wear sandals in the shower or you will get plantar warts

Unless you're going to an Ivy League school, college is no harder than high school.

But seriously, do the work. Procrastinate the hell out of it, sure, but do at least enough to keep your GPA above 2.5. That way you know you're not failing out and you've got a little leeway in case you bomb something.

just do your homework proper, read the readings assigned entirely, and don't take "college life" very seriously (or rather the way hollywood and beer company advertising portrays it). if you don't live in a dorm, make sure to join a few student organizations or work a part-time job if you intend to ever have friends or a life.

>>8132524
This
>>8132533 is right.

Treat it as 13th grade, but a 2.5 is for failures.

GO TO CLASS. JUST BECAUSE YOU CAN SKIP DOES NOT MEAN YOU SHOULD.

Pick a major and stick to it.

Just started my last quarter today-- fuck yes!

Go to class. Seriously. Take notes. Figure out early on if the professor tests right out of the textbook and, if so, skim the readings for important vocabulary. Don't be a fucking creep. Don't buy books-- get them from the school library or on interlibrary loan. Get a George Foreman Grill and cook your own food as much as you can.

Good luck and congrats!

After you've determined your major and you're set in stone.. get some sort of internship or MORE.

I'll repeat it..

Get an internship or MORE
Get an internship or MORE
Get an internship or MORE
Get an internship or MORE

Finish an internship? Start a fucking 'nother one somewhere else.

A degree is worthless as a high school diploma these days.. it's all about industry experience now.

study the class notes first, the textbook second (or sometimes not at all)

Drop out. You don't need it.

Make as many friends as you can.

>>8132608
I've said it before...a degree is necessary but not sufficient. My degree is in pharmaceutical chemistry but there's no way in hell I'd have my job if it weren't for the internships I did.

sit in your room masturbating and and surfing and leave only to go to class, eat, or bathroom. fail all your classes. move into parents basement and continue masturbating with no disturbances

drink

lots

vodka has the best price:alcohol ratio in my experience, even if you mix it 1:1 with coke to make it more drinkable.

it's not like the work is hard or anything, you'll have plenty of time to not be sober

>>8132608

undergrad research counts as more right?

GPA
Decide your career path early.
Internships
Aside from this, be sure to have fun.

>>8132656

there's a lot more to it than that, though. you got to be an intern at a GOOD firm. a lot of great firms won't be very impressed with an internship otherwise - just about all of their candidates are going to have interned somewhere.

liberal arts do not count as a major.

>>8132676
Don't listen to this guy. Parties and drinking are cool in moderation, but don't party and drink so hard that you start to fail. You/your parents are paying money for you to go to this institution to get a degree; don't forget that.

>>8132689
truth

-big mike (american studies)

any tips for classes that involve textbooks and A SHIT LOAD OF READING?

this is my major weakpoint and i always get C grades in these courses. I want an A for once :(

>>8132678
I forgot to say learn a second language as well.

pick a major that has some reasonable job market attached to it.

Keep your GPA above 3 at least

finish ON TIME

All of these things are things that I did not do and regret

Move off campus as quickly as you can.

Pretend to care about politics and attend the corresponding clubs. You have an instant in with parties and women.

Learn your schools social politics. Some schools are high school cliquey. Some schools are more random in terms of people who hang out together. Choose your friends carefully.

Stay away from the following: Georgi, Jungle juice, overproof anything, vodka shots at the end of the night.

Learn how to dance (at least 2 step and grind). Alcohol + music + house party + being a guy on a dancefloor = easy hookup potential.

Dedicate one day of the week to doing homework no matter what your schedule is like. For me, it was Wednesdays.

Talk to your adviser a lot. Talk to your professors a lot. I can tell you how many shitty deadlines and even tests I completely subverted just through my professors knowing me.

Be prepared to still not have a decent job when you graduate. Seriously, you best hope the job market rebounds before you graduate. Fucking worthless paper.

in b4 no experience. I worked from the time I was 16 and all the way through college. From retail, to sales and even a desk jockey.

>>8132731
>I worked from the time I was 16 and all the way through college.

In a field relevant to your degree?

Never drink booze that costs less than 10 bucks a bottle. Ignore at your own peril.

>>8132759
Business degree, bro. Everything is relevant. I'm just a regular joe looking for a job with a salary.

>>8132780
business degree is for fags too dumb for engineering, you have almost as bad chances as lib arts majors GG NO RE

-big mike to the hizzay

have fun building no fucking buildings with your engineering degree.

And competing with engineers who are already in the job market looking for work.

And computer engineers is a flooded job market, not enough jobs to go around. especially high paying ones./

no matter what anyone says, don't drink donkey cum.


drink buffalo cum.

>>8132803
All the profs were indian, how the fuck am I suppose to understand that shit? Tech support wouldn't translate it for me either.

don't go to CC

you'll never get out of dodge

go far and expand your horizons

What's better:

Public or Private?

OP is obviously a faggot

I recommend living in the dorms for at least a year to set up a friend base outside your major. It helps in the long run. Also, don't treat it like high school because it is not. Learn how to make a good drink to impress the sluts. Once you find a major you like stick to it and find an internship after your second or third year. thats all i got

Go to class. Everyone else has already said this but it cannot be stressed enough. At LEAST for your freshman year. Just go to every class. You will miss deadline reminders and surprise assignments and bullshit mandatory attendance grades and all sorts of stuff if you don't.

