What's your destination?

[Magik]

(sorry, I hit enter on accident)

What I was going to say is:

My SAT scores will be posted in the morning and I was wondering what all of you high school students had planned for college and whatnot.

So.. feel free to elaborate, or, you can reflect and stuff about what you did do/are doing now.

Me: I'm a Junior this year, this is the first time I've taken the SATs and I really don't care about my scores except out of general curiosity. I want to go to university in either BC or Manitoba, and this standardized testing crap isn't even looked at up there.

In college, I want to major, right now, in french and maybe philosophy.... long term, I'd like to join the Foreign Service and work in an embassy abroad.... so I can travel and be far away from my family..


You?

[Czechs Mex]

Going to the U of Minnesota right now in my 4th year. Studying computer science and psychology - primarily artificial intelligence, robotics, and cognitive modelling. yipee

Studying abroad is something I really wish I would have done. where would you go, somewhere french? like... uh... france, perhaps?

[SirTMagus]

I'm going to G.U.




















GAY UNIVERSITY!!!!!
:minotaur

[Magik]

Yeah, if I joined the FS, I'd like to go to France, Switzerland, or Quebec... though I don't think new diplomats have much say in where they are assigned... I'd probably be shipped off to some backwater, obscure, third-world country for a while.

Before that even, I forgot to mention, I'd like to join the Peace Corps.

I guess I'll find out if I like travelling as much as I think I do this summer when I tour Europe with some of my friends.



What are you planning on doing with your degree?

[Czechs Mex]

Me or Magus?


(Me: grad school, become a prof. though i'm thinking peace corps would be a lot of fun, too.)

[Goyle]

...honestly, I have no clue, and I'm a junior. All I know is "programming" and "game design." Specific, eh?

[SirTMagus]

Well, I'm planning on gaying it up.

[Magik]

(I meant you, as I'm pretty sure we all know what you do with a degree from GU)

That's awesome... I thought about being a teacher for a long time and then I decided that I probably don't have the patience for it... I guess being a college professor would be a little different though..

And if you do join the Peace Corps, before me, let me know what it's like. :)

[Redneck 2000]

Well yeah I dont know specifically but I'm thinking either American History or Gayness Class 101

[Alzar]

I'm at my third college, back in my home state of Oregon! Horray financial issues. I'm working part-time and going to school full time.

Studying computer science...Still dunno if it'll lead me anywhere cool, but who knows.

I work at the technology help desk at my school. It's pretty fun but occasionally taxing to deal with non-computer literate people.

[Translucid]

Next year I'm probably going to end up going to the University of Texas at Dallas.

Chiggadawa studying software engineering.
Most likely going to be: a software engineer.

[Dreamknight]

I applied to Boston University, New York University and Stony Brook University, though I don't really want to leave home just yet (the style of martial arts I'm being taught isn't found in many other places) so I'm REALLY hoping I get into NYU so I can still come home often.

Going for mechanical engineering, Octacon style :)

[highwind]

Where do you live, Dreamknight?

[Czechs Mex]

Unless he's truly a man of deceit, I'd say Long Island, New York.

[Dreamknight]

:p Yep, smack in the middle of Long Island.

I think I remember you saying that you lived in Boston for the summer, Highwind. How was the city?

[Vanilla Iced Tea]

You're never going to get into NYU if you keep missing the bus and sitting on your computer all day.

Slacker.

[Dreamknight]

You're one mean son of a gun! Though...Stony Brook university is right near my home, so that wouldn't be bad if I got into there, either (which I have no reason not to). So either or, really.

[highwind]

Boston is a college city. ENTIRELY. It's just colleges and college kids everywhere. There's a lot to do there but it costs money. Do you have money? If so, you may really enjoy Boston.


BUT.

It is literally the most horrible place to drive in the country. Luckily you can take the "T" just about anywhere.

[Dreamknight]

Yeah, I took a test up there in novemeber, and there are so many goddamn roundabouts that it's disgusting! I wonder if the big dig is going to fix that at all.

[Kefka Jr.]

I've applied to Tisch at NYU, Emerson College (in Boston), and Fordham.

Tisch already rejected me. DURRRR. So I've only got two chances.

I like Emerson better, but it's all the way in Boston!

But then, who knows if I even get into college?

[Dreamknight]

I've got the same feelings, it haunts you day and night.

[highwind]

And Emerson has NO campus. Its just a series of city buildings spread about.

[Kefka Jr.]

Yeah, I dig that. Isn't that pretty much how NYU is?

