College: Where are/were you?

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Matthew Keller
đź’ˇ Automotive School? AND Car Dealerships? Dream College and an easy job right there.... :D
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If your actually taking the Automotive course it would be. Since I was in the drafting program is was more like being surrounded by hill-billy gear heads. <ducks gtp members throwing oil filters at me> How many times do you need to see rednecks doing burnouts in the parking lot with dem der pickum up trucks?

A look from above.

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...I was thinking about this thread earlier today, as we recently got some snow here in West Michigan, and it looks especially pretty on the buildings at Aquinas this time of year. On return to school this afternoon I was going to take photos of the campus, but I had to go to work, and I didn't want to look like a complete tool walking around with a digital camera taking pictures...

Maybe when I get my new phone I'll grab a few nice photos of the campus. It is one of the few that I visited that I like to spend so much time at outside. In the summer it is great, especially with all of the trees full of greenery. On a nice sunny, warm day, it is great.
 
Sage
Well, sounds like you have high hopes for your school. ;)
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Not to get off topic, but I started a graphic design business two years ago which is doing very well, and as such I already know mostly everything they're teaching, and more importantly when the teachers are just throwing out personal opinion. The reason my hopes aren't high for school is, well frankly the feeling I get leaving, knowing I'm spending thousands of dollars a semester to learn absolutely nothing. I'm sure in other fields, or even in graphic design at different colleges, you actually learn something.

For me it's not the same though (don't get me wrong, I would absolutely LOVE to learn something at school).
 
Burnout
Not to get off topic, but I started a graphic design business two years ago which is doing very well, and as such I already know mostly everything they're teaching, and more importantly when the teachers are just throwing out personal opinion. The reason my hopes aren't high for school is, well frankly the feeling I get leaving, knowing I'm spending thousands of dollars a semester to learn absolutely nothing. I'm sure in other fields, or even in graphic design at different colleges, you actually learn something.

For me it's not the same though (don't get me wrong, I would absolutely LOVE to learn something at school).
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I think I'm going to get the same feeling if I get accepted to Ryerson for photography (after two years here at McMaster for communication studies, I don't feel it's right for me). I'm sure there is lots to learn but the arts are mainly subjective; it's not like learning a mathematical formula. Oh well, I shouldn't assume things. It's going to be amazing regardless if I end up wasting my money (again).
 
Melbourne High School as of 2009.

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Hope College in Holland, Michigan.

A small, liberal arts institution in the 'Riviera of the Midwest' (West Michigan is a nice area) with excellent natural science programs.
 
I attended Oakland University in Rochester and Auburn Hills, MI (they can't make up their mind what city they are in). I graduated in the 2008 though with a degree in Anthropology with a concentration in Archaeology.

It's funny I was accepted at all the big name universities like Michigan, Michigan State, Wayne State, etc. but in the end I went to the one close to home (I live maybe 5 minutes from the campus). I saved a ton of money by doing this since room and board is insanely expensive.
 
Ah, after just missing out on a top-tier Monash University place in Law I ended up in Deakin. However, every decent university here is about a minimum 1 hour's drive. I'm not old enough to have a licence and there is no direct route through public transport between my area and the campus so getting there and back every day is proving a car-pooling nightmare. Anyways:

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UTS...yeap, this ugly building (although luckily I spend most of my time in the nicer looking Haymarket campus, about 5 mins walk down the road).

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Rend Lake College for the rest of this semester, graduating with an Associates of Arts and of Science, then finish up with a B.S. at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

I got everything paid for over at Rend Lake, so that was kinda hard to pass over. I'm not convinced that it was a bad choice, either, at least when it comes to their CSCI courses and instructors.
 
I'm currently a high school senior at the Albuquerque Academy in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and now I have a difficult decision to make about what college to attend. I have four good choices, and they each offer a substantially different education: the University of Chicago, Wesleyan University, the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of California at San Diego. Right now, I'm leaning towards Chicago, because the opportunity to be surrounded by such deeply intellectual classmates and faculty is one-of-a-kind. There are better schools for the sciences, which I plan to pursue as a career, but I feel that Chicago will offer a strong science education and research opportunities while also providing what I hope will be an immensely valuable, broad, philosophical education. Plus, I will be able to proclaim with confidence that I'm the only GT player at the school. :D

I'm fortunate to be surrounded by amazing classmates who have had great success in being admitted to top-tier universities. For example, a close friend of mine was accepted at Harvard, Columbia, Dartmouth, and the University of Pennsylvania, as well as at Chicago, and although I hope that he goes to college with me at Chicago, he would be an extremely deserving Harvard student, and I think that it's a perfect match for him. Others are in a similar situation; if I attend Chicago, I may be joined by as many as six classmates (!), but Ivy League institutions may snap up three or four of those, which is a common problem for the university because its name doesn't have quite the same impact and influence. :ouch:
 
Dumb question time, is college the same as university in the US?

Anyway, Heckmondwike Grammar 6th Form College, and then to the University of Chester.
I have the option of transferring to a US university for my final year. My choice is Michigan or Indiana.
 
Sorta-kinda-not-really. &#8220;College&#8221; usually means a school that doesn&#8217;t offer graduate-level education, while a &#8220;University&#8221; does&#8230; however, &#8220;college&#8221; is used colloquially for both college and university.
 
Many years ago, I got my BA in Ancient History from Royal Holloway, University of London.

Then last year I got an MA with distinction in Applied Linguistics from the University of Birmingham.

As of this April, I am an English lecturer at Kyushu International University here in Japan.
 
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woo in like 4 semesters i will have my associates in applied sciences, thus meaning i will be in the repair business for automobiles! woooooooo but in like 2 semesters i will have my general ed credits alll gone and done so i can just focus on auto classes
 
Ha! Washtenaw!

My brother and one of my friends went there for a short while. That area has always weirded me out, with U of M and Eastern being right there as well.
 
My friend just got accepted unconditionally (and on scholarships) to Harvard and Yale. Which means he'll be rejecting Oxford University. :crazy: He's a God amongst men...

As for me, I may be a) Studying English at Exeter, b) Studying English at Queen Mary & Westfield or c) Taking a gap year to focus on my photography...
 
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Well this is a pretty hefty thread revival but I know most people in the US had to decide by May 1, so where's everybody goin? Or, if you're already there, where you at?

I'm heading to Kettering U in Flint, MI come july and am psyched about it after having a rather uneventful (however profitable) gap year. :)
 
I'm at ITT Tech in Albany, NY, getting my CET associate degree. College is okay since I'm only paying 1/4th of the tuition and I enjoy taking a 25-30 mile trip down to college. I'm in the third quarter and been getting some hands on with some electronics classes. Though the terminology is hard to remember with special equations.
 

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