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Uni Thread Anonymous Wed Dec 19 23:22:55 2018 No.12255302 [Reply] [Original]

Anyone majoring in Lit at UChicago? Wondering if it’s the call.
Also general uni thread:
>uni
>major
>how you like it
>books currently reading

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 19 23:24:11 2018 No.12255307 >>12255302 University of Kansas Spanish I wasn't the biggest fan El Hacedor by Borges and Herodotus's Histories

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 19 23:26:02 2018 No.12255321 >>12255307 Why’d you major in Spanish??

Anonymous Wed Dec 19 23:27:51 2018 No.12255333

>>12255321
Originally I was a French major, but I figured that French would be worthless later in life. I took Spanish instead and found it much easier. Also I wanted to be able to read Don Quijote in the original, which I did this year. I think Spanish will help me after law school.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 19 23:29:06 2018 No.12255339 Colby College Printmaking, History It's a blast (im here for free as well) Gravity's Rainbow, Between the Woods and the Water

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 19 23:34:27 2018 No.12255365 >>12255302 University of Kansas Electric Engineering meh not too pricey and local. The "Diversity" somewhat ruins it Homage to Catalonia. Am big Orwell-Fag

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 19 23:35:34 2018 No.12255371 Does anyone know anything about the Danish universities?

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 19 23:36:19 2018 No.12255374 >>12255371 I heard they can get expensive as fuck

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 19 23:37:34 2018 No.12255380 >>12255365 What year are you in?

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 19 23:40:11 2018 No.12255387 PUC no Apology of Socrates

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 19 23:40:56 2018 No.12255391 >>12255371 There's some in Denmark

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 19 23:42:01 2018 No.12255395 Whasen University English Lit It's great BOTNS vol. 1

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 19 23:45:10 2018 No.12255418 >>12255380 sophmore

Anonymous Wed Dec 19 23:46:22 2018 No.12255426

>>12255333
>>12255307
Why not just to university for free in Argentina or something? You'd live like a king for half the price, could major in literature or philosophy or some other real field of interest, and would end up achieving a far higher level in Spanish.

Fuck, you're just digging yourself into a tens of thousands of dollars hole in Kansas, when you have an apartment, tons of beautiful girls, and piles of cocaine in BA or Cordoba for far far less money.

Anonymous Wed Dec 19 23:48:31 2018 No.12255441

>>12255426
I wish I had done that, but when I started out I wanted to be a doctor. I took lots of Organic Chemistry and boring shit like that for a few years until I decided that I hated it too much. If I was doing just literature or something like that I would have done what you said.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 19 23:49:45 2018 No.12255444 >>12255426 Also I come from a wealthy family so there is no hole to be dug. I do think I've wasted this part of my life though.

Anonymous Wed Dec 19 23:50:09 2018 No.12255445

>>12255302
I recently got accepted into St. John's College, Annapolis

I was extremely excited to hear I was accepted, as it has been my dream school for a long time, but looking at my financial package I don't think I can go.

Even with a scholarship and a few grants, I'd still be paying ~18,000 a year (everything included). My family is willing to help me out, but I am expected to pay my own way upon graduation.

What do I do? It's marred my Christmas cheer some. .
I had dumped this in another thread, though I feel it's more appropriate here.
Help a naive 18 year old out.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 19 23:51:10 2018 No.12255448 >>12255302 >"i went to school in Connecticut" >so yale? >"ummmmm yes" awkward stare

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 19 23:51:26 2018 No.12255449 >>12255426 I'm intrigued; how hard is it to get into these unis as an American?

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 19 23:54:28 2018 No.12255462 Berkeley Political science It’s ok Crime and Punishment, The Unvanquished

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 19 23:55:08 2018 No.12255465 >>12255302 University of Washington Pharmacology pretty good Either/Or

Anonymous Wed Dec 19 23:56:00 2018 No.12255466

>>12255444
>>12255441
That's even better though. If your wealthy you don't need to take loans intrinsic on attending school within the US, which means you can do this more easily.

Like what do you even want to do with fucking spanish? Literally any wetback fresh across the border can out-do you with a highschool diploma.

>>12255449
Just go there and enroll. It's about that hard.
Just try to get in before jew-boy Macri gets rid of the free tuition.

Anonymous Wed Dec 19 23:58:24 2018 No.12255474

State Community College
Working on a paramedic license, but I'm considering also perusing a certificate in Cybersecurity Fundamentals. It might open up some cozy IT jobs, but mainly I wouldn't mind knowing how to install ransomware on people's computers and raking in the big bucks that way.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 00:02:22 2018 No.12255487 University of Kansas (why so many of us?) Finance It's fine How to fail at almost everything and still win big kind of

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 00:06:10 2018 No.12255496 >>12255302 >Stevens Institute of Technology >Computer engineering >I hate it >Crime and Punishment and Huizinga's Life of Erasmus

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 00:11:03 2018 No.12255517 >>12255496 Tell your admissions office to get out of my inbox

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 01:10:13 2018 No.12255777 >>12255466 I want to go to law school with it. In the USA you need a bachelor's degree to go to any professional school like Nursing, Medicine, or Law. I just finished the last class of the major last week. Are you Argentinian?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 01:12:50 2018 No.12255785 We should do a KU meetup

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 01:23:25 2018 No.12255828 >>12255302 University of Toronto Political Philosophy Not very much Phenomenology of Spirit, Being and Time

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 01:29:25 2018 No.12255852 University of Virginia English/Classics Not very much but its okay William Blake selected poems, Walt Whitman portable library, IQ84

Anonymous Thu Dec 20 01:36:00 2018 No.12255869

>>12255777
Believe it or not, other countries offer bachelors degrees. Argentina has one of the best psycho-analytic traditions in the western world, and a literary culture that blows America out of the water.

I'm not, but I lived there for a while. It's a great country. Currently I'm applying to my own country's armed forces to go to university for free, but if that doesn't work out I'll probably move back there.

>>	rick sanchez Thu Dec 20 01:45:35 2018 No.12255907 File: 24 KB, 900x900, sparky.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12255302 will never stop posting here until i find a fellow sun devil/asuan/asuer/asuite

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 01:58:48 2018 No.12255942 Boston College Finance/Comp Sci Quite a bit Picture of Dorian Gray, Notes from the underground

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 01:58:52 2018 No.12255943 >>12255302 NEET

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 02:14:06 2018 No.12255973 >>12255943 Based. Universities are a scam

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 02:22:46 2018 No.12256007 >>12255302 Math major at Chicago. This is a good place.

Anonymous Thu Dec 20 02:40:28 2018 No.12256076
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I never dignify undergraduate education by casually discussing my alma mater. Smart people will have found little to no value in undergraduate education because they learned most of the material on their own. Thus it is but a was a waste of 4-years of life (note, even the Europeans only have it for 3 years). If I could have went straight into my graduate track, I would have.
Ultra-imbecile tier is #ProudAlum designation—you know the sort, the retards who are so grateful for being fucked in the ass for four years AND having to pay for it, you'll note that they have a bumper sticker or license plate with the university that financially sodomized them. These same people will happily write a check to pseud-U to donate as a alumni. In some ways, these poor saps do owe their entire career to arbitrary credentialism and of themselves aren't capable of self-study.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 03:09:44 2018 No.12256185 Berkeley English and Linguistics First one got better as I did more theory. Second one I loved but am fucking tired of Chomsky. moby dick and Grammatology

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 03:15:46 2018 No.12256196 File: 62 KB, 336x206, 6_UHEI_colossus.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12255302 Law Pretty allright Some old collection of texts by Pascal I borrowed from my grandpa.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 03:44:48 2018 No.12256298 >Uni School of Hard Knocks >Major I majored in reality. >how you like it Nobody gives a shit what you like. >books currently reading I read people, not books, kid.

Anonymous Thu Dec 20 06:35:45 2018 No.12256742

>>12256007
Yeah I'm there too. The math department is pretty sweet, talking to friends at other schools I get the feeling that it's so different from every other place.

>>12255302
Unironically my favorite thing about the school is the fact that I can take classes in anything and they'll be really good. A great place for people who want to learn about everything.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 07:04:15 2018 No.12256808 >>12256742 How’s the social scene? Take any Lit classes?

Anonymous Thu Dec 20 07:15:23 2018 No.12256836

>>12256808
Social scene's pretty much the same as any other school. Maybe the ultra-nerdy crowd is slightly bigger, but all in all you'll be able to find the same sorts of people you can find anywhere.

I've only taken one lit class (on Lolita) but it was pretty great. The gen eds sequences will have you reading a lot of the (non-fiction) classics you see recommended on this board though. They're great.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 07:24:27 2018 No.12256859 OXFORD BOYS, I SUMMON THEE

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 07:26:43 2018 No.12256862 >>12256298 imagine being this retarded

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 08:44:21 2018 No.12257007 >>12256298 based

Anonymous Thu Dec 20 08:45:46 2018 No.12257017

>>12255302
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

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 08:46:25 2018 No.12257018 File: 28 KB, 326x294, ding ding.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12256862 >i'm smart because i got a 4-year undergrad degree!

