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College
Posted On: May 12, 2012 1:14:51 GMT -5
Post by Youngster Joey on May 12, 2012 1:14:51 GMT -5
What's the difference between Universities and Colleges? Colleges only grant a bachelor's degree, while universities grant both bachelor and postgraduate degrees.
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College
Posted On: May 12, 2012 5:39:02 GMT -5
Post by Hiro the Half-Elf on May 12, 2012 5:39:02 GMT -5
Oh, hey, college year is over.
Time to celebrate by sleeping for two months straight.
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College
Posted On: May 12, 2012 12:23:26 GMT -5
Post by Umbra on May 12, 2012 12:23:26 GMT -5
I'm seriously considering taking up art history to go along with my course (fine arts), it's just that all that writing I have to do that comes with taking up anything history related that keeps me away from them. It's not that I can't write, it's just that I'd rather paint or draw than write. Then again, my professors had been using my essays as case examples on how to write an art-related essay or term paper, so it might not be as bad as may think. At some point, I know I should take music history to go along with my major in music. (That's if I plan to continue to a 4-year college, of course.) EDIT: I feel that my writing ability is going downhill as time goes by, especially given that I barely give my posts a second look, and for all I know, it could be riddled with grammatical errors and incoherent sentences due to my habit of editing something mid-sentence and forgetting to rework whole paragraphs to accommodate these spur of the moment edits. I used to proofread for people, but now I need people to proofread my stuff I wouldn't criticize your writing skills. The most important thing about one's writing is that it conveys meaning. Last school year I voluntarily proofread some of my friend's papers. He was an international student from Vietnam, and well, his grammar was horrible. However, when I read his papers, despite the number of probably unintentional errors, I could make sense of most of it--I understood the main idea. It made sense to me then why the Grammar section on my essay rubrics only accounted for 10 percent of the grade, and why the Idea section accounted for more than half of the grade.
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College
Posted On: Oct 10, 2012 1:07:45 GMT -5
Post by sukotsuto on Oct 10, 2012 1:07:45 GMT -5
When I first started college here in the US, I had no idea what's what, since I don't understand the system here. Back in the Philippines, you select a major right from the get-go, and the subjects you take is automatically outlined for you throughout your college years, not much leeway on whether you can choose either philosophy or art history for your humanities requirement.
Now that I finally understood and saw a counselor to outline my educational plan, at least I know that I want to transfer to Cal State Long Beach, thanks to how that's one of the very few universities around here whose art department are getting respect, and is not a victim of major budget cutbacks plaguing most schools.
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College
Posted On: Oct 14, 2012 5:05:16 GMT -5
Post by Youngster Joey on Oct 14, 2012 5:05:16 GMT -5
I wish the college system here was more like Europe's. I understand the value of a liberal arts education, I really do, but I don't think the model is practical when college is so expensive. Most people can't afford to fart around taking more than 2/3 of their credits in things not applicable to their major. It'd be fine to make people take 4 years' worth of credits to make them well-rounded if college was cheap, but with college costs the way they are, not really! I've read repeatedly that analysts are predicting the college loan bubble will be the next to pop. I can believe it.
I think it would be far more efficient to have a system like Europe's, where you apply to a specific field and take courses only in that area. Europeans graduate in 3 years, and the depth gone into their particular subject is much greater than it would be with an equivalent American degree. Saves a ton of money and time that way.
I'm actually pretty jealous of the European university system. Europeans can apply straight to medical school from high school and be certified in four or five years. I'd have loved to gone into medicine if it didn't take 8+ years of schooling here :/
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Dragon Queen
Half-Elf
A crazy fangirl who really loves Regret from the game Zenonia..
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College
Posted On: Oct 20, 2012 12:06:06 GMT -5
Post by Dragon Queen on Oct 20, 2012 12:06:06 GMT -5
Ah college... It is so hard...
By the way I am taking up... AB New Media at Meridian college (second year)
Especially when it comes to projects..
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College
Posted On: Oct 25, 2012 14:35:21 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2012 14:35:21 GMT -5
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College
Posted On: Feb 21, 2013 11:08:23 GMT -5
Post by Youngster Joey on Feb 21, 2013 11:08:23 GMT -5
So, now that most of you people are in college, what are your opinions of it? Do you think it's worth it?
I regret my college experience so far. Sure, I have straight A's, but I don't feel like I've actually learned anything. I'd do it over again if I could and pick a completely different major. I was convinced I wanted to get a PhD in psychology, but I wasn't really expecting to completely lose interest in psychology two years in later :'DDDD
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College
Posted On: Feb 21, 2013 11:32:22 GMT -5
Post by sukotsuto on Feb 21, 2013 11:32:22 GMT -5
As someone who started in computer science, then moved on to fine arts later in life, just change your major and do it asap. We tend to change and think differently every two years, and most of us don't really know what we want to do in life early on, especially if you just gone out of high school.
