Hello /sci/ I am an aspiring "want to do lots of shit"-fag. I want to study mathematics, physics, astronomy, creative writing, and computer programming. But deciding a major won't be the hard part. The hard part for me is getting into college in the first place.
I have been raised in a shithole town next to the Navajo Reservation and have been led up in my life thinking that I was intelligent and clever. I can write well for the most part, but I no longer believe that. So I don't know if I can rightly get into college, entrance exams or no. I'm a good test taker, but I don't have a lot of common sense.
So for all you guys in college, what information precisely did you need to sign up in all the trips you went to register for classes? Because I cannot drive to my college, I'd have to walk there over the course of half a day. I want to have all my shit together when I go.
I'd also like to know any handy scholarships or loan places that would help pay for college or for housing either on campus or nearby.
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Anonymous2008-06-22 14:41
buy a bicycle at a second hand shop and enjoy ur exercise..also federal loans or poor navajo kid scholarships.
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Anonymous2008-06-22 15:05
>>1 I'd also like to know any handy scholarships or loan places that would help pay for college or for housing either on campus or nearby.
Gonna be hard unless you're black.
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Anonymous2008-06-22 16:00
Hm, for me it is deciding the major that is the really really hard part for me.
So many interesting fields and i can't decide at all.
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4tran2008-06-22 17:34
Common sense is unnecessary, but doing well on entrance exams is quite important. It might be a good idea to first take the SATs to see how you're doing. Getting into a good college is quite challenging, but I've heard it's easy to get into a crappy one.
I registered for all my classes online; I'm pretty sure your school allows that too. Given that you can access /sci/, this is probably the most convenient way.
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If he's native American, he also has a few avenues open.
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At least in my case, it only takes a few upper division classes to figure out I was completely incompetent in EE. Yay for physix and a lifetime of unemployment!
OP here. Naw, I'm not native american. Which is part of the problem, being white in my town is really bad for work and for a town everything is really spread out.
And there are no bike shops D=
I've considered applying online, but I've had trouble navigating the UNM website and I prefer to talk to people in person anyway.
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If you're willing to hire me after I get out of graduate school, let me know.
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Anonymous2008-06-23 2:22
I hate cum buckets like you. You'll wail to everyone that you want to be a creative writer, read the wikipedia entry for creative writing, then write blog entries about how you'll never be the best creative writer in the world. If you want to be a creative writer, then do some fucking creative writing. In the time it took you to contemplate and write out that post, Frank Lloyd Wright created the Falling-Water house. I'm sorry, did I ruin your shit?
No you won't even graduate in Phsyics because you would fail hard!
You better be studying something like Philosphy.
....stupid
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Anonymous2008-06-23 18:08
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Did I say that creative writing was my love in life? No. Way to go dumbass.
By big interest is the sciences. I like to know how things work. The creative writing classes are just to give me more incentive to write. I know that being published and successful is more of a matter of luck and knowing people than being able to make people cry. I've read terrible books that are loved far and wide.
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Anonymous2008-06-23 18:33
Cambridgefag here, that may attest to my knowledge but I'm just 10 points or so above average, top 10% rather than top 1%. I think you might be having the same problems as me.
I don't know much about the american education system, but in Britain it's pretty arbitrary and mystifying. Even when I asked for help no one could provide me with what I needed to know. I remember spending an hour talking with this career help guy person (I really don't remember exactly what he was for) and obtaining no useful information, compared with a 5 minute discussion I had with this old guy at a bus stop whom told me about the metal exchange and what he knew about the business there which pretty much set me on a course to success.
When I was 16 I found it pretty hard just to understand the structure of the subject, I felt as though the teachers were throwing things at me each lesson randomly and I just had to memorise them. I never understood the relevance of the homework they gave to me so I never put much effort into it. Through the year I continued like this and only obtained mediocre exam results, it was only after thinking deeply about the situation over the summer that I reached the conclusion that I need to go and grab the information I need instead of just going along with the retarded teacher's wishy washy "lesson plans". Next year I did the following with each subject.
1: Obtained the syllabus for the year.
2: Find out what I will be doing next lesson and review it beforehand .
3: Even if I understand what is being taught and am bored, I used the opportunity to reinforce my knowledge and look like a smart ass instead of being bored.
3: Questionned the teacher after each lesson, this became a habit until each teacher waited for my interrogation before leaving. I looked like a faggot, but yeah..
4: I maticulously compiled a sort of tree diagram of the entire subject and wrote the raw facts down on sheets of paper representing points on the tree diagram.
5: I developed a positive mental attitude to homework, this sounds like mystical bullshit but do what you feel like after sitting yourself down in front of a piece of paper eventually it comes naturally. Essays were the worst, but after a month or 2 my positive mental attitude kicked in and I almost looked forward to putting my thoughts down on paper.
6: Lastly I mixed all these changes in with the belief that I'm doing something totally awesome, thus I am awesome and can walk around all day like I am superior providing motivation to live up to my "superior" status. Not psychologically healthy, but as long as you know what your flaws are you should be able to keep it under wraps.
Decent school, I just got out from the shithole that is Albuquerque. My advice would be to get some loans, especially federal, they're not that bad to pay back. You can probably get in if your grades aren't atrocious, the school isn't that great.
Some schools don't need entrance exams if you're over 24 or so. Sign up for a three year military contract to get the GI Bill once you get out, though it will only get you through a cheap community college and won't pay for rent or books. As for competency tests, you can easily brush up at a book store with test prep guides. It also helps if your college is going through an upgrade period such as community college to four year college, or four year college to university. Getting in isn't that difficult, and retaking classes is easy if you fail horribly, just get a job somewhere or take classes part time.