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 08:49:36 2018 No.12257029 File: 86 KB, 960x918, 1544140916960.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12257017 Absolutely based and redpilled. Fuck mid-range IQ drones.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 08:52:56 2018 No.12257042 >>12257017 this but it's even more silly because of massive discrimination against Whites and Asians to massively lower the bar for Blacks, Hispanics and (YES!) the Jews who are vastly over-admitted above what their testing score should allow

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 08:56:36 2018 No.12257049 KULeuven Urbanism & spatial planning Most fun I've had in my life, graduated in law before this and it mostly sucked 100 Years of Solitude or Het Verdriet van België >>12256196 Hey, friend of mine from law school went there on Erasmus

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 08:56:56 2018 No.12257051 >>12257042 They're doing them a favor. The discrimination is only something worth being upset about for graduate school admissions. If you have high aspirations for your undergrad institution, you are a midwit.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 08:58:12 2018 No.12257055 >>12257017 The Chip on my shoulder agrees

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 09:09:52 2018 No.12257083 >>12255907 I think you might be the only asu student able to read

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 09:11:05 2018 No.12257085 >>12257083 >implying

Anonymous Thu Dec 20 09:15:56 2018 No.12257092

>>12255445
Try other Great Books colleges. Shimmer in Chicago has the same curriculum but it’s also small and a little sketchy and probably a big circlejerk (I could be wrong though).
If you’re at all religiously inclined you could try Thomas Aquinas College in California. Great Books curriculum there too and also a little cheaper. 99% of the kids there are super catholic though so you’d have to at least be interested in religion to make friends. There are s couple Calvinists there who do fine.
Other than that your options are to find out which public colleges have liberal arts curriculums that aren’t garbage. I know 4chan basement dwellers believe that every college is packed with SJW professors but that isn’t the reality. Some public colleges offer a solid liberal arts education if you take the right professors.
Other than that you can either beg St. John’s for more money or find another place that will give you more scholarship money. I was in the same position as you- accepted to St. John’s with their highest scholarship but it was still too expensive. Ended up getting a bigger scholarship at Catholic University of America and got a great education there. I can hold my own in conversation with friends who went to St. John’s and Thomas Aquinas.
Maybe look into St. Olaf’s College too. They’re known for strong liberal arts and have relatively low tuition.
Good luck anon, I hope you can get a good education without taking on crippling debt.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 09:22:05 2018 No.12257105 Medicine Some university in Belgium I'm still doing the basic science so I'm currently suffering, but better days will come La France interdite (about african migration in France) and some short novels by Maupassant (Boule de suif)

Anonymous Thu Dec 20 09:33:14 2018 No.12257135
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University of Notre Dame
Computer Science
Quite enjoyed it, fairly conservative and strong College of Fine Arts. Now doing my PhD.
Currently reading A Short History of Decay

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 09:35:48 2018 No.12257142 >>12257105 How do you feel about Michel resigning? Was your choice to read about migration related to all the immigration controversy going on?

Anonymous Thu Dec 20 09:42:02 2018 No.12257160

>>12255302
I'm going to UofC as a grad student and I largely dislike the student body, particularly the undergrads. I don't know if it's the elitism or what but everyone's either unfriendly as shit or a total autist.

The grad students having come from other schools are better socialized and typically more insightful in class. Also they're not dumbass 19 year olds so that helps.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 09:47:07 2018 No.12257174 >>12255445 Don't be a Johnny. You'll be happier long term at a state school with actual depth of departments like phil, languages, etc.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 09:52:37 2018 No.12257196 i graduated Chicago with a creative writing minor which involved taking English Lit classes, yes chicago does the humanities well ask away frendo

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 09:55:44 2018 No.12257202 >>12255302 WashU Comp sci and english I am wondering if I should change from English to philosophy Origins and History of Consciousness by Eric Neumann

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 10:22:05 2018 No.12257278 >>12256859 nice -- studying maths

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 10:22:40 2018 No.12257280 Who Notre Dame Fremantle here

Anonymous Thu Dec 20 10:45:26 2018 No.12257347

>>12257092
Thanks for this post.
Did you appeal your financial aid? I did ask my admissions counselor about it and he suggested I do that in the spring.
I don’t want to give up quite yet. It’s very early (I applied early action) and I’m hoping things might change

What did you end up paying at the other college you chose? So I can compare what a “good” cost is.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 10:58:48 2018 No.12257398 >>12255302 University of Tulsa no idea what to study yet school is great 1984

Anonymous Thu Dec 20 11:14:29 2018 No.12257471

>>12255302
University of Texas at Dallas
Supply Chain Management
It's okay, I started out doing psychology but I switched to SCM because I realized that I would need to get a job after graduating and psychology is useless if you don't go to grad school.
The Man Without Qualities and The Forest Passage

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 11:21:14 2018 No.12257492 >>12257398 >TU grew up so close to there too bad I hate OK lol

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 11:23:11 2018 No.12257497 WHAT DO I MAJOR IN I DON’T LIKE THE IDEA THAT I MAY NOT LAND AN MFA POSITION LATER ON I KNOW I WILL REGRET ANYTHING I DO IN THIS STATE SCHOOL BECAUSE I LIKE EVERY SUBJECT

Anonymous Thu Dec 20 11:29:13 2018 No.12257520

>>12256742
>I can take classes in anything and they'll be really good
Absolutely this. 4th year math major here, and the experience has been incredible. I've gotten the chance to explore a ton of disciplines that I never thought would interest me, but they did. Even if I had only taken courses that looked interesting to me every quarter, I still wouldn't have been able to take everything I wanted. We should do a meetup once winter starts.
To answer the question:
>school
University of Chicago
>major
Math
>how does it make you feel
https://youtube.com/watch?v=312EMkURAFw
>reading
The Book of Five Rings

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 11:36:50 2018 No.12257545 >>12255302 >still have time to apply to UChicago >nervous that I won't make it in >about to give up I'm just a middle class Delaware kid. 8.4% will shaft me

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 11:40:22 2018 No.12257561 Where my Syracuse University / SU anons be at? I just graduated.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 11:44:49 2018 No.12257578 >>12255445 go, dude, I went to a more selective/"prestigious" school and I wish I had gone to St. John's set up a call with the financial aid office and they'll help you think through it

Anonymous Thu Dec 20 11:45:37 2018 No.12257582

>>12257545
I was in pretty much your exact position when I applied. It's always worth shooting your shot if you can afford to do so. Where in DE are you from generally? Are you in DE public schools? Private/parochial? All of these can give you different avenues to express yourself in the essays.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 11:49:58 2018 No.12257602 >>12257520 If you're interested, Mushashi by Eiji Yoshikawa is a great read.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 11:55:17 2018 No.12257625 >>12255374 Free is quite expensive >>12255391 Thanks

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 11:57:00 2018 No.12257630 File: 86 KB, 453x604, 1421224646_616171095.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12256076 Much love anon

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 12:09:08 2018 No.12257674 >>12257582 I will try. I've been receiving a lot of their flyers and stuff, but I doubt it means anything. I'm around the Maryland border in a very small town, public school of ~310. I'll see what I can (or can't) do.

Anonymous Thu Dec 20 12:10:06 2018 No.12257675

>>12257142
I'm glad he quit because he was suck a cuck it was unbearable. I'm not this much into belgian politics so I can't tel you what he did good or wrong to be honest, but I'm afraid the new government might be worse.
Yes I read this book obviously about the immigration controversy. But it's not controversy here, it's really about our everyday lives. This year at school I have talked to 2 white people. The other ones are arabs, mostly moroccans, all muslims. Blacks couldn't pass the admission exam so they are 2 blacks in the whole class.
I left Brussels because of this, now I'm in a smaller city, but the issue is equivalent. When you go hit on a girl, even if she looks white, there's a 50% chance you can't bang her because she can't do infidels.
It's very very very bad

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 12:10:27 2018 No.12257676 >>12257017 >>"No!" Solid performance

Anonymous Thu Dec 20 12:13:05 2018 No.12257681

>>12257578
Why did you wish so?
Do you feel like your career opportunities would be as good there?

I have to see St. John's from a realistic view, too, as I'm am very middle class and this decision has significant sway. Though I know that it's for me; I still have to ask myself if the benefits outweigh the costs.
I'm nervous, quite frankly. I know if I don't go I'll regret it.

Anonymous Thu Dec 20 12:33:50 2018 No.12257771

>>12255445
St John's is a meme don't do it. In reality it is a big circle jerk due to everything class being 'enlightened Socratic dialogue'. You are better off going to a school with large departments who have a lecture styled learning experience. If you do want to engage in group think then go; you won't truly learn anything and will end up parroting the thoughts of the administration.

In regards to peers, it's like any other school. Some will be very bright but the majority is average and some are just plain dumb. It doesn't help that St. John's accept a significant amount of foreign students because they end up paying the most of tuition. The students from Europe tend to be fine, and will follow the American example of very bright or average. Students from Asia tend to be intelligent but simply are not suited to western education and are not very creative in thought; the stereotype is true, they tend to Excell at STEM. The students from Africa are like children. Their education level is similar to middle schooler in the west. There may be an exception to these generalizations but I did not run into such during my time at St. John's. I do not say these things with racist intention; most are fine people and you'll probably get along with them just fine. But when it comes to your education you must be selfish and recognize the truth of the matter.

