/uni/ thread

[Anonymous No.13018216]

Going to be attending my uni of choice(FIU;pic related)in Summer with an intent to study Philo. and maybe econ. or English? All the professors look legit and some of the Philo. department has published cool stuff. Anyways what uni did you guys attend/are planning to attend? And what did you major?

>I might major in eng. considering if I get into a MFA program I get paid to write whatever I want but im not sure how hard it is to get in.

[Anonymous No.13018266]

University of Wisconsin
Econ although I take a bunch of philos electives

[Anonymous No.13018269]

>>13018216
I'll be starting my MLIS (archiving stream) soon. As an aside, American universities look like giant highschools.

[Anonymous No.13018271]

Chicago

[Anonymous No.13018272]

Planning to attend UChicago, majoring in philosophy. Maybe CS or Math as well if I can handle the classes.

[Anonymous No.13018274]

3rd year at Univ. of Virginia.
Study econ and history. Currently considering grad school for history.

[Anonymous No.13018275]

>>13018266
How's econ? I think its really interesting by I feel as it would bore me for some reason.
>>13018269
School has a lot liberal archetypes and really diverse racially, but yea it is pretty much a big HS.

[Anonymous No.13018280]

What's with an econ major? Is it just a safe, easy pick if you have no direction?

[Anonymous No.13018356]

>>13018216
going to be attending mcgill university in montreal. not really sure what i want to do but probably looking like history or philosophy. what's the most /lit/ major?

[Anonymous No.13018365]

>>13018216
Philosophy is an utter waste of time. There is so much BS in the field that it takes too much time than it's worth working through all the BS just to get to whatever true insights there are.

Major in History. Take some good core classes in anthropology, computer science, economics, and english. But stay away from philosophy.

[Anonymous No.13018369]

>>13018280
Its a mix of philosophy,history,economy and has job opportunities so i'm assuming its a safe bet with a lot of interesting stuff.
>>13018356
imo i'd say English,Classics,Philosophy,History,Some literature specification,economy, and sociology. Pretty sure im missing a ton but to be /lit/ does not encompass /literature/ related stuff only I suppose.

[Anonymous No.13018379]

>>13018356
"Philosophy" = analytic pseudo-philosophy

History of Ideas / History of Science = philosophy-history, the ultimate fusion

[Anonymous No.13018386]

>>13018365
I disagree, yea sure philosophy has bs scattered throughout the field and if you go in blind your probably going to be lost but I read and studied philosophy all throughout my senior year so I know already what I plan on studying, its a matter of if you know what your doing or not imo.

[Anonymous No.13018402]

>>13018216
You're either a bootlicker, an idiot, or old money. Potentially all three. In any case, go fuck yourself

[Anonymous No.13018429]

History major from UF here. If you want to do the humanities, go to FSU. If you want a cozy uni experience, go to UF. If you like cargo shorts and Computers, go to UCF or USF.

But for real though, the philosophy program at FSU is top notch, and their economics, English, and history are all solid.

[Anonymous No.13018452]

>>13018216
University of Toronto. Majoring in PoliSci.

[Anonymous No.13018597]

>>13018429
ty for the advice, ill recheck the professors.
the only issue I have with FSU is the location :/

[Anonymous No.13018607]

Columbia

[Anonymous No.13018618]

High schoolers fuck off

[Anonymous No.13018635]

High schoolers fuck me

[Anonymous No.13018639]

>>13018597
Dude, I'm from Broward. Embrace the change and the distance. It'll allow you to challenge yourself that much more. However, if its money you're worried about go join the Navy, Air Force, or Coast Guard. Do your time in the service and then use the GI Bill for free uni when you get out. Plus you'll also have an easier time getting into whichever schools or programs you apply to in the future. If you have any more concerns ask away.

[Anonymous No.13018641]

>>13018452
Are people actually miserable at uoft? I'm very excited to go (transfer), but I don't know if I should lower my expectations

[Anonymous No.13018667]

>>13018386
after reading your post, i've come the the conclusion that you're right, philosophy is perfect for you. good luck.

[Anonymous No.13018712]

>>13018641
Some people are miserable everywhere. I don't think that it's particularly worse in UofT. That said, I feel that the people are somewhat more subdued here than elsewhere. You know how every high-school class has a couple of shy, quiet, kids? I think most of those kids went to UofT, so there's a disproportionately high amount of people who will just sit there quietly and focus on their studies (including me), but then again there are plenty of normalfaggots who have normal lives too. As far as academics go, I've never had a disappointing experience. Professors range from pretty good to excellent, and the vast majority of T.A's have had have been at least competent, with a couple of standouts who really tried their best.

[Anonymous No.13018753]

Best places to observe female feet on campus:
>Student Union in line for food, anytime of day but breakfast probably has the most turnout of qt feets
>Yoga classes conducted outside
>Sunbathers on the quad or their residential rooftops
>Campus bus transportation, but it skews to younger girls of more modest means who often have less than stellar foot game.
Still I figure these are the best those feets will ever look so I should take in the sights

[Anonymous No.13018776]

>>13018753
You forgot the #1 best feet peeping: girls taking their shoes off in the library to study

I actively avoid feet hotspots because I don't like to be tempted by harlots

[Anonymous No.13018789]

>>13018266
Hangin' out
Down the street
The same old thing
We did last week
Not a thing to do
But talk to you
We're all alright
We're all alright

I love Wisconsin

[Anonymous No.13018795]

>>13018712
Thanks for clarifying, anon. Do you feel that you're making valuable connections at UofT? Is it easy to find friends there?

[Anonymous No.13018806]

>>13018272
Doing what you're planning on doing.
I started off in math but couldn't handle it. I think if I wasn't required to take a lot of the classes I wasn't interested in like calc 2 I'd still be in it. I just wanted to study specific areas of discrete math i.e. logic, graph theory.

Switched into comp sci. It's ok, but pending further consideration I'm going back to math or perhaps a business field. I'd rather learn some snippets of applied math than write thousands of lines of code for the duration of my undergrad.

[Anonymous No.13018809]

>>13018795
>Is it easy to find friends there?
There are many opportunities, provided you're not autistic. Like I said, UofT is a touch subdued, especially when compared to what you see in films. It's not like in American college films where everyone knows each other, there are huge parties every week, and you're buddies with everyone in your dorm within a week. You have to make the effort to be outgoing yourself. Needless to say, I'm an Anon to the core and have made no such attempts, but I've seen a few people pull it off.
> Connections
You mean networking? There are plenty of events organized by the career centre, and the professors have a couple of hours worth of office hours every week - which very few people attend - which means that you're free to come by and chat whenever you want.

[Anonymous No.13018819]

>>13018639
>Dude, I'm from Broward
Same! I transferred here for my last two years in HS(Originally in Miami).I went a not-so-good school(MCA) but it was fun. Yea i'm really up to go far and away from home for uni, but if I were to go I think i'd have to be in a dorm and I have intense paranoia with people that I don't already know so, I mean going far would help me with that its just, im a total dweeb. But if I can go I don't doubt I wont, people always tell me on here, and irl, that FSU has the best humanities. The goal in the long run is to go to graduate school but who knows how i'll feel then

[Anonymous No.13018830]

>school

[Anonymous No.13018833]

>>13018819
>>13018639
also if the humanities are as well as everyone says they are in FSU i'll be interested to attend any seminars/meetings or join a club. I don't think the humanities in FIU are as active but then again, im not sure.

[Anonymous No.13018852]

>>13018833
FIU is the school for Miami people who weren't smart enough to get into anywhere else or wanted to stay close to home. Miami is a cesspool of a city and should be avoided at all costs.
>>13018819
Dude, don't worry about roommates. No one cares about shit so long as your hygiene is fine. If you have any questions add me on discord. JuliusWeaser#1500.

[Anonymous No.13018904]

>Going to the human meat grinder with an intent to be forced into learning what a bunch of people who were also forced to learn learning. Maybe learning learning? All the ss officers looks cool beans home skillet and even printed their stuff on an epson printer/fax machine. Anyways, guessing you guys also still live with your parents, whats the logic of your internal voice when confronted with a life others have designed for you? Aqua blue pill or navy blue pill?

>I might focus on the alphabet considering i can recite my ABC's while roll around on recangular pieces of paper, also blue, but not sure if thats what iwant to do with the only life i will ever have

[Anonymous No.13018976]

>>13018904
What kind of schizo post is this

[Anonymous No.13019208]

>>13018904
hi can i have a whole book of this?

[Anonymous No.13019247]

Going to Leiden university next year (Netherlands), not sure whether to study medicine or philo. Any thoughts?

[Anonymous No.13019251]

>>13018904
kek based i ringe at these excited zoomers

[Anonymous No.13019314]

>Student at the École Normale Supérieure
>literally get paid 1600 € / month to study
>Almost guaranteed to become a college professor afterwards

Imagine getting in debt to study

[Anonymous No.13019321]

>>13019247
Don't be a retard, study medicine.
You can get an actual job with that degree.

