Okay, I want you Veeky Forumsentists to answer something. See, I myself am a Yropoor. East-South, Yuropoor. So my Unis work differently than the US ones. But since I've been reading./watching/consuming USBased entertainment forever, I want you to clear up something for me. How do the Unis work there?
From what I've seen and read through the net, and correct me if I'm wrong... you can just... apply to a Uni, and if you get in you get to... choose your subjects? Like, there are no mandatory ones? You can photography class & physics? Also, do you have Semesters or Years? Are tests just Multiple Choice? What is the GPA and how is it computed? Can you do community stuff for extra credit?
It might be typical for you, but our Unis work very differently, so I'd just like to know how this whole thing works. Here's how ours work:
>you can only get into a specific branch >you can't choose your classes>everything is mandatory >each year has two semesters >each semester is about 3 months >each semester has about 3 or 4 new classes plus 1 continuation >we get the textbooks 2 months before finals >each textbook is about 1000pgs >most subjects are thrown away after one semester and you never use the knowledge again >then you move to a new subject and do the same thing
This isn't a "it's so hard for meeeee" thread, I'm just legitimately curious to know how things work there, and I'd rather ask actual people than look at websites of Unis.
Northen Yuropoor here wondering the same thing. Someone please respond to these questions ASAP!!
Hudson Diaz
Also it would seem, that people get into uni, then so their thing and after that they go to grad school..? Here we do all of our uni time at the same place (in some cases people do their bachelor some place and their master a different place), but in american movies it seems a bit like this is not the case. Someone please explain this.
And is there a difference between a college and a university?
Jack Robinson
Same. There are tons of things about US Unis that we see through entertainment, and to me at least, they seem like a goddamn Paradise of some sorts.
Jose Sullivan
You still need to complete your major-specific coursework. Apart from that, though, if you want to take photography as a physics major there's nothing stopping you if you're ahead of schedule. It just won't count as progress towards your major.
Aiden Rogers
Why aren't all of your time filled up with major-specific coursework? What sort of pleb-tier education do you guys get?
Brody Allen
Yeah, but how does that work, exactly? Say I'm 18 YO, I've apllied to, [Random Uni] and I want to be an engineer or something. What, do you just... choose subjects? You can just take two subjects? or three? How big is the subject matter? How long are semesters? When do you get the textbooks?
Jaxon Myers
Wait... you get Major Specific subjects? I'm studying physics and I have stuff like Chemistry, Programming, Linear Algebra & Differential Equations all in the first semester/3 months time.
Austin Phillips
I'd count linear algebra and differential equations as major specific, because their aid-subjects (as in you need them to do physics)
