/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.6985593]

What universities does/did /lit/ attend?

[Anonymous No.6985622]

uoft

[Anonymous No.6985635]

>>6985593
youtube

[Anonymous No.6985636]

UCSC

[Anonymous No.6985651]

School of Hard Knocks

[Anonymous No.6985678]

>>6985622
York University, looking to do post grad work there. Any tips?

[Anonymous No.6985705]

>>6985622
>>6985678

[Anonymous No.6985707]

who /UNAM/ here?

[Anonymous No.6985709]

Dominus illuminatio mea

[Anonymous No.6985718]

I didn't go to library school. I went to libraries.

[Anonymous No.6985721]

Harvard tbh

At 15 tbh

On the spectrum tbh

[Anonymous No.6985901]

>>6985718
Did the man who invented libraries go to libraries?

[Anonymous No.6985931]

Penn State currently

We touch little boys

[Anonymous No.6985946]

Queen's University at Kingston

[Anonymous No.6985956]

>>6985718
I didn't go to law school, I went to juvie.
>>6985931
[rhythmic slapping intensifies]

[Anonymous No.6985984]

>>6985622
>>6985678
>>6985946
ayyy Canada

[Anonymous No.6986043]

>>6985984
ayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

[Anonymous No.6986053]

>>6985718
I didn't went to university school, I went to university

[Anonymous No.6986075]

>>6985593
you wouldn't know tbh.

[Anonymous No.6986087]

>>6986075
community college detected

[Anonymous No.6986157]

I'm beginning uni in less than a week. How do I make friends?

Inb4 le safety school meme
Inb4 le suny meme

[Anonymous No.6986166]

>>6986157
sorry about your SAT scores lmao

[Anonymous No.6986175]

>>6986157
Faggot

[Anonymous No.6986187]

>>6985593
Based University of Geneva

[Anonymous No.6986194]

>>6986157
I don't get this meme. It's not like /lit/ is all HYPS. Why do state school fags diss Cornell?

also, pic related. Chance me on Cornell.

[Anonymous No.6986198]

>>6986166
>>6986175
Why are you bullying me

[Anonymous No.6986204]

>>6985709

I also study at Oxford. What is your college? I'm at Linacre.

[Anonymous No.6986205]

>>6986198
because you deserve it you little freak. you're my little freak

[Anonymous No.6986211]

>>6986194
this isn't collegeconfidential fag
good scores, with enough extracurriculars and a good essay you can do better than Cornell

[DEVITT !!H88HZm8bUlF No.6986225]

i go to a small public uni with only a few thousand students in california

[Anonymous No.6986236]

>>6986225
>he's too poor for ivy league
>he's tripping on MY /lit/

lmfao

[Anonymous No.6986239]

>>6986194
Cornell anon here. I believe Cornell allows superscoring, so you're at a 2320, a totally acceptable composite score.

Thing is, SAT scores are not the only factor in your admission, and the process is such BS that most "chance me" posts are merely guesses, even given all the relevant statistics. I'd just advise you to apply to as many schools as possible: if you stand a chance at cornell, you might as well apply to the other low tier Ivies (Dartmouth, brown, penn) and other schools. Worst comes to worse you go to state school and get a Master's at a more competitive program.

>>6986205
Sam Hyde pls go

[Anonymous No.6986248]

>>6986194
>>6986239
Oh, and don't leave out HYPS either. Your scores are certainly at their level, though there's the obvious issues of grades, essays, and ECs at stake.

[Anonymous No.6986252]

>>6986239
YEEEEAAAAHHHH. youre my little freak now. YEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

[Anonymous No.6986255]

>>6986194
Oh don't use the tutors at Cornell. Almost all of the classes there are based on a proportional grading scale. A friend of mine was getting some tutoring help for a math class. He ended up doing really poorly, because the girl that supposedly was helping him in fact was feeding incorrect information to all of her students. She did this so that she would have a better chance at being at the top of the class.

Naw, but you have good SATs and hopefully some extracurriculars. Looks like you should have no problem getting in.

[Anonymous No.6986257]

>>6986194
>>6986157
Harold bloom and pinecone both attended cornlel

[Anonymous No.6986275]

MIT

[Anonymous No.6986303]

Albertus Magnus Master Race

[Anonymous No.6986315]

>>6986303
>Albertus Magnus
>Nun shit show

Stay jelly of the true Jesuit master race.

[Anonymous No.6986320]

>>6985593

I'm one of the thousands that dropped out of John Tyler Community College.

Living the dream.

[Anonymous No.6986325]

> people actually believing what university you go to matters

enjoy your student debt

[Anonymous No.6986332]

>>6986315

>not even 200 years old
>42.000 dollars tuition

America is pathetic

[Anonymous No.6986343]

provincial as fuck, more of a caellidge than a college

[Anonymous No.6986371]

>>6985636
uwot

Going to UCSC this year

What year?

[Anonymous No.6986375]

>>6985707
Mike?

[Anonymous No.6986421]

>>6986325

[Anonymous No.6986448]

Start SDSU in a week. Should be fun.

[Anonymous No.6986466]

>>6986325

well actually it matters to an extent, you do need a university with a large and comprehensive library -- though any top college will have that (either the Ivies, the "public" ivies, the near-ivies, oxbridge, or top small liberal arts schools).

As long as you're in one of those, and any one of those, you're fine as long as you're smart enough to teach yourself from there

[Anonymous No.6986470]

>>6986448
good luck brave anon, that place is a shithole

[Anonymous No.6986474]

UC Davis.