[Sage No.13019398]

>>13019247
Study Philo. You can read medicine in your free time

[Anonymous No.13020068]

Lol I have a philo degree from FIU AMA

[Anonymous No.13020098]

>>13018216
Formally studying philosophy is pretty comfy. I ended up adding it as a second major after I really enjoyed the university's compulsory first-year ethics class. Don't let anyone deter you.

[Anonymous No.13020156]

Does anyone else have experience with /lit/-esque pseuds? I though those were just memes but I literally met those "social justice" types, they're not bad people at all actually but holy shit they're right out of a caricature, even met a fat, hairy lesbian feminist that has some gender critical degree and publishes her thesis on tumblr.
>that one guy constantly quoting/name dropping leftist philosophers
>"it's useful but problematic"
>arguing purely in jargon; half of it they don't even understand
>barely heard about any thinker outside of the academic canon and its periphery
I know there's a lot of pseuds and shitposting going around here, but you're all patricians compared to these people.

[Anonymous No.13020164]

>>13018216
That university looks like a shopping centre. I'd refuse to go there on aesthetic grounds.

[Anonymous No.13020197]

>>13018216
Did my BA in philo. and am about to go to seminary to get my MDiv.

Phil. is an OK degree if you are at a good department and given you work hard and use it as a springboard towards some grad studies with good prospects for you. But it can also be the straight road to unemployment.

[Anonymous No.13020228]

Attended FIU and got a bachelor's of science in communication. Haven't made good use of it.

Good kuck, OP. I hope you find what you're looking for.

[Anonymous No.13020233]

>>13018830
based

[Anonymous No.13020327]

>>13018809
Great, thanks. To clarify, I'm currently at one of the biggest American unis, and I can summarize it as being divisive. Half of the school is basically as you described; here just to party and do drugs, there's a small group somewhere in between of people majoring in fields like engineering and medicine who try to balance the two and end up dropping out or getting depression, and then there's the polar opposite of people who are here with the primary purpose of getting a degree who never party and only socialize with people who are the same. Their intensity depends on what they're studying, but they usually get along with everyone involved in the same camp, like me. Lots of people who aren't Christian or even religious complain about "degeneracy" in American colleges. Overall, it feels like a very anonymous experience.
That's fine, since I know I'll feel similarly anonymous at UofT, but I'm hoping to have far more opportunities at UofT, largely because the school is internationally-focused and located in what seems like a great city to network/make connections. I also feel that the humanities are far more appreciated there and the quality of teaching would be greater

[Anonymous No.13020334]

>>13020156
kek there's a guy in one of my philosophy classes who tries to explain everything through quantum physics and gets cut off by the professor every time. he dresses like he's from the 1800s and has a mustache

[Anonymous No.13020340]

going to do oceanography

[Anonymous No.13020346]

>>13020156
Had a friend who went to Evergreen State in Washington two years ago. Bunked with him for a month. Literally every single person EVERY SINGLE PERSON is a caricature of a tumblr psued.

>> 98% acceptance rating
>> me and my friend get harrassed by a group of transexuals
>> student body holds university president hostage
>> president asks if he can go to the bathroom
>> students don't let him
>> people unironically saying 'we wuz kangz n shiet'
>> didn't know anyone there who was studying something other than humanities or arts

[Anonymous No.13020395]

>>13020346
>student body holds university president hostage

[Anonymous No.13020407]

University of Washington, graduating with ba BA in English in a few weeks.

Almost did Econ, fucked it up, bounced around until I settled on English cuz I'm okay at writing essays. Taking the LSAT in June and applying to law school cuz idk wtf to do.

[Anonymous No.13020426]

>>13020395
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Msfsp5Ofz4g

[Anonymous No.13020433]

Recently applied for a scolarship that could change my life, rolling for luck

[Anonymous No.13020439]

>>13020228
>>13020068
How was the philosophy department/professors? Also did you live in a dorm? If so how was it

Would you change your major/or uni?

[Anonymous No.13020441]

>>13020433
I guess the numbers have spoken.

[Anonymous No.13020623]

>>13018275
Econ is great, you can take more micro or macro depenning on which you prefer. Micro bores me personally but I love macro. You can also choose not to get too mathy and focus more on history and intuition if the math is offputting. It's very flexible and most of the stuff you learn is applicable for a job and daily life

[Anonymous No.13020642]

>>13018429
Took a history course here at UF but am not a history major. It was rather cozy

[Anonymous No.13020664]

Hey Miami fags. I went to FIU too. I have a BA in Mathematical Sciences. Though now that I think about it I'm not sure why. Actually it didn't help with anything and now I work in a surf shop part time. I went to the dorms for that one poster that was asking. They're perfectly fine.

[Anonymous No.13020677]

>>13018216
majoring in classics at stanford. would like to teach classics in my home country (italy). high school or uni, doesn’t really matter. i like reading and teaching and if i can do that my whole life + have a loving family and raise 3 kids im happy. i’m also interested in writing and have published pieces in english and italian but you can’t depend on that for a career obv

[Anonymous No.13020686]

>>13020156
“not bad people” - you realize these are literal footsoldiers of the destruction of the West, right?

[Anonymous No.13020734]

>>13018806
>getting filtered by calc 2 and thinking you could do other math classes
lmaoooooo

[Anonymous No.13020771]

>>13020734
don't know much about math but once you get pass the undergrad plug-and-chug classes don't you start doing with more 'freeness'? I here all the time that proof classes and basically anything past all the basic filtering is completely different and favors creative minds. But then again i'm a humanities major so who knows

[Anonymous No.13021191]

I strongly doubt anyone from this shithole posts on lit lol

[Anonymous No.13021232]

Is Princeton anon here? I always find it interesting to here him speak about his time there. That was my top school and I don't know whether I ended up missing out on a lot or it's just another depressing uni like he says it is.

[Anonymous No.13021256]

>>13018272
I know someone there that says they literally put you on a suicide watch list if you take too many advanced courses. It really is not an enjoyable place at all and unless you are a sperg who likes to sit alone and study all day, you will not enjoy your time there.

[Anonymous No.13021263]

>>13021191
Almost went there but then I realized I’d be retarded for spending that much money for basically nothing, and I went to UMASS Amherst for like a quarter of the price.
>Mathematics/Physics master race checkin in

[Anonymous No.13021312]

>>13020771
Yeah well it is more “free” but if you don’t have the ability to do an integral you aren’t going to have the ability to play and be “free” with concepts taught later on imo.

[Anonymous No.13021604]

>>13021256
Well I guess I better prepare to sperg out. I mean I do probably have mild aspergers syndrome. Just not the social retardation aspect, thankfully.

Anyway, taking the max number of classes and double majoring might be like that but everyone I talked to taking a normal load in an area that was their strength said it wasnt too bad.

They literally design the course load so you can take three classes half the time and four classes half the time to complete one major and graduate. (In a trimester system). Apparantly they've been making big quality of life adjustments in the last five years.

[Anonymous No.13021618]

>>13018272
Literally same

[Anonymous No.13021632]

>>13021618
Bruh fill me in. Are you there now or planning to attend? If there, is it what you expected?

[Anonymous No.13021633]

>>13018806

I don't mean to be a jerk anon but if calc 2 made you drop math then it was probably too difficult for you. Idk how a class being 'too boring' for a semester would make you drop out.

It sounds like you struggled and don't want to admit that.

[Anonymous No.13021655]

>>13021632
I’m planning to attend, also going in as a phil major currently but will also be checking out foundations and English.

What was your big thing? How’d you get in?

[Anonymous No.13021704]

>>13021655
I don't know really. My big thing might have been just being really interested in philosophy. I took a class over the summer at my local college and started a club. Besides that just acting in plays at my school every year and adapting a short story into a play.

My grades were probably average for people getting in, or a bit below average. I had a dip my junior year.

I think my essay was probably what got me in the most, my essay was pretty good.

How about you?

[Anonymous No.13021738]

Opinions on University of British Columbia?

