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 Growery
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#13141081 - 09/02/10 10:36 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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What's it like?
Looking forward to it, at the same time I'm not.
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laserpig
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Re: College Experience [Re: Growery]
#13141088 - 09/02/10 10:38 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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I went in thinking I wanted my major. I was wrong. They didn't let me switch. It dragged out for over two years. I got expelled.
Enjoy college!
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Re: College Experience [Re: Growery]
#13141091 - 09/02/10 10:38 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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Quote:
Growery said:
What's it like?
Looking forward to it, at the same time I'm not.
Make the same post when it isn't 1am tomorrow and I'll tell you all about it.
Smoke the pot, but don't trust the people that give it to you. Trust me
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Re: College Experience [Re: Growery]
#13141095 - 09/02/10 10:40 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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completely different from high school.
Most people are there to learn(since college is not mandatory). Students aren't ridiculed for asking questions or raising their hands to answer questions. You only meet twice a week for about an hour at a time. Many classes don't give homework besides reading, and you'll meet a lot of cool people. Don't make the mistake of letting the "lax environment" make you think that you don't have to study for tests, you do. I recommend making and using flashcards. If you study every day for two hours, you can probably get straight As for four classes.
the first few years are the worst, in that it'll feel like it will take FOREVER to graduate. Don't let these thoughts discourage you. Just complete semester after semester(or quarter after quarter), and eventually you'll be a junior, and then a senior, and next thing you know you're seated at your own graduation ceremony.
Apply for financial aid: google "fafsa"
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Re: College Experience [Re: Neuron]
#13141100 - 09/02/10 10:41 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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Neuron said:
completely different from high school.
Most people are there to learn(since college is not mandatory). Students aren't ridiculed for asking questions or raising their hands to answer questions. You only meet twice a week for about an hour at a time. Many classes don't give homework besides reading, and you'll meet a lot of cool people.
the first few years are the worst, in that it'll feel like it will take FOREVER to graduate. Don't let these thoughts discourage you. Just complete semester after semester(or quarter after quarter), and eventually you'll be a junior, and then a senior, and next thing you know you're seated at your own graduation ceremony.
Apply for financial aid: google "fafsa"
Yeah you have the freedom to fuck up your life now, so don't do it. Nobody's holding your hand now. It kinda blows when the shit really hits the fan.
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Re: College Experience [Re: Growery]
#13141104 - 09/02/10 10:43 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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There's a time for everything....
It's called college...
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blujay
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Quote:
WakeboardrB said:
There's a time for everything....
It's called college...
Definitely the time to be gay!
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Re: College Experience [Re: blujay]
#13141128 - 09/02/10 10:51 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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if thats your thing, go for it...
Personally I keep my backdoor locked.
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Re: College Experience [Re: blujay]
#13141137 - 09/02/10 10:54 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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I love it man, even if i get out and make the same as my friends who went straight to work after high school in my eyes it's been worth it.
All those days of staying up late with friends drinking, watching football, growing shrooms even, tripping, learning shit with top notch professors who actually contributed shit to science, club activities, the bonds with friends and etc.
In my senior year of high school I thought it was downhill for me socially when it came to making best friends, I believed the bullshit about "The friends you had since you were young will be your greatest friends forever"
then I got to college and met more people that I hit it off with than I thought possible.
My daily activites consist of 4 classes, lifting weights, running, attending club meeting, drinking beers, growing mushrooms, doing homework, and yea, I wish I could stay here forever. This semester though no doubt is my worst ever, 8 AM's every day but boo hoo, 
O, and the girls here as apposed to my high school are intelligent, very sexy, and not cunts.. I'm not sexist but growing up, men were always smarter from where I'm from and our women were fucking bimbos.
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going to college class is like working at a job, from the teachers point of veiw, older teachers with tenor generally dont act like dicks.
yo mihgt meet some cowardly cunts that think your deprived of patience or understanding, no one likes them, just keep telling them that they're just a noise and generally bully them the way people used to "bully" you in high school they'll either look away or get all red with a serial killer smile on their face.
