University thread

[Anonymous No.18953211]

Starting or returning to studies, /lit/? Where and what are you studying?
Where does one go to get the best /lit/ education in this day and age?

[Anonymous No.18953239]

Education =! Having a degree

[Anonymous No.18953247]

>>18953239
education does tend to teach you the conventional way of rendering logical operators into ascii though.

[Anonymous No.18953251]

>>18953239
I was going to say something mean to you, but then I felt bad. I’m tired of being cold and mean.

[Anonymous No.18953265]

>>18953251
Awe thanks schnookums, wanna cuddle and 69 later?

[Anonymous No.18953267]

>>18953247
>>18953251
And this is why no one wants to speak to you about education because you always attempt to find a way to smugly justify your middle class upbringing. Get over yourselves

[Anonymous No.18953274]

I'm studying engineering at CU Boulder. I don't like it at all. Luckily, I'm almost done. I am taking german2 this semester which I do enjoy. Hopefully, I will be able to read some books in german within a year.

[Anonymous No.18953310]

>>18953267
went to a comp mate

[Anonymous No.18953316]

>>18953211
I’m studying nursing at my local community college

[Anonymous No.18953324]

>>18953316
Nice. How many chubby latinas are you creamping every week?

[Anonymous No.18953332]

I don't know what to major in yet, I just know I want it to be something arcane and useless for landing a job

[Anonymous No.18953335]

Senior at UNCG. Gonna work for local government or a non profit for a few years, write a few manuscripts, then try to join a fully funded MFA program in my state.

[Anonymous No.18953339]

>>18953335
Majoring in Political Science and Philosophy

[Anonymous No.18953342]

>>18953324
>Chubby latinas in nursing
Truest shit I've heard all week.

[Anonymous No.18953344]

I'm studying computer engineering at a public state school
I am the least /lit/ person here

[Anonymous No.18954275]

>>18953211
I'm taking a gap year in order to work and gain residency at the city I'm moving to. A year out of school is going to do a number on me. Pray for me /lit/bros.

[Anonymous No.18954279]

>>18953211
Anyone here go to Emory?

[Anonymous No.18954373]

>uc merced
>ecology and evolution

[Anonymous No.18954387]

>>18953211
Going to a less-than-middling college in the middle of a PoS state. A girl followed me from one of my classes to another today. She wanted to talk to me, which made my day. Meme humanities degree and LSAT practice every day. Few hundred pages a week or reading. Comfy.

[Anonymous No.18954399]

>>18953211
>Returning to Studies

>At law school and sure—i am studying law

>Where? At home :) just sit Down inside your home and reading necessary e books on your phone and argue what you have read with online strangers.

[Anonymous No.18954425]

>>18954279
A friend of mine is, I think.

[Anonymous No.18954454]

>>18953211
>starting or returning
starting, freshman year.
>where are you studying
UNC Chapel Hill.
>where does one get a /lit/ education
I've accepted that most colleges will try and force some postmodernism critical theory in the curriculum. at mine I have to take an "american diversity" class to graduate, and in my beginning music class we are working on "deconstructing the assumptions of western classical." but the only real education there is is self-education, and the uni I'm going to has a great big library with a whole lot of books, so I'll sit through all the postmodernism and enjoy reading great, timeless works, and further my education that way.

[Anonymous No.18954496]

>>18953274
I actually moved to Boulder for a job like a week ago. Kinda awkward to ask but you want to hangout sometime? I've had the same friend group since highschool and I don't know how to make friends in the adult world now.

Also theres actually some old family stuff in German I'd be interested to get translated if you'd be interested in that sort of thing.

[Anonymous No.18954653]

>>18953247
yah, so does nethack.

[Anonymous No.18954819]

I'm lucky to live in a town with a reputable state university that's expanded its prestige in recent years. That seems to be the trajectory of academia in general, as private or elite institutions rapidly decline.
I study philosophy, and while there are problems with academic philosophy, it has taught me that I wouldn't have gotten far on my own. Still, if I get a career opportunity going I might drop out.