Drug use is pretty rampant on the Santa Fe campus, but not at much on the Annapolis campus. Not sure how much that matters to you but you should know about it.

t. Johnny

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 12:37:56 2018 No.12257782 >georgetown >got into chicago >almost transferred after a year but didnt Wish i was at chicago now, but too late. Oh well

Anonymous Thu Dec 20 12:39:28 2018 No.12257788

>>12257771
I'm okay with the discussion style learning, and already expected to have to learn for my own anyways. My tour guide was from Norway/Poland and he seemed like an intelligent guy.

I did hear about drug use; it seems to be unnoticeable in Annapolis, though I hear Annapolis is a little heavy on drinking. This does not matter too much to me.

"Meme" declaration aside, you don't think you'd go again given the choice? Additionally, have you planned any long term goals? I hear from a lot of Johnnies that they regret going because they never had a plan.
I have a plan. I just need to know if the 18k is worth dropping a year.

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>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 12:43:51 2018 No.12257803 Any americans go abroad (not uk or canada) for school?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 12:44:04 2018 No.12257804 >>12257797 oh damn wrong thread

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 12:49:47 2018 No.12257829 File: 100 KB, 500x544, grimes.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I flunked my philosophy of logic exam really bad. it's tearing me apart

Anonymous Thu Dec 20 12:59:16 2018 No.12257872

>>12257788
18k is nothing. I know you're a dumb 17-18 year old but stop fretting and take action: call the financial aid office like another poster said and lay out your situation for them. Consult with your guidance counselor again if you're feeling lost.

But 18k. U Chicago is 63k a year. Obviously there's a difference between the schools but cherish that price point.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 13:04:00 2018 No.12257887 >>12255302 (OP) # >uni jhu >major cs/philosophy >how you like it it's great so far >books currently reading swann's way

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 13:04:11 2018 No.12257889 >taking kn debt for college? Kek, literally just have your parents pay for it? Wtf: they have nothing better to do with all that money

Anonymous Thu Dec 20 13:09:06 2018 No.12257908
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>University of Warwick
>History and Politics
>It's weird. A lot of it feels dated and from the 80s such as the bureaucracy and the buildings but it has ultra-modern elements as well. Actual staff are really high quality if there are a few Marxists. Nick Land is also remembered as well.
>Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien and On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle.

Anonymous Thu Dec 20 13:16:12 2018 No.12257931

>>12255371
The universites are very similar to anything you'd find in the UK but the cities are nicer and the people are considerably smarter, more mature and less likely to be snowflakes. People tend to be at uni anywhere from 20-26 here which helps a lot I guess.
Flip side is that you have to live in a country where people speak danish which is grim.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 14:00:49 2018 No.12258106 >>12257908 >ywn be in warwick philosophy department, late 90's FUCK

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 14:02:54 2018 No.12258123 >>12257782 As a current Chicago student, transferring doesn't sound like it would be fun.

Anonymous Thu Dec 20 14:06:37 2018 No.12258134

>>12257160
My gf goes to Uc so I’m there almost once a month and the undergrads are unfortunately not the weirdos they used to be. They’re straight laptop stickers that say “but first coffee” normies. Ever since they shot up the us news rankings and the acceptance rate dropped from 40 to 7, the school became another pseudo ivy and the student believes themselves to just be Harvard students living in Hyde park. They’re really insufferable. That being said, most grad students are chill

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 15:03:20 2018 No.12258344 >>12255302 a rather small university in Switzerland linguistics It's the best Languages of the Himalayas (Introduction to the symbiotic theory of language evolution)

Anonymous Thu Dec 20 15:46:25 2018 No.12258531

>>12257347
Definitely don’t give up now. You have months to come up with something.
Start coming up with other options though and don’t be reluctant to pursue them. The fact is that you can get elsewhere what you get at St. John’s. If you’re more interested in being a Johnnie then in learning how to read, write, and speak then you need to reassess your priorities else the intellectual life will become stale to you and the rigors if college will stop feeling worthwhile.
I appealed my financial aid and got nothing extra. Maybe you’ll have a better chance of getting an increase then, idk. Keep in mind that you might be eligible for more financial aid if your parents’ financial situation changes. Do you have a little brother who will enter college soon and be a financial burden on your parents? Is mom or dad planning to retire in a year or two? These things might put you in a higher financial aid bracket. They might not.
Do you have a grandparent or retired aunt or uncle who might be able to give you a couple grand a semester? Ask around. Did the admissions officer you spoke with seem nice? Maybe he’ll consider you for a higher scholarship if you ask nicely (though this is especially difficult with St. John’s since it has such a rigid scholarship structure). Are you black or Latino? You could easily grab a few low- hanging $500-$1000 scholarships (though maybe not since you’re not a STEMfag). Are you willing to work over the summer and during the school year?

I was set to have to pay $22,500 a year to CUA. That was too much, so I went to the financial aid office to ask for more money. They gave me an extra $5k-year scholarship. I then talked to my grandpa and he ended up contributing a couple thousand dollars a year. I worked every summer and put some of the money toward college. I moved off campus into a cheap apartment as soon as I could. I dropped the expensive meal plan and bought my own groceries.
All those little sums added up and after four years of college I ended up with $22k in debt. Still a lot but it’s way below average and it’s manageable for me. I would have been almost 90k in debt if I had just taken the financial aid and been satisfied.
So you can make things work out if you’re lucky. Though don’t be so desperate to go to St. John’s that you accept their offer and take on a mountain of debt. 80k in debt is no joke, it can ruin your ability to go to grad school, push your retirement back years, and make it really difficult to get on your feet financially. Again, there’s nothing wrong with having a particular affection for St. John’s, but going there isn’t worth ruining yourself financially since there are other, cheaper places that will teach you how to think and argue exactly as well. In the end, the education itself is going to be far more valuable to you then having the words “St. John’s” instead of “X Lesser- known liberal arts college” in your diploma.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 16:18:48 2018 No.12258694 File: 13 KB, 512x465, .gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Stanny Classics & History double major >"hella dope" but actually it was great Dewitt - Last Samurai, best book I've read this year

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 16:23:41 2018 No.12258715 >>12257196 What are the English classes like? Are they reductionist and plain boring like Highschool classes? I enjoy literature and writing, I just don’t know if I can sit through 4 years of the same thing

Anonymous Thu Dec 20 16:30:25 2018 No.12258758

>>12257160
Hey, fellow PhD student at Chicago here. I also hate the fucking undergrads.

I hate the grads a hell of a lot more, though. I'm surprised you see a real difference between the two. I'd say about one in thirty grad students is interesting intellectually, and of that fraction, one in ten is actually pursuing it genuinely. The rest are trust fund babies looking for something to do in their twenties that doesn't involve 9-5 hours.

I actually prefer the undergrads in this regard partly because, well, there are more of them. Higher chances of finding needles in haystacks, maybe. But even beyond that, I sometimes feel like I can detect the genuinely weird kids among the undergrads.

>>12258134
I definitely believe this. From what I understand, in the '90s and early 2000s, the school was known as a hard-ass soul-crushing suicide machine, but it had reasonably high acceptance rates. I know people here who come from the dregs of the lower classes but did their BA here and got a free ride because of blind admissions, so that the only thing that mattered in their education was their talent and their will to see it through. Those same people tell me the place is nothing like it was even 5-10 years ago. It has become just another collection of coffee shops for the extremely wealthy.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 16:33:39 2018 No.12258774 >>12256859 Yes lad, PhD in Immunology here

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 16:34:25 2018 No.12258779 >>12255445 I had a date two days ago with someone who went to St. John's for their undergraduate degree and I have to say it sounds pretty nice. You could work throughout undergrad, you know? That would diminish a good bit of the debt.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 16:40:41 2018 No.12258806 File: 557 KB, 1041x841, 1541194594985.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I'm going to put in my applications soon. It's going to feel weird being older than the other first years.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 16:40:57 2018 No.12258808 >>12255445 do it. if you are doing humanities, go big or go home. when the debt collectors call you up asking for money just say "i don't have it". they will then ask "well, what do you have?" this is the critical point. you say, "uh i dont know $5?"

Anonymous Thu Dec 20 16:57:20 2018 No.12258897

>>12255302

> Uni of Winchester
> Archaeology
> it's ok, but the uni is very underfunded.
> Alan Watts, 'This is it'.

Classmates are mostly sjw weeaboo weaklings who got there by pure luck; I feel isolated. Anyone got advice on making friends with people who will actually have intelligent, interesting conversations, and where to find them?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 16:59:16 2018 No.12258907 UMass Amherst Computer Science I liked my major classes but my teacher for my Philosophy gened was a tranny so that wasn't great Rationalism in Politics, Revolt Against the Modern World

Anonymous Thu Dec 20 17:03:25 2018 No.12258923

>>12257520
>>12257196
>>12257160
>>12258758
Also a uchicago undergrad. Seems like there's a lot of us. School is definitely more intense than our peers, but it's pretty patrician if you give into it.
>>12258134
Its not entirely this, but there definitely are more normies than there used to be. Get placed in a good house like Stony and you're autismo.

