College.
 

edit: Okay, nevermind the huge rant and my whole life story and all of that junk. Basically, what it boils down to is: I'm about to start college and I'm really scared. Anyone else about to start? Are you scared? We can be scared together.

Fuck school.

Start using heroin.

When you get there you will find it that it isn't that big of a deal. I already wanna quit school. But Then again I don't wanna get stuck working where I'm at. or living where I'm at.

It is normal to be scared. But if you aren't really serious about it you should wait a year. And don't get piled up in debt. I took one year at an expensive school. Dumb decision.

My move-in date is August 23rd. Mostly I just know that I'll really miss my brothers. Yes, all three of them, as much as it pains me to admit it. In high school it took me a long time to make friends, but it didn't really bother me too much because I always had my brothers around, and they understood me better than any friend possibly could. So even though I hate the idea of starting all over at a new place, I'll be able to deal with it, but I can't say the same about being away from my family.

All I know... one semester... no money... equals no second semester.

I am taking a community college art class in the fall. I'd like to go to an art school, but there's none in Kentucky so I'm not sure how to go about it.

But I'm ok with not really being in school yet. I just dicked around my first time around and now I just want to figure what I wanna do before just jumping into that big hole of expense.

I just graduated from college. Don't be scared, it's fun, you'll make friends! If your campus has a radio station, get involved with that.

Here's a tip: do not use a credit card!!!! The credit companies prey on college students and they will just fuck you over big time! I know people who are in their forties who are still paying off their credit card debts from when they were in college. It's a slippery slope that few people ever crawl their way out of and it ends up ruining yr credit for the rest of yr life. It's just not worth it. Student loans suck too, but they are easier to handle than credit cards.

But don't be scared, man! It's just school. Just do the best you can, study hard, always use sexual protection, don't get in the habit of drinking a lot and stay way from the brown acid (it's bad). Aside form that it's all good.

I'm 21 and I'm going to start college 4 months before my 22nd birthday. I'm quitting my job and moving into the vacant house owned by my dad while he's overseas. I'm not going to cut my hair or shave my beard for three years. I'll have plenty of time to write poems and send them to semi-famous people. It's going to be the best time of my life.

Sounds kinda lame. Don't be that guy, jhelli.

Don't be which guy? The guy who has a chance to get a good education and enjoy himself while he's at it? I'll be that guy in a heartbeat.

I fucked myself over by taking a summer course. I couldn't work full time because of it, so that's $4,000 in the gutter, plus the $200 I spent to take the course. I ended up failing it. I'm glad I'm in college though. It's the best time to drink up, have a joint, and enjoy the field of your study. My course is so slack that I spend all my time on this board.

I love college. A hell of a lot better than high school. You get to eat and rest where you want, no idiots, lots of spare time. Nice teachers too.

Yeah, the number of idiots significantly decreased. We still have a few in our school (Stephen Routliff). The guy makes fun of Terry because he's handicapped. I look down on those types of people.

I don't think I know those two.

However I do know one airhead in our college. She has said a good number of retarded things, and skips classes. One class she asked how to do something, even though the teacher JUST explained it. Another time she asked a really stupid question (I can't remember what it was), the teacher stared at her, dumfounded, and said to her "are you seriously THAT thick?"

Best five years of my life. Seriously. It's natural to be scared. I was very introverted as an 18-year-old, but there are so many different kinds of people in a typical college/university setting, that even I had no trouble making good friends. You're there for an education, of course, but that also means experiencing things outside the classroom. If you're going to a good school, you'll find yourself discovering fascinating stuff everyday, in and out of the classroom, that you'd never discover on your own just working at some slave-wage job. I know it's a horribly corny cliche, but it really is true that college will open whole worlds for you. Go and have the time of your life.

I meant don't be the hippie guy who writes poetry and sends it off to celebrities. If you want a good education then right on, man. More power to you. I know way too many people who just blow off a higher education and become fucking losers. Plus, you seem to have a pretty sweet setup. Yr own place. Nice. Also, I really like the whole "I'm not gonna cut any of my hair for three years" edge. very nice.

Besides, I was just kidding around. Just a joke is all.

It's cool. I don't see the problem with sending poems to artists you look up to though. But I won't make a thing out of it. We're all cool here.

College kicked ass minus all the reading and writing of stuff I didn't care about:D

College will kill you. Seriously. You're dead.

Hmm, and generally the Visual Arts kids are a lot more sophisticated than any of the other programs next to Liberal Arts. My Digital Imaging class is terrible, they blast 3 Days grace while watching CSI Miami all class. I have no real friends in the whole program because none of them are like me. All my friends are in visual or social science.

Terry's the guy that walks around with a breifcase and a trenchcoat everywhere. He's a nice guy if you talk to him but people constantly make fun of him which is the lowest thing anybody can do.

Scared? Try making a living on your own without any support from anybody for the first time. I moved out when I graduated, but I was excited and not really scared. Enjoy college, it's going to be much easier than the real world.

Eh. "The real world" is really just "when life sucks." It's no more real than when life is great. Not everyone experiences both.

College is good for not being bored with just a job. Oh shit I have to register for my classes.

college is a toss-up

it's fun, you have lots of oppurtunities to good friends, ones that appreciate interesting music, art, films, etc

however, now that i'm feeling the mindnumbing debt of student loans it makes part of me think that i should have taken engineering or computers or something else that people actually will give you a job for having a degree in and been one of the dorky types who stayed in their rooms on saturday nights.

however that part of me is kind of a douche.

contort- any major can promise you a job. if you like what you're studying, you're bound to find something. as long as you're in a good program and you like it. for instance, being in a good art history program, or something artsy that makes parents die when you announce you want to spend four years and a 100 grand/years of loan-paying studying, that you'll get a degree from is better than going to a shitty business school and end up being in a field you hate.

not psychology




i can tell you from experience


no but really i don't regret it, i just wish coming from a lower class and going to a state university it wouldn't still put me over 20 g's in debt
and being i've spent the week being turned down by temp agencies i might be in a deeper cynical mood than normal....

but yeah, college is good for turing people into good-taste possessing non-douches, which is important in our very douche-centric society

Go to college, be a man - whats the fucking deal? It's not how old I am - its how old I feel.

^Ha, I was going to post that too....first thing I thought of.

I don't like the idea of being around people who are only decent because they went to college.

community college anyone?
$7,000 for 2 years