Haven't seen one of these in a while

Math and philo major and music minor. I'm going to UC Berkeley, is it as shitty as a couple of people say?

Warwick University, Philosophy w/ Japanese

Sartre, some legal theory and some cognitive psychology nonsense.

University of Washington Seattle
Public Health
Going alright, hoping the Navy will pay for my post grad stuff. Taking the ferry every day is a pain in the ass though.

It's in the UK, amigo. Lancashire, not Pennsylvania.

Holy shit that picture takes me back, are you at Emma right now?

University of St Andrews - golf studies and hotel management with coursed in political economic history and the Bronte's.

>What University are you at?
UChicago, UofT undergrad
>What are you studying?
Philosophy(ish)
>How is it? What are you reading?
It's a really amazing school, and whenever I think about it, I get a mixture of crushing obligation to count my blessings, and anxiety over what might have happened if I had ended up at some backup school I felt no passion for.

Reading a lot of shit, but pleasure reading right now is Glass Bead Game.

Don't trust any courses at UofT to teach you modern languages. Use RACER to order Sandberg's French for Reading and audit a 200-level course instead of wasting your fucking time with 101 courses. Even the "intensive" courses for grad students at UofT are only for show.

Oops, currently* doing PhD at UChicago, did undergrad at UofT.

>Grinnell College
>English and Poli Sci double major - but i might shift the Poli Sci to Psych if I really enjoy my Psych course next sem.

Currently I'm trying to get through the Moviegoer by Percy, but I've been busy with a lot of school reading. I like it here for the most part. My mental health really hasn't been that great here due to the fact that Iowa has the worst mental health care coverage in the country, but I've met a lot of engaging and fun people that help offset that a bit. I'm involved in a few cool religious text studies and children's theater group. People here are very well read for the most part even if they don't do a lot of reading for pleasure. My gf is super Veeky Forums and I love it. Overall, the good tentatively outweighs the bad. Just trying to hold on for another couple years until I can start teaching or go to seminary.

Trust me, I know

Panthéon-Sorbonne
Philosophy
shit.not even attending to class. either/or

>What University are you at?
Stanford alumni

>What are you studying? Literature?
Graduated with a B.A. in English plus grad school and a minor in economics

>How is it? What are you reading?
It was fun. The liberals got under my skin at first, but that faded away after a few weeks when I got used to it. I joined what passed for a book club, didn't like it, and decided to found my own literary society. The society ended up with about 20 members by the end of my freshman year, which was slightly more than the minority perspectives book club that existed before. Funny how people want to discuss books and share their own writing without being scolded for the actions of their ancestors, eh? Also I played in an amateur soccer team and occasionally spent time with tabletop RPG groups on campus.

Currently reading The Last Days of Mankind by Karl Kraus.

>I joined what passed for a book club, didn't like it, and decided to found my own literary society.

How'd you go about it?

*alumnus

Well, I sure put that education to work didn't I.

National Technical University of Ukraine
Systems engineering
It's shit

>Duke
>literature of course, minor in mythology
>reading Norse myths, voltaire in free time and grapes of wrath

Pretty simple really. Most universities allow students to form unique clubs on their own as long as they have a faculty adviser and the approval of the higher ups in the administration. The book club that already existed was dedicated to examining literature from an ethnic minority perspective, while my new club dedicated itself to discussing literature in general while serving as a creative writing workshop for the members. Everything went smoothly once I approached one of my professors (one that I had a particularly good relationship with) and set the whole thing in motion. They granted us a room to use and from that point on it was a done deal. How do you think anime clubs come into being? The university doesn't found them.

We never had a mention on the official website or a site of our own, but we thrived. The club still does without me and the original members. I'm still in touch with that professor from time to time.

Who /shitschool/ here?

>decided to found my own literary society.
fucking kek. starting an undergrad club isnt't "founding a literary society" you stuck up fuckhead

No shit sherlock, we called it that because we were being pretentious. What other insightful commentary do you have today?

>went to stanford
>is a massive faggot

well this checks out

Is Iowa as boring as it sounds?
I'm applying for undergrad, and for someone from an urban/coastal area, the school seems pretty nice in all aspects except location.
>inb4 underage

>we called it that because we were being pretentious.
congrats it fucking worked. how the fuck was I supposed to know that's what you called it in context? you wrote that totally straight-faced you bullshitter

You seem angsty. Take a deep breath.

I wrote it that way because that's what we named it. I addressed it by its name. I didn't think anyone would be autistic enough to rage about it.

:^) so hows community college friendo :^) makin a ton a good arguments in that 8pm intro to philosophy class? :^)

>I addressed it by its name.
coulda fooled me, considering it's not written that way at all. your book club was just called "a literary society?" not even capitalized? you're an idiot

>underkeks
I sometimes feel like everyone on Veeky Forums is under 20. Others grew up and left, and I was left behind

You're such a cute pedant. I clarified what I meant yet you keep on going. You're arguing with a drunk guy over a mild grammar mistake on an anime imageboard. Reevaluate your life.

