The one time when growing up poor pays off is in college.thylasos said:Finished my B.A. a few months ago.
Lifetime of debt... go!
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The one time when growing up poor pays off is in college.thylasos said:Finished my B.A. a few months ago.
Lifetime of debt... go!
See the thing is, by local, I mean a few towns over. I live in the middle of nowhere. I'm really bad with asking people for help and I only have one real friend whom I only communicate with through e-mail (He didn't mention "I wish I could help" today, but I don't think he could). Honestly, I'm bad with asking people for help, I guess because I've always had to fend for myself in life and don't really relate to people...FuzzySeduction said:Why don't you find out if someone nearby can carpool with you? Pay for some of the gas or something, and they should be fine with that. Or maybe lookup if your school has a shuttle system, mine does.chaosyoshimage said:I wanted to. I've been out of High School for nearly two years and have no social life what so ever. I was going to go to the local community college but I couldn't get a car/driver's license to go. Classes started today, so I'm really depressed.
<color=purple> I also live in West Virginia. I started college today. And I had a couple friends tell me that they went to a hookah bar last night. Cuuuurious.brodie21 said:Beginning the new college semester, I was curious if the Escapist goes to college? where do you go? What do you study? what year are you? what do you do in your spare time?
I go to West Virginia University, i am studying Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, i am a Junior. Last night me and my roomate went to a Hookah bar and blew smoke bubbles.
Hey, I knew there'd be someone! I really enjoyed my course for the first year. I feel that I learned a lot over a range of useful areas - I even got to do a unit on computer games. I chose RH because it's known for good research quality in the subject (among other things) and they didn't let me down. Not that I have any other courses to compare it to but I'm at least satisfied anyway. You could certainly do a lot worse.Jjtricky said:Thoughts on your course? Would you recommend it? Oh and friends GF is going to Royal Holloway - you start in a couple of weeks, right?Hamster at Dawn said:Well I live in the UK where the education system is a little different but I gather that a "college" is the equivalent of a university in the UK. And yes, I do go to a university. More specifically, I study BSc Computer Science at Royal Holloway University of London and am starting my second of three years next month. I wonder if there are any other Escapists going there too.
I'm in the middle of writing my Personal Statement for a CS course - anything they really liked about yours?Hamster at Dawn said:Hey, I knew there'd be someone! I really enjoyed my course for the first year. I feel that I learned a lot over a range of useful areas - I even got to do a unit on computer games. I chose RH because it's known for good research quality in the subject (among other things) and they didn't let me down. Not that I have any other courses to compare it to but I'm at least satisfied anyway. You could certainly do a lot worse.Jjtricky said:Thoughts on your course? Would you recommend it? Oh and friends GF is going to Royal Holloway - you start in a couple of weeks, right?Hamster at Dawn said:Well I live in the UK where the education system is a little different but I gather that a "college" is the equivalent of a university in the UK. And yes, I do go to a university. More specifically, I study BSc Computer Science at Royal Holloway University of London and am starting my second of three years next month. I wonder if there are any other Escapists going there too.
It's hard to say exactly what counts as "maths" but I'd say roughly 25% of the course is maths focused. I mean, anything involving computers is more or less based on some kind of maths... so, yeah.Jjtricky said:I'm in the middle of writing my Personal Statement for a CS course - anything they really liked about yours?Hamster at Dawn said:Hey, I knew there'd be someone! I really enjoyed my course for the first year. I feel that I learned a lot over a range of useful areas - I even got to do a unit on computer games. I chose RH because it's known for good research quality in the subject (among other things) and they didn't let me down. Not that I have any other courses to compare it to but I'm at least satisfied anyway. You could certainly do a lot worse.Jjtricky said:Thoughts on your course? Would you recommend it? Oh and friends GF is going to Royal Holloway - you start in a couple of weeks, right?
Also, how much Maths is involved in the regular course?
<color=red>well if they went<color=green> to x-hale thats where i was, <color=blue>definitely recommend itMr. Purple said:<color=purple> I also live in West Virginia. I started college today. And I had a couple friends tell me that they went to a hookah bar last night. Cuuuurious.brodie21 said:Beginning the new college semester, I was curious if the Escapist goes to college? where do you go? What do you study? what year are you? what do you do in your spare time?
I go to West Virginia University, i am studying Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, i am a Junior. Last night me and my roomate went to a Hookah bar and blew smoke bubbles.
I am actually going to West Liberty University. Majoring in Computer Information Systems, but this is my freshman year and I'm not yet taking anything related to my major. Just taking care of requirements and whatnot.