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Did you enjoy college?
Yes 20 (90.9%)
No 2 (9.1%)
Total Votes: 22
College poll
Topic Started: Jun 13 2006, 04:30 PM (275 Views)
schindler
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Fulla-Carp
I'm just curious.
We're all mad here!
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John D'Oh
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Mostly no, due to having a girl-friend and then ex-girl friend back at home to mope over. I was a right silly bugger - very annoying whiney teenager. After graduating, I couldn't get a job, and was put on a government sponsored engineering course where I had more money than I knew what to do with, and a student lifestyle, and therefore I probably had a fantastic time, except I can't remember much of it.
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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LWpianistin
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HOLY CARP!!!
i AM enjoying it very much! :cool:
And how are you today?
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The 89th Key
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Best time of your life.

And you'll know that while you're in it.

:)
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big al
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Lots of work (at least in engineering school), but lots of new friends, lots of new ideas, lots of new things to do. Grab the opportunities as they present themselves. You probably won't have the same freedom to experiment again (unless you become ultra-wealthy and retire early).

Big Al
Location: Western PA

"jesu, der simcha fun der man's farlangen."
-bachophile
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ivorythumper
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
Undergrad? meh.
Grad school -- much better (all expenses paid for a year to England).
Post grad -- now you're talking!!!! :thumb: :thumb:
The dogma lives loudly within me.
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Optimistic
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HOLY CARP!!!
I LOVED my undergrad years, with the study abroad year by far being the best.

IT, I don't think my grad. years will be as great as yours. I'll be incurring tremendous amounts of debt on top of previous student debt and exorbitant living expenses. :(
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We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
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Friday
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I'm with John D'Oh on this one.

I always have a good time, but with college...much of it is a blur.
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dolmansaxlil
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HOLY CARP!!!
I had a far from typical university experience.

My program is pretty unique, and as such there were only 45 of us in our first year (about 13 graduated). Our first year we had 35 hours of class a week, plus production time, plus homework and projects (which were huge). Consequently, I spent from about 7am til about 1 or 2am (or later) with the same small group of people for four years. The Dean of our program still invites our group over for a BBQ every summer. We were a very tight knit group.

I adored every minute of it, and miss it at times.

Of course, I may only think I adored it and may be fabricating what I missed, as I spent all of my off time in the pub. The same Dean that we still see was also one of my profs, and she used to wait for me at the classroom door for my 8am Friday morning class with 3 Tylenols and a coffee, then ask if I was hung over or still drunk. :whome:
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Matt G.
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big al
Jun 13 2006, 08:27 PM
Lots of work (at least in engineering school), but lots of new friends, lots of new ideas, lots of new things to do.  Grab the opportunities as they present themselves.  You probably won't have the same freedom to experiment again (unless you become ultra-wealthy and retire early).

Big Al

It's really getting to be a little bothersome that Big Al keeps giving all the really good advice around here. I keep waiting for him to trip up! ;)

Yes, Al is spot on about grabbing the opportunities that present themselves. My own philosophy (one likely not shared by many others) is that higher education is about learning for its own sake, increasing one's knowledge both in depth and breadth. Yet, quite a bit of the knowledge one will take away from college will be things not learned in classrooms. Those opportunities of which Al speaks may not be too obvious if one is totally immersed in study, making one's extracurricular activities even more important than one might think.

Above all, the chance to try things out, to experiment with ideas one might never have understood fully, to challenge oneself intellectually and philosophically, all without the onus of providing one's own means of living, can be a deeply rewarding experience. But, allowing it to be so requires that one avoid the temptation to have tunnel vision.
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Mikhailoh
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
Oh, c'mon... you are surrounded by single women 18-25 who want to meet guys. What's not to like?
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball
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