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Where do YOU go to college or went?

R94N said:
In September, I'm going to Burleigh Community College in Loughborough. Yes, I know, all the schools 'round here have stupid names, but I liked it during induction.
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It's been a while since my Uni days, but isn't that across Epinal Way from the Uni's Sports Departments, and next to the Art College?
 
South Hills Business School - Went 1 year and dropped out. The program I was in really wasn't what I was after and I didn't feel challenged at all by the programming courses.

Penn State University - Went for 2 years, dropped out because they didn't really have much as far as computer science goes (supposedly thats changed) and I wanted to focus in video game programming.

DeVry - Went 3 years (currently there now, 1 year left! :D) and I really like it. The school is very "sink or swim" which I love. You have to really work for your grades. I do their online option and I like it so much better then a regular campus. I learn more because I have to research everything (no spoonfeeding, which I love), and I learn a lot more much faster then I did at the other two schools. Its a ****-ton of work and isn't for everyone. Just these past few weeks I spent 18-20 hours every day working on homework. It was intense.

That being said college is pretty much the same everywhere I've learned. Colleges are a stepping stone, they start you off and you have to work for the rest of it. People who don't understand that and want spoon fed usually fail out. If you ever go to iTunes U and watch different lectures from different Universities on the same subject, you will see they are almost all the same.
 
chrono1081 said:
That being said college is pretty much the same everywhere I've learned. Colleges are a stepping stone, they start you off and you have to work for the rest of it. People who don't understand that and want spoon fed usually fail out. If you ever go to iTunes U and watch different lectures from different Universities on the same subject, you will see they are almost all the same.
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And if attending lectures is the only work you have to do, you're close to being right. Lectures make up only a fraction of my studying. It's hard to convert work-time into raw hours, but of an average 60 hours, only 12 of those are lectures. Experiences between institutions can vary a hell of a lot. I didn't realise places could be so different in styles until I talked to my friends elsewhere.

(NB: I do accept that you've noted the experience for places you've studied at, but I'm just saying it doesn't apply across the whole spectrum.)
 
einmusiker said:
It's not that they put them there. the bad neighborhoods surround schools that have been around a while, particularly private schools in big cities. Think Columbia, Yale, USC, UChicago etc. all in bad neighborhoods, all great schools
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While UC is surrounded by some bad parts of Chicago, Hyde Park is actually one of the safer neighborhoods in Chicago; with house prices to match. As with any urban school you need to be aware of your surroundings, especially at night; but that's just part of living in a large US city.
 
Rodimus Prime said:
even with out debt still translated into $140k difference.

Either way an Ivy leage will cost you a $140k more compared to a state school. Tell me where you would break even in that cost difference..
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You're looking at the rack rate. Most private schools offer various tuition breaks so the actual cost may be much closer than the published numbers.

Unless, of course, you live in Georgia; where undergrad tuition is paid for by the state if you maintain a specified GPA (B+ as I recall.) Going to Ga Tech or UGA tuition free is not a bad deal.
 
Just graduted from Sacramento State in May with a bachelor's of science in kinesiology (pre-physical therapy concentration).
 
richardjames said:
I wanted to be the first Brit, now I'm not even the first Brit called Richard!

BSc(hons) Computer Science from the University of Manchester.

EDIT: Graduated 2006
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I shall join the other Brits on this thread :D

Newcastle University, Master's in Business and Financial Management (Graduate January 2012)
 
Queso said:
It's been a while since my Uni days, but isn't that across Epinal Way from the Uni's Sports Departments, and next to the Art College?
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No, erm it's nearer the edge of town, as you continue down Epinal Way past the University.
 
63dot said:
I love the neighborhood of your area's USC. ;)...joke... it reminds me of the SF region of SOMA which has UC Hastings, Golden Gate University, San Francisco City College, and other places where unsuspecting college students get robbed or mugged. One of those schools actually has a disclaimer sign about the 'hood.

I don't get this thing with too many California colleges putting their campuses in the most dangerous neighborhoods. I walked into a literal gunfight between SF police and a vagrant near one of those schools. Stuff like that erupts in bad parts of LA and SF and there's no time to seal the area off. You just put your head down or get back in your car or duck into class. It looked like a TV show but was real. Why can't all campuses be like Pepperdine or Santa Barbara City College (voted America's most beautiful campus).
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union college in ny is in the hell hole known as schenectady. talk about a run down/scary city
 
I guess I'm the first culinary/hospitality student here...

I'm going to The Restaurant School at Walnut Hill College in Philly, getting my associates in Pastry Arts...

After I'm done in February, I want to continue working full time at the bakery I'm currently interning at, then move out west (read: Colorado, Utah, Montana?) and work at a posh restaurant as head pastry chef...then go to the French Culinary Institute in NYC and get a certificate in culinary arts, and then live in NYC for as long as possible, and hopefully open up one of the best restaurants in NYC...


I love food and cooking. :eek:
 
Seeing as we have a miniature debate on whether the school matters, lets throw in some actual numbers. It would seem it does matter (again seems that way) for certain majors, for example engineering, at top universities you will have some of the most famous individuals in that area as your professor. For example, one of my professors is Hans Mark (has his own wiki page, look up if interested) and i think its this difference in professors that truly make some schools excel in certain areas. With that being said, i don't think the school means you will earn a significantly higher salary than another school, i just think it helps get your foot in the door ahead of other inexperienced graduates.

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I'm at the University of Texas at Austin for Aerospace Engineering.
 
ravenvii said:
LA is the worst kind of urban wasteland. It's suburbs are even worse.

A lot of people love SoCal, but I can't understand why. Sure, the weather's okay, but that's about it.

If you *have* to live in California, NorCal is the way to go.
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I grew up down here and I like it. I like being able to go snowboarding and surfing. The weather is nice and hot with very little rain. I dunno. I just think its awesome here. I can't stand the cold, except when I'm snowboarding haha.

UCLA '10 - Biological Sciences
 
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