For the first time in your life you'll be alone in having to push yourself out the door and get up the drive in the morning to go to class. Especially when your classes don't start till 10 AM for once and you've slept in all day. But just fucking do it.

Also, one of my favorite professors once taught me, do something new every semester. Join a service organization, or something like the solar car team. Fraternities don't count, unless you're the president. After college, your resume is going to rule your life.

And like everyone else has already said, liberal arts majors are bullshit. Unless you're going to an Ivy League school, then enjoy any job you want, you fucker. But if you're going to state school, or, God help you, community college, you're not getting anywhere with an English degree or a Political Science degree or, heaven help you, Women's Studies. If you like engineering, do engineering. If you like business, do economics first-and-foremost. If you can't hack that, do finance. If you can't hack that, accounting or management. Never marketing. Marketing is a worthless degree. If you like medicine, do biology or chemistry. If you want to go to law school, do whatever will earn you a high GPA. I would say a business degree. That way you have a fallback when you fail the LSAT.

This is kind of optional, but learn another language. Makes you waaaaay more employable.

This thread is gold. Thank you for those who are helping and contributing.

If you're not used to putting in much effort, how hard is a double major?

>>8133027
What if you like...art? What then?

>>8133027

Don't listen to this guy. Do liberal arts if that's what you enjoy. Paticularly if you're going to law school.

It might not get you a job, but you will come away wiser than 90% of the clueless CS majors here.

>>8133082
depends on how much overlap there is.

Advisers are useless.
Upperclassmen aren't.

Major in something involving Math. This can be anything from Economics, to Business, Comp Sci, any Hard Science, Engineering, and so on. From then it's easy to switch to another field when you go to a grad school, even if it's outside your larger field. Eg one of my professors got a BS in Physics, decided he was tired of it, got an MA in Psychology, decided he didn't like that, then got a PhD in Comp Sci and then started teaching that.

Oh and most of what you need for a job you learn on the job. A college degree just teaches you how to solve problems and work (fairly) hard.

Also, just to back up my point, the major that averages the highest on the LSAT is Mathematics. Look it up.

>>8133082
depends on which two you're doubling-- if it's an area where classes can count for both majors, or if they're somewhat similar (ie history and anthro, for instance), then it's not so hard, but if it's like math and English, then you'd have to take two course loads separately, which may be very hard depending on the school you're in.

Don't waste money on dorms. There is no such thing as the "college experience".

Also pay a cell phone bill or something on time starting now so you have credit to get an apartment or a car later.

Don't skip class, even if it is boring, even if the professor is terrible, even if you know everything. If you learn 1 thing in class it will usually be better than wtf ever you are fucking around doing instead.

Classes start on the first day, don't expect a fuck week.

>>8133138

Let's say psych and chem.

Would I just be better off minoring in psych if I'm thinking about med school?

>>8133175
God, yeah. Psych is so easy to keep a high GPA in. Of course, you'll have to find a way to take the med school requirements as electives.

Half the people who tell you they're premed won't last a year.

Register at a university, take the first 2 years of your courses at the local community college for half the price and probably better quality and smaller class sizes. If you just register at the community college and then try to transfer over, you'll have a lot more hoops to jump. But if your registered at a university already and then transfer over some community college courses, it's fairly simple and usually have minimal grade requirements. YMMV so research your particular university. Also before you register for a course at a community college, check if it transfers.

>>8133175
It doesn't really matter. If you wanna go to med school just take the Bio/Chem you need. Everything you'll need to practice you'll learn in Med School and on, your undergrad degree just teaches you some basic chem/bio and how to study.

>>8133131
It's easy even in the humanities. My friend got a BA in French Literature, then an MA in Philosophy, and then went to Law School.

BEWARE OF FUCKING HEADGAMES

People will do anything to make themselves appear smarter, better faster and stronger.

Do not associate with anyone other than surface level, and give them ABSOLUTELY NO RESPECT until they earn it.

Also, stay away from Res girls as most are carrying one form or another of various STDs and STIs. No. I'm not kidding.

GOOD LUCK OP!

I already have a BA in history. I'm going back to school for an LLB (it's an undergrad degree here).

It will be like my second chance at uni. I'm going to live on campus. I'm going to make friends and party. I'm going to show up to every class and hand in all my papers on time. Shit is going to be so cash. It will be like I'm 18 again, except smarter and better dressed.

>>8133131
Is that better than just getting a doctorate in compsci? It seems he has three degrees, where someone who went straight to a doctoral in CS only counts as one degree.

>>8133175
Yes, especially if you keep a high GPA and ace the premed prerequisites. Your application will stick out from the masses of biology majors, and if you get an interview you can talk about how you want to become a psychiatrist or some shit.

hey op

as a recent grad, my greatest recommendation for any student about to begin college to take advantage of ANY chance to study abroad. even if you can only do a summer term and not a true semester during the year, do it. it will be one the best decisions you ever made.

Incoming advice: go out. Don't stay in. The first two weeks of school you are absolutely welcome into ANY party at all.
If a girl is wearing a mini skirt and high heels in the winter, don't even try to date her.
Act like you care about people, pretend you have to study for your pre-med exams like crazy= pussy all over

Lots of good advice here, but if I could give one bit of advice it would be 'don't procrastinate'. As soon as you get an assignment, start it. Spend a few hours each day working on assignments and reviewing notes. You will finish weeks early and get higher grades than anyone you know. I'm talking about a few hours each weekday, you can still spend 8 hours in the evening fapping on 4chan. Get into the habit early, people will respect you for it too.