>I clarified what I meant
no you didn't you retard, you just backpedaled like a bitch because you're an idiot and i called you out on it and it proves that all your time and money and effort at stanford was worthless because you're still fucking dumb

haha do you really feel superior don't you

that is probably the case, you might be that guy. being on Veeky Forums is never a good sign, let alone being on Veeky Forums in 2016.

>You're such a cute pedant.

>What University are you at?
UC Berkeley
>What are you studying? Literature?
Comparative Literature
>How is it? What are you reading?
My major is incredibly small (to give you an idea: my major advisor has a picture of all undergraduates on his wall) and most of the people I have met are generally insufferable. Although I do not make any effort to meet or talk to anyone in my classes or outside of my classes. The classes themselves are simple though.
Reading Paris Peasant by Aragon in my Avant-Garde class, Huis Clos in my French class, and some inane children's book in my children's lit class

Not going to post my university you fucking nigger. Studying applied math and applied ethics.

how are you this fucking mad lmao

University of Exeter

French and Chinese

Absolute waste of time. Reading French literature is always fun but the courses they're associated with are rubbish, and I could be learning Chinese on my own for free.

I just want to spend the rest of my days reading and walking idly, or to die, which to me is equivalent. Life provides sights and sounds that are worth a lifetime of achievements - a butterfly meandering about a flower, young friends playing in the streets, beautiful symphonies played at the local church; each of these things fill me with such ecstasy that my own little life has been fulfilled many times over. I am satisfied, but the mover, creator, nature, God is generous. Every additional day is a gift, a blessing and a luxury.

I don't see myself finishing the course.

I suspect somebody never went to college.

Reading Shakespeare's Montaigne; Italian Folktales; and Amo, Amas, Amat And More.

Ashamed to share alma mater with you, desu stan senpai.

You sound like a fairly pleasant, if somewhat dismal person.

He sounds like a fag.

>noko

>Where

School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Shit college for anything other than its specialisms (obscure languages, anthropology and development studies).

>What

BA Persian (language), politics as a minor. Get to do some Persian literature and philosophy for politics.

>How, which

Pretty enjoyable. Farsi is a beautiful language with an enormous and virtually unexplored literary canon for an Anglophone reader. Learning to read Hafez, Omar Khayyam, Ahmed Shamlou and Obayd-e Zakani in Farsi is incredible. The Persian literary canon should be as important as Russia's, easily.

Anyone else?
I'm 28 and am an undergrad (again) faggo.

Cornell

PhD in Poli Sci

i really love the program and ithaca itself. so far has been an incredible experience; i also work remotely for a political PR firm and will be pursuing a law degree next fall.

literature is always my number one love, though.

...

University of Melbourne, double major in English and Phil. Phil department is kinda shitty here, fulfills the meme of prioritizing unimportant analytics over influential continentals (no classes on Kant or Hegel), but the literature department is great. My English professor is a respected Deleuzian which is pretty cool.

Currently reading Petersburg by Bely, Kant's Prolegomena, and Difference and Repetition

:( user why tho

Cut that God junk out m80. It is keeping you too complacent. You must adopt the Paterian attitude and write something good. But I suppose something interesting will happen to you eventually. I don't think the mindset you claim to have can last very long. There must be a tension in the appreciation. And if you really want to read for the rest of your life, then surely being a forever-student is the easiest way to do that.

Iowa can be a lot of fun, especially around caucus time. The school itself has a really fun party culture and the people are generally pretty great as long as you don't mind a ton of SJW types.

Really the only thing I don't like about Iowa is the lack of mental health resources I mentioned. Other than that, it may be a little boring, but reading and hanging out with friends distracts me enough from the fact that there is a lot less to do than I was used to growing up in a semi-urban area.

Departments here vary in quality quite a bit tho, any idea of what you might want to study here?

so committee on social thought or what? I went to chicago for undergrad and hope to go back for a PhD within the next 2 years

>neuroscience

How does a philosophy major fall for the neuroscience meme?

>complaining about sjw
>next sentence complains about lack of access to on-campus mental health resources

user i have some bad news...

I could have been clearer, on-campus resources aren't really the problem, the problem is health resources in general within a 60 mile radius are either shit or non-existent.

I'm fairly liberal and have a few Social Justice-y issues that I'm passionate about, the only reason I mentioned the SJW presence is that the idea of going to school with people that hold different beliefs than your own might trigger some anons.

fair i see that. i was just fucking around either way, i agree that health resources lack on most campuses. anons always gettin mad over being around people who like foucault tho

Maybe

I'm deliberately being a bit vague, sorry.

Good luck, user. The undergrads here are all smart and engaged as fuck so you're in good company.

Is Trinity Dublin good?

Might be going there for postgrad because its cheap desu

Right now I'm interested in comp sci and english literature, but I might do something in philosophy or another social science instead of being an english major.
Thanks for the quality response btw

>people who like foucault
dude college 'lefties' dont read non-fiction. they only care about aesthetics and smoking weed.

the only people who read substantial non-fiction as undergrads are authoritarian. and by authoritarian i mean beyond-the-pale types who secretly wish they were a dictator.

sfsu, comparative lit. haven't been reading as much, turned stupid.

youtube.com/watch?v=xvj0rxhjpWA

>secretly

Secretly wishing you were a dictator is pleb. You're supposed to openly self-insert as Gaddafi or Castro and discuss which groups you want to send to the prison camps in your ideal society.

