Returning College Junkies!!!

[Machias Banshee]

hey Everyone!!!

Well, the new school year has begun, and people are herding into dorms and getting back into the swing of schedules, boring teachers and bad food. Tell us your story! :D



* ;) to HT *

[ Thanky sai! :D ~HT ]

[Nturtle]

Hey Machias!!! I already greeted you in another thread, but you didn't notice sooooo... *dumps yt another mango cake on Machias* Welcome back!!!! :D

[Eternelle]

College? Ha! I'm still stuck in high school. But on the brighter side of things, I'm already one week into my senior year. Yay! Now only 35 weeks left.....

[Machias Banshee]

gah! Heh, thanks...

*licks some cake off* Mmm... :D

[Kali]

*glomp* Welcome back, Machi. And all the other returning members.

[cqb101]

I'm not even close to college....Stil stuck in HS. Grrrrrrr.

[Voltron]

I think I already explained my college situation. Needless to say I'm not enthralled about returning to any form of government issued education.

[Raven]

well im still in HS, but im probabl;y not going to college. the job im going after really dosent need a college degree.

[Reznorite420]

hey Everyone!!!

Well, the new school year has begun, and people are herding into dorms and getting back into the swing of schedules, boring teachers and bad food. Tell us your story! :DAbout a week late, aren't you?

And: Dorm? What's a dorm? :D I'm quite comfortable at the UTD apartments. We're spoiled, so NYAH! :P

[Eternelle]

I'm not even close to college....Stil stuck in HS. Grrrrrrr.

I feel your frustration, cqb. High school = hell, especially when you really don't like going along with the whole social aspect of the experience...but c'est la vie!

[DarkNinja]

I'm counting the days down... 35 more weeks of school, or 175 days, but it'll end up being more cause we've got extra make-up days in case it snows... just hope all the extra days are taken up by bad weather. My snowmaking machine will see to that! :evilgrin:

[Voltron]

I wish they had a barfing face emoticon here. To show my distaste for school.

[Machias Banshee]

I wish they had a barfing face emoticon here. To show my distaste for school.


hehehe...


http://www.stopstart.fsnet.co.uk/smilie/pukeface.gif

[damnhooligan]

Sweet barfing icon!

No schoolie for me, I'm on an "extended leave of absense" thanks to a lack of schools around here. Though, the first two years were indeed a riot. Awful cafeteria food, late night excursions to the liquor store with the "old" guy in our dorm hall, my psychotic Japanese roommate.

Ah, good times. It does get better after high school... that is, if you don't mind eating Ramen noodles three times a day for four years.

[Tinselcat]

me likes the college. ethernet.... *drools* yeah, so i'm happy. I've got a great roommate. tomorrow i need to go to these art classes and beg the proffessor to let me in. standard procedure.

[Voltron]

Wow! I should have known someone would have thought of a barfing face icon. But I was looking for something with a little more disgust in the face.

[That Matt Guy]

Damn Ramen noodles. I have to order and stock those f***ing things, so quit eating them!

[Tinselcat]

need... food...for...life-making...aaaarrrrgh!!

[Cascadia]

check out my signature then you will know where I am in my college education career. :D :D :D I have a 2 bachalor's degrees in two areas of science. I am so proud of myself. :)

[Taloniss]

Today was my first day of college. It's not bad so far, I'm not living on residence, so it's not a whole lot different from high school for me.

[Tinselcat]

college is great. you get to live a more independent lifestyle with the security of the college community. i hope you have fun!

[Mars-Chan]

*snorts* College. Fun place or enrty to the rat race?

[Reznorite420]

Damn Ramen noodles. I have to order and stock those f***ing things, so quit eating them!You just signed the death sentence of over half of America's college population...including mine :cry:

As for internet connection...UTD has wireless, so I guess that's a bit better :P

[Kameko]

MACHIAS!!! *GLOMP*



:D

College Rocksh!

I may be too young to drink, but computer classes can fry your brain much better than any alcoholic drink... :P



Welcome back, all!

[Tinselcat]

*snorts* College. Fun place or enrty to the rat race?

not for me! i'm majoring in english and minoring in studio art. the only alternative would be to get a real job... god forbid...

[That Matt Guy]

:o Don't tell me that I am the only person on this board who works a full time job!

