Are you in top 100 university? How good is your university's library?

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Anonymous Mon Jul 13 03:58:00 2020 No.15846843 [Reply] [Original]

Are you in top 100 university?
How good is your university's library?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 03:59:54 2020 No.15846850 >>15846843 Yes and pretty fuckinh good

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 04:01:26 2020 No.15846857 >>15846843 No, I'm a neet. AMA

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 04:08:22 2020 No.15846884 >>15846843 Yes (ranked in the early 90s). I've stolen ~$700 worth of books so far.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 04:09:06 2020 No.15846888 >>15846884 :(

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 04:09:23 2020 No.15846889 >>15846884 Which books you stole, anon?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 04:09:37 2020 No.15846891 >>15846857 How does it feel?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 04:11:02 2020 No.15846898 >>15846857 What kind of interests do you puruse instead of attending a university; any languages you've been learning?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 04:11:15 2020 No.15846899 >>15846891 I used to feel bad about it, nowadays, I don't feel anything. I almost killed myself like 5 years ago.

Anonymous Mon Jul 13 04:13:24 2020 No.15846913

>>15846898
I started a Physics couse, but ended up dropping out due to me not being a decent communicator. I'm learning French, Japanese and German at the moment. Going to learn those mainly for reading. Maybe write some stuff in German, but I'm not really that worried about it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 04:14:35 2020 No.15846921 >>15846889 Mainly obscure linguistics and anthropology books. Some on local poetry and history as well.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 04:16:43 2020 No.15846935 >>15846921 Recommend me some titles on Anthropology. I'm not really smart, but I'm not a total retard either. I can read reasonably hard texts on humanities. But it has to be entry level, since I have no familiarity with jargon.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 04:17:49 2020 No.15846941 Goddam, lit really is just a bunch of faggy undergrads. With time your smug arrogance will all be softened.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 04:22:16 2020 No.15846960 >>15846941 lolk

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 04:25:31 2020 No.15846979 File: 88 KB, 612x612, 19c988a9f03122384ef5690f090ead21.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I went to a pretty good university, library isn't very photogenic though. Remember getting drunk and reading racist poetry with friends at 2am though.

Anonymous Mon Jul 13 04:25:41 2020 No.15846981

>>15846941

Aren't people in quarternary education (the implication of your post) supposed to know not to use words like "faggy" these days, out of simple Stalinist self-preservation? Read one way, your post implies that a horde of undergrads will eventually be intellectually floored at their own stupidity, something that often doesn't happen since they either drop out or graduate and never have to deal with the academy again, as you know. Oh, I don't take you seriously at all.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 04:29:59 2020 No.15846998 >>15846843 I got waitlisted for not selling my soul to Wake Forest (#27) so I’m going to NC State (#84)

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 04:32:22 2020 No.15847006 >>15846998 Also I start in the fall, and I haven’t seen our library yet

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 04:32:23 2020 No.15847007 >>15846981 Go read some more gay Marxist theory, nerd.

Anonymous Mon Jul 13 04:36:16 2020 No.15847026

>>15846913
>French, Japanese and German at the moment. Going to learn those mainly for reading.
I've wanted to learn those exact langauges for the purpose of reading as well(I'm german though, so I've got that covered already). Do you have any tips on learning kanji and is rtk a good resource?

Anonymous Mon Jul 13 04:41:40 2020 No.15847053

>>15847026
Yes, it is great, but if you fail once, don't bother continuing. Just use its principles on real words. And be careful to not burn yourself out. I usually start too hard on something and end up not keeping up. Being steady is better. Get that 2k core anki deck on /jp/ and a grammar. Tae Kim and that Sakubi aren't bad starters. Keeping track of progress also helps a lot. If you do 20 new words a day, you can probably get to a decent level after 3 months or something. And you will spend something like half an hour a day.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 04:45:34 2020 No.15847071 >>15846884 but how ? can you please elaborate

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 04:46:57 2020 No.15847078 >>15846884 Man you are a total piece of shit.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 04:47:06 2020 No.15847081 >>15846913 good for you t. has a master degree in Physics

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 04:56:42 2020 No.15847120 >>15846884 My nigga, getting full value out of his tuition.

