College thread

Post colleges that you study/work at.

Pic related(student).

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

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.

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.

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.
Join military.

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.

Allegedly studying history, but mostly just loafing about

Is your campus in a castle?

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

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>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.

Syracuse University

International relations

I want the Veeky Forums life of a career diplomat in some comfy corner of the globe.

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

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

Ohio University?

Fucking leave that state.

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.

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

THE University of Oklahoma

Studying philosophy and finance. Close to work and cheap af

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You like it?

Post your HS stats. Will apply

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.

I'm an undergrad student at UTD.

Humanities PhD student at UChicago, here. Extremely autistic.

Hello friend

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

>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

>Extremely autistic
What did you mean by this?

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

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.

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.

>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?

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.

Contributing to a field as an amateur is way, way more Veeky Forums than being a professional.

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

I go to a tier 2 commuter university.

its boring

But user, you already have an intense passion for your ignorance.

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.

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, Veeky Forums?

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.

Under 18 gtfo

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Do prolonged social interactions wear you out mentally?

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

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

>tfw took the start with the Greeks meme too seriously

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.

i know that feel, senpai

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.

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

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

geography if youre an undergrad
dunno about niche grad programs

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.

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

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.
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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.

Going here next year, studying Arts and Entertainment Management.

Any other Vancouverbros down for some quizbowl?

cool

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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


UT Austin here

how's learning french and greek going?

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

Starting grad school here in the fall.

hello my fellow curitibano, que ce estuda na federal?

any other colorado people here?

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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?

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!

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.

Are you me?

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?

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.

Annapolis desu.
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.
Its the institutional autism I think.

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.

Planning on going here for a Classics degree next spring.

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

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

>tree university

wtf where is that shit?

Any tips for an incoming first year?

Grad assistant at Kent State here.