[Leo656]

I work pretty close to a full time job. Sometimes I get less than 40 hours a week but sometimes I've gone as high as 70.

[Moomintroll]

Man, I never left college, and I don't have DSL yet, stupid off-camous living, stupid summer courses, I am always here, GAH
just this year left!

[Mars-Chan]

Moomintroll!!!!!!! *glomps*

[HorseTechie]

Hrmm.. Machias, you need ta stick an option up there for us Master degree/continuing education types, you do. Or should I? :P

But yeah.. that's what I'm doing. I hope to gradute next spring.. and then get a cooler, better paying job.

[Psycrow]

College!!! Woohoo! :D

*falls down in a familar drunken stupor*

It's good to be back. :D

[Mars-Chan]

:lol: Hey, Psycrow...you all right? :lol:

[Cascadia]

In January I might be going to another university for a second bachalor's degree in geology....

This second bachalor's degree might be my gateway for a master's degree.

[HorseTechie]

You like torture, don't yah? Oh, and have you found a job of your liking, Sci-freak?

[Mars-Chan]

Good Luck in January!! :)

[Cascadia]

You like torture, don't yah? Oh, and have you found a job of your liking, Sci-freak?

No one has hired me.....the job market is horrible right now. I am trying to get to a master's degree. If I do, it will be my greatest accomplishment.

[Mars-Chan]

Keep looking....You'll find something. :D

[Cascadia]

I have been looking for a year now. It has been a Catch-22 situation. If you have an advanced degree, you will most likely get a job. If you only have a bachalor's degree, the only way that you can be hired is if you have several years of experience. The only way to get experience is be hired.

[Psycrow]

:lol: Hey, Psycrow...you all right? :lol:

I'm fine, it's like winning the lottery for a second time, or the equivalent of a long lost family member coming back from a trip. :D

[Raven]

:lol: Hey, Psycrow...you all right? :lol:

I'm fine, it's like winning the lottery for a second time, or the equivalent of a long lost family member coming back from a trip. :D

physacilly yes

mentally......well were still looking into that :P

[HorseTechie]

You like torture, don't yah? Oh, and have you found a job of your liking, Sci-freak?

No one has hired me.....the job market is horrible right now. I am trying to get to a master's degree. If I do, it will be my greatest accomplishment.
*nod* *nods*

That will be one for me too. But it's only half the battel. If I can find that betetr paying (web) design job, I'll be a pretty happy camper afterwards.

Unfortunatley, that would mean less time on these forums though... :cry:

[Leo656]

Sigh. I'm almost afraid to go to college, since by the time I actually am able to go I'll be living on my own or, more likely, with my girlfriend, and the job market in Jersey is absolutely pathetic unless you work in pharmaceuticals. So I'll probably end up working as a fry cook somewhere just to be able to afford food, scamming the gov't out of financial aid and student loans just to be able to AFFORD college (cuz I really can't but I know I'm gonna have to go one day whether I can afford it or not). Meanwhile, I just got a raise at my job, and it pains me to think that one day I'll have to quit and start working somewhere for minimum wage just so I can go to school, get a degree, come out, and STILL be forced to work a barely higher than minimum wage job regardless until the economy improves.

If the moving business didn't suck so bad, I'd say the hell with college and just stay where I am rather than just start over somewhere else. Problem with that is the only people in this business who can live off it comfortably are the people who run companies and I'm not cut out for that crap.

Sigh. HT and the others who know me can tell you just how much I hate my life. :P

[Reznorite420]

Leo, if it cheers you up any, I'm having to pay my way through college via student loans at the moment, and with any luck I'll qualify for at least some government aid soon...yet I have high hopes for after I graduate. Then again, my major is in an area of study/skill that will ALWAYS have a demand to it ANYWHERE, IMO (computer science).

[Leo656]

Well, all I can say is hopefully the computers and technology industries have an upswing, because most of the places I move are big computer, technology, internet and communications companies that need entire buildings emptied out due to massive downsizing. Plus a lot of my friends went to college for computer science and programming etc and they can't even find jobs right now. It's tough. The industry is in a downturn, but hopefully it will turn back up once the economy settles. Good luck with it though, man, nothing could ever be more disheartening than going to school for years to be able to do something, and then not be able to do it anyway, in my opinion anyway.