Anonymous Mon Jul 13 04:59:39 2020 No.15847134

>>15847053
Thanks for the tips; I was planning on simply going through genki first before doing anything else, but I will give those two a look.
> I usually start too hard on something and end up not keeping up
Yeah, that's been a major problem for me with akkadian especially

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 04:59:53 2020 No.15847135 I was at Cambridge. The college library was good, the faculty library was great, and the university library (a copyright library that by law receives a copy of every book published in the UK) was excellent.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 05:16:30 2020 No.15847214 >>15847026 Rtk does not work. I have yet to meet a single person who finished it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 05:19:46 2020 No.15847229 >>15846843 No, top 200 though. Libraries are okay. I mostly read digital texts. There are great collections including historic books in the oriental field but that isn't my aea.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 05:25:46 2020 No.15847259 >>15846843 Yes I am? Top 100 is an achievement for you?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 05:26:22 2020 No.15847264 I graduated from a top 50 uni. Library was rubbish.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 05:31:43 2020 No.15847290 >>15846843 Top 200, library is shit

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 05:44:40 2020 No.15847362 I'm at a Russell Group Uni. The library itself is a shithole but it's open 24/7 which is good for deadlines and studying for exams and the resources are pretty great.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 05:46:48 2020 No.15847369 >>15846884 based

Anonymous Mon Jul 13 05:46:57 2020 No.15847371

300-400 (I'm aiming for a STEM job, not an arts degree) Library sucks for physical books but is god tier for study spaces. Only problem is, all the other unis in the city use our library since it's worlds better than theirs and lots more central.

>>15847026
>kanji
use wanikani. It's worth what you pay for it, everyone I know who used it was better than the average japanese student. I tried using anki and the wanikani deck (glorified flashcards), but even though it's alright it's not as good as the real thing.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 05:52:37 2020 No.15847381 Shit tier 400 when I coulda got into top 120. I hate myself

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 06:00:01 2020 No.15847400 >>15847071 RFID jammer kit >>15847078 Yes. >>15846935 New Way of Thinking: Generative Anthropology in Religion, Philosophy, Art

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 06:42:44 2020 No.15847534 >>15846843 no, shit library but better than the city one

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 08:13:24 2020 No.15847914 >>15846843 I go to a small college for a technical profession and they threw away a lot of their classics. It's where I've gotten a lot of my books. Most people just use the library for its computers.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 08:21:16 2020 No.15847953 File: 761 KB, 1920x1080, Green Lovers UK.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15846843 This isn't even that hard if you live in the UK. Must suck to live in some who country

Anonymous Mon Jul 13 10:45:36 2020 No.15848796
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>>15846843
Cambridge.
The University Library is pretty shit if you want a comfy experience, but I make my own comfy out of it by drinking the cheap coffee and listening to the lunch hall's white noise as I study.
The Haddon Archaeology Library is also comfy too, but its too small to do anything other than hunker down and revise.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 11:31:05 2020 No.15849047 >>15848796 nice larp

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 11:42:43 2020 No.15849104 >tfw top 350

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 11:42:50 2020 No.15849105 >>15849047 because clearly no one has ever studied at cambridge

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 11:48:32 2020 No.15849123 >>15847953 Yeah but if you're in the UK, going to anything less than the top 50 is a literal scam, and only the top 20-30 are worth going to for an education.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 11:51:58 2020 No.15849148 Studied two degrees in the best university in my country. Spent exchange semesters in a top 10 university in Europe and a top 20 university in the U.S. t. yurofag

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 11:57:41 2020 No.15849176 >>15846843 >Are you in top 100 university? Yes.

Anonymous Mon Jul 13 11:58:44 2020 No.15849182

top 30 US. the main library is good, but at a certain point Uni libraries get so big that they no longer accommodate idle browsing, and are more geared towards distant catalogue searching+fetching. Kinda sad, but youll more often than not get what you need.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 12:02:39 2020 No.15849206 File: 297 KB, 1356x1198, taleb1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >academic rankings Can't think of anything more pointless and pathetic.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 12:08:21 2020 No.15849236 I attended two universities in the top 20. They had nice libraries. I miss being a student.

