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are you still at Irvine in Engineering ?

yeah but because I have a premed focus in the biomedical engineering major or w/e it doesn't really count as engineering, doesn't really count as bio.. i think i fcked up and made life hard for myself. must see counselorzz

[dino might]

yo, famished collage fams, listen up, get on that fuckin bertolli frozen pasta dinners in a bag jumpoff. shit is bangin and retarded proof.

baked up the lasagna one last night..

[cure]

so who else is getting fucked by finals

[calvinouch]

ME. 10char

[prokart]

so who else is getting fucked by finals

at the school library atm, just handed in a 20 page 1.5 space paper on politics and religion in taiwan that i finished in less than 3 days. deferred an exam already, still got another 15 pager.

[freecat]

i've got the finals for my 4th semester in a few days but since i didn't even did the 3rd because i was busy redoing the 1st (does that make any sens), i'm not even really revising, i'll be in second year next september and do my best to graduate soon so i can move on to something else...

but well, i haven't got any opportunity and university can be fun. oh and so much hot girls at the library...

[longrun]

wrote two finals back to back today, and now i have to wait a week until the next one. my natural reaction is to be pissed, but it actually gives me enough of a break to party this weekend.

[CronutEh]

It's been two years since I started community college and I'm still only halfway done. I fucked up a couple of semesters so if I get A's from here on out I'll still only be at a 3.4 or 3.5 once academic renewal pulls through. I've changed my major a handful of times and now I'm pretty much set on trying to get into somewhere like Haas or Stern, even though I know I won't be able to get into either with my GPA. I'm not even entirely sure I want to work in finance. I'm just tired of being in college and I want to get my shit together instead of being so indecisive.

Reading everyone else's responses to this thread makes me feel hella unintelligent.

Trying to stay positive but damn, I shouldn't have slacked off so hard.

This post should prolly go in superconfessional

I should probably just man the fuck up and study harder tho

[bfan]

Now that I'm almost done I care so little about my classes. Waiting to hear back from grad schools is really all I care about at this point

[tombrown]

It's been two years since I started community college and I'm still only halfway done. I fucked up a couple of semesters so if I get A's from here on out I'll still only be at a 3.4 or 3.5 once academic renewal pulls through. I've changed my major a handful of times and now I'm pretty much set on trying to get into somewhere like Haas or Stern, even though I know I won't be able to get into either with my GPA. I'm not even entirely sure I want to work in finance. I'm just tired of being in college and I want to get my shit together instead of being so indecisive.

Reading everyone else's responses to this thread makes me feel hella unintelligent.

Trying to stay positive but damn, I shouldn't have slacked off so hard.

This post should prolly go in superconfessional

I should probably just man the fuck up and study harder tho

there's no way you'll get into stern

not trying to be a dick, but...

[CronutEh]

Not even, man. I already knew it. Even Haas is a pipe dream at this point.

[indesertum]

bleah. insomnia. i guess tho it helps when it's exam season and you're not prepared

[lmk1995]

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Edited January 19, 2022 by littlemike

[wurm]

^^^

you're a junior, right? don't let that shit happen yet...you still have a year left if so. not sure what the solution would be, but try not to focus too much on getting out just yet.

Now that I'm almost done I care so little about my classes. Waiting to hear back from grad schools is really all I care about at this point

same but i didn't apply/dont yet want to go to grad school. all these people i know are talking about the gre/lsat. i feel like they only think they know what they want to do, but don't. grad school is tempting, but i really want a break from school for a while, and i also have no idea what i'd go for. definitely not law.

[po_boy_fuuma_hatesbargerz]

yeah but because I have a premed focus in the biomedical engineering major or w/e it doesn't really count as engineering, doesn't really count as bio.. i think i fcked up and made life hard for myself. must see counselorzz

hella old but this is what i started with

hit upper div and got the fuck out of BME

[lmk1995]

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Edited January 19, 2022 by littlemike

[wurm]

^^^

look, don't do something you don't want to do for a long time.

**long post - if you don't think you'll be interested, stop now**

i've said a lot of the following before, but i'll say it again anyway. i wavered in choosing my major for a few years (didn't declare until almost halfway through junior year - was technically sophomore though i think). i had the grades to get into any department i wanted, but took a while to pick one. i kind of insisted with this idea that whatever i did needed to significantly help me find a job and/or be a good path for grad school (which i planned on doing). i wanted to do something i liked, but also kept thinking it needed to get me a pretty good salary.

i eventually realized my vainness. i stopped focusing so much on the ends of my degree, and instead on what real value i could gain from the college experience. i had taken a rhetoric/writing class freshman year and thought it was great. i then took another course and realized how much i liked it, so i decided to major in it. i had also always liked taking french and planned on minoring in it in any case, but had felt like it was a worthless major. looking back, it would have been fine for me to just do that as my major. but fortunately i'm (barely) graduating with a double major in both subjects.

it seems like you're already kind of aware of what i'm trying to say, but i just want to reiterate it all. you live in the united states - you're not going to starve (unless you end up in some fucked up hiking situation or something i dunno). don't let societal/familial pressures make you feel like you have to do something you otherwise have no inclination toward. my mom pushed me toward engineering cause i got like a 780 on the math part of the sat. i would have probably made a lot of money, but would have been miserable. i'm glad i never let her persuade me. i started out in business just because i didn't know what to do and thought it would be good to at least try. i took one course, did well, but hated it. funny all my friends in liberal arts were jealous i got into business school but i couldn't have cared less.