Is there a single thing you're interested right now that you wouldn't mind doing all your life, or are you still exploring your options?
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College
Posted On: Feb 21, 2013 12:23:04 GMT -5
Post by Phone Master Ion on Feb 21, 2013 12:23:04 GMT -5
I'm having a good time at college, despite how little sleep I've been getting. Most of my time has been sapped by a single mandatory intensive writing course, digging into my sleep hours and time I definitely should be spending on other stuff. Now that its over I feel like I can finally take a deep breath. I write way too slowly....
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Post by Youngster Joey on Feb 21, 2013 17:21:19 GMT -5
I wish I could have that sort of attitude about changing majors, Scott, but it would commit me to several more years of college because I'm already so far along. It makes more sense just to graduate, work a while, and then apply to graduate school in something else. (Besides, bachelor's degrees aren't enough nowadays anyway because everyone and their mother have one :'D)
I'm looking at marketing and law, mainly. Marketing because it's related to psychology, just in a much more hands-on, less theoretical way (which is nice, since it's not to say I hate psychology, just that I don't want to do theory research until I'm a cantankerous old lady)... on the fence about law. I might find I hate it, and the job market for lawyers is something awful. Still, I won't totally dismiss the idea. I've been told by a million people countless times throughout my life that I'd do really well in law, so idk.
Funny you should complain about a mandatory writing class, Ion; the mandatory writing class here is by FAR the most female doged about class, hands down. You're in engineering, right?
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College
Posted On: Feb 21, 2013 19:50:35 GMT -5
Post by Phone Master Ion on Feb 21, 2013 19:50:35 GMT -5
Actually I'm on the media side of Computer Science. Coding and all the stuff that comes with that with a fair amount of digital art. It's pretty cool, and that makes me eligible to apply for game design positions.
I can understand why people would dislike writing classes in general, but the thing is the first year writing course here is considered to be really easy. I just so happen to get the professor that wants us to write essays about obscure articles by old men who hate society and why people younger than them are stupid and deserve death. We're allowed to disagree with the articles but we still needed to do in depth analysis for each one. Not how I planned on spending my nights....
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College
Posted On: Feb 21, 2013 21:39:27 GMT -5
Post by sukotsuto on Feb 21, 2013 21:39:27 GMT -5
I wish I could have that sort of attitude about changing majors, Scott, but it would commit me to several more years of college because I'm already so far along. It makes more sense just to graduate, work a while, and then apply to graduate school in something else. (Besides, bachelor's degrees aren't enough nowadays anyway because everyone and their mother have one :'D) I'm looking at marketing and law, mainly. Marketing because it's related to psychology, just in a much more hands-on, less theoretical way (which is nice, since it's not to say I hate psychology, just that I don't want to do theory research until I'm a cantankerous old lady)... on the fence about law. I might find I hate it, and the job market for lawyers is something awful. Still, I won't totally dismiss the idea. I've been told by a million people countless times throughout my life that I'd do really well in law, so idk. Wouldn't it become longer and longer as you stay in your current course, especially if you're finally going to decide? Not that I just left my current major to move on to another two years into it, my studies got interrupted with me going to the US and working for a few years, which gave me enough time to reconsider my choice of majors.
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College
Posted On: Feb 21, 2013 22:50:51 GMT -5
Post by gαявαge on Feb 21, 2013 22:50:51 GMT -5
So, now that most of you people are in college, what are your opinions of it? Do you think it's worth it? I regret my college experience so far. Sure, I have straight A's, but I don't feel like I've actually learned anything. I'd do it over again if I could and pick a completely different major. I was convinced I wanted to get a PhD in psychology, but I wasn't really expecting to completely lose interest in psychology two years in later :'DDDD I have pretty much the same problem :/ I thought university was much more challenging, but I have good grades without really having to make an effort. By no means medicine is an easy career, but It just doesn't seem as demanding as I expected or as everyone else in my classes make it to be.
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College
Posted On: Feb 22, 2013 0:03:25 GMT -5
Post by Phone Master Ion on Feb 22, 2013 0:03:25 GMT -5
Isn't abby / a745 also in med school? From what I've gleaned from the main site posts, she'd probably want to throw something at you for calling it not as demanding as you thought.
How exactly does med school work? I know it has multiple phases, but beyond that I know nothing.
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