If you are smart enough or have the ability to, double major, one thing being you biggest interest and the other being strictly business (by that I don't mean strictly business, I mean something you WILL be able to get a job with, science, math, business, etc.)

Secondly, if you have a passion and you're pursuing it, do it till you die. Sometimes you will get tired, you will WANT to die, you will want to quit, you will not like it. But if you stop or change majors, you will regret it later and that regret will not go away. NEVER. I don't care how useless it is, if it is your passion you MUST DO IT. Even if teachers tell you you're not so hot, just work harder.

>>8133211
>>8133131
>>8133112
>law school

Don't do it OP.

>>8133226
BritFag here. I'm going to be doing a Masters in CS at a new Uni. Going to live on campus too. I've finally learned how to get shit done in my final year and I've really enjoyed the work. It will be nice to have another go at the social thing.

>>8133295

This is good advice. I wish I didn't single major in a useless subject.

>>8133267

So is this.

>>8133228
If you want to be a comp sci professor or do comp sci in industry it doesn't really help unless you wanna design UIs. He just took it because he was interested in it and thought he wanted to do it at the time.

If you look up your professors credentials, many of them will have a Master's in something random that they thought they wanted to do, and/or a BS in a different field than the one they got their PhD in. My Math professor got an MS in Finance before getting a Math PhD.

I'll give you advice you haven't heard before, but you should always remember this. It's simply: Do not be intimidated. Don't be intimidated by how smart your classmates seem, if you study you'll do fine. Also, academia is a game without rules, any fair advantage you can gain, you should. Most undergrad departments have a repository of old tests from your professor for your class. Spend the Sunday before a test doing all the previous tests he's given for that class and you'll ace it. My first Physics midterm my professor recycled 40% of his previous class's midterm, which I had just done the night before.

Also, take harder or honors classes, it's much better to be average among geniuses than a genius among the average.

>>8133112
>>8133112
>>8133112

Lib arts major here. Shit sucks. It's turning my passion into something I hate. Debating on saying fuck university and going to a tech college.

Take the "if you love it major it in!" mentality with a grain of salt, OP. It's given me nothing but headaches and lost hours of sleep.

>>8133252
Why is this? Does anyone know? Usually when I see these types of threads, this advice always comes up.

If anyone can put some insight into this, that would be great.

>>8133357
become electrician, do art as hobby, profit.

Okay so I'm 22 years old. For the past 4 years I've been a NEET shut in loser. Anyway, that's not important. What is important is that I decided to change that and I applied to college. I got into SUNY at Buffalo, probably top 100 or so.

Problem is, I'm not eligible for any aid, and my parents can't/won't help me at all, and it's all the way upstate so I can't commute and save money that way.

Should I go to CC? The thing is, though, I want to major in pure science and hopefully get into the best grad schools for it, and CC don't usually have the kind of research opportunities that you need in undergrad to stand out.

>>8133372
For Americans, foreigners always claim to hate you, but once you go to another country you'll have more pussy than you know what to do with.

>>8133373

Probably going to go the route of network analyst.

>>8133385
Do what you have to do to get where you want to go.

Psychology major here planning to go into law after I get my ba. I'm going to be living on campus what are the chances I'll get a kick ass roomate?

>>8133429
>law

See>>8133307

Be careful.

>>8133429
0.

Best case scenario when it comes to roommates: they won't mess with your shit and will leave you alone in general.

>>8133419

Ok, so are you telling me to take put myself 100k in debt to go to SUNY Buffalo?

When I'm 24, in my junior year, I'll not be a dependent anymore, so I'll probably get a lot of financial aid my second two years, but still, the first two years are going to absolutely destroy me debt wise.

>>8133319

Yeah, that's exactly what happend to me. Final year I suddenly cracked the code of how to get shit done and do it well, I aced all my classes, wrote god tier papers, and enjoyed it. I'm taking 2010 off to work (still unemployed derp, hoping to teach English in Korea). 2011, I will enroll in grad entry law at a new university. This time I'll make an effort to socialise. I'll join clubs, I'll network. I now recognise that this is just as important as the actual coursework. Maybe when I'm in my 30s I'll go back and do history honours and masters.

First step is to get my ass off 4chan, but that's easier said than done.

I did everything right the first time. Except 1 semester I failed a couple classes and almost got kicked because I was hanging out with a band. Lot of late nights, free drinks and stuff, and hangovers the next morning. Everything turned out awwright however and I got my useless degree in 5 years instead of 4.

>>8133385

Might need to take out some loans.

You could always take a look at the thing where you do your first two years at community, then head to a real university for your last two. I imagine the social life wouldn't be as great, but remember that drinking and having a good time is not what you're there for; although you certainly should drink and have a good time if and when you are able to. Get girlfriends, get bros, and since you're older, you can impress the underage with your ability to acquire liquor.

My personal biggest regret is not taking the whole thing seriously and just going because I thought I was "supposed to," but you've already got that under control it would seem.

>>8133429
>>8133429

Get the fuck off campus asap.

Roommates = nothing but trouble.

I live alone right off campus and its fucking god tier.

>>8133372

its very similar to why college itself is so special

its a time when you get to live with all of the perks of an adult but without many of the obligations. to add on top of that the chance to not only travel shortly but LIVE for an extended period of time in the location and culture of your choice is really a once in a lifetime opportunity, unless you were born very very wealthy. so fucking do it, and dont think twice.