[Anonymous No.13021835]

>>13018272
>>13021256
Currently in my final quarter of a math major at Chicago, I'm gonna make some comments on this to clear up some misconceptions and provide some more information.
First and foremost: classes at Chicago are hard, and the schedule's brutal. They consistently (especially in STEM classes) jam 16 weeks' worth of content into 10 weeks, and you're expected to really understand what you're learning. Depending on the course, a math PSet can take anywhere from 8 to 30 hours. I can't speak to coding assignments, because I quit the CS major after getting through their weedout classes. Humanities courses are great, though, even if you're an absolute neophyte. Just don't act like a pseud (i.e. be conscientious about your participation in discussions) and people will listen to what you have to say, and engage with you in good faith – as long as they're also not pseuds.
>I know someone there that says they literally put you on a suicide watch list if you take too many advanced courses.
I'm hesitant to outright confirm or deny this, since I've never heard of such a thing. I do know that every winter there's "College Break Day," which I've heard is more of a "please don't neck yourself" day.
Depression can be a serious issue, though. The winters are particularly bad (and this past winter was the worst in at least the past five years), and if you don't have a good support network then you can end up hermetic and in a bad way.
>unless you are a sperg who likes to sit alone and study all day
This is a pretty prominent stereotype as well, and I think it's pretty poorly founded. There are great communities on campus and myriad ways to get involved with others. The House system is unironically fantastic, and probably my favorite part of the school. It is somewhat dependent on luck, but Houses are more often good than bad (though the cultures take some time to acclimate to when they exist). I met all of my best friends through my House, and I stayed in the dorms for all four years because of how much I love the community. You can also form study groups/pset groups with people from your classes, and that's a good way to meet people, too.

[Anonymous No.13021922]

Anyone here actually not go into STEM and still manage to find a good job after graduating?

[Anonymous No.13021946]

>>13021835
Thanks UChicago anon. What are you planning to do with your math degree in terms of career?

I'm really looking forward to the Honors Calc intro sequence because I've never really took a significantly theoretical math class. Although I'm planning to dip into Spivak or other proof based materials over the summer, it'll be a real moment of discovery when I finally take the class.

[Anonymous No.13021947]

>>13021835
Chicago seems like a great school, but I could not do midwestern winters. Is it as free from the sort of SJW shit afflicting the Ivies (Brown & Yale particularly) as it seems? What even are houses?

>

[Anonymous No.13021964]

How the fuck do you people afford to go away to college??

I go to a state school for history and I’m becoming a history teacher

[Anonymous No.13021981]

>>13021964
My father and mother with the help of my grandparents have enough money in a fund to pay full tuition at any college.

If I was poor and still managed to get into an excellent private university then scholarship money would probably cover most of it. Great private schools are fairly generous to poor people. If I was solidly middle class I'd probably just attend a local state school instead of having to take out loans if I wasn't lucky to get enough scholarship money.

[Anonymous No.13022005]

>>13021256
>unless you are a sperg who likes to sit alone and study all day,

>tfw this is why I came here

[Anonymous No.13022008]

>>13018365
Majored in History and am going to a good law school with full tuition. I learned a lot from the History program despite being pretty knowledgeable in the subject myself. I am glad I majored in History.

[Anonymous No.13022016]

>>13021964
>I go to a state school for history and I’m becoming a history teacher
Good luck with that, you have the same goals as 90% of history majors.

[Anonymous No.13022051]

University students are gay

[Anonymous No.13022088]

Lads I got into an Ivy (one of the top 3 just to narrow it down) and I'm not even sure if I am cut out for college. I have to make a decision in 2 days and I don't know what to do. I don't have any motivation, most of the kids I met at orientation seem so much smarter than I am, and I don't even know what I want to major in. I haven't been trending up the last year of high school. I still got fine grades, but mentally I've been out of it.
Do I enroll at the Ivy and get out of my comfort zone or just go to state school and save some money?

[Anonymous No.13022140]

>>13022088
Go join the navy or coast guard

[Anonymous No.13022146]

>>13022088
enrol and go from there. use the chance wisely

[Anonymous No.13022152]

>>13021946
>What are you planning to do with your math degree in terms of career?
I'm not cut out for math academia, so I'm going into the business world for a while. If they have a program to get an MBA somewhere, I'll do that since (and this isn't a knock at other schools, I swear) outside of the most prestigious grad schools I think I can breeze through (i.e. not Booth, Wharton, Stanford, Harvard, MIT, etc.) due to how tough Chicago's undergraduate courses were (I shit you not, I've compared with equivalent courses at less than top-tier schools and I covered more in 10 weeks than they did in 16).
>I'm really looking forward to the Honors Calc intro sequence because I've never really took a significantly theoretical math class.
I went in blind to the honors sequence, and it was one of the most enlightening things I've ever done. I almost drowned academically, but it showed me what I'm capable of and how far behind the best of the best I am. It's a blast and I highly recommend it.
>>13021947
>Is it as free from the sort of SJW shit afflicting the Ivies (Brown & Yale particularly) as it seems?
It's not completely free of that, but it's pretty close. While the campus culture does lean left, it's much thicker-skinned in that people will fight you on your ideas and get offended but they don't just silence you. There have been more attempts to boycott speakers recently, which I don't agree with, but I understand the reasoning behind their position.
>What even are houses?
Houses are basically your village - they're where you eat, sleep, and interact (initially). They're divisions of the dorms in which people live and interact and have the easiest time organizing things. It's probably easiest to describe through example, though. Consider the Burton-Judson dorm: it holds ~350 students. BJ is divided into six houses (Dodd-Mead, Chamberlain, Vincent, Coulter, Linn-Mathews, Salisbury). Any house forms a tight-knit community because all of its residents share a common area in the dorm, the hallways to get to their rooms, bathrooms, a Resident Head, and a Resident Assistant – and that's just within BJ. There is also a House table where house members are encouraged to eat meals together. So, you're seeing the same 50 or so people every day for meals and to relax, and also the RA and RH will provide activities to do as a house, fostering communal bonds.

[Anonymous No.13022165]

>>13022088
To add to it. The only reason I attended uni out of high school was because I had parents who did prepaid uni for me back in the 90s. If I had it my way I would’ve enlisted, and looking back I know I wasn’t ready for uni at the time. I felt the same as you do you, and knowing what I do now I would advise you to enlist in one of those two branches.

[Anonymous No.13022168]

>>13022152
This isn't coming at you personally, but I legitimately don't understand why you would pay (a very large amount I might add) to be so miserably inundated with work. I really don't understand not in a bad way necessarily, but it seems like people like you are just robots for work. Don't you get fed up with it?

[Anonymous No.13022169]

>>13022088
Do you come from a poorer socio-economic background? Those are the people who gain the most financially from attending an ivy as they are able to socialize into the upper classes effectively.

If not, there isn't much financial windfall you will have from going compared to getting in and going to state school. There have been studies showing this. If you have to take loans that will be a big burden and you're not going into a lucrative field that would enable you to pay it back easily I'd go to the state school.

If the money isn't a factor then attend the ivy because you can always transfer to the state school but not the other way around. There are some career paths like certain parts of academia and finance where ivy connections are fairly important. So you'll be limiting yourself slightly. Not really in terms of overall career earnings though, if you aren't coming from a poorer background.

[Anonymous No.13022184]

>>13022169
Upper middle class where I don't have to take out loans but I am not swimming in money by any means either. I'm not a very social person so I'm not sure if I'll really make use of the connections honestly. I don't have social media, didn't go to Prom in high school etc. I am basically a friend to everyone, but a close friend to no one which I'm frankly satisfied with. However, I'm not sure if that sort of personality really fits with the yuppie mentality. I'd hate for all that money to go to waste.

[Anonymous No.13022198]

>>13022168
I'm not the anon you asked, but I'll try to answer. It's not just any type of work. It's work that really teaches you something about a deep and important subject applicable to a lot of things.

Learning theoretical math and other difficult subjects like that outside the university to a deep level is very hard, so it's kind of a one time opportunity to learn info that you can have for the rest of your life.

[Anonymous No.13022210]

>>13021922
This isn't from my experience, because I haven't finished college yet, but it 100% is determined on what career you have in mind.
I want to join my local police department, for example. Conventional wisdom says your major should be 100% related to your job. But this it bogus. Every person I've talked to that's actually been on the force says Criminal Justice and related degrees are wastes of time, and say to study either what you want, a general back up, something that will give you soft skills, or most importantly, something that gives you a deeper worldview and view of human nature (and you can see the same stuff online).
I've even heard from officers and detectives that the kind of books you might read for the degree (that are academic and purely catered to the degree, and thus not philosophical or reflective), are worth far less than reading fiction, philosophy, or history that's more generally related to the area you happen to be studying.
When you hear people throwing out the classic STEM/trades line, don't believe them. They don't know what they're talking about, and their attitude of (seeming) rigid pragmatism is counterproductive in the actual business/political world.
What you should be doing is thinking hard and researching about a career, and the ways to get into it. You get into government, politics, and business by interning and meeting people, not by majoring in pol sci and business (fields fileld ot the brim with drones and fools). Some non-STEM are direct career starters, like philosophy/political sci for Law school.
It is a prevalent attitude, though. This is how you get a generation of braindead retards who's only skill amounts to towing some line they heard in school. This is how you get a dozen and half things falsely labeled as "science" when they have ntohing to do with the scientific method, and are never studied using it (like Political Science or Military Science). It's something I've noticed in the workplace, when educated managers/salesmen make stupid decisions.
My hypothesis is that schools have gradually reduced teleological thinking (as in, what am I actually trying to accomplish here?), while increasing procedural and emphatic thinking (as in, "Problem x? We need Technology! We need Synergy! I learned about y in business school, ergo, this is a blanket solution for all our problems!).
Humanities don't teach to do any specific things, but they do cultivate how to think "teleological."

