College/University thread

[Anonymous No.14353708]

>What college or university are you going to?

>What’s your major?

>How is it so far?

>What’s the general atmosphere on campus like?

>Any funny or cringy stories?

[Anonymous No.14354361]

>>14353708
>What college or university are you going to?
Still deciding but probably FSU or NSU
>What’s your major?
English probably, I have my doubts and theres always a chance of me switching to philosophy or psychology but I can't see myself doing anything else. I know that the stigma around being a English or Phil major is that the degree is useless the education sucks but if I would major in anything I woulden't put the same effort into it no doubt. Money doesen't concern me I plan on getting into graduate school for either phil or eng and working from there.
>How is it so far?
Have yet to go
>What’s the general atmosphere on campus like?
n/a
>Any funny or cringy stories?
n/a

[Anonymous No.14354405]

>What college or university are you going to?
pic related
>What’s your major?
polisci
>How is it so far?
less cancerous than most schools I bet. living in an urban area that has more than just students means it's not as much of a bubble and it's more "real world". classes are rigorous, women are mostly useless, the usual.
>What’s the general atmosphere on campus like?
There is no "general atmosphere". good deal of urban basedbugmen and pseudochads but they're almost always not from the area (usually philly, nyc, boston: what an odd coincidence!)

[Anonymous No.14354429]

>>14353708
>What college or university are you going to?
see pic
>What’s your major?
Economics
>How is it so far?
Utter bullshit. I totally regret it. I would quit if I wasn't in the third year
>What’s the general atmosphere on campus like?
no campus here, our colleges are extremely individualistic. You go into the classroom, listen to the proffesor and then leave, all without the need of talking with anybody.

[Anonymous No.14354457]

>>14353708
>What college or university are you going to?
shitty state uni
>What’s your major?
electrical engy
>How is it so far?
hard work, but fun and meaningful
>What’s the general atmosphere on campus like?
i feel like everyone around me is a hyper-normalnigger
>Any funny or cringy stories?
seeing women try to do math is always funny

[Anonymous No.14354642]

>what college
pic related
>major
English
>How is it?
I like it. Most of the classes here focus on older literature, so we're not reading SJW tier garbage (most of the time).
>atmosphere
This place is lib central, sadly, and most people around here are polisci or econ majors who believe on gubmint handouts to minorities and free-market capitalism. Also, it's kind of a philosophical desert. I was going to study phil, but the dept is way too analytic for my tastes (living in the anglosphere is pure suffering).

[Anonymous No.14356274]

>>14353708
What if I'm transferring :DDDDD??

[Anonymous No.14356289]

georgetown
phil
decent
preppy

[Anonymous No.14356527]

>>14356274
Either way, I guess I'll have to include the college I'm transferring from then.

>What college or university are you going to?
Pic related
>What’s your major?
Liberal Arts
>How is it so far?
Ended the whole Associate's today. Pretty good CC by itself given its exact location and being far away from niggers that live in downtown San Diego.
However, I wished I could have made friends here, yet then again everyone is a retarded liberal with no critical thinking skills whatsoever; maybe I should have befriended some professors desu, though.
>What’s the general atmosphere on campus like?
Quiet overall if not for the nigs hanging out in the center of the campus; one can always go the library though, of course.
But hey, at least there are no homeless druggies here that are willing to stab you for the few cash you have like in City College, lmao.
>Any funny or cringy stories?
Some fags were having sex in one of the farthermost men's bathrooms, which is funny for everyone who isn't living in California.
As well some disabled students were shitting their pants in the middle of the class, some students literally just went outside not giving a fuck about the class, and the beta professor didn't do anything about it and just continued the lecture despite the fact that the whole classroom smelt like shit.

But eh, I'll miss this place and I'm thankful it exists or else I would have went to the nigger-homeless infested CC that is City College.