i still joke that my degree will be kind of worthless, but i know it will hold more intrinsic value for me than the degrees many other people will receive. not saying my life is or will be perfect. it will probably take a while for me to find a decent job/salary, but at least i didn't commit myself to something i would end up hating. and even that said, you never really can 'commit' to a path in life. it's pretty much never too late to change direction...it's just hard to give up something that you've put a lot of investment in.

also, i suggest looking for an internship/job that you will get something personal out of as well. i intern for a pro-choice non-profit. i don't get paid, but it's the best work i've done and i invest my time toward something i believe in (admittedly, i'm not intensely pro-choice but abortion rights have been something i strongly support). i would have loved to get some monetary compensation, but the experience is worth much more to me. i actually get to do stuff that i like (public affairs - writing, etc.) and learn things that are important to me.

i've been privileged in having parents that paid for my college expenses, so i know others will be in different situations. i still think that it's worth considering what i say. the career you choose will be something that will probably take up 1/3 of your weekdays (and another 1/3 should be spent sleeping). and i know that your case, mikey, is pretty much the same as mine anyway. if university education isn't free (as it should be) if/when i have kids approaching that age, i will do my utmost to pay for it myself so they don't have to include debt bullshit in their important life choices.

Edited February 22, 2013 by wurm

[bfan]

I applied because I want to keep the ball rolling so to speak, I feel like if I leave school it will be too hard to come back. plus I actually do want to get a masters, my undergrad is in the pure sciences and I applied for engineering programs in materials science mostly. what I don't want to do is more bs academic lab work and memorize crap so I can stay afloat amongst the sea of silent studying asians in my major.

btw xy, how's med school treating you

[scientifick]

i'm pretty much over my major and not really enjoying any of my classes.

sounds like youre studying the right field and are on the course for a successful, fulfilling life!

[tac0tron]

Other than one class that might be problematic for my GPA, I'm really loving my time in college right now. Meeting great people, studying something I truly enjoy (so far)!

[CHINESEGOLD]

Anyone here in law school? It's way down the road for me but I'm just curious what it's like.

[lmk1995]

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Edited January 19, 2022 by littlemike

[scientifick]

Anyone here in law school? It's way down the road for me but I'm just curious what it's like.

not currently myself but possibly one day. the present and past law students i've talked to about the school experience is get ready to read and read and read and write and research, standard shit. and study latin

Edited February 26, 2013 by scientifick

[cheapmuthafukr]

been up all night writing a paper... well... no... writing till 4 or 430 and drinking a full pot of coffee and smoking afgoo. but yeah, i have class at 930. need to remember to not wait till the last minute to do work... im not doing this again.

[conqueror]

i just graduated from a bsc in psych science at the end of '12. i'm probably going to do a masters of social work next year and will be 29 by the time i finish that. starting to feel old.

[cheapmuthafukr]

shit... ill be 33 this summer and im in my 2nd semester of school. theres a kid in one of my classes whos mom i used to fuck.

[hhenryhhh]

I'm getting raped by this industrial organization/antitrust econ class that I've got no business taking.

I'm gonna drop this shit.

Also planning on going to school in the summer. I'm both stoked and kind of depressed about that to be honest.

[Champion champs]

I did a year of architecture, straight out of high school, and hated it. Then I took a year off, and worked full time. Got into SMFA in Boston, and Parsons Paris (on their largest scholarship), but could not afford living expenses. Now I'm in first year art history, in Montreal which was the only thing I could get into when I applied. Next year, I'm likely going to be in first year again, in print media. Maybe I can convince admissions to give me an upper year standing when I show them my portfolio and 4.0 GPA.

It's not so bad, being the older guy, though. I know the system, and I'm more socially confident. The only thing that will suck is that by my second year, all my friends will have graduated.

[scientifick]

studying abroad in london this summer, definitely going to tweet thristian incessantly to get on that boiler room guestlist ha

[BRICK DOM]

I'm getting raped by this industrial organization/antitrust econ class that I've got no business taking.

I'm gonna drop this shit.

Also planning on going to school in the summer. I'm both stoked and kind of depressed about that to be honest.

Industrial Organization is my favorite shit. Holleur at me if you stick it out and need help.

I'm in my last quarter at uni as an undergrad and I feel pretty indifferent about it. Only thing is, is that I feel slightly slighted that I didn't get to enjoy "college life" to as full of as an extent as others as I had a pretty rocky start. My freshman year I spent a year at pre-pharm school when I quickly realized that wouldn't work out, so I transferred over to a community college and spent a year there before I finally transferred out and got into UCD.

And now after only 1 year and 2 quarters I've basically graduated (not even 2 quarters though because I'm only taking the 8 units I need to graduate this quarter), just when I've finally gotten into the groove of things (like living on my own, making friends, balancing work with fun, having a girlfriend, etc.). So I dunno. I sort of regret graduating a tad early and finishing up everything so quickly, but then again, I want to move forward with my life and find a job or pursue my Master's.

Edited February 26, 2013 by JD.Salinger