[Anonymous No.13022231]

>>13022184
As long as you make some friends and get close to some professors, connections will be decently valuable. Hopefully you are social enough for that. Do you have any idea about a career? Some careers are really so competitive and subjective in terms of talent that every bit of prestige helps. If you're not that social I'd worry about getting lost in the crowd at a big state school.

So yeah, like I said earlier, finance-wise on average the difference won't be big for you, but certain careers and opportunities will probably be more difficult to get. That's why I'd choose the ivy, personally.

If you have a really clear cut goal in mind where the ivy wouldn't help all that much by all means don't go to the ivy and save the money though. Also a big consideration is what state school. I'd go to UCLA or Berkeley tier public schools over a lot of top private schools in a heart beat.

[Anonymous No.13022266]

>>13022168
I think >>13022198 covers why people choose to go to post-secondary schools in general quite well, but I interpreted your question as more specific to Chicago so I'd like to answer in that vein.
I chose Chicago – and the volume of work that comes with it – because I wanted to challenge myself and find where my mental limits are. I was never challenged in high school, and I didn't want go through life never having tested myself (whether that ended in success or failure). And for the most part I enjoyed life at Chicago. The work was a lot, but I took enough classes outside of my major to keep a good mental subject balance (humanities/stem). I think why it largely didn't feel like being a robot just doing the work is because of how many different fields I was sampling, how much I was learning, and how much everyone cared about what they were studying, despite how taxing it was. I will admit that I hate most of mathematics now (barring one field that I still adore), but that's because I forced myself to complete the major when I should have switched to something different years ago.

[Anonymous No.13022276]

>>13022231
No I don't really know what I want to do. If I went to my state school I'd just get a computer science degree and become a code monkey. I don't know how I'd do with computer science courses at a top school though. I don't even really know how to code anything right now.
I like religious studies but I can't really justify spending a quarter of a million dollars on a degree like that when, after sitting in on a lecture at the better school, its still quite underwhelming. I like a lot of outdoors stuff too, but I'm not really sure how I'd go about getting a job from it, besides for some sort of environmental protection agency or something. Frankly the more I think about it, the more I think that might be a cool job; I can't imagine the pay is too great though and my biology skills are pretty lackluster.

[Anonymous No.13022279]

>>13021704
Definitely essays, also I did a whole lot of resume-padding and extra-curricular activities. But the essays were, in my opinion, the big thing that got me in, considering everyone else does that other shit too.

[Anonymous No.13022298]

University of Warwick
Philosophy, Politics, and Economics

otherwise known as the 'rape' uni

[Anonymous No.13022301]

>have 108 credits from local community colleges
>nothing to show for it
Thinking of doing some bullshit online classes answer just finish my 4 year. Any thoughts?

[Anonymous No.13022337]

>>13022298
why

[Anonymous No.13022366]

Generally not a great university but I love the city and I really like my professors (comparative literature)

[Anonymous No.13022397]

>>13022279
Which prompt did you choose? I answered 'Compare apples and oranges'.

Yes, resume-padding is an unfortunate activity I also engaged in. Looking back I wonder how much of it was really required.

Have you visited UChicago yet? I went to the April 18-19 open house. I liked checking out all the libraries.

[Anonymous No.13022494]

>>13021964
as an EU resident, the Scottish government pays all my tuition, so I manage to pay for accommodation and food etc just by working part time.

also, my major is History of Art and Philosophy

[Anonymous No.13022606]

>>13021964
I live in Georgia and I'm about to graduate from Georgia Tech. We have a scholarship that pays 100% of your tuition if you're a Georgia resident, go to a public uni, and maintain a 3.3 GPA. If you can keep a 3.0 you get a lesser version that still pays something like 70% of it.
They still gouge you with room and board and fees and an absolute fucking garbage dining plan but my parents agreed to cover that as long as I keep the scholarship, which I did.

[Anonymous No.13022741]

>>13022337
https://thetab.com/uk/warwick/2018/05/09/named-and-pictured-the-warwick-boys-who-made-rape-jokes-in-their-group-chat-28615

Some lads had a private groupchat where they made banter - albeit extreme - and the messages got leaked by one of the boys' girlfriend. Student newspaper published the messages and the names of all of the students involved without even contacting the uni beforehand.

[Anonymous No.13022744]

>>13022494
Where in Scotland do you study? Got rejected from St. Andrews and it's still pissing me off. Also an EU student.

[Anonymous No.13022915]

>university

[Anonymous No.13022937]

>>13022744
University of Glasgow, it's in the pic. I didn't apply to St. Andrews at all, it may be academically renowned but it's just packed with Oxbridge rejects and spoilt private school English kids. The town is crazy expensive and exists virtually only for students, golf tourists and the Uber drivers who work for them. I like Glasgow because it's got the filth and the beauty of an actual city

[Anonymous No.13023067]

>>13022741
>These guys made jokes we disapprove of, sic em
How do these people consider themselves journalists, my fucking god
I sincerely hope zoomers reject this horseshit and laugh off the identity politics of the current generation, their online presence makes me suspect it'll happen to some degree but it's hard to tell

[Anonymous No.13023120]

>>13022937
Ah nice - I applied to Glasgow to study Politics. Loved the architecture and the down to earth vibe appealed to me more than Edinburgh

[Anonymous No.13023783]

>>13021191
not RPI but I go to UAlbany. is Troy as shitty as Albany is?

[Anonymous No.13023796]

>>13022210
Thanks for your advice anon, I'm not the guy you responded to but I really appreciate it and see truth that connections are truly what matters

[Anonymous No.13023913]

>>13022397
I ditched the open house but I have visited before. I’m honestly extremely excited to go.

I did “create your own word” btw

[Anonymous No.13023930]

>>13022397
>>13023913
Forgot to ask—how was the open house? How are the kids?

[Anonymous No.13024200]

>you have to get into a good college to ever have a chance at being happy
>you have to get an internship and a research position to ever have a chance at being happy
>you have to put in 80 hours a week at a job that doesn’t matter for a boss you hate to ever have a chance at being happy

Why do we keep listening to boomer lies? I don’t want to be “happy” i want to drive my car really fast into a brick wall

[Anonymous No.13024245]

>>13024200
I'm graduating this semester (if I don't fail anything, which is a big if) and wholeheartedly agree
My life after this is just... Bleak, I went to a good school and got a degree that actually has good job prospects but any of the places I'd be a fit for would work me to death
I'd rather join the French Foreign Legion or the YPG and bleed to death in the desert somewhere

[Anonymous No.13024280]

>>13021964
govt pays it and then taxes my balls off for the next seventy years

[Anonymous No.13024304]

>>13024245
im graduating next year, and i havent lost all hope yet, but i just hate all this "you have to do this" talk. we were told since we were very young children that if you go to college you will have more opportunities, but its really starting to seem like we have less. Like you have to take specific classes, you have to get the same internship as everyone else in your degree, and then once you have the degree you look at the list of jobs you qualify for and theres like 2 or 3.

[Anonymous No.13024314]

uni is not going well brothers
lend me your spiritual energy to make it through

[Anonymous No.13024328]

To all considering attending any colleges in southern Florida, don't. I just received a degree from FAU and after scoping out the scene from palm to broward, expect undue hedonism and to feel dissolute among a morass of uninteresting people from every corner of the earth. Except they're only sub-100 iq shitheads from their respective corners. Traffic, bad curriculum and bad professors, high cost of living, people from jew jersey, etc.
Don't move here. I am leaving in 2 days and transferring to a better institution in northern Fl.
Also, don't major in anything non-STEM or accounting. To those who were posting about econ or finance or business or, unfortunately, literature/philosophy, you stand to lose more than your time and money. You will be discouraged and probably get more depressed than you already are. Read the first 100 pages of Spengler's decline of the west and start writing. You don't need a fucking degree to do that.

[Anonymous No.13024346]

>>13024304
I'm qualified for plenty but four years in my field has done nothing but sour me towards it, especially towards whatever watered-down cs shit I'd end up doing in a barely-related job.
I want to learn how to rob banks. That sounds fun. A friend of a friend also works in the seasonal salmon-fishing business, which might be more my style, because I don't have any friends of friends in the bankrobbing business.
I just want a tiny apartment with no money for anything but books and guns and food.