>the only people who read substantial non-fiction as undergrads are authoritarian. and by authoritarian i mean beyond-the-pale types who secretly wish they were a dictator.

how did you know

but then they cant manipulate all of their idiot friends on facebook into doing their political bidding.

where'd u go to school senpai?

UFCG (Brazilian university)
A STEM course
I regret it each waking day

>UNLV
>English and Finance undergrad.
>It's alright. Can't wait for grad school. I'm going to be a literature professor. Right now I'm reading and re-reading Shakespeare. When winter break starts I'll resume Plato.

This does not sound like a joke, friendo.

>decided to found my own literary society. The society ended up with about 20 members by the end of my freshman year, which was slightly more than the minority perspectives book club that existed before.

a UC
currently an Ivy

Comp Sci is an awesome department. I found out I hated it during the intro, but a have a few friends who really enjoy the program. I know a few people who graduated from the department who make good money working for Google if that's your thing.

English lit is generally p good, the English department itself is at its best when it focuses more on lit analysis than creative writing. There are a few terrific profs, but most of them are fairly average.

> University of Kentucky
> Economics
> I wish I were dead

question for you and for anyone else who wants to weigh in: how do you think public university funding is looking over the next 4 years of trump? i want to apply to UCLA for a phd in the social sciences, but wonder about how they'll change under new regulations.

Is the UC system a titan that will reckon well with any incoming changes, or could some budget shakeups be what pushes it off its flimsy base?

University of Texas at San Antonio

Comp Sci

Not even sure yet, but the preliminary math courses aren't as shitty as I expected. School is fine, classes less so because I registered at the last second. The campus is fine enough, there are nice enough spots and I'm reading Blood Meridian right now so shit gets comfy.

I'm at the University of Birmingham studying physics. Halfway through the third year of a four year course and I've completely failed at being a good student. I've managed to survive, more or less, but I think they like to make surviving easy anyway.

I'm reading Notes from the Underground. He sounds just like me. Great.

depends more on the outcome of the gubernatorial election in 2018 than anything. Jerry Brown has been really good about keeping costs down, whereas Arnold had enacted a plan to cut virtually all funding.

Although state funds are a small part of the UC systems finances, the legislation Brown has passed has still had a noticeable impact on the UC system as a whole. Tuition and fees have stayed pretty constant, but smaller programs are getting cut and so are a lot of student resources. The UC system seems willing to give up anything except le scientific research and administrative bloat.

so PhD funding will probably remain (even in social sciences) whereas stupud extra shit like switching food service vendors for freshmen dining halls is more likely to be axed? or something like that, i made up an example

if your department has low undergraduate enrollment they wont have as many TA positions. thats the only consideration i can really think of

>SDSU
>Philosophy dept is a hidden gem

So many people on Veeky Forums try to rationalize going to a shitty university. Please, just stop. It's embarrassing.

>>What University are you at?
>Brown
>>What are you studying?
>History
>>How is it? What are you reading?
>So many pseuds and trust fund babies here. I'm reading Middlemarch currently.

Princeton
History
I like this school a lot. Reading a lot of Enlightenment stuff now for a paper.

>I like this school a lot.
>Reading a lot of Enlightenment stuff
*vomits*

>Melb

i graduated from bcom just this sem, starting a bmus again because i have time to twiddle my thumbs and "find myself xD" before corporate slavery. what subjects were your favourite to take? i'll probably pick them up as breadth

University of Santa Cruz, working on MA in Literature and teaching it.

my primary focus is on vietnam war fiction and military influence on literature

Ayyy fellow alumni. Enjoying your break like I am? Next year will be my last year in undergrad, I'm doing a media and comms major and just filling my other subjects with whatever, might just bite the bullet and finish off a philosophy or lit minor.

Haven't made any mates but I'm not too perturbed from uni life. More time to read I suppose. Are you a part of any societies or nah?

There's about a 70% chance I know you. Funny to find someone else at the UW on Veeky Forums.

>SDSU
Fuck off with your elitist school bullshit, I'm the child of two dead junkies. The fact I made it through middle school is a miracle.

>English

>Fine. Reading Faulkner, Ellison, and Shakespeare.

UTEP
Doubt I will see anyone here though.

can confirm that SDSU is a shit tier uni
went there my freshman year and ended with a 4.0 and I'm not very intelligent by any means... literally never studied at all and was high for 95 percent of my waking hours as well.

uni of nottingham mechanical engineering MEng.

im only 1st year so it's not that hard i just need to motivate myself to do work and stop being a lazy fuck.

im currently hungover from finishing infinite jest so on a break, if anyone has any recommendations feel free

English major, reading the Greeks in class. Classes are generally tough except the required ones

How is campus, getting around etc?

Campus is very beautiful and not big at all so getting around is just fine. Living in the city is alright, guess it really depends on personal preference. I personally find having to take the subway to get somewhere 5 miles away kinda annoying

> Georgia Tech
> Computer Science
> I'm not sure.