannot do as I myself have never been studious or dilligent.
The lecturers and the classes have been a mess since first semester, and occationally I've thought "what the fuck am I even doing". The lecturers (some with tenure, others complete beginners) have been pure poison half the time I've been here. Mumbling, studdering, lack of pedagogy, not owning the room and such.

I blame most of it on myself for smooching off my parents support and money while also living on a debt. With all of those factors, it creates an unwelcoming atmosphere to which digusts myself. I've failed to pass two current programs this semester, and I don't feel I should be in my room with all my belongings cus I don't pull my weight around.
Someone else deserves it. Someone that can follow through and live on a schedule.

I've thought of dropping out lately to pursuit what I've wanted, but I don't trust myself even doing that choice as Uni was what I wanted to do post-high school. I'd imagine I would make the same mistake with that, and face less approval by my parents for doing art.

>>12030843
Just graduated from UW Madison last spring. Majored in Spanish and Economics.

Recently finished reading La Celestina

Yes. Math or Philosophy would have made grad school easier to get in to, and I wish I had spent the 4 full years in undergrad. Now I'm killing a year as a government employee before going back to academia.

>>12033398
Marquette always struck me as a little too snobbish and homogeneous. Like even though the average student could pay a cop not to bust them for coke, you're not going to wake up after a 4 day drug binge in some commune's basement like at a state school.

>>12035876
>Iowa
Might as well kill yourself, probably more fun than staring at corn all day.

>>12035842
Thanks man, I'll have to look back during this year application process

One on hand, all the philosophy professors here are down to earth and well read people and I probably won't have much trouble getting into UGA, GSU or Emory law. On the other hand, there is absolutely zero prestige to attending this school and I sometimes feel like I'm just wasting time on a hobby before I have to go into the real world.

>>12030843
Vic uni, reading The Simpsons And Philosophy. I don't regret it but I didn't do any of the readings for my english lit exam which is on tomorrow and I'll probably still pass. I'm trying to remember shit I studied in my east vs west philosophy course from last year but remember very little except Laozi thinking human nature stinks and some virtue theory stuff.
I would like one quarter acre homestead please.

>>12031009
>princeton
Me too. Do you want to meet up? I met up with someone from /lit/ before on here and it was pretty nice. Are you reading Prokopios for a class? Because if so we might be in one of the same history classes.

I like it here as well, sad that it's my last year

>>12036537
Oh god, I wish haha

It's in the prairies, all 'im gonna say

I’m in law school in Texas. Currently reading about the lawyer ethics exam in a few days. Also How to read a Book. Also Texas criminal procedure, Mediations, labor law, and federal courts.

Sometimes I regret it. Wish I had the same motivation I do now and had gone to something like St. John’s. But it doesn’t matter at this point, I’m in deep and I don’t need a teacher to read good books.

>>12036568
>Currently regretting having not hanged myself last month

Don't do it anon

>>12036817
I'd really like to get a masters at MGU in history, in my last year of BA right now, so I guess we'll see how it goes. What are you interested in?

>>12036257
Absolutely insufferable.

>>12038417
>This is a school for C students, stoners, slackers

Other than 105 IQers, sounds pretty comfy

>>12030843
Some dinky school near Philly for psychology and philosophy

I'm reading a few things - Beyond good and evil, Systemantics: How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail, and Behavior: The control of perception

I don't regret it but outside the business school you can see the lack of care in the programs from the university.

>>12038316
>>12038471
see

Starting school next semester, waiting to hear back from schools now. Doing classics with maybe a double in philosophy or poli sci
Coddling of the American Mind & Confederacy of Dunces
I regret not starting earlier

>>12038316
Its just all so tiresome. The students are just awful and there phil department is lifeless

>>12038343
>Honestly, it's ridiculous that they require AP Cal BC done junior year.
Agreed. When I applied, I hadn’t even finished precalc in school. Calculus isn’t even on the curriculum
Had to learn most of it by myself. Surprisingly, it wasn’t the part that fucked me in the MAT, though

this was me 2 years ago and now im near graduation holy shit i never thought i would get to this stage. i am a predominantly right brained individual who survived through a stem degree, can you image the fucking struggle. i don't know why i let myself suffer so much just for the sake of "proving myself" i wanna die just thinking of all the wasted time and tears and money i spent on this fucking degree hahahaagaghahah

>>12030843
Please let someone else go here I want someone I can discuss literature with and say nigger around

Reading Heart of Darkness and The Histories by Herodotus

Regret not working harder and getting into a better, private school

A shitty overpriced Indian university in Dubai (Manipal university).

Rn reading Jane Eyre, Silence and Demons or The Possessed by Dostoyevsky

Do I regret ?
There's nothing I can do, nothing is in my power, being born in Asian family is a curse, I'm a disgrace to my family cause I'm neither an engineer nor a doctor.
My life is a literal kafkaesque, I just want to be left alone, I JUST WANT TO LIVE ALONE, DAMN IT. I HATE CITY, I HATE CROWD JUST LEAVE THE FUCK ALONE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>12039968
>Dubai
>Asian
JUST

>>12040097
JUST FUCK MY SHIT UP SENPAI, I HAVE NO PLACE TO GO, MY HOMELAND IS A MESS, IM STUCK HELP ME, SAVE ME, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>12036237
You are not alone, anon: it is not bad to celebrate a simple life

>>12030882
based

>>12031031
>>12031078


I mean what's worse, being a butter bar in the army, being surrounded by evangelical zealots at the chair force academy, or a bunch of seamen at Annapolis?