OMG I'M LATE FOR FILM CLASS!!1

[highwind]

If you dig that then GOOD!

DIG IN!!!!!!!!!!!

[SirTMagus]

You're never going to get into NYU if you keep missing the bus and sitting on your computer all day.

Slacker.
Uhhhhh. Heh heh. :red

[TheBranMuffin]

I don't know what I'm gonna be, or where I'm gonna go, but surely it will be something in music.

[Alzar]

I thought I was going to do music when I was younger...But then I worked at a music store and saw poor yet talented musician after poor yet talented musician after poor yet delusional musician and decided it wasn't worth it.

It's a tough business.

[SirTMagus]

CHRIST, WHAT ISN'T?

[Redneck 2000]

WHY DONT YOU ASK YOUR MOM.

[AlexMagusaka]

The prospect of college has made me uneasy and depressed ever since my GPA dropped from failed classes (failed due to "not doing the homework"). Ever since I've been taking full-time jobs to earn money to go back on my own dollar, not waste my parents'.

Math was once my best and favoritest subject. Looking at math problems befuddles me nowadays. College textbooks look "too big". I hear horror stories of college essays and reports that span 3,000+ words or 30 pages and it just makes me sad.

I guess I'd be majoring in "Computer Science", but that's really a broad field. But there's nothing else for me; I'm a computer guy at heart.

...I think. :(

So, uh, yeah.

[TheBranMuffin]

College and university frighten me too... It just seems so incredibly competitive.

[highwind]

College and university frighten me too... It just seems so incredibly competitive.

That depends entirely on the school you go to.

Private Universities tend to be infinitely more competitive, cut throat, and demanding than State Universities.

In general, that is.

[SirTMagus]

Avoid universities with business schools.
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[The Toecutter]

I'm enrollred in St. Louis University. They're about $25,000 a year without dorms. If it weren't for scholarships, I wouldn't be going there.

[Funk]

I'm still pursuing a B.S. in Computer Science at Baker College in Michigan. Soon, I may graduate. Then, I don't know.

[The Toecutter]

A B.S. degree is just that...


At least go for a masters. I'm in electrical engineering, and once I get my B.S., I'm transferring to MIT or CalTech.

[Funk]

Yeah, I'm thinking about getting my Master's, but it's sad that four years of additional education doesn't mean much nowadays. If I go for more schooling, it will definitely be at a different college.

[TheBranMuffin]

That depends entirely on the school you go to.

Private Universities tend to be infinitely more competitive, cut throat, and demanding than State Universities.

In general, that is.

Is getting in the most competitive part? Or does it get worse after you're in?

[highwind]

I meant competitive academically while enrolled in the school.

[Hyper Dingo]

I applied to SUNY Farmingdale but first i have to get my portfolio together.

[MaRc]

Right now I'm in my second term of Computer Graphics, it's been pretty rad so far.
I'd like to take some courses on photography soon after, too.

There's also a program that just opened up for game design alone - no programming.

So much I'd like to do, so little dubloons to do it.

[Goyle]

At the moment, I'm in my third year of Computer Science (programming). I know for sure that games are my thing, but I'm questioning acutally being a programmer. It's true, I haven't actually had a lot of game-related progging, considering the assignments my teacher gives me bore me to death, but still, I can't help but think either graphics or writing would better suit me.

[altoecko]

I would LIKE to go to Brown and I have the test scores to do so. Not really the grades (Ussually A,A,B,C) but I would love to go. I think I'd fit right in at College. I'm sortof shooting high right now, but I'm going to do it because it's what I love. I want to get a PhD in Psychiatry, a minor in Musical Studies, and a minor in Poetic Writing. It's a lot I know, and I fully understand all that. But I would be proud of myself if I pull it off. And it'd be doing what I enjoy, so I KNOW I'll be able to do it. I know quite a few of you probably think lowly of me, but I view most of you as equals. We all excel in something off the wall. I seem to be the only one here at Poetry, but we have artists, designers, engineers, philosophers, and many other things. We're a special bunch and I'm proud to claim you, even if you're not proud to claim me.

[IRC]

I'm in my fourth year at Texas State. I would love to get into UT for some post graduate work. Getting a law degree is still an option but that's only if I can't make it doing something else. I'm going to get a degree in Mass Comm with an Advertising emphasis.

I doubt I'm going to do anything with that but I may spend a few years in the corporate world to see how I like it. My brother's doing pretty well in that world(Married, just promoted two levels and about the begin his appreticship with the ARCHITECT, and he just bought his first house.)