>>8133442
>>8133442
oh no I'll only make 60k w.e. Law is something I want to do cause it's fun for me not cause of the money hell I'd be contempt with a job that pays40k

>>8133385
Go to CC if you want to do grad school. Your junior and senior year is plenty of time to find research opportunities, and if you accumulate a ton of debt you are going to have a rough time getting by on a young academic's salary.

My cousin finished his PhD in physics last year. Said it wasn't worth it. Also said that by the end 20% error was ignorable.

Useless degrees...I hear about this a lot.

What are they, Liberal Arts degrees that have no real-life application?

Also, what are the best majors?

>>8133507
I'm in the same situation. Don't pay sticker.

>>8133498
Ahh, I see. Thanks, bro.

>>8133307
>>8133442

It's not about the money. I'm not planning to do law because I want to make 100k+. I'm doing it because it's something I can make a living from. I would be happy with 50k for the rest of my life.

Okay, as a Biology major with a 2.8 GPA who had hopes of going to med school....STUDY YOUR FUCKING ASS OFF!!!!!!!!!!!! I've got a month left in my junior year and then my senior year. I practically have to ace everything next year to get a 3.0 gpa, and it seems like just about every masters and phd program has a minimum requirement of a 3.0 gpa. So basically, I'm screwed. So make sure you study your ass off, and get out to a party once and a while.

Also, I was thinking of making a thread earlier about this, but what options do I have with 2.8 gpa and a Biology degree? I know med school is out, but it's looking like my only option is something like a radiologist. Any advice for this fucktard? (Other than kill yourself and kill your family and kill all humans, please.)

If you live in the USA, consider going to university in Europe (the UK?). It would probably be cheaper than going to university in the USA, and you could get an EU citizenship, which opens up all of Europe for work and living. If you get permanent residence in the middle of your degree, your tuition would drop to under a thousand a semester or free, where it will definitely be free.

>>8133507
>>8133538

Law student motivation hivemind

>>8133539

You not only wasted your parent's money, but you wasted your time.

That or switch to a different degree (nursing? lol) and do better in it, join a vocational school and pick up a trade, or join the military and do something related to your major.

Is it true everyone gets laid in university

Lets hear it for the 21+ fags going back to school!

I'd say this is a better option for people like us. Rather than coming fresh out of hs with no brains, no life skills, no dress sense, no car and no idea what is going on. We were the nerds, the underclass, we needed a few years to get our shit together, and now we're ready. I am going to fuck girls by the sheer force of my awsomeness.

>>8133513

Yeah, I guess so. It's just that, I really don't want to stay in my parents house anymore. They are literally insane. If it comes down to saving 60k, then I'll have to, but it won't be easy.

Oh, and I'll need to buy a car. I did mention that I'm a NEET, lol.

Anyway, my parents said they MIGHT be willing to pay for my second year of college, so it's really a tough call. First year of SUNY Buffalo + room and board will be like 20k in loans for me. If they took care of the second year, and I got lots of aid my last 2 years.... god, this is a tough call.

>>8133539

I don't know how the amrican system works, but can't you just drop some of your courses, ace the ones you stay in, then do the ones you dropped again next semester?

Almost everyone I know takes longer than the standard amount of time to get their degree.

>>8133600
I haven't spoke to anyone IRL in 3 weeks and I still managed to get laid 3 times in University.

>>8133600

I'm still a virgin, although there have been close calls with women.

I pretty much gave up in college, I don't give a shit anymore. Freshmen year is probably the best time to score points with a chick, since both of y'all are new and can live through experiences together.

>>8133633
Past a certain point in the semester, it will always show a "W" on your transcript if you drop it. Even if you retake it.

>>8133633
It's a little late for that, and usually excessive drops aren't a good thing either. Making $40,000 a year isn't too bad is it?

>>8133603

I'm starting college in the fall straight out of HS and I honestly feel this is what I should do. I need to get my shit together.

But my parents would disown me if I ever implied I wanted this.

And I don't know shit about living on my own...

I'll have to get my shit together over the summer...

>>8133539

I lack motivation. I've been getting 3.0's, 3.1's and 3.2's in CC. This past semester I got a 2.1 and my average got fucked over to a 2.8 something. (I got two B's, a C, and a mother fucking D in chemistry. Fuck chemistry.). This semester its looking like all B's. I don't study at all really until like two days before. I don't know what's wrong with me.

Get out. Meet people. Party. Network.

Its important to get your shit done, and on time, but don't piss away any more time in your room alone that could be spent with other people.

It took me until late sophomore year of college to figure out that if I wasn't doing school work or with a girl I needed to get the fuck out of my room. Once I did realize that it made my life much better.

>>8133717
It's almost the same with me (the guy you're replying to) I'll get A's and B's and then there's one or two classes a semester that I'll get a C in and messes it up. Though it might be 3 this semester...fucking physics.

>>8133789

That too. Fuck physics.

God damn it.
Fucking physics.
Before I came to college I got fucking 4.0s all the time and worked in a fucking lab.

Now thanks to FUCKING PHYSICS I have a 2.8 GPA and it might go down lower this semester.

God damn. I'm so good at everything else too... why do I have to take physics...

>>8133864


Did you get an F in physics or something? How does that lower your GPA to a 2.8??

>>8133907
I'm a freshman this year, just starting out.

Before was in high school.