Anonymous Thu Dec 20 17:05:17 2018 No.12258932
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Does undergrad even matter? If you go to some shitty, 70% acceptance rate uni, can you still go on to enter a top 10 grad school in law, business etc? What about if you get a shitty 3.3 GPA from your shitty university? Can you still slam dunk the GMAT/LSAT/etc and get in?

Anonymous Thu Dec 20 17:18:50 2018 No.12258990

>>12258932
>Does undergrad even matter? If you go to some shitty, 70% acceptance rate uni, can you still go on to enter a top 10 grad school in law, business etc? What about if you get a shitty 3.3 GPA from your shitty university? Can you still slam dunk the GMAT/LSAT/etc and get in?
yes, but way harder. An undergrad from an elite university (no not you public school kiddies who think you're elite) greatly aids your application. There's a GPA cap at a lot of schools, as in many smart people will essentially cap out at 4.0 at a worse institution, but at a true elite uni they could be anywhere between 2.0 and 4.0, but there's so many applicants why give the benefit of the doubt.
Also, good ol' nepotism is way more important than many think

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 17:30:30 2018 No.12259040 >>12258990 I was under the impression if I get a 730/800 (95th percentile score) on the GMAT I could pretty much get into any MBA school

Anonymous Thu Dec 20 17:35:20 2018 No.12259065

>>12258758
I was listening to an interview with Seymour Hersh in which he described growing up in Chicago in the 50s. He was a mediocre high school student, son of working class Lithuanian Jews, no "extracurriculars" or "leadership skills" to speak of, who attended what we would today consider a community college after graduating.

In one of his first classes, after reading an essay he wrote, the professor took him aside and asked him, "What the hell are you doing here?" The professor personally took him down to the University of Chicago and had him take an entrance examination. Having passed, he was admitted the very same day

That situation would never occur under any circumstances in 2018. Schools like Chicago are more interested in how many people they can exclude than who they admit. The admissions rate at elite universities is going to continue to plummet and maybe after it reaches a percentage of a percentage people will realize American higher education is a scam for 99% of people and a luxurious finishing school for the 1%

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 17:41:12 2018 No.12259093 >>12255302 University of Virginia Biology Ok When Titan's Clashed

Anonymous Thu Dec 20 17:58:04 2018 No.12259148
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>>12258758
>>12259065
This system is absolutely insane and bound to collapse at some point. The only people who benefit from it are elites and university administrators, everybody else eats shit and competes for scraps

Anonymous Thu Dec 20 18:04:45 2018 No.12259191

>>12256196
Hey I'm in the same uni, although different field.

Philosophy/ Germanistik
Currently I only do philosophy and so far I love it. It's worth maybe becoming a Taxidriver
Just finished Spinoza's ethic now I will start levinas Ausweg aus dem sein

Anonymous Thu Dec 20 18:05:38 2018 No.12259193

>>12258932
It doesn’t matter where you went. All that matters is how well you did.
Did you study something rigorous? A 3.3 in physics or philosophy looks better than a 3.3 in social work.
Idk about business school but if you work for a couple years, have glowing letters of reccomendation, and get at least a 700 on the LSAT then you have a chance at getting into a top 12 law school. Cast a wide net.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 18:06:49 2018 No.12259200 >>12258932 >>12259193 170, not 700. 700 is impossible.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 18:07:53 2018 No.12259206 >>12259193 >philosophy >rigorous lmao, a business degree is harder

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 18:09:02 2018 No.12259211 >>12259148 b-boy, I sure do love globalization haha loving the vibrant asian diversity on my campus!

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 18:09:51 2018 No.12259214 >>12258897 I'm in a similar situation and frankly, even finding someone authentically open-minded is hard enough.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 18:11:47 2018 No.12259229 >>12258897 >>12259214 these, how to find people?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 18:12:05 2018 No.12259230 >>12259200 It's possible if you take it on the Sabbath exclusion test ;)

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 18:16:07 2018 No.12259240 File: 1.33 MB, 1440x1430, zlddwxjw3w321.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12259148 >tfw choosing school based on "rate of acceptance rate decrease" so that 5 years after your degree it looks like you got into an ivy league uni pic related

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 18:16:17 2018 No.12259241 >>12259211 Asian diversity on elite campuses have been around for some time.

Anonymous Thu Dec 20 18:21:19 2018 No.12259271

>>12259206
>business degree is harder
if you fill your schedule with fucking women’s studies classes
business curriculums are designed to be passable by morons with athletics scholarships with no real skills or interests. Study philosophy and 70% of your coursework will be pretty easy but if you have low iq you’ll get fucked by the three or four professors who actually grade writing seriously.

Anonymous Thu Dec 20 18:22:48 2018 No.12259283

>>12255302
>Cleveland State University
>English lit and theatre arts
English is ok, might switch to creative writing because the professor in the workshop I took loved all my stuff and said I had a knack for it. Like the drama department, and just got cast in our upcoming production of "the tree of Oedpus".
>invisible cities

Anonymous Thu Dec 20 18:24:45 2018 No.12259297

>>12259271
>3 or 4 professors give you a B- instead of a B+/A- even though you never studied or read the textbook
>meanwhile, business degree has courses where you will get a C or worse unless you study (financial accounting, corporate finance, managerial accounting, potentially macro/micro)
take from me I've done both majors. a business degree is harder. my 130 IQ allows me to finesse any philosophy paper - doesnt do shit in an accounting course

Anonymous Thu Dec 20 18:29:32 2018 No.12259330
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>>12259240
Best of luck

>>12259241
Yes, schools like UC Berkeley have always and forever been 50% Asian. Berkeley, a city that was once 90% white, is well-known for its history of catering to the children of Chinese termites willing to pay for doctored SATs, fake admissions essays, and of course full tuition price

Anonymous Thu Dec 20 18:36:40 2018 No.12259356

>>12259297
>my experience was x
>therefore it’s like this everywhere
If your philosophy curriculum was any good you would have learned that this isn’t a valid argument.
It was fairly common for kids to fail out of philosophy/ take a victory lap at my university.
Freshmen often start out in philosophy because they think it’ll be easy, realize they’ll never be able to make it through a page of Aristotle without consulting Shmoop, then transfer to business and get straight C’s. Yes, statistics and finance can be difficult, but they rarely involve any mathematics a jock with a Quora subscription can’t figure out.

Anonymous Thu Dec 20 18:38:38 2018 No.12259369

>>12259283
>>12258907
>>12258897
>>12258531
>>12257908
>>12257471
>>12257398
>>12257202
>>12256298
>>12255785
>>12255496
>>12255487
>>12255474
>>12255465
>>12255365
>>12255307
/lit/

>>12255302
>>12255339
>>12255462
>>12255828
>>12255852
>>12255907
>>12255942
>>12256007
>>12256185
>>12256859
>>12257135
>>12257160
>>12257196
>>12257280
>>12257520
>>12257887
>>12258694
Eusocial creep (not /lit/)

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 18:40:31 2018 No.12259381 >>12259369 kill yourself

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 18:54:53 2018 No.12259435 >>12259381 I'm denying you my approval Lack of access to a stranger's approval is making you scared and angry

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 18:56:29 2018 No.12259441 >>12259435 you put me under /lit/, I just hate you for being a shitposter and quoting the entire thread, and for being a pseud

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 18:58:00 2018 No.12259445 >>12259441 No, I didn't. You are not /lit/ and I would never label you as such Moreover, you're becoming angrier by the second

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 18:59:54 2018 No.12259449 >>12259445 good job

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 19:01:38 2018 No.12259456 >>12259449 Please calm down

Anonymous Thu Dec 20 19:09:14 2018 No.12259487

>>12259456
This spectacle of yours has induced naught but a tinge of amusement in me. Were this a different time I would enslave your family and make you my minstrel and boy concubine, giving your lowly self the highest possible meaning it could deigned to attain. Undoubtedly in our current state this is the highlight of our life, being addressed by a being such as myself is akin for you to being addressed by a God.

Anonymous Thu Dec 20 19:12:52 2018 No.12259503

>>12258758
Chicago alum here. I was there for six years (was gonna graduate with a Philosophy degree but then stayed for 2 extra years to get a math degree) during which the school switched over to the common app, meaning more applicants and more selectivity for the extracurricular activity, good-grades, over-achiever types. Before common app there were more drugs, miscreants and people who were sincere and occasionally humble in their intellectual pursuits.

The school itself is wonderful. Any gripes that I have with my education stem from problems endemic to academia. It was easy to finagle your way into graduate level classes, there were a ton of research labs that you could join and contribute to, and the common core classes created common ground between humanities, science and econ students, meaning tons of great conversations. I could start rambling about some mid-century architect and people would generally be into it. That being said - the fact that that kind of sperglord intellectualism was encouraged was a pro and a con. It took a lot of time and effort before people would express surprise that I went to UoC - which I take as a huge compliment.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 19:15:24 2018 No.12259518 JKU Applied Meh whatever, not like there's anyone else here

Anonymous Thu Dec 20 19:29:12 2018 No.12259569

>>12259356
>It was fairly common for kids to fail out of philosophy/ take a victory lap at my university.
>castigates me literally for doing the same thing 15 seconds prior
what did the philosophy major mean by this? guess he studied continental philosophy :^)

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 19:29:45 2018 No.12259570 >>12259487 based

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 19:48:34 2018 No.12259637 >>12258106 Nor will I but we can dream. Having the one main areas of continental philosophy in the UK nearby is really interesting.