I'm getting a business minor and I may just go ahead and double major with an Accounting degree. With a law degree with an accounting base I would be unstoppable.

But my main goal is to graduate and start working in film. I might see if I can get in to UT's RTF program but I doubt it. I might just end up going to NYU, the have a small course program there. But the end goal is to get working in films and get all my guild status and stuff up to date so I can work in LA. I've already got one movie under my belt and I might have two offers this summer. Plus guys I worked with on the first one with might be doing a studio pick soon as well.

Or I might just get a masters or doctorate in mass comm and teach.

[Translucid]

TSU, cow? I applied there. They said I need an essay. But since I didn't plan on going anyways...

[Kefka Jr.]

I did my audition for Emerson today. Very comfortable, very friendly, but still pretty inconclusive.

[IRC]

I transfered in so I didn't have to write an essay.

[Dreamknight]

I got accepted into Stony Brook! :D :D

I wonder what'll happen with the other schools I applied to?

[Caciss]

Probably some local college, doing crap.

Though I'd love to go into Comic Art, or something like that.

[Dreamknight]

Well, as April comes upon us, I think all the high school seniors here have probably gotten most of their letters from the schools they applied to...so, how'd it go?

For me, it was 3 for 3...well...sorta. I applied to Stony Brook (Stony ****, as it's referred to here for it's burgeoning asian student body), Boston University and NYU, I filled out an application online for Worcester Polytechnic Institute but decided never to sent in a payment...

I got into WPI first...with a nice 52k scholarship for being latino...I might go there...but I'm afraid. I'm not too sure I'm ready to leave home yet...Same with BU, except they offered no scholarship.

And today finished it up...as I got rejected from NYU. :( Go figure, I'm latino and got family connections up the wazoo in that school, and a 3.93 average STILL wasn't enough to get in...kinda ticks me off, I was looking forward to living in the city, and had my heart set on that school. It was still close to home, I could've come back every weekend...but what can you do?

So...I guess I'll be going to Stony **** and I'll just try to get back into NYU next year..right? :)

Hope everyone else got the schools they wanted.

[Riotsword]

Reading this thread has made me realize I will never get to go to college.

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[SirTMagus]

I got rejected from NYU. :( Go figure, I'm latino and got family connections up the wazoo in that school, and a 3.93 average STILL wasn't enough to get in...kinda ticks me off
The NYU Admissions Board is full of crack babies.

A lot of people I know who are MORE than qualified were also rejected from NYU mainly because, as a whole, the #1 most desired school it is, NYU is a snob crackhead. It's completely random. A lot of people who go there do not deserve to go there. It's a shame really, and only proves the college admission process is a random roulette of bull****.

Unless you're an Olsen Twin.

But yeah, sorry to hear that. Congratulations with Boston though! (BU rejected me! :( ) I'd go with that if just because two of my best friends go there (one to BU and one to Emerson).

[d2king10]

Want to go to either Expression or Digi-pen...i want to major in computer animation =)

[KumoShinagi]

Computer Science and Comuter Animation and Graphics.

I'll be taking these next year as a senior.

Those and Japanese 4.

I still don't know if I can get into any colleges that will
allow me to continue Programming and Graphics...

[Redneck 2000]

Reading this thread has made me realize I will never get to go to college.

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Me too. I suck. :(

[Riotsword]

Me too. I suck. :(


Guys who suck, unite! AlexMagusaka, you're a 24-year-old unemployed guy, join us!

[Rain]

I'm only a freshman, but I'm taking a lot of college preparatory classes for what I plan to do.

I'm taking computer graphics, all computer applications and software/hardware classes, entrepreunership, animation, etc.


I'm either going into Game Design, Game art, Game animation, Photography or something of the like.


OOooo..I have no reputation(anywhere), can I join you guys? *excited hopping and cute animeish giggle*


....


:skeptical

[jvrlopez]

I took the p.s.a.t as a junior earlier this year. I dont recall the results exaclty but I remember that I just blew the math section :lol

I didn't bother taking the s.a.t after that. In my senior year, I'm taking electives that focus mainly on s.a.t preperation and scholarship applications. Sad.

I'm also in the dual credit program, which allows me to gain high school and it's college level credit at the same time. By the time I finish high school, I should have credits for English 1301/02, Us History 1301/02, and their sophomore level credits in the same subject. So 4 full credits for $15, the cost of the entrance exam. Wee me.