>>8133914

Get a 1 on 1 tutor in physics. It's usually worth the cost for Chemistry, physics and any math course.

>>8133600
No, sadly.

But you have to be pretty fucked up/socially inept for that to be the case. I am.

>>8133930
Eh, I have one total month of physics left and then it's geology, chemistry and ecology all the way.

Hopefully I can salvage my GPA up to at least a 3.5 by the end of my career.

>>8133864
>>8133832
>>8133789
what the fuck is wrong with you fools? The only bad thing about physics class was the retard students slowing the class to a crawl. We NEVER covered everything in the syllabus. There was so much more interesting stuff that I could have learned, but we spent days repeating the same easy shit. I should have taken more upper-div physics classes to get away from the retards. I really regret that, actually.

>>8134041 pussy natural sciences
Oh poo, calculus is so hard! I just want to look at pretty things grow and calculate averages!

>>8134122
Wait, what?
Are we really going to have a 'my science is better than yours' argument? That's what /sci/'s for.

I have absolutely no interest in physics. I'm actually good at biology and chemistry and I want to make a career out of environmental work and conservation. I don't see what's so wrong with that.

OP here.

thank you all for the advice.

I'm saving this thread and will refer back to it in the future.

>>8133027
Accounting is great, I don't know why people knock on it so much. Its engineering for people who have no passion in any of the other engineering fields. And its half of the work, slightly less if not the same pay, and you're still guaranteed a decent job on graduation if you do well from nearly any accredited program.
It certainly is better than finance if your school isn't in the Top 50. Not to mention, you can succeed by double majoring in the two, finance and accounting.

>>8133131

And the second highest is philosophy/theology behind by a point and a half. lol.

>>8133344
>Don't be intimidated by how smart your classmates seem

hah

hbukhiuhjihiujoj ijiojoij :D

TAKE CALCULUS AT A COMMUNITY COLLEGE

weed out classes suck balls

Keep this awesome thread going!

Go to night school. It's much cheaper and you don't have to deal with other students as much.

How might one SURVIVE a weed-out class?

>>8133319

Careful bro, i'm doing a masters at a new uni and living on campus. But they usually chuck you in some weird-ass postgrad accomodation where everybody is fucking weird or barley speaks english.

Make the most of the social side as well as studying. Join clubs and societies that interest you, actually say hello to random people while waiting in line for things, expose yourself to a huge bunch of different people.

You can learn a lot about yourself at university if you put in the effort. Try to look for reasons to do things rather than reasons to not do them.

>>8134461

Were you that accountant I was talking to a while ago? You asked me if I was thinking of doing financial or managerial.

I forget which thread it was in, probably a college major tier thread or something.

>>8139372
go to college. you'll get laid more often than a CC.

Don't take Latin. Don't even think about taking Latin.

>>8132505
Frankly, going to college was the single biggest mistake of my life.

I didn't need a degree to my job. Instead of getting paid for 4 years, I paid to learn about shit that has no bearing on my career for 4 years. I'm now saddled with student loan debt, and short of 4 years of job experience.

Unless you want to go on and do post-graduate work, there isn't one good fucking reason to go to college.

4 years of job experience in whatever field is infinitely more valuable then a 4 year degree.

don't smoke pot in your dorm room.

bring an ounce of weed when you move into residence. You will make friends 900% faster

8ump

Wow, this thread is actually quite helpful.

Keep it going!

>>8132709

>any tips for classes that involve textbooks and A SHIT LOAD OF READING?

Ah hell those classes are the easiest bro. Just sit down and read. Don't think of it as something you have to do for school, think of it as an interesting thing you can read to learn something and an enjoyable activity on its own.

I love classes like that.

So I've taken the "if you're not doing anything get the fuck out of your room" advice and have been walking around campus / jogging in the park for the past few weeks, but I'm still having trouble meeting people.

At first it didn't bother me but recently I've completely lost contact with my highschool friends and have no clue how to find new ones, as the people with the same classes as me (Computer Animation / Arts) tend to be annoying.

Is there any good way to meet people outside my major?

Make your major your passion, not what others say is better for you

You're there for a reason, dont let partying or personal factors envelope you too much

>>8140443
Stating the obvious here, but how about clubs or sports teams? Don't you have a roommate?

Roommates always suck, unfortunately. You always get the person exactly opposite of what you are. :(

>>8140443

there's a section for that in
"The well-cultured Anonymous"

look it up

>>8140634
Just found this thing and saved it.
thank you anon <3
also not OP

How worth it would it be to study in europe?
I want to go to college for a chemistry degree and then teach with it (highschool level).

If I do my college in europe (Holland specificially) will I be paying out my ass for tuition? Where I read, its like 1k a year for residents, and like fucking 30k for foriegners. I would be living with my boyfriend who lives there. So housing would be done. Help plz?

>>8141117
If you're from an EU country the price will be the same as for a dutch person, otherwise its around 15k a year. Though you could try to get some scholarships and shit.

>>8132709
What the engineering students do: form study groups. Get a study buddy. Cause they all take the same classes. Meet nearly every night. Everybody does the problems. Everybody does the homework. Everybody learns.

Odd thing is, engineers are the least socially ept people you'll ever meet, except on /b/.

Occasionally they party. Mostly they work - together.

>>8132505
Okay in high school you were a quiet kid with your own group of friends, this isn't high school

Be outgoing, be the kid everyone wants to talk to, don't be the kid that comments on everything

Talk to girls, your at a university, do you know how many bitches go to your university? Enough for you to get laid!

