Any other college students here? C:
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I'm a 5th year senior- or what my university likes to call a "super senior" I guess- not because I had many changes to what I want to do with my education. More like my school has policies that makes it almost impossible to get a Bachelor's Degree within 4 years. My experiences could fill a book, but most of them from the past year are negative by this point. I'm just looking forward to graduation at this point, which I should (hopefully) achieve in spring 2015.
After that, I'd like to land a job in journalism and get something published, but the closer I get to graduating the more I fear that's out of my reach. It's terrifying.
College student here. Like you , I'm also a 5th year senior. But I won't be able to graduate this year, because I dropped a subject when I was in my 2nd year. Our school's curriculum has this little perk. If you drop a certain subject which belongs to a series, you won't be able to continue with that series. And you'll only be able to continue the subject you dropped the next year because our university is government run and they lack funds to open another class within the school year or summer. Lol. So I'll be a super senior in my 6th year.
That's terrible! I've only heard of schools doing that but I never have met someone that's had to go through that. That's gotta keep so many people behind too.
My university has a section in the "plan" (basically what you need to do regardless of major so you can graduate) called a thematic sequence. It's a block of classes that you're required to study that's not a part of your major. In my case, I'm an English major, and I took Women Gender and Sexuality Studies to fill the thematic sequence. There is an option to just declare a minor, but there was never one that appealed to me. Of course, they also changed the requirements for my major during the spring semester and while they gave me the option to stick with the old curriculum, I couldn't see it. The new requirements knocked out around 8 of the classes I'd taken over the past three years, and basically they were meaningless. I declared a minor in literature to make up for it, but they almost didn't let me have that because of the whole thematic sequence section.
In other words, I'm ready to graduate ASAP.
It is! There's a handful of people here who reach their 8th year before graduating:O
There's something like that in our school too. But they are called general education subjects. You have to take a certain number of units for 4 categories of subjects. But these are pretty fun. And they're a good way of increasing your general average. They could do that??? I see that you got stuck in a sticky situation...
Yeah, our school's "plan" kinda has the 4 units too, like Humanities and Global Perspectives. Things that fill up pretty easily but tend to be a hassle when you're not good at a particular subject. In my case, science is my weak point, and I was required to take a lab course. I had to take two because I failed the first one. I've already filled all of them, really the only thing holding me back at this point is our foreign language requirement (I need one class that's offered in the spring and I started from the beginning because it'd been too long since I studied a language), and wrapping up my major and minor. I'll only need two classes in the spring, but I'm gonna take at least four.
I'm starting in 5 days. I'm a freshman who is going to Jackson State University! I'm so excited! I'm majoring in Vocal Performance and minoring in foreign languages!
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im doing fine arts and i have an assignment due thursday and i am nowhere near done. i will though. im just having a mild moment of oh dear god what am i going to do.
also art school is expensive and i mean art supplies, every single time i buy like 48327943 things like brushes, paper, paints i cry a little.
I'm in my fourth year of college, and I think at this point I'm really steering myself towards computers, although the medical field is always there, always calling.
I've had lots of bumps in my experience.
Hey everyone c: I'm studying something called 'International Business and Management' and am about to start my 7th semester on 1st of September.. Actually, at this point I'm really looking forward to working (which will hopefully happen next year). I'm so tired of being broke :(
No science majors? Really? Well.
I'm a 23 year old first-time freshman (second semester) studying Geology. Not going to college right out of high-school is probably the best decision I ever made. I got to go out in the world and get all my shiny bright-eyed-ness rubbed off, and now I'm buying my forty-thousand-dollar ticket to the middle class. Jaded? Me? Naw.
Despite the fact that I've completely supported myself since age 18, and supported myself with the exception of shelter since age 14, I still have to include my parent's income on my fafsa because apparently you're not a really real adult until you're 24. Hello bitterness and enormous loan debt.
Hey guys, did you know that tuition in most developed countries ranges from free to about $1000 USD per year? This is one of many reasons why I'm getting my degree and boogying out of the US to get a masters elsewhere. Preferably Iceland.
I live with my boyfriend who is going for robotics engineering (despite already having a culinary degree and half of a math education degree) and our dog who is not going to college because she is a dog. Though I might get her certified as a therapy dog and start taking to college anyway, because the school does have therapy dogs in the library for students to love on every week. Which is pretty damn cool, even though I have my own pup.
I am considering double majoring in Biology. But I haven't decided yet, and since my advisor retired in the spring and the school has not yet bothered to assign me a new one who actually still works there, I don't really know what it would entail.
My school is a state school, so they let everyone in and just count on the people who shouldn't be there either dropping or failing out. This makes gen-ed classes an exquisite torture, being surrounded by 17 and 18 year old morons. I shit you not, in my english class there was a girl who, after watching a documentary on the Weather Underground, could not manage to wrap her head around the fact that these people did not actually hide out under the Earth's crust. She must still think the Underground Railroad is actually a subterranean train.