[Anonymous No.14356573]

>>14353708
>What college or university are you going to?
Emerson College
>What’s your major?
Literature and writing
>How is it so far?
It's very mediocre. Not good or bad. Wish I got into Amherst so I could study philosophy and math like DFW.
>What’s the general atmosphere on campus like?
Very liberal, pretentious, chill, and gay. I usually hang out with friends at Harvard lol.
>Any funny or cringy stories?
Everyone's favorite book is YA trash or Catcher in the Rye tier "literary fiction."

[Anonymous No.14356592]

>>14353708
>university
An okay one, could have gone to a more prestigious one but it was way farther from home, only live a hour away at my current one.
>major
Biomedical Science.
>how is it
Okay, some parts are interesting but I'm questioning whether or not I can keep up the consistency of the work quality, kinda just wanna find an advanced apprenticeship.
>atmosphere
Eh, pretty dead, the area is a grey industrial shithole just like 90% of the UK, noisy cunts keep me awake at night though, still depressed and friendless, dream about hanging myself almost everyday.
>funny or cringe
Got asked in front of three female roommates if I wanted a sti test or condoms, was very embarrassed.
Joked about how I'm never gonna have sex as a response, complete silence in room.
I'm so lonely.

[Anonymous No.14356600]

>>14353708
>going to
This is why this place is a shithole. Children.

[Anonymous No.14356609]

What.... What does this have to do with literature? Reported.

[Anonymous No.14356730]

>>14356592
>Joked about how I'm never gonna have sex as a response, complete silence in room.
>silence in room.
Shut up about that, anon. Real life ain't the internet, much less 4chan.

[Anonymous No.14356747]

St. John's
Philosophy
Great, a very strong reading list
chilled vibe, decent place for reading groups, had a Borges reading group recently

[Anonymous No.14356752]

>>14356592
>I'm so lonely
That pretty much covers up the fact that your story is fake. Pretty sure girls would laugh if you told them you'd never have sex because belive it or not anon, people think you're a wierdo if you unironically have low self esteem in real life, it's not as if they are constantly telling you to kys or calling you a fag. Just saying, so you can have more credibility in your next fake sad little story.

[Anonymous No.14356780]

>What college or university are you going to? shit tier engineering school

>What’s your major? software eng

>How is it so far? terrible

>What’s the general atmosphere on campus like? boring and sad

>Any funny or cringy stories? all cringe, just autists being autists, thinking they are the smartest people in the world, secret kings

[Anonymous No.14356831]

>College
University of Michigan

>Major
Electrical Engineering, with a minor in Moral & Political Philosophy

>How is it so far?
Alright I guess. North campus (where the engineers classes are taught) is pretty decent. The quality of education is high. Central campus (main campus where most classes are taught) is pretty lame, but the classes there are easy to ace.

>General Atmosphere
North campus is alright, sometimes pretty difficult to find a place to quietly study. Central campus tends to be filled with seething leftists who are upset that their degrees won't pay out very well, and thus they are obsessed with egalitarianism. The professors always seem to find ways to inject their leftist political bias into everything, which is pretty annoying.

>Funny/Cringe Stories
Nothing really worth mentioning, yet...

>>14354642
whattup

[Anonymous No.14356874]

>>14356747
College or university?

[Anonymous No.14356880]

>>14356747
Kek. Annapolis or SF?

[Anonymous No.14356939]

>What college or university are you going to
Cairo university

>what's your major

Law

>how is it so far

Not so bad, at least it's better than high school

>what's the general atmosphere on campus like ?

Everyone around me are normal-fags that's why I can't make any friends but i can always find a comfy place for my self so I don't bother

[Anonymous No.14356947]

>>14356880
>
>>14356880
Santa Fe

[Anonymous No.14356954]

College

[Anonymous No.14357018]

>>14356880
You talk to any people in the Eastern Classics Masters program? I have considered it in the past but never knew how ready they'd make you for a Phil. PhD program.