A lot of your old friends will become elitist, fuck em'.
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Re: College Experience [Re: aiyobro]
#13141150 - 09/02/10 11:00 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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OH yea and never put yourself in a position were you have to straight up baby sit.
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Re: College Experience [Re: aiyobro]
#13141153 - 09/02/10 11:01 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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O yea, and always wear a condom LOL. my roommate who is also a jr. in college is having a kid in october, pretty much fucked his college experience up and all he talks about is suicide and shit. I just LOL.
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Re: College Experience [Re: Growery]
#13141159 - 09/02/10 11:03 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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If you are studying anything technical, engineering, physics, math, etc, .... you'll need some of these..  
If you are studying liberal arts you'll need some of these...  
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aiyobro
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dont pop no pills don't take no drinks you havent been watching just smoke a bowl drink a beer
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Re: College Experience [Re: aiyobro]
#13153111 - 09/05/10 09:18 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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Quote:
aiyobro said:
dont pop no pills don't take no drinks you havent been watching just smoke a bowl drink a beer
That's my second rule at a party.
My first is always have a condom in the wallet.
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Re: College Experience [Re: Growery]
#13153368 - 09/05/10 10:24 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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Do research on your professors. If you can, pick the popular ones, especially for the Gen. Ed. classes.
This site is pretty good:
http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/
Your college may have its own website for rating professors.
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Re: College Experience [Re: aiyobro]
#13153650 - 09/06/10 12:15 AM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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aiyobro said:
A lot of your old friends will become elitist, fuck em'.
I'm not sure what you mean by elitist in terms of friendship, but I agree. My best friend ended up living with 3 other people that we were both friends with in high school. Somehow the 3 of them bonded and ended up making him into some sort of pariah. Oddly enough the worst one of them was also our best friend in high school. A lot of it had to do with drinking being accepted by society, but not weed. Oh well people are cunts.
Fortunately one of the great things about college is for that every friend that turns into an asshole or drops off the face of the earth you'll probably make 10 more in return. It sucks that you don't usually have the same connection of knowing them for 10+ years like you do your friends from high school, but when those start to disappear you realize how fragile friendships are anyways. Anyways I digress, this isn't really what college is about but it always upset me that people I thought I'd know forever turned out to be faggots.
Most of undergrad is easy so I guess my advice to the OP would be to soak it all in. Experience everything you can and make the most of the good times ahead of you. Just make sure to stay on top of your work. If things ever get overwhelming there's usually someone who can help whether it's academically or psychologically.
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Re: College Experience [Re: F0SS1L]
#13153662 - 09/06/10 12:21 AM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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Don't try to study high. It's a waste of time.
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Re: College Experience [Re: Growery]
#13153798 - 09/06/10 02:09 AM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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Quote:
Growery said:
What's it like?
Looking forward to it, at the same time I'm not.
I love college. I like going to lectures and studying, and I have lots of sex and drugs. Can't complain.
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Now that you mention it, college is probably what led me to lose my best friend of 6+ years at the time(he was getting elitist), and just recently lost a friend of 6 years as well(he started feeling inferior because I was getting too smart, and he only liked friends that were dumber than him.)
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Re: College Experience [Re: Neuron]
#13154899 - 09/06/10 11:10 AM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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best friends i've ever had, i met after being expelled from college, through a guy i've known since elementary school (who happens to be a high school dropout)
so yeah, people who say you meet your best friends in college ...
not so much
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Re: College Experience [Re: laserpig]
#13154925 - 09/06/10 11:18 AM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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laserpig said:
best friends i've ever had, i met after being expelled from college, through a guy i've known since elementary school (who happens to be a high school dropout)
so yeah, people who say you meet your best friends in college ...
not so much
You're basing everyone elses' experiences on the single experience you had.
