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Directed at everybody and anybody. I'm taking my SECOND consecutive year off, and I regret it. I should have fucking collected my thoughts and got back in the action, rather than spend over a year meditating. I badly want to go back to school, I loathe the thought of getting another 9-5 job, having my spirits decimated. But some of my marks were down in the '30s, and I was routinely skipping 2 weeks of class at a time, spending the few classes I DID attend floating around the room watching myself do nothing, or handing in reports that did up in 10 minutes. I just had to quit to get my bearings, figure some things out. Things I still haven't figured out, and haven't really tried to. So I want to A- get some nice feelings, live vicariously through you guys. Tell me what's going on, I'll feel like I'm there, strolling down the halls again. Tell me about the girls. That's where I want to be right now. I like the smell of new books. B- get some bad feelings, hear about your KKK roommate, your boring classes, your STDs, etc. Justify my choice to shun education (for now). Either way, I'm interested in what's going on, what I'm missing out on right now, good and bad. |
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my day was ok... there are some damn hot girls here in Newfoundland... Newfoundland really must have the highest per capita of hot girls! |
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you must be kidding. |
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I don't think he's kidding. I remember a couple of years I ago, we went camping in Gros Morne National Park, and the girls swarming around there were absolutely positively SMOKING. |
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i'm there. |
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as in, going there. jeez. i want a newfie gf now. school's okay. kindof intimidating -- i'm the only undergrad in my philosophy seminar -- the rest are all masters students and doctoral candidates. yikes. |
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School is going okay. Really enjoying the art class. There are lots of hotties at my school too! Its great, other than the fact that im getting home at close to midnight and im also getting no sleep! |
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taking time off can be both a good and bad thing, but i definitely wouldn't do it for longer than a semester. i remember getting super restless when i took a semester off, and the job situation just kept grinding me down until i know longer felt like doing much of anything at all. two years off though, man, thats gotta be difficult to ever get back in the swing of things. good luck if you ever go back. as for school, its fun, although in general lecture classes are relatively boring whereas my fine arts courses and language classes are alot more intimate and down to earth in terms of the way things are done and the people in them. |
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I just started in video production. The class description mentioned the course covered basic film production and television production; the difference being one is worthwhile and good and the other is boring, shitty and stupid. Turns out they lied and it's actually ALL boring, shitty and stupid, not to mention a majority of my time in school is spent in english or other classes that have nothing to do with my major. I will say though that any experience is good experience when it comes to film and television, since companies are usually downsizing...it's good to be versatile. |
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i havent started school yet and all my friends have, i feel kinda lonely now since during the day i have noone to hang with. |
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I have a newfie Gf! she's purdy, an' she dun' have the accent... i'm off to my first real class right now... it's a night course on film theory: cinema and the body... i expect to find it interesting, and i also expect there to be at least one post making fun of me/it in this thread by the time i get back... :P |
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*makes fun of DeadEight* |
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I'm doing OK....my schedule is kinda fucked up cause I have to leave work for 1 stupid class then returnto work then return to class later at night (since i mostly take night classes, edit: only take night classes) but it's fun, microprocessor development / CISC class is pretty easy as I have a lot to contribute and i have been waiting for this class for a couple years now...thoroughly enjoying my classes...some adv. digital electronics, psycology (senior social elective) and networking class (durrrr i dont know anything about networking ......)) its great cause i never have to go to that class cause i can pass out of it :p but my school makes me stick around till the end of the semester to take exams and what not, whatever : / |
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Ophecks, there aren't many girls at my school so nothing to write home about : / You should really get back into it....too many months off can result in an unsatisfactory collision that I wouldnt want anyone to have to go through while trying to get back in the swing of things. Let us know, man. |
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i LOVE school. i'm having soo much fun. |
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school (and when i say school, i mean university... as opposed to high school, which was bullshit) r00lz, i wish everyone I knew enjoyed it as much as I do... |
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I'm in junior year now and I have to pull my grades up this semester because I let them slip last semester. Taking mostly communications classes such as community radio and situational comedy (for my major, believe it or not). I'm having a tough time concentrating on school though because of all this social bullshit. There's this girl I liked for the majority of the past 2 years and even though we're practically best friends at this point I still get the romantic feelings confused with friend feelings. There's my bit of sappy personal info but you asked for it.. :-) Sorry to hear you're restless at home and with work etc. Thought about transferring back in next semester as opposed to waiting out the whole year? |
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Currently doing senior year of business & ICT. It's OK, there are zero girls in my class though. 2 work placements starting in January and September planned next year. |
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I'm trying to finish my master. It should have been finished a year ago |
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what field are you doing your degree in? |
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im (just as assignment, i wont be building one) 'inventing' an acoustic anemometer, a thing that measures wind speed and direction without moving parts. a speaker emits pulsed sounds, and microphones record it again. when the wind blows stronger the sounds take longer / shorter to arrive to the microphones, so you can calculate the wind speed (in a fast flowing river the ripples from a stone you throw in there move faster in the direction of the current) bla bla bla bla |