>>12030843
Amherst College

The Concept of the Political, The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy, Revolt Against the Modern World, Lolita, Foucault's Pendulum, Beyond Good and Evil. I'm reading a few other books here and there.

I don't regret it but it is not pleasant. But sometimes you must do things that are unpleasant in order to give your life meaning/order/purpose/discipline.

>>12039245
>more fun than staring at corn all day
There are two cities of literature in the United States and Iowa City is one of them.
The /lit/ lifestyle is lived in Iowa.

>>12041196
ive heard this a number of times. am i getting memed on? i truly dont wanna book a plane ticket to fukken iowa city and realize i got bamboozled

>>12035760
hey I'm pitt poli sci

where'd you transfer from probably some shit school

State university for creative writing BA.
I'm reading Mouchette.
No... maybe.

>>12031053
It’s better than Michigan state brother trust me I’m here now and I hate it

>>12041310
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Literature#Cities_of_Literature

>>12030908
hi fellow mathbro

i think we made the right choice, it is easier to read philo by yourself than to learn math

cheers with lebegue

>>12039180
ayyyyy fayetteville whats up. UofA sucks but fayetteville is pretty nice. do you ever go to the used bookstore on dickson? i've found some decent stuff there but not sure where else to shop around

UT Austin, Biology/Pre-med

Currently reading through the collected works of William Blake for my second time. I've been mostly reading 20th century European novels otherwise

I don't regret going to college but I regret every single decision I've made since.

>>12031053
Stop being a fag. There are great researchers at Wayne State. One of the best carbohydrate chemists (David crich) is there. Look more into things and what professors are doing. Try to be more interested in things.

>>12038417
Maybe I'm biased because I live in Richmond, but I think VCU is probably the best of Virginia's third tier state schools

Not a high bar, I know, but compared to similar universities it's alright. It has its own culture and is very involved in Richmond's art scene. It knows what it is and doesn't pretend to be otherwise

IMO it goes

Tier 1: W&M, UVA, Washington & Lee, VMI
Tier 2: JMU, Tech, Hampden-Sydney, University of Richmond
Tier 3: Mary Washington, GMU, VCU, ODU, and CNU
Tier 4: Longwood, Radford, Liberty, Ferrum

If I did shitty in high school and was forced to pick a university on that level, I probably have chosen VCU

>>12030843
Stevens Institute of Technology
Complete Works of Plato
I fell for the STEM meme and I hate it

posting the only based uni in this thread so far

>>12031005
https://www.cooperative-individualism.org/nock-albert-jay_disadvantages-of-being-educated-1937.htm

>>12042026
Also I have three roommates who are the most stereotypical college guys you could imagine, but they aren't that bad. They do unironically spend all day playing fortnite and call of duty

>>12042029
>my parents are wealthy, but I'm too stupid for the many advantages they've provided me: the school

Missouri S&T
Cantos of Ezra Pound
no regrets

>>12030843
anyone at exeter? heading there next year.

>>12031764
Undergrad or graduate?

>>12033769
5th uchicago study here. 22 and down for a pub night

>>12036237
I imagine there are a few other anons who feel the same way. Homesteading is a nice thought. I doubt many people who think about it are capable of seriously making it work.

>>12031423
>University of Houston, STEM Major
Is your major Geology?

>>12035771
you better finish this book bro, one of the only things I read that actually "changed my life," as they say

>>12042497
But iss boring and I have no time

>>12035523
I also go to Uppsala.
Can't really say which program I am in because it's so small

I'm studying history at one of the two big land grant universities in the beautiful state of Montana
Currently reading for research on the history of consilience as an intellectual phenomenon:
>darwin without Malthus by Todes
>origin of species by darwin
>consilience by e.o. wilson
>population, evolution, and birth control (compilation of essays on the subjects) by Hardin
>ecology of freedom by bookchin
I don't really regret anything, besides not adding stats as a minor (pussied out because of calc reqs). School is paid for, and this is the kind of shit I enjoy doing. I'm mostly just sad about the state of academia and that continuing past undergrad means becoming a fuckin scholar-monkey for shit pay. Don't really know where I'm going to go from here, and I graduate in a semester. Might fuck off to Kazakhstan or Mongolia and get a taste of the unsanitized life

>>12036237
No way. At the peak of my educational misery homesteading was a constant thought. It's the ultimate escape

>>12042186
>im not in grad school: the post

I'm only going to community college right now but I have to make my money stretch pretty hard nowadays. I will be able to take a full course load, had been on probation, for the first time in three years and have been thinking a lot about what kind of degree program I want to be able to transfer into. I am torn between Biology and Journalism right now. I like the idea of studying a hard science and working outdoors studying wildlife or data in a lab but I'm not a very precise person and I am very bad at math. I really like the idea of learning new exciting things and making a living out of sharing that knowledge but I have epilepsy which causes me to have very poor short term memory sometimes which I worry some people would say compromises my own ability to fully understand a situation which is pretty counter intuitive to being a journalist. Sciences pay better and is probably more of a secure industry but I don't feel like I have a clear goal or position to strive for with that. Journalism seems to just tug at some part of me. Both careers would allow me to keep educating myself through my whole life and work outdoors which is all that's really important to me in the end. I think I might post this on /adv/ whenever I'm stressed I just try to get as many different opinions as possible, I'd canvas the streets with this if I didn't think it would piss of my neighbors.

>>12030843

Shitty state school for English.
Reading ARK by Ronald Johnson off and on right now.
I regret going to this university and this degree haha lmao. And a wealth of other things of course.

