Back to School!....unfortunately

[masamuneehs]

cabe, your early college experience sounds alot like mine.

you just have to keep hounding those administrative dickweeds until they get all of that paperwork done correctly. how large is your university? i know that at mine for example, which has so many bureaucratic divisions, it's really hard for anyone to get all their shit straight, especially aid and money...

and yeah, the TA/prof with the difficult accent: welcome to college dude. i've had to change sections to get a TA I can understand...

[Death BOO Z]

I miss school.. I'll gladly do highschool all over rather than stay in the army...

School was really nice, it made life seem so simple, you were given the subjects of the exam beforehand, you knew the dates of the exam, it made me feel as if there's a positive way to "win"...

sure, it was hard, but I always knew when class will be over, when will I go home, and when the summer break starts and when there are holydays..

[gr3atfull]

I am in Cegep since last week. This will be my first year. Many of my old classmates from high school are going there and I always see them everywhere.

Unfortunatly, there are only one or two of my old classmates that are in my science classes. It is really different from high school. I dont wear a uniform and it is hard to decide what to wear in the morning .Also, I have the worst schedule ever. -_- Either I have to run to my next class, or I have a 4 hour break ......



What I like about here is that its near the water and its a really pretty there!!! (For the canadians that saw the Bon Cop Bad Cop movie, you know when the car explode, they shot that movie at this Cegep)

[complich8]

I'm wrapping up the third week of the semester already. Y'all can suck it "just getting back to school" ... bunch of bullshit ... *mutter*

This semester's loaded with dense and challenging stuff. I'm a part-time student, working nearly full-time (same setup as always). Schedule is MWF a single 11:30 class, T-Th a single 3:00-4:15 class.

The MWF is a 400-level computer science class: CS 483 - Introduction to the Theory of Computation. It's hardcore. Very, very hardcore. The course is built on the assumption that we all already familiar with loads of more general theory, especially theory from compilers and algorithms in general.

The other class is also fairly hardcore. It's only a 200-level class, but about 90% of psych classes in undergrad are 200-level. This one is "Fundamental Psychobiology" ... I've spent 3 weeks learning about structures of the brain, neuron structures and signalling, and neurotransmitters. First exam is tuesday next week, which is going to severely curtail my disgaea time this weekend. LOTS of material to deal with for just 3 weeks of class.

It's strange though ... the material is dense, the psych material is slightly dull and depressing (sort of wrecks the neuron as a magical black box, when you know exactly how it works to the level of ion flows), the CS material is deep in theory-land, but I'm somehow managing to enjoy it quite a bit. I think it's probably the most interested I've been in my classwork in 5 or 6 years, since macroeconomics or linear circuit analysis...

[Board of Command]

Starting systems design engineering at Waterloo on Monday. Still orientation week right now.

[NM]

Just finished up my first week of school, we started right after Labor Day. This semester, I'm taking Public Speaking (dammit...), Medical Anthropology, Physics 2 w/ Calc, Intro to Computer Programming, and the dreaded Organic Chemistry 1. Right now, I'm most afraid of the horrors of organic chem and public speaking (I'm really not the kind of guy who likes to talk in front of groups). Its only my first week but I've been studying my ass off already for organic. Medical anthropology is alot of reading. ALOT. I'm also doing lab research here at my college, and working on-campus as my job. I only work one day a week since my schedule this semester is hardcore and right after classes and dinner I find myself reading. Although, I am happy to say that Physics 2 is MUCH easier than Physics 1. I'm actually understanding whats going on in these physics problems, unlike last semester where I was clueless as hell until it came to the final (spent about the entire weekend studying non-stop for it).

But its good to be back here on campus, I missed being out on my own. For any incoming freshman here at GW, your going to enjoy college.

[darkmetal505]

Senoir year of IB for me. Besides the high workload, it's pretty easy.

[Cabewse]

cabe, your early college experience sounds alot like mine.

you just have to keep hounding those administrative dickweeds until they get all of that paperwork done correctly. how large is your university? i know that at mine for example, which has so many bureaucratic divisions, it's really hard for anyone to get all their shit straight, especially aid and money...

My school alone has 21,000, and the campus is shared between 3 colleges, lots of people :P

Yea, they billed me too, have to pay this semesters tuition without aid by tuesday, it's really a pain.

[complich8]

stuff

now we know why he's such a lazy mod most of the time