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At 6/25/09 11:18 AM, stranger14 wrote: Hey guys, I go to Mount Ida College in Massachusetts. I'm an animation major!

Welcome man. So your pretty good at animation? Perhaps a College Life flash to get this club some more recognition. :P

At 6/25/09 01:40 PM, Elfer wrote:

Unfortunately many of us live in the real world where we all need to get a job some time and we have to pay for our own tuition, so if we fail a class we're fucked.

My parents are paying for me, but if I fuck up then they will cut me off. I have failed a class and that almost pushed them to stop the money right there, but I promised that I would get a job and everything and they get all of the paycheck except for about 5 or 10 dollars.. which isn't a lot obviously, but I got to do what I got to do and since their paying for my college I can't argue.

Most students in college are gay. Just sayin'

At 6/26/09 11:10 AM, Paryl wrote: Most students in college are gay. Just sayin'

Man, you suck! Why yuo gotta be liek dat, huh!?`1

At 6/26/09 07:50 AM, Fro wrote: My parents are paying for me, but if I fuck up then they will cut me off. I have failed a class and that almost pushed them to stop the money right there, but I promised that I would get a job and everything and they get all of the paycheck except for about 5 or 10 dollars.. which isn't a lot obviously, but I got to do what I got to do and since their paying for my college I can't argue.

Gee yeah, it must be rough to have parents that will pay for your tuition and only let you fail a single class.

Oh wait, never mind.

At 6/25/09 11:46 AM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote: I know it's the 1st year and all and it's a doss, but I got 75.5% overall after all modules final marks were released!

Congrats, got my results back as well, and I have similar sentiments about first year being a bit of a doss, but I'm ecstatic nonetheless. For all my worrying about different exams, I managed a QCA of 3.8 for the spring semester, and a 3.9 for the year, which I'm over the moon with. Got a letter from the university president as well, granted it was a paste-name-and-QCA type congratulatory letter that everyone who achieves above a 3.5 gets, but it's nice nonetheless.

Pity that my first year results don't count towards my degree >:(

At 7/22/09 09:28 AM, Elfer wrote:

Gee yeah, it must be rough to have parents that will pay for your tuition and only let you fail a single class.

Oh wait, never mind.

Where does it say that I said I had it rough at all? Clearly you didn't read it the right way and I was saying the total opposite. I was saying that I was lucky that my parents were paying for my college and the only thing that I had to do in return was give them my pay checks to help out. You really took that out of context unless I just did the same thing here.

Anyway, summer class is over. I got an A in my speech class. When the class first started I wasn't doing the best, but I finally found my study habits somewhere deep inside of myself. Probably because I only had one class I only had to focus on the one thing.

Every night a 4 - 7 page paper was due and an online exam. Presentations were almost daily too. Summer classes are hard like that though because it's all those days put down into only 25 days of class.

So i passed first semester with 2 passes and 2 credits, and starting 3rd day of 2nd semester tomorrow. Epic.

At 7/29/09 02:26 AM, SpeedMetalSandwich wrote: So i passed first semester with 2 passes and 2 credits, and starting 3rd day of 2nd semester tomorrow. Epic.

Nice work!

I did pretty well, 3 Distinctions and a High Distinction, which I'm pretty thrilled about.

At 7/29/09 07:21 AM, ParadoxVoid wrote:

At 7/29/09 02:26 AM, SpeedMetalSandwich wrote: So i passed first semester with 2 passes and 2 credits, and starting 3rd day of 2nd semester tomorrow. Epic.

Nice work!

Cheers!

I did pretty well, 3 Distinctions and a High Distinction, which I'm pretty thrilled about.

I said it before, and ill say it again, EPIC :O

At 7/29/09 02:26 AM, SpeedMetalSandwich wrote: So i passed first semester with 2 passes and 2 credits, and starting 3rd day of 2nd semester tomorrow. Epic.

Congrats and keep up the good work. :)

At 7/29/09 07:21 AM, ParadoxVoid wrote:

I did pretty well, 3 Distinctions and a High Distinction, which I'm pretty thrilled about.