Go to parties but don't drink too much, just enough to make you relaxed and easy going

Bump this motherfucker

Are there any jobs in animal research?? Or am I gonna have to work at a zoo or some shit.

wear your varsity jacket whenever you get a chance when youre at college (chicks dig that shit)

>>8143011
>my face when wearing my flyass varsity lacrosse jacket

>>8139817

Ehh why do you say that? Reason I ask is because I'm taking Latin I next semester, is it really THAT bad?

Also, anybody wanna share some insight on dorm life, I'm trying to get a place on campus next year. I would have done it my first year but I was too late and couldn't get a room.

Another question, anyone take summer classes? I want to take a math class this summer to get ahead (or catch up depending on how you look at it) on the cognates for my degree, which is basically an assload of math classes that are all prerequisites for eachother. I'm askin cause I do have shit I want to do this summer and I don't really want class to get in the way.

>>8143046
SUP FAG, GET BACK ON /sp/ RIGHT NOW

>>8143089

Classics major here, Latin's not that bad you just have to study it every day. It's one of the very very few courses where you really DO have to study every single day.

Just like 20 minutes every day set time aside for it . . . you might need more time on some days if you're trying to understand something tricky but generally yeah.

The reason fags fail latin is because they don't fucking study so they don't remember any of their vocabulary and then they bitch about how hard it is etc.

>>8143089

Not that guy.

Aside from the vatican no one speaks it. Outside of biology naming stuff it's absolutely useless. I tried to teach myself latin and did a pretty good job, but it's not going to help you in your life.

>>8143089
Seriously don't take Latin, unless your school for some reason has an enormous Latin program. My school doesn't, and now I'm stuck with a horrible teacher at a horrible time because it's the only class at this level they offer and I need it to graduate.

Also it's retardedly difficult for something with absolutely no practical use

>>8143225

Second language advice?

Thinking Italian or French

I already speak english and spanish

would taking another language make college unnecessarily difficult?

>>8143285
If you are a woman, go for Italian and use it to go to Italy and meet hot guys. Italian guys are way hotter and more sensual than the French in my experience.

>>8143303

...not a women

FUCK A LOT OF GIRLS.

>>8143285
Either is fine. You should take whichever has the most resources available to you (number of teachers and classes, availability of tutors, etc) which is probably going to be French. But I wouldn't recommend taking a language if it isn't a requirement.

>>8143345
hmmmmmm...... I guess either or then.. Whatever you think would be easier.

bumpityump

now that i know god exists, i would have talked to him a lot sooner

he's nice

question: do americans get free public transportation

if they go to college?

>>8143523
Depends on the school. I go to U of Florida and they let us use the city bus system for free. Except we pay a transportation fee along with tuition, so it's not REALLY free...

>>8143498
you're a pathetic troll

>>8143538

thanks, i was thinking about a semester abroad to the US but the expenses are ridiculous

why do you even go to college?

>>8143553
trudat

the only reason you're pissed at me is cos you haet god

if i was on any other subject, you would ignore me completely - i'm shit-tier

Don't be an annoying freshman. Remember that you're a naive 18 year old, and you don't know shit about anything. Don't raise your hand in class and get into debates because you have no idea what you're talking about.

Also, everyone older than you in your major or program is going to be completely sick of talking about whatever subject you're studying. For example if you're a film student, you might think it's exciting to talk and debate about films with your peers, but keep in mind that none of the upperclassmen want to talk about that shit anymore. Ever.

>>8143615
I go to college because it's basically useless to try and get a job without at least a bachelor's degree. I'm eventually going to try for an MBA, and obviously I can't do that without an undergrad degree. As far as expenses go, the state of Florida actually covers a lot of your tuition if you were a good student in high school - though they've been rolling back that program more and more lately. Also, our state has the lowest in-state tuition in the country. But with most of my tuition costs paid for by the school, living expenses are affordable enough, so I can manage.

>>8143754
>paid for by the state
Not by the school

No one is going to know who you are

Reinvent yourself into being the person you've always wanted to be.

I was thinking about going goth.
Since nobody will know who I am, I'll be seen as a deep person, rather than some wanna-be poser?
Is this a bad idea?

>>8143782

THIS

its like you were cool and fashionable all your life ;D

>>8143841
Terrible idea. Nobody in college is actually deep, but everyone is convinced that they are.

>>8143553

you must be new here

zomgbloxxxxxxxxx

Get a job, seriously

A menial part time position during school and something during summer will not only mean you can pay off school fees quickly but you'll be able to spend money on doing fun things.

Don't live with a roommate, get your own room. I had the option of having my own room, but i choose to live with a roommate because I thought that it would make socializing and making friends easier. It did not. Now I don't even have a safe, comfortable place to masturbate.

>>8143869
is it really egotistical of me to take that as a compliment, or did you just mean that anon was a n00b for responding to an obvious troll?


also; bampu

>>8144039

Can any normalfags who get laid confirm this?

Also: I got into NYU, BU, scholarship (free ride) to UMASS. Waiting on Ivies...

WAT DO!?

What are your plans after graduation?
What kind of career do you want?
What qualifications do you need to get an average entry level job in this career?
What kind of daily activities will you be expected to perform in this career?
Do you have any experience at all in this field? If no, why do you believe that this is a good career option for you?


