Which university and what is your degree you are working on?
*puts on sunglasses and leans back in chair*
School is for nerds!
Psh... *lights cigarette as I walk to detention*
(Not really though, smoking is bad for you)
Sheridan college, the trades school one for my general machinist apprenticeship :)
After my apprenticeship, the place I work is sending me back for welding
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Civil Engineering
Not until next year (damn wait list) but Red River College- welding
University of Arizona
Dual major in English and Italian
Graduating next summer!
Miller-Motte
Business Management
(after stopping school for 10 years)
Mcgill university
Chemical Engineering
Done this year!
It's always fun seeing people with business and science majors and I'm always just like, "I read books! :D"
I'm still in high school, but I have a question for you college goers. Did you ever think of going out of country for college? Because I'm considering it, any help and suggestion and tips
I spent the entire spring semester of this year for class in Italy and it was the single most gratifying period of my life.
How long were you considering being away? Because I have little to say about being gone for years on end, other than how I started to feel the pangs of homesickness after about a month and a half.
I was thinking till I got my degree
Quote from: Mozilla butcher on October 28, 2013, 04:23:31 PM
I was thinking till I got my degree
Spending all that time would no doubt be just as, and very probably more, life changing than what I did.
How stable are you away from home?
An entire degree is a long time. Long enough for you to probably wind up being capable of establishing the rest of your life wherever you go. So you need to be willing to suspend everything your place of residence has given to you.
How wealthy is whoever is paying for it?
I ask simply because when there are breaks in study, you may find yourself wanting to travel even more (especially if you're in Europe) or visiting home every now and again. Plane tickets, especially trans-oceanic ones, are not cheap.
And of course, where are you going??
Engaging non-English speaking cultures as opposed to ones where the language barrier is not a problem for you makes a big difference. Learning another language out of necessity is difficult but fun and extremely satisfying. Either way is not a deal breaker, but I imagine that will have a lot of bearing on your willingness to go.
Quote from: Steerpike on October 28, 2013, 04:32:28 PM
Quote from: Mozilla butcher on October 28, 2013, 04:23:31 PM
I was thinking till I got my degree
Spending all that time would no doubt be just as, and very probably more, life changing than what I did.
How stable are you away from home?
An entire degree is a long time. Long enough for you to probably wind up being capable of establishing the rest of your life wherever you go. So you need to be willing to suspend everything your place of residence has given to you.
How wealthy is whoever is paying for it?
I ask simply because when there are breaks in study, you may find yourself wanting to travel even more (especially if you're in Europe) or visiting home every now and again. Plane tickets, especially trans-oceanic ones, are not cheap.
And of course, where are you going??
Engaging non-English speaking cultures as opposed to ones where the language barrier is not a problem for you makes a big difference. Learning another language out of necessity is difficult but fun and extremely satisfying. Either way is not a deal breaker, but I imagine that will have a lot of bearing on your willingness to go.
Thanks a lot this will help me if I want to do it
And at the moment, I know studying abroad seems like a matter of money and signing up for classes and trudging through the bureaucracy of getting youself a visa, but dedicating a chunk of your life to a new world is so much more than that.
Your senses will truly feast on the grandure of places beyond your home in so many ways. The people you meet can turn from strangers to being integral parts of your experience there as some of the best friends you will ever have. The romance is just waiting to be realized (I met my girlfriend, another student, in Italy) and there are fewer more inspiring venues for love than a new and invigorating country and culture. There are difficulties and pain sometimes bearing down just as inevitably as there are at home, and each hurdle molds a more capable person.
Studying abroad is a concentration of the bliss and the struggle of an entire lifetime into just a fraction of your life.
Do it :)
In my younger days, I would have loved to study in Wales... However, I joined the Navy, got stationed with the Marines, and spent a total of 14 months studying local Iraqi customs and traditions... Does that count as studying abroad?
Quote from: Mozilla butcher on October 28, 2013, 04:13:28 PM
I'm still in high school, but I have a question for you college goers. Did you ever think of going out of country for college? Because I'm considering it, any help and suggestion and tips
I hear it's a little depressing. Kinda lonely. My ex did that. She was from Beijing and always missed her family while she was here
Quote from: Noblellama on October 28, 2013, 04:21:04 PM
Thought about it but I started college married (don't recommend that) and so I kinda had to ignore study abroad. However I have had a few friends do it and they said they enjoyed it profusely.
