college, dude

[p-branez]

where at?
what did you study?
what were you like in high school?
did you like it?
what would you do differently?

applications and shit are going down now.
i don't really know what to do.
i guess that comes with getting older.

[cosmo105]

i spent 2 years at a community college close to where i grew up. i'm about to spend one more year at a community college about an hour away from here.
i majored in photography. get your basics done and THEN choose our major because you'll want to change it a million times, like i did.
i was actually about the same as i am now in high school, only a lot more social and extroverted. now i'm a haggard, antisocial hermit that shakes my fist at kids to get the hell off my lawn
i liked my school. i met some really intelligent, cool people there. it wasn't about the social status thing like high school, because there were so many thousands of people that that would just be pointless.
if i could, i would get all my requirements out of the way like i said. because i spent a good year and a half taking pretty much only photo classes and now i'm screwed and have to take another year of classes before i can transfer to the university i'm looking at (Cal State LA).

good luck, man. you'll have an awesome time, and make great friends. just don't drink tooooo much.

[QueenAdrock]

where at?
what did you study?
what were you like in high school?
did you like it?
what would you do differently?

applications and shit are going down now.
i don't really know what to do.
i guess that comes with getting older.

Graduated with my Associates from Montgomery College, majored in English/History. Then University of Maryland, European History, still working on my bachelor's. After, I plan to get my Master's in Teaching at UMUC, or UMD.

I didn't graduate from high school (by 3 credits), or receive my GED to this day. High school was a shithole, and I was tormented by the "popular" girls because they had a personal vendetta against me because of a misunderstanding. You don't even need to fuckin' graduate HS to get somewhere in life. I was unable to go back to school because of the harrassment, so I had "home-schooling" teachers come to my house. My friends were upset that I wasn't going to "real school" (aka they were jealous that they had to spend 7 hours in school per day, while I had 2 hours of quality teaching per day, just like college). I was miserable. Completely and utterly miserable. I'd never go back.

Anywho, completely agree with Cosmo. But it matters where you live; Montgomery College has been ranked the #2 community college in all of America in the past, and since she's in California, she's got some quality community colleges out there. They're not like that everywhere, however; some are a very teeny step up from high school, and don't teach much. If it's a good school, though, you'll save a shitload of cash and have one-on-one teaching with the professors because the classes are smaller. I still feel like I got more personal attention and a more well-rounded education from MC than I have from UMD.

[Freebasser]

So we're talking about University right?

[NurfBallJeaneus]

A college about 10-12 miles from my home. I'm still there and will be done this May...hopefully. I've been there for my entire college time. If I could, I would have done some stuff differently...like be more social and get involved in stuff. Oh yeah, have good friends too and do stuff with them.

I am currently studying Art with a concentration in Printmaking. I am not really a printmaker, but I had to choose a concentration and I couldn't have drawing as it. It's not bad, but now I'm looking back at my stuff and I dislike the majority of it. I'm not an artist, so why did I not change my major? I came to this realization too late and so I decided to just finish it all up and figure out what to do next. I like working with film (both still and motion)...

There were numerous different Norcens in high school. MY freshmen year, I was one rotten kid. Hanging out with the wrong crowd, making very disturbing art, making fun of seniors (a "nice" moment was making one of the more popular senior girls cry. We really switched the role of senior/freshmen hassling), making fun of anyone really...especially those who had problems, stealing, breaking stuff, shooting up houses with pellet guns...almost killing a squirrel with same pellet gun and so on. We apparently drove some kid in attempting suicide. Oh yeah, for the annual food and toy collecting for the poor during Christmas time, we hardly got anything. My friend and I got this can of mixed vegetables and after we got it, he kept dropping it and stuff. As soon as we turned at the corner, we were throwing the can high in the air and let it hit the ground real hard. It wasn't really doing much damage so we placed it under a fuel truck, which made it burst open. We eventually got a bag of stuff and we made fun of the woman's little christmas tree made out of pine tree branches. I think we also were going to attack the cat or something. She actually gave us some money (or a check) and we contemplated on taking it, but I don't think we did. BEfore all that though, when no one was answering at one house, he took their mail and tossed it into a bush near them. And later we were kicking open someone's package and trying to get into it...never did.

After we all were called to the office in regards to tossing the mail out, my friend took all the blame (he should since it was all him) and we all (there were four of us total) could no longer go out for the next day. Instead, we had to work in the gym and put baskets together. Well, my other friend and I would give too much food for one person or two people. We also poked holes in the bread. I don't think I could ever forgive myself for the crap we did. It was so rotten of us.

Well, near the end of freshmen year, they asked me to not sit with them at lunch one day. I didn't know why and still don't, but that was the beginning of the end. I decided to sit with the lonely exchange student. Soon after the kid who supposedly attempted suicide join and we became very good friends (until the summer before college). So, I decided to sit with them from there on and so my old friends turned their back on me and started making fun of me. They even had a small journal filled with nasty insults and such about me. While I was friends with them, they would have this bigger journal about the suicide kid with insults and things they would do to him, but I never was allowed to read it or anything, which was odd. However, I'm glad I had nothing to do with it because the suicide kid would constantly say "May 20th" to them in a very threatening way and one day a girl overheard the bad kids saying May 20th and she told the principle. This led to the police coming and investigating...they got a hold of the journals and they got suspended. After that, they didn't really make fun of us as much as they did in the past.

Thankfully, the leader of the group went to military school the following year.

Sophomore year was very different for me. I was very quiet and to myself. This was when I became more religious and into my faith. Nothing much happened here...This was when I joined the Beastie Boys board too. I honestly think the internet screwed up my social life.

Junior year Norcen started off like Sophomore year Norcen, but soon started coming out of his shell. I had a thing for this girl and on our way to the Junior overnight retreat, I decided to ask her out for the Junior prom. However, she seemed to have just ignored me. So I was a bit put out with her and tried to avoid her during the whole event. On the way home though, I decided to listen to music and block everyone out. Some of my friends told me to ask her again and one said if I don't soon, he will ask for himself. I didn't ask, but I got her AIM name and asked her again a few days later. But get this...she said another person already asked and she was going with him. She claimed she would say yes to the first person who would ask. Guess what...I was the first to ask. In fact, this other guy asked while I was listening to music or sometime after I asked. I told her I asked before he did and she thought I was only joking... :eek: Well, I tried to persuade her to go with me, but it failed. So, I didn't go to the prom and stayed home.

We had a very weird relationship afterwards...she thought I was going to kill her, which was very hurtful to me.

Senior year was my favourite. I was more outgoing and into things. I was in both theatre plays. I wrote, directed and starred in my own play. I did a performance art piece about censorship, which was actually editted out of the video later shown on local TV (quite ironic, no?). I also went to the Senior ball...alone though (wish I didn't now).

I liked some of high school. Each had good moments and bad moments. I'd definitely do it differently.

I apologize for such a long and grammatically bad post.

Does anyone actually read posts this long?