Nice. I don't know what this means, but you're proud of it so it must be good. :) Ha, care to explain what exactly this stuff means to me?

I have a big project to get started on here after this weekend. My portfolio for my student teaching. If I don't do much except for work on it for about a week or two then it'll be finished and then I just have to worry about practicing it so I can present it. I don't even remember what exactly needs to be done with it, but I'm not even going to worry about it until this weekend because I want to have some summer here even if it's only a weeks worth.

At 7/29/09 09:51 PM, Fro wrote: Nice. I don't know what this means, but you're proud of it so it must be good. :) Ha, care to explain what exactly this stuff means to me?

It's the Australian grading system for Universities I guess... I think it varies a little from University to University, but in general, the grading system goes:

0-49: Fail
50-59: Pass
60-69: Credit
70-79: Distinction
80+ : High Distinction

That's how it works at Australian National University anyway, not sure about University of Western Sydney which is where SpeedMetalSandwich goes.

Hey guys, I'm about to go to my orientation at Edinboro University of PA next week and I thought it was about time to just schmooze on in. I'm hoping the orientation goes well, which it seems it undoubtedly will, even though I never toured the campus before applying. I'm going to be staying in the dorms the night before since the Orientation starts at 8 am and I live about 5 hours away.

Classes start up in the end of August and I'm counting the days nwo, finally I can get out of this fucking Valley! :D

Ya know what I mean Fro.

Hey 2,000th post.

At 7/29/09 09:55 PM, ParadoxVoid wrote:

It's the Australian grading system for Universities I guess... I think it varies a little from University to University, but in general, the grading system goes:

0-49: Fail
50-59: Pass
60-69: Credit
70-79: Distinction
80+ : High Distinction

I see that makes sense. I knew it had something to with the grades, but I wouldn't have guessed it was the grading system itself. I guess I'm just use the A, B, C, D, F, system that we use. I don't exactly know the scale because most of the time the teachers create their own. I've had some classes where a 40 was a D (which is passing), but most are 60 being a D.

I know in high school where I went a 70 was the lowest grade you could get to pass, which was still the D. Ah, high school... back when I had a 4.00 GPA somewhere around a 97 or 98 average and was still ranked 30th in my class. I can't believe that there was that many people above a 98% average, but there was.

My GPA now in college is just above a 3.20 so I have a little room for mistake as I only need a 3.00 to be a teacher, but I'd like to have around a 3.30 average when I graduated. I think that's my final goal and that will involve me taking Economics again and actually passing it this time. -_-

At 7/29/09 10:21 PM, ixintro wrote: Hey guys, I'm about to go to my orientation at Edinboro University of PA next week and I thought it was about time to just schmooze on in. I'm hoping the orientation goes well, which it seems it undoubtedly will, even though I never toured the campus before applying. I'm going to be staying in the dorms the night before since the Orientation starts at 8 am and I live about 5 hours away.

I never went to my orientation, but I did go on a tour so I knew my way around Lock Haven a little bit already. No matter how well you know the campus it still seems like you have trouble finding your class the first time you're there.

Good luck to you though! When I was having my summer class down at Lock Haven and saw orientation kids down there all summer it seemed. If you happen to see anybody from Canton tell them I said hi because I know all of them. You know how small schools are around here I don't need to explain that to you.

Classes start up in the end of August and I'm counting the days nwo, finally I can get out of this fucking Valley! :D

Ya know what I mean Fro.

Haha, yeah I know what you mean. Want to know what I hated the most about the Valley? The god damn Valley refs in the sports. Especially those Shaw brothers who reffed football and basketball. (You should know who I'm talking about as they were from Sayre if I'm not mistaken)

But at least in Sayre you guys have some stuff. It's nothing like the gas stations and one red light that we have in our town here in Canton. Sayre is like a huge city to me. O.o Try living in my town for about a month and you'll be missing your town I guarantee it.