>>	Sage Mon Jul 13 13:26:53 2020 No.15849771 >>15846998 Oh no no no Top 100 unis in the world, not in the US

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 13:29:12 2020 No.15849788 I miss the library. I hate studying at home. >>15849206 This, it means nothing anymore.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 13:32:27 2020 No.15849816 >>15849788 >This, it means nothing anymore. KEK, this reminds me of Bloom saying that some chick, who did her undergrad at Columbia, confessed to him that she had no idea you could read literature outside of the lens of colonial/feminist theory.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 15:12:36 2020 No.15850648 >>15846998 Couldn't get into UNC? Better than Wake and cheap as hell too

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 15:13:39 2020 No.15850657 >>15847006 That being said, the new library at State is really cool

willowo !!WLiEhST7Trn Mon Jul 13 15:15:23 2020 No.15850674

>>15846843
top 100 nationally but not world wide
it's a really nice library i like spending time there
>>15846884
i stole some books in high school because i'd give them a better home than the school library but university is a different deal

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 15:16:03 2020 No.15850681 >>15849771 Are we measuring overall, or by subject? Overall, no. By subject? Yes.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 15:25:05 2020 No.15850767 >>15846843 First or second nationally, top 20 in world. There’s like 15 libraries all by discipline. The ones I go to have pretty good selection. The study spaces are pretty shit besides one floor in one library.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 15:32:19 2020 No.15850838 >>15846843 If there are any UT Austin fags you should all be permabanned for not scanning and uploading from Harry Ransom on a daily basis.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 16:30:52 2020 No.15851264 File: 236 KB, 1280x955, heidelberg.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] hope you guys arent frequenting any plebian institutions

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 16:32:46 2020 No.15851279 >>15846884 Base- no, actually, fuck you, piece of shit. You should kill yourself.

Anonymous Mon Jul 13 16:35:19 2020 No.15851299

>>15851264
That doesn't make much difference for undergrads, anon. I watched calculus classes in a rural area of Brazil and those David Jerison's lecture of MIT, and there wasn't much difference. I think it is more relevant when you are doing research or something related.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 16:35:23 2020 No.15851300 >>15846884 This is why affirmative action was a mistake.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 16:41:15 2020 No.15851340 I was. I went to one of the “public ivies”. The library was nice and I miss it. Not close enough (about an hour away) to visit it regularly.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 17:48:10 2020 No.15851927 >>15846843 I dropped out after a year. I buy all the books I read because I'm not poor.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 20:43:16 2020 No.15853230 File: 255 KB, 1024x768, Powell_Library-1024x768.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15846843 I'm an alum, but it's been a while. Library system was terrific.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 20:49:33 2020 No.15853276 >>15848796 Im making it my personal mission to never set foot in the UL for the whole of my undergraduate degree. I've survived first year with just faculty college and idiscover so far.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 20:52:45 2020 No.15853307 >>15851264 >heidelberg Ohnononono t. Tübingen

Anonymous Mon Jul 13 20:53:15 2020 No.15853309

>>15846843
Yeah I am, and it also has one of the highest PhD production rates in America. Sadly, I'm deferring because of corona and won't get to see the library until next year but they probably have a good one because they're private and extremely well-funded.

Anonymous Mon Jul 13 23:37:28 2020 No.15854517
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how do i get over the sense of embitterment and loss of having wasted my high school years and being pigeonholed into a shit school? all my cousins go to top 100 schools and i was one of those "gifted kids" and despite getting baller scores on the act i go to UTD which is tied for 147... i dont get ticked off easily but i have been silently brooding over this and working up a seethe for years. i feel as if something was taken from me and now my cousins are one more notch better than me

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 23:38:39 2020 No.15854524 >>15854517 Do well your first two years and transfer to a better school.

Anonymous Mon Jul 13 23:42:31 2020 No.15854549

>>15854524
oh yeah, i didnt get any scholarships either. my parents are paying out of pocket for this shit. utd is pretty cheap but id need to get mad dough to go someplace better. in texas the two universities worth anything are a&m and UT so if i dont wanna pay out of state i need to go there and they are super competitive because you got 30 million texas hicks and 2 schools

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 23:44:19 2020 No.15854558 >>15853309 which, faggot?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 23:44:35 2020 No.15854560 >>15854549 Maybe if you did better in your first two years of uni than you did in high school, the better school that you transfer to will offer you some financial aid and/or work-study.