[Anonymous No.13024443]

>>13024314
Fuck universities

[Anonymous No.13024544]

>>13024443
at least in highschool I could do what I liked so long as I aced the external assessments
university has me doing constant busywork, exploiting the grading rubrics for hours at a time when could be actually studying

[Anonymous No.13024687]

>>13018216
Amherst College

Don't take Philosophy unless you're an analyticfag AKA a fucking idiot who thinks logical gibberish is "profound"

In my experience best classes are in Political Theory and Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought

[Anonymous No.13024811]

>>13018216
Quick rundown of professors @ FIU Phil. department:
Kenton Harris is nice but that doesn't = good prof. All his classes are exactly the same content from the last 20 years and any attempt at new content is filtered through old powerpoints. A Scholastic Metaphysics class should not use Feser as its primary text. We did not read a single scholastic text. His classes are ez though. I dont think he's teaching classes outside of intro anymore cus he's old and running the shitty, administrativeless department.
Eugene Marshall is a 'proper' academic insofar as is CV goes. He's written a book a Spinoza and contributes/edits essays about him to anthologies.
Xerohemona is confusing as all hell. She's Greek and her accent makes her hard to understand ocassionally. But what really makes her hard to understand are her questions. She asks them in such a way that you have no clue what she wants and then gets frustrated when no one can figure it out. Her Frege class was okay. Never had her for logic.
Dr. Beer is so old the ink on her degree faded, and has probably succumbed to silver fish as well. Assuming she's still there/alive (I only graduated a year and a half ago) I would avoid her if you hate extremely long lectures about analytic philosophy. But she's pretty rad as far as the other profs. Go cus she will drink with you and let you smoke dab pens around her.
Paul Warren heads the department I believe. He teaches Marxism and ancient phil. For the most part. Not much to say. Just a professor. His lectures can be decent.
I dont know if Lebouef is back. She's came to FIU 2/3 years ago after graduating from harvard; taught classes about phenomenology, existentialism, feminism etc. Then got a fellowship at Stanford to teach for a year. She should be back now. Her lectures are fine. Basic continental stuff (she's the only one who will give e it to you unless you take classes in English. Useless department with useless ideas).
I forgot the guy who teaches philosophy of mind. He's supposed to be gr8 but I dont trust students who say shit like that.
Henley's ethics classes are pretty good. Not much to say about him either, just a solid professor.
My gf insists Scarborough is a good professor because she's the only one in the department that is actively trying to continue learning and thinking. I cant vouch for that.

You can take classes from other department for credits. Even though I shit on the English department, they're the only ones that will have some continental stuff.
Luszynska is a confused Derridiean but she's cool. Too bad students flock around her and deconstruct their brain matter as they follow her around campus.

Can't remember anyone else rn. Most are forgettable. My advice is if you're actually into philosophy and going to FIU, be an independent thinker as you can learn more on your own than uni. Philosophy itself is dead within the 4 walls of a professors head. If you're actually NOT into philosophy you'll probably love it there.

[Anonymous No.13024819]

>>13018452
hey me too

[Anonymous No.13024871]

>>13024811
O I just found out Henley died. So scratch my comments on him. Also there are 2 (or 3) new hires. I cant say much about them in terms of their teaching. But I was there during their mock lectures where they present their research to a room of professors and students. Limp, lifeless, and clinical is what I had to say about them. Good luck!

[Anonymous No.13025038]

any Notre Dame man in?

referring to the illustrious Fremantle campus of course

[Anonymous No.13025054]

Anyone from Stony Brook University?
If I recall, there was one other anon who posted here months ago lol

[Anonymous No.13025109]

>>13024328
>>13024811
>>13024871
Holyshit, life savers, tysm. Never thought this thread would save me 4 years of time, I checked on ratemyprofessor and all your comments seem to be in order with the ratings, I went through their professors 1-by-1 prior to this thread and Scarborough ironically was the only prof. that look good and had a 4+ rating

[Anonymous No.13025132]

Anyone go to uni/at uni in their mid-late twenties? I never went and I'm getting sick of manual labor and don't see another way out

[Anonymous No.13025740]

>>13025109
I hope you aren't discouraged from studying Phil. don't let stemtards trick you into thinking 'humanities' are for naught. All disciplines need to be considered in relation to one another, and if you ever think a professor has 'got it' (in any discipline) than it's likely you've stagnated and given up forward thinking. As much as I h8ed my department, undergrad was great because I could study and write as much as I wanted - even with a job - cus uni is a joke. I'm in grad school now and still fucking annoyed at the level of education going being dished out by professional reguritators of non thought.

[Anonymous No.13025789]

>>13018402
>old money
God forbid he grew up with parents AND grandparents who were employed!

[Anonymous No.13025837]

>>13025789
By employed do you mean "employs tax shelters and tax lawyers to tell him how to make more by scheming than the average middle class person makes in three years of actual work?"

Your parasitic class will be liquidated and used to fertilize the new Ostsiedlung.

[Anonymous No.13025908]

Fell for the STEM meme and I'm studying Computer Science in Ireland. Hate it but I can't switch because my scholarship pays for literally everything and I would have to start all over again. Plan to a masters in Cognitive Science in my university because I can only do a MA in Maths. (University decided that no calculus at all would be a good idea)

[Anonymous No.13025927]

>>13018216
>America
>Education

Pick one

[Anonymous No.13026066]

Got this last year at CC until I go to (hopefully) Berkeley or Davis. 25 yo at the time of application this fall. Should I dorm or just live in my car like I've been.

[Anonymous No.13026079]

Don't go to school. All you get is a meaningless degree out of it. Make a political statement and stand up against the disgusting dogmatic classism that the universities perpetuate.

[Anonymous No.13026118]

>>13018216
I go to FIU all the time, although I'm not a student, study philosophy, and we'll meet up.

[Anonymous No.13026155]

>>13025740
So, you are in grad school. I am not blackpilled and I do not want to be mean to you - but what do you anticipate after ceasing your studies? To go back into academia? Do what you want, and what you want to do do to the fullest extent. I have nothing but respect for the literary/philosophical disciplines.. but don't make concessions or sell yourself short in such a way that secretly nullifies your life. College is a scam and you said it yourself.

[Anonymous No.13026162]

>>13025908
Same here anon. I thought studying humanities in my free time would make up for it but it just makes me resent all the time I've got to spend with my classes otherwise. I believe the compromise I should make is finding some bridge between the two interests, attending some extracurriculars for computer science and seeing if I can found an interest. To be honest, something like philosophy and CS don't have to be divorced, you know. It used to be much more common that philosophers woud take a habit in mathematics and natural sciences, so there's no reason we should avoid doing so now. With CS making more advances than anything right now in applying complex theory to the real world, mapping out patterns and so on in the mind, it could be a wonderful thing to take part in and serve as interest fuel for your other hobbies.

I suppose that was more personal than it was directly for you, but the point still transfers to your area of interest I think.

[Anonymous No.13026566]

>>13020346
>>13020395
>>13020426

Hasn’t that place gone so bad that the state said they’re turning into a private college to wash their hands of it.

And all the lunacy started when some bio professor said the whole day were white students couldn’t come on campus was stupid?

[Anonymous No.13026585]

>>13021191
I remember going to a college search road trip with my sister and she looked at it.

The whole neighborhood around it was an absolute shithole.

[Anonymous No.13026923]

>>13026162
I know what you're saying but do you not feel like you're wasting your time? I'm don't know how many classes you have but my schedule is pretty hectic so I'm divorced from that I am interested in until I get time off

[Anonymous No.13027204]

>>13026923
I have no social life, so time isn't a problem.

[Anonymous No.13027340]

>Universitat de Girona
>first degree on Catalan philology
>second degree on Spanish philology

at least this was my intention until the Bologna Process forced me to change from one type of degree to another and screwed everything for me. College degrees became shorter but much more expensive. Because I was just in the middle of taking two different degrees, it was even more complex and costly for me

¿All that nonsense for what?

[Anonymous No.13027431]

>>13025740
Nope, I already convinced my self long ago if I fumbled into a 9-5 or rinse and repeat jobs where i just use the same skills over and over again and don't learn anything new i would neck myself, not because I'm that inclined to study philosophy but rather if I studied something that would ultimately be banal I know im the type of person that rather off myself then do that. But yea hows grad school? Where exactly did you go
for it? And are you planning on doing a PhD?
>>13026118
Yea this is why I was looking at FIU because although its not prestigious people are really social and if I ever found a study group and or made good relations with the department I'd make it far learning together.

But them again I'm split, leaning towards FSU really

[Anonymous No.13027577]

>>13027204
I don't really have much of one either but it would be nice to not fill my head up with such dry material.

[Anonymous No.13027741]

i agree, most colleges in florida suck, although university of maimi is pretty good and UF is literally shit teir. u mich, uc (any) and university of virgina / ut austin are the best public schools.

for philo, i'd prefer to go to t20/ elite college, but i prob won't get into any. i'm still waiting on some colleges, i'll be majoring in philo / english

[Anonymous No.13027746]

I’m assuming there’s no stetson anons here? I’m a psych major.