Tufts.
Reading the concept of memory by stanley munsat.
Please tell me there are other people from this school lurking this board. Or people from the area

>>12031031
Plebe detected lmao

>University of Florida
>Thus Spoke Zarathustra
>Definitely regret my decisions. Thought I was cut out for preprofessional Biology or Engineering or some shit but I'm going to have to transfer to the shitty business school. Also lost the Florida Bright Futures Scholarship so now I'm actually paying to go here.

How do I save myself anons? I'm trapped in a bureaucratic nightmare

>drop out of high school (too anxious to leave house)
>enter uni on bridging program after taking years to overcome anxiety
>bureaucratically confined to part-time studies because I performed the entry course poorly.
>need to complete a year's worth of credits before they allow me to go full time
>complete credits in 3 years, uninvolved and anxious
>they won't let me be a full time student because my GPA is too low
>other students tell me that taking fewer courses actually dropped their grades because of their under-involvement
>need to raise GPA to go full time
>can't raise GPA without increasing courseload
>have to exhaustingly wagecuck to support myself when all i want is to go to school full time
>25 years old and only completed one year of Uni so far
how am i gonna make it?

MS in mechanical engineering here. Going to publish at least two papers over the next year and start applying to doctorate programs.
>What are you reading?
Deep Work by Cal Newport. I am usually too cynical for self-help books, but there are some nice ideas here that I can use. Basically, since graduating I became a consumer instead of a producer and need to relearn how to focus to create. Feel free to rec me other similar books, /lit/.
>Do you regret your decision(s) so far?
Yes, in that I didn't apply earlier. Where I live, the industry people looks at MS and BS degrees as the same (zero years of experience). Working in academia with an MS degree is a dead end and you need PhD to advance.

>>12042544
>i justify myself to anyone who maligns me: the fag

Final year of Philosophy at the University of Alberta.

I often get annoyed at how difficult out workload is to complete compared to Political Scientists which are often respected more by the market.

UC Berkeley, Computer Science

Geneology of Morals, The New Organon, The Idea of Justice (some required readings for two classes)

No. I pay 1/2 the price for this college over other private universities. Also the political drama is pretty juicy, but I suspect that the same could be said to lesser degrees at other universities. Ultimately I'll try for another degree in Math because I want to; I don't think I would have had such aspirations had I attended a different university, which probably says more about me than my school but whatever

>>12030843
>Where do you go?
too ashamed to say
>What are you reading?
nothing at the moment
>Do you regret your decision(s) so far?
yes. I'm on year 5 doing computer information systems. but i wish i did computer science instead. Switching would involve going to a different university and adding 3 more years. I'm so tired I can't keep going

>>12032071
Had the same experience at Oxford undergrad. Currently doing postgrad at Cambridge and the experience is very different - when you're at a mature college there seems to be a lot less posturing. People no longer feel desperate need to 'prove themselves' anymore.

>I go to Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (Santiago, Chile). I'm basically going to Law School, hoping to make a name for myself working on Intellectual Property.
>Reading The Island of Doctor Moreau
>Kinda. Wanted to become a filmmaker once. I still do, but I want my career to be useful to me so I can get close to that industry.

any americans here that think they're paying for an education? face it, we're paying for a career, not an education. if we simply wanted to be smarter we could do so for 5 figures cheaper than we are currently going about it.
american education system is so fucked up

>>12030843
New College of Florida
Aquinas/Liberation Theology/Poststructuralism
I regret everything. The courses I'm taking are pretty cool though

>>12033769
>uchic
Jimmys on sat?

>>12034050
I have a couple of friends in Pratt. Seems like a nice place. Why do you hate it, anon?

>>12030882
Fpbp, very relatable, let's read Walden together

>>12031843
Are you Israeli or an international student?

>>12033762
Hello fellow carioca, is the engineering program also full of foreign professors?
How old are you? I'm sure you can manage to find a job and get a career going with engineering, at least you didn't pick terrible choices like me (read: humanities in general)

>>12032071
What are signs of false modesty, lad?

ppe, meme or not?

>>12030882
Me irl

>>12030843
Biomedical engineering, a great great college in Argentina
Reading Fanged Noumena
No, i do not. I really love the field that im studying

>>12030882
i hate that out of all the posts on /lit/ this is the one i can actually relate to

>>12030882
same

>>12030843

UNO; English Major

One semester away from graduating.

Reading Paradise Lost right now for my Milton class, and I couldn't even tell you what is going on in my Southern Lit.

I'll most likely do tech or grant writing for work since it pays fairly well.

>>12033391
You have it with accents?
Is it shareable? :3

>>12043783
improve your fucking GPA you idiot.

>can't raise GPA without increasing courseload
Do you not see how dumb this is?

>>12049612
>can't raise GPA without increasing courseload
>isn't allowed to increase courseload because of current GPA
Am I missing something here, or are you?

>>12030843
I don't go to Uni but I'm just observing this thread as a long term Neet wondering what could have been.

UNC because in-state tuition

Just and Unjust Wars

Not being smart enough with math or computer science in High School to start it early enough to be viable in college

>>12032071

Cambridge and Oxford students are all either neurotic or arrogant pricks. St Andrews is full of yanks and Oxbridge wannabes who couldn't get the grades.

I went to Durham and didn't even like the people there. I had a friend at Kent and all my friends are from there.

>>12030843
I'm studying PPE at Oxford. Future prime minister here

>>12030882
Voice of a generation

Uchicago as well
I feel like we attract a lot of 4chan-esque kids. People here are either really smart, completely retarded but think they’re smart, or just well connected. Im only a freshman though, going for economics and philosophy or religious studies. My hum is GRTTT and sosc is classics, pretty good foundational courses. We just finished the Iliad and Aeneid in by fifth week so I can’t complain. The rigor is nice

>>12031933
I visited there recently. Lawrence is pretty cool. Are you in a frat?

