college thread

[Anonymous No.9735855]

Post colleges that you study/work at.

Pic related(student).

[Anonymous No.9735871]

University of Delaware.

Feels bad. I just went in for the in-state tuition. Hoping to get into a top 20 for grad school so I can make it as a professor. . . losing hope

[Anonymous No.9735890]

Just dropped out of OU brehs.
28 and moved back in with mom.
Small town, no jobs.
Never had a gf or sex.
$35K in student loans with no way to repay. Waiting for them to arrest me tbqh famalam. No plan and no future.

[Anonymous No.9735899]

>>9735871
what do you want to teach? i've heard the academic road is really tough, but once you get tenure/respect it sounds like an amazing job.

[Anonymous No.9735911]

>>9735899
English would be ideal, but I'm double majoring in Classics along with English, so whichever road shines brightest.

It is pretty tough and from what I have discussed with others, it is a game of connections. It's hard for someone to become a professor without being somewhat clubbable.
>>9735890
Join military.

[Anonymous No.9735935]

Grad student at the University of Dallas. It's okay if you haven't heard of it. It's a small Catholic school affiliated with the Cistercians and to a lesser degree the Franciscans. I'm getting a Master of Arts in English Literature.

[Anonymous No.9735955]

Allegedly studying history, but mostly just loafing about

[Anonymous No.9736008]

>>9735955
Is your campus in a castle?

[Anonymous No.9736053]

>>9736008
No, its spread out throughout the city. Alot of the lectures are actually in pretty grim Warsaw Pact-esque buildings actually, most of the nice gothic/neo-classical buildings are used by admin

[Anonymous No.9736059]

>>9735911
>>>9735899
>English would be ideal, but I'm double majoring in Classics along with English, so whichever road shines brightest.

Just do straight Classics desu.

>It is pretty tough and from what I have discussed with others, it is a game of connections. It's hard for someone to become a professor without being somewhat clubbable.

The prof route sucks. Be prepared for total immiseration.

[Anonymous No.9736073]

Syracuse University

International relations

I want the /lit/ life of a career diplomat in some comfy corner of the globe.

[Anonymous No.9736077]

>>9736059
We'll see. I already have a lot more to show for English than Classics.

I get why many aspects of professorship are miserable but for the most part it sounds like a fun ride. You just need to write to stay on your feet and publish your original ideas to some journal. Sounds great

[Anonymous No.9736083]

studying cs, minor in creative writing
other maroon fags reveal yourselves

[Anonymous No.9736089]

>>9735890
Ohio University?

Fucking leave that state.

[Anonymous No.9736090]

Austin Peay State University. A random state school that I have to take a year off from to work. Studying English but it's depressingly easy. I signed up for a graduate class in the fall but since I'm taking a break I obviously won't be able to.

[Anonymous No.9736112]

>>9735855
Rising 2L at University of South Carolina School of Law.

[Anonymous No.9736116]

>>9736089

THE University of Oklahoma

[Anonymous No.9736127]

Studying philosophy and finance. Close to work and cheap af

[Anonymous No.9736136]

[Anonymous No.9736139]

>>9736136
You like it?

Post your HS stats. Will apply

[Anonymous No.9736160]

>>9736136
I hope to go to grad school either there or at Johns Hopkins. Right now I'm working on my BA at UMD College Park.

[Anonymous No.9736179]

>>9735935
I'm an undergrad student at UTD.

[Anonymous No.9736215]

Humanities PhD student at UChicago, here. Extremely autistic.

>>9736083
Hello friend

[Anonymous No.9736223]

Studying Symbolic Systems. Don't get too jealous now, plebs.

[Anonymous No.9736225]

>tfw did mediocre in undergrad because of family issues
>Will never study Cultural Preservation at Cornell because of GPA
>Can only contribute to Archaeology as a field of interest and never professionally
Shitsux bros

[Anonymous No.9736228]

>>9736215
>Extremely autistic
What did you mean by this?

[Anonymous No.9736273]

>>9736112
Took the LSAT recently and hoping to apply to Law Schools soon.

[Anonymous No.9736286]

>>9736228
I'm self-aware and high-functioning, so I can at least tell when things are awkward, but I still don't do well when it comes to normie socialising. I like situations where everyone is weird, and fully aware and accepting of each other's weirdness, so that everyone can just be sincere and have intense conversations.

Without that intensity in common, I basically have to fake participation in any social gathering. Normal people get really freaked out if I don't tone down the autism, but I don't have a choice, because I don't enjoy talking about stuff in a very general way, or talking about general things (entertainment media, e.g.) in a positive way.

[Anonymous No.9736296]

>>9736073
I'm entering Syracuse this fall as a freshman. I'll be studying at Newhouse and residing in Boland Hall. Please be my friend, I don't know anybody.

[Anonymous No.9736326]

>>9736286
>autistic humanities student
That's rare but cool to see. What's your field?

Also, any tips for us significantly dumber non-autists out there? How do we develop an intense passion for something?

[Anonymous No.9736327]

Radford University. I must have the highest IQ out of all the students who attend here. This is what I get for fucking my life up. I hope I can get the fuck out after this next semester raising my GPA.

[Anonymous No.9736359]

>>9736225

Contributing to a field as an amateur is way, way more /lit/ than being a professional.

But chances are you will never make a contribution either way kek

[Anonymous No.9736376]

I go to a tier 2 commuter university.

its boring

[Anonymous No.9736387]

>>9736326
But anon, you already have an intense passion for your ignorance.

[Anonymous No.9736397]

>>9735855
If your in Buffalo hmu, stem major here.
Don't go to this piece of shit city or piece of shit school unless it is the most economically viable option.

Lit life on my free time.

[Anonymous No.9736404]

If you're in Buffalo hmu, stem major here.
Don't go to this piece of shit city or piece of shit school unless it is the most economically viable option.

Lit life on my free time.

[Anonymous No.9736451]

Went to a shitty party school (pic related) because it was the first offer I got and fuck it I'm lazy. The. Really fucked up and failed a math class and got a decent to shit marks in most of my other non-English classes. Now the school is Supposedly going bankrupt and I might get kicked out anyways for my shit grades. Did I fuck up my life permanently, /lit/?

[Anonymous No.9736490]

>>9736326
Basically studying philosophy but I like anything related to the human sciences.

>Also, any tips for us significantly dumber non-autists out there? How do we develop an intense passion for something?

Why do you think you're dumber? I don't know how to try on clothes in department stores so I just don't buy clothes for years.

I dunno, I always see passion/intelligence/talent as intertwined, or as facets of the same thing. Your life should have a for-the-sake-of-which, or multiple, and they be part of an unfolding narrative of who you are. Don't see yourself as a standardised human unit living a standardised existence, with standardised milestones along the way. That's just quanitative differentiation, but humans are qualitatively unique.

Devote your life to cultivating yourself into the organically highest version of yourself, so that you can say something unique to the universe just by having existed. Your actions should be an integral expression of your true self, and also coax that true self toward its entelechy, dialectically, by virtue of being acted out. An explanation of "who you are" should never be reducible to a list of job titles, accolades, positions, numbers. It should require that someone really know you, in the way you deeply know a great fragmented and multifaceted protagonist, when you read a book. And by being the greatest possible you, you will necessarily see things only you could have seen, things only visible to whatever weird unique mishmash you are (and always could have been), and then you can take those things back to the whole and enrich everyone else with them.

A lot of German philosophy is good for this stuff (but also probably dangerous depending on your constitution). Nietzsche's stuff on living as the highest expression of even your own idiosyncrasies is pretty cool.

[Anonymous No.9736519]

>>9736139
Under 18 gtfo

[Anonymous No.9736524]

>>9736327
Your school has a nice pool hall. I played there last year for the regional tournament.

[Anonymous No.9736525]

Kent State, generic state school number whatever. When the most notable thing about your university is that people were killed there - don't arrive with great expectations. It's kind of funny actually because the spot where the students got shot is actually a parking lot now.

I was accepted to better universities (Pitt for one) but this place is by far the cheapest and i'm a poorfag so i'll suffer through the indignity of living in Ohio for a bit.

[Anonymous No.9736528]

Fucked up in hs, hoping to transfer to UGA and study classics

[Anonymous No.9736537]

>>9736524
UMBC.
It's garbage.
Studied finance but since I have literally zero connections and shit GPA because of laziness when it comes to things I don't care about I couldn't get an internship which means I'll never get a job because she discrimination is real and it's a black mark to not have a job straight out of school that's big enough to instantly disqualify you in the future.
Kill me

[Anonymous No.9736566]

>>9736537
Why do you study something you don't care about?

[Anonymous No.9736569]

>>9736215
you're the Reg poster, aren't you?

