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Re: University/College
« Reply #450 on: 03 May 2010, 08:02 »

So this morning I sat an exam which was identical to the December diet exam that the foreign exchange students sat. I'm cursing a little bit because I looked at it but didn't thoroughly go through all the questions. On the other hand, I thought I was going to fail that exam, so it was a pleasant surprise.
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« Reply #451 on: 03 May 2010, 09:36 »

I've got a meeting with an academic advisor at the school I'm heavily leaning towards today. Oh god, I'm actually going back to school.
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« Reply #452 on: 09 May 2010, 21:07 »

Hey guys, I graduate this Saturday! (If I do well on my finals, of course.)

Congrats to all those who already have this semester!
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« Reply #453 on: 20 May 2010, 20:43 »

Guys, I am in a bit of a quandary. See, I've been trying to graduate for years. I couldn't afford full time classes anymore and took up a full time position at the university I was attending. I've been reaping the benefits of taking a free class per semester, slowly working my way towards being able to graduate. This plan has been going fairly well, but a class I am taking right now has me pondering taking up a minor in history. This would mean it would take me even longer to graduate. What do you think, oh mighty interwebs?
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Re: University/College
« Reply #454 on: 21 May 2010, 04:56 »

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« Reply #455 on: 21 May 2010, 05:08 »

ForteBass, if you're happy with your current situation then go for the minor! A year or so extra in a job you like, studying something you enjoy, should be fun. But if you're itching to graduate and do something different, then don't do the minor and you can always come back to it in the future if you still want to study it.

Internets, I am swinging wildly between thinking that I'm absolutely fine for my Criminal law exam, because there's a lot of stuff I know very thoroughly from A level, and thinking "oh crap I haven't done any revision for this at all!". I've focused mainly on the subject I really care about, and I've put off the ones that are later on, but Criminal falls throug the gaps. Eek! I don't want to do badly, but I also don't want to panic and stress about it...
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« Reply #456 on: 17 Sep 2010, 05:44 »

I move into halls in 2 days and I have just found out my room mate is a Malaysian student who goes by the name of 'Edison'.

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Re: University/College
« Reply #457 on: 17 Sep 2010, 05:48 »

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« Reply #458 on: 17 Sep 2010, 06:11 »

FIGHT TO THE DEATH
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Re: University/College
« Reply #459 on: 18 Sep 2010, 14:32 »

using an empty pbr as an incense holder. COLLEGE
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« Reply #460 on: 18 Sep 2010, 19:44 »

hey tania, remember when you said you would quit smoking and start exercising and eating well every day during grad school cos life was going to get real nice and easy

now that you work constantly and do hundreds of pages of readings every week and never go to sleep earlier than 1am i bet you feel pretty dumb, don't you
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« Reply #461 on: 18 Sep 2010, 21:35 »

First college exam this Tuesday!  I'm not concerned at all!  Wheee
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« Reply #462 on: 23 Sep 2010, 09:19 »

Guys guys guys guys this time next week I'll be back at uni arranging my NEW CUSHIONS and NEW PICTURES and NEW CAKE TIN in my NEW ROOM. And then I'll go meet my college children! Well, the one who will also be moving in that early. Then I'll go to London for a day, then go SKATE AGAIN and then have dinner with the aforementioned children and then go to a drinks party and then maybe start a tutoring job and then man I am going to be just as busy this year, aren't I?

I'm so excited. I almost wrote sexcited and actually that wouldn't have been far off how excited I am about going back except that it will be better than sex because I won't have to clean up afterwards and hope for a phone call the next day.
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« Reply #463 on: 23 Sep 2010, 11:37 »

dang man. My course don't even have like... exams.

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« Reply #464 on: 23 Sep 2010, 15:22 »

clean up afterwards

Exactly what the hell kind of sex are you having anyway?
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« Reply #465 on: 23 Sep 2010, 18:01 »

clean up afterwards

Exactly what the hell kind of sex are you having anyway?