<2k liberal arts college in NC you've never heard of
bhagavad gita
Regret? No. However, I feel like I'm in the minority of people actually interested in learning here, which dilutes the experience for me. Skip to the greentext if you don't want details. Going to such a small school, I get to build relationships with my teachers and have more discussions in the classroom. Its also extremely writing intensive, which I wanted, and I have a good group of teachers that I've stuck with. Paying to sit in lecture halls for four years wouldn't have been worth it for me. As a freshman, I considered leaving, but stayed because of the German teacher. He's just fucking great in so many ways that I can't put it into words. My only regrets involve women... I'm just glad to be getting something more out of it than the mouth-breathers paying full ticket price to smoke weed all day. At least they keep the money flowing, so I can rake in those sweet academic scholarships.

The crazy shit is here though, but its everywhere really. We had an impromptu protest at 4am that woke up the whole campus. I'll try to break it down.
>Trans person gets sexually assaulted
>guy apparently stuck his hand in their pants, said "fuck" and ran away
>They tell campus safety not to call the police
>they don't
>people start gathering next to my building
>start chanting "black trans lives matter"
>They were pissed off that campus safety didn't call the police right away
>wutface.jpeg
>My roommate tries to get me to join
>genuinely shocked that I'd rather sleep
>He brings our pots with him to the protest
>They start marching through every residence hall
>Football apparently players threatened to beat kids up lmao
>protests continue the next day
>I live off campus now

>>12043345
Mom went to Tufts and I'm from Arlington. What do you think of Medford? I always saw it as a more trashy/townie area, but it has some good stuff.

Feel and fully understand I'm being fucking played by the system. This place is a business profiting off our fear and there is no way around it. Oh well... Least I'm here.

Reading
>Art of intrusion

>>12050845
I very nearly firmed at Durham but switched to UCL last minute
I am happy here and feel like I dodged a bullet because I see people complaining about the type of students you get at Durham a lot online although Durham is a lovely place and a lot cheaper than London
In the end tho I'm only here because I was too thick to get into imperial or oxford

>>12051068
Describe the retarded kids—what do you mean by retarded? Just pseuds or something different?

>>12045540
I can't do Saturday but we should at least poll for people interested in getting together. Maybe we could do a reading group or something? I'm too awkward to set it up, most of my socializing = walking back and forth between campus and the lakefront with autistic classicists.

>>12051485
>>12051068
Not that guy but I agree with his assessment. There are some really smart students who clearly have a lot of raw brainpower, but there are also a lot of polished mediocre people who somehow manage to have 10x as much pretense as the genuinely smart ones. Unfortunately it often feels like the latter group crowds out the former and makes them hard to see. It seems like the "ambitionless or average, but self-aware and even slightly self-deprecating about it" archetype is rare here, but there were tons of those at the working-class university I went to.

But I think that's just every high-prestige university, probably. I've dated a few girls who were groomed for Ivy league educations and they all report the same background: they've been told since birth that they were special and destined for greatness. I think what happens is that that formless arrogance simply pours into whatever forms it finds, as it finds them. So if you're an SJW, you become "my Twitter is going to change the world" girl. If you're a valedictorian, you become a complete creature of the institution, whose primary joy in life is subtly showing off how good you are at setting up events and leading debate teams and having the right connections. A priori confidence finds expressions for itself. This can be good but is often bad when the person is a puffed-up and polished mediocrity.

>Men's egotism, so disgusting in the talentless, is the source of their greatness [...]

>>12032573
UChicago isn’t in the Ivy League...

>>12030843
The London School of Economics
Mathematics and Statistics
No

>>12051667
>what are you reading
forgot to say im reading Anna Karenina

>>12032694
Doctor enter elite society by merely graduating. Also go work in Europe.

damn lit is actually smart? I guess all the time I spend with you isnt wasted.

t. Imperial College Medic

>>12051676
Who gives a shit about what you're reading? This is a /uni/ thread, we're here to stroke our cocks and evaluate one another's intellect/parent's income

>>12051740
can you stroke my cock instead? n-no homo though

Boston College

Finance and Comp sci

It’s pretty nice. The bros can be based, sadly the admin does have some of the SJW catholic shit.

Overall, I’m happy

>>12051775
Forgot to say I’m reading

Either/or

The underground man

Some shit by girard

None for class cause I’m taking technical stuff

Northern Kentucky University
nothing atm
yes

Texas State
I’m reading in my spare time a biography of Napoleon by Andrew Roberts

I study philosophy and I really enjoy it. I like almost all of my professors. Most of the discussions are aids due to the tier of the school, except in one class there’s some really intuitive individuals. One of them will explain things better than the prof and not even have any ego attached to it.

I’m probably getting suspended or expelled due to a sexual misconduct case, however. I’m supposed to graduate in May though

>Junior at NAU, philosophy, politics, and law major
>Reading Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
>Only regret is that I didn't pick up an economics or criminal justice minor earlier. I actually really don't like my uni but I have a full ride here so I gotta keep grinding

>>12033506
Thank you. How difficult is the coursework at UChicago? Does it have a leaning?

Extension campus of Generic State University; studying CS and math.

Currently reading Ovid - Metamorphoses. Been working my way chronologically through the western canon this past year.