[Anonymous No.9736580]

>>9736524
A nice pool hall is no comfort to me. Everyone here is a complete retard. I have to get out, even if it's to the dangerous nigger infested ODU. Even that would be better. Well, maybe not. We'll see if I can get into Tech.

[Anonymous No.9736581]

>>9736286
As someone with PDD-NOS, what you say is similar to my life experiences so far. Nice to see someone who understands the pains of normal conversation.

I mean like you I can fake it, and for some time, but sometimes I don't get normal people, and that fine. It's nice meeting normal people who have similar interests that you share, because that means you can channel the autistic intensity into the related interests.

Related to this topic I go to George Washington and study International Affairs and Economics. Its a good place to study and many people share my interests, so thatch always good. Also there is always something interesting going on, like the time I ran into Steve Bannon at whole foods. Turns out he buys organic.

[Anonymous No.9736593]

>>9736566
I care a lot about equity research and accounting which was my focus. Problem is the collegiate system is such garbage that you have to spend two years worth of credits doing things you don't like then another year of only tangentially related courses. I don't give a shit about personal income tax, don't give a shit about advanced micro economic theory, don't give a shit about psychology or computer programming either, but guess what? Had to slog through all that shit.

[Anonymous No.9736606]

>>9735855
Going to start senior year at Pomona College this Fall.

Double-major in history and literature.

I unironically wear a bandana like DFW but few people get the reference.

It's okay though, I'm hoping to be a high school history or English teacher.

[Anonymous No.9736611]

Studying English at a small Catholic college in Michigan near Grand Rapids. Going into sophmore year. I just want to write/read about books.

[Anonymous No.9736617]

>>9736580
I enjoyed tech. The tournament was there this year. Nice pizza place.

[Anonymous No.9736631]

>>9736581
Do prolonged social interactions wear you out mentally?

[Anonymous No.9736736]

>>9736083
I'm not saying because my area of study has so few people that I would basically be doxxing myself.

[Anonymous No.9736739]

>>9736581
>Nice to see someone who understands the pains of normal conversation.
It's really not that uncommon to feel that way.

[Anonymous No.9736800]

>tfw took the start with the Greeks meme too seriously

[Anonymous No.9736807]

>>9736631
Yes, yes they do. I know often that I should try to be more social, but some days I just need to retreat and take sometime to myself to regain some energy.

The worst part is now that I have gotten better at talking to people, people have started to talk less and stare at their phones more. It's somewhat disheartening.

[Anonymous No.9736875]

>>9736800
i know that feel, senpai

[sin No.9736904]

Has anyone here transferred from a community college into an Ivy or a Little Ivy?

My counselor suggested that I, at least, apply to Stanford, Williams, and Dartmouth. She's successfully transferred a student into each one and has a good feeling about my chances.

I live in California, so I think it would be better for me to go for Stanford, what with all the in-state tuition and all. Anyone here know anything about Williams or Dartmouth?

I have seen the number of transfers that Williams has taken, though, and it doesn't look that I much chance there—they only took in two of around 250 applicants a few years ago.

If I don't get into any of these, I've got Berkeley to fall back on, and it already looks like I'm a shoo-in.

[Anonymous No.9736930]

>>9736904
just go to stanford if you get in. Tuition will fuck you in the ass elsewhere...

Dartmouth is a very neat school and if you have deep pockets it is worth going to. Williams I would avoid imo. I've seen the products of that school and most are insufferable. I went to a shit state school after going to a premier high school. The kids that went to dartmouth and stanford were cool (tho stanford is a lil gay) and williams kids had a stick far into their ass.
Just a layman's perspective. I was not disciplined enough in hs to get into any of those schools even if I had applied

[Anonymous No.9736953]

University of Southern California undergraduate, formerly attended Hamilton College in NY.

[Anonymous No.9736980]

>>9736736
geography if youre an undergrad
dunno about niche grad programs

[Anonymous No.9736982]

>>9736089
Seriously he should leave that university before the complimentary meth addiction kicks in. The rest of Ohio is shitty, but at least it isn't Athens shitty. Columbus and Cincinnati are livable, but the rest sucks ass.

>>9736525
I lived there when I was a little kid for about a year, and it seemed alright. Kind of like a generic college town, but I was too young to really get a feel for it. All I remember is that supposedly there were Wiccans trying to infiltrate one of the local churches, they had that rock with the spray paint, there was one of the original Arby's and A&B Rootbeer drive-ins there, and I took art classes for kids at Kent State, where they provided cherry scented glue for the kids, so me and my friends spent an entire class just smelling the glue, then I felt kind of dizzy and guilty for maybe huffing glue

>>9736136
You like it there? I presented at a conference there last spring, and it was pretty cool. The people from Georgetown at the conference seemed very nice, but DC is expensive as hell. Which department are you in? I'm really sad that they don't have a comp lit PhD, so I probably won't ever apply there unfortunately.
.

[sin No.9737022]

>>9736930
You and I aren't much different: My grades in high school were leagues short of exemplary.

I'll take what you say about Williams with a grain of salt, however. I think I can handle not turning into an insufferable buffoon. Which state school did you go to? At least you got into a university, unlike me.

[Anonymous No.9737060]

Going here next year, studying Arts and Entertainment Management.

Any other Vancouverbros down for some quizbowl?

[Anonymous No.9737063]

>>9736223
cool

[Anonymous No.9737073]

>>9737022
i think what he means is that those small liberal arts colleges tend to be more like highschool 2.0 than what you'd get at a large university, socially. this difference acclimatizes students into adulthood differently , with the former generally more insufferable than the latter.

[Anonymous No.9737079]

>>9737060
I fucking wish my school had quizbowl team. Now I have to languish in my high school talent like a Chad.

[Anonymous No.9737085]

>>9736800
i almost went here lol
too autistic even for me
which campus?

[Anonymous No.9737092]

Full ride (brown-enough poorfag) to Colby College, studying art and whatever the hell else I want to since I never tried in or enjoyed any sort of the STEM classes I had in HS

[Anonymous No.9737101]

>>9736606
Teaching--in California? How is it? I come from Oklahoma but still can only see myself teaching, so I'm looking to other states.

[Anonymous No.9737106]

>>9735890
about the same age and similar situation. i didn't drop out, though. i was academically disqualified for poor grades.

[Anonymous No.9737161]

>>9737101
Depending on where you teach in California it can be very rewarding or very frustrating.

For example, many areas with high teacher salaries such as the city of Los Angeles are terrible to work at because of underfunded schools and crowded classrooms.

On the other hand, there are places like Irvine where schools get proper funding and have a manageable number of students, but salary is too low compared to the high cost of living in the area.

Depending on what kind of environment you would like to teach in, you'll have to level out the pros and cons.

I personally would suggest you look for teaching jobs in the counties of San Bernardino and Riverside. Possibly Imperial if you REALLY would like a rural desert setting.

If you want to teach in a bigger city, I would suggest you avoid Los Angeles and San Francisco and would suggest you look for jobs in San Diego, Fresno, or Sacramento.

I have a friend currently teaching in Sacramento and he is renting a big condo for less than $1,000 a month.

Keep in mind California has extremely high taxes. It might be better to get a job that pays less in another state where taxes and cost of living is cheap. Rural communities in Nevada are always hiring but that's probably for a good reason.

[Anonymous No.9737292]

University of North Carolina School of Law. Working for a judge over the summer. Kinda wish I had a real summer, but I'm finding time to read.

[Anonymous No.9737306]

>>9736581

GW Alum here - SMPA for my undergrad. How's Foggy these days?

[Anonymous No.9737335]

>>9736800
Pretty incredible that we're so small and I still see Johnnies in every one of these threads

[Anonymous No.9737338]

>>9735935

I grew up in Irving. I know how it feels.


UT Austin here

[Anonymous No.9737348]

>>9736800
how's learning french and greek going?

[Anonymous No.9737363]

Starting Mental Philosophy this September, what should I prepare for?

[Anonymous No.9737373]

Starting grad school here in the fall.

[Anonymous No.9737377]

>>9736875
hello my fellow curitibano, que ce estuda na federal?

[Anonymous No.9737381]

any other colorado people here?

University of Colorado Colorado Springs - double majoring in Film and English Secondary Education

[Anonymous No.9737416]

>>9736904
I hope you can do it. I plan on spending all of my spare time and money on doing this as soon as I have some. Best of luck.

[Anonymous No.9737594]

Starting @ Northwestern in the fall!
Anyone else on here? I'm starting to have second doubts about the student body. I wanted a top school that was unpretentious/normal, but I think I may have gone too far in the latter area.

