College Thread

Anyone from an ivy wanna tell me the realities?

I feel like I have the grades and flashy ECs for one but I'm questioning myself.
18 by the way..

I'm also considering St Johns. I just want a good education and a route to higher education

>What School do you go to
University of Massachusetts
>Major?
Computer science
>Brief description of social life (fucked up
stories welcome)
Alright, I'm introverted but have a small group of friends.
>What are your political views
I'm pretty moderate in nearly aspect, mostly just conservative with regards to family values and marriage.
>Also pretty much anything else about you would like to rant about
I can't stand the radical liberals around here.

University of Delaware

English

None

Very far right; fascist

Lots of partying

>>What School do you go to
>A&M
>>Major?
>Wildlife Science
>>Brief description of social life
>studying because school is fucking expensive
>>What are your political views
>pretty libertarian I guess
>>Also pretty much anything else about you would like to rant about
>there are people who literally came to College Station to party

>St. John's College
>Veeky Forums memes
>Tinder and studying on aderall
>Radical Centrist
>FAR RIGHT AND FAR LEFT FUCK OFF REEEEEEE

Oklahoma State University
Biochemistry
Meh
Left libertarian

>What School do you go to
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (basically a very tech-oriented uni, considered difficult)
>Major?
Computer science
>Brief description of social life
I have a few core friends and I get around with whatever group(s) I'm currently involved in. I play both the party guy and the quiet one. Care a lot about but I've never had anything nearly serious
>What are your political views
Fairly liberal I think, but this site definitely affected me
>Also pretty much anything else about you would ike to rant about
IJ contributed to my choice of major
The lively reputation of the city poses a threat to my propositions of applying in school, contrary to what I'd done in HS

*about girls

Harvard
Poli Sci
Any given night somewhere near the square...probably the John Harvard.
Econ and social liberal
Too many Chinese automatons here

How'd you cheese in

Must be one of those rich boys

hope you're getting that rich white boypussi every night my man

Aquinas
English with an emphasis in writing
Very little
Very centrist with a disgust for far right and left
I just want to publish my poetry

Stanford
>major
Comp Sci
>social life
non existent
>political views
don't give a shit about politics

>What School do you go to
UIUC
>Major?
Political science and geography
>Brief description of social life (fucked up
stories welcome)
I'm still rooming with people from high school who I wasnt even friends with back then and am even less so now. I'd go on to say I actively dislike most of them. Outside of that I really only talk to coworkers, its nice because you get partnered up every night and you're forced to get to know them after a while. I'm pretty self concious of a skin condition I have so its hard to maintain a friendship because it flares up every few days and I dont leave my apartment. Cant say ive made an actual friend in my 3 years here
>What are your political views
Lean more towards the left, moreso on social issues than economic ones
>Also pretty much anything else about you would like to rant about
I'm trying to get closer to a coworker I get along particularly well with, but he's a huge pothead and I'm becoming one as well by virtue of hanging out with him more and I hate that I can see I'm becoming lazier every day. I've always had an issue with drugs and now that he's set me up with a dealer with cheap as shit prices I feel like I'm going down a bad path.

Especially a bad time because I realized one of my issues is that I dont have many hobbies (anymore) and that's a large barrier to socializing with people and basically becoming a better person. Over the past few years all my hobbies have dropped off one by one in exchange for more shitposting here

get back in the library nerd.

gt cs grad here...sad they got rid of junior's

I was accepted into a couple mid-tier ivys, but ended up going elsewhere.
Everyone who applies has a 4.8 GPA, is president/captain of multiple groups, volunteers, etc. etc.
Either you're truly exceptional, or it's just a crapshoot.

>English with an emphasis in writing
Why waste time on Veeky Forums you should be surrounded by people you can talk about literature.

English major at UCLA

Someone please be my friend. I'm a grill

Hard work and lucked out on the lottery.

Could a kind user please defend my wanting to switch my major to linguistics? I feel as if having an English degree just won't cut it these days. Linguistics looks quite appealing to me, since it's the closest that I can get to a science degree, without the difficulty that they entail.

What if I just double major?

What if I just minor in English and major in linguistics?

Poli Sci isn't a concentration at Harvard, Pinocchio.

Also, nobody goes to the John Harvard

>Poli Sci
>Harvard
>lying on the internet

>What School do you go to
Texas A&M College Station (main campus)

>Major?
APMS with a focus in math. Minors: Philosophy and Economics.