No regrets yet. I graduate in a year, and I have no concerns about finding a job. The curriculum has been pretty focused on theory and math aspects of CS, which I have enjoyed. From friends who have graduated I anticipate enjoying my work, and the financial stability it’ll provide.

>>12039327
University of Alberta?

>>12030843
I am convinced that students at elite private universities are intellectually inferior to us proles at merely respectable schools

Spiritually inferior, that's obvious. The only people who could survive the modern admissions process are neurotic termites who have been groomed since birth to believe that associating with a selective superbrand university will prove they're geniuses. Fundamentally, these are eusocial creeps obsessed with status and attention. They are not people so much as they are insentient and fleshy nodes of social information. Look at their faces and you will see they've got that "Innsmouth look," a sort of hollow and perfectly groomed, over-socialized self-satisfaction characteristic to sociopaths and Nancy Pelosi. Sometimes I feel the urge to pop their heads like pimples and see all the likes and "good boy" pats on the bottom come pouring out like pus.

Intellectually inferior, though? But don't the exceptional test scores which their parents bullied them for prove that truly we are among gods?

>"No!"

For one thing, if standardized test scores were an actual measure of intellectual ability and not distantly correlated with it, then the only thing that universities with 4% admissions rates should need to look at are the test scores themselves. And once upon a time they WERE. Harold Bloom, Ezra Pound, and T.S. Eliot--these were mediocre high school students who were of the correct social class and who performed relatively well on entrance examinations, and thus were admitted to the halls of Yale, UPenn, and Harvard, respectively.

But in the age of the Chinese Striver, the Prep Class, the Teacher Recommendation, the Tiger Mom, the only thing that matters are "leadership skills," "extracurriculars," and "personality." The test scores are just the credentials which allow you to even be considered (because, as admissions officers know, just about anybody can do well on a test).

The whole system is so stupid and outrageous that the only people who are dumb enough to trust it are the students who survive the meatgrinder themselves. People want to go to Harvard because Harvard is selective--not because Harvard is a particularly good school with an interesting history where you would learn important things. Harvard is not a university, Harvard is a networking opportunity, a live-in job fair, a real live, interactive LinkedIn page.

What's more is that just about EVERYBODY has caught on by now--except the students at these schools! The rubes! The morons!

One day we're going to look back and laugh at how stupid the whole farce, the whole PERFORMANCE was

>>12051966
definitely

>>12051966
I consider the science students to be legit, but the Humanities are obviously a joke. It doesn't matter if the joke is made at Harvard or some state university, it's always the same retarded joke

>>12051692
>go work in europe
>slave away in a foreign environment, get lumped in with all the immigration talk
>politics that are in my interests are shitlib-leftist-globohomo politics

awful.

>>12036649
Another Reedie here. If you want Continental Phil, you have to take Political Theory, Literature (particularly foreign language lit) classes. Sadly the guy who taught ancient Phil in the classics department retired, same with the Shakespeare scholar who was really into far out lit theory. The Art history department is also full of good theory based courses. I'd avoid the comp-lit crowd though, they're pseuds.

In any case, you just gotta find a good group of friends and talk with the professors more, then this place becomes bearable (or, if you luck out like me, pretty fun and fulfilling.) That being said, pretty glad to be graduating this year. I hope things go better for you, maybe we'll meet at a party or something.

But if I do meet you I will deny ever having been on here.

>>12051966
i hope this is true so badly

please be true

>>12051966
An exceptionally well-written "fuck you" to elitist school boys. Bravo and capped.

>>12039346
osgoode pleb

>>12030882
GREAT post

>>12052145
>>12036649
>>12038471

Any advice for someone in the process of choosing which university to attend, particularly about Reed? Well, waiting a while to hear back from universities and choosing based on which ones I get into. I EDed to UChicago but most likely will not get in. Still hoping, though.

I visited Reed, did an overnight stay, got an ok feeling about it. I def like Portland and like rain. Worried that some part of the student body might be a little too 'quirky' in a bad way, but I'm not sure. Most of the students I talked to were pretty nice, a few a little cringey if earnest, but i'm sure you'll find those students everywhere. Tbh i think the student body will have problems at every school i'm applying to, although I guess at the large ones by sheer numbers I am more likely to find people I vibe with. But also more likely to just get lost in the crowd. Not really sure..

Thinking about majoring in philosophy and perhaps economics and exploring math some more (never got into the advanced math track at my school so it was kinda easy but boring but I've always been a bit interested, and it would def synthesize well with either of these subjects). I do really want to get a PHD or at least have a good possibility of doing so, so Reed's stats are pretty cool in that regard, but hard to tell if that is simply self selection and if the school in its current state has what helped past students.

I'm aware that most American universities will probably feature analytic philosophy more prominently and from what I've read it seems fairly interesting.

Depending on what universities I get into (the ones I'd actually want to go to besides Reed and UChicago, include few great, somewhat large and rah rah private research universities, a few more decent to strong liberal arts colleges (none as academia driven as Reed, it seems) , and some good tier large public schools including some of the UCs + UMich among others.), Reed will be a strong candidate for what I'm interested in. It feels like the liberal arts colleges will most likely have better quality of teaching + more professor interaction at many steps (including Reed, I assume) but not sure how to balance this if a school is much more renowned and a large school may have more opportunities in general.

I had a great conversation with a philosophy professor when I visited, who described doing some research into negative facts with a student over the summer, with the goal of presenting at an academic conference. Sounded pretty neat.

Anyways, sorry for long semi-biographical comment, appreciate if any of you or anyone else shared their tips or thoughts with regard to any of these schools.

>>12038298 What exactly about the teaching style did you dislike?