Anonymous Mon Jul 13 23:45:35 2020 No.15854566

>>15854517
Work your ass off and go to grad school at a better place. After five years no one cares that much where you went to college for undergrad anyway. If you work hard and have good rec's from a previous boss you can come from a fucking community college and people will still want to hire you.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 23:46:09 2020 No.15854569 >>15846843 College is for losers who don't have a hookup into an amazing trajectory career where people recognize your merit, so you have to get a paper to convince retards you can do what you can do. Also I'm in college.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 23:48:32 2020 No.15854582 >>15846843 >Are you in top 100 university? Yes, it's in the top 30. >How good is your university's library? There are like 5 libraries, and yeah they're good, and have basically got every book under the sun.

Anonymous Mon Jul 13 23:50:10 2020 No.15854595

>>15854560
>>15854566
its really not about the school itself that i care about. personally i think college is a scam, indoctrination center, and a waste of time. its that they didnt value me enough to accept me to a good school or give me scholarships. that there are people that are "worth" more than i am. do you have any idea how cucked it is to attend a school that doesnt even want you there, when there are kids they literally PAY to attend? mogs me out of the fucking galaxy. i have no doubt i will be able to succeed regardless of school. my dad is mega rich and i have internships lined up with his company. i am embittered and humiliated at how college blew me off like i was some dumb orbiter

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 23:52:20 2020 No.15854604 >>15854595 Based on your posts, you're an idiot and the even halfway selective universities that you applied to were right to reject you.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 23:53:43 2020 No.15854610 >>15854595 Stop being an insecure faggot. Not everyone is going to suck your dick 24/7

Anonymous Tue Jul 14 00:00:06 2020 No.15854654

>>15854610
>>15854604
yeah alright beat it you blazing faggots, idgaf about your rat race. you fucking bugmen are so eager to get your ass raped by big institutions and bureaucracy. when they say eat shit you open your mouths wide. at least im only a cuck for the 4 years of uni.

Anonymous Tue Jul 14 00:04:56 2020 No.15854685

>>15854654
It's hilarious to me that you are (1) convinced that everyone who is going to/has gone to university is a cuck, and (2) are nevertheless so resentful at the fact that you couldn't even get into a halfway selective school.

I'm laughing at you, but I'd also urge you to to consider working on yourself so that you can stop being so hyperbolically oxymoronic.

Anonymous Tue Jul 14 00:08:10 2020 No.15854706

>>15854685
>consider working on yourself
>be a cuck and eat shit when asked
no. like i said, idgaf about uni. i am pissed they spited me and now the ball is in my court and its up to me to pay them back. my anger over not going to a good school and getting scholarships is purely wounded pride

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 00:10:05 2020 No.15854723 >>15854595 You seem like a very odious person and I hope the state legally executes you for being a useless eater and rent-seeker in 10-20 years.

Anonymous Tue Jul 14 00:12:39 2020 No.15854737
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>>15854517
i was going to write a nice comment detailing how i went from being a poorfag and going to a shit school in texas to a comfy PhD program but i read the rest of your posts and it turns out that you are a status obsessed insect and the best thing that could happen to you is the humiliation you’re feeling now (barring the expropriation of your father’s company and assets...one day)

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 00:19:20 2020 No.15854769 >>15846884 That's based but also fuck you.

Anonymous Tue Jul 14 00:19:59 2020 No.15854775

>>15854723
>>15854737
i am glad my natural reaction to a personal insult dealt to me by universities has elicited such a strong response from you. i know the idea is difficult for bugmen, but big institutions dont give a fuck about you. you may find my sentiments all to congenial the next time you get laid off, or the next time you get into a fight with the clerk at the dmv renuing your drivers license, or when you lose big in frivolous litigation... but keep licking boots im sure it makes you feel a whole lot better about yourself!

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 00:22:13 2020 No.15854789 Went to University of Florida. The library was alright.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 00:22:28 2020 No.15854791 >>15854775 It's not a personal insult, you just weren't good enough. Cope harder.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 00:22:58 2020 No.15854792 >>15854791 >It's not a personal insult, you just weren't good enough. contradictory statement

Anonymous Tue Jul 14 00:27:43 2020 No.15854813

>>15854775
you are the boot, no, wait, your DAD is the boot, you big fucking retard and you are sucking on his toes as we speak. idc about academia because I HATE RICH PEOPLE and it is FULL OF RICH ENTITLED FAGGOTS and YOU ARE A RICH ENTITLED FAGGOT. “wee hoo i work for my daddy and i passed the gifted kid exam” imagine bragging about that. you’ve plainly bought into the academia shit too with your jealousy...”how dare they deny ME, the BABY of my DADDY?!” anti-academia sentiment from you is quite plainly cope but i’ll go ahead and confirm it’s all fake anyways. the grapes are not worth it. i can’t wait for a big, strong government to put your mother’s wedding ring into a pair of brown hands.

