ahh the halcyon days of college, i remember them as if they were yesterday. oh wait...that was yesterday because i'm still here. i just started grad school in petroleum engineering at UT after undergradding (yes undergradding) in chemical engineering. Like it so far? sort of. i haven't started my research yet (apparently won't be starting until october 7th according to my professor which is fine by me) so with only 9 hours and having no tests so far it feels like i hardly do anything. i get a hw assignment a week pretty much in each class, wait til about 2 in the morning the night before to do it, stay up real late, get it done and turn it in. then i have essentially nothing to do for that class for 7 days, no studying, no research, kinda weird. even though i haven't really taken advantage of it, one very cool thing is that all of my classes are videotaped for remote students, so there are virtually no consequences to skipping. but as of now, it's good to go to get a group of friends going since all my undergrad friends have moved on. i will say this advanced reservoir engineering class i'm taking has me feeling like i'm in way over my head. like i was supposed to take something before i took this (but my research professor said i should take this) and now i feel like i'm just jumping in at the deep end. of course, if i took a little more time outside of class (as in any time at all) to look over the material it would probably make more sense. the other two classes aren't bad and one is just essentially a review of the math we learned in undergrad (diff eq, matrices, etc). UT girls are absolutely ridiculous. maybe i knew this and just forgot, but NIKE, you're just starting college? for some reason i had you pegged as much older. now i feel old for being a grad student. maybe all the CBA knowledge fooled me into thinking you were older. nice to see you chose the right school. time?!? Where do you go and what are you majoring in? College was crazy for me. No time to sleep or stop and take a break. really? did you come in with any AP credit or switch majors around and thus have to continually take a lot of classes? granted, i came into UT with about 50 hours of AP and at least 30+ of that went toward the 128 i needed for my degree, so i regularly took 12 or 13 hours, but still even the 16 hour semester i had wasn't that terrible (though by comparison it was). granted, i essentially got to copy every hw assignment from my 2nd year on from friends who didn't mind doing it and who knew i'd be willing to "help out" come test day since i'd always learn the material eventually and was good at taking tests. i just couldn't be bothered to do it anytime before the day before the test which meant i didn't know it for hw. i swear, the depths of the lack of work i did my last 3 semesters while maintaining my 4.0 were truly astounding. i actually went 6 weeks without stepping foot into a classroom except for tests my second to last semester. we had a big project to do outside of class in one class but i didn't go to class for 6 weeks. even i couldn't believe it. of course it eventually caught up to me in my very last class, senior lab, where i pulled a solid C, but by then i cared so little it didn't matter. actually having to put some effort into the class would've been much worse than just taking the C. i was such a good student my first year. went to all my classes, did all my homework, never dreamed of cheating, then once our main che classes kicked in and i had my che group of friends, all hell broke loose. cheating so bad you couldn't believe it, copying all homework, never going to class. it was paradise. now i'm having trouble shaking those bad habits i picked up. i actually have to do homework by myself, i'll have to study and not cheat, i have to go to class to figure stuff out. it's terrible. but hey, it beats the real world. and they pay me to go here, fancy that.