[Anonymous No.18954826]

>>18953211
physics fag here

[Anonymous No.18954827]

>>18954496
Absolutely not. I just can't fathom bringing 4chan into Real Life, sorry. Unless you are a young woman, in which case I would make an exception.

[Anonymous No.18954841]

I dropped out of college 9 years ago and always dream of going back. I got a severe case of social anxiety and culture shock when I first went there. Plus I was completely unprepared for school. I was dirt poor and my family gave me 300 dollars to support myself for the semester and that was immediately spent on two books so I had no money. I didn't deserve to go to such a prestigious private university.
Now, 9 years later, I hope I can at least attend a community college. But I had some problems with the application so I couldn't finish it in time.
I just want a degree.

[Anonymous No.18954846]

>>18954841
wow, you really biffed in anon, why didn't you get a job?

[Anonymous No.18954859]

>>18954846
It never occurred to me to get a job in uni. I didn't even know anybody who did.

[Anonymous No.18954867]

>>18953239
!=

[Anonymous No.18954869]

Been thinking about going back to uni for German. I'm interested in old German and Norse literature. Is it worth it? Or is it better to wagecuck part-time and read in my spare time, like I've been doing now?

[Anonymous No.18954878]

>>18954279
I was until recently. The campus is beautiful; though it was desolate because of covid mania.

[Anonymous No.18954911]

>>18954279
I was until recently working at the hospital here and used to do computer programming after hours in the top floor of the Goizueta building, at the windowed facade overlooking the courtyard. Most evenings it was exclusively me in the entire building.

[Anonymous No.18954918]

>>18954827
>>18954496
wait can we have a colorado /lit/ meetup

[Anonymous No.18954939]

>>18954279
I was until recently working at the hospital here and used to do computer programming after hours in the top floor of the Goizueta Business building, at the windowed facade overlooking the courtyard. Most evenings it was exclusively me in the entire building. I loved it. Beautiful campus and white females.

[Anonymous No.18954944]

>>18953332
>arcane and useless for getting a job
Gender studies' pretty good

[Anonymous No.18955115]

>>18953239
self-defeating cope right there

[Anonymous No.18955560]

bump

[Anonymous No.18955997]

Any phd nerds?
I'm a third-worlder finishing and MA in English this year.
I hope to find a scholarship in a backwater EU uni, is it doable? Any reccs?

[Anonymous No.18956043]

>>18953211
I'm studying political science at the university of Cyprus. I grew to absolutely despise politics despite my past obsession with them, and thus i sort of dislike my major. But hopefully it will help me find a comfy office job in the government where due to corruption and dysfunctional bureaucracy i will have plenty of time to read,write and shitpost while working.

[Anonymous No.18956233]

>>18953211
Just about to start my MA in Musicology at a top university in Canada, was previously at Oxford for my undergrad, hoping to do a PhD in the US some day

Wish me luck bros

[Anonymous No.18957563]

UNI OF NOTTS, POL+IR

[Anonymous No.18957676]

>>18953211
>TAMU
>PhD, Aerospace Engineering
I like books.

[Anonymous No.18957736]

>>18953251
chemical engineering at an ABET accredited US State school. its pretty good, much better than any other major I've interacted with.

premed students are insufferable

[Anonymous No.18957745]

>>18953211
Law, Poland. Not fun.

[Anonymous No.18957771]

>>18953251

[Anonymous No.18957773]

I had an interview at the University of Arizona but the plebs didn't know about the neo classical assumptions in contemporary prescriptive grammar

[Anonymous No.18957795]

>>18957773
why did you have an interview, its a state school you just apply and go.
what degree, are you grad or something

[Anonymous No.18957804]

Anyone else go here?

[Anonymous No.18957824]

Did my master's in Leiden. I enjoyed it for the most part. These threads never go anywhere.