Anonymous Tue Jul 14 00:47:37 2020 No.15854920

>>15854792
You weren't good enough. Meaning you lacked academic merit and didn't reach the standards that other applicants met or even surpassed. It's not a personal insult because to the colleges you're just facts and numbers along with an essay. Have fun at your shit college with the 76% acceptance rate.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 01:22:48 2020 No.15855105 >>15846843 Top 100 worldwide, and the library is very nice. Infrequently, I will need extremely obscure works that aren't in the collection though.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 02:35:55 2020 No.15855527 >>15846857 How much do you manage to read a month? Doesn't it get stale? Do you ever desire to leave that lifestyle and throw the dice elsewhere? Do you plan to stay like that indefinitely ?

Anonymous Tue Jul 14 02:41:10 2020 No.15855551

>>15855527
No idea, I don't finish books, but I start reading a lot of them.

Yes, it is boring af. Specially considering that I don't get any money to buy things.

Yes, I started learning programming (not that excited about it, because it always were my "if everything go wrong" plan), but I'm not that bad at it. I failed on my previous plans which included just finding a regular work and living from agriculture, trying to get into med school, get into gaming, studying to be a teacher.

No, I honestly hate this (not having any income at your 30s is terrible). I'm thinking about trying to get into med school again or psychology. I gave up on being a teacher. I'll probably get into something related to TI though.

Anonymous Tue Jul 14 02:43:06 2020 No.15855562
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>>15846843
>get accepted into Top 10 university this year
>University announces only the seniors will be present on campus during Fall

I have no idea and I am pissed, anon.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 02:45:27 2020 No.15855577 >>15846979 God damn if this isn't what every college library in the US looks like

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 02:47:33 2020 No.15855588 >>15846843 anyone @ washu in st louis, wustl.

Anonymous Tue Jul 14 07:44:53 2020 No.15857066

>>15855551
>I start reading a lot of them
At least you do this. Better read what you like as long as you like if you don't have obligations towards that knowledge. It'll be a pity that you stop but really wanted to finish them. But I think those chips of info can be quiet delightful to throw around one's mind.

>I honestly hate this (not having any income at your 30s is terrible)
Yeah, that's what I was thinking as a main issue.
>Yes, it is boring af. Specially considering that I don't get any money to buy things.
Is it because it reduces the options with your projects/hobbies and such?
>I failed on my previous plans which included just finding a regular work and living from agriculture, trying to get into med school, get into gaming, studying to be a teacher.
Why do you think you failed?
>I gave up on being a teacher
Was it you or something else?
Also, I wish you do well in the near future.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 07:49:21 2020 No.15857091 >>15855577 That may be, but my university was in England, not the US. Sussex (currently 246 world; 51-100 for English).

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 08:02:24 2020 No.15857164 >>15846843 It's ranked in the top 5 and it's fine but a pain to navigate.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 09:23:19 2020 No.15857656 Yes ~30th us. The main library is cool and huge, the rest are specialized and don’t have good places to actually read

Anonymous Tue Jul 14 09:28:30 2020 No.15857686

>first day english lit class
>im the only male there
>teacher is a soibeans hip lefty who references Harry Potter
>surrounded by pussy; some fat, some look like lesbians, most of them beautiful
>look around with desperate yearning for one of them to let me fondle them (im still a virgin and always will be because of my penile disfiguration)
>"alright class I want you to get to know each other so why don't we all spend a few minutes talking about hate speech in literature. Do you think it's good or bad? Why?"
>crack an unwitting smile but force it down lest I violate some tacit social code
>this asian girl with a waxlike face starts bloviating about hate speech is only good if the character is portrayed negatively to showcase the negative aspects of that ideology
>im like a horny but timid dog at this point, i want her so bad, i probably would have mounted her if I wasn't so shy
>conversation turns to feminism and how male poets portray love in a phallocentric and objectifying way, writing about the daintiness and beauty of the woman instead of their bond
>i feel a heat swell up in my left cheek and hope I'm not blushing. for the remainder of the lesson I stare at my phone.
>leave, feeling strangely ashamed, like a whipped cur, and somehow wondering whether my disfigured penis is the reason for my beta status and if having a normal penis would have accorded me more leverage in such a conversation
>start imagining my dick is a marionette being tugged this way and that in a dance to the sound of jovial Mexican folk music

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 09:29:45 2020 No.15857694 >>15855551 >finding a regular work and living from agriculture, Tell us more. I'm considering leaving a 6 figure job that I hate and moving to the country. What did you attempt, and how did it not work?

