North0House2
12.05.11 | Sometimes I hate life/education/slash/slash/ugh. |
Hyperion1001
12.05.11 | in all seriousness college isnt worth unless you really need it for what you want to do
a college education is nothing compared to what it was a couple decades ago |
ExtremeSpeakers
12.05.11 | Hang in there |
North0House2
12.05.11 | That's what I'm slowly finding out as I see my friends get drunk and go into debt.
I honestly won't use my degree, and I know I won't. So, it's hard to be like this when my family has a history of PhD's and whatnot. |
Eclecticist
12.05.11 | If you want to be a farmer then you go to college for agriculture or you go to university for engineering in whichever field of agricultural education you want to specialize in. For example, I used to work with the spanish guy who had a Ph.D in growing mango. |
reaganomics777
12.05.11 | There are some great degrees if you want to be a farmer. Agricultural Business is an example. You have to do the research though: go out and talk to people in your field, see which schools have what degrees etc. |
Hyperion1001
12.05.11 | if you know you arent going to use it, dont get it
the debt/money isn't worth it |
Eclecticist
12.05.11 | Education is a great idea if you want to become a farmer because you will learn techniques and strategies that will only aid you considerably in the future. Yea you may know how to farm one way and it may be an excellent way to farm but it couldn't hurt to learn and expand on what you know. Also, I am more than certain that there are grants and scholarships available for people who want to be farmers and are getting an education in agriculture considering there was that giant scare a few years ago when the media started saying that farming was at such a rapid decline that there may be no one left to grow food in North America, stupidness. |
North0House2
12.05.11 | "There are some great degrees if you want to be a farmer. Agricultural Business is an example. You have to do the research though: go out and talk to people in your field, see which schools have what degrees etc."
Yeah dude, I was kinda thinking of getting an Ag Business degree. But, I don't wanna pay CSU 10K plus a year or whatever just for that. I wish my community college had that degree, it has almost everything else. :P haha. I might go for a business degree since I'm going to be starting my own endeavor anyway.
"I used to work with the spanish guy who had a Ph.D in growing mango."
That's just epic.
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Recspecs
12.05.11 | Follow your heart. |
Recspecs
12.05.11 | Whoa whoa whoa, what's wrong with partying? |
Ignimbrite
12.05.11 | Yee breh, I can't wait to get to college. I want to major in geology or geophysics, then preferably get a PhD afterwards. I understand why some people don't love the prospect of college, though. |
Acanthus
12.05.11 | Going to college as a last resort is something I'd not recommend, nor is going if you truly don't want to.
It gets old quickly if you're "heart" isn't in it, I wish you the best sir. |
DinoX
12.05.11 | College sucks especially studying for exams coming up this week :/ |
Trebor.
12.05.11 | Just go to community college
It's cheap as shit and a lot less time consuming and stressful
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MisterTornado
12.05.11 | Your profile picture is fucking great North |
Samshine
12.05.11 | Honestly, don't rush into it if you don't know what you want to do. That's my best advice. I went into college right after high school, dicked around for two years.. wasted about 8 grand, and only now, in my third year have i found out what i want to do. |
patman1001
12.05.11 | What sam said, but if you want to go to school and get some gen eds out of the way do them at a community college and make sure the credits transfer to where you want to go when you're done. |
Satellite
12.05.11 | there are more lists made about highschoolers being apprehensive towards college than digs lists lately
seriously stop taking shit so seriously |
BallsToTheWall
12.05.11 | I farmed for two years, it was fucking fun and totally worth it. Go for it bra. |
Ignimbrite
12.05.11 | "there are more lists made about highschoolers being apprehensive towards college than digs lists lately
seriously stop taking shit so seriously"
We are the class of 2012, and we are unreasonably and unhealthily stressed about colleges right now. This is the way it is, and the way it always has been. |
Trebor.