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>>12259569
I was giving a particular instance which contradicted your example to show that your experience was not universal. Sorry I didn’t know I’d have to hold your hand and walk you through a simple argument

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 20:03:07 2018 No.12259708 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Philosophy, Math, and minor in Chinese It's quite lit. Undergrad philosophy is endlessly disappointing, looking forward to grad school. War and Peace, and Augustine's Confessions

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 20:08:44 2018 No.12259723 >>12259697 >too dumb to anticipate how his arguments will reasonably be interpreted >lashes out and blames others lmao

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 20:11:25 2018 No.12259739 >>12259487 Threatening me with your pedophilic boy rape urges is not my idea of calming down

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 20:17:04 2018 No.12259757 >>12259723 >you’re dumb for not anticipating my retardation fuck you got me

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 20:20:52 2018 No.12259771 >>12259708 >learning a soulless termite language lmao

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 21:05:47 2018 No.12259966 >>12259739 Do you live in your mothers basement?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 21:40:24 2018 No.12260111 >>12259771 >writing in a barbarian language lmao

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 21:41:34 2018 No.12260119 >>12255302 i wish i tried harder in high school so i could have gone to an actually good college :/

Anonymous Thu Dec 20 21:42:07 2018 No.12260123

>>12259708
>learning a language of people who literally still engage in cannibalism, burn and torture animals alive to "enhance their flavor", and who would rather let a child die in agony than take a risk of being sued

good way to destroy your consciousness anon

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 22:07:17 2018 No.12260231 Harvard History I like it overall, my qualms about college life are more about college itself and less so the institution I'm attending Hopscotch

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 22:11:44 2018 No.12260243 >>12257829 same dude

Anonymous Thu Dec 20 22:13:02 2018 No.12260247

>>12257135
Glad to see another domer on here.

Also from Notre Dame (obviously) and also majored in Computer Science. I absolutely loved the school and the program. I'm currently working my way through all of Voltaire's writings in French and just finished his Dictionnaire philosophique.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 22:16:53 2018 No.12260266 >>12255869 >Currently I'm applying to my own country's armed forces to go to university for free From which country are you anon?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 22:17:47 2018 No.12260270 McGill Philosophy and Comp Sci I like it, but kinda lonely Wise Blood

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 22:18:03 2018 No.12260272 >>12259771 >>12260111 >>12260123 >not realizing America's century ended with 9/11 and we're living in the beginning of the Chinese century Never gonna make it, in anything

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 22:29:44 2018 No.12260318 Wake Forest English Love it, wish the student body was a little more interesting though, a lot of vanilla suburban kids from the Mid-Atlantic Less Than Zero

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 22:47:39 2018 No.12260370 >>12260272 AHAHAHAHA!!! OH NO NO NO!!!

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 23:01:36 2018 No.12260439 >>12258923 What UChicago houses are the best?

Anonymous Thu Dec 20 23:16:53 2018 No.12260516

>>12258531
I didn't mean to make it seem like I was so desperate to make it to St. John;s, but I do think it is the perfect fit for me. I thank you for the slap in the face. If I can't make it work, then at least I know I tried.
My dad drunkenly said he'd give 5000 a year, but we're rather estranged.

Thank you for the extra push and have a Merry Christmas.

Anonymous Thu Dec 20 23:21:00 2018 No.12260539

>>12260439
Depends on what you mean by "best." I choose to interpret it as "has the strongest culture." In that case, I think it is the following, in no particular order:
- Breck. They are the only ex-satellite to maintain their identity, still do Scav independent of I-House/STTR-BBoY, etc. Source: I have friends who are current Breckies/expats
- Snitchcock. Easily the most insular dorm, their culture can be oppressive at times. In some ways the most "classically UChicago" dorm vis-a-vis social awkwardness and intensity. Source: a friend of mine was in Snitchcock for three years.
- Stony. The last satellite dorm, closing soon. Can't speak much to it other than that. Source: my ass (and one Stony girl I met in Civ)
- Any BJ house. BJ houses are strongly cultured, but not as much as Snitchcock. All BJ houses are different and have their own "flavors" as it were, and are less easily pigeonholed. BJ also makes it easier to make friends outside of your house, so it's not as defined as the satellites used to be. Source: I was in BJ.

Anonymous Thu Dec 20 23:26:08 2018 No.12260560

University of Sydney
Philosophy
It's pretty great, especially the Ancient Phil. Although I find modern analytic philosophy papers very dry, boring and ultimately juvenile without any historical sense - just pure philosophical novelty for the sake of originality
Decline of the West

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 23:27:11 2018 No.12260563 >>12260560 without any historical or literary sense*

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 23:28:15 2018 No.12260564 >>12259708 if you have any sense in you start reading Yuk Hui and take enuf CS classes so that you can finagle a programming job once you realize grad school is little improvement over the undergrad. Move to china.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 23:31:23 2018 No.12260580 has anyone here transferred from a less prestigious school to a better one? currently at the metropolitan state university of denver, and i really want to transfer to uchicago or something of equivalent academic level.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 23:31:56 2018 No.12260583 >>12255907 Here's one. I never thought I would see someone else who goes to ASU somewhere like /lit/ though. ASU Electrical Engineering My classes are finally becoming relevant, so it's going pretty good The Normans in the South by JJN

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 23:37:30 2018 No.12260613 >>12260539 Thanks—any advice in case I get placed in a shitty house? Honestly a little nervous about being put with aggravating type-A quirk-monsters

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 23:38:39 2018 No.12260619 >>12255907 >>12260583 We have an arizona /lit/ group that meets up every first friday u guys want the telegram

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 23:40:52 2018 No.12260626 >>12259241 >>12259330 >>12259211 Could somebody explain to me where the stereotype of the ultra competitive but awfully bland asian american HS student and college applicant comes from?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 23:42:40 2018 No.12260635 >>12260626 reality

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 23:43:06 2018 No.12260638 >>12260231 >qualms jesus Also, what's your hot take on this: >>12257017

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 23:43:40 2018 No.12260641 >>12259369 I don't know how you decided this but I'm glad I'm /lit/

Anonymous Fri Dec 21 00:39:05 2018 No.12260844

>>12260638
It's largely a meme post with certain valid points, specifically the grooming or the vapidity of a good chunk of people here (I could go into detail if needed). However, being at a "merely respectable school" just means you have less of the things that people in tier-1 schools have. Ultimately these schools still clamor for cultural relevance, or as the post mentions, networking opportunities, just in a more watered down way and as such are structurally identical to Harvard, so I can't take the criticism presented all too seriously. It's not like the people at [insert decent school] are re-inventing the wheel through mediocrity. Would be more valid if the "prole" did something truly unique.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 21 00:58:18 2018 No.12260915 >>12255828 Aye, fellow UofT student. I'm a law student here. Why do all the undergrads seem so miserable?

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 21 01:07:10 2018 No.12260945 I've only seen fellow Aggies on /fit/. >Texas A&M >Wildlife Science >it's fun, I'm going to South Texas for field work this summer >Don Quixote

Anonymous Fri Dec 21 01:36:40 2018 No.12261050
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>uni
University of Queensland
>major
English, History, Education
>how you like it
It feels like a waste of money. Few contact hours means shit all teaching and the other students are mostly super lazy/unintelligent. Many teachers are disillusioned by the pathetic students and just roll with it.
>books currently reading
War and Peace, The Fall, Man and his Symbols, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower.

Anonymous Fri Dec 21 01:54:20 2018 No.12261115

>>12260613
Date someone in one of the good houses and get adopted by that house. You may think I'm kidding, but we adopted one or two SOs per year. If that's not your style, then see if you can find some way to switch houses, usually there are some swaps in the fall. Fortunately or unfortunately, your class and beyond are required to be in housing for two years, so try to get lucky in the lottery.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 21 02:07:40 2018 No.12261145 >>12260915 this school can be soul crushing sometimes

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 21 02:18:02 2018 No.12261173 >>12255426 Argentina is facing an economical crisis, though.