Anonymous Tue Jul 14 09:36:33 2020 No.15857746

>>15857066
Yes, I still finish some books. but it is not like I'm keeping making an effort to keep track of anything either. So I have no idea of how much I read.

Mainly that, you can't even get into some really stupid stuff.

There were a lot of reasons but mainly psychological issues. And I ended giving up on teaching because I wouldn't ever be a decent one, getting into college also opened my eyes to a bunch of bureaucracy, but that was a secondary reason.

Anonymous Tue Jul 14 09:38:26 2020 No.15857753

>>15857694
No, anon. I grew up in the countryside. So the first thing that I thought back when I was 15 or something was just getting a regular job and continuing the family business. But my father really disliked the idea and kinda killed that part of me.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 09:51:47 2020 No.15857820 >>15846843 >top 100 Shame on you

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 09:59:30 2020 No.15857861 >>15857753 >continuing the family business I don't understand why any father wouldn't want his son to continue the family business. One of the reasons the USA is so fucked is because we abandoned the family farm.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 10:01:56 2020 No.15857878 >>15857861 He wanted me to have a degree. A "non-meme" one, but I used to struggle a lot with writing because of some psychological problems, that I end up managing to deal with almost on my 30s.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 10:23:28 2020 No.15858006 >>15855588 WashU doesn't get enough love :(

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 10:24:32 2020 No.15858009 File: 1.45 MB, 2448x3264, Edinburgh_-_University_Library_01.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15846843 ours is super hostile, dread is a good motivator tho

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 10:27:17 2020 No.15858028 >>15858009 that looks like a sick skatespot tho

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 10:27:22 2020 No.15858029 >>15849123 I mean doesn't this apply to every country?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 10:31:31 2020 No.15858048 File: 193 KB, 1300x955, bristo-square-and-the-mcewan-hall-designed-by-sir-robert-rowand-anderson-M1D0MK.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15858028 the whole central campus is basically just one big skatepark. this is just round the corner.

Anonymous Tue Jul 14 10:33:27 2020 No.15858055

>>15858029
Yes and no, it obviously depends on the quality of education being provided. The UK's Russell Group (which is mostly top 25) sets a good bar for that; universities here are capped in terms of fees (and nearly all charge that cap).

People won't pay £9000 a year to go to the University of East London. Nobody should. But in the US, this would likely be a community college, and charge substantially less money than somewhere like Oxford.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 10:36:46 2020 No.15858074 File: 85 KB, 1249x258, Screenshot_8.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15858055 eh-hem

Anonymous Tue Jul 14 10:56:08 2020 No.15858192

>>15857694
But getting back to your question. My father did that, anon. He didn't left his job, but got into another position in the countryside. I think it is worth it, if you are the type of person who is into doing things, testing and messing with stuff. And you probably will be fine if you are some type of engineer, who is into messing with electric wiring, hydraulics or whatever.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 10:59:44 2020 No.15858224 >>15858074 Ok, that doesn't mean it didn't rank 116/130 on the UK university list.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 11:15:54 2020 No.15858339 /ivy/bros , where you at? t. Penn

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 11:16:59 2020 No.15858347 >>15858339 Went to one once - false advertising in my opinion. I even pre-blended the textbooks for the drip, but it seems like IV colleges are a sham.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 11:37:20 2020 No.15858490 Yes >>15846884 Fuck you. Everytime I look for some rare goodshit some fuck has stole it

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 11:41:23 2020 No.15858522 >>15858347 What was false advertising about it? In my school they have to follow the curriculum and everything is unionized. I get the feeling that Ivy league schools or private schools in general have more freedom in their classes.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 11:48:26 2020 No.15858573 >>15858490 KEK This took longer than I expected.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 11:49:37 2020 No.15858583 >>15858522 Because I couldn't absorb books by blending them up and injecting them. I was lied to by IV institutions.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 11:50:44 2020 No.15858591 >>15858583 You are doing it wrong, anon. You are supposed to burn then and inhale the fumes. Haven't you ever wondered why people used to burn books?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 11:52:23 2020 No.15858604 >>15858591 Oh so that's what they meant by a school for burnouts...