Did I do good, /lit/? I sometimes feel like I didn't think my decision through.

[Anonymous No.6986489]

>>6986343
I grew up in Buffalo

Enjoy doing nothing

[Anonymous No.6986491]

>>6986474
>Did I do good

obviously not

[Anonymous No.6986498]

>>6986491
That's what I thought. Still better than a State Uni though.

[Anonymous No.6986505]

Baylor Bear reporting in, class of 2010. Got my degree in Great Texts of the Western Tradition.

[Anonymous No.6986519]

>>6985593

[Anonymous No.6986540]

State college.

Come at me nerds

It's for computer science, so nobody gives a shit about your school as long as you have good personal projects.

[Anonymous No.6986546]

Ghent Uni

[Anonymous No.6986580]

>>6986204

Not >>6985709 but I'm at Univ anon. Let's be friends.

[Anonymous No.6986586]

>>6986580

Perhaps I shouldn't be - forgot my pic.

[Anonymous No.6986662]

>>6985946
ayyy what faculty
2nd year eng here

[Anonymous No.6986738]

>>6986470
why

[Anonymous No.6986766]

University of Tipton

[Anonymous No.6986780]

Leuven

Belgians are all all autistic with no sense of humor.

[Anonymous No.6986783]

TOTAL PLEB ALERT

[Anonymous No.6986805]

>>6986780
speak for yourself

[Anonymous No.6986806]

Midwest Master Race

[Anonymous No.6986820]

>>6986806
Nice, that's a great school. I would never leave campus, though. Isn't St. Louis usually in the top three most dangerous cities in the States?

[Anonymous No.6986826]

>>6986820
Definitely top 5 but I take my gun everywhere I go.

[Anonymous No.6986850]

shit school master race reporting in

[Anonymous No.6986853]

UCSD

[Anonymous No.6986862]

>>6986806
What do you think of it? I'm going to apply to do an MFA there

[Anonymous No.6986864]

I think it's funny that >>6986783 copied the architecture of >>6986806 for their administration building.

[Anonymous No.6986888]

>>6986864
Really? NWMSU has been around since like 1895, but it could be that the some builders did both projects, can't imagine in the late 19th century there was too many universities in Missouri

[Anonymous No.6986895]

>>6986820
Crime isn't as much of a concern in the areas immediately surrounding Wash U. On campus, it's not a concern at all. You have to be kind of careful in the Delmar area, but generally it's not something I'm too concerned about. East St. Louis is definitely a place you don't want to be.

[Anonymous No.6986901]

>>6986888

[Anonymous No.6986906]

Here's Brookings.

[Anonymous No.6986917]

>>6986862
I love it. I'm pre-med, but I have a lot of friends over in the art and architecture schools who seem to like the curriculum.

[Anonymous No.6986919]

>>6986901
So really they're both based off the Oxford style

[Anonymous No.6986931]

>>6986917
I hope when I take a visit the whole place still smells like Bill Gass ass

[Anonymous No.6986932]

>>6986919
Here's Blair Hall at Princeton.

[Anonymous No.6986941]

>>6986932
I'm not debating with you here, it's just that you kind of negated your own claim that "NWMSU is based off Wash. U"

[Anonymous No.6986943]

>>6986906
This photo makes it look like shit... Here's what it usually looks like

[Anonymous No.6986956]

>>6986919
>>6986941

They're all based on Cambridge, not Oxford.

[Anonymous No.6986967]

>>6986941
I wasn't really trying to make a big deal about it. I just love university architecture. Here's St. John's Great Gate, also at Cambridge.

[Anonymous No.6987096]

>>6986932
I lived there

[Anonymous No.6987176]

>>6986662
English lol

[Anonymous No.6987183]

>>6986967
Cambridge is very nice.

[Anonymous No.6987217]

where did you come from
where did you go
where did you come from cottoneyed joe

[Anonymous No.6987231]

I feel like a total failure
I wanted to go to UPenn and meet some new people and maybe make something of myself, instead I'm drinking every weekend with the same friends I've had since elementary school and taking the fast track to being a shitty accountant for the rest of my life

[Anonymous No.6987239]

>going to uni

Lads where's your sense of entrepreneurial pride branching out into the world independent of the collegiate system.

[Anonymous No.6987242]

starting this spring (transfer student).

[Anonymous No.6987244]

>>6987239
I'm afraid

[Anonymous No.6987255]

>>6985593

Amsterdam University College

[Anonymous No.6987275]

>>6987239

>hurr I'm an entrepeneur

You're a salesman, that's vulgar. Patricians didn't participate in trade.

[Anonymous No.6987288]

Got into some decent colleges, ended up at a state school for health and financial reasons. I'm looking to transfer somewhere better for sophomore year.

[Anonymous No.6987289]

>>6986204
>>6986580
Exon here chaps.

[Anonymous No.6987298]

Anyone Pitt here?

[Anonymous No.6987311]

>>6985622
>>6985678
>>6985705
hey uoft/yorku buddies, i went to both

currently grad student at uoft

[Anonymous No.6987317]

>>6985593
Université d'Orsay Paris Sud. Shit-looking buildings, but trees everywhere and top-notch maths department.

>>6986325
I pay less than 800$ a year for at masters level. Feels good.

[Anonymous No.6987318]

>>6985705
>the lair of bridget

[Anonymous No.6987324]

>>6987239
>entrepreneurial pride
>implying

Between boredom and whoredom I have made my choice.