12.05.11 | You shouldn't stress about shit that doesn't matter
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klap
12.05.11 | get a scholarship boom |
Gilgamahesh
12.05.11 | Class of 2012? Better get to applying then guys. Trebor, man, what do you do for a living? Because in most fields it matters where you get your diploma from.
"For example, I used to work with the spanish guy who had a Ph.D in growing mango."
There's a PhD for that? Fuck me that's cool. |
someguest
12.05.11 | Go to college. Only be a farmer if your girlfriend is rich.
And cool profile picture. |
Gilgamahesh
12.05.11 | Balls, man, it's not the same for you. You did say you didn't care about having a family or having money or anything. |
Trebor.
12.05.11 | Oh no I didn't get into UCLA and I have to go to UC Riverside instead
Might as well kill myself
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klap
12.05.11 | nah man you'd have to kill yourself if you went to UCLA |
Trebor.
12.05.11 | Exactly
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captaincrunch11
12.05.11 | College is the shit. |
Gilgamahesh
12.05.11 | Dude have you seen some of the chicks who go to UCLA? I'd go there just to get some of that. |
Trebor.
12.05.11 | Yeah but the chicks at CSU schools are easier
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Gilgamahesh
12.05.11 | Standards, my man. Standards. I look decent and I go to the gym so I can afford to have standards. You should get some too. |
onereallysillygoose
12.05.11 | As a recent grad I would suggest you just look at College as an end in itself rather than a means to a career or something. I went to UC and it changed the way that I see the world intellectually, and it changed a lot of my social perspectives. If you're willing to pay for CSU you might as well go to CC for two years and transfer to UC. |
toxin.
12.05.11 | "Oh no I didn't get into UCLA and I have to go to UC Riverside instead
Might as well kill myself"
I don't get the logic here. If you're trying to be a doctor or engineer, going to UCR is going to fuck up your chances of getting into graduate school. I agree that there's too large of an emphasis placed on what school you get into, but having that pedigree helps.
My friend is an awesome baker (seniors in high school) and she's stressed out about getting into UCLA when I keep telling her UCI is completely fine, because she just needs the business skills to learn to manage a business and also to get a few jobs to see how things are done & run.
But then, if you have aspirations to be a top executive of a major company, you need that pedigree for obvious reasons. I mean a Community College degree doesn't cut it. My dad got his bachelor's at some college in India, but he got his MBA at UGA (note that UGA isn't even a top tier school) and he said that MBA made a world of difference to get his jobs (which were pretty important [can't tell if he's exaggerating his importance or not]).
So yeah I don't really agree with that mindset in the least. |
Gilgamahesh
12.05.11 | ^ +1
Hey, another coconut. Good to know I'm not the only ABCD hereabouts. |
toxin.
12.05.11 | Haha, we're probably the only two on the entire site. |
Trebor.
12.05.11 | I don't want to be a doctor or an engineer geez
I'm just a lowly film student |
toxin.
12.05.11 | Trebor, and I'm sure you know exactly what you're doing to pursue that career choice.
Even then, doesn't school-name brand mean something? I coulda sworn my friend (who also wants to study film) said something about NYU being really important.
But yeah, for the record, if I had to go to UC Riverside I probably would kill myself because I'd never get my dream job of being an aerospace engineer/ astrophysicist |
Trebor.
12.05.11 | Dude, it's impossible to get into NYU Film
Like they accept 20 people a year |
toxin.
12.05.11 | Oh, yeah no point applying there. There'll always be some people who do crazy shit like slave over some internship in Paris in order to get in there.
Either way you'll be fine. It's like my friend trying to get into the UCSD combined med program that only accepts 12 people. I don't know what the point is when he can go somewhere else and eventually be a doctor anyways |
Trebor.
12.05.11 | Star Fleet Academy is still the hardest place to get into to |
klap
12.05.11 | trebor why didn't you come to usc |
Gilgamahesh
12.05.11 | Hey, if I got into NYU with a crap gpa then so can you. It's the cost that you have to worry about. |