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my kid brother has just finished his degree in music visual arts and popular culture??? i have one year of the same course to go! ummmmn my tutor hooked me and my bro up with her husbands freinds record label!!!!! i really cant say anything more about this untill an album is realeased at the end of november??? ummmmn we have just finished designing a cd cover for some electronica people in sanfransisco but still its all shhhhss!!! ummmmmmn we have just opened up a joint business bank account and have been asked by the label to create a music video for somebody else which i am not allowed to talk about???? ummmmn but it involves animating over 7000 photos we are still only halfway there!!!!!!!!! ummmn me and my bro are also in the midst of creating a sound piece for the london art collective known as OMSK??? uuuuummmnnn uni is great but expensive, ive managed to spend the majority of my loan on kit and rent and have lived for two years on a staple diet of 11p noodles, beer and weed? one more year and we are hopefully moving to brighton to be abit closer to london and to get out of this yokel countryside vibe that we are trapped in at the moment!! next term i will probably be carrying on with my projects into binary recording and site specific sound installations! |
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When I first started going to university I was determined to get an degree in electronics, with signal processing as main field. But the math was way over my head, and the psychososial enviroment was very elitist and unwelcoming. I felt quite alone and became depresed, which reflected on the results. After a revelation of selfawareness in the 2nd semester, I figured that it was crap being miserable trying to do something I obviously wasn't good at, so I jacked that. I figured I would rather start a bachelor's degree in computer science, so I transferred to that in the beginning of my 2nd year. Everything got better instantly, I got a social network, moved in with a girl I knew from high school and found that the classes were interesting. Now, after two years doing computers, I attending psychology classes to finish up my bachelors degree. It's nice to focus more on the human now, after programming extensively for 2 years. All in all i'm quite content with how my education developed, and for you who are experiencing the same situation I did on my first year: just get out of it and do something else. It worked for me. Yo. |
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Science of Health |
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''two years off though, man, thats gotta be difficult to ever get back in the swing of things. good luck if you ever go back.'' Thanks, I'll need it. I think I'll need to pump myself full of medication to get myself in the right mindset, honestly. ''Sorry to hear you're restless at home and with work etc. Thought about transferring back in next semester as opposed to waiting out the whole year?'' Not really restless, in fact I'm in a GREAT mood right now and doing exactly what I want to do (nothing), but I have to be realistic. My current orgy of pleasure can only lead to self destruction. I probably WOULD transfer back in after Christmas if I could, though I dunno if they'd even WANT me back, my marks were so horrid. And again, I'm still in limbo... if I was to that, I'd have to start thinking, fast. A year ago, I nearly entered a one year program at a different school (graphic design/networking) centered around networking, Cisco and all of that. I have no experience at all, but obviously the whole point of the course is to BE the experience, the dean there tried to talk me into it. I couldn't afford it at the time (that's why I had to get to work... then I spent all my money on games and silly stuff, heh). But I still won't rule it out. |
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Ophecks, if you ever, ever need any kind of help or anything with networking...you know who to call. from beginner to advance, im sure i can help ya. keep that in mind |
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can you count pancakes in prisons? i never got more than sixtytwentsjup |
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and if you ever need any cisco gear to practice or learn IOS/CatOS on, you can let me know. |
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I gave up school. After 3 years of college I still didn't know what I wanted. Anything remotely interestiing required math I couldn't do. Plus, The amount of hours I wasted staring at female hindquarters in the library are staggering. I'm just going to have to wing it. |
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haven't started again yet, it starts in early october for me (i don't have the exact date yet)... but what annoys me is that i won't have any place in my university town, so i have a gap of 3-4 hours i'll be obliged to stay in uni (or go in town), and i'll have to wake up at 5.30 again every time i'd have to start at 8....... damn i'm not in a hurry -_- my brother started high school so far he says it's fine, except that his english teacher is a total cunt he took two options, japanese and art (it's fine, but it will give him more work and he's a bit lazy -like me- and dyslexic besides... and even if he does well at these options it doesn't make you earn a lot of points, almost nothing in fact....) |
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I enjoy school too... the thing I hate is all the home work... the last semester I was in school for the last few weeks I was up at school all day monday through sunday... working on assignments and shit... but, this semester already looks like it will be more relaxed, which will be nice... |
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I'm doing a bachelor of commerce degree... with a major in marketing, and possibly a minor in finance... it's kinda interesting, and should help me get a good job after I graduate (hopefully) which is good... |
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School's going pretty well for me. I'm taking two sociology classes (my major), a class on the history of rock n roll, and a special project where I'm learning about audio recording. Plus a musical ensemble and drum lessons. Despite how much that sounds like, I haven't been that busy really. |
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ophecks.. where did/will you go to school? |
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Elusive- thanks. I know you're heavy duty into this stuff, and if that IS a path I decide to take, I'll definitely keep you in mind. But that's at LEAST 12 months away, I'll see what happens. I think I'd slide into that kind of work/study very comfortably... I'm not educated in it at all, but hey, that what courses are for. It seems like something I could do and catch on to easily if I put in some degree of effort (easier said than done, with me...) Theo- I went to the University College of Cape Breton, which is just up the highway here, actually. And last year, I considered McKenzie College, which specializes in specific computer trades... networking, graphic design, etc. I'm almost definitely not going back to UCCB unless I have a change of heart and mind, but McKenzie... still a possiblity. I can afford it now. Smyrma- sounds like a nice mix there. Those are classes I'd enjoy, but I don't know if I'd personally be able or willing to parlay them into something useful afterward. But that doesn't always have to be the point, anyway. I definitely wouldn't skip those. What do you plan on doing/being? |
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i am currently doing almost the same thing. i am on my second year off (but i hope to go back this coming semester so it may be 1 + 1/2 years off). i went to community college for a year but due to money problems i couldn't really afford to go back again. i had no car, so i decided to work the past year to save up. it didn't work the way i hoped it to, helping with bills around the house and such really drained what i could save. i've worked a 9-5 job at a bank for over a year now and i can't take it anymore. i'm not ready for that yet. i just want to go back to school and not have to worry about money or work. i'm sure there will be time for that after school. so, um i know where you're coming from. good luck to you ophecks :) |
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So, well, I got a First class honours batchelor of science degree. Now I'm going to do a masters over 4 years while I work full time. |
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