[Anonymous No.13027751]

>>13020346
i hear that school is riddled with SJWs.

[Anonymous No.13027762]

>>13027746
im in central florida and i know ppl who go there, or went there

[Anonymous No.13027882]

Studied in Germany at TUM in Munich, it's where the Oktoberfest and all the german cliches come from. Just finished my BSc in CS with a focus on video games. And I'll start with the MSc in fall in the UK

[Anonymous No.13027973]

>>13027741
>UF is literally shit tier

Honestly it’s a good school now with a really strong alumni network, though it’s not as good for the humanities as it is for STEM.
>>13027746
At least it’s not Rollins or Florida Southern.

[Anonymous No.13027986]

>>1301845
>>13018795
UofT here too, just finished 1st year, doing Econ. I would say that the first few days/weeks are the most important for making friends, so try to make yourself seem as outgoing as possible, even if that is out of your comfort zone. From my experience, basically all of my friends are the people that I've met within the first month (with some exceptions), and other friends I made were people that were friends with my initial friend group. Good luck Anon, it's a great school and I've enjoyed my first year here at least.

Importantly, I would more than recommend Vitamin D supplements for the winter, when you don't see sun for 4 months you get Seasonal Affective Disorder.

[Anonymous No.13027994]

>>13027973
Is Rollins really that bad? When I was over there last, I literally saw finance bros in suits and Bernie stickers on all of their compact cars.

[Anonymous No.13028001]

>>13022276
Honest to god anon, if you're that scared, go with the cheapest option and knock it out of the fucking park.

[Anonymous No.13028009]

UNC tar heel checking in. I like it here. Ivy-level education for in-state tuition is damn near unbeatable.

[Anonymous No.13028018]

>>13027994
The people from my high school who went there cane from rich families and weren’t too bright.

[Anonymous No.13028022]

>>13018216
>with an intent to study Philo
|:)

[Anonymous No.13028055]

>>13028018
I hear it's for the private and prep school kid in the central florida region, but their academics aren't strong at all in biology or CS.

[Anonymous No.13028071]

I'm gonna study metallurgy, am I doing right?

[Anonymous No.13028085]

>>13028071
literally had to look that up to see what it was. depends, what school are you at?

[Anonymous No.13028101]

>>13028055
That is 100% right, though it also applies to South Florida. UTampa and UM are both for rich out of state kids.

>FSU is really good for the arts and humanities
>UF is great for STEM, good for the humanities, and shit for art
>UCF and USF are great for STEM
>UM is good for medicine, okay for humanities, and great for business

Debate me on this.

[Anonymous No.13028113]

>>13028101
I know a guy who graduated from umiami in philosophy in 2017 and is going to law school at upenn in the fall, so their school must be pretty top notch.

[Anonymous No.13028130]

>>13028113
And I know a guy who majored in polisci at UNF and is going to law school at UVA.

[Anonymous No.13028161]

>>13028130
That's awesome, I know UVA is pretty good for a public school, not sure what their law school rank is.

[Anonymous No.13028172]

>>13019247
Study medicine and take a second bachelor in Philosophy of A Specific Discipline after your BSA. That's what I did at a different Dutch uni and it worked out great. You get the best of both worlds, but you'll have to put in the effort.

[Anonymous No.13028173]

>>13028161
It's T14. I know a lot of smart people from my high school who went to FAU or UNF because they were offering them money or were cheaper. At the end of the day its about the person. The school helps, but if you're smart and put forth some effort it shows.

[Anonymous No.13028192]

>>13028173
I don't think I will be going to a college in Florida. I've been accepted into New York and Boston area schools, but I'm looking at University of Pittsburgh, or Yeshiva or CUNY for philosophy.

I heard that U of Virgina was one of the really good public research universities.

[Anonymous No.13028213]

>>13025132
I'm not older but I have a few friends in their mid to late 20s at uni. If you wanna go just go man, people are cool about it at least where I'm from, it's only fresher's that find it weird when there are non 19yos in class.

[Anonymous No.13028245]

>>13028192
Stay in state. Florida schools are significantly cheaper than any other state schools for in state residents. It's about $6-7k a year, and if you have bright futures that'll basically pay for tuition right there. Go to FSU or UF if you can. As stated, FSU is great for the humanities but has a lot more bro types and Tally is very plastic. UF meanwhile has more autistic STEM kids but Gainesville has a cozier feel to it. I'd recommend checking out both campuses if you can.

Spend your big money on grad school if you decide to go. With the price of uni in Florida being so low for state schools you'd be a fool to leave unless you're going to an Ivy or are receiving an insane amount of scholarship money from elsewhere.

[Anonymous No.13028265]

>>13018216
I am finishing a master's in psychology at UWF and I need to start job hunting soon AHHHHHHHHHH I know what I want to do but I don't know exactly how to go about it.

[Anonymous No.13028305]

>>13028265
>UWF
why.jpg

[Anonymous No.13028311]

currently at UCSD for biochemistry to eventually do pharmacy, wondering if I should just bite the bullet and switch to linguistics

[Anonymous No.13028360]

>>13028305
It was cheap and they accepted me.

[Anonymous No.13028374]

>>13028311
do you like going there?

[Anonymous No.13028392]

>>13028374
yep, it's pretty good all around. I don't particularly like our quarter system or the fact they've arbitrarily segregated into six "colleges", but it's far and away better than my other options (among which was SDSU) and the classes/professors have been really good as well. it also has fewer Tumblr-tier feminists that I would have expected from a SoCal university, which is a bonus

[Anonymous No.13028407]

>>13028245
High IQ take. The number 1 consideration in college search should be cost. Everything else is a distant second.

[Anonymous No.13028429]

>>13028407
I think of cost along with rank/status/prestige. I'd like to do a senior thesis and I think that looks better on law school apps & grad school apps. I've gotten into 3/3 programs too.

[Anonymous No.13028572]

How /lit/ these degrees?
>PPE
>Maths and Philosophy
>Computer Science
They're three I flip between, but CS least of all.
Also as much as I love the humanities I would genuinely love someone to tell me what makes studying them at uni worth the money.

[Anonymous No.13028613]

>tfw grading 40 midterms

[Anonymous No.13028808]

>>13028572
PPE harbours career politicians and diehard neoliberals (I'm a PPE student)
Maths & Phil is definitely the most /lit/

[Anonymous No.13028831]

>>13027741
They don't though, Florida is a good school.
Do you faggots think that anything that isn't an elitist is shit tier?
UT Austin isn't even that much better than Florida.

[Anonymous No.13029140]

>>13022301
>>13022301
>>13022301
Any thoughts guys? Was going to do BA in Philo

[Anonymous No.13029144]

>>13028831
UT Austin has better research ops and a better ranking, I think UT Austin is overhyped tho. Rice is better in TX.

[Anonymous No.13029151]

>>13028808
i think pure mathematics, english or philosophy is the most /lit/

[Anonymous No.13029157]

>>13028831
pretty much anything that isnt t20 is shit tier, at least to me. u mich and uc colleges are good too imo

[Anonymous No.13029178]

>>13028572
Only 30% of american's have bachelors degrees and at least 50% of those are trash degree or cheaters.

If you can't be successful with a humanities degree, you can't be successful with anything.

Just make a plan for getting job skills separate from your education. Write for some websites. Do some editing. Learn about business. Do a summer in sales.

[Anonymous No.13029196]

>>13029178
i personally think that if you are a hard worker you will be successful. if you're not a hard worker then marry up or get connections desu

[Anonymous No.13029257]

>>13021191
I am scheduled to attend a residential academy in Rensselaerville.

[Anonymous No.13029318]

>>13020407
> University of Washington
Hello my brother, good luck on the LSAT. I still have some time left but the friends I made throughout my years here have helped me greatly.

[Anonymous No.13029321]

>>13018216
Going here on a full ride in fall to study biology and prob transfer out of state because they don't offer forestry or wildlife management degrees even though there's a fuck ton of parks here.

Anyone have experience with these degrees/career?

[Anonymous No.13029323]

>>13029318
I hear UW is good, I really wanted to go there when I was in middle school because I was fascinated with Seattle for some reason.

[Anonymous No.13029329]

>>13029321
full ride to FIU? congrats! what are your stats?

[Anonymous No.13029349]

>>13029329
I probably made that sound better than what it actually is since I meant I got the Bright Futures FAS scholarship that covers all costs for 4 years lol. 1290 SAT 27 ACT 3.9 GPA

[Anonymous No.13029367]

>>13029323
Seattle campus is big as fuck and so are the classes so get prepared for that if it is still on your radar. Also if you like Asians you will feel at home because there are so many good lord.
Not a big fan of Seattle(lived in Washington my whole life) but I won't condemn those who are interested in the place.