>>12033955
You have great taste

>>12051485
Im the uchicago guy,
So the problem is that there is a wide variety of students here and also that you can’t expect genius form undergrads myself included. In my few months here I can count the number of kids like me who went a non-magnet public school on one hand. Its really kids who were very privileged to use their own term. That being said, intelligence whether innate or not, requires a lot of resources to be expressed and unfortunately the resource disparity between these students and your average american high schooler is enormous. For example, How many students would beocme wonderfully talented classicists, except they never were exposed to classics? I never was given any classics to read in school, but many of my classmates had attic greek or latin as a requirement in their high school curriculum. Guess what, the students who grew up learning attic greek, working internships at major banks, and studying high level calculus are able to express intelligence at a far greater level. So, in a way I don’t subscribe to the theory that people at elite schools are stupider than your average person just better resourced

But, many people did all these things in elite high schools or even elite universities and more or less went through the motions absorbing nothing. But since they’ve done these elite curricula or go to elite schools they fell they’re justified in everything and easily proven superior. A lot of people are fucking insufferable here as a result, spouting off entry level bullshit as if it was grandiose theories they developed or deciding theyve refuted all of aristotle bc he doesnt mention transgender people (that happened in my class).
So plenty of people are well educated but fucking stupid.
Furthermore, uchicago specifically breeds pseuds because we have a reputation as being ungodly difficult and intense with a unique focus on theory. Its a great place to be but that attracts bith genuine academics and pseuds with ease. Pseuds here are justified in their pseudness by being at an elite university, but they fail to realize the biggest predictor is just wealth.
Also the resources available here are fucking insane, theres so many things I didn’t even know about that are just vital to advancing in so many fields. I’m not even poor I’m just a middle class public school kid.
So yea, pseuds, arrogance, and education without intelligence all justified by an elite name. I’m pretty rambly in this, im sleep deprived

>>12039918
I go there, but you're probably a serial killer so no thanks. You can also just join the literature club. I mean you won't be able to say nigger but it will solve your other problem.

>>12030843
sophomore at harvard

richard moran: authority and estrangement
frederick beiser: german idealism
charles taylor: a secular age
corey robin: fear
irving singer: the nature of love

i enjoy it here. i like cambridge, and i've traveled around to enough campuses to know how lucky i am to be at a place where people actually give a shit about knowledge/the general state of the world, however misguided or blind their intentions might be. i've grown, and benefited, and expect to continue to grow and benefit--i think, like most things, higher education often turns out to be whatever it is you're willing to put into it.

>>12030908
How do I get good at proofs, Anon? I feel like I'm doing myself a disservice with how much I'm just focussed on answering the questions.

>>12051966
It feels like your girlfriend got fucked by a chad from Harvard, but either way well said

Channel that anger, use it, feel it, you're gonna go far man, go far

>>12051966

i go to harvard (>>12052490)

to be frank, this is pretty far off the mark, and i think it discloses a little too much about your own insecurity than it does any real analysis of the nature of elite education

of course there are people who are like you describe: spiritually desiccated, termite-like drones who get in on the most bleakly standardized merit or on legacy coattails of some nature; sports are a different matter entirely

but there are a lot of very interesting people pursuing some extraordinary ends as well--hard workers who compliment their discipline with natural, often humble intelligence.

the idea behind a place like harvard is to concentrate as many of the latter in a single location as possible. to this end, it is absolutely a networking activity--but networking for what? you can use it to go into business, law, etc--but its also there primarily for academia, which is how i use its network, and where it shines. to suggest that elite education has done a poor job of locating and centralizing real talent is an unbelievable denial of what it has achieved--you might claim, rightfully, that a lot slips through the cracks, but a lot doesn't, and there is something to be said about that.

i'm not sure how to respond to someone like you. you've already judged me, based simply on where i attend; i'd say that maybe it is the nature of your judgment that has precluded you from reaching the heights that you so obviously look longingly upon.

and to be honest with you, if you have the mind, if you're willing to put in the work, those heights, that elitism--well ,it really is all that, it's something great and uplifting, its something that, done well and in tandem with like-minded souls, actually can lead you toward something like the good life. you ARE missing out.

>>12033707
ayy fellow hawk how goes it

>>12030882
come live with me anon

>>12030843
junior at Berkeley studying English and Classics. currently reading Kierkegaard.

what do i think about this school? it was a much more interesting place 50 years ago, but the name still stands out, and many of the professors here are the same as you would find at harvard, yale, etc.

that being said, having interacted with ppl from all over the map, i have to say that - w/r/t to verbal IQ & literature & writing - school doesn’t really matter. if you are intelligent you fucking known it and you know as well as i do that there are very very few really intelligent people out there and they pop up everywhere. i’ve met some real dumbasses at cal. same at harvard stanford etc, where i’ve spent some time. profs included.

just keep fighting lol. feel free to ask me Q’s if you’re thinking of coming. i’m an honest motherfucker who’s just a little drunk lol (if you’re into literature, take language classes here P/NP - my best advice)

>>12051966
I can attest to that—currently a highschool senior (I’m 18, calm down) working my way towards an elite college education. The only thing all of this resume padding has done is harm my way of thinking.

My only hope is that I can exit one of these schools with a modicum of self-awareness and soul in general. Nonetheless I’m extremely self conscious about it.