If you can't give SPECIFIC answers to the above questions, then you should seriously consider staying away from universities until you can answer them. Going to college without any goals or motivation will only cost you a lot of time, money, and your sanity. I've met too many college students who show up to college only because they don't know what else to do with their lives; they end up miserable, depressed, and drop out. Don't fall into that trap.

>>8144539

oh fuck off.


yousuckacuntblox

What are the least useless liberal arts? Is that even a feasible question?

BUMP FOR MOAR TIPS

I'm an incoming college freshman and I want to become a lawyer. What are recommended courses to become a lawyer? Usually liberal arts is the 'butt of all jokes,' so I do not know if that would be useful. Thanks.

Drink all the time, make loads of friends. Smoke weed and try everything else. Don't get in relationships. Don't be a cunt.

Anyone got any career tips? Graduation system is quite a bit different here as far as I'm concerned but I just started Psychology last year. In short, shit sucks, too much bullshit and its just not really that interesting.

Though its easy grades, but they don't really count for much here.

Now here's the problem, I don't have a very high grade average cause school fucked me over last year changing the graduation system. I didn't really care much for the first two years, but went straight for the A's during my last year and got a grade point 5.6 average (out of 6). Now here's the problem, they changed it without any fucking teachers saying that grades from all 3 years would count towards the grade average, which never were before.

In short, my grade average was fucking shit down at 4.6 which leaves out shitloads of option.

Because I was dumb I didn't take advanced match, chemistry or psychics I can't do engineering, medicine, or any science except the shitty social science. I won't have enough GPA to get into law which was my first choice last year.

And all that is left is what seems to be "useless and won't get me a job" or economics which seems like a snooze party... everything is so frustrating.

I just really don't know what to do anymore :/

Once again, despite the cancer that runs amok in this board, /r9k/ has managed to produce something archive-worthy.

Archive!

4chanarchive.org

Choose a useful major. Engineering/Hard Science/Something Practical. Start early, as soon as possible, looking for unpaid part time internships helping out professors or in labs. You're building a resume so that in a couple years you can land a nice internship. Do you damn homework and go to class if necessary. Enjoy your free time with some casual drinking and sex.

Senior graduating here.

Advice I wish I had/was really glad I had:

#1- Live in a dorm/on campus the first year. Unless you are really good at social networking, you will most likely become best friends with at least one of this people. This is how you become connected, and stay connected.

This is also how you learn to "reset" your standards. Unless you had a terrible life, you probably have had it relatively cushy. Own room, own bed, parents do most things for you. A dorm teaches you how to live with someone who isn't related to you, which translates to year 2-> whenever, where you will most likely be living with a friend or something in an apt.

#2- Know the limits of your intelligence. Normally here I'd say go to class every day, but some classes will be so easy there really isn't a point to going. However, realize that one day, you will have a class that will need you to be there, so be ready for it.

#3- This kinda ties in with #1, but make sure YOU network. Freshman/sophomore year we had one guy who did all the networking for us. Almost every party we went to, he was the middleman who got the invite.

Junior year comes around, and his girlfriend shows up (who was long distance previously). Now he doesn't go out because of her. Now I have no parties to go to, because all the invites we used to get were through him.

>This thread has been requested 2 times now.

archivebloxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Give us some motherfucking tips

>>8133344
This, especially if you study the sciences.

Studying with your notes and old tests is way better than studying out of the book.

Also, never take a test with only what you learned in class, that shit doesn't fly in college.

1. Buy a weight.
2. Work out
3. Don't become a fatass.

Its very easy to lose track of how much you gain in a year really, especially with heavy drinking and a lot of unhealthy eating you're gonna regret adding those 30 pounds. (i've added 10 so far, and nearing end of the year :P)

preferably join a club with something you like, soccer, basketball, boxing, martial arts anything. Keep in shape work out at least some cardio a 3-4times a week for 30mins, really.

Women want a man in good shape you know.

Also make friends, especially in the first weeks cause if you don't hit the jackpot then chances are you won't be doing it afterwards. Every new students have their new mates who they hang with, and there's no room for you, accept invites to every party, be social etc even if you hate it. I sure fuckign regret having no friends and being depressed as fuck with having no one I knew where I lived except 2 extremely boring roommates.

I'm a freshman right now, but I don't really want to socialize or network. I don't have friends, but I like it that way.

Am I wrong for preferring to be alone?

>>8145596
I took plenty of classes where reading the book was all that you had to do. Usually you can tell pretty quickly if the material in the book is exactly the same as the stuff covered in class. But normally it's easier to just go to class and take good notes.

>>8133097 If yo like art, then study Graphic Design or maybe photography, everything else is worthless unless you have shit load of rich friends you can leach off of to buy your work. Photography is more of a hit and miss for success or insta-poverty, some people will find work, some won't, some get famous. Graphic Design is better because at least if you don't get a job at an office you can always work freelance and do alright, but the industry is inundated with new talent and there isn't as much design jobs as there used to be thanks to the economy and advertising being down.

For all art degrees though, if your are seriously considering that path you really have to sit down and evaluate how good you are before you enter the school. If your a shit artist when your entering the program, you'll leave a more skilled shit artist.

Overall though art racks up to one of the most useless diplomas you can get with college, right up there with Liberal Arts, Black Studies, Philosophy, and any sort of Language degree that's not done as a dual major with teaching.

OP, most of the advice in here is worthless. Just thought you ought to know.

1) Exercise, eat right, and try to maintain some kind of real schedule. Noon-3 am is not a real schedule.