Anonymous Fri Dec 21 02:30:56 2018 No.12261215

>>12257545
It's because you have nothing to offer them but the chance at future potential. I'm pursuing research in a specific history program in the school. I literally transferred in from a community college with ok grades but because I've spent the last three years essentially creating an extension of one of the head professors life work, a way to market it on a larger scale, I was immediately accepted and now work under him. I didn't wait for some smuck to teach me, I moved at my own accord and basically completed a bachelor's research thesis before I even got into the school.
Whatever you are hoping to major in, provide some actual talent within that particular field and you'll be selected. Otherwise, you're competing against perfect grade Asians, Affirmative action oppression essays and rich kids of former alumni. Good luck

Anonymous Fri Dec 21 03:21:50 2018 No.12261355

>>12260915
How could one not be miserable in a school of nearly 90,000, where your existence is a mere afterthought for most of the staff; where the disharmony between students is near palpable granted a large portion of the student-base is made up of nouveaux riche chinese who self-segregate. There is no sense of community or belonging here - each person here understands, if not consciously, that this is nothing more than a transitional period, devoid of anything further.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 21 03:23:59 2018 No.12261361 >>12261355 go to seekers

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 21 09:09:53 2018 No.12262048 >>12260247 huh I wonder if we knew each other. Small world.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 21 09:57:41 2018 No.12262188 Lse Economics Pretty underwhelming so far, too many prerequisites to study what I want to be doing. Currently reading Ecce Homo

Anonymous Fri Dec 21 10:32:34 2018 No.12262330
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Michigan State
Anthropology w/ GIS minor
Cultural anthropologists/Post-structuralists are the reason I drink in the mornings.
Leviathan Wakes and Clash of Civilizations.

Hit a real rough patch after getting into college, only read one book for leisure on and off every few months. Graduating next semester though and I'm looking forward to putting off grad school and just making money, takes a lot of stress off my shoulders.

Anonymous Fri Dec 21 10:50:29 2018 No.12262419

>>12260844
I feel like you're dancing around the core and tickling with the sediment of its effects. I agree with the vapidity but what I think you're not answering, which I'd like an answer for, is if these schools are filtrations systems, livers if you will, that filter out antisocial and or provocative mindset and thus have no admission of people that are anything but the veneer of intellect without the antisocialness that comes with the unfortunateness of genius (Yes I've looked at IQ studies for Harvard, it's a very effective system for finding people with the ability to ratiocinate, but the mindsets are very very drab). What I'm getting at, is that you essentially need, for thought that is actually A) Original and B) Provocative, it needs to be unacceptable, and the originators of those thoughts have to be both the same, and thus the ivy leagues become an orgy of eloquent defenses for the status quo, over challenging it in interesting ways.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 21 10:59:23 2018 No.12262450 >>12255302 Man all this UChicago talk, should I regret going to Northwestern?

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 21 11:00:01 2018 No.12262453 >Uni UCF >major Anthropology >how you like it Love it, on my last year of undergrad. >currently reading Apologia pro vita sua by John Henry Newman >>12262330 I understand the pain caused by the cultural branch.

Anonymous Fri Dec 21 11:02:30 2018 No.12262460

>>12262419
To illustrate: In this example I'm getting carried away with a statistical proclivity and not an absolute, however, this ability to get carried away is essentially eliminated in the application process to prestigious schools, as it represents a level of delirium that is filtered out when applications are essentially a search for negativities to eliminate. Also, I work with a lot of ivy leaguers and this holds true for all of them.

Anonymous Fri Dec 21 11:08:45 2018 No.12262487

>>12255302
>Cornell
>Government
>hated it for the first two years or so but I've come around honestly. really pretty
>God and Man at Yale; 2666; Anarchy, State, and Utopia

I passed on uchi. Great school and if it's your best choice you should go, but it's not a very fun place and has a national reputation for having a lot of weird kids

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 21 11:16:37 2018 No.12262519 >>12262453 Which field are you in?

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 21 11:40:29 2018 No.12262615 >>12262487 >weird kids >posts on 4chan Now hold on just one minute

Anonymous Fri Dec 21 12:06:36 2018 No.12262696
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>>12262487
>has a national reputation for having a lot of weird kids
Yikes. I would also pass on it if it meant not having upper middle class termites as my peers. We termites are a noble and mighty people

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 21 12:13:40 2018 No.12262723 >>12262519 Bioarchaeology but I’ve recently taking up a huge interest in linguistics.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 21 12:32:12 2018 No.12262806 >>12262696 I can never tell if our hatred for basics or achievers are just a result of disliking those with money or disliking those in positions of power that don't think about it

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 21 12:33:11 2018 No.12262811 >>12262723 Learn to program, computational and natural language processing techniques. It will give you options.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 21 12:34:59 2018 No.12262821 File: 153 KB, 1024x768, comfy.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12262696 I want to live in a small cottage in the countryside.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 21 12:39:10 2018 No.12262840 >>12262806 >>12262696 It's the smug self-satisfaction mostly.

Anonymous Fri Dec 21 12:45:34 2018 No.12262894
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>go to George Mason for 2 years
>not sure if I want to do a Computer Science or Fine Art degree
>get burnt out due to social isolation and mental health issues, move back to my hometown and go to community college and do some part-time jobs while I try to get my shit straight
I'm doing much better, but I still need to make some genuine friendships with the people I know.
I'm reading the Hobbit because I started feeling really stressed out by the state of things and wanted something to get comfy and chill out to.
As for my future educational prospects, I might just get some kind of liberal art degree so I can take classes in stuff that interests me and get a computer science minor to learn some practical skills on the side.

Anonymous Fri Dec 21 12:50:45 2018 No.12262921

>>12255302
>>Bangor
>>Eng lit
>>Seems ok so far. Shot myself in the foot so I couldn't go to Exeter. Honestly don't mind now - interesting to get a welsh perspective instead of the accepted cannon.
>> Elegies by Douglas Dunn and Heart of Darkness by Conrad

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 21 12:54:23 2018 No.12262941 >UW Madison >History/Russian >p comfy ngl >working through lovecraft

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 21 13:01:49 2018 No.12262977 >>12262615 fair but imagine a whole university of it >>12262696 still went to an Ivy League school, plenty of termites here still

Anonymous Fri Dec 21 13:10:23 2018 No.12263021
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UCL
Computer Science
Yeah it's good. Get to do loads of maths and also the people here are smart but unlike at imperial i get to hang out with humanities students who are more my speed than many of my fellow scientists although lots of them are insufferable
reading the satyricon, hard to be a god and tortilla flat

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 21 13:13:01 2018 No.12263038 Anyone else never spoken to anyone at their uni? I'm 3 years into my course and yet to have any meaningful human interaction.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 21 13:28:07 2018 No.12263098 File: 665 KB, 700x759, Pol_Pot disgusted.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12262696 Repeat after me: Bulldoze Evacuate and Reeducate

Anonymous Fri Dec 21 13:52:05 2018 No.12263221

I hate these people and am bitter and jealous at the ones having good college experienced. I majored in a shitty field I hate and refuse to ever get a job in. At least I can be happy that I'm not delusional and pursuing a graduate degree. People who support this industry are horrible

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 21 14:01:42 2018 No.12263269 >>12263221 Go for a graduate degree. Fuck undergrad but if you came this far, get some rep then critique it. Otherwise brainlets will say you're just jealous.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 21 16:41:11 2018 No.12263972 >>12263038 Depends on uni and definition of meaningful interaction

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 21 16:54:26 2018 No.12264030 >>12263269 What? That's a fucking stupid idea anon.

Anonymous Fri Dec 21 17:02:00 2018 No.12264069
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Western Washington University
Philosophy
Concluding Unscientific Postscript

Going pretty well, turns out academic philosophy is nothing but theory of knowledge analytic bullshit thats boring the fuck out of me. I have to take advanced logic next quarter and I dont care a single bit about it, I just want to ready Kierkegaard and be comfy.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 21 17:05:28 2018 No.12264082 >>12261355 I'm in a Master's program here with like a hundred people and everyone seems pretty happy. Groups of self-segretated Chinese undergrads in black and white designer outfits do take over good spots in our faculty building sometimes though.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 21 17:07:57 2018 No.12264088 No NYU/Columbia/CUNY etc lads?

Anonymous Fri Dec 21 17:09:19 2018 No.12264098

>>12262419
> that filter out antisocial and or provocative mindset
Yeah I'd agree. If you're into Chomsky he talks about this quite a bit in Understanding Power, where if a professor's intellectual output is too transgressive, mainly with regards to political/economic views, you get kicked out of the uni. So yes, to address your concluding point, big name schools like these don't tolerate dissent in this regard. I'm just a stupid undergrad so I'm not too directly affected by it. The only time I witnessed this effect was when Harvard's Institute of Politics retracted having Chelsea Manning as a fellow, who would have brought a true, differing opinion to the group.

I also think you have a certain image of what an "unaffected" intellectual looks like, which is that of an antisocial autistic savant. I wouldn't go down that path.

You're using too many big words in >>12262460 I honestly have no clue what you're getting at

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 21 17:33:20 2018 No.12264187 >>12261173 Exactly. Your cost of living halves every six months

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 21 17:40:09 2018 No.12264207 >>12264069 Try to see if the lit department teaches Kierkegaard

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 21 17:57:02 2018 No.12264271 >>12264207 They dont, I abuse office hours just to discuss anything that isn't epistemology lol, but theres no hope.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 21 18:29:47 2018 No.12264420 >>12259148 It is precisely because the system is bent to favor those with political power (elites) and legal power specific to these institutions (admissions boards) that the system is made the way it is and won't change.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 21 19:00:40 2018 No.12264618 File: 180 KB, 1788x412, 4ChanRaid.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12264088 Columbia lad here - where you go NYC bro?