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 11:52:43 2020 No.15858606 University of Michigan's libraries were quite nice imo, bit claustrophobic but I felt like it helped give people the right attitude about the place. Excellent selection of books too.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 11:54:08 2020 No.15858617 >>15858604 Yes, anon. This is the fire pill. There is no turning back now, go and burn some books. Do yourself a favor and absorb some knowledge.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 12:09:55 2020 No.15858757 >>15858339 Here t. also Penn

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 12:10:38 2020 No.15858765 >>15858617 the green fire makes me feel sleepy

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 12:16:01 2020 No.15858801 File: 1.31 MB, 1400x875, 24828670asdasd.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15846843 yeah just barely engineering school so not a lot of /lit/ stuff but hey at least it looks kinda cool

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 12:16:13 2020 No.15858803 >>15858339 >>15858757 I went to Wharton. What are you guys studying?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 12:17:09 2020 No.15858808 >>15858757 Redpill me on the international guest student program. Is it worth it?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 12:50:37 2020 No.15859073 >>15858801 I sat next to some exchange student to the left there once who browsed this Mongolian basket-weaving forum but didn't see which board. Which program are you studying anon?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 13:07:39 2020 No.15859186 >>15858803 >>15858808 pls respond

Anonymous Tue Jul 14 13:12:54 2020 No.15859224
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>>15846843
I don't go to University but I have a community borrower account which allows me to borrow books from the TriUniversity Group Libraries which is comprised of the libraries of The University of Waterloo, Wilfrid Laurier University and The University of Guelph. I've had books checked out of these libraries for years at a time.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 13:16:06 2020 No.15859252 >>15846843 Yeah I went to a top 100 but its not one anyone ever thinks of when they think top 100. We had multiple libraries but the main one was pretty good. Read some russian literature there in my time.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 13:18:24 2020 No.15859273 LEEDSBROS FALL IN

Anonymous Tue Jul 14 13:41:09 2020 No.15859457

>>15846843
It was top 25 but a fucking STEM school, so our library was nothing but a study space under construction the entire time I was there and literally did not have any books out, just computers. You could request them but they were mostly textbooks and all in storage. In my last year there they finished construction in one of the buildings, opened it, and switched the construction to the other one, then opened a single "collection" of scifi books smaller than the one in the bookstore.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 14:14:36 2020 No.15859756 >>15855588 im here, i hate it

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 14:33:23 2020 No.15859936 File: 1012 KB, 3264x2448, 7c278b5d64642f16400f7c30cc0354a4.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] was alright desu, pretty comfy

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 14:34:29 2020 No.15859947 >>15853276 I was like that until Lent term this year. It's definitely worth exploring- it's the only library in the University which I find isn't painfully cramped.

Anonymous Tue Jul 14 14:39:50 2020 No.15860006

I go to a top university, top 50 in the world supposedly, but it's all because of a few extremely important areas of research. It translates not at all to being a good place for most of its undergraduates or post-graduates, or anyone at all in certain departments.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 14:40:57 2020 No.15860021 >>15858803 neck yourself for going to wharton >>15858808 no

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 15:24:36 2020 No.15860446 >>15858803 SSE

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 15:29:00 2020 No.15860485 no garbage

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 15:33:10 2020 No.15860528 >>15846843 I go to Michigan The library is only used for amphetamine fueled cramming for exams or writing essays. I’ve never actually checked out a book from there

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 15:45:05 2020 No.15860615 File: 940 KB, 900x580, main-stacks.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] My Alma Mater

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 17:43:15 2020 No.15861728 >>15858048 gnarly

Anonymous Tue Jul 14 19:07:41 2020 No.15862426

>>15846843
went to one of the top stem school that wasnt autistic like caltech. wasnt really /lit/ during undergrad times, but the library had joint-library with local college/unis so you could get decent books. just not /comfy/. kinda envy those oxbridge-esque liberal art setting, but i am a poorfag, so whatever

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 19:08:41 2020 No.15862432 >>15862426 which school? HMC?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 19:10:02 2020 No.15862445 >>15862432 nope, state uni. couldnt afford private, and not too poor enough to get financial aid kek

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 19:15:01 2020 No.15862487 >>15849182 This is why I enjoy my trips to European universities, the schools here are so poor that their libraries are usually just a few shelves of periodicals and classics with lots of comfy seating, makes for a much cozier browsing experience.