[Anonymous No.6987336]

>>6987317
Also wanted to compliment >>6986546 on his noice garden.
>>6987298
Interesting architecture, too.

[Anonymous No.6987348]

>>6987336

Inside is amazing as well, great atmosphere to feel like a pseudo-intellectual.

[Anonymous No.6987374]

uc merced

at least I'm on pretty good terms with the department heads

[Anonymous No.6987379]

>>6985636
Come on sluganon don't be shy

[Anonymous No.6987382]

>Peasants thinking any architecture compares to Oxford's dreaming spires

[Anonymous No.6987384]

Watched my own school get traumatized by /pol/

[Anonymous No.6987390]

>>6987384
How can you take an educational institute seriously that's called Kalamazoo? Seriously?

[Anonymous No.6987392]

>>6987382
>thinking architecture is important for universities
Yeah, I mean, the best science gets done in pretty buildings. Ugly buildings only make baaaad science.

[Anonymous No.6987395]

>>6986546

Same! Fuck Leuven.

[Anonymous No.6987400]

>>6987392
Yeah, to be fair, most of Oxford's science buildings look shite. But do you not feel the nordic will to power in the gothic spires and grand architecture?

[Anonymous No.6987418]

>>6986820
fucking weiner. There are some kickass punk bands from there right now.

[Anonymous No.6987419]

>>6987298
Eat shit pitt

[Anonymous No.6987441]

>>6987390

[Anonymous No.6987456]

>>6987441
Why is that even a book?

[Anonymous No.6987465]

>>6985593

[Anonymous No.6987476]

The streets. You probably never heard of it.

[Anonymous No.6987498]

>>6987400
Not really. My uni's really ugly (they call it brutalism, but I don't believe there's any architectural vision behind it anyway). I like the sheer efficiency. It's a pretty new institute, and they just wanted to have one big fucking building with everything in it, and it worked just fine. It's also kind of a staple of the region it's in to be cheap and efficient, so there's that.

[Anonymous No.6987500]

>>6987476
Oh it shows, Quentin. It shows.

[Anonymous No.6987512]

>>6985705
>>6987311
>>6987318

>Bridget
Ice-Queen of the stacks.

Soon.

[Anonymous No.6987531]

>>6985593

[Anonymous No.6987554]

>>6987418
like who? I'm trying to get into the local punk scene

[Anonymous No.6987561]

University of West Georgia

Cheap(er) public school, represent.

Library's pretty good, at least.

[Anonymous No.6987600]

Driving down Wednesday

[Anonymous No.6987630]

I start studying English at Glasgow Uni in September - free education you jel?

[Anonymous No.6987681]

Exchange program for a year, otherwise Uppsala.

[Anonymous No.6987693]

>>6987630
Just keep off of the junk for me, la'

[Anonymous No.6987727]

>>6987298
>>6987465

I'm the anon that posted all the pictures of architecture earlier in the thread - Pitt and Duke have my favorite examples of Collegiate Gothic in the entire country. Only Harkness Tower at Yale can rival Cathedral of Learning and the Duke Chapel. Boston College is nice, too.

[Anonymous No.6987733]

>>6987554
oh shit? Seriously? Kansas City is also great.

St. Louis has Rüz, Q, Lumpy & the Dumpers, who kickass live but are so-so on most recordings. Lumpy & The Dumpers are a real hyped band. I like em alright.
Black Panties, Shaved Women, and Sucked Dry are okay. KC has No Class who wrote prolly one of the best hardcore records to ever come out of the midwest.. KC also has Dark Ages who are decent, Nuke Cult was tight...

[Anonymous No.6987774]

>>6985636
>>6986371
>>6987379
hello slugbros, don't smoke too much weed!

[Anonymous No.6987775]

My local community college.

[Anonymous No.6987798]

St Andrews because I failed to get into Oxford

[Anonymous No.6987827]

>>6987798
It's okay, anon. I always thought it was extremely impressive that St. Andrews maintained its rank of 3rd in the UK despite only have $100 million in its endowment fund per year, while Oxford and Cambridge both have close to $5 billion apiece.

Also, you have lovely architecture there.

[Anonymous No.6987840]

>>6987827
Yeah I'm not bummed out or anything, St Andrews was my first choice seeing as I failed the interview. That pic is actually part of the hall I live in.

[Anonymous No.6988292]

>>6987774
Pls what year?

I'm entering this fall and want cool 4chan friendos

[Anonymous No.6988324]

>>6987798

Oxford and Cambridge are hard to get accepted to as an undergraduate, but I got accepted to both as a graduate student in history of international relations after I got my undergraduate degree at a different university (Ghent). There isn't an interview as a graduate, but you do need a GPA of at least 3.74

pic related, just to prove legitimacy

[Anonymous No.6988376]

>>6988324
I remember you from the other thread. I saved both of your acceptance letters.

[Anonymous No.6988393]

>>6988376

Hope I helped you out. If you want an Oxbridge degree, without massive amounts of student debt, this is the way. I payed 1500 euro tuition in total for my undergraduate at Ghent, and still have master's from Oxford with just one year of high tuition cost.

[Anonymous No.6988410]

>>6988393
I'm not the person you initially replied to. I'm attending graduate school in the United States, so my ship has sailed as far as applying to Oxbridge. I just thought it was interesting that you were willing to post such private information on 4chan.

[Anonymous No.6988430]

>>6988410

Oh ok, avoiding student debt isn't really an option in the US. And I blanked out most of the details, it just shows my college and course.