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 21 19:01:43 2018 No.12264627 File: 538 KB, 2054x1086, OpenLetter4.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12264618

>>	I Go !2HARVARdHk Fri Dec 21 19:02:24 2018 No.12264631 File: 351 KB, 1200x1166, harvard.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >not going to the top one (1) school

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 21 19:17:20 2018 No.12264699 >>12263038 same

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 21 19:33:59 2018 No.12264756 >>12255302 >>UW Madison >>Russian/English >>12262941 (hmmm...) >>Was pretty good, graduated this past summer >>My Education (William Burroughs Dream Book) and The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis (just some pop psych stuff)

Anonymous Fri Dec 21 19:52:35 2018 No.12264825
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>>12255302
>tfw there's nobody on /lit/ at my uni
University of Leeds, "proudly" representing
>degree
Chinese and History
I love it. I'd much prefer to study literature or theology or something than history, but history is still very interesting. The plan is to move into classical Chinese literature down the line.
Chinese itself is a very interesting language to study. All the characters feel like miniature puzzles, and the grammar's straightforward as hell.

Currently reading Water Margin, because I had to return my favourite book to the library.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 21 19:59:17 2018 No.12264861 >>12257908 ey warwickanon where you at? I started there this year

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 21 20:01:30 2018 No.12264870 >>12256859 I just moved to Oxford does that count Why did I have to get my ADHD diagnosed so late. All the looming uni buildings feel like they're judging me. I coulda been a contender

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 21 20:20:56 2018 No.12264955 >>12264870 all gifted kids have adhd, dumbass

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 21 21:21:25 2018 No.12265208 >>12264955 Seems fake and gay

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 21 21:26:56 2018 No.12265237 >>12255302 >>School University of Pittsburgh >>Major Computer Science >>How you like it It's ok. Not my first choice. Wish I studied harder in high school to get into UChicago or Princeton >>Books currently reading The Plague

Anonymous Fri Dec 21 21:27:55 2018 No.12265242
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>>12255302
>Edinburgh
>History
>I love it, it's my genuine intellectual passion.
>Some books about the East India Company, 'A Place of Greater Safety'

To all you Chicago students, I was thinking about applying there for postgrad - but my mom is worried that it's too dangerous. Can any of you Big Guys give any insight on this?

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 21 21:29:58 2018 No.12265249 >>12264870 I also got diagnosed with ADHD in my second year of uni

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 21 21:41:27 2018 No.12265283 >>12256007 >>12259503 How's UChicago math and philosophy departments? Uchicago or Princeton for math?

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 21 21:48:45 2018 No.12265300 >>12264955 no lmao. the dumb kid called Ryan (in uk, Kyle in america) and a chavvy mum has adhd true master-race is neurotypical-passing autism

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 21 21:49:46 2018 No.12265303 >>12264870 beautiful city -- do you study at the university?

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 21 21:51:04 2018 No.12265312 >>12265303 If you read the spoiler carefully, you will see that I do not. REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE It is beautiful though. I'm mostly hyped because I'm closer to the Pitt-Rivers Museum.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 21 23:48:49 2018 No.12265888 File: 28 KB, 800x310, 1545105024364.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12265300 Seems legit.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 21 23:56:03 2018 No.12265924 File: 349 KB, 1200x1190, St._John's_College.svg.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Go to St. John's.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 00:02:49 2018 No.12265957 >>12265924 they rejected my application :/

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 00:18:29 2018 No.12266021 >>12265957 where are you going instead?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 00:20:03 2018 No.12266028 >>12265924 I'm from long island based

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 00:21:22 2018 No.12266030 >>12265924 isn't that the school where young men mysteriously go missing?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 00:21:34 2018 No.12266032 >>12266028 are you a Johnnie, though?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 00:22:38 2018 No.12266035 >>12266032 nay, I attend school in Georgia and am approaching graduation

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 00:22:45 2018 No.12266036 >>12266021 university of maryland college park

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 00:23:34 2018 No.12266040 >>12266030 You may be thinking of St. John's University. https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2017/11/07/josh-guimond-missing-person-cold-case/

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 00:24:49 2018 No.12266042 >>12266036 Damn. I'm sorry things didn't work out for you, anon. What are you majoring in? I have a friend there (some Indian chick) What would you have done if you were to be accepted in St. John's?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 00:29:57 2018 No.12266069 >>12266042 majoring in elementary education, probably would have studied lit/english at st john's i could've gotten into john hopkins, but the price was just too steep, plus college park is very close to my grandma, so it's easier to take care of her.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 00:32:04 2018 No.12266083 >>12266069 >thinking there are majors at St. John's Christ, didn't you know anything about the college when you applied?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 00:34:35 2018 No.12266091 >>12266083 i didn't say there are majors, i said i would have studied lit. i am currently majoring in elementary education at umcp, which does have majors.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 00:37:26 2018 No.12266103 >all of these Johnnies Is it really that good of a school?

Anonymous Sat Dec 22 00:50:31 2018 No.12266160

>>12266083
>>12266091
alright, now i'm getting a bit paranoid that i'm actually retarded. i know you don't get an english degree, you just get a general liberal arts degree, but don't you get to choose what seminars/classes you attend within limits, and thus can focus on certain aspects? or am i way off base?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 01:01:06 2018 No.12266201 >>12266160 No. Every student takes the same courses as their peers; it’s a vey pure liberal arts program and does not have leeway

Anonymous Sat Dec 22 01:11:43 2018 No.12266240

>>12266201
woof, guess i was way off the mark. wouldn't have minded that though, i love philosophy, lit, math, history, etc. that's why i'm going into elementary education, less pigeon-holing.
do you ever feel like you're studying things you aren't passionate about, or do you also enjoy all subjects?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 01:13:13 2018 No.12266244 >>12262450 No. If you want a life along with academics, NU is just a better choice. Source: am a NU english lit major

Anonymous Sat Dec 22 01:23:14 2018 No.12266265

>>12265242
If you use common sense, you'll be fine. Also, the further south or west you get from campus, the seedier it gets. 63rd is where I've found it gets notably worse, and I am still sometimes uncomfortable at the 55th street CTA stops, especially at night. But for the most part, people in the neighborhood immediately around the school are really good about not messing with students, because to do otherwise would really bring them under intense police scrutiny.
>>12265283
The math department is hit-or-miss. You have access to some of the best minds in their field (Fefferman, Boller, Stehnova, May, and Farb all teach undergrads as well as grad students) and are god-tier lecturers, but you also have post docs who, while definitely in love with their fields and very knowledgeable, can't teach for shit. Your classmates will be a mix of folks who like the subject but struggle with it since it's hard, and people who are incredibly adept mathematicians and trivialize everything you do. Being the former is definitely frustrating, but also I think pretty rewarding when you finally get it.
For philosophy, I'm going off secondhand info. There's definitely a lot of cool research and discussion at some levels and in some subjects, but 95% of philosophy majors are stuck with their heads firmly up their own asses because they think their shit smells sweet. Some are really cool people who are down to earth and have good ideas, though.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 01:26:37 2018 No.12266274 what is Chicago Law like?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 01:33:40 2018 No.12266298 I went to ITT Tech because I wanted a degree that was useful. I just read as a hobby on the side.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 01:34:28 2018 No.12266301 >>12266274 complete autism, and i mean that unironically

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 01:34:33 2018 No.12266302 >>12266298 Stemfag

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 02:06:30 2018 No.12266394 >>12266301 What do you mean? Is everyone there a careerist dickhead?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 02:08:06 2018 No.12266399 >>12260270 Hey I'm at Éts do you know if it's worthy to go to mcgill for a double major Comp Sci and history or pol sci rather than Software engineering.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 02:10:19 2018 No.12266406 >>12266394 almost everyone who hoes to law school is a careerist dickhead, but chicago law students are full on autism. i bet 98% of law students there are on te spectrum

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 02:11:21 2018 No.12266409 >>12266406 *goes

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 02:30:00 2018 No.12266455 >uni RPI >major Comp sci >thoughts It could be worse I guess, though most other students i know semi ironically hate this place haha >reading cyclonopedia, barefoot in the head, might fall for the meme and start reading taipei

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 02:32:41 2018 No.12266462 San Diego State University MFA in Fiction Surrounded by a wealth of untapped talent. Jerusalem by Alan Moore

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 03:34:23 2018 No.12266597 >>12266244 What year? Never see anyone from NU in these threads

Anonymous Sat Dec 22 05:12:07 2018 No.12266803

Wanted to study Jurisprudence at Edinburgh (Is it even good there? Fuck if I know). My reasoning was Oxbridge is too difficult to get in to and Jurisprudence is kind of cool and employable, but when I told my father, he laughed at me, so I didn't even try.

I am now going in to my second semester of "Literature" (if you can even call it that) at a third-rate uni, which I am not even bothered to mention. I would like to become a librarian, or rather, what else am I supposed to become?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 07:34:34 2018 No.12267159 >>12266455 >RPI What the fuck is this even supposed to mean

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 07:35:37 2018 No.12267161 >>12266803 We're reaching levels of cuck hitherto thought impossible

Anonymous Sat Dec 22 07:51:29 2018 No.12267204

>>12255302
University of Texas at Austin
Mathematics (BS) + Economics (BA)
It's okay. Classes are an interesting mixture of super-geniuses way ahead of me and actual brainlets
Currently reading Principles in Mathematical Analysis and Counterexamples in Analysis for non-fiction, Dune for fiction.