Anonymous Tue Jul 14 19:17:02 2020 No.15862501

>top 15 world and top 2 in country and I hate it.
I really only appreciate not studying STEM anymore while here, but to fully embrace philosophy I frankly think I need to go to a less scrutinizing rigorous school since all the profs do here I could find at any of the great universities and neither gain nor lose anything.
The libraries here are great. Some faculties have the biggest on the continent, but the best still is that in many books you can find the Swastika Stamps in them.
>>15862487
>the schools here are so poor that their libraries are usually just a few shelves of periodicals and classics with lots of comfy seating, makes for a much cozier browsing experience.
what are you talking about?
Why would you want a small catalog to get books from and then also prioritize "comfy" over quantity of quality?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 21:42:00 2020 No.15863631 File: 2.11 MB, 3024x4032, 1-IMG_0441.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15846843 No. Pretty good.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 21:53:12 2020 No.15863721 File: 223 KB, 646x646, D8CC99D3-A81D-44FF-AA34-425FA7299C01.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Don’t think we’ll be allowed in next year due to COVID :(

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 22:26:01 2020 No.15863916 >>15859457 gatech gang

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 22:32:05 2020 No.15863956 >>15863916 What year? I graduated last spring

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 23:12:36 2020 No.15864187 any ucl?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 23:21:21 2020 No.15864253 >>15846843 Top 250, our library is pretty decent

Anonymous Wed Jul 15 02:33:58 2020 No.15865426

No.

Took an access course and got into Cardiff Uni lmfao, I could have gotten into a better one like Durham but I wanted to go to a Welsh one out of nationalism. After all, when I become dictator of an independent nationalist Wales it won't do having gone to a foreign uni would it?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 15 02:37:17 2020 No.15865446 File: 182 KB, 600x683, 1_bIsiJ5vACX9-qnDwhRgUHw.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15846843 yes, great library, probably one of the best in the world

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 15 03:59:38 2020 No.15865835 >>15846843 McGill, our library sucks, most books are good but everything is behind chrome vaults, and all the reading areas are full of retarded Asians, or with ugly modernist designs. I suppose the Osler building is nice tho.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 15 04:08:45 2020 No.15865866 top 30 worldwide, but i guess it's not a very /lit/ school and it's for all intents and purposes the safety school for any genuinely bright and talented individuals so it isn't mentioned much

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 15 04:33:27 2020 No.15865940 >>15846843 LOL going to university is a meme

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 15 04:35:05 2020 No.15865945 >>15859756 im new and going to attend in two months, why do you hate it?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 15 04:36:24 2020 No.15865948 >>15846843 Top 10 research in my field at least. Library is pretty epic. Huge obscure national and exotic poetry section from extremely wealthy blue bloods from which I am probably the sole reader

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 15 04:51:22 2020 No.15866007 Top 50 world, top 2 in Singapore. I dropped out though. Library was decent, used it mainly to pick up nerdy chicks.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 15 04:56:07 2020 No.15866021 >>15846884 Have you scanned them for libgen?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 15 04:57:30 2020 No.15866030 >>15847400 kys

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 15 08:56:29 2020 No.15866956 >>15853307 What major?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 15 09:17:45 2020 No.15867036 >>15858009 buildings like this should be illegal, we should put the architects in jail for being so foolish, for peddling this nonsense

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 15 09:32:23 2020 No.15867113 >>15858009 Reels of brutalist architecture.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 15 11:10:08 2020 No.15867777 >>15859073 Electrical engineering, wasnt me though since id never risk outing myself like that

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 15 11:45:34 2020 No.15868073 >>15858009 it actually looks pretty good when you see it irl

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 15 12:17:24 2020 No.15868361 >>15867777 EE seems pretty comfy. Yeah I was quite taken aback, didn't know people were autistic enough to browse this place in the open.

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