Actually, Canton isn't too different from Lock Haven except for the fact that we have businesses and stores in Lock Haven unlock Canton. It's small, quiet, hill, mountains, woods, etc.. You should see how many people freak out from big cities when they see a cow let alone a bear for the first time.

I think I've come to find that people will complain about where they live no matter what though. They always think their town is dull or boring. Let's see how they would like the towns in our area if they think their town is like that.

Hey 2,000th post.

Nice place to post it too right? ;)

I'm closing in on my 9,000 post here sooner or later.

At 7/31/09 12:39 AM, Fro wrote:

I never went to my orientation, but I did go on a tour so I knew my way around Lock Haven a little bit already. No matter how well you know the campus it still seems like you have trouble finding your class the first time you're there.

I'm guessing I'll still be lost as fuck the first day haha.

Good luck to you though! When I was having my summer class down at Lock Haven and saw orientation kids down there all summer it seemed. If you happen to see anybody from Canton tell them I said hi because I know all of them. You know how small schools are around here I don't need to explain that to you.

There will maybe be a few kids from our area, I'm the only one who graduated this year from The Valley going there but there's a few Athens and Sayre people up there from like '07 and '06. I'll keep an eye out.

Haha, yeah I know what you mean. Want to know what I hated the most about the Valley? The god damn Valley refs in the sports. Especially those Shaw brothers who reffed football and basketball. (You should know who I'm talking about as they were from Sayre if I'm not mistaken)

They still cheat as much as ever, fuck every school around here has biased refs, it's a cancer on high school sports! Hell, even refs bet on elementary soccer now.

But at least in Sayre you guys have some stuff. It's nothing like the gas stations and one red light that we have in our town here in Canton. Sayre is like a huge city to me. O.o Try living in my town for about a month and you'll be missing your town I guarantee it.

I get to move out to big ol' Erie, really cultural town I hear, but I just want to get away from all the dumbfucks I know around here. Even though Sayre is pretty nice, sometimes. I always don't realize I'm going through Canton until we see the High School.

Actually, Canton isn't too different from Lock Haven except for the fact that we have businesses and stores in Lock Haven unlock Canton. It's small, quiet, hill, mountains, woods, etc.. You should see how many people freak out from big cities when they see a cow let alone a bear for the first time.

Edinboro, big resort town for some reason.

I think I've come to find that people will complain about where they live no matter what though. They always think their town is dull or boring. Let's see how they would like the towns in our area if they think their town is like that.

I'll be sick of Edinboro by October, just you watch lol

At 7/31/09 12:49 AM, ixintro wrote:

I'm guessing I'll still be lost as fuck the first day haha.

And like I said it was more being lost inside of the buildings then it is actually getting to the buildings.

There will maybe be a few kids from our area, I'm the only one who graduated this year from The Valley going there but there's a few Athens and Sayre people up there from like '07 and '06. I'll keep an eye out.

Yeah, I know of a few Athens kids there, but I don't really know many Sayre kids to be honest. Just the names that I knew from track and football.

They still cheat as much as ever, fuck every school around here has biased refs, it's a cancer on high school sports! Hell, even refs bet on elementary soccer now.

And I always thought it was like this everywhere. That was until I played with neutral refs one time in a game Vs. Montgomery. I don't know why the regular refs didn't show up, but they brought some in from NY I think and it was the first fair game that I played in awhile. They are really bad in Sayre. :P

I get to move out to big ol' Erie, really cultural town I hear, but I just want to get away from all the dumbfucks I know around here. Even though Sayre is pretty nice, sometimes. I always don't realize I'm going through Canton until we see the High School.

I see what you mean now. You're just trying to get rid of the idiots and start over a new somewhere else. Don't worry there will be idiots there too. XD You just have much more chances of avoiding them in college.

I'll be sick of Edinboro by October, just you watch lol

The only thing I dislike about Lock Haven is the weather and the train that goes by at three in the morning. Whenever the weather channel says it's going to be 90 in our area it's well into the 100's. It's like there is some sort of globe over us. I woke up one day when it was snowing and when I was out of my class it was in the 80's. It's really messed up there and rains all the time.