>Brief description of social life
I tend to keep to myself, but I find it easy to get to know people. My being a math major plays on peoples prejudice of math majors being highly intelligent, so my relationships tend to consist of people asking me for help on problems they have and not very much else.

>What are your political views
Classical Liberalism.

>Also pretty much anything else about you would [l]ike to rant about
Free will does not exist. Philosophical Idealism is horse shit (the material world exists and it is intelligible). Math is discovered and not invented. Math begets reason. Math is absolutely necessary for the understanding of the objective world. IQ is real, one dimensional, unalterable, and determined by biological factors only.

I was accepted to an Ivy without being involved in a lot of leadership roles (though I was a section leader in the band my senior year). All I did for extracurriculars was marching band, jazz band, track/field. I did have to have all As and high SAT scores to offset my non-jewish white maleness, though.

>What School do you go to
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
>Major?
Double majoring in philosophy and pre-professional biology
>Brief description of social life
I hang out with a group of people I went to high school with and I have only a few acquaintances that I've become familiar with since I started attending the university. There's one girl I study with very often that's kind of my friend, but despite spending on average twenty hours a week alone together on top of the classes we take, we've never hung out outside of an academic setting. Pretty sure she's just using me to help her get into medical school.
>What are your political views
Not completely sure yet. I lean conservative libertarian, but I'm not dead set in much besides a Catholic viewpoint. I'm still trying to figure out the best approach to politics and the justification for it.
>Also pretty much anything else about you would like to rant about
We're rated as "The second most diverse campus in the United States and very likely the world", and the administration does not let anyone forget it. Politically, it's not too bad, but there is a sizable illegal immigrant student population that is just thrown free money while I don't get so much as a subsidized loan. Going to college in Las Vegas is not nearly exciting as you'd expect it to be, and since I graduated high school I've been to the strip maybe three or four times in total.

There's no way you still got in. You must've built some more mud huts for Africans are some shit like that.

>What School do you go to
University College London
>Major?
International Relations
>Brief description of social life
Good enough I guess.
>What are your political views
Far-right; authoritarian

>Chaffey Community College, plan on transfering to a different school once I complete all of the non-school specific courses to save on costs.
>Engineering (Undecided) and Business
>Anarcho Capitalist
>I hate colleges for breeding grounds for socialists, seriously its like nobody in these classes has the reasoning capacity to critically think about what they are being taught. Its no wonder there are countless students in debt with useless degress. Hopefully the bubble created by the student loan debt will collapse and stop these schools from telling the retarded youth that everyone, even stupid people need college.

> UC Berkeley
> EECS
> The full extent of my social life is making small talk with my lab partners
> Don't engage in politics but the compass website sez I'm authoritarian center

I just wanted to do linguistics/phil of language idk how I ended up here

I want a fucking schizo friend to read philosophy with god damnit

Not op, but I'm going to nctc because I'm stupid but I'll get fucked up with you

My friend failed IR on his statistics. I thought he was smart before that. Same as you too - self described as far right.

It is quite a useless degree, don't you think?

Not for the path I have in mind, for which I'm very well prepared. The stats module was ridiculously easy, btw. Only way you could fail it is by either being extremely thick or totally indifferent.

>University of Cambridge
>History
>Few friends but ignore and alienate them
>Incredibly centrist

Civil service? Thinktank?

>Colgate University
>Double Major English (Creative Writing Focus)/History
>Have chad friends and gf somehow despite being weird introverted intellectual
>Individualistic Authoritarian
>comfy

same

how do you get to know people here

are you me?

>Colgate University
>Trying English/Molecular Bio double major but I'm completely willing to choose one
>Frats are annoying and the circle I found is ok when they're not whining for alcohol
>Centrist? I think?
>Lawyer sons are unbelievably annoying and honestly should just fuck off to Penn or something

hi

>What School do you go to
University of Kent
>>Major?
Computer Science specialising in Networks
>Brief description of social life (fucked up
Pretty good. I have a lot of friends but I love winding up the lefties
>What are your political views
Very much on the right. I would say uncomfortably close to reactionary
>Also pretty much anything else about you would ike to rant about
Finding a loyal GF is very hard. Women are easy to get, but it is about quality.

>McGill University
>History and polisci
>almost nonexistent
>democratic socialist
where are my lefties?