[Anonymous No.6988449]

>>6988430
I won't graduate with any debt. Most Ph.D. programs in the United States are paid for by the school. Even so, your class size is probably no more than 20 people. I would never be able to shake the idea that someone could identify me if they tried hard enough.

[Anonymous No.6988584]

>>6985593
>Tecnologico de Monterrey

In Monterrey, Mexico

>tfw no ivy league lifestyle

[Anonymous No.6988659]

>tfw even the arts students are plebs

[Anonymous No.6988719]

>>6988324
>>6987827
>>6987798
>tfw hoping to go to Oxbridge or St. Andrews (maybe Leeds) for PhD in a year
>tfw reading this

I-I'm gonna make it, right guys?

[Anonymous No.6988747]

>>6988719

What's your GPA and alma mater? Phd might be tough, because competition is really intense.

[Anonymous No.6988767]

>>6988719
Have multiple backup schools that still offer you a great fit. I wanted to go to Columbia for my Ph.D., but I got into another fine school that is unarguably a better fit for my research goals. The prestige of your school's name is much less important at the Ph.D. level, and there are definitely multiple institutions that specialize in your area of expertise. Don't sweat it, m8.

[Anonymous No.6988806]

florida state university

i transferred here from University of Tirana just so i could have an excuse to see the US

mfw i've been arrested three times ranging from criminal mischief to burglary
mfw i've been getting all As
mfw i think i'm getting deported unless the state attorney agrees to a second diversion program
mfw it doesnt matter since im dropping out next semester anyway
mfw i'm only here to waste time until my father's estate transfers in my name

[Anonymous No.6988883]

>>6988806
>mfw it doesnt matter since im dropping out next semester anyway

Step up anon, you'll regret it.

[Anonymous No.6988896]

>>6988747
3.95~, University of Toronto. Is it that bad?

I was thinking I might be in a decent position because my research proposal is very specific and very specifically tailored to the advisers I want at each university. But I watched someone in a similar situation get turned down because of logistics this year, and I imagine getting back a flat "No" when that is the case is pretty awful.

>>6988767
This is good advice, thanks. I am trying to focus more on the idea of doing good research than wanking over the prestige of my institution. I'd only be upset if I got an adviser who isn't right for me, or something like that.

>>6988806
you are an interesting man

[Anonymous No.6988916]

>>6988896
>very specifically tailored to the advisers I want at each university

This will most likely get you accepted. I used the same tactic when I applied to both Oxford and Cambridge. It shows that you know you shit, that you know what you're doing and what you want to achieve. The only thing that will hold you back is financing/finding an open spot. Apply to many universities as back-up. I applied to nearly all top British universities (Oxford, Cambridge, UCL, KCL and Edinburgh) just in case. Better to have options than to have dick.

[Anonymous No.6988924]

dear old state

[Anonymous No.6988958]

>>6988896
No, your grades and alma mater are great. What matters more is your ability to communicate your potential to do research. When a school accepts you for a Ph.D., they are making an investment - an investment that one day will produce research that reflects well upon them. They won't invest in you if they don't believe you can deliver.

>my research proposal is very specific and very specifically tailored to the advisers I want at each university.
This is not just a good thing to do - it is necessary. If you send the same proposal to every school, they will know. I tailored each of my applications down to the specific professors I wanted to work with and specific papers they wrote, and even then, I only got in to a third of the schools I applied to. And yes, sometimes logistics just fucks you in the ass. It's the nature of the game.

>I'd only be upset if I got an adviser who isn't right for me
This is an easy fix - don't bother applying to schools you wouldn't be happy attending.

[Anonymous No.6989199]

Studying Comparative Literature and Philosophy at NYU.

[Anonymous No.6989205]

>>6989199
Nice, you're like Swayze from Road House.

[Anonymous No.6989209]

>>6988916
>>6988958
Thanks for the advice & encouragement, bros. I feel better about the upcoming grind now.

[Anonymous No.6989212]

>>6986474
:^(
At least we're at a public ivy?

[Anonymous No.6989216]

>>6986853
Lawrence?

[Anonymous No.6989227]

UQ
Q

[Anonymous No.6989278]

I'm still in High School and got straight Ds in 11th grade. Am I still savable anons?

[Anonymous No.6989289]

>>6989278
I was an awful student and am currently a college dropout. But straight Ds in your junior year? You may wanna focus on finding blue collar jobs ASAP.

[Anonymous No.6989295]

>>6989278
And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.

[Anonymous No.6989314]

>>6989295
I'm sure Jesus isn't the best answer for me. He hasn't answer any of my prayers, so I stop believing God.

[Anonymous No.6989346]

>>6989314
Christianity isn't about getting anything; it's about giving. Reevaluate if belief is important.

Also, go to a CC then transfer. Saves money, builds humility, and makes it easy to get accepted and move up from there.

[Anonymous No.6989362]

>>6989314
You are selfish

[Anonymous No.6989364]

>>6989346
I'm planning to go to Community College and see how things go for my first 2 years. My absurd belief is quite firm after reading Camus so no crisis.

[Anonymous No.6989369]

>>6989362
Comes with being only child, still I'm coming attach to Literature, so all my money is with (1) Being saved or (2) Books.

[Anonymous No.6989376]

>>6989369
You can give without spending your money. Money is pretty meaningless.