The good kind.
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Re: University/College
« Reply #466 on: 23 Sep 2010, 18:35 »

Exactly what the hell kind of sex are you having anyway?

Do you really want an answer?

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Re: University/College
« Reply #467 on: 23 Sep 2010, 21:12 »

College.  Too much work.  Five pager on Kant due this weekend.  No fun.
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Re: University/College
« Reply #468 on: 24 Sep 2010, 07:21 »

Been back a week.

Over it.
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« Reply #469 on: 24 Sep 2010, 08:20 »

Today is my third day. I can tell I'll like my teaching classes. However, having my loans come in would be nice, so I could buy books and stuff. Also some girl in ceramics yesterday was confusing the shit out of me. I think I took "her table", but I took an empty shelf and she kept trying to get me to take "her shelf" which was full of her stuff. Which I don't really understand. She didn't ask me if she could have had the table she had last quarter (which I would have let her have), she just kept trying to convince me to take a shelf that had all her shit on it. College kids! I do not miss their weird ways!
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« Reply #470 on: 24 Sep 2010, 10:24 »



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Re: University/College
« Reply #471 on: 26 Sep 2010, 03:29 »

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« Reply #472 on: 26 Sep 2010, 07:39 »

clean up afterwards

Exactly what the hell kind of sex are you having anyway?

You're probably right, unpacking all the boxes and suitcases will take far longer than changing the sheets.
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« Reply #473 on: 11 Feb 2011, 20:56 »

So I got a call today from a rep of Northwestern University's Continuing Ed department. He had heard that I was expressing interest in a Masters of Public Policy and Administration and we set up a time next week to talk about possibilities.

I'm excited! Living in Chicago would just be a dream. There are a couple of issues: For one, my mom says this isn't "real grad school" because the people who called me were from continuing ed (meaning if I signed up I'd be taking night classes, or something). I don't know if she knows what she's talking about. I assume she must because she's been a grad student a number of times.

There's also the issue of just how exactly Northwestern knew to get in touch with me. I got an email saying the "process had started" but I hadn't contacted them, and my mom denied having done so on my behalf. We suspect that one of my mom's old boyfriends had intervened on my behalf - she had contacted him, the head of the Poli Sci department at some private university, to inquire about what I could do with a Poli Sci bachelors and where I could take it, grad school-wise. It was he who suggested the MPPA program at Northwestern.

So that's exciting! At this point I have no idea if I meet the requirements for enrollment (3.76 GPA, hopefully 3.8 by semester's end) but I guess we'll see!
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« Reply #474 on: 13 Feb 2011, 16:42 »

Turns out ex-BF guy did not contact Northwestern.
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« Reply #475 on: 13 Feb 2011, 19:20 »

Could be a phisher?
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« Reply #476 on: 13 Feb 2011, 20:12 »

If it is a phisher he's working pretty hard - calling me on the phone, maintaining a number of official-looking email addresses that all link to Northwestern websites, sending me brochures from "[email protected]". I would be pretty impressed.
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Re: University/College
« Reply #477 on: 18 Feb 2011, 14:46 »

IT IS A SIGN. TURN TO GOD, MY CHILD.  :angel:  8-)
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« Reply #478 on: 25 Feb 2011, 14:03 »

Right! So I met with the PA bro at my school and she really hammered home the importance of accreditation in choosing a program. There are a lot of guarantees that go along with accreditation (at least 6 faculty members committed full-time to the program, internship placement, job placement statistics published yearly, etc.) plus Federal appointment is tons more likely given that they specifically look to accredited programs for staff. That eliminates Northwestern, unfortunately. Here is my prelim list:

San Francisco State University
University of Colorado Denver
The University of Illinois at Chicago
Northeastern University
Syracuse University
Portland State University
Carnegie Mellon University
The University of Texas at Austin
University of Washington

After my mom did some snooping, it looks like Northeastern may be phasing out its program (?) and she pointed out the John Jay College of Criminal Justice has an accredited program focusing on, you guessed it, Criminal Justice Administration. That sounds really exciting to me in general, plus it would be an opportunity to further my WS focus, or at least allow me to provide a strong personal statement for admissions. That's in NYC. U of I is obviously in Chicago and I love Chicago, plus it is a bit cheaper than NYC, living-wise.