The train.. goes by my room at three in the morning all the time. If it doesn't wake me up I'm fine, but if it wakes me up I don't go back to bed. O.O

At 7/31/09 12:39 AM, Fro wrote: My GPA now in college is just above a 3.20 so I have a little room for mistake as I only need a 3.00 to be a teacher, but I'd like to have around a 3.30 average when I graduated. I think that's my final goal and that will involve me taking Economics again and actually passing it this time. -_-

I know of a guy who graduated with an Economics degree, if you need some tutoring.

hint hint

So how many hours do you have left anyways Fro? Thinking about getting a Masters?

At 8/3/09 01:46 PM, reverend wrote:

I know of a guy who graduated with an Economics degree, if you need some tutoring.

hint hint

Yes, I'll need all the help that I can get. I'll admit that I really never understood any of it the first time around and that I should have went and got help from the teacher during their hours, but I guess I thought I could make it by because I never failed anything before. I was wrong.

So how many hours do you have left anyways Fro? Thinking about getting a Masters?

Hmm, 2 more years with 5 classes a semester. Still quite a bit to do. After that I'm going to go right to work especially since if you're working as a teacher they will pay for any other classes that you take while you are working. You have to take so many credits every so many years to continue your education.

I'm about to enter my second year after this fall semester. Got to register for classes soon. Almost done with my summer course, which is a plus.

At 8/3/09 11:15 PM, RazorTimeLordPenguin wrote: I'm about to enter my second year after this fall semester. Got to register for classes soon. Almost done with my summer course, which is a plus.

Nice, but I'll never take a summer class again unless I fail another class this upcoming year and I need to catch up. I only have one more summer of my college career anyway. :O

Should be getting my room assignment here pretty soon and I'm hoping I'm on the first floor (since the place that I'm living doesn't have an elevator) and that I get the roommate that I requested. And don't think that I'm too lazy to live on a floor other than the first floor, it's just too hard move a fridge and big stuff up that many steps.

Ok, so I went to my college orientation yesterday. It was really cool! The town is really nice, the dorms (I stayed in) were really slick and all the people were just great. I realized the dorm I was assigned was a shithole though, and apparently there's a rumor going around the a kid hung himself in my dorm room in 2006. So I'm transfering to a better dorm. I met a ton of kids in my degree almost immediately and we hung out all day, by the end, everyone was trying to hook-up as roommates. The animation studio is amazing, has a big green screen that's like 45x30x15 in the TV studio, can't wait to screw around with the stuff!

At 8/5/09 10:27 PM, ixintro wrote: Ok, so I went to my college orientation yesterday. It was really cool! The town is really nice, the dorms (I stayed in) were really slick

Here you say the dorms are nice.

and all the people were just great. I realized the dorm I was assigned was a shithole though,

And here you say the dorm is a shithole. :P

and apparently there's a rumor going around the a kid hung himself in my dorm room in 2006. So I'm transfering to a better dorm. I met a ton of kids in my degree almost immediately and we hung out all day, by the end, everyone was trying to hook-up as roommates. The animation studio is amazing, has a big green screen that's like 45x30x15 in the TV studio, can't wait to screw around with the stuff!

Oh god, what I wouldn't give to be in a major like yours, but I don't have the talent or desire to do something like that. I love doing TV stuff though and miss doing stuff in the old TV studio here in Canton.

And for the hanging thing.. every year that I've went to Lock Haven someone has committed suicide. I wonder if people would apply if the application said, "There may be a small chance that you commit suicide!".

It's been awhile since I posted in this club. Guess I can just tell people what life has been like for me. I graduated last May with a Bachelors in Sociology (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign). So afterwards I wasn't sure what was going to happen. Facing the fact that I had graduated into the worst job economy in a very long time, all I could do was look on job websites for anything remotely related to that field. Usually sociology has the advantage of being able to be applied to many different types of jobs leaving many options open, but the economy at this time made those jobs very hard to come by.