[Anonymous No.6989595]

>>6989278
>actually study you fucking pleb
>get the best resultyou can possibly get from this point
>pick a degree from a reasonably decent uni
>study like you've never studied before for the first year
>forgo bitches, parties and a social life, do everything but sleep in libraries
>transfer to desired program once you get decent grades

I got the Australian equivalent of low C's/high D's in HS and now I'm studying engineering at the 3rd best uni in my country. Believe in yourself, m8.

[Anonymous No.6989659]

>>6986255
fucking this.

[Anonymous No.6989687]

>>6985984
I hate the idea that I probably share classes with people from /lit/

[Anonymous No.6989701]

>>6989595
>3rd best uni in Australia
Is that a high school or something?

[Anonymous No.6989717]

>>6989595
UTS?

[Anonymous No.6989726]

University of Florida

[Anonymous No.6989744]

>>6985984
Ayy lmao McGill

[Anonymous No.6989753]

Humanities because I plan on playing this life on ezmodo.

[Anonymous No.6989790]

>>6986806
Good to know I'm not alone out there

[Anonymous No.6989796]

>>6988719
St Andrews is great anon, you can join my society that's just me after everyone else graduated, it'll be great.

Also I got in despite failing pretty hard in my exams. The standard acceptance was AAA, but I only got two Bs and a *, though luckily the * was in the subject I was to study and also the first ever * in that subject from my school.

[Anonymous No.6989801]

>>6989212

lol public ivy, does saying that make you feel better?

[Anonymous No.6989861]

>>6989801
Top 100 university in the world does. #23 in English too!

:^)

[Anonymous No.6989954]

>>6988292
gonna be a second-year. loved my first year. do you know what college you're in yet?

[Anonymous No.6990057]

>>6988659
ayy fam
>tfw B.P.E.S.S master race
>tfw picking up chicks at ECOPsoc drinks
>tfw laughing at engineering students in jeans and runners

Cheer up lad!

[Anonymous No.6990069]

>ctrl+f 'melbourne'
>0 results

what the shit, well I guess I better check in for us

[Anonymous No.6990686]

>>6989954
Yep, Eight. You?

[Anonymous No.6990696]

MSU. Who here /professorrantaboutrightwingers/?

[Anonymous No.6990706]

>>6985593
UCSD/Revelle

[Anonymous No.6990712]

>>6986448
SDSU sucks but the girls are hot

[Anonymous No.6990849]

too poor for university

[Anonymous No.6990979]

>>6985593
Anyone go to /emory/ here?

Pretty nice school imo. Interesting classes, qt brown and azn girls, nice architecture, good restaurants nearby.

Of course there's some shit things as well but overall I'm happy. Looking to achieve something higher for graduate and law school though.

[Anonymous No.6991029]

>>6986519
eyy 18 here what about you?

[Anonymous No.6991052]

>>6989278
Depends on what you get your senior year and other years. You could claim "muh depression" or something. But community colleges make transfers really easy in California; you can get into UCLA pretty much guaranteed and a 25% chance at Berkeley from classes that give you an automatic 4.0 just for not being retarded

[Anonymous No.6991056]

>>6990069
I want to go here as a USA international student. How do you like it?

[Anonymous No.6991676]

>>6990979

eyyy lmao I want to go to law school as well. Are you aiming for YHS?

[Anonymous No.6992130]

Lancaster, UK here. Starting this year. I hope it's all right.

[Anonymous No.6992154]

The English program is surprisingly decent but I'm in physics/on probation. Is it worth switching at 21/59 credit hours, /lit/?

[Anonymous No.6992167]

>>6989744
or as I like to call it, McTrill University.

[Anonymous No.6992173]

>>6989753
Explain how humanities is living life on easy mode. I think humanities are valuable but I fail to see this logic.

[Anonymous No.6992181]

>>6992173
Because it's easy and then you get a job in the public sector and then you get old and collect your pension and you die

[Anonymous No.6992194]

>>6992181
Good luck doing that. I have a bachelors in english and many friends with humanities degrees. For the most part we can barely get a job that pays 20-30k/year.

[Anonymous No.6992219]

>>6992194
>bachelor
Just your ticket to write your master's and then get a job.

[Anonymous No.6992265]

>>6992219
masters in what? More English?

[Anonymous No.6992298]

[Anonymous No.6992309]

>>6992265
I don't know? Why would you ever stop at a bachelor?

[Anonymous No.6992343]

SUMMERCANCERSUMMERCANCERSUMMERCANCERSUMMERCANCER

[Anonymous No.6992367]

>>6992309
if you can get a well-paying job by majoring in something other than humanities

[Anonymous No.6992374]

>>6985635
In all seriousness, if you are being genuine, do you know of any worthwhile channels one could use to augment their research/knowledge?

[Anonymous No.6992496]

who /leeds/ here?

[Anonymous No.6992590]

University of Adelaide for me as of next year..

[Anonymous No.6993131]

>>6991056
Arguably the best uni in the country, and it's in the most cultural city in Australia (and I'm saying that as a Sydneysider). Apply there if you can.

Also if you like coffee fam you'll find the best coffee culture in the world there.

[Anonymous No.6993146]

>>6990686
nice, Eight has a great view. you'll like it if you're used to SoCal suburbia. I'm in Porter again this year. maybe we'll hang out and share our writin's

[Anonymous No.6993258]

University of Wisconsin-Madison

[Anonymous No.6993574]

>>6986239
>>6986519

I'm picking between Cornell and Dartmouth for early decision. What's it really like? What might spur me to pick one over the other?