[Anonymous No.18957839]

On a related note, has anyone tried using the Great Course Plus? I usually don't go for these sort of educational websites, but just having recorded university lectures sounds neat. Are the history and literature ones any good?

[Anonymous No.18957840]

>>18953211
UVA in charlottesville, felt dead inside the whole time i was there

[Anonymous No.18957852]

I failed the last year.

[Anonymous No.18957868]

University of Toronto.
English specialist in second year w/ creative writing minor.

[Anonymous No.18957878]

I am deliberately indoctrinating the youth on leftist beliefs and getting paid to do so.

[Anonymous No.18957881]

>>18957839
you can get the literature ones if you have membership at a library that subscribes to kanopy

[Anonymous No.18957884]

>>18954454
Most of my hometown friends are freshmen there. I'm from Wilmington North Carolina but I go to George Washington University

[Anonymous No.18957902]

>>18953211
Philosophy postgrad, Oxbridge.

[Anonymous No.18957909]

W A S H I N G T O N D C ?

[Anonymous No.18957944]

>>18957909
Your in DC? I'm a freshman at George Washington studying philosophy, literature, and intl' business.

[Anonymous No.18958051]

>be me, early 20's
>enter uni
>do poorly due to mental illness
>get a 1 year suspension
>put together self and life
>do well for one year
>the things i put together fall apart
>keep trying to put life together
>keep dropping many courses for 3 years
>accidentally miss a course withdrawal deadline
>now late 20's
>just received a 3 year suspension
wondering if i should still have hope and keep trying to improve my circumstances or if i'm just kidding myself

[Anonymous No.18958058]

>>18957944
Lmao

[Anonymous No.18958128]

>>18958051
University is clearly making you miserable. Any idea why? specifically?

[Anonymous No.18958151]

You shouldn’t go to college if you can avoid it.

t. University faculty

[Anonymous No.18958164]

Ill soon have to choose what German university ill study philosophy at... Any krauts with experience?

[Anonymous No.18958384]

>>18958128
I'm not sure. I'm always excited to engage with whatever material, but deadlines and writing anxiety usually hit me hard. i also feel actively alienated from my peers, and feel like I can't speak truthfully to anyone. I have made friends at school before but i never felt like i was anything but being drained or distracted in their presence.

[Anonymous No.18958478]

>>18957676
>After they’ve boosted all the rest
>Then they will come and join the best
>For we are the Aggies, the Aggies are we
>We're from Texas AMC
I'm not jealous. I'm very jealous.

[Anonymous No.18958499]

>>18958164
I enjoyed my time in Tübingen.

[Anonymous No.18958562]

>>18958384
Maybe you have problems with people in general and it wouldn't be better in another setting either, but at university you are forced to face them. Would you feel better if you just stayed away from then whenever possible? You don't necessarily have to engage with other students.
As for writing anxiety and deadlines, I have those issues to. Whenever it's time to sit down to write something or even just read some material related to my thesis I feel a very strong urge to do absolutely anything else. No idea how to fix this, I'm not sure it's possible if you are not interested in writing whatever you need to write. The only thing I found that actually helped with deadlines was to just ignore them and write things as soon as possible. Even if an assignment's due date is a month away, I start doing it the day we get it. It makes some periods unreasonably busy, but it's a way of freeing yourself of deadlines.

[Anonymous No.18958565]

>>18953239
> =!

[Anonymous No.18958589]

>>18953274
CU is the most soulless place on the fucking planet. It is everything wrong with corporate education.

[Anonymous No.18958610]

>>18957878
based

[Anonymous No.18958656]

>>18953211
Literal retard coming through.
I have been here for like 5 years now. Not in close to graduating with a degree in anything useful.
>>18953211
>Where does one go to get the best /lit/ education in this day and age?
China?
>>18958051
>just received a 3 year suspension
What did you do?

[Anonymous No.18958658]

Starting cardiff uni in Feb!

[Anonymous No.18958666]

>>18958656
>in
even

[Anonymous No.18958667]

>>18958658
why are you starting at uni in february?