[Anonymous No.9737604]

Vanderbilt here. was biomedical engineering but switched to economics. no hope for the future because I spend all my time fucking around ayyy kill me

[Anonymous No.9737608]

>>9737594
I have friends there. they seem to like it. it's like a smarter state school in terms of student body from what I could see.

[Anonymous No.9737610]

>>9737079
Oh, they don't have one. I'm just looking to play with people.

[Anonymous No.9737729]

>>9737594
I have a Korean friend going there. He's studying business or finance or something. He also has oral herpes, so don't kiss him.

[Anonymous No.9737787]

studying accounting and music. halfway done, secretly hoping my band gets signed in the next few years so i dont need to get a real job

>>9736606
howzit? i almost went to pitzer. met some students one time when they visited, gave me the impression i'd like the place. i grew up close to claremont so i've always loved that little village, do students like it at all?

[Anonymous No.9737807]

>>9736327
My sister was an adolescent thief who refused to wear her glasses and got sent to Catholic school (as punishment) which only moderately straightened her out. At any rate, she went there, did okay, went into the Peace Corps, got a 5 on some exit exam, got an MA at Hunter College, then a PhD at Columbia. No lie. Anything can happen. She does, however, speak and read 5 languages rather well-- Russian, Slovak, Japanese, German, and of course English. Buck up!

[Anonymous No.9737824]

I'll be attending St. Edward's University in the fall as an international student. I think I'll hate the school but love the city.

[Anonymous No.9737845]

>>9736286
Are you me?

[Anonymous No.9737864]

I never went to university

I make prosthetic limbs and foot orthotics for a living

I don't like privileged inept uni student's. Why do they always talk in acronyms? Why do they cry poor but live in the most expensive suburbs?

[Anonymous No.9737869]

Macedonian national university

Translation to English and vice versa

It's pretty depressing. Many autists - I barely study an I'm top 5 in my group.

[Anonymous No.9738153]

>>9737085
Annapolis desu.
>>9737348
I got to go to DLI in the army and learn french, and when I decided on St. John's I took the rest of my time in the army to learn Greek so it's been a breeze.
>>9737335
Its the institutional autism I think.

[Anonymous No.9738160]

Studying mechanic engineering at Purdue University and hating my life for it. Luckily I only have 2 more years. I will probably just teach high school in a rural area and study in my free time. All of my friends who graduated said engineering jobs blow.

[Anonymous No.9738203]

Planning on going here for a Classics degree next spring.

[sin No.9738222]

>>9737416
I wish you the best as well, my good man. We'll all get there.

[Anonymous No.9738250]

>>9736404
You ever go to the Joyce Center that's up there?

[Anonymous No.9738579]

>>9736223
>tree university

wtf where is that shit?

[Anonymous No.9738587]

>>9736083
Any tips for an incoming first year?

[Anonymous No.9738593]

>>9736525
Grad assistant at Kent State here.

[Anonymous No.9738617]

>>9737306
Foggy is doing reasonably well, I am going to list some changes depending when you graduated might not know about.

>No dining hall anymore, they got rid of J-Street. Now we have a dinning plan with local restaurants and stores. It sucks
>District House is finally finished, so theirs that. There making juniors live on campus unless they get an exemption, which is tedious to get. Housing is tighter as a result.
>Massive sexual assault scandal. Peter K was an idiot and decided lighten charges for a rape. Sure the person leading the entire fight against Peter K is a bit of a SJW, but Peter K was an idiot of making the guy keep his job in HelWell even after the charges sticked in the first place.

[Anonymous No.9738647]

Oxford here, where my fellow Oxonians at?

[Anonymous No.9738652]

graduated georgia tech a few years ago. it was a shitty undergraduate experience but it was cheap, got me a job, and exposed me to some new ideas. i feel like asking for much more than that from college is asking too much.

for all the hate stem gets, learning about algorithms did give me a new way to look at the world. in concept computer science is extremely interesting, but the problem is that in the working world it boils down to checking for null, form validation, and file parsing for data driven design. i maybe get to write two "real" algorithms a year.

if i could do it again i probably would major in english and go off the deep end experimenting with psychadelics, but desu i'm not sure if it would have made me any happier. for what it's worth the english composition classes i took my freshman year introduced me to douglas coupland, who is extremely underrated on this board.

tbs (tech bitch syndrome) is real, by the way. i can only imagine it has gotten worse in proceeding years (i graduated before the sjw meme was a thing). and this is coming from someone who wasn't a complete loser and who actually had a relationship while enrolled.

>>9738160
engineering jobs are soul sucking but they pay well. i've been to purdue - good bbq there.

>>9736606
went here once to present at a conference. had the feeling that everyone there was happy and beautiful. like blonde dolls.

[Anonymous No.9738664]

Undergrad Psychogy at UW-Madison.

[Anonymous No.9738705]

Someone talk me out of going to St. Johns.

There's no way it's worth it, right? I want to be a professor down the road but the lack of a clear major at St. John's is a bit scary and odd on record.

Is it true that you learn Latin, Greek, and French all in your undergrad years? How solid is the math education? SJW? Good mentors? Lots of blacks?

[Anonymous No.9738706]

>>9738652

I'm the guy who dropped out in post two.

I did the whole psychedelics meme. Yes I've lived more than you can even imagine, but I also no longer have the ability to commit to anything including the absurdity of daily life.

[Anonymous No.9738708]

I study English and Comparative Literature at the University of Oregon. I'm pretty invested in both programs, but I'm hoping to go to grad school in California where I grew up. The Pacific Northwest certainly has its ups and down, though. Sports in general make the community intellectually inept, but there are a few exceedingly bright minds (at least, as far as I've been able to discern within my programs and a few others) and a decent amount of places to make the city interesting. There are about one or two good bookstores that I frequent and the campus in general is a comfortable mix of old and new buildings. I can't even begin to describe the culture here, though. Love it or hate it, most of the locals are insane.

[Anonymous No.9738716]

>>9737377
hello piá! estudo direito

[Anonymous No.9738730]

>>9738647
Starting my Master's there in October. Did my undergrad at a third world university. What should I expect?

[Anonymous No.9738735]

>>9738705
>How solid is the math education? SJW? Good mentors? Lots of blacks?
The fuck does this have to do with anything.
>I want to enter into a phd program but I'm not sure that the people reviewing me will know about one of the most prestigious liberal arts colleges in the country.

End yourself and go back to /pol/

[Anonymous No.9738736]

>>9738730
>What should I expect?
Pure ideology.

[Anonymous No.9738738]

Heading to University this fall to start my first semester, what am I in for /lit/?

[Anonymous No.9738740]

>>9738738
university

[Anonymous No.9738743]

>>9738738
>what am I in for /lit/?
Pure ideology.

[Anonymous No.9738748]

>>9738708
>if you like sports you're a brain dead mongoloid
You realize you can go to sporting events and also think? I'm probably going to weigh in how good the athletics program is at a school into my graduate school applications.

[Anonymous No.9738759]

>>9738748
Yes, I do all the time. But do most people? No. Lol, good for you.

[Anonymous No.9738767]

>>9738735
>The fuck does this have to do with anything.
Well, when I'm paying 400000000 dollars for some private college and I don't learn a solid foundation in math, get good professors who are wlecominig and helpful, and that is polluted with politics, It'd be pretty shit.
>I want to enter into a phd program but I'm not sure that the people reviewing me will know about one of the most prestigious liberal arts colleges in the country

LOL St. John's?
Let's see here. . .

#308 in Private Colleges
#308 in Research
#164 in national Unis
Acceptance Rate: 65 %

Look, it's good to support your college, but come on man.


Point is, I'm not so sure St. Johns is a good alternative to just going to my state uni

[Anonymous No.9738772]

Why are you all studying english and literature. Are you going to be able to find a job?

[Anonymous No.9738777]

>>9738772
If you aren't lazy and stupid you can find a job.

[Anonymous No.9738783]

>>9738767

Jesus Christ just go to the in-state uni.
Why the fuck would anyone go to a private school.
>hurrr plz let me pay $35K a year in tuition for the same exact education I could get for $6K a year
Genius

[Anonymous No.9738793]

>>9736982
I was thinking of doing a Comp Lit PhD myself. Any specific programs you have in mind/would recommend?

[Anonymous No.9738806]

>>9738777
It's how you market yourself and apply the skills you have to whatever industry you're applying for. Humanities are really flexible in that way.

[Anonymous No.9738848]

>>9738806
Just be yourself

[Anonymous No.9738850]

>>9738705
I'm the anon who was in the military, I got a complete free ride so it didn't matter at all to me, I'm gonna graduate with 120k in invested money from muh bennies. But I'd say to only go there if you have a plan after for grad school.

[Anonymous No.9738873]

>>9738730
Expect being excluded from elitist societies, and being an eternal outsider.