[Anonymous No.14357023]

>>14356880
>>14356747
What do job prospects look like coming out? I've considered applying but I'm a bit scared I'll be fucked afterwards, especially considering I already got accepted to an Ivy.

[Anonymous No.14357025]

>>14354361
clearly you are too young to be posting here.

[Anonymous No.14357029]

>>14357025
You can be 18 and a senior in high school.

[Anonymous No.14357038]

>>14356609

Thought it was a good idea.

I think maybe one day /lit/ could come together and make a college guide or something.

[Anonymous No.14357061]

>>14357018
>Anonymous 12/15/19(Sun)17:24:42 No.14357018▶
>>1435701
They had an information session on Eastern Classics last year. Pretty solid considering that it is a one-year program. They have recently hired a new professor for Eastern Classics who has a PhD in Sanskrit

[Anonymous No.14357065]

>>14357029
Yes, but 18 year olds have nothing to contribute here

[Anonymous No.14357070]

>>14357023
I would say if you are considering any sort of graduate school afterwards, it is a really good place. A lot of people go to Law School it seems

[Anonymous No.14357074]

>>14356730
Eh, its true man, I've always been a loser so why hide it anymore ?
>>14356752
I know they think I'm strange, I was trying to diffuse the awkwardness by making a joke but obviously I read the room wrong and got nothing but silence, felt like headbutting my wall into a coma after.

[Anonymous No.14357129]

>What college or university are you going to?
St. Olaf College
>What’s your major?
Music, undecided 2nd major
>How is it so far?
Not too bad
>What’s the general atmosphere on campus like?
Used to be fairly white and conservative but had some big protests a couple years ago so it's kind of in a weird in between state. Lots of typical Minnesota liberals though.
>Any funny or cringy stories?
I know an ecofascist, a nazi-turned-communist, and I've heard stories about a guy who self identifies as an incel.

Kind of a long shot but if there's any other oles on here please reach out, I need some actual interesting friends.

[Anonymous No.14357144]

Anyone at UChicago? I'm thinking of starting a reading group for something fun like Spengler's Decline of the West or maybe something really difficult like reading Husserl or Heidegger chronologically. Something intense and year-long but also very casual, not formal.

Disclaimer: I'm postgrad just in case that makes it weird

[Anonymous No.14357150]

>>14357144
And by postgrad I mean grad student, not post-graduation (though people in Hyde Park are welcome too)

[Anonymous No.14357153]

>>14357129
Forgot to mention, I'm in a sequence of literature/philosophy courses called great conversation. Some of the people are kinda dumb, but the reading is pretty based, we started with the greeks and are about to resume with the romans

[Anonymous No.14357164]

>>14357074
>Eh, its true man, I've always been a loser so why hide it anymore ?
You're going to get multiple red flags by your school, and you can always get reported for being a potential threat to them as well.
You can't see it but they're going to constantly watch over you in case you could cause another school shooting.

[Anonymous No.14357235]

>>14357164
Nah, I'd never do that.
I have fantasies about hanging myself from my door handle but I'd never cause harm to anyone else.
Although I think it'd be pretty cool to shoot myself out of a cannon into a cement wall at like 10000mph, that'd be pretty metal.
Wish the government would sanction that as the official way to end yourself instead of making it cumbersome and painful to try and deter you.

[Anonymous No.14357275]

>>14356831
Ayy. I agree, the politics is jarring to me most of the time. Even my medieval lit prof finds ways to talk about the "patriarchy" and other BS. I just wish there was a better treatment of the humanities here, and I would go somewhere better but it's the cheapest option available to me rn. I can't imagine studying a science field tbqh, it's just so dry to me. That being said, this isn't much better.

[Anonymous No.14357293]

>>14357074
You should try self-improvement instead. If want to get laid, don’t be so pitiful.