My mom also discovered that UT Austin requires Calc-level math skills, which I lack, so that's out. So here's what I'm left with after a day of investigation, with the ones I'm looking hard at bolded, and others struck out.

San Francisco State University
University of Colorado Denver
The University of Illinois at Chicago
Northeastern University
Syracuse University
Portland State University
Carnegie Mellon University
The University of Texas at Austin
University of Washington
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Columbia
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« Reply #479 on: 25 Feb 2011, 16:40 »

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« Reply #480 on: 25 Feb 2011, 16:43 »

think about all the conversations about criminal justice policy reform we could have!!

we could have so many conversations about that
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« Reply #481 on: 25 Feb 2011, 16:52 »

Man don't rule out UT just because of Calculus, Austin is a goddamned fine place to live.
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« Reply #482 on: 25 Feb 2011, 17:36 »

Oh hey you guys guess what happened. So I applied to go back to uni for post-grad studies. Apparently due to system errors they didn't send me my offer to let me know I got in but I called them yesterday just to make absolutely triple fucking sure that I didn't get in and I fucking did. Classes start on Monday and I have to quit my job immediately and have no money ever again all while we are applying for new places to live. This is simultaneously the best and worst thing that could happen right now. I can't even get into the uni website to choose my classes because I won't get my offer until AFTER semester starts so I just have to show up to shit next week and explain repeatedly why I'm not on the student lists and shit.
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« Reply #483 on: 25 Feb 2011, 17:38 »

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« Reply #484 on: 25 Feb 2011, 17:44 »

My grad app is due Monday. I still haven't asked people for letters. Why? Because of shit piling up and me being too afraid to ask. Don't do this people. Don't ever do this. It is bad. I am freaking out right now.
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« Reply #485 on: 25 Feb 2011, 17:51 »

think about all the conversations about criminal justice policy reform we could have!!

we could have so many conversations about that
Technically I'd be a student of Public Administration with a Criminal Justice Policy focus. So I'd probably just tell you all about how your methods are unfeasible.
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« Reply #486 on: 25 Feb 2011, 18:12 »

I would imagine it's more likely that a stats class would be required for criminal justice, even though I think everyone who has a four-year degree should have at least one semester of calculus.

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No fucking way am I taking calculus. I burned myself out in College Algebra (even though I got an A, somehow). UT Austin seems particularly statistics-focused, so that might be why. John Jay has a stats requirement but not a calc one.
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« Reply #487 on: 25 Feb 2011, 18:13 »

Technically I'd be a student of Public Administration with a Criminal Justice Policy focus. So I'd probably just tell you all about how your methods are unfeasible.

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« Reply #488 on: 26 Feb 2011, 10:27 »

The more and more I think about it, the more I'm thinking that I'll want to go into some sort of english/cultural studies program, or into philosophy, probably philosophy of science. Not going to be right around the corner either way, since I'm definitely going to take at least a year off after I get my bachelors this May, but it's making me conscious that I'll need to keep in touch with a few of my professors, so I'll send off some emails this week, try and schedule a meeting or something to discuss this sort of transition. I have no idea how common or acceptable it is to make that sort of transfer, and I really would like to go into a masters program or something right away, rather than having to deal with getting a second bachelors degree.
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« Reply #489 on: 26 Feb 2011, 13:21 »

I start my second year of uni tomorrow. Everyone I've talked to about it says that histology is such a bitch (8 hrs a week of classes, 50:50 lectures and labs) and totally hard. I'll also be at uni from 9-6 5 days a week, due to these really annoying three hour breaks between some classes. Unlike last year, I won't have to run from the bottom to the top to get to consecutive classes because my classes are all up the top near the Wallace Wurth.