[Anonymous No.6993677]

>>6993574
Underage b&

[Anonymous No.6993686]

>>6993131
>the best coffee culture in the world
>on criminal desert island
Yeah think again "mate"

[Anonymous No.6993767]

>>6993677
>/lit/
>mods

[Anonymous No.6993869]

>>6987681
subject?

swefag here, swefag = fagfag = no homo

[Anonymous No.6993894]

>>6993146
Yeah I hope I like it. Sure I'd like to meet but I don't write though

[Anonymous No.6993904]

>tfw no University of Dayton /lit/ friends :(

[Anonymous No.6993979]

>>6986320
>I'm one of the thousands that dropped out of John Tyler Community College.
>Living the dream.

Not me. I'm a community college GRADUATE.

I attended a private university, but I became so goddamn sick of the Missouri-Synod Lutherans that I dropped out (my biochemistry professor tried to tell us that the "...true evidence seems to support that the Earth is about eight- to ten-thousand years old, but the government does its best to cover up that evidence whenever it's unearthed.").

[Anonymous No.6993999]

>>6985636
Me too

[Anonymous No.6994134]

Public ivyman reporting in

[Anonymous No.6994353]

>>6994134

stop with the public ivy bs. your school accepts 70% of applicants. so many proles itt god damn.

[Anonymous No.6994376]

>>6994134

actual public ivy reporting in

[Anonymous No.6994383]

>>6993979

What evidence did he offer?

[Anonymous No.6994408]

>>6994376
Berkeley is an amazing school. I've been told that it has a disproportionate amount of obnoxious students compared to other stellar institutions, though, which bums me out. Maybe that's just what people say because they're jealous that they weren't accepted there themselves, of course. I suspect that to be the case.

[Anonymous No.6994423]

George Brown College. Not university.

Anyone here from the Casa Loma campus?

[Anonymous No.6994478]

>>6994353
Last time I checked it was 50%

Either way, it's considered a public ivy via general consensus, so your uptight standards are meaningless

[Anonymous No.6994497]

>>6994134
>>6994353
>>6994376
>>6994478
shhh

[Anonymous No.6994498]

>>6994478
I'm not that guy, but you should be smarter than to think that a general consensus means anything at all. Nor should you feel insecure about your school because of one poster - UW is one of the best schools in the country.

However, it is worth noting that most Ivy League universities accept less than 10% of their applicants. Even Cornell only accepts 14%. Compared to 55% (UW), that is quite a difference.

[Anonymous No.6994557]

>>6994478

>uptight standards

I'm just not a prole.

[Anonymous No.6994569]

>>6985707
Sup bro

[Anonymous No.6994575]

about to start at the university of maryland

[Anonymous No.6994612]

>>6994497
Sorry friends, we all know Davis is truly where it's at.

[Anonymous No.6995390]

About to start at Royal Holloway.

[Anonymous No.6995393]

>>6985593
University of Barcelona

[Anonymous No.6995600]

[Anonymous No.6995649]

>>6987242
Don't lie. Transfer students in California are not permitted to start in the spring, only the fall. I know this for a fact because I was a transfer student.

[Anonymous No.6995687]

>>6986157
ignore everyone else, cornell is a good school. but please dear god don't be one of those kids who are like 'omg cornell is an ivy league too im so smart oh wait now im sad because i cant handle it might as well jump into the gorge'.

[Anonymous No.6995692]

>>6988924
Isn't it crazy that every person at penn state is required to molest children? Seriously its too much, you guys should calm down.

[Anonymous No.6995700]

>>6989701
Fucking lel

[Anonymous No.6995704]

>>6989701

[Anonymous No.6995706]

;_;

[Anonymous No.6995711]

>>6992265
>can't promote your own bachelor to enter into a different master
>probably had shit grades

get a grip

[Anonymous No.6995721]

I recently finished University of Aberdeen while living at home... literally the least worthwhile experience of anyone here

[Anonymous No.6995784]

>>6993686
in case you're not trolling

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303448104579147611543846776

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/travel/travel-news/melbourne-has-been-voted-as-having-the-worlds-best-coffee/story-fnjjv9zn-1226865534856

http://www.laweekly.com/restaurants/australian-coffee-culture-is-hitting-la-4877278

http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-australia-makes-its-mark-on-global-coffee-culture-2015-5?IR=T

:^)

[Anonymous No.6995801]

Automatically out-/lit/ all of you.

[Anonymous No.6995809]

>>6995801

>muh greats, muh canon

How does it feel to know that your hero worshipping style of "scholarship" is holding back philosophy? That "history of philosophy" classes have become conflated with "philosophy" classes? I'm not even STEM, but if all they did was lick newton's (or aristotle's) asshole for 5 terms at the start of each degree, they'd get nowhere too. Rather than stand on the shoulders of giants, curricula like you're pic's and others, choose to stay on the ground and bootlick

[Anonymous No.6995827]

school sucks; fuck school

[Anonymous No.6995831]

>>6995809
How do you think you begin standing on the shoulders of giants? By fully understanding their work.

[Anonymous No.6995887]

>>6987600
I have a lanky pal named Matt who has made no friends and is returning to W&M as a sophomore. Befriend him pls.

[Anonymous No.6996002]

>>6986239
>>6986239
>low tier Ivies (Dartmouth, brown, penn)

Colombia is also low tier.

[Anonymous No.6996010]

>>6992374
Yale has a Youtube channel.