[Anonymous No.13029368]

>>13029321
<-- Most kino forestry school

[Anonymous No.13029383]

>>13029368
I'm defineitly considering ESF, also thinking of UW or NAU

[Anonymous No.13029412]

Union College here, feel like its pretty unlikely there's anyone else since we're pretty small. But anyway I'm comp sci philsophy double major, and enjoying it, Union is a pretty solid school if you have the money/scholarship.

[Anonymous No.13029415]

>>13029367
Meet me at the 164th Walmart in Lynnwood and ill beat your ass

[Anonymous No.13029427]

>>13029412
My friend failed out of my uni and transferred there after a year at CC. He says it’s cozy.

[Anonymous No.13029459]

>>13029412
I hear Union College is a really good school. I applied to Hamilton but didn't get in this year because I couldn't submit the materials in time, lol. Do you like it so far?

[Anonymous No.13029466]

>>13029383
Consider that in Washington and Arizona the feds own the forests. Whereas in New York the state owns the forests. Good chance you'll start a career near your education. Much comfier and less bureaucratic, as well as more attainable, to land a state forestry position. At NAU or UW you will likely have to compete for a much more competitive fed spot.

[Anonymous No.13029478]

>>13018216
>Did philosophy and biomedical engineering.
>Read all of Proust, Shakespeare and Montaigne the spring and summer before college, so I didn't major in English/literature because I determined everyone else was a pleb compared to me. After every conversation with literature majors and faculty at that school I determined my initial view of them was completely valid.
>Take MCAT and go to medical school
>during medical school take LSAT and go to my school's law school part time for 3 years
>during last year of med school and law school I nail GMAT and get accepted into part time MBA
>accidentally impregnate some stupid bitch. She demanded we marry and not get an abortion. Clearly she saw my resume and thought she was golddigging me. I agree to marry her in city hall, fuck her for a month or two, she gets abortion anyway because she thinks I'm loyal for life. She can't comprehend my intelligence. During our legal marriage I take out loans for my MBA and rest of my medical school and law school. $600k worth of student loans. I divorce her and say no pre-enup, don't worry about it. She incurs $310k of my debt. I was a student, had no income, she was a waitress, I made it so on paper she was the breadwinner.
>currently using my education developing a birth control pill for men and at an affordable price, with global patents

[Anonymous No.13029491]

>>13029478
based
>make birth control
not based

[Anonymous No.13029495]

I'm anti-academia, yet I'm about to get a MLIS

[Anonymous No.13029608]

>>13029466
I wasn't aware of that actually, good point.

How long have you been working in forestry? Any other advice you can give me?

[Anonymous No.13029616]

>>13029478
This sound like the /lit/ version of those /r9k/ beta/revenge stories.

[Anonymous No.13029624]

>>13029478
why birth control for men?

[Anonymous No.13029639]

>>13029459
Yeah I'm enjoying it. It's only undergrads which is nice since the profs care a little more about teaching, and there are some pretty smart students. I think its similar to Hamilton honestly, though not quite as prestigious.

[Anonymous No.13029667]

>>13025054
seconding this
I know a few guys from there heavily into Land/Accelerationism

[Anonymous No.13029676]

>>13029608
Not long, I'm 25. I don't have any field specific advice you won't pick up yourself with time, so I'll just leave you with the one direction I'd give 18 y/o me if I could
>make relationships with people, both men and women. It is a very lonely world post-graduation.

[Anonymous No.13029689]

>>13018272
>UChicago have fun getting shot by a dindu

[Anonymous No.13029694]

Graduating from Texas A&M next week, Industrial Distribution Engineering. Don’t really care for my major but having a piece of paper that says I can do things will be nice. Going to practice coding after I graduate, my mistake was for the longest time doing something I didn’t really care for.

[Anonymous No.13029695]

>>13018402
based

[Anonymous No.13029704]

>>13029694
What was your impression of the Corps of Cadets aspect of that place? Were you a part?

[Anonymous No.13029712]

>>13029704
Wouldn’t touch it with a 10 foot poll. The corps is a shit show, it’s literally a fraternity with legal hazing.

[Anonymous No.13029742]

Anybody else going to W&M?

I just enrolled there, plan on majoring in philosophy/history.

[Anonymous No.13029810]

>>13029676
Joining a frat ensured that I'd always have people to go back to.

[Anonymous No.13029830]

>>13029676
I'll try to remember that anon. I plan to do a lot of volunteer work as well as learn BJJ and hopefully I'll meet a lot of people that way.

[Anonymous No.13030005]

>>13029415
...real shit?

[Anonymous No.13030267]

>>13029689
>Not long, I'm 25. I don't have any field specific advice you won't pick up yourself with time, so I'll just leave you with the one direction I'd give 18 y/o me if I could

uchicago is honestly so elite, but they are literally top notch in everything, including economics and english. it would really do wonders for my ego if i got in there.

[Anonymous No.13030270]

>>13029742
No, but I knew a guy went there and is going to UVM Med school in the fall. I hear it's really good for a public univ. Friend of mine was looking at W&M but is going to Vassar now for biochem.

[Anonymous No.13030341]

>>13029624
did you even read the story?

[Anonymous No.13030454]

>>13030341
I read the story, and I understand it completely. Just wondering how male-based birth control could even be effective.

[Anonymous No.13031675]

>>13030005
Well not now I have to work in a bit

[Anonymous No.13032500]

>>13018216
hate you dumb bourgeois uni faggots I'll beat your fucking face in with a shovel

[Anonymous No.13032591]

>>13032500
where did you go to college?

[Anonymous No.13032607]

>>13032500
Based.
FUCK the bourgeoisie.

[Anonymous No.13032625]

>>13018216
Well guys I go to the University of Wyoming. How I ended up here is a different story.

[Anonymous No.13032651]

>>13018216
I got into two unis.
One is ranked 50th in my subject and the other is ranked 9th in the whole country.
I'm too scared to go to the 9th ranked uni, so I'm picking the other 1.

[Anonymous No.13032739]

>>13028265
>>13027746

what's your specialty and what do you want to do? not a lot of psych anons around here

[Anonymous No.13032790]

>>13032625
do you like it there?

[Anonymous No.13032798]

>>13032790
It's not bad, I really like the people here and all my professors have been great. There are a surprising amount of internationals like me. The weather's really cold and the town doesn't have much to do though.

[Anonymous No.13032805]

>>13018216
Nowhere because capitalism

[Anonymous No.13033311]

>>13032739
experimental psych. i want to work with animals in some capacity. one of my profs rec'd me animal therapy but i do not want more school.

[Anonymous No.13033618]

>>13031675
Alright, once you get there make sure to to ask every black person that walks by "You the negro from 4channel?" Do that or just say some meme or something.

[Anonymous No.13034297]

>>13028265
have you thought about grad school?

[Anonymous No.13034299]

>>13028213
I don't know, I did a gap year and I'll be turning 20 a couple of weeks into the fall semester (I'll be a freshman, obv.) Although, I'm going to try to take some summer classes.

[Anonymous No.13034307]

UofT here. Majoring English and Phil.
Lets meetup uoft students

[Anonymous No.13034348]

>>13034307
is that ut austin or u of tampa?

[Anonymous No.13034454]

>>13034348
Toronto.

[Anonymous No.13034466]

>>13034454
oof, my bad. how are you liking it so far?

[Anonymous No.13034630]

>>13034466
It's okay, I just need /lit/ friends.

[Anonymous No.13035356]

>>13034630
You'll find them soon enough.

[Anonymous No.13035378]

>>13032651
Why not the higher ranked one? Did they give you a lot of aid/scholarships?

[Anonymous No.13035382]

>>13032607
fuck the poor

[Anonymous No.13035783]

>>13029318
I am hoping to transfer there from some shitty community college. Isn't everything very hard to get into? Do you know about any of the engineering programs?

[Anonymous No.13035797]

>>13034307
>>13034630
>english
what a waste
this school's english department is a joke

[Anonymous No.13035834]

>>13033618
Are you just playing along or have you been to that Walmart?

[Anonymous No.13035848]

>>13035783
>>13035783
you can get into a University but not the major you want sometimes. If it's a Washington CC, your chances might be better. What's your GPA?

[Anonymous No.13035870]

I will quit college Thursday. I realized I am midwit and it hurts. Dedicate yourself to your studies, bros. Having nothing to show after years is one of the worst feelings.