2) Study 5-6 days a week. No fucking exceptions.

3) Party 2 nights a week.

4) Get sports tickets and go with people. It's not because you love sports, it's because it's a fun social thing to do.

5) If you don't feel like you know anyone to live with, then live in a co-op. This might actually be a good option anyway - it's like a frat, but not full of closet faggots (or like a sorority, but not full of girls pretending not to be whores).

6) Don't take the easy way on anything.

7) If you think grad school is in your future, do undergrad research and make connections for your future recommendations.

8) Take an extra math or statistics class. You'll probably need it.

>>8145142
Major in philosophy, then go to law school.
Law school, oddly enough, prefer philosophy majors over political science majors.

Hey OP,

Just came to tell you my son is full of shit.

-Caesar

>>8145956
no no no. don't go to law school unless you get into a top 14 school or you get a full ride somewhere. otherwise you end up with lots of debt and not making the boatload of money that you think all lawyers make

why you talking Caesar?

-Brutus

>>8146231

Y'all best keep yo mouth shut before I go Egyptian on yo mothafuckin ass

-Marc Antony

Somebody better be archiving this shit.

I wanna use it next year

>>8143747
>Remember that you're a naive 18 year old, and you don't know shit about anything. Don't raise your hand in class and get into debates because you have no idea what you're talking about.
If only children took this advice when they posted on 4chan, it may be less shitty.

1. Whatever you do, do not make lower than a B for any class grade. Things will get really complicated and difficult if you make C's or lower. Do whatever you can to make at least a B. You have to figure out how to do this yourself.
2. This is probably your first time living away from home. Enjoy yourself, but don't go overboard. Learn to limit/restrict yourself.
3. you will not magically/drastically change yourself moving from high school to college. You will change somewhat from being in a new environment, but you'll still be mostly who you were in high school.
4. DO NOT SKIP CLASS
5. Exercise
6. If you find yourself spending as much or more time on 4chan as you did in high school, you're doing it wrong.

I party every weekend, sometimes during the week. I also have a 3.7 and a difficult major.

tl;dr be a pro. Also asking a girl/having a girl ask you "do you want to study for the midterm together?" is code for "let's bang"

Request for archiving, people!

http://4chanarchive.org/

>>8145652
Bumping because I want to know if I'm fucking myself in the eye.

>>8146642
>DO NOT SKIP CLASS
lawl.

>>8146998
Well, this whole thread basically says to make friends and connections because having only a degree is worthless nowadays.

So yes, you are fucking yourself in the eye.

>>8147062
But my (desired) degree is in pharmacy, which has quite a large job market.

Rule 1) Do not fail your classes. Pass, so you may remain at college.

Rule 2) Fuck everything you can, unless it may cause you to break Rule 1.

Rule 3) There are many different kinds of liquor. Learn that they do. Unless it will cause you to break rule 1 or 2.

...... These are the only things you need to know. Everything else is frosting.

>>8147080
Rule 3 should be "Learn WHAT they do," but I know /r9k/ wouldn't let me repost that.

Anyway, via con dios.

>>8132925
BOOM
I wanna know this too
which universities are better: public or private?

>>8147240
Whichever one has a good degree program in the degree you want.

>>8146985
Only need 2 more requests for an automatic archival, arcanines! Let's go, guys.

http://4chanarchive.org/

I'm going to a rather unknown university right now. It's not bad, but it's not really wellknown. If I'm going to also be going to graduate school, is it better to go to a well-known uni for my undergrad, or a well known uni for my graduate degree? Assuming that I can only have one or the either (that is, unknown-undergrad/known-grad, or known-undergrad/unknown-grad).

>>8147294
A well-known undergraduate school and an unknown graduate school sounds like a retarded choice.

Be a man and go Ivy League for undergrad and grad. Obama did it. You can too.

If not, do unknown undergrad and well-known graduate.

>>8147365
I heard it was bad to choose the same school for your undergrad and grad...

>>8147390
I never said to go to the same school for your undergrad and grad. I said do an unknown school for undergrad, then go to a well-known school for your grad.

ARCHIVE PLOX.

I'm starting college in 2 months.

>>8147275
ONE MORE REQUEST FOR ARCHIVAL. bloxybloxbloxblox.

http://4chanarchive.org/

Go to class. You may think you know what's going on and you won't need to go to that day's class, then you keep thinking this, look at the practice test and realize you know nothing.

>Congrats, your request has just triggered the archival process for thread 8132505

Cool shit, bros.

I'll be needing this info for a time to come.

>>8147453

OP here,

wow.

I guess I can cross "get a thread archived" off my list of things to do before starting college.

Nice

>>8147490

No problem lol.

Hey guys, Canadafag here.

After reading some of posts about the pricing of your colleges and universities, i just have to say what the fuck?

Seriously, why are your tuitions so fucking high?
I'm in a college with a good reputation learning something I'm really enjoying and it's less than three grand per semester.

Not trying to rub it in anyones face but why are your prices like they are?

>>8147508
Government provides loans to students.

Seriously, if the government stopped, colleges would lower their tuition, as there would be less students that could afford it, though government doing this would mean that colleges would be restricted, if only until tuition lowered again, to the wealthy or those smart enough to qualify for scholarships.
Whether that's bad or not....

>>8147588
Yeah, but a loan is still a loan is it not?
I mean, I'm gonna be done in a year or two and I should hopefully be debt free. I don't understand how you guys can afford to have a hundred thousand debt hanging over you.