[Anonymous No.6996079]

>>6986474
>UC Davis.

while davis has some awesome programs, most of the students I met there are total retards who hold themselves and education in general in contempt. the largest majors are like, enviromental toxicology and int relations, which are just for kids whos parents made them go to college. they used to have an awesome technocultural studies program with bob ostertag and stockhausen even taught there in the 70s. famouls english dept with josh clover, but the town and the chanclor sold out the kids who got maced. people say its a good school, but your peers is really what matters.

[Anonymous No.6996080]

>>6993869
Theology.

Technically Psychology of Religion, but my degree will actually be Teol.kand.

[Anonymous No.6996103]

>>6992374
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
http://oyc.yale.edu/courses
https://www.youtube.com/user/UCBerkeley/videos or https://archive.org/details/ucberkeleylectures
There are others but these are the big ones I know that have standard quality courses simply uploaded with the relevant materials

Here's another one with some
http://ocw.uci.edu/courses

There are a bunch more, often very good ones from more average universities, especially in STEM. Just google around. I took an ecology course that blew ass at my fairly highly ranked uni last year and while googling around for supplementary materials I found an almost identical, but actually GOOD course given by some random state school in the US. That channel had tons of full course uploads too.

[Anonymous No.6996104]

>>6996079
Unless you are in a very, very selective college, like Oxford or a tiny lib arts college, the majority of your peers are going to be retards who are good at constructing a resume, and who are looking for a little permission slip and not knowledge.

[Anonymous No.6996118]

>>6996080
A bigger waste than Women's Studies.

[Anonymous No.6996136]

>>6996104
That's Oxford and the tiny lib arts colleges too, don't worry.

[Anonymous No.6996169]

U of T

[Anonymous No.6996319]

>>6985705
Is this brutalism?

[Anonymous No.6996330]

>>6996319
it's shitism. it's actually a turkey

[Anonymous No.6996334]

>>6996136

Not really. I study at Oxford, and I haven't met an ignorant person yet. Could be because my class only has 8 students in total, but still.

[Anonymous No.6996341]

>>6996319
yes, robarts library

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robarts_Library

[Anonymous No.6996361]

I went to Miami University of Ohio and then the University of Cincinnati.

I'm contemplating going to graduate school, but I'm not sure I can stomach the slog that is graduate school. Also, being broke and at the mercy of the fates just doesn't entice me.

>>6996330
oh my :^)

>>6996341
Thanks

[Anonymous No.6996474]

>>6993574
I'm gonna say a few words just because I wish someone said something to me when I was where you are now. I went to Cornell.

Dartmouth and Cornell are incredibly comparable academically, maybe Dartmouth is a bit better for undergrads, but in terms of jobs/perception you're fine with either.

In terms of being actually /lit/, Cornell wins by a long shot. There are way more people here, so lots of varied opportunities and experiences in Ithaca, and you'll share an alma mater with Pynchon, Harold Bloom, Vonnegut, and E.B. White.

[Anonymous No.6996514]

>>6988324
>>6988376
Do you mind posting the acceptance letters again? I am intrested :)

[Anonymous No.6996585]

>his university is under 700 years old

[Anonymous No.6996678]

>>6996118
You're only given one life - I'll do what I love for it's duration.

[Anonymous No.6996739]

>>6993574
The only people I know who went to Dartmouth are incredibly egotistical and spend half the time you converse reminding you about Keggy the Keg. I know that's anecdotal evidence but I'd say go with Cornell for early decision.

[Anonymous No.6996799]

>TFW you didn't go to college and your now an insecure neet shit that feels worthless when seeing these threads.
>Keep thinking maybe I should just go to a community college and try it out but get disgusted when thinking of the capitalist and likely ideological undercurrents.

[Anonymous No.6996843]

Mistakes were made.

[Anonymous No.6996853]

>>6996799
I know someone who fucked up hard in high school and had to go to community college before he progressed onto a public ivy, it's worth the work and he's a better person for it. Do it.

[Anonymous No.6996864]

>>6996799

You don't need a piece of paper to be awesome or to achieve something. Step up anon. You should only study something you're passionate about, and that will actually advance your goals in life. Live your life to the fullest, and pursue your dreams. Life's too short to succumb to social obligations or peer pressure to do something you actually don't need.

It will also save you a lot of debt and time wasted.

[Anonymous No.6996873]

STEMfag here.

[Anonymous No.6996877]

UMass Amherst
>tfw all you do is smoke weed and drink beer all the time and still have a 3.095 going into senior year
>tfw you know more about literature and such than your English major friends do
>tfw majoring in philosophy and history and all your history professors are Marxists and none of your überanalytic philosophy professors have ever mentioned Hegel
>tfw alienation from friends and university community

[Anonymous No.6996906]

>>6996843
>>6996873

Hello Texas friends

[Anonymous No.6996913]

>>6994498
>even Cornell
>even
Couldn't possibly ignore the opportunity to piss on SUNY Ithakek, eh?

[Anonymous No.6996919]

>>6996002
Statistically speaking, aren't they more difficult to get accepted that the other four lesser ivies?

[Anonymous No.6996924]

>>6996913
>tfw people piss on Cornell when Brown is even easier pickings

[Anonymous No.6996925]

>>6996906
How is the program. I'm pinned at North Texas because I came as a music major, discovered the program was massively overrated and switched. I don't want to leave the Dallas area though because of fam, friends, longtime girlfriend.