Edit: But this is a golden age for the moving business. One that shall never end! (lights a cigar with a hundred dollar bill)

Quick, tell me where I took that (paraphrased) quote from and you get one of GK's special brownies. :D

[Reznorite420]

Actually, some if it all depends on past work experience and such. Usually when I hear of college graduates having a hard time finding a job, they usually graduated from a college/university that didn't have the option for students to work paid internships on a job in their field of major. UTD does offer that, however, so again, I have high hopes (plus it's a good school anyway).

Despite all I'm saying, don't let your level of formal education be the basis of who and what you really are. I can honestly say that if I didn't know any better, I'd think you were at least attending college solely from how you write. Heck, my maternal grandparents never actually graduated high school, yet my grandpa was a mathematical genius. It's not that he didn't want it, but he couldn't get a formal education on his salary.

Just know there's always hope.

[Leo656]

Heh that's cuz I read a lot and my best subjects in school were language arts and creative writing.

My language arts teacher had a weird way of grading me, I was "special"... I never bothered doing the reading, so when it was time for a test or quiz on the books, I would write some other kind of essay. Sometimes it would be like, "Sometimes, in life, things don't always go the way we plan. Sometimes, we set out with the best of intentions, only to look on, helpless and distraught, as the passage of time tears those plans asunder. With that said, understand that I had every *intention* of reading the book you assigned to us, but for reasons explored within these paragraphs, I will explain why..." And I'd get, like, a score of 10 out of 100. The first time I saw that I was like "How did I get a 10? I answered them all wrong..." And she'd smile and be like "Well, what you DID write was just so darn creative I thought you deserved *something*. Most kids would've just left it blank!" :lol:

Damn I miss high school.

[Cascadia]

I miss high school.....it was way too easy. I did not have much of a social life because I took 8 classes each semester....2 of them would be honors classes--science. Plus, I had my research to do with no supervision.

[Reznorite420]

2 of them would be honors classes--science.Really? I never would've guessed :lol:

[Dinogrrl]

Bleh, semester's back in and all the little stupids, er, students are back to cover the campus. :P And I'm back from Oklahoma City's summer job (third summer gig running with this particular oil company, hopefully they'll hire me once I'm done) and into it again.

This time it's going to get tough. Gotta get through the Qualifying Exam for my PhD this semester, and after that it's 'All But Dissertation', which means I have to write the bastard thing and defend it. I hope to be out of here by December 2004. Most likely to a job in the oil industry, for which I certainly don't need a PhD, but I figured I'd get one in case I hated industry, as academia and related fields are the only other ones I'd work in. Can't wait to get a job where I won't be in a constant financial panic, and where I can send my welfare surviving mother back home money regularly. Of course it also means I will most likely be working over here, and will still be half a planet away from my parents. :(

I'll be bumming around Pittsburgh and Washington DC for the next two weeks going to two conferences. And before you whine about me being so lucky, if the Uni doesn't get it's shite together and pay me on time next week, I'll be walking back to Indiana. Conferences can be great, but holy Jaysus Christ do they cost a crapload. :|

Oh, that and my visa runs out this January, which means I can't leave the US until I change status and get a new one.

[The Defibrillator]

Hey, Rez, I'm right up your alley, in Plano, I think about a 45 minute drive from UTD. Right now I'm going to a community college (Collin County) but after I get my associates degree I'm gonna transfer to a university, although I have no idea where yet. So yeah, it's pretty fun so far, except for my GOVT professor is crazy, and she's always ranting about drinking and driving and all that fun stuff.

[HorseTechie]

...I'll be bumming around Pittsburgh and Washington DC for the next two weeks going to two conferences. And before you whine about me being so lucky, if the Uni doesn't get it's sh** together and pay me on time next week, I'll be walking back to Indiana. Conferences can be great, but holy Jaysus Christ do they cost a crapload. :|

Oh, that and my visa runs out this January, which means I can't leave the US until I change status and get a new one.

Ilk... that doesn't sound like fun.

But clarify one thing for me: how is it that you are stuck in the US if your visa runs out? Sounds kind of backwards, if the visa was your permit to stay in the US. Or maybe I'm confused.. as usual.

[Cascadia]

HorseTechie.....I am confused too on the Visa deal. :-?

[Cascadia]

I am trying to decide where to go for my 2nd bachalor's degree.....to help me, go to the "I am moving" thread with the poll.