>>12052633
you’re right in that high school is fucking stupid. teachers are mostly low-iq and have no right to be grading you lol.

i’m a big proponent of the SAT though, at least if the old SAT. they really fucked up by changing it. the old SAT was pretty pretty much just an IQ test and it did a great job of measuring verbal IQ. now it’s worthless lol. fucking college board fucks

I dropped college after 2 quarters because I had no idea what I was doing and I hated all my classes but I'm considering going back if I can decide on 1 thing from the start. I'll probably never get into a good school after a year of doing jack shit though

>>12052643

i'm this poster (>>12052565, >>12052490)


its this attitude that i find truly emblematic of a sick soul

here's a tip: anyone who sets out to get into an elite university as their goal almost never does--or if they do, they are exactly the type of mediocrity you seemingly are so quick to condemn and despise.

i got into harvard, like a lot of the people i hang out with here, not because we did well on standardized tests--i had a solid 3.8 from a great high school, i was pretty smart on paper, but nothing stellar, and my SATs didn't breach the 2200 mark. i got into harvard because i was interested in an unresolved problem in the world (in my case, the relation between how academic institutions relate to funding initiatives and implementation campaigns in the state-building programs of kenya), worked my ass off understanding it, and by the time i was a senior in high school i was working with levick in DC as a senior consultant, working directly with their team in nigeria and having dynamic contact with figures like buhari.

you know what machiavelli says about greatness, the quickest way to achieve glory? it's to actually go out and fucking do something great--hence why it's theseus and cyrus that are his heroes, not the weasels, followers, manipulators and changelings that represent the vast majority of your average college applicant.

you will never get to where you want simply wanting to get there--look beyond, elsewhere, to something actual people care about. address yourself to that, and watch as the accolades, the recommendations, the acceptances roll in.

anyone who doesnt attend an elite school will judge and criticize and cry havoc, but in reality, the best way to get into a top school (if you are not well-connected and a legacy, or a pro-athlete) is to 1. discipline yourself, 2. find a relevant problem in the world. e.g. commit yourself to improving the common good, and 3. put all your fucking eggs in that basket and let them incubate.

the reason your aren't going to get in is because its all about you; same reason the average christian can never get into heaven: to you, the only thing at stake is the salvation of your own soul; ironically, you ignore others at your own expense, especially when it comes to doing something worthwhile in the world that would actually get you recognized by a top school

Graduated from UF with a degree in history. Waiting to hear back from FSU because they have a great philosophy program.

Currently read The Histories.

I regret not studying more at UF. I was depressed and routinely went on drinking binges there, so I graduated with a meh GPA. I'm looking at post-baccalaureate programs now.

>>12051663
Ivy League is an athletic conference. Schools like Chicago and Stanford are on par with Yale and Penn.

Q: Where do you go?

Answer: 4Chan University of Fine Arts

Q: What are you reading?

Answer: Spengler's Fall of The West, Lynn's Race Differences in Intelligence, Kaczynski's Industrial Society and Its Future.

Q: Do you regret your decision(s) so far?

Answer: I regret nothing.

>>12030843
Davidson College

Making of the Middle Sea, it's an environmental history of the Mediterranean, my advisor is an environmental historian and he recommended the book so I'm reading it.

Not really, it's not that hard of a school even though that's its reputation. Having to deal with subhuman premeds is really annoying because their stress and despair rubs off on you eventually. Political life on campus is also pretty rough at the moment.

I'm doing my best to be happy.

>>12052684
I think that your perception of what it actually takes to get into an elite college is slightly out of touch. I agree that if you specialize early in Highschool that there is a possibility that you can make it to the top, assuming you’re wealthy and have networking skills and connections etc. This being said, at least for myself, resume padding and other superficial college-applications-oriented activities are means to an end, a way to make it to an institution where I’ll finally be able to engage myself in real thinking. I don’t consider myself intellectually inferior just because I haven’t solved a geopolitical problem or discovered a cure for some esoteric disease.

A lot of the problem with your point of view is that you assume everyone’s interest manifest early on in their Highschool career, or that there are tangible ways to make real impacts in EVERY field at a young age. But I’m not knocking you or your achievements, you’re obviously a very impressive student.

>>12052684
You do realize how easy it is to dox you now for anyone that wanted to right?

You're alright for a hardvard fella, just giving a heads up, /lit/ is pretty innocent

>>12036250
Hey I'm a senior at UofM right now, I gotta find that spot in the law lib. Used to study there all the time as a freshman.

There are some fun parts to this school but I don't think I fit in with the culture here. I'm an east coast prep school kid lol. What did you study here?

>Murray State University
>I've been reading A Confession for the past year, haven't made time to finish it
>Nah

>>12032664
Who was the Kant scholar?

>>12052684
I went to a Catholic high school and the only people in my year who were accepted to Ivy League schools were minority women. Many white men and women who had higher grades and test scores than them also attended good schools, such as Carnegie Mellon, Boston College, and Washington University. Most of these kids were the types who were very involved in community service and entrepreneurship, while the students who attended Yale and Princeton were not involved in much outside of school. Yes, they had great test scores and GPA's, but outside of that they had nothing else to offer than a diversity check mark.