Also, expect paying absurdly high college fees and getting annoyed by the fact that you won't be able to take a lot of the books from the library home, or even getting denied access to libraries from other colleges.

[Anonymous No.9738946]

>>9735899
Don't go to a "top" anything school and you'll have a better chance with muh diversity. Hundreds of thousands of applicants have a degree from a top program-- the key is standing out by having a diverse but related set of classes on your transcripts. Academia wants to see proficiency in English, Sociology, and Psychology.

[Anonymous No.9738954]

>>9735911
I'm an English professor and was hired the semester after I graduated. >>9736059
Classics is usually covered by philosophy majors or general Humanities. English doesn't really focus on the classics per se. Classical Literature is covered in survey courses so by the time you reach your Content area, it's assumed knowledge.

[Anonymous No.9738959]

>>9738793
If you get a PhD before trying to teach with a Master's at a community college, you will have an exceptionally hard time finding work

[Anonymous No.9738962]

>>9737381
ay whatup, I go to CC. How do you like your film program?
I like CC, but some of the people here are so crazy rich and privileged its hard to take

[Anonymous No.9738963]

>>9738959
They usually want 5 years experience as well

[Anonymous No.9738997]

>>9738954
Where'd you attend school?

[Anonymous No.9739018]

>>9738997
A local community college (Moraine Valley) and a small public university (Governors State University)
Illinois.
I currently teach at 3 community colleges, I tutor Writing online and I teach kids in China how to speak English (online)

[Anonymous No.9739026]

>>9739018
Well congrats, do you like it? Any tips that most don't really know of?

[Anonymous No.9739048]

>>9739026
I LOVE it!! I teach CC because I am interested in teaching and being in the classroom. Most 4 year schools require a PhD but the emphasis is on research and publishing, so you have to want to be a researcher not a teacher.

I was immediately going to get my PhD with a specialization in American Lit but I will be "over qualified" and having a strict specialization tells employers you're good at one thing and one thing only.

I adjunct right now, but I can get pay raises based on taking more classes individually across a variety of disciplines which makes me more flexible and appealing to employers. I also have an MA in English so I teach First Year Writing which is required so I am practically secured in my job. I still want a lit class but I can teach any content area with 18 credit hours or more in the Humanities from film to mythology to sociology

I applied and sent out emails to the chair of my department. Then I followed up near the time school hire, which is usually as early as March for Fall semester and then again around May, then July. For spring semester, apply around the end of September.

Know your philosophy and approach to teaching and learn how to simplify your language for a general audience. Most times, your reviewer will be in HR and unfamiliar with it. Use buzzwords in your resume and make your resume stand out. I made mine on a grey background with dark purple/burgundy text. Studies say purple is the most attractive color to people.

And the usual: be self-motivated, enjoy and embrace challenges, and be positive.

[Anonymous No.9739147]

>>9737594
I'll be starting grad school at NU in the fall. Looking forward to it, if only because I've spent the last few years depressed working in a dead-end job.

[Anonymous No.9739333]

>>9738793
I've kind of put everything on hold academically speaking. I'm teaching as an adjunct this summer but looking for work in the non-profit field. I don't have a lot of student loan debt from undergrad, but enough that I want to pay it off before deferring income for the next 4 to 5 years of my life.

Also, I'm still not sure what I want to focus on for my PhD. Writing my thesis at least temporarily killed my passion for what I thought were my interests. Mostly, it illustrated to me how much I need to develop my writing abilities still, especially in an academic field. In the mean time, I'll be presenting at some conferences and submitting revised academic articles to journals, both in hopes of getting published but also to revise the articles for use as writing samples.

I'm honestly not sure which programs interest me. CU Boulder has a good Comp Lit program with heavy ties to one of the better Spanish programs in the country, and OSU has a very interdisciplinary program with the advantage that their English department has some of the best narrative studies scholars at the moment. University of Toronto's program is also top-tier, but they have been closing off funding from non-Canadians for a while now.

I'm also sort of considering Yale's MFA in play-writing or dramaturgy, because they churn out a lot of successful scholars and creatives, but it's a very demanding program, and I'd still need to go to some sort of PhD program later if I wanted to get a tenure-track position somewhere. Also, Roberto Gonzalez Echevarría sunk Yale's Spanish graduate program, so despite the presence of Rolena Adorno, studying comp lit at yale would be a non-starter.

I also thought about Penn-State's comp lit program. It's pretty great, but their faculty tend to favor things like Chinese lit, which is mostly inaccessible to me due to language barriers.

In general, look at both the faculty in the comp lit departments that you're considering and also the faculty in the specific languages you plan on studying. Look at placement rates of students that study under that faculty. look at how often this faculty is cited. Most importantly, look at where the contemporary scholars you like reading are located. You're dedicating 4-6 years to a very narrow field of interest, and what is most important is finding the right mentors to help you flourish in your pursuits.

[Anonymous No.9739341]

t. not undergrad

[Anonymous No.9739360]

>>9737338
same bro, what are you studying?

[Anonymous No.9739373]

Where my /Roll Tide/ bros at?

[Anonymous No.9739406]

Anyone NYU niBBas here

Studying Pre-med and minoring in Drama

[Anonymous No.9739416]

>>9739373
inbred vermin

[Anonymous No.9739421]

>have a dream to be an Oxbridge student
>study hard for years to get amazing grades, work during holidays to be able to fund college fees
>get accepted to Oxford as a graduate student
>don't notice any significant difference in quality of education

Feels bad man. The only real difference are the higher standards and the better facilities (gym, social clubs, etc)

[Anonymous No.9739488]

>>9739416
Very intellectual post, xir

[Anonymous No.9739500]

>>9735855
Do you know someone by the name of Leo E.?

[Anonymous No.9739509]

Higher education is a deception. Have fun being miserable with your material bindings, confused plebs.

[Anonymous No.9739522]

>>9739509

[Anonymous No.9739542]

>>9739488
sorry I couldn't resist

[Anonymous No.9739563]

>>9739542
You realize Bama is 70% out-of-state though right

[Anonymous No.9739565]

Went to Pic Related for undergrad, did Pre-med, business and anthropology.

Currently at Carnegie Mellon doing am MBA Part time

[Anonymous No.9739568]

advice, not really. assuaging fears/anxieties? depends what those are. so whay are you worried about/want to know, anon?
i think a good rule of thumb at uc is dont take your self too seriously, and dont take the people that take themselves too seriously, too seriously.
if yourea

[Anonymous No.9739574]

Case Western

Haven't started yet, going for muh scholarship money

Going to try for a Physics/English double major

[Anonymous No.9739601]

>Only thing in this world I care about is literature
>father makes me go to medical school
>no time to read do to 18 hours of classes per week on top of ~85 hour work weeks
>last book I read was Stoner
How do I cope

[Anonymous No.9739644]

>>9736139
gtown is a weird spot. very segregated into athletes/rich people from connecticut, and then lots of smart catholic south americans and people who were first in their class at some public school in wherever. it depends what you want. in terms of social life, it's not amazing even if youre a popular kid since there are no frats and the neighborhood is fancy as fuck so that means no big house parties and the bars in georgetown (the neighborhood) are evaporating as it turns into a saudi arabian mall of retarded young muslim dudes gunning sports cars. but for a school of its caliber, it's pretty great fun-wise; not like vanderbilt, but much better than hopkins, duke, etc. and not that it's on par with the ivies, but all ivies besides maybe princeton are much worse to go out at.

in terms of city life, dc is what you make it. most kids dont really explore, but that's on them; the town is definitely big enough to find shit for four years and there's two very excellent shakespeare theaters.

in terms of academics, it depends what you want to study. obviously, if you want to do foreign affairs or whatever it's good. i can't really say much about science, though theres a brand new science building. undergrad business school is good, but if that appeals to you, fuck off. good pre-med. humanities are very hit or miss. english classes, in general, have been excellent. my favorite prof, a faulkner scholar, died last year, but there are plenty left (some of the jesuits are actually really great.)

i imagine the philosophy is a little tilted toward theology, but that's based on nothing. saying the humanities are hit or miss is also based on shitty intro anthro and soc classes so take that for what it is. i had a 2.9 gpa and a 1590 SAT - i went to a very good high school, but still have no idea how i got in, just lucky i guess. i dont take studying seriously at all, but if you did theres a great education to be had, and youll meet lots of people. as always with college, it's all relative and just depends where else you are looking. tell me your options and ill give you my opinion.

>>9736982
being a professor here seems comfy as fuck. for a phd, dc is not as expensive as its cracked up to be. well, it is, but you can get by for less. georgetown and the rest of northwest dc is as expensive as anywhere in the US, except for a weird little neighborhood just north of gtown called burleith/glover park. it's v nice but has no metro and is dominated by southern republican frat boys just out of college, so isnt considered hip and so is cheap and a two minute walk from campus.

