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its alright im in school till july 28th

While the topic of school is out there, I want to ask you college people a question, as I am headed off to college in a few months.

I mostly hear about how college is going to be from people who studied a lot in school, and needed to for hours to get good grades. I never really needed to study in high school, so there is a level of inconsistency in their prediction that I will be studying for hours every day.

I assume that many of you had the same or similar high school experience as me, in that you didn't study for very long (if at all) for tests, and most of your "studying" came just from the assigned classwork and homework.

How does that kind of high school experience transfer over to college? Will I be in for a world of hurt because I will have to study SO much more? Or will it just be a modest increase in workload and study requirements that I will easily adapt to?

Can't really tell you how it works for the US, but in the UK when you leave college (which, if you're bright you can do really well without too much work) and go to uni it's a bit of a kick in the arse when it comes to exams.

Still, I know UK universities and US colleges operate differently, so this might not be the case. Anywho, one piece of study wisdom is that it's the people who are most organised do better than people who are just clever. Helps to be both though :P

lmao throughout high school all I did was play guitar and go to the beach with my cheerleader girlfriend. i graduated with a 3.7 gpa and went to the first school of my choice


then i go to college, had several midlife crises, dropped out of school, moved across the state, now i'm back in school with a year left and looking to go to some prestigious grad schools


LOLIFE

lol@life is right

i pissed about to much in school i even pissed about to much in college, i don't do well in the education system

NO ONE TELLS AL WHAT TO DO :mad: :mad:

I was drunk for half of my highschool experience, in uni I just go to classes, understand, do some reading of my own and get good grades. Oh, and I'm still drunk half the time

i used to go to one of my friends houses for lunch and he'd sneak vodka into school in a water bottle, one time he spilled it everywhere on his pants and tried to get it off with soap making it worse

oh how i laughed when i was 15

lol
wammy bar

high school is a lol, many people do hardly any work and do just dandy.
however university is different, some people can get by still doing nothing, some have to study more, and most fail miserably. this happens regardless of how well you did in high school

so i dunno what you are taking in uni, (i think that depends alot on how hard you find it) but i would not use highschool to judge how hard uni is going to be.
so go expecting to do work. (i have a feeling you are going to need to). and if it turns out that its a peice of piss, then lucky you

[QUOTE=wammy_bar;17334374]While the topic of school is out there, I want to ask you college people a question, as I am headed off to college in a few months.

I mostly hear about how college is going to be from people who studied a lot in school, and needed to for hours to get good grades. I never really needed to study in high school, so there is a level of inconsistency in their prediction that I will be studying for hours every day.

I assume that many of you had the same or similar high school experience as me, in that you didn't study for very long (if at all) for tests, and most of your "studying" came just from the assigned classwork and homework.

How does that kind of high school experience transfer over to college? Will I be in for a world of hurt because I will have to study SO much more? Or will it just be a modest increase in workload and study requirements that I will easily adapt to?[/QUOTE]

ok bro i kinda could help as i did **** in high school and did just fine. depending on the class. like if its history or sociology, that **** is easy. i never read and did fine in that. but when i started taking maths, biology, chemistry and had labs to do, i actually had to study cuz i started struggling big time. i actually am changing my major from biology in a concentration in marine biology to Police studies cuz tbh i cant do chem, bio, and math anymore. i just finished my math class that i'd ever need and with a D and i rly did study hard but if i cant even do good in math and do only just decent in chem, for me its not worth doing and anyway, i kinda wanna be a cop now.

if i were you id take a balance of mayb 2 easy and then 2 harder class. i was only able to do 4 classes at a time because i needed a gap where i had a 3.5 hour block for labs and i also didn't live on campus. i basically took all easy **** in my 1st year and was like lol this is nothing then the 2nd year i took like a bio, math, sociology, and history at once and was like o shi im done. and this past semester was def. my hardest yet.

good luq bro. sorry about the way i type

yeah don't like 18 hours at a time like I did for two years straight. that will get you hating college in no time! take like 15 hours and save enough free time to spend on girls/drugs/food in whatever order you want.

Y'see, uni (which as far as I've gathered is kinda equivalent to college in the US) you don't get to choose your hours. I got landed with 30 hours a week for the first semester.... fortunatly it changed to 16 by the second but fu[SIZE=2]ck[/SIZE] me it was a tough first few months

wtf 30 hours a week how is that possible

it's pretty much 9 till 5 or 4 (usually 5!) every day, aside from wednesdays which was 9-12 (plus however long your personal tutor felt like chatting).