I was married in college. Sure you won't do some things but that was fine by me. Wouldn't change how I did it.
Graduated from CSU Northridge with a BA in Psychology and currently working on my MS in Marriage Family Therapy there.
Great school with a well known program around here, I'm basically at the halfway point (it's a 2.5 year program).
I'm often tired, but find the work incredibly rewarding. :)
Quote from: Taysby on October 29, 2013, 05:10:07 PM
I would like to go to neumont university, but i can't justify spending $70000 on a degree when I have a full ride to the community university...
What exactly is the community university ???
Graduated from Middle Tennessee State University with a Bachelor's in Equine Science (horses).
Quote from: LadyGrixis on October 29, 2013, 08:56:56 PM
Graduated from Middle Tennessee State University with a Bachelor's in Equine Science (horses).
😱 Are you a Horse whisperer?!!! 😱
Quote from: Mattao19 on October 29, 2013, 09:49:35 PM
Quote from: LadyGrixis on October 29, 2013, 08:56:56 PM
Graduated from Middle Tennessee State University with a Bachelor's in Equine Science (horses).
😱 Are you a Horse whisperer?!!! 😱
I am indeed :D started training them when I was 15. I have 4 of my own.
You should build a commander deck around {Sun Quan, Lord of Wu}!!!
Quote from: Mattao19 on October 29, 2013, 09:52:35 PM
You should build a commander deck around {Sun Quan, Lord of Wu}!!!
I already have an EDH built around the Horsemanship ability ;)
That's hilarious did you come up with a cool name like Knightrider or something?
Quote from: Mattao19 on October 29, 2013, 09:55:24 PM
That's hilarious did you come up with a cool name like Knightrider or something?
4 Horsemen of the Apocolypse ;)
Quote from: Taysby on October 29, 2013, 05:10:07 PM
I would like to go to neumont university, but i can't justify spending $70000 on a degree when I have a full ride to the community university...
I highly recommend junior college / community college (whichever it's called) I wish I had gone to a JC right out of high school instead I did one year at a state school and one year at a junior college and saved a ton of money.
Gen Eds are pretty much the same boring courses anywhere, so why not save some money? Plus I think if you do well in those 2 years it really helps during the transfer your junior year :)
I still have to wait 2 years to complain about college...class of 2015. Although I am taking a lot of college courses and getting credits. I am taking English 1510, Calculus, AP Microeconomics and AP Biology so I will have a lot of credits just in my Junior year in High School.
Quote from: S717 on October 28, 2013, 12:50:56 AM
Not until next year (damn wait list) but Red River College- welding
Got a phone call today saying that a spot opened in an earlier class, I start on Monday :D
Congrats!!!!
Quote from: S717 on October 29, 2013, 10:51:25 PM
Quote from: S717 on October 28, 2013, 12:50:56 AM
Not until next year (damn wait list) but Red River College- welding
Nice! What will you be studying?
Got a phone call today saying that a spot opened in an earlier class, I start on Monday :D
Quote from: imthelolrus on October 29, 2013, 10:12:27 PM
Quote from: Taysby on October 29, 2013, 05:10:07 PM
I would like to go to neumont university, but i can't justify spending $70000 on a degree when I have a full ride to the community university...
I highly recommend junior college / community college (whichever it's called) I wish I had gone to a JC right out of high school instead I did one year at a state school and one year at a junior college and saved a ton of money.
Gen Eds are pretty much the same boring courses anywhere, so why not save some money? Plus I think if you do well in those 2 years it really helps during the transfer your junior year :)
That's why you take care if your Gen Eds in high school ;)
Georgia State for Finance ;)
Quote from: #noided on October 30, 2013, 12:10:50 AM
Quote from: imthelolrus on October 29, 2013, 10:12:27 PM
Quote from: Taysby on October 29, 2013, 05:10:07 PM
I would like to go to neumont university, but i can't justify spending $70000 on a degree when I have a full ride to the community university...
I highly recommend junior college / community college (whichever it's called) I wish I had gone to a JC right out of high school instead I did one year at a state school and one year at a junior college and saved a ton of money.
Gen Eds are pretty much the same boring courses anywhere, so why not save some money? Plus I think if you do well in those 2 years it really helps during the transfer your junior year :)
That's why you take care if your Gen Eds in high school ;)
My high school didn't offer a single AP course. So, yeah no college credit there lol
Madison media institute, degree in video game design.
Baylor, soon transferring to TX A&M for software engineering