[Anonymous No.9739693]

>>9739601
Drop out and learn a trade

[Anonymous No.9739695]

>>9739644
DC seemed like a nice enough town to live in, but I think housing prices scared me because I live in a very cheap region of the USA. I went to a lot of different entertainment districts, and they all seemed nice enough. I didn't get to try any pupusas while I was there, but I've heard there are some great spots.

[Anonymous No.9739707]

>>9739695
yeah, my taxi driver was just telling me about all these el salvadorian restaurants in columbia heights

[Anonymous No.9739738]

>>9736953
>Hamilton College


Great choice in mid-tier NESCAC "top" LACs, anon.

I made the same one.

[Anonymous No.9739743]

>>9739373
Clemson here :^)

[Anonymous No.9739759]

>>9739693
medecine IS a trade

[Anonymous No.9739776]

>>9739759
become a plumber is what i meant

[Anonymous No.9739791]

>>9739738
so fucked up when you leave the northeast and everyone doesnt fuck heavy with the nescacs, like nigga you dont know conn college?

[Anonymous No.9739793]

>>9736904
Since when is there in-state tuition at Stanford? Isn't it private?

I go to Williams, and if you want to study English, they have a great department. I really like it, but it is very isolated. There are definitely some of those obnoxious know-it-alls the other anon mentioned, and a lot of preppy New England athlete types, but there are some very chill intelligent people as well. Dartmouth also has a great English department, but the culture there is very fratty (I have close friends who went there and didn't love it). Berkeley has a great English department too, but you will have pretty limited access to it as an undergrad. There will be obnoxious SJWs everywhere—Berkeley has the most, but at a smaller rural school like Williams they are harder to ignore. I don't know much about Stanford except that it is very fancy and full of Silicon Valley entrepreneur wannabes. You might not get in to any of them though, so I would just apply to them all and hope for the best.

If you decide to go to Williams, I'll let you know who the good profs are. I'm on /lit/ everyday, so just ask in one of the college threads. Given where you're applying, it sounds like you've really pulled it together in community college. Good luck anon!

[Anonymous No.9739809]

>>9739743
Please leave

Jokes aside that was objectively the best football game I've ever watched

[Anonymous No.9739814]

>tfw waitlisted in every decent school you applied to
im not gonna make it bros

[Anonymous No.9739825]

>>9739793
Stanford is private but the other person you were talking to is probably banking on the fact that Ivy league schools and other schools in their tier give massive amounts of financial aid. Depending on his income level it could be cheaper for anon to go private then go in-state.

[Anonymous No.9739852]

>Family makes enough to not qualify for financial aid
>family makes too much to not be able to afford tuition

[Anonymous No.9739889]

>>9739852
I know that feel. In the end I just chose the cheapest university available to me because I didn't want to drown in debt.

[Anonymous No.9739897]

>>9739889
I wanted NYU but that full ride based on my ACT at a middling state school was too powerful

[Anonymous No.9739949]

>>9739333
How do you find what schools have good programs for what?
Do you like pay attention to the faculty and what they write and such?

[Anonymous No.9739955]

>>9739897
I was accepted to Wake Forest and Georgetown. I ended up going to North Carolina State University.

[Anonymous No.9739961]

>>9739406
About to go into my senior year. How's it going?

[Anonymous No.9739969]

>>9739406
how do you like NYU?

I know they have one of the best philosophy programs and great film, english, etc. Ive also heard that they just pay for great faculty and other than that they dont have anything that makes them great.

[Anonymous No.9739984]

>>9739738
>tfw applied to Amherst and rejected
I don't know about the pedigree of its academics, but good lord is Hamilton's campus comfy. Loved going for runs through the farmland above it, too.

[Anonymous No.9739997]

>>9736528
I almost went there myself. Less than 10 minutes from where I live but I opted to go to Atlanta for school. No regrets.

[Anonymous No.9740013]

Columbia MFA here

[Anonymous No.9740027]

>>9740013
tell us about it

[Anonymous No.9740039]

>>9739969
>Ive also heard that they just pay for great faculty and other than that they dont have anything that makes them great.

Isn't that the whole point though?

[Anonymous No.9740052]

>>9740027
Great faculty, there are a ton of students and most are competitive in the same ways /lit/ is. The stories I used as a sample were liked by neither
undergraduate "literary" folk or on here, so I suggest reading and writing and being honest on your own. Phamuk is never here

[Anonymous No.9740064]

>>9739048
This is the type of wholesome positivity I always tried to tell myself, but I needed someone to reaffirm it for me just for it to actually settle in. Thanks.

[Anonymous No.9740099]

>>9737338
>>9739360
me too friends
mathematics

[Anonymous No.9740139]

>>9739360
>>9740099

Nice. I'm in Government and Philosophy

[Anonymous No.9740147]

>>9739897

Who throws out full rides just for ACT scores?
I had a 30 and didn't get a bone.

[Anonymous No.9740235]

>tfw a large percentage of /lit/ actually graduated in mid-tier colleges or low-tier state universities
wtf /lit/, I thought you guys have the smartest board in 4chan.

[Anonymous No.9740265]

I'm starting in a month. Any of you boys have advice?

[Anonymous No.9740272]

>>9740265
forgot to post muh skool

[Anonymous No.9740276]

>>9740235
Most of the people on 4chan are in high school. It's a pretty low bar.

[Anonymous No.9740299]

>>9740235
Just because you go to a state school doesn't make you an idiot. A lot of people in this thread went to those schools for financial reasons more than anything. I'm more appalled by the high schoolers.

[Anonymous No.9740301]

>>9740235
At least people finish a school in here. /a/ and /pol/ have nothing but dropouts.

[Anonymous No.9740317]

>tfw you realise that you are posting on 95% Burger board

[Anonymous No.9740325]

>>9739565
Midwesterner here wanting to get into Notre Dame, tell me more? Suggestions or advice perhaps?

[Anonymous No.9740328]

>>9740235
Money problems.

[Anonymous No.9740341]

>>9740235
Good universities require money rather than intelligence in America.

[Anonymous No.9740359]

>>9740147
SEC schools. 34 got me full tuition plus $2,000 per semester

[Anonymous No.9740384]

>>9740099
>>9740139
classics and maybe philosophy

[Anonymous No.9740403]

>>9740384

Cool man. Philosophy is super easy to double major in since the requirements are so small. Plus you're already in waggener all the time. What year are you?

[Anonymous No.9740493]

>>9740325
You catholic?

[Anonymous No.9740560]

>>9740493
No. I know a bit about their Catholic background though.

[Anonymous No.9740584]

University of Alabama
Philosophy

[Anonymous No.9740597]

>>9735890
Military. Changed my life.

>Waiting for them to arrest me tbqh

Don't do that to your mom. You are still relatively young and your knees still work. Get up from 4chan and go to the recruiter. Now.

[Anonymous No.9740610]

GVSU/Grand Valley State University, about to be a sophomore in August.

I'm an autistic trap going in for a science degree. Wrote some decent papers during my first year. Kinda wanting to change my major.

The campus is lovely btw. Both North C. and Pew C.

[Anonymous No.9740612]

>>9740597

My knees are actually shit, I'm underweight, I can't swim, and I've had chronic asthma problems since I was a child. I doubt the military would take me.

Also just on a personality level I'm not military material. Autistic, very high IQ, and major authority issues.

[Anonymous No.9740639]

Any other Vancouver anons here?

>>9737060
Whereabouts you at?

[Anonymous No.9740648]

>>9740584
Roll tide brother

Are you by chance the lad with blue hair that was in my English class last semester?

[Anonymous No.9740659]

>>9740610
What is your major now and what are you thinking of changing it to Mr. Trap?

[Anonymous No.9740734]

>>9740325
Testing is huge, I got a 33 on the ACT, definitely a big reason I got in. They like well-rounded. So get good grades, play sports, play an instrument or get involved in the community. Also, if you have a family member that is an alumn they will show favor to you in admissions

[Anonymous No.9740737]

>>9740734
How was your financial aid? I decided to go to a state school for the scholarships and I'm hoping I didn't fuck myself over.

[Anonymous No.9740748]

>>9740737
My family had money and I was out of state so I got none. Parents paid the whole way, I was extremely lucky and am forever grateful. From what I've heard though ND is pretty stingy with aid unless you absolutely can't pay but are extremely smart, they won't give you any.

[Anonymous No.9740752]

>>9740734
Forgot to mention I am going to apply to their law school so no one here might be able to exactly help me entirely. I have pretty decent standardised testing grades and regular grades. I am not in any condition to play sports, not musically inclined in the slightest, and I'm shy AF and not really socially equiped for community involvement. No family connection either so I'm pretty damn nervous.

