College Visits

[Rakala]

Being a senior in high school, I've started looking at some colleges for when I graduate. So far I've visited K-State and Pittsburg State (The one in Kansas). I would like to get a college in state seeing as how my older brother will be in college at the same time. My dear old parents probably wouldn't be able to handle the financial results of going out of state. I'm definitely going to visit KU where my brother is, but they don't have the exact program I'm looking for their, just related programs. So far Pittsburg State is the winner seeing as over at K-State I didn't really get to see much of the Computer Engineering program. What I mostly saw was architecture and civil engineering. The rest of the time was spent with pre- and post-tour happenings which I really didn't care as much about. Over at Pittsburg State they told me to be somewhere at a certain time, I got a private tour, and then got time to look around on my own.

[Zina]

Man, I don't envy you at all. Applying for college ranks up there as one of the most stressful times of my life.

And although I'll be paying off my student loans until forever, I don't regret the decision to go to college out of state.

[Brunhidden]

heh, for some people college isn't the right choice, there's also tech schools and if your lucky an apprenticeship. decisions like this are going to change the rest of your life, and thus its perfectly normal to freak out and hide in a sofa cushion fort

i took tech school because i thought i was too dumb and too poor to go to a university, which apparently a tech school wasn't my right choice, and now i gotta try and find a way to go back to college with a wife and two kids.... well it'll be cheaper then my sister- for almost her entire college career she was ditsy enough to drive a full hour to school and a full hour back every day just so we could feed her


feel glad there's someone in deeper educational manure then you are

[Rakala]

Oh I know somebody who's worse off. He had to drop out of high school because he's always moving around. His parents are divorced and never stay in the same town for too long. His parents expect him to get a job without their help. First he needs to get into school to get ID so he can get a driver's license so he can get a job. The other problem with this is people don't hire you unless you have a GED or high school diploma or in the process of getting either. He has nowhere to go so he really has no choice but to sit around all day. He mostly plays video games and reads.  Since he's so good a friend he's practically a family member, my parents offered to him for his birthday that if he needed to he could stay with them as his legal guardians. I mean for awhile his parents were fighting over him to spite each other then they both pretty much got bored of it and neither of them really want him around. He's got an awful situation. Both his parents are pretty white trash and he doesn't feel very obligated to show them respect. I don't either, especially since he pretty much gets no respect either at all.

[Alondro]

I went to school in state, at Rutgers in Camden, NJ to be precise.

If a skinny white boy can survive 8 years in Camden without being shot multiple times, YOU CAN TOO!

Come to Camden... 

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

Come to Camden... 

... and stay here, in a box? ;-]

[Rakala]

I would love nothing more than to escape the monotony of Kansas and looking in all directions and seeing for so far. I only stayed in Vegas for a week and I already miss the mountains. They were so pretty. There may not be any mountains there (I don't know) but the view is probably alot better than brown grass in all directions as far as the eye can see.

Edit: Here's to hoping the world doesn't end in 2012 and I actually get a chance to live a real life.

[Alondro]

No brown grass in Camden..

Just gutted row homes in the ghetto.

And LOTS of drug dealers and addicts on the street corners!

In fact, it reminds of one of the few good lines from Gremlins 2 as the smart gremlin was giving an interview:  "There are the Broadway shows; we'll have to figure out how to buy tickets.  And then there's the street crime, but I think we can watch that for free."   

[Rakala]

Sounds like my school.

[Brunhidden]

alondo, the idea that one could share a campus with you is another vote for online universities.

with the monitor behind bulletproof glass....





online education, now there's an idea i should explore!
*click*
*download*
cool, i am now licensed surgeon! anyone have a tumor i can chop off?

[Alondro]

alondo, the idea that one could share a campus with you is another vote for online universities.

with the monitor behind bulletproof glass....

Feh!  As if that could stop me.

I SEEEEEEEEEEEEE YOUUUUUU!!!   

[Rakala]

Anyways, I'm not going to go out of state. I would like to be able to. Then I'd go somewhere Northwest in a heartbeat. But it won't work out. I have an older brother who is 3 years older than me and a younger sister 3 years older than me. So I'm going to have 2 years where my parents are paying for somebody else to go to college as well. Meaning I get the short end of the stick.

[Lysander]

I'm going to an in-state college that's easy driving distance, mostly because of costs. If you're going for a 4 year degree or higher and want to go out of state it may be good to get the Associate degree at a nearby college and transfer to a real program out of state. That would save some money and give extra time for the parents in that one of your sibling might be finished by then.

online education, now there's an idea i should explore!
*click*
*download*
cool, i am now licensed surgeon! anyone have a tumor i can chop off?

That reminds me of a physical education class I took online. There weren't even any tests or any real way they could tell you were'nt just lying on every work-out related form.   

[Jer-oh-me]

Well, I hope Pittsburg state works out for you. I lucked out, sort of, when I enrolled at Portland State since they have a pretty good engineering department. I'm actually going for a double major in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, so it's always cool to hear about another future engineer. College is pretty up and down, but it's totally worth it.

[Rakala]

Thanks, I'm pretty sure I even know what my fallback is if engineering doesn't work for me. Journalism.

[Jer-oh-me]

Heh, well I'd probably be an English major, but I doubt that Engineering won't work out for me, I love solving problems and mathematics and science are very important to me. Just promise, if you become a Journalist, don't be evil!

[Rakala]

That's why I'm becoming a journalist, to counteract the evil ones. I live in Kansas and almost all the articles I read are quite conservative, annoyingly so.

[Jer-oh-me]

The ones I get are annoyingly liberal, I'll be happy when the election is over and Willamete Weekly and Portland Mercury don't focus on politics so much. I don't like using the word liberal to describe their view point though, it doesn't jive with the actual definition of the word imho.

[gh0st]

you could just try to come up with an invention and hope that the sales from it will get you into college... thats my plan... i need a better plan...

[Damaris]

Journalism isn't that well-paying, and it's extremely hard to break into, especially since many papers are starting to shut down due to lack of circulation.  Communications in general is a little better (especially if you have marketing/advertising experience), but the PR departments are usually the first to get cut in an economic downturn.  I lucked into a state job doing media relations, but many of the communications specialists I know are not even remotely in that field.