Not so much
[Any friend you've met can be lost at any time, doesn't really matter where you meet them]
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Re: College Experience [Re: Neuron]
#13154954 - 09/06/10 11:28 AM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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I'm still learning though, today i learned a new one.
When agreeing to meet up to deal some nefarious business never text them "but I'm sure you can figure it out" because it will always be followed by the retard figuring it out and defeating the whole point of your abiguity by blurting it right out, and then it's on record in a computer somewhere for half a decade.
:grr:
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blujay
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Quote:
WakeboardrB said:
if thats your thing, go for it...
Personally I keep my backdoor locked.
My sphincter is holy because it has one very important purpose that cannot be compomised for short-term pleasure.
Hah!
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Re: College Experience [Re: blujay]
#13155264 - 09/06/10 12:53 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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Met this girl over the weekend that looked like that girl from that intervention documentry that huff'd inhalents and shit.
"I'm walking on sunshine!!"
Uber cool people like that.
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Re: College Experience [Re: Neuron]
#13155271 - 09/06/10 12:55 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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Quote:
Neuron said:
Quote:
laserpig said:
best friends i've ever had, i met after being expelled from college, through a guy i've known since elementary school (who happens to be a high school dropout)
so yeah, people who say you meet your best friends in college ...
not so much
You're basing everyone elses' experiences on the single experience you had.
Not so much
[Any friend you've met can be lost at any time, doesn't really matter where you meet them]
maybe youre just a shitty friend
im still bestfriends with my bestfriends of 8+ years. we were young, now we rage like no other
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Re: College Experience [Re: Growery]
#13155683 - 09/06/10 02:34 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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Looking back, it's hard to separate the "life experience" of being 18-21 with friends VS. "college".
There are times where, if you care about your academic performance you'll be stressed. Years later, you'll look back on it all and think: "Man, I had 3 hours of class per day, then maybe another 3 hours of studying".
There will be few other times in life where you can get by on a 6 hr. day with little to no worries. The irony is that you won't realize it at the time. You and your friends will get together and bitch because you have a 9:00 class 3 days a week, and have two papers due that week.
Years later you'll think: "I'd give anything for that type of workload".
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...the whole experience is (and is as) a profound piece of knowledge. It is an indellible experience; it is forever known. I have known myself in a way I doubt I would have ever occurred except as it did.
Smith, P. Bull. Menninger Clinic (1959) 23:20-27; p. 27.
...most subjects find the experience valuable, some find it frightening, and many say that is it uniquely lovely.
Osmond, H. Annals, NY Acad Science (1957) 66:418-434; p.436
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Re: College Experience [Re: badchad]
#13155772 - 09/06/10 02:54 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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yeah college is great especially when you have financial aid to cover everything. i'm just studying thangs that are interesting to me, not majoring in anything really. just learnin' thangs
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Re: College Experience [Re: plasma]
#13156024 - 09/06/10 03:37 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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The only quality I have that may repel my friends is my straightforwardness, I say what is on my mind regardless of whether they want to hear it or not. I drive people away because the truth I speak scares them, and they don't want to hear it. Personally, I don't really care because I rather be honest and have few friends than hold back/lie to have more.
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Re: College Experience [Re: Neuron]
#13156065 - 09/06/10 03:43 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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in other words you are an asshole 
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Re: College Experience [Re: plasma]
#13156089 - 09/06/10 03:47 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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Yeah, I guess so. I choose to be blunt with people because that's how I'd want to hear it.
People can't better themselves without being confronted with the reality of things, and I feel that most americans are too sensitive and even hypersensitive to tell the truth. People are too afraid of hurting one another's feelings. I don't walk lightly around eggshells. Perhaps a blessing or a curse of having OCD, I don't know.
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Re: College Experience [Re: Neuron]
#13156090 - 09/06/10 03:47 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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Neuron said:
I say what is on my mind regardless of whether they want to hear it or not. I drive people away because the truth I speak scares them, and they don't want to hear it.
woooOOoOAAaHH EXTREEEMMMEEE  
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