[Anonymous No.13035882]

for those of you who have attended Top Tier Colleges tm does a higher (35+ ACT 1550+ SAT) preclude a better chance of success? did well on my tests but am Scared. should i grind away at a big boy for four and hope for a good grad school or just bite the seven-year bs/md program at a smaller school bullet? wishin y’all luck wherever you are by the way

[Anonymous No.13035915]

>>13035882
you must be new here, nobody does the random capitalization for emphasis thing. lurk more to learn /lit/s style before a trillion people rightly call you a faggot. to answer your question, no. work ethic determines how well you do in college. little else matters. nobody gives one single fuck about what you made on the ACT after you get in, don't be one of those faggots who brags about their score. when choosing a university, think about cost first, prestige second. smaller liberal arts colleges *tend* to have better English programs. they also tend to be more expensive. save your money for grad school and grind your ass off at your local state school. source: in an ivy phd program, went to a southern state school for undergrad

[Anonymous No.13035921]

>>13029694
>>13029704
>>13029712
yeah - i have a friend in the corps. a kid died like 3 years ago because of the hazing, and the university really couldnt get punished hard

[Anonymous No.13035931]

>>13035915
cool thanks

[Anonymous No.13035959]

>>13035870
where are you quitting from?

[Anonymous No.13035963]

>>13035931
no prob anon, work hard
>all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare

[Anonymous No.13035969]

>>13035959
Some Brazilian private uni, and only public ones are worth it around here.

[Anonymous No.13036008]

>>13035848
around 3.3, I think. I am still in my first year, so I think I can bump it up more

[Anonymous No.13036088]

>>13028392
What college are you in anon, I'm in ERC hit me up.

[Anonymous No.13036165]

>>13022606
THWG

[Anonymous No.13036244]

>>13022937
Should I go to:
St Andrews Geography
Durham Geography
Or
Lancaster Computer Science
I have offers for all of them

[Anonymous No.13036450]

>>13018753
>>13018776
based and feetpilled

[Anonymous No.13036457]

>>13018216
Med school. It blows.

[Anonymous No.13036467]

>>13034297
have you thought about reading comprehension?

[Anonymous No.13036561]

>>13036467
psych has sort of died out

[Anonymous No.13037538]

>>13023783
i havent been to albany very much but troy is a mix of hipsters crackheads and depressed college students. You have very gentrified shit not at all far from GhettoTown.

[Anonymous No.13037694]

UNLV anyone?

[Anonymous No.13037986]

>>13021738
Just finished my undergrad there. AMA.

[Anonymous No.13038091]

>>13037986
1) Are you an international student?

2) How're the people there?

3) How's the city to live in?

4) How's the overall uni experience? Is it worth it to select this over a US university of similar ranking?

[Anonymous No.13038148]

>>13038091
1) No, I'm from Ontario

2) Fine, generally. I've never spent any significant time abroad so I don't have much to compare them to. Slightly reserved, often upper class and or hipstery. People have described Vancouver as "cliquey".

3) Vancouver is alright. It's quite beautiful, even in the rainy season, but there's just not much going on overall. And it's expensive. I'm not sure where you're from. If you're from the States, you'll be shocked at the price of fast food or liquor, for example. I liked Vancouver enough to stay, though.

4) Well, as far as I know it's cheaper than going to schools in the US, even if you're international. I'm not sure what schools in the US you'd consider a similar ranking to UBC. I took a social science and I found some profs great and some were a joke, but I get the sense that's the case everywhere. As for the social aspects, the uni does try, but there is very very little school spirit. That is something a school in the US defeat UBC in every single time. No one cares about homecoming, we don't have a fun frosh week and our student bar/"club" is lame as fuck. Unless you join a frat, which I cannot recommend highly enough.

If you have more questions you can ask away.

[TSJ !ujoY1xUXb. No.13038192]

UW Madison
Math and Philosophy

[Anonymous No.13038320]

I go here this year for film

[Anonymous No.13038377]

>>13038192
Do you like it so far?

[TSJ !ujoY1xUXb. No.13038451]

>>13038377
Wasting too much time in the libraries instead of eating, I've lost 20 pounds in the past 3 months from practically fasting. It's bretty gub.

[Anonymous No.13038502]

>>13037538
I thought Albany was nice?

[Anonymous No.13038578]

>>13032739
Cognitive psych, specifically reading. There are a lot of gaps in the research and most measures are trash, so there’s plenty of room for new research. Honestly, I have no fucking idea what I’m doing with my life. I started as a music major and realized that was a terrible idea, so I switched to psych because it’s roughly the middle ground between my interests. I could go to grad school for cog psych and work at a uni, which I wouldn’t hate, but it’s hard work so I would need to be totally committed. I’ve been really into archaeology since I was little though, so that’s still a valid option. I could also say fuck it and work as a technical writer online, join a professional orchestra, and write fiction on the side. I just have too many strong interests.
>>13033311
Not me btw

[Anonymous No.13038583]

>>13032651
Dude go to the best one you can, uni isn’t that hard wherever you go.

[Anonymous No.13039111]

I'm probably the only art school retard here.
I did go to >>13018356 for a year though before I transferred

[Anonymous No.13039138]

>>13028311
come join me in linguistics anon...my morphology proffesor constantly reminds the class about being called a so¥ boy

[Anonymous No.13039154]

>>13028392
based ucsdbro. meet me at the library walk book stand.

[Anonymous No.13039190]

>>13039111
>Art school
>Toronto

[Anonymous No.13039218]

I asked this in a previous thread and got a reply, but didn't get back to the guy before the thread died unfortunately.

Anyone at UChicago want to start a relatively low-stakes, sperg-friendly reading group? I tend toward philosophy, but I'd also happily read history or classical things. I'll be here over the summer so I'd be able to commit a fair bit.

I was thinking of maybe reading all of Plato's dialogues and/or Aristotle's major works. Also down to start in the early modern period if we do that kind of thing.

Forewarning: I'm a grad student and probably several years older than you if you're reading this. I am also autistic.

[Anonymous No.13039220]

>>13039190
I commute

[Anonymous No.13039267]

>>13039218
I was rejected, know a guy who got in for law, though.

[Anonymous No.13039294]

>>13039220
>Toronto suburbs

[Anonymous No.13039297]

>>13039190
What's wrong with Toronto?

[Anonymous No.13039390]

>>13039218
that sounds fun, because i'm an autist too, but I am a britbong.

[Anonymous No.13039402]

>>13039297
Hideous, boring, expensive, shit economy

[Anonymous No.13039418]

>>13019314
Things that never happened

[Anonymous No.13039505]

>>13039297

[Anonymous No.13039506]

I study Computer Science in probably the worst college in Pennsylvania to study Comp Sci at

[Anonymous No.13040134]

Bit of a shock to see this.. I'm a junior at FIU. I'm studying English education. The English professors are usually people that know a lot about what they're teaching, but aren't very good at teaching, or they're people who don't know anything. I've had professors who didn't know what the word denouement meant. I've had professors that nearly put me to sleep. I've had professors whose lectures and readings left me rhapsodic.
I do like it here, though. I'm a Miami native. I think that a lot of my peers are lazy, or they read less than a dozen books a year. They're all idiots. And I'm not trying to say that with malice. I'm anonymous, here, so I'll just speak my mind and hope that arrogance isn't what you hear.
The majority of your peers don't read. A lot of them think that English or philosophy is a plan B, something easy to fall back on. They're poor writers. A lot of them are ELL, or immigrants, but a lot of them have no excuse -- again, they just don't take their studies seriously. By and large, this isn't going to be an intellectual bastion. You'll have to be content with reading alone on the 6th or 7th floor of the library.
Oh, and most of my professors have been really liberal. I mean, I consider myself to be a liberal man, but they just squawk on and on..
English profs that I've loved:
Prado (might not be here anymore)
A. Castro (hardass, super liberal)
B. Harvey (took online, very smart)
A. Huseby (super liberal but in a very academic way; a sweetheart; a good balance between fun and serious, although she's popular and easy so her classes are full of dumbasses so.. come equipped with patience)
C. Wicks (taught English pedagogy though so maybe not your alley, not sure if she teaches literary courses)

Duckworth is a fucking basedboy who admittedly knows his stuff. He just refuses to be serious about it. An easy class, that's all I can say. Chambless is also easy, just the most radically liberal of all (queer anarchist). Grafals also knows his stuff but is a bad, bad teacher who should stick to writing.

We should make a discord or something.

[Anonymous No.13040827]

>>13040134
UF dude from earlier, I'd be keen to have a FL /lit/cord.

[Anonymous No.13040844]

I attended Harvard and Oxford simultaneously and have 3 PhD's

[Anonymous No.13040877]

>>13039154
Wait ucsdbro I'm other ucsdbro, tell me when to go.

[Anonymous No.13042301]

Law and Maths

[Anonymous No.13042943]

>>13020686
lmao shut up Ben Shapiro

[Anonymous No.13043233]

>>13040877
today at 11:00am. I'll be the guy with curly hair that looks sleepy and dirty.

[Anonymous No.13043961]

>>13043233
Oh shit I just saw this bro, I can't do it rn + I'm like 15 minutes away from there. Sorry.

[Anonymous No.13044220]

>>13039506
worst college?

[Anonymous No.13044286]

>>13043961
i didnt show up either. I had to go shit talk my proffesor about a midterm. i actually dont think the library walk stands were even there today.