And add on top of this, at the time I was living in the **** halls of residence. The ones that were 3 miles out of town and were full of asbestos. And the beds were kinda like low shelves.

i spend an hour an 15 mins traveling each way to school

i walk to school, we have a special path in my development

i walk to the bus stop, take 2 buses, then walk another 7 mins. to class

Should I trade my Rectoverb for a MacBookPro?
I don't use/like the Mesa and I could sell the MBP if I don't like it, I see this as win/win.

you should sell your mesa and then use the money to get those tattoos removed

[QUOTE=JoshIsNumber3;17335423]you should sell your mesa and then use the money to get those tattoos removed[/QUOTE]

we should have "like" buttons in here

I rarely post on this board.

[QUOTE=wammy_bar;17334374]While the topic of school is out there, I want to ask you college people a question, as I am headed off to college in a few months.

I mostly hear about how college is going to be from people who studied a lot in school, and needed to for hours to get good grades. I never really needed to study in high school, so there is a level of inconsistency in their prediction that I will be studying for hours every day.

I assume that many of you had the same or similar high school experience as me, in that you didn't study for very long (if at all) for tests, and most of your "studying" came just from the assigned classwork and homework.

How does that kind of high school experience transfer over to college? Will I be in for a world of hurt because I will have to study SO much more? Or will it just be a modest increase in workload and study requirements that I will easily adapt to?[/QUOTE]

i never did any studying or anything in highschool. mostly never payed attention, etc, but graduated with a 3.5 i think. had a 4.0 my senior year, haha. college is totally different though. likely for your first year and a half or so you're going to be taking mostly GE courses and maybe one major course, so in a sence it will be a bit like high school (ie. not really that hard) but there is usually more homework. this, however, is compensated for as there is much less class time compared to highschool. throughout college so far i've only ever had 2 classes a day (4 total, there are tuesday/thrusday classes and monday/wednesday/friday classes at my school).

when you start doing major courses though, (about the beginning of junior year for me, it started getting more srs and hard) you'll get more homework, more projects, harder class work, etc. i've found i never have time to sit around and stare at the wall in my classes (save for the occasional super easy class). you just have to learn to be responsible (ie. study for a test [I]before[/I] you go get pissed, or dont get drunk the night before a test... monday tests are the worst), and you also need to learn to manage your time. this last semester, the month before classes ended was pretty much the most hectic month evar for me, as i had tests for all my classes one week, then i had projects and project presentations due the next two weeks, and then finals the week after that. lots of back to back tests during that time, and i had to decide when to do things, etc so i didnt end up doing entire class projects the night before they were due and also studying for a final at the same time. ended up getting three A's and a B though so i figure i was successful.

Well, it looks like I'm gonna be in for either a slight kick in the pants, which I could handle, or some kind of transition period leading up to seriously hard work. Either way, it sounds better than what everybody has told me it would be. Everybody here was like OMG 15 HOURS OF STUDYING A WEEK THE SECOND YOU GET THERE.

I'll use the time I'm given to learn my way around the place, the workload, and the kind of studying I will have to be good at. Thanks for the replies, I guess mx still delivers after all.

only if you're an asian in the pre-pharm program.

engineering program also seems pretty hard.

don't forget business

NYC budget cuts r bad. they raise the bus and train fare and now less buses come. i waited 30 mins for one of my buses and was late to class

im wondering if GC is gonna have any 4th of july sales, i need a bass cab

but really even then there selection is pretty crappy...

yes, they are having a sale

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I'm thinking of ordering an 8 string Agile in September. Good idea?

nah

Only if your name is TBF.

I can have it legally changed....

No other good place to put this:

I've been playing guitar for about 5 years now and I'd like to start playing some other stringed instruments. I figure I'll start small and cheap and try a violin.

Anyone with experience have any notes about the ease of transitioning to the instrument?

Also, should I not even bother buying a 40-60 dollar violin or will one in that range be decent for a beginner?

violins are something you really shouldn't skimp on from my experience. i had a real nice one, and it was probably around a $500 violin, and it was known as a "student" violin. anyway, i had the same idea as you, thinking i'd probably be able to make the transition, and i failed miserably. i sold the violin and ended up getting a mandolin, and while it's nowhere near as hard to figure out, it's a real challenge still. either a mandolin or a banjo i would suggest to you. they seem so similar, but it's really a lot different and fun. much like sexual encounters with trannies

My buddy bought a cheapo mandolin a long time ago and it's fun to dick around on. I have no desire to spend more than $75 on something, though. I just don't have the spare cash.

Hmmm...There's a violin shop near my college, so I guess I'll wait until the school year and try some out in shop.

Maybe renting? Not too confident about a $500 violin in a college dorm room with two other guys, though >_>

while it'd be really cool if you actually ended up being able to get good at violin, i became real frustrated really quick and had to get rid of it, before things got broken.

1. you houldnt really skimp out when you buy a violin

2. the violin is VERY hard to play, so you should start very young and should expect to be playing a looooooooooooooooooooong time before you get anywhere near what people would say is decent

odd choice of instrument to transition to

What about bass and/or ukelele?

beer and a BBQ later whose in


some pool and music too most likely

good day ahead i says