After a few weeks of pre/post graduation job searching and finding nothing, I decided to take a step back and take some time to clear my head. It was during this time that I attended three NG meetups (Michigan, Montreal, Philadelphia) and those trips helped me not worry about the stress of finding a job. Right before my Philadelphia trip, I saw an ad on TV that Comcast was hiring for their sales department. So I decided to apply, got an interview, and did the interview all before my trip. On the second to last day of the trip I got a call back letting me know that I had gotten the job.

And that job is what I'm currently doing which is basically selling door to door. I can easily say that it's not my ideal job and it's certainly not what I pictured I'd be doing out of college but at this point, when almost nobody is hiring, I have to stay where I am. The pay for it is surprisingly good as I get a 35K base and commission on sales. Just meeting quota every month means you'll be making around 70-75K per year. Even with the good pay there are trade offs like the stress of meeting quota and having to deal with rejection a lot. I can handle most of it, but when you've gone a full day and nobody gives you a chance or a positive response, it can bring your morale down a bit.

I don't know exactly what I want to do in the future after this. Like I said, I'm waiting for the job market to improve and I'm lightly looking at other job opportunities around the area. At the very least I can stay for 6 months and after that depending on how well I do, I either get canned for not meeting quota (which is very easy to do) or stay on for a bit longer before finding something different.

So yeah that's whats up with me.

I guess I'm kind of scared of going to college, finishing, and then getting a job not even related to what I went to college in the first place for too. I'm hoping graduating with a teaching degree will get me in somewhere though. Your job pays a hell of a lot more than a teaching job though. If you made quota all of the time you'd be making 30,000 more dollars than me a year. :/

I guess big thing with me is that the most likely job for me if I can't get a teaching job will be something that includes a lot of labor and hard physical work since that's basically the only thing I'm good at other than teaching/counseling and I don't plan on taking more classes so I can become a counselor or anything like that either.

At 8/11/09 11:00 PM, Fro wrote: I guess I'm kind of scared of going to college, finishing, and then getting a job not even related to what I went to college in the first place for too. I'm hoping graduating with a teaching degree will get me in somewhere though. Your job pays a hell of a lot more than a teaching job though. If you made quota all of the time you'd be making 30,000 more dollars than me a year. :/

I guess big thing with me is that the most likely job for me if I can't get a teaching job will be something that includes a lot of labor and hard physical work since that's basically the only thing I'm good at other than teaching/counseling and I don't plan on taking more classes so I can become a counselor or anything like that either.

Thing is, I don't care too much right now about the money. When you're at a job where you're not enjoying what you do, money means nothing, no matter the amount you're making. I'd gladly take a 30K per year job with no extra if it meant I could work in a job that had security and where people appreciated what I did.

I realized that the part of my job I like the most is helping people who already have Comcast with a problem they're having. It doesn't help me get sales, but it's more gratifying to be able to help people with something like that than signing someone up for the service.

Just did a search for a College club and look what I stumbled across. Haha. I've been in the army for the last two years, and I should be getting out sometime this winter. I'm planning on attending the University of Nevada, Reno next august. I'm just worried because my GPA back in high school was only 2.4, but I got a 30 on the ACT. If you've been out of high school for a while, will they work with you on low GPA's or is it set in stone?

one more week before I head off to classes again. Really sucks because I've got a crap ton of things that I was planning on finishing during the summer, and classes are just going to throw me off completely.

It's been three days in college, classes start tomorrow, and I fucking love it. And I haven't encountered alcohol once yet. And I don't plan on encountering it much. Will I? Yes. But I'm gonna be careful.

I've been making friends, and the group gets bigger and bigger each day. So far we've had two nights of card games in the dorm's lounges (REALLY FUCKING NICE DORMS btw), and I'm playing sports and hanging out and meeting people and BLAHHH.

And classes start tomorrow. It sucks, but I'm pumped. I love it here.

Moving into my flat tomorrow. Start first year in less than 2 weeks. The anticipation is overwhelming lololol.

Oh yeah, and I played frisbee with a bunch of older frat kids. It was BRUTAL.