[Anonymous No.14357296]

>>14354361
do not do an english degree if you want to go into academia. consider something like classics, comparative literature
english degrees have no academic rigor
philosophy is next to impossible to get a job in, and nearly as impossible to get funding to get a degree in
(as an aside, if you go to a graduate school, only go if they offer you money. if they wont pay for you, its a soft rejection)\

[Anonymous No.14357303]

>>14357061
The Sanskrit or Chinese intensive language courses seemed solid. How are the professors?

[Anonymous No.14357306]

>>14353708
Hey Anon, Bobcat alum here.

Graduated with a double major in English Lit and Creative writing.

I hope you’re having a nice time.

My advice would be to find some sort of way to stay mindful of just how beautiful the time and place you’re currently in is. The cold Plains winds, the smell of Ellis Hall after everyone has wiped their boots on the entry mats; just savor it.

I’ve been out of school for about four years now and if I could go back, I would block the internet on all of my devices and spend my days at Donkey or the stacks just reading and writing. There’s literally no better place than where you’re at now.

Promise me you’ll do the right thing!!

[Anonymous No.14357327]

I go to Georgia Tech. Studying history, technology, and society. I hate it there and rarely leave my dorm.

[Anonymous No.14357353]

>>14357144
You don't know how envious of you I am you invidious fuck.

[Anonymous No.14357362]

>>14357306
Hi,

Tbh, I’m not going there, yet.

I applied to a Master’s program there and I really want to get in.

I have heard all the beautiful places around Athens, and it sounds wonderful. I also want to visit these supposed haunted places that are around there too.

[Anonymous No.14357371]

>>14357306
>>14357362

Could I ask you some things?

How’s the general atmosphere their people wise. I keep hearing it’s a party school? I do like parties but I also heard there’s somewhat of a cool music scene. Know anything about that? I like going to basement shows at my old college.

[Anonymous No.14357409]

>>14357306
>>14357362
>>14357371
>that spacing
>that sincerity of feeling
You have to go back.

[Anonymous No.14357421]

>>14357409

Sorry I’m not completely dead inside and like to make stuff more readable.

[Anonymous No.14357479]

>>14353708
>What college or university are you going to?
>Pic
>Major
International Business (But since the international side is extra English classes for Taiwanese its just normal business for me)
>How's it going
Economics and accounting and shit like that is really hard in Chinese, but I get through it.
>Atmosphere
The center of the school are volleyball courts and around the school everyone just stands around smoking.
>Story time
Since I'm a white in an asian environment, people are fucking terrified of me. They are so scared to approach me or when I approach someone it's like my dick is hanging out and they cannot bare the pressure any longer untill they explode internally and run away from me... until I speak to them then they realize "oh its chill he speaks Chinese". Just feels bad to be ethnicity excluded sometimes. But fucking the shit flips around, sometimes for the sole reason that I am white, people will approach me and just try to practice English or Spanish or something. I can honestly say it fucked my social skills quite a bit. But all in all life is good man.

[Anonymous No.14357511]

>What college or university are you going to?
Indiana University, Kelley School of Business
>What’s your major?
Finance & Informatics
>How is it so far?
Good I guess I'm not particularly taking an interesting major so education wise it eh
>What’s the general atmosphere on campus like?
love the gothic architecture and we have very pretty "secret" study rooms that most students don't know about. Game days are fun but if your not in greek life its hard asf to get into frat parties
>Any funny or cringy stories?
just had some drunk homeless man try and mug me in the library, I just walked away kek

[Anonymous No.14357534]

>>14357511
>love the gothic architecture
What I wouldn't give to go to a college with interesting architecture. My school is in the middle of an ugly city and all of the buildings on campus are hideous. It really takes a toll. In one of my classes this semester, the view out the window was just of an ugly concrete block dominating the sky. And all the sleek modern architecture in the gentrified areas of the city is so ugly to me.