Calling total bullshit. Did two varsity sports, chairman of my regional Red Cross, wrote a book at 16, accepted more than one scholarship, ACT of 35, 4.0 GPA with 8 APs, rejected wholesale by the Ivies.

oh shit hi

What class are you?

2021.
is this place as bad as i think it is

ayy shit 2021 too, fucking love not being able to get into any parties

It's wayyyy too fratty for my tastes, honestly. All my roomates are chads and I kind of just have to smile awkwardly as they talk about sports and offer whatever I can remember about my hometown teams. I just want to talk about literature and philosophy and shit, man.

On that note, are you going to the Jug tomorrow? It's Freshman night and my roomies are gonna drag me along.

>UW Madison
>Psychology/Philosophy, plan to do cogsci
>Fucked up freshman year and only made friends with my 2 roommates. Occasionally go out for drinks with people from work (who I'm close with) but no friends within the university. How do you even meet people?
>Was alt-right, then reactionary, now I'm a sick mixture of catholic monarchism and communism. Maybe this is why I have no friends.
>I ordered pizza 80 minutes ago and it's not here yet.

How?
You just have to build the confidence and strength of character to say howdy or strike up a conversation about anything. If you spend enough time around someone doing the same thing they are, then they will feel obligated to acknowledge your existence and say howdy back.

Where?
In class, at the dining hall, at the math-lounge, or at the gym. Maybe the library if you're extra cunning; the problem with it is the second floor is being renovated and now no one knows where to go in order to study. It's like people are now lost.

youtube university

im not sure about going to the jug but i'll probably show up anyway in a situation similar to yours. if its gets as crowded as i think it will get im totally going to bail.
if you see me walking around campus dont hesitate to say whats up, though. im a fairly average-height ginger with a beard and a dad-cap who hangs around drake and east

1) Collin?
2) Were you at poker night?

1) no sir
2) yes sir

I was the guy who won 30k by going all in at the end of the night.

max?
i was one of the dudes that bilal bankrupted by telling them to go all-in before he hit gold with you

yes

hmu if you see me brother, we should chill and talk about books

i would be lying if i said i remembered what you looked like; sorry man
my name is miller--literally one of two people on campus with the name. maybe i'll see you at the jug or at frank?

Hah you're good man, I think I remember you. I'm average-height, very pale, light brown/sandy blonde hair. There's way less gingers with beards on campus tho, I'll say hi when I see you

Why would I lie? No mudhuts or other life-changing overseas experiences (these are considered cliché anyway), no legacy or upper-class wealth. I think it was a combination of reasonably original essays and being an in-state applicant that got me in.

>William and Mary
>Law
>Good friends at home, getting to know people here (1L)
>I love Bannon but he'd call me a globalist - basically I think that globalism is inevitable but I want the American middle class to have a better place in the new order
>Americans are too happy, they need to calm the fuck down

Reed College
Philosophy
Have friends but still hate most socializing. Classmates are really bad at having parties
Center left, my school is basically a tumblr meme so it makes me way more conservative.

the linguistics program that I wanted to transfer to sounded kinda funky. As far as I could tell, the degree was basically a 2 year associate degree that you focused on junior and senior year (I assume you spend the first two years picking up pre-reqs, which isn't that crazy all things considered).
What year are you? I decided to stick with English lit and I'm graduating in two semesters, but I plan on going to go to a grad school for psych. Maybe you can look into that if you're not overloaded with loans.

University of Memphis
Finance
No social life
Far right

Man everyone in montreal is left wing what on earth are you talking about.

Dude I go to OSU too. We should get a beer at Coney's

how many cowboys are in here wtf

'sup brainlets?

>he thinks he's smart for getting into nepotism: the league

McMaster 'cause I don't wanna sell my soul for a low jewishness(UofT, Queens, Waterloo, Carnegie) and didnt get accepted for higher jewishness (MIT, CalTech, Stanford)
>Major
Math
>social life
Alcoholic fat chad witha fetish for lifting and an unfortunate in the closet love for my newfound fellow chad-type engineer friend
>political views
Hard Anarchism

Any mans from mcmaster join me for a philosophical talk over multiple gallons of hard liquor at BSB

Ksu (ga)

English major, no focus, math minor

No social life, all my friends are online. Can't remember how to socialize

I don't have a good label. Probably leftist, but not Marxist or antifa

>he is so aggressively dumb that he doesn't even know which universities are in the Ivy league
>this doesn't stop him from opening his brainlet mouth though

OP you didn't even try to make this Veeky Forums related. Normally I'd sage and give you a snarky reply, but I just moved to a new city and I'd like to make some Veeky Forums friends.
>Northeastern
>math grad student
>Boston
>just purchased two different Euripides collections from a small bookstore. Really nice owner, seemed to know a lot about the classics, which makes sense considering that about 90% of the "fiction" in his store consisted of classics.

pls. legacy admissions are an ivy league thing. stanford is 4 real geniuses only

Damn, I wish I was closer to you. I think we'd get along.