>>12052760

no, that's not what i'm saying. read what you just typed:

"this being said, at least for myself, resume padding and other superficial college-applications-oriented activities are means to an end, a way to make it to an institution where i'll FINALLY BE ABLE TO ENGAGE MYSELF IN REAL THINKING" (emphasis added)

what i'm saying is: that's the kind-of attitude that will never actually engage in "real thinking"--it's something always on the horizon, always prorogued, because if you think you will get to college and be automatically fulfilled on that level, you are sourly wrong, and in for nothing but disappointment

MY POINT is simply that those who tend to get into the top schools that arent legacy/sports, believe or not, like it or not, accept it or not, never went about with the asinine that "real thinking" would come IN THE FUTURE, but simply set about doing it

the reality is that so many people stress out and are full of anxiety in applying because they really aren't that interesting; they haven't started "real thinking"; they have done nothing beyond exist with their peers. can you blame them? absolutely--if only because i have met people from every demographic, every income bracket, every walk of life and corner of the world that have simply chosen to rise about those endless excuses and endless games and decided to just be something MORE

>>12052684
>anyone who doesnt attend an elite school will judge and criticize and cry havoc, but in reality, the best way to get into a top school (if you are not well-connected and a legacy, or a pro-athlete) is to 1. discipline yourself, 2. find a relevant problem in the world. e.g. commit yourself to improving the common good, and 3. put all your fucking eggs in that basket and let them incubate.
This is a very hard goal for someone with minimal resources, but I agree with the all eggs in one basket method. Well-roundedness is just a meme, it means your mediocre at many things.
>by the time i was a senior in high school i was working with levick in DC as a senior consultant, working directly with their team in nigeria and having dynamic contact with figures like buhari.
Do you seriously believe your average highschooler can do shit like this? This is a prime example of what I was complaining about with disconnect. It doesn't mean you're not smart or valid, it's just you have to recognize how difficult that is independently.
I definitely leveraged the bits of nepotism I could find, its a sad game/scam

>University of Queensland (writing business hons)
>The Road to Serfdom, On the Trail of Genghis Khan & rereading the Iliad
>No point really regretting it, but sometimes

>>12051819
lmao what did you do

>>12052800

what? i DO recognize how difficult it is to achieve great things; that why it is HARD and FEW PEOPLE achieve it

but those FEW PEOPLE who do, often,, believe it or not, want to be around the other few people who are equally capable

i never said it wasnt hard--it is, and should be, and what you call "disconnect" is really your own: the inability to recognize that there are actually a LOT of people doing a LOT of very purposeful things, full of meaning, and those people tend to coagulate at the top specifically because so few can achieve it--THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT

what you are complaining about is simply the threshold of merit involved. like this poster, >>12052391, you seem to sublimate anything that is actually superior to you (intellectually, discipline-wise, etc.) to some kind of "disconnect"

again, there are idiots here at harvard: wealthy legacies, athletes, plenty of minorities that get in on the URM check, no question. but you'd be surprised at just the sheer number of interesting fuckers. one of my freshman roommates was the best chess player in the state of florida; another had helped form an incredibly influential gay acceptance campaign within the church structures of the midwest. so on down the line: i know one dude who is just an absolute machine with numbers, capable of calculations and just an orderliness of thought i find terrifying; on the other end of the spectrum, i know rimbaud and bataille-like figures, aesthetes who reject the cold, disenchanted and de-eroticized discourses of academia and expand their souls through the exploration of all sorts of alternative and sublime intoxications. the full spectrum, from robot to dancing star, are all represented in their dying glory--and it actually makes for a pretty interesting experience.

>>12051819
godspeed

>>12052684
>> But in reality, the best way to get into a top school...

The best way to get into a top school in 2018: Be a nigger and let affirmative action take care of the rest.

>>12052832
I'm >>12052391. Kinda wish i got some tips but i guess criticism is useful too.

How did I 'sublimate anything superior to me' to a "disconnect"? Idk how you got that from my comment.

That said, maybe you're just really good at pyscho analyzing because I probably do have that tendency. In the sense of, I do find it quite mysterious how truly accomplished people become that way and often spend time reading wikipedia articles of crazy genius types.

The machiavelli paraphrase resonated with me.

You should read about Walter Pitt, an important researcher in Artificial Intelligence, whose childhood illustrates a lot of the ideas you're talking about. One example, a quote from the wiki article:

> He is widely remembered to have spent three days in a library, at the age of 12, reading Principia Mathematica and sent a letter to Bertrand Russell pointing out what he considered serious problems with the first half of the first volume. Russell was appreciative and invited him to study in the United Kingdom.

>>12052909
* Walter Pitts

>>12052839
is it possible to cope harder

>>12052796
Yes except this is off base. A majority of students at elite universities—especially when you consider legacy, sports, and “deans list” kids, AND account for the fact that the admissions process is at least in part based on arbitrary things like demographics—have not been accepted because they’ve autodidacticedly engaged in your definition of “real thinking” in Highschool. What I meant by “real thinking” was having access to the RESOURCES of these schools; I didn’t mean that you necessarily need to be an unthinking drone if you plan on getting into college without that x-factor you’re talking about.

Of course engaging in projects is going to help you get into college. But look at it from the perspective of most kids, who DON’T even know what they want to study when they’re an underclassman in Highschool. Even in my own scenario—I run a local newsletter—I still think that all of my work in Highschool will ultimately culminate in an acceptance letter from an elite school so I can utilize the resources there to grow. Am I a “termite-like” drone because of that? I wouldn’t say so necessarily.

In fact, how would I even tangibly DO the sort of “real thinking” or real-world engagement YOU’RE talking about with an intended major in philosophy? By reading? That alone won’t get me to the top.

>>12053673
By the way, I don’t mean to imply that I don’t read, or that I don’t engage in thinking about said reading, just that the admissions process doesn’t necessarily reward reading in the same way they reward other interests with moretangible impacts.

>tfw no sense in mentioning your non-lit engineering oriented asian uni

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>>12053775

Well, if there is one major worth mentioning as at least slightly sofisticated in our uni is the tea major, which is again, science based and not based on the qualia of tea drinking.

>>12036568
How's Maths?