[Anonymous No.14357568]

>>14357534
we have alot of shit building too dont worry. our library is literally a fucking cube. not even in a good brutalist way it's hideous and any modern buildings built on campus are shit too but the medicine,lib arts, math and law side of campus is extremely pretty especially in the snow right now

[Anonymous No.14357584]

>What college or university are you going to?
Small Town Community College
>What’s your major?
"Software Engineering" aka computer programming and a little web design.
>How is it so far?
Easy and comfy. I'm also working for the campus's IT department. There's barely ever anyone at the building so it's just me and like 4 other people in this nice old building for hours.
>What’s the general atmosphere on campus like?
Classes are tiny and instruction is high quality. I deal with basedboys and 40 yr old nerd types but everyone is personable. I've actually found the work to be challenging at time and figuring it out has been fulfilling.
>Any funny or cringy stories?
Classes are basically just me and this asperger Zoomer kid. He can barely speak but he's an outstanding programmer. I've had a lot of fun on /g/ though.

[Anonymous No.14357665]

>What college or university are you going to?

USC

>What’s your major?

Political Science (pre-law)

>How is it so far?

In terms of my major? I have a genuine interest in the subject, and we have some very well-renowned professors (easy to bring them over thanks to our $$$) but it's really nothing of value to the real world unless you directly want to enter politics - which I do not.

>What’s the general atmosphere on campus like?

Very atomized and cutthroat. Highly professional school so you get lots of business majors and others studying pre-professional degrees rather than those in the liberal arts. In this way it's the opposite of, say, UCLA or Berkeley. There are more semen demons here than you can imagine. The divide between greek life and non-Greeks makes it hard to have social clout if you don't have connections or aren't in a fraternity.

>Any funny or cringy stories?

Not funny, but we have had 11 student deaths and suicides in this one semester alone and it's made the news. I'm part of student government and it's a clusterfuck. Mental health issues are really bad over here, although I think that's true across most large and competitive universities.

[Anonymous No.14357704]

>>14357665
>11 student deaths
holy shit that's a fucking disaster. this happened this past fall?

[Anonymous No.14357712]

>>14357296
The English major is split between Literature/Creative Writing and Media degress, I plan on doing Literature but CW is also enticing. My uni offers classics and language majors from French, German and French all the way to Russian and Slavic. Whats the difference between a Literature degree and a classics degree?

[Anonymous No.14357779]

>What college or university are you going to?
Local community college right now
>What’s your major?
Education
>How is it so far?
Boring, the classes are nowhere near as hard as some of my HS courses. Also not sure if Education is for me since my real passion is music but that's hard to make money off of. Looking into another uni rn at their recording arts program. But may as well get as many classes as I can get done cheap here.
>What’s the general atmosphere on campus like?
Campus is very plain but nothing to really complain about. It's situated downtown so there's always homeless people and crackheads not far away.
>Any funny or cringy stories?
When I was waiting at an intersection to cross to leave campus a car rushed by on the road and a hubcap rolled right behind it, up onto the sidewalk, twirled a bit and fell.

[Anonymous No.14357784]

I am going to Dickinson
Majoring in polsci
It's quiet out here but I like drinking and farming and reading

[Anonymous No.14357866]

>>14357303
The Professors are great. Very approachable

[Anonymous No.14357884]

>>14354405
Do you recommend the school? I'm done with my community College credits in July and was planning on going to UPitt. I hate people

[Anonymous No.14357966]

>>14357712
classical studies will have you learning greek or latin, and philology with it
literature *can* be ok, but check course listings to make sure that you take classes in theory, analysis, and criticism, so you can actually explicate a text
ive taken english classes that have the most basic literary analysis, absolute dogshit high school writing, and these are seniors in the program

[Anonymous No.14358037]

>What college or university are you going to?
CU Boulder
>What’s your major?
Molecular Bio/Applied Math
>How is it so far?
Bretty good
>What’s the general atmosphere on campus like?
There are a lot of people so it's a little hard to define a general atmosphere, although many people are partiers/gym bros
>Any funny or cringy stories?
not really