[Anonymous No.9740767]

>>9735855

M.A.Sc Aerospace Engineering.

[Anonymous No.9740771]

Lol there are so many well-adjusted people in this thread, how can you possibly be /lit/ when your parents paid for college you had good grades in high school and you are grateful for your nice life.
Absurd circumstances under which to be on /lit/

[Anonymous No.9740783]

>>9736053
lol so true. pretty sure they chose the most eye-melting flooring they could find for the appleton tower lecture theatres

[Anonymous No.9740794]

hi

[Anonymous No.9740800]

>>9739341
thinking of this place for a linguistics phd, any thoughts?

[Anonymous No.9740805]

>>9740771
my parents didnt pay for college thanks to our financial situation and i was below average in almost all subjects but got into my uni for being a charity case

[Anonymous No.9740832]

One of the best decisions I made.

[sin No.9740841]

>>9739793
My transfer advisor admitted that I had a monumentally bigger chance of matriculating Into Stanford than Williams, on account of my high school grades being much less than satisfactory.

Would you happen to know how much emphasis Williams places on your high school career? I graduated from from an academy focused on healthcare, and the subjects that pertained to the biological sciences I did exceptionally well on. However, everything else, other than English, I did poorly on: I had a 3.0 in everything else. In the academy, I had a 4.0.

When you said that I "probably won't get in to any of them anyway," did you include Berkeley in there? I'm a shoo-in for UCB; dont mind that.

I tend to keep to myself, so I wouldn't mind the fratty atmosphere at Dartmouth. When I used to live in Florida, back when I was actually sociable, I had friends that went to UF, and they'd let me set in on their lectures. I'm immune to it.

On that note, I wouldn't mind the SJWs at UCB either. I'm practically swimming amongst a sea of these things at the CC where I am now. I live in the heart of the Silicon Valley.

[Anonymous No.9740848]

>>9740832
>going to a school that expels students for drinking, having sex, missing church, smoking tobacco, or even thinking immorally
>good choice
Pick one

[Anonymous No.9740852]

Majoring in Philosophy, expected to graduate summa cum laude within the next year and get my choice in terms of graduate program.

>Getting an Ivy league education for state school money
>Spent two years at Community anyway

[Anonymous No.9740888]

>>9740852

Programs and areas of interest?

[Anonymous No.9740893]

>>9740841

Dartmouth is awesome. It has an insanely devoted and connected alumni network, mostly I think because it is a good scholarly place but the people know how to have fun and not take themselves too seriously.

Plus it's in an amazing natural setting with great history and school traditions.

[Anonymous No.9740919]

EECS major
I despise electronics and engineering and only just tolerate computers

[Anonymous No.9740933]

>mfw graduating from a state university trying to improve its image and going to work at a library at one of the best Catholic schools in the country where I get paid to fuck around while reading

[Anonymous No.9740945]

>>9738962
I love it. Dassanowsky, the head of the film department, is kind of a big deal in german film circles. his classes are incredible. the other film profs are cool, and some of them require that you actually make films which is fantastic

[Anonymous No.9740953]

Offer holder, undergraduate, starting in October

[Anonymous No.9740976]

>>9736982
Kent's got a pretty big marketing shtick going lately (there was a goddamned superbowl commercial) and that's bringing in droves of witless youth. I'm pretty sure they're raking in cash by offering the college itself as an ultra feel-safe state U that is just progressive enough to appease minorities but not so much as to concern the local townies. I don't mind the black squirrels. And that Arby's you're referencing is right next to an apartment block crack addicts and dealers.
>>9738593
How'd you end up as a grad assistant and how badly do you want to kill yourself?

[Anonymous No.9741032]

>>9740888

My areas of interest are Philosophy of Law and Normative Ethics, especially their intersection in regards to state consequentialism and conflicts with environmental law.

Ideally I would like to go across the pond so I can attend Oxford like my uncle did (albeit in radically different fields), but NYU, Yale, and Columbia are all in the realm of possibility. I might also just go into law.

[Anonymous No.9741070]

>>9741032
Oh how I wish I was you.

[Anonymous No.9741098]

>>9740919
meme school

[Anonymous No.9741121]

Queen's University

going into 3rd year History. school is really goin to shit

[Anonymous No.9741160]

>>9736286
I'm pretty much in the same situation (I'm PDD-NOS), except I'm so self-aware that I stopped having intense passions in anything. Now I'm at the crossroad between boring normie and cringy autist.

[Anonymous No.9741184]

>>9741070

It's not impossible. All you really have to do is work decently hard at your studies, cut down the amount of time you spend shitposting, and commit to basic scheduling. I mean, I spent two years at community college and I rode the wave of high school without handing in a single homework assignment in four years. Committing to success is unironically the best advice.

I mean, it can certainly be tougher if you have to work part or full time (I'm being paid through by my parents, so I'll be debt free commit out of undergrad) but I'm also in two clubs, so I spend a pretty considerable amount of time with that as well.

[Anonymous No.9741189]

Dalhousie?

Grad student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

[Anonymous No.9741194]

>>9741184
Teach us your ways oh wise one. Working on getting into a decent Law School/Program and then perhaps go into a PhD once I improve my C.V a bit.

[Anonymous No.9741197]

I went to shit universities and dropped out.
Never going back.

[Anonymous No.9741246]

>>9741194

I'm really not 'wise' at all, but if you want a few pieces of advice that will help grow your C.V.--

1. Get to know your professors, even if they're grad students. Have conversations with them if you have the next period off. There's not so much a need to suck their dick (although it wouldn't hurt) as it is showing a genuine interest in what your learning or what the person is researching. Talking with my professors in office hours taught me what they're looking for in an essay and also opened up opportunities for me as far as research and exclusive programs restricted to the general student body.

2. Internships. At least two. Full stop. Make sure they're varied in field and challenging. No helping to build a shed with Uncle Barry in the summer.

3. Clubs. At least one if you're working part-time. Try to make it applicable to your area of interest but not directly so. I would always recommend the student newspaper because it will make you a better writer overall, and therefore more attractive for competitive law schools. Try to become an editor or a high-ranking member of the club as well.

4. Know your limits and deadlines. I work better when I'm under extreme stress, so I like to play deadlines more dangerously. Don't do that if you can avoid it. I think I've been pretty good on deadlines because I have a pretty good understanding of my speed and ability to work after sleep deprivation kicks in.

5. Be social in any and all situations. I probably have more 'friends' who are faculty than students, but that's alright. Being a decent person, a hard worker, and at least basically presentable goes a long way in most of the world.

6. Eat better.

[Anonymous No.9741265]

>Too dumb for Ivy
>Get into an upper-level school that falls just short of being one of the greats
>Deal with the constant reminder that if I applied myself just a little bit harder instead of coasting through the ACT, I could have made it
>If I went out of my way to take AP on my own, I could have made it
>Tfw my rejections started rolling in
>Tfw the school I'm going to is a glorified lawyer's son shitfest
>Tfw while their daddies could cover the expenses, I'm rolling in on financial aid

d-did i fuck up, bros? is this the worst timeline?

[Anonymous No.9741282]

>>9736223
Sym Sys at Stanford? That would probably be dream undergrad experience (aside from the fact that I don't think I'd much like the culture/scene surrounding Stanford).

Cog Sci/Linguistics/Logic is my shit, and SymSys at Stanford sounds like the ideal blend of all three (and related subjects).

[Anonymous No.9741284]

>>9741265
AP and IB's difficulty is a meme. You kinda blew it but hey work hard and get into a notable grad school

[Anonymous No.9741287]

>>9741246
What internships did you do? What might you suggest for me just before getting any more knowledge on about me?
School clubs are somewhat limited and so fucking normie I can't stand it. We don't have a student newspaper and our student magazine publication is like a physical manifestation of lefty/pol/. I only have one semester left. I'd say I am in the same boat when it comes to friends and faculty. I'm a commuter so that really messes up my ability to be on campus when clubs and social events are happening. I am partially hoping my relationships with professors will help lead to some pretty strong letters of recommendation which will help to shore up my weaker areas. If only it was that easy to magically "eat better"
P.S. I only have one semester left before I graduate.

[Anonymous No.9741298]

>>9736083
How's the cs program there? Seems like a comfy campus with decent faculty/research.
Ended up choosing berkeley undergrad for the ranking / in-state tuition but I'm considering uchicago phd

[Anonymous No.9741336]

>>9741287

1. I finished one internship with a local nonprofit. I plan to set a more ambitious goal for my second and either work with Cory Booker (we've already met once and one of the faculty who I am close with knows him personally) or intern for the U.S. Court of Appeals Third Circuit.