Additionally, hooray for gov't and corporate rebates! In the end the cost of my replacement Mac and iPod is mostly nothing.
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« Reply #490 on: 26 Feb 2011, 21:55 »

I'm starting my second second year tomorrow too. Oh god I've been at this so long and have nothing to show for it.
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« Reply #491 on: 27 Feb 2011, 15:40 »

got sick for the first time in almost 2 years, missed my first three lectures

all in all, a good start to university life
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« Reply #492 on: 27 Feb 2011, 15:45 »

Hey, that's how I started too a few years back! Got mono/glandular fever two days before first day of uni, and spent the next month and a half in bed. Missed out on all the social stuff of being a fresher and had to do a whole semester's worth of work in a month, good times.
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« Reply #493 on: 27 Feb 2011, 16:38 »

Eh, nothing really happens in the first week it's all introductions and shit.
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« Reply #494 on: 27 Feb 2011, 17:38 »

The more and more I think about it, the more I'm thinking that I'll want to go into some sort of english/cultural studies program, or into philosophy, probably philosophy of science. Not going to be right around the corner either way, since I'm definitely going to take at least a year off after I get my bachelors this May, but it's making me conscious that I'll need to keep in touch with a few of my professors, so I'll send off some emails this week, try and schedule a meeting or something to discuss this sort of transition. I have no idea how common or acceptable it is to make that sort of transfer, and I really would like to go into a masters program or something right away, rather than having to deal with getting a second bachelors degree.

English/Cultural Studies (which I assume means lots of critical theory) and Philosophy of Science are both mad interesting, but seemingly very distinct fields.  What are you getting your bachelor's degree in?
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« Reply #495 on: 28 Feb 2011, 08:26 »

2 out of the 3 professors I emailed Friday about rec letters have responded with a yes, thank goodness. Now I'm only worrying about the last one (the retired one), so if I don't get an answer after my next class, I'm going to the office to see if there's another way of contacting him. Granted, I have no idea what he's doing, so I may have to ask another faculty member which would be pretty bad. (Sanity wise.)
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« Reply #496 on: 01 Mar 2011, 21:45 »

English/Cultural Studies (which I assume means lots of critical theory) and Philosophy of Science are both mad interesting, but seemingly very distinct fields.  What are you getting your bachelor's degree in?

Neuroscience, with a minor in Linguistics, at McGill. I spend more time reading and discussing things which are far outside the scope of those fields than I devote to my schoolwork though. I read far in excess of anyone else I know, in my everyday life, and am pretty well versed in a large variety of fields as a result (try me if you really want). I'm helped further by the fact that the majority of my friends study things like cultural studies, philosophy, and political science, and are generally involved in radical politics and actions. Of course, a lot of this cultural literacy is not something which will show up on a transcript from McGill, though I have managed to get A's in an upper level philosophy class, an Italian cinema classes, and decently complex modernist poetry class which I've taken, and in each of those classes was mistaken for someone who was specializing in the particular field, and when the course was over told that I should continue my studies in that direction.

I'm by no means settled on what it is I want to do later, I just know it is going to be at least a fair bit disconnected from what I'm studying now, and I really have very little idea how graduate programs would react to such a complete turn around in subject matter, even if I got references.
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« Reply #497 on: 03 Mar 2011, 03:14 »

As far as I know most graduate programs let you do a pretty big change around in direction. My flatmate did his undergraduate degree in Philosophy and came here to do a Masters in Computer Science.
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« Reply #498 on: 03 Mar 2011, 03:26 »

Yeah, my uncle got a bachelor's in some sort of music-related degree, and then went on to get an MD.
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« Reply #499 on: 03 Mar 2011, 05:28 »

I just found out that since I left this year, I've been bumped off the room ballot and will be allocated a room as if I were an incoming first year. This is absolutely shitty news so I'm considering moving out. My own flat! Eeeeeeeeeeeee! And it seems financially viable because college rent is ridiculous.
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