What does (1l) mean?

Thanks G, Ive got a friend over at berkeley school of music who I visit often so we could talk more then.
Whatre you thinking for your thesis as far as field of study (like dynamical systems or algebraic topology, etc)

Also engineering at Georgia Tech. I don't know if its the asians /pol/ posting or a ton of virgin nerds in one space, but I feel that GT is over represented on Veeky Forums whenever a survey is done.

University of North Texas
Computer Science/Philosophy (Dual Degree)
Only have a few friends so far, just started
Classical Liberal/Libertarian
I'm hoping that the Philosophy department is good, so far I'm only a week into an introduction to logic course

I'm actually only a masters student, and my school doesn't haven't a thesis track for masters; I'm just using this as a launching pad for PhD.
I like dynamics, but I'm mostly trying to make a beeline to the functional analysis course to settle a vendetta I have with that subject. I got way in over my head for a project I did as an undergraduate that would have been a lot easier had I known a bit of functional analysis.

Philosophy and Religious studies at ualberta

Georgia Southern
English Literature, Minor in Comparative Literature
Happy, small but nice friend group
Not entirely sure of all my views

>>What School do you go to
Harvard College haha
>>Major?
Humanities xD
>>Brief description of social life (fucked up
>stories welcome)
God I hate athletes so much. Mainly for making me realize just how fucking pitiful it is to be poor, not rich, and not from an aristocratic family. Like holy fuck these people are living the dream in their fucking final clubs and I'm sitting here on my ass reading literature. Even the artsy people are fucking rich. Everyone is rich except for me and the other half of campus that are getting fucked by these fuckers in their fucking bourgeois machine. I'm glad the administration is shutting them down; hopefully they'll go after student "publications" next.
>>What are your political views
Hardcore communist

Sorry wrong frog

University of Minnesota-Duluth
Accounting
somewhat normie in that i can converse with anyone easily but i don't hang out with people very often, close friends back home.
so far right i'm left
struggling to focus on practicing guitar/piano in hopes of getting in a band

Emory University

Meet at Riprocks if you're down

never thought id see another accounting major here. this profession is 95% normie neurotypical suburban country club types with healthy upbringings. I envy them

i mean that's almost me,
grew up going mostly to private school cuz dad was an admin, upperish middle class, suburbs, did sports n went to church.

Unfortunately Im still but an undergrad but I read too far ahead with those dumb dover books that give you enough that you can start jotting down dumb shit in notebooks that make sense to you.
I honestly love dynamic systems and probably want to pursue onwards in it maybe

>since it's the closest that I can get to a science degree, without the difficulty that they entail.

if you wanna be a good and well respected linguist you'll need to learn quite a bit of statistics, logic and even some programming knowledge wouldn't hurt.

linguistics is indeed a lot like a science degree, and that's why it's so great: it is much less infested with the kind of charlatans you'll meet in most humanities departments.

of course, with the right mindset, you can certainly become an academic fraud if you want, but i'm assuming you want to be a legit linguist publishing relevant papers on the field.

linguistics has many different fields of study: syntax, phonology, phonetics, morphology, and so on. withing these fields you have many different objects to study, ie you can focus on studying polynesian languages' syntax or you may try to work on computational models to predict and describe Inuit morphology.

I, for one, work with indigenous languages' syntax within a cognitive framework. This means I get to travel to remote hellholes and talk with aboriginal people and run tests and so on.

It is a lot of fun, but it takes a lot of work. and nobody will take your seriously outside of academia, but that's alright.

i highly recommend it.

I forgot to mention you'll end up with a huge knowledge of interesting facts about many different languages, which you'll always try to talk about with people when you're drunk, making a fool of yourself in most cases.

How is McMasters linguistics department if you were to rate it?