2. If school clubs are too limiting find something challenging to round out your portfolio. Go somewhere impressive. Do some humanitarian work. Work for a nonprofit you find compelling, especially if it relates to human rights or humanitarian issues if you're going into any kind of criminal, human rights, or environmental law.

3. No excuses. I'm a commuter too. Sometimes you have to risk 6 AM - 10 PM days to be great. It happens. If you commute by train, schedule yourself for the first and last stop.

4. It's not magic and it's not even expensive, if that's the issue. Don't buy packaged or if you do, buy in bulk. Bags of kidney beans and rice (or sweet potatoes, personal favorite) and whatever vegetable is on sale, along with a few cuts of chicken and one cheat day of a less desirable cut of beef if you can afford it. Spend your free day cooking and packaging. You'll save money on food and as long as you don't sit on a chair all day, you'll lose weight. Switch to water, even carbonated water is fine if you're partial to sodas. Two drinks max a week, preferably wine over beer or liquor.

[Anonymous No.9741354]

>>9740933
tell more about this library job

[Anonymous No.9741359]

>>9736090
wait what I'm also taking time off from there at the moment. I'd like to return in January, though.

[Anonymous No.9741362]

>>9741336
Maybe then after this final year of coursework I should set something up I'm guess? Perhaps try to clerk for a local judge and in the meantime work with a youth organisation or something in addition to work with faculty from my university? Then that way once I get into a Law Program I can set the ambitious goals like you in which I clerk for Appeals courts or State Supreme courts and move my way up from there.

I don't really have the funds to do or go anywhere really impressive though. Not much compelling around the area here (Midwest) especially compared to what you've got in the Northeast.

See above about location. Hitch rides from my grandpa so it's not like I have much freedom in my scheduling as I would like.

Hmm how would you describe carbonated water really? I thought I drank it once and it just tasted really weird. I am a soda fanatic/addict but I don't drink at all.

[Anonymous No.9741365]

>>9741359
Are you the nursing major from yesterday? And I'm taking a year off but coming back next fall.

[Anonymous No.9741366]

>>9741336
Cory Booker is a shill for big pharma senpai
But probably a great opportunity for you. Good luck anon

[Anonymous No.9741372]

>>9741366
wait i typed out senpai but it changed to senpai

i typed out f a m

[Anonymous No.9741374]

>>9741365
No, I've gone from computer science to English to political science, always with a minor in professional writing. When I go back I'm going to go back to English and hopefully just fucking finish this time.

[Anonymous No.9741381]

>>9738587
depends, what questions/concerns do you have?
things i'd keep in mind: 1) don't take yourself too seriously, 2) don't take people who take themselves seriously, too seriously

[Anonymous No.9741386]

>>9736008
That's the University of Glasgow

[Anonymous No.9741398]

>>9741298
undergrad is okay. they're adding new courses and demand is at a maximum, so they're still in a beta phase for the next phase of the department. this means there are some courses that are completely new and utterly disorganized. also, professors are very much hit/miss, since you get some of the theoretical/math professors teaching cs students and they couldnt care less. but the professors that aren't bad are excellent, and ive only had one awful prof thus far.
not sure what grad is like, but they're adding faculty and resources to the department, and in a few years i imagine it will be more of a top-tier program than it is now.
it is a comfy campus, and the school gets less bleak each year i think

[Anonymous No.9741407]

>>9741374
Political science is an awful department. I hated working in that office. Just finish out your degree and if you're a non-trad don't say dumb shit in class.

[Anonymous No.9741422]

>>9741407
I plan to. And I'm dead silent (and trad) so that last part shouldn't be a problem.

[Anonymous No.9741444]

>>9741362

1. Setting small goals and building up is never a bad idea. Try to get things in motion for internships as soon as possible, even setting the groundwork and getting your name known is a step that most people don't take. I would say those are definitely achievable goals (though I think it would be more beneficial to not just join the local Big Brothers Big Sisters, but actually get involved in local politics and campaigning on those core problems in your specific community. Of course I don't know your situation, so I can't give you all that information specifically).

2. I mean there's plenty of guides on how to travel very cheaply to countries that are in need of aid. Even if you have to dig a shitty well out in Zimbabwe, that is building your resume and making you a more well-rounded person to future employers/admissions. Just get your necessary shots and go with an established group if possible.

3. Get a driver's license if you don't have one. If you do, get a cheap car. Having at least some semblance of freedom in regards to scheduling is key to your success, and not a wasted cost.

4. I would say it's usually fairly bitter and acidic, with a harsher mouth feel than what you're used to with sodas (which make it smoother by making half of it corn syrup). Flavored carbonated waters make for a better transition. If you want to make that better transition, I really like Schweppes' Black Cherry flavored sparkling water, but it can be on the expensive side if that's all you drink. I would say try with that and work your way to carbonated water or seltzer or just plain water.

>>9741366

New Jersey survives on its pharmaceutical and biotech companies. Everybody here has a family member who has worked in or around Johnson & Johnson or Merck. The idea that he would not support one of the largest industries in his state regardless of personal hangups is almost ludicrous, because he would be out of office by the next term, and not even as a result of some major lobbying effort either. It's like telling a Michigan Senator in the 1930's/1940's to vote against the automotive industry, it's a move of political suicide. Regardless of how you or I feel about him or his political decisions one way or the other, it's inaccurate to conceive of him as a shill in the way that you're painting.

[Anonymous No.9741471]

>>9738250
No, I'm not sure what you are talking about desu, they do/used to have alot of pictures of him in the library (Capen)

[Anonymous No.9741736]

>>9741121
Shit reallly? going into an undergrad there next year.

[Anonymous No.9741771]

>>9735855
>TFW your team won the College World's Eries
History/Econ double major. Want to go into Securities and Corporate law after I'm done with law school.
>TFW there's huge (for a public uni) Trump supporter community

[Anonymous No.9741779]

>>9736581
>You ran into Steve Bannon
FUCKING LUCKY. He's one of my favorite political figures.

[Anonymous No.9741820]

>>9737338
gang gang, what year? Im about to be a freshman this fall.

[Anonymous No.9741825]

Boston College -- undergrad
Brown University -- graduate

[Anonymous No.9741994]

>>9741444
Heading to bed soon. Think you could post a throw away email or something so we could stay in touch and maybe even network?

[Anonymous No.9742495]

Ohio University, majoring in English in the Honors Tutorial College.

[Anonymous No.9742700]

>>9741736
Yeah, I don't know how "into" /pol/ you are but it's pretty ridiculous either way; there was a whole commotion last year about a party where people dressed as racial stereotypes. I think Vice even made an article. Now the school has diversity counsels. One conservative was forced to resign from the student counsel because he said there was sometimes fault on the side of women in cases of rape.. other than that the school ranking has fallen over the past decade, socially and academically it just seems in decline.
Kingston is also a shithole with a lot of crackheads, landlords charge out the ass for awful property(one of the bougie apartment complexes even had a landlord who stole from residents), and professors are checked out most of the year. Don't take Ancient Greek. Good luck bud

[Anonymous No.9742803]

>>9739776
A nation filled with dumb labor like what conservatives want sounds fucking horrible.

[Anonymous No.9742813]

>>9740317
>tfw you realize that it's all burger colleges because outside of burgerland only about 5 colleges matter

[Anonymous No.9742816]

>>9740893
#1 place I wanted to go but didn't find that out until it was too late so I was stuck where I was. If I could go back in time I'd try so much harder in high school and apply there first.

[Anonymous No.9742823]

>>9741771
>TFW there's huge (for a public uni) Trump supporter community
Sounds terrible

[Anonymous No.9742829]

>>9741779
That was an interesting day. While I didn't run into him directly, for a solid month before Trump was actually in office Mike Pence worked on the Trump transition team very close to where I lived on campus.

Lets list who I have ran into just in my freshmen year in person.
>Kerry Washington (Olivia Pope)
>Bernie Sanders
>Ted Cruz
>Steve Bannon
>Dana Bash
>Dilma Rousseff
>Sean Spicer
>likely some other people I am not remembering right now,.

[Anonymous No.9743093]

gonna be 24 by the end of the summer. Is there even any point for my to start college at this point or should I just kill myself?

[Anonymous No.9743100]

>>9735855

[Anonymous No.9743113]

>>9740767
this

studied philosophy in undergrad and going back for social work

[Anonymous No.9743126]

Anyone else go full STEM?