[Anonymous No.6996953]

>>6996925

It's incredible, dude. The sheer access to crazy shit you have as a UT student makes the tuition worth it (pic related, it is a handwritten play that Pynchon wrote in his early twenties stored at the UT library, also they have a ton of DFW's stuff).
Obviously, I don't know a thing about your life, but if you have the opportunity/if you are still early enough in your college career, I would suggest transferring. I have spent a considerable amount of time at UNT because my best friend attends there, and I can tell you that the environment doesn't compare.

[Anonymous No.6996961]

>>6996924
>Brown's name is literally the color of shit
Mfw

[Anonymous No.6996971]

>>6996953
I am two years in, though obviously its too late for this semester. I'm torn because I am far enough along I can now just take all the stuff I am interested in anyways, and I am generally content, but I know there's a better academic life to be had out there.

[Anonymous No.6996975]

long shot but who /southampton/ here?

[Anonymous No.6997011]

>>6996971

Well, transfer students need 60 in-resident hours to graduate, so that is something to be aware of. Just do some research, see what your options are.

[Anonymous No.6997060]

>>6986780

KUL represent
what did you study?

[Anonymous No.6997065]

>>6996961
that's the spirit, fuck these hippies

http://www.browndailyherald.com/2015/02/05/makhlouf-16-rotc-return-criminals-2/

[Anonymous No.6997067]

i'm going to weed lmao the school because they gave me a decent merit scholarship

[Anonymous No.6997070]

george mason, northern virginia community college

[Anonymous No.6997110]

>>6997070
I probably know you

[Anonymous No.6997125]

>>6997110

If you have a vagina, you're wrong.

[Anonymous No.6997127]

>>6997125
Nope

[Anonymous No.6997134]

>>6997127

Damn. Well do you like chillaz at 711? Because I do.

[Anonymous No.6997159]

>>6997134
Who doesnt?

[Anonymous No.6997193]

>>6996585
This.

[Anonymous No.6997217]

>>6985593
UC Davis, best school that nobody outside of California knows about.

[Anonymous No.6997237]

>>6997217
>proud of going to cow university

[Anonymous No.6997247]

>>6997237
that was the main selling point

[Anonymous No.6997282]

>>6994376
Yeah, UW-Seatte is not one of the original Public Ivy's, it was considered a "worthy runner-up". The original Public Ivy's are:

>Wiliam & Mary
>Miami of Ohio
>Michigan - Ann Arbor
>North Carolina - Chapel Hil
>Texas - Austin
>Vermont - Burlington
>Virginia - Charottesville
>California - all campuses founded before 1985

[Anonymous No.6997285]

>you will NEVER get an acceptance letter in the mail on a chilly April morning from Fordham

[Anonymous No.6997309]

Starting a phd in a couple weeks

[Anonymous No.6997321]

>>6985593
/centre/

[Anonymous No.6997323]

>>6997309
I admire your ambition, brother. What's your major?
What are fretting about the most?

[Anonymous No.6997337]

>>6996002
not really, Columbia is currently ranked #4 in the nation, tied with Stanford and only behind Princeton/Harvard/Yale. Columbia is definitely higher tier.

[Anonymous No.6997347]

>>6997323
>I admire your ambition, brother.
Thanks man.
>What's your major?
The program is called Engineering and Applied Science and I think my research will be in computational math.
>What are fretting about the most?
not getting a gf tbh

[Anonymous No.6997474]

>>6996079
>famous english dept
I did right ;^)

>>6997217
What's your major, Davisfriend? Never knew there were so many of us.

[Anonymous No.6997491]

is there any reason to major in the humanities if you don't want to be poor

[Anonymous No.6997498]

>>6997474
English as well. I'm incoming frosh but I have two English classes this quarter, 10A and 05 (writing fiction). So I'm gonna figure out very quickly whether it's for me or not

[Anonymous No.6997509]

>>6997498
I'm an incoming transfer, so I know what you mean. Are you going to try to do Honors when you're eligible?

[Anonymous No.6997533]

>>6997509
haven't really looked into it much tbh, my grades weren't really even close to be good enough in high school so I'm just gonna worry about handling the class load. If I'm excelling then I'll start worrying about it

[Anonymous No.6997582]

>going to university

I dropped out. Fuck it.

[Anonymous No.6997673]

is attending class mandatory

[Anonymous No.6997680]

>>6997673
depends on the professor but usually not. But you'd be an idiot not to

[Anonymous No.6997692]

Well, I'm curious now. How does /lit/ regard NYU?

[Anonymous No.6997698]

>>6996319
Participation is often mandatory especially in smaller classes. Bigger classes may make attendance/participation in tutorial, which are unbearable mini-classes headed by apathetic TAs to make you have to come out to campus an extra 2 hours on a Friday night every week. And 90% of those will grade you on whether you speak up and engage with the other students, who will hate you for doing so.

Go speak to your disability or accessibility office about getting a waiver for social anxiety or something. Or as I like to call them, a Retard Slip. They come in real handy if you don't want to do shit.

[Anonymous No.6997726]

>>6997692
It's one of the best schools is the country and John Guillory teaches there, so I think it's pretty cool.

[Anonymous No.6997751]

>>6997692
I wouldn't go there for undergrad cuz it doesn't have a campus but it's definitely a really good school. I have a friend who goes there and he and everyone else I meet seem to think it's Ivy-tier, it's not really unless you're in Stern, but it's still very very good.

[Anonymous No.6997758]

>>6997673
basically, yes
if you don't go you WILL fail