"The University Song" by Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie Hi. Uh like I just got out of high school right and um my parents say that since I'm not in school anymore that I gotta pay like 300 bucks a month rent right and that is so unfair I could just kill them right. Plus my mom wants me to work in a bank and I'm like no way, I don't think so. I'm 18 and it's my right as an adult to have my parents support me. But it's okay with me, cause I can see a way out of my travesty my parents can pay, and I'll be free I'm going to University hee hee hee hee hee hee hee Well, they lowered the entrance requirements while they raised the tuition fee So the university has a lot more room for stupid rich kids like me. And now I'm living in residence, I got a discount at the flicks I drive there in my BMW to impress all the chicks and my tests are always multiple choice so there's lots of time for recreation and even if I flunk out of psychology there's always physical education at University yeah who you be oh lucky me gonna get a degree a BSc in psychology I'll become a responsible member of society I gotta groovy little knapsack just like everybody here and if I choose to skip off a class I'll go and blow my student loan on beer and my english course is easy my prof is very impressed I buy every one of my essays and Cole's notes gets me through the tests so now I'm sitting in sub with a coffee wondering what will become of me because there will become a date when I graduate I have to debate my eventual fate but I'll be calm yeah I'll be cool I'll take Dad's advice and go to law school cause I'm rich and I'm white and I can do whatever I like In Canada I'll get a job I'll get a wife I'll have two kids and that'll be my life I'll have an affair at 35 it'll rock my marriage but I'll survive At 43 I'll become an MP in a good Tory constituency it'll be real neat I'll kiss enough butt to get a Senate seat I'll die old and rich ah lucky me I learned about the system here at University hee hee hee hee hee hee hee at University yeah who you be oh lucky me gonna get a degree a BSc in psychology I'll become a responsible member of society
holy ****, we may be twins. fall '03 was my apex of unproductivity. like you, i went nearly one month w/o stepping into a single classroom.... and i wasn't skipping class due to work because i had no job. i truly amazed myself that semester. and i still managed to pull a 3.33. my parents would **** a brick if they saw how i'm spending their money on my "education." but hey, it's college. i'm enjoying every last second of it, especially while the folks still foot the bill.
Ahhhhhhh MIAMI. PROS South Beach Clubbing Drinking No. 4-ranked football team Met Larry Coker Met SHAQ on Tuesday (WITH PICS, but I'll put the rockHEAD rule off for a little bit) Met Willie Williams (guy who was arrested 11 times and still accepted here; he supposedly had 'good' SAT scores) Met Antrel Rolle THE WOMEN (Alabama is still better overall, but the diversity here is ****ing incredible!!!!) THE WOMEN sunbathing THE WOMEN sunbathing topless on South Beach The weather Saw the Dalai Lama yesterday Presidential Debate next week (2500 journalists are staying literally feet away from my dorm; expect pics over the next few weeks) Majoring in Sport Administration CONS: -Hurricanes (but hey, I've gotten class cancelled because of Frances) Oh yeah, and I go to class MWF (NO Tuesday or Thursday classes! I have the best schedule compared to everyone else I know).
Hi guys im back! met my roomates, one is cool the other brought a fridge, so that'll make him cool too. I don't know too many people there, but my ultra hip roomate introduced me to lots of people and so that was pretty cool. It's coed but at first i thought it would just be nerdy girls (aka haroldandkumar cindykim) but there were actually some decent girls there. I Met these other 3 girls who roomed upstairs and me and my roomate just stay there because we both don't have our computers yet. I only had one class and that was today from 10:30 to 11:30. I also learnt that there was this website lol, it's called gradecalpoly.com and you get to see what others thought about the proffessors. I'm gonna change one of them because he got bad reviews so yeah that's pretty cool.
College is easy. Tests every now and then, optional attendance, low responsibilities...... Have a family, and then realize that summer only means it is hotter on the way to the office. DD
Yup, college was something that you never realized how great it was until after you get out. I remember my 3rd semester (which was a long, long time ago aka the fall of 1992), I saw this guy on campus that I had a class with the previous spring. He had graduated with his bachelors and was now working out in the real world. He recognized me and we chatted for a little bit. I'll never forget the last thing he said to me: "I would stay in school as long as I can if I was you dude. Getting a job and having to work it in the real world sucks!" But I will tell you what sucks more than that...having a full-time job in the real world AND taking 2 graduate business classes, usually at night. I say usually because I got roped into taking this one b*stard class on Saturdays - f*cking 9 in the morning to 5 in the evening. Oh well, the good news is that it ends soon (October 9 is the last meeting), but it is something that I will never do again. And won't have to because next semester is my last, as I am on target to graduate in the Spring of 2005. Oh and in grad school, just like as an undergrad, you will still get "senioritis". I have a bad case of it right now!
WTF. 9-5 is practically a whole work day (I say practically because it doesn't seem like anyone gets paid for lunch anymore). That's pretty effed up. I'm going to night school at a community college now, and I've got a saturday class too. But it's only 9:40-12:30. And the teacher doesn't mind me slipping in a few minutes late.