I don't think I'll graduate on time. The summer and winter breaks are gigantic waste of my time - I'd rather just keep working on classes but the costs for classes in those sessions are astronomical. It's nearly half a semester's tuition for ONE class, and I can't afford it. I have a ton of physics and chem classes to take, but I have to start with remedial math. There is one section open for fall, and it is already over-filled (they somehow let 50 people register for a class slotted to be 20 people) with about 40 more on waitlist. No signs so far of opening more sections! So I guess that will be delayed til Spring, it's looking like.
Since I spent so many years between high school and college, I am what is called a 'part-time provisional' student. This means that I can only take 11.5 credits until... get this... I complete 12 credits! Clever of them, right? I also have to maintain a 2.5 GPA, but if I don't do that anyway I might as well just quit wasting my time and go jump off a bridge.
Basically I want to get my degree as fast as possible, get a job in the oil/gas industry (I can expect to make 20-40k right of college) work there for about 10-15 years (making from 50-150k per year depending on exactly what type of work I do) and then just do whatever I want. Crawl around in caves and study bats and shit, ideally.
I'm a college student for the next four months! I'll be graduating a semester early with a degree in Animal Science/Production. I started out wanting to be a vet but then realized I didn't want to take all the tedious science classes, nor deal with the outrageous amounts of paperwork, nor deal with people with sick dogs who can't pay for it. So now I'm aiming for something in the field of animal behaviour, whether in research or otherwise. I kind of want to train service dogs, I'm training two puppies right now, but the service dog community can be pretty rude & selfish so I'm not sure I want to be in that 24/7. But I love training dogs, and if I trained service dogs I could do the dog training part without so much of the people training part you have to deal with when teaching classes.
sorry for the late reply! I love my degree - it's just the right mix of everything for me. I started of as History and Anthropology (anthropology and archaeology), but recently changed to just anthropology because i've always enjoyed above everything else
That's okay. That's good that you like it. It looks like a really interesting field. I'm really enjoying my history classes. I just have a lot of papers to write. One 5-7 page paper on a famous battle, and two 23-25 page papers on pretty much anything. I think the one will be on how the Tudor Dynasty changed England (that's for my History Research and Writing class) and the other will be on Irish Immigration (that's for my 19th Century America class).
I was looking into studying at Plymouth University for a semester but I would have to go next spring but I don't have the finances and I'll be a senior next year. Maybe once I get into grad school I will be able to
I'm an English Literature and Linguistics major!
I actually just joined this site because I'm avoiding a mountain of readings and test prep I need to do before returning to university after a mid-trimester break.
As for where I'm going/what I want to do after? I have absolutely no clue. Thankfully no one else at my school seems to have their life plan sorted either. It's almost too easy to fall into complacency about not having the future figured out, when thousands of other students don't either.
I'm a college student majoring in Human Science (politics/psychology/history/geography/etc), I am not sure if I want to change my program yet.
As for the future? I have straight ideas in mind, along with a second plan if it fails in the middle of it. I don't have feelings towards college, it's something that has to be done. I went back last Monday, I'll be out at the end of December.
Hello!
I'm not taking classes this semester but will be picking back up (again) come January. I have attended Community College since 2010. I changed my major three times (yay for being indecisive!) But I only have two more years of my program left. I am currently in the process of transferring to Appalachian State University in NC My major is in Graphic Design, and I havent decided yet what my minor will be. I am leading to another form of Art or something English based.
Right now I currently work part time for a Company that is based in Switzerland as their Graphic Design/Artist. My mom does technical writing for the same company. She is a Professor (PH.d ) in the English Department at ASU as well.
As far as the future goes, it all depends. My boyfriend is in Game Design at Full Sail University on line os it all depends on where anything takes us. I do like to illustrate and my favorite program is PhotoShop and tinkering with Photo-Manipulation c: On occasion I tease Traditional Media but I would like to take a gander at photography some time.
I totally understand the expenses with art supply. I think I spent half my Student Loan/Financial Aid on nothing but art supply for the first few semesters of my classes. 50% of the supply was never even in use ==,
right?? i bought a whole bunch of paper for the printmaking block, and i didnt end up using any of it for printmaking. i used 1 sheet for my drawing paper then gave the rest to my friend for her printmaking stuff... i still have 2 sheets a1 watercolour paper and im just ?????? i dont have use for it atm. idk though, since you still might find use for the things you buy later, which saves you from buying them when you need them because you already have them.
English Creative writing major here! I am actually going to be taking almost seven years of college/university (college is trades in Canada and university is the "college" everywhere else as far as I can tell).
Just went from going to the University of Alberta (in Alberta, Canada) to Brock University (Ontario, Canada). Pretty excited, but I got late acceptance, so I am currently not taking any courses. I have to go in and see if they'll wave some of the first year courses (that go all year round, Fall and Winter semester) so I can take second year. Super excited, but also completely terrified.