Anonymous Sat Dec 22 07:51:57 2018 No.12267206

>>12257017
You’re not even too far off. I go to a highly selective school, as it seems you may have also given this post, but I came from a fairly isolated area and went into the experience with no knowledge of these new phenomena, expecting more of Wordsworth’s Cambridge than what you’ve described, which, in my experience, is fairly accurate. I would just add, however, that there are still a fair amount of students who attend these schools while keeping their old purposes and legacies in mind and these groups are still smarter, more talented, and more promising to the future of artistic and intellectual endeavors than anyone I’ve encountered or heard of elsewhere. There are also still professors at these schools who are engrossed in their fields and teaching and thinking well about literature in spite of the hellscape their domain has become.

Still, I can only hope you are correct and that we one day will look back on it all as a farce and a disgusting exploitation of the acheivements and potential of humanity.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 08:23:37 2018 No.12267280 >>12258808 thanks sam

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 09:00:16 2018 No.12267396 >>12264870 Got diagnosed 4th year of college. Lol I could have been someone

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 09:14:56 2018 No.12267422 >>12265888 >tfw inf* not going to make it, bros

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 10:19:22 2018 No.12267622 >>12264825 graduated a few years ago. studied japanese. currently living in southeast asia. I miss the cosy east asian studies department.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 10:24:31 2018 No.12267642 >>12255302 Biosciences PhD student at Harvard Liking grad school more than undergrad so far, but extracurricular definitely less fun Just finished Pale Fire on the plane today. Not sure what’s gonna be next.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 10:32:00 2018 No.12267660 >>12267642 Where’d you go for undergrad?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 11:04:25 2018 No.12267771 File: 27 KB, 240x382, UF Century Tower.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12255302 University of Florida Math It's pretty good, but it is hard to find interesting people Penguin's History of the Church, Volume 4, The Age of Reason.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 11:04:33 2018 No.12267774 >>12267159 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute mfw literally no one has heard of this school

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 11:09:38 2018 No.12267790 >>12267774 I get emails from them Looks interesting enough. How do you feel about it? Should I apply at least?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 11:37:36 2018 No.12267893 >>12262453 Man how do u acquire a gf in this place? Fuck engineering

Anonymous Sat Dec 22 11:54:00 2018 No.12267939

>>12267790
Apply, you’ll probably get in and it’s one of the better engayneering schools on the east coast. However, pretty much everything except for academics and industry rep (which are both great) is kind of shit. The majority of students hate the administration (for a variety of reasons p much all of them valid) and despite being a relatively non selective school noone’s heard of its one the hardest grading schools in the country. The avg in my introductory physics class was a C+ lol. The student body is cool though, everyone’s a nerd to some extent for better and for worse.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 11:56:42 2018 No.12267950 Fuck me I'm always late to these threads but whatever >University of Miami >Finance >I haven't started my courses for Finance in particular. I expect it won't be too exciting >Lectures on Ancient Philosophy by Manly P Hall and V. by Pinecone

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 11:57:43 2018 No.12267956 >>12267771 I have a bunch of friends at UF, what year are you?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 11:57:47 2018 No.12267957 >>12267950 >Finance What do you plan to do after graduation?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 12:07:11 2018 No.12268000 >>12267956 Sophomore

Anonymous Sat Dec 22 12:09:05 2018 No.12268011

>>12267957
Honestly, I'm not sure yet. I'm freshman with junior credits so my time to decide on a career path is severely shortened. I have aspirations of becoming a lawyer, but I wouldn't mind working in business either. My options look like this so far
>graduate with Bachelors, hopefully with a good job, work for two years, start my JD at 22.
>graduate, go do an MBA for the two years that I saved, and start the JD at 22
Or
>graduate, but go straight to law school if accepted.
>just get an MBA
I'm still very unsure of what plan is the best.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 12:10:21 2018 No.12268019 >>12268000 Are you a Florida native, or are you an out of state student? Also, I know that it's a huge school, but would you happen to know any students who went to SAS?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 12:11:38 2018 No.12268024 >>12268019 I don't think I'd know anyone from SAS, I don't have a lot friends from the South Florida area.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 12:38:48 2018 No.12268128 >>12260583 im ee too take dr bliss and dr richmond dont tell them where you found this advice.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 12:59:17 2018 No.12268206 >Cambridge >Archaeology >Course is fun, interesting etc. Prefer Hieroglyphs >Middle Egyptian Grammar by Hoch

Anonymous Sat Dec 22 15:02:04 2018 No.12268819
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>>12255852
>>12258694
What's up, I'm starting a classics degree in a week
>>12262487
How are you liking G&MaY?
>>12255302
>uni
College of Charleston
>major
Classics/Philosophy
>how you like it
About to find out, I start at the beginning of January
>books currently reading
Nicotine by Gregor Hens and the Great Good Thing by Andrew Klavan

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 15:17:18 2018 No.12268916 >>12266265 Can you be a brainlet and still study mathematics at UChicago? What are your intentions after graduation? What type of philosophy research happens at uchicago?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 15:20:16 2018 No.12268929 >>12264618 grad school at NYU all the memes seem to happen uptown

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 15:36:18 2018 No.12268990 >>12268929 What are you studying at NYU?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 15:46:21 2018 No.12269035 >>12267774 >>12267790 Might be more well known on the east coast. I work with a few people from there. It's a good school. It's no MIT or anything, but who gives a shit?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 15:53:41 2018 No.12269073 >>12265957 I didn't think they actually rejected applicants

Anonymous Sat Dec 22 16:41:01 2018 No.12269368

>>12268916
>Can you be a brainlet and still study mathematics at UChicago?
Objectively, probably not, but you can definitely still do it while being a comparative brainlet. I'm by no means a good mathematician by U of C standards, but I'm doing okay - it's just hard work. Maybe grad school, or business.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 17:19:35 2018 No.12269602 >>12269368 Yeah, figures. How do you like U of C?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 17:22:55 2018 No.12269621 File: 2.61 MB, 4125x2400, 1506383011511.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12269368 Also, do you agree with this guide when it comes to getting good at math?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 17:24:43 2018 No.12269629 >>12265237 >Pitt ayyyyy where are my fellow "intellectuals" at

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 17:26:07 2018 No.12269635 >>12269621 not that guy but >spivak >stewart >lang for basic maths >book of proof yes thats a patrician-tier list, go for it. if u start making progress on that list add euclid's elements on there just for fun

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 17:26:58 2018 No.12269640 >>12269621 why not just get the lecture notes from a uni curriculum

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 17:37:10 2018 No.12269695 >>12269629 Didn't expect to see a Pitt student here. Our school has too many brainlets man. It's insufferable

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 17:38:19 2018 No.12269704 >>12269640 My uni has a crappy math department. Which uni has good, available math notes?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 17:58:59 2018 No.12269789 >>12269704 oxford has quite an extensive course. the first year notes are available online

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 18:02:03 2018 No.12269807 >>12269704 >>12269789 actually all of undergraduate notes are online https://courses.maths.ox.ac.uk/overview/undergraduate with problem sheets. bit annoying that im paying them £9250/year when it's literally all freely available

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 18:24:32 2018 No.12269903 >>12262048 I graduated in '16, so possibly

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 18:34:43 2018 No.12269951 >>12269807 thanks anon. any chance you have a philosophy link from oxford?

Anonymous Sat Dec 22 18:47:55 2018 No.12270023

>>12269951
our curriculum:

1st year:
elements of deductive logic
general philosophy (mainly hume)
frege's foundation of arithmetic

2-4:
Knowledge and Reality
Logic and Language
Philosophy of Mathematics
Philosophical Logic

i'm gonna post the first year curriculum, and the rest if you want

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 19:04:22 2018 No.12270116 >>12269951 >>12270023 EDL: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~logicman/ has notes, exercises the reading lists for gen.phil, k+r, L+L can be found through http://www.millican.org/teaching.htm

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 19:07:19 2018 No.12270131 >>12270023 >>12270116 Thanks anon. I won't be a brainlet anymore

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 19:20:46 2018 No.12270223 >>12264861 I tend to be Arthur Vick and the library generally outside of lectures. What are you doing?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 20:22:27 2018 No.12270601 >>12269903 Hall?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 20:57:11 2018 No.12270838 >>12269073 They do. As of recent, and partly due to the decrease in tuition, the acceptance rate has dropped to ~22%

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 21:17:05 2018 No.12270949 >>12264082 Which master's program?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 21:34:47 2018 No.12271039 >>12264088 NYU here. Undergrad Applied Psych

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 21:47:08 2018 No.12271091 >>12270601 steds, you?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 23:01:06 2018 No.12271456 >>12255302 Concordia University, English and Creative Writing. Where my Montreal bros at?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 23:12:34 2018 No.12271527 >Melbourne >Classics >end me >Typee

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 23 00:07:45 2018 No.12271819 >>12271527 What's up, how are you liking classics?

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