[Anonymous No.9743138]

>>9740800
no idea what their linguistics department is like, but im sure its good. penn is pretty good about cross-enrollment as well which is a plus imo. anyways i enjoy philadelphia. has pretty much everything without being disgustingly overcrowded like nyc. Live in Center City if you can afford it. Even old city is better than uni city (but kinda far); the subway/trolley are good enough to make up for the distance. uni city is undergraddy as fuck and also ugly. If you're broke look for a place that straddles uni city and west philly. I feel safe at night but I wouldn't really want to go further west than 40th.

good uni library, lots of independent cinemas, good music venues, decent public spaces, really good used bookstore, etc. Easy to take the train to nyc/dc etc. Definitely don't bother with a car unless you're forced to live in the sticks and away from any regional rail.

[Anonymous No.9743155]

>>9743126
Fellow STEManon at Poly. This place is a plague.

[Anonymous No.9743168]

>>9742813
>falling for that meme desu

[Anonymous No.9743170]

Drop out

[Anonymous No.9743179]

>>9742829
Oh gosh some of the best and worst people! Email? I'd love to hear more.

[Anonymous No.9743189]

Anyone do an actually challenging Degree of study here, or is everyone a humanities student?

[Anonymous No.9743194]

>>9743189
Shitty bait.

[Anonymous No.9743212]

>>9743155
Yep, but the suggestion can be good.

[Anonymous No.9743224]

>>9740272
>>9740265
Hope you like Jewish lesbians

[Anonymous No.9743235]

Am I wasting my time and money, or can you actually meet new people at community college? I've read it's not the ideal place because most people have a "get in and get out" mentality and aren't very social at community colleges, but I don't know if that's bullshit or not. Any tips/suggestions for courses with the most girls?

I'd love to attend a real college and maybe live on campus, but tens of thousands of dollars a year just to meet new people seems a little ill-advised when so many people are able to meet other people for free.

[Anonymous No.9743293]

Boston College CS

Down to meet for drinks or something

CS department is good but not incredible. They're just mainly understaffed like most LAC's CS departments have become recently due to demand and insanely high industry salaries making it so that a Ph.D in the field basically has to choose between 200k in industry or 90k in academia. Stick to classes from the tenured faculty and you'll get a great education in the CS department. Take advantage of CSOM classes when you can.

You'll have to learn things like embedded programming on your own but it's not hard after CSII. Most CS textbooks are online for free.

>>9739509

I use these threads to make friends

>>9739565

Why do you guys suck at football?

>>9741825

Ayy BC. A lot of us on /fa/

[Anonymous No.9743307]

>>9740767
>canada
Seriously though stay unless you're a foreigner then gtfo

[Anonymous No.9743333]

>>9742803
I wanna vomit in your face

[Anonymous No.9743347]

UT Austin English major here

About to start cutting down an 11 page paper (to 6 fucking pages; no idea how I'm gonna do it) on In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and DFW's Lyndon

Love UT and Austin, but it's such a big school that I sometimes feel like cattle (heh)

[Anonymous No.9743451]

>>9743307

Nah. Born and raised.

[Anonymous No.9743515]

>>9739793
>There will be obnoxious SJWs everywhere—Berkeley has the most

this is a stereotype. vast, VAST majority of Berkeley kids are confucian stemkids

[Anonymous No.9743565]

>>9743347
Tbh everyone I've met from Austin is a braindead, utterly privileged pothead. But I live in Dallas. Also I hear it's gentrified big time now.

[Anonymous No.9743573]

any other jerkoffs?

[Anonymous No.9743577]

>>9743515
Not really. They have a lot of Engineering/STEM autists, but they also have a ton of social science/Humanities pseuds. They're the only "top university" with more women than men, which should tell you how many soft science kids there are at Berkeley.

[Anonymous No.9743581]

>>9741820

Gonna be a senior. Almost out this bitch

[Anonymous No.9743591]

>>9743347

A lot of UT in this thread, damn. We should link up.

>>9743565

I love UT but yeah Austin is hipster man-child las vegas and I cannot imagine living here past college. I live in Dallas during the summers and it's pretty refreshing

[Anonymous No.9743605]

>>9743179
Don't feel comfortable giving out my email, but will tell the Steve Bannon story.

>Foggy Bottom Whole Foods due to GW's shit dinning plan is basically the dinning hall for freshmen lacking kitchens (all freshmen)
>Be at whole foods shopping for stuff I can use my fridge.
>Be on the checkout line. Guess who's ahead of me?
>See Steve Bannon in the front, with a bag of Whole Foods grocery's.
>Be mad that I can't talk to him about his booklist.

>TFW the next time I heard about Bannon related to my school it was CPAC and some poor girl from College Republicans was being stared at by Bannon for over an hour.

[Anonymous No.9744028]

>>9740771
I'm on academic suspension because I've never tried at anything in my life.
I went down the rabbit hole of nihilism and have only come out the other side now that I've come to terms with the fact that you either play the game or die.
The Truth is there is no such thing as atheism in the day to day trenches of adult life

[Anonymous No.9744085]

>>9738647
yeah finished prelims -- what you studying?

[Anonymous No.9744110]

>>9743605
Forgot about this thread of a bit, my bad. You should just make a throwaway email though dude.

[Anonymous No.9744116]

[Anonymous No.9744170]

>>9743138
>lots of independent cinemas
>liking ritz and roxy indie trash

[Anonymous No.9744212]

>>9741160
>so self-aware that I stopped having intense passions in anything
lmao

[Anonymous No.9744285]

[Anonymous No.9744363]

>>9744285
I'm might go there in september, what do you study ?

[Anonymous No.9744569]

>>9742700
Jesus christ that sounds pretty rough. Most Canadian universities seem to be going in the same direction though. I heard Trent now has a *required* course about aboriginal history.

[Anonymous No.9744573]

>>9744363
PhD in economics, and you?

[Anonymous No.9744578]

>>9736800
OH SHIT I CAME HERE TO DO THIS

so everyone with this seal - are you drug addicts or weeaboos? i was drug addict, wanted to beat the shit out of weeaboos

[Anonymous No.9744628]

>>9738652
>if i could do it again i probably would major in english and go off the deep end experimenting with psychadelics

this is me atm. studied law at my country's top university for 3 years, got bored, dropped it for humanities, discovered psychs. I'm definitively happier. not that it can be credited entirely to the drugs- i got into philosophy seriously for the first time after being introduced to post-structuralism in class- but i can't overstate how well-oiled my brain feels after trying acid. it's like night and day, I highly highly recommend getting your hands on some provided you don't have a family history of mental illness. fwiw I code as a hobby, and I understand efficiency and elegance of language much better after psychs. if you've read godel escher bach and felt a change in thought, it's almost analogous. I have had a few bad trips and yeah, they're destabilising and frightening. but the feeling passes, and you're generally stronger for it.sychs. if you've read godel escher bach and felt a change in thought, it's almost analogous. I have had a few bad trips and yeah, they're destabilising and frightening. but the feeling passes, and you're generally stronger for it. I've lived through waking nightmares, forgotten my own parent's faces and saw them as demons. I just don't give a fuck anymore, in the best possible way.

>>9738706
>I did the whole psychedelics meme. Yes I've lived more than you can even imagine, but I also no longer have the ability to commit to anything including the absurdity of daily life.

I'm sorry to hear that. they've really helped me in spite of my binging. I've tripped 50-60 times which is probably on the higher end of contemporary college student experiences given how pricey the stuff is nowadays.

>never had a gf or sex
>28
>moved back in with mom

oh. it wasn't the psychs then. I believe in you mate, get a shitty full time job and move out. I don't care if it'll slow down your loan repayments, self-worth is far more important. please leave home, and limit the time you spend on this site. you're at least highschool educated, more than most people can say. don't squander your opportunities.

[Anonymous No.9744698]

>>9740832
ayy i go there, too
what are you studying?
true test: are you living on campus

[the ghost of FKA green !YOUlQWt3s6 No.9744731]

>>9740639
ay buddy
English major Mathematics minor
East Van living, the mountain is a pain to get to

[the ghost of FKA green !YOUlQWt3s6 No.9744737]

>>9737610
whatre u into? Ill consider

[the ghost of FKA green !YOUlQWt3s6 No.9744742]

>>9738652
Weird how u were taught a canadian at an american university
Coupland is from Vancouver and his art is all over the city
I dont mind him, but he tends to try to be edgy at times, and that grates my nerves

[Anonymous No.9744817]

anyone else at McGill or in Montreal? Currently undergrad urban studies here, honestly it's pretty great.

[Anonymous No.9744884]

History
Wish I gave more of a shit in high school to go to Uconn, but oh well

[Anonymous No.9744895]

Someone make a new thread and be sure to link it here for us. Wanted to talk to Notre Dame guy and Corey Booker person some more.

[Anonymous No.9745056]

Any Harvard kids here? Down to meet up and stuff

[Anonymous No.9745124]

Any other thoroughbreds here?