The College Thread

[Phoenix20578]

New Jersey, with a beautiful view of NYC from across the hudson

[NM]

New Jersey, with a beautiful view of NYC from across the hudson

Hell yeah for New Jersey!! I go to Rowan University and the college life is fantastic (minus the classes). I have one friend who goes to William Paterson and a shitload of my graduating class from high school goes to Rutgers. Stop by sometime Phoenix.

And I'm a biochemistry/premed major right now. Don't know what kind of doctor I want to be yet since I've got alot of time to think about it. But I'm also considering switching into pharmacy but I don't know if that will happen just yet. Ugh...I really hope I survive, it just gets harder as you move on to each semester. I'm only a freshman right now in my second semester and I'm not doing so well in physics and biology.

[kAi]

I'm at University of Technology, Sydney.
Place is pretty cool, still getting adjusted with the chairs and how to fall asleep, all is going well at the moment.

My course is Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, Diploma in Information Technology Professional Practice.

[KitKat]

I have less than a month until I'm done university forever!!! Well, maybe not forever, in case I decide to go to grad school one day, but soon I'm going to be graduated and have a degree. And I get my iron ring! For those of you that don't know, everyone who graduates from an engineering program in Canada receives an iron ring to be worn on the pinky finger of their working hand.

@Xan: You should totally do linguistics! Seriously, linguistics is the only thing that's kept me sane through university. I love it so much. There are few things more fun than reconstructing the Proto-Indo-European language or identifying morphemes and drawing sentence trees. Not to mention psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics, two of the best courses ever. Every time I take a linguistic course, I'm always like, "This is my favourite course ever in the history of the world!!!!"

But anyways, in terms of career opportunities, there's always speech pathology, or translation, or computational linguistics. There's actually quite a bit of opportunity for linguists in the field of AI and artificial speech generation. I know a guy right now who graduated from linguistics and is working for Corel, on Help files and documentation. He basically has to translate the jargon from the engineers into something that regular people can understand and follow.

[drims]

Ahhhhh . Senior here and im scared of what to do in college next year.


Can I have some advice, some tips, what to do, how hard is it, is it fun, does it bring home sickness, how do you choose classes, should I strive to do hard classes or only care about recieving the Civil Enginnering degree, are financial problems abundant or does the univeristy usually help you alot?????????????????????????

Please, an anwser to any of these questions is helpful.

[Assassin]

Depends, where are you, canada or states?

No matter where you do it, engineering is a tough program. expect to have a shitload of courses, and not nearly enough time to do all the work. dont freak out if you can't finish all the homework, or do bad on a test. Just as long as you keep progressing to the next year, its all good.

My advice to you is, work hard and keep on top of things. Also, if a class seems too hard, and you think you wont pass it, DROP IT (make sure you can make it up in the summer though). I made the mistake of being too proud to drop courses, and paid for it in my first year.

Other then that, just try to have fun. Remember, engineering can be the worst 4 years of your life, or the best 7

[XanBcoo]

@Drims: Good luck next year. Don't worry about adjusting to college life too much, it'll just happen. And if you're going to a good school, you'll probably have ample help with choosing classes, setting up a good schedule, etc. Once piece of advice I have is to make good use of your time. I'm not just talking about high school-like time management. I seriously did not realize how much time in college was spent not in class until I got here. You'll have so much free time, but a large percent of it will probably (or at least should) consist of assignments/studying/bullshit. So stay on top of stuff, and the rest is a blast.

...or computational linguistics. There's actually quite a bit of opportunity for linguists in the field of AI and artificial speech generation. I know a guy right now who graduated from linguistics and is working for Corel, on Help files and documentation. He basically has to translate the jargon from the engineers into something that regular people can understand and follow.

Computational Linguistics has sparked my attention more than anything as of yet. I actually have a project on the subject due in a few weeks, but I haven't started - so I knew absolutely nothing about it until now (other than that it somehow combined computers and linguistics...lol). Thanks for the advice.

Edit: What's funny is that I actually do find identifing morphemes to be fun work. Don't know about sentence trees though, we've only just started syntax

[masamuneehs]

Congrats to gr3atfull.

[drims]

@Xanbcoo and Assasin

Thanks for the help. I am in the U.S and might either go to a university in Cali. to be near family, or one in texas but its military

Pros and Cons

Military/texas- the first year the upperclassmen can you treat you like a dog. Or rat as it is called your rat year. Its 4 years of rigorous exercise. On the other hand instate tuition, better engineering program, and your certain to get a job when you leave.

California- I get to be 20 minutes away from family, I dont have to live on campus, and im not completely on lockdown like in the military one, Badside its out of state so it twice the $$.

Any suggestions?

[gr3atfull]

@masamuneehs:

Thanks!

@drims:

If I was you, I will go to the Texas one. For sure, you have a better futur since you said that you have a job when you will leave that place. Plus, you are only 4 years away your family, its nothing really. You can visit them for vacation, right?