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| Topic Started: May 4 2012, 09:44 AM (350 Views) | |
| Sedulius | May 4 2012, 09:44 AM Post #1 |
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So, my finals are finished, and I can finally rest at least for a short while. I have work to do over the summer, but this will be nothing compared to what had to be done over the course of this semester. Many of my friends are graduating and leaving, so I am making sure to make new friends now. So, how goes the end of this school year for others? Do we have any high school or college graduates? |
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| Telosan | May 4 2012, 01:16 PM Post #2 |
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AP tests are next week and the week after. After that, I only have to pay attention to Precalc and Italian, while showing up for attendance in the 5 AP classes until school ends. NJ starts later and ends later than everyone else, but the AP testing is standardized, so we get shortchanged on studying time, but a nice month of free time after. Hopefully college stuff will be sorted out sometime soon, too. |
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| meh | May 4 2012, 04:47 PM Post #3 |
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I'll be done by next Thursday. My life is in hell right now. I guess this is what I get for taking solely general ed classes this semester. |
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| Sedulius | May 4 2012, 05:59 PM Post #4 |
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Telo, you have at least 130 IQ. You'll get somewhere no matter what. But yeah, hopefully it all sorts out soon. Meh, I feel ya. I hate Gen Ed. I hate Gen Ed so damn much. Yeah, need to sort of sprinkle it out over the course of college. If you keep mashing it all up together, then by your senior year, your taking no Gen Ed but all upper division classes, and it can feel almost impossible to get through. Make sure to pace yourself. Next semester try to get at least one upper division in. Just make absolutely sure it's one you can handle. I think a lot of people end up dropping out because their advisers set things up in a bad way. Gen Ed and upper division really need to be evenly distributed. I'd only not take upper division in the Freshman year. People need to get settled. But there should be the first major required classes in there at the beginning. Never let your adviser decide things for you. Let them advise you, not control you. EDIT: Telo, do you find the Precalc easy? Precalc isn't nearly as easy as Calc I, but if you find it easy you might consider continuing with Mathematics. Also, if you turn out finding Calc I easy, then you're probably over 140 IQ. lol You probably are, though, with that many damn AP classes. One does not simply take that many AP classes and succeed without being one of the most intelligent people of the populace. lol I almost typed pimpulace. Edited by Sedulius, May 4 2012, 06:04 PM.
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| Tristan da Cunha | May 4 2012, 10:46 PM Post #5 |
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Anyone got a horrible case of senioritis? |
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| Telosan | May 5 2012, 10:35 AM Post #6 |
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I find Precalc easy for what I'm actually there for. The teacher is terrible in that his lessons consist of assigning problems in the text (which I never received) and then explaining things when people ask. This would be fine, but he explains things one way and any number of pleas for help in understanding are met with the same explanation. That aside, Precalc is also the class I miss for my weekly Biology lab and various meetings with counselors and other faculty/club things. My teacher and I actually checked my attendance at one point and it claimed I was only in class for 1/3rd of the days class was given. I end up teaching myself everything, just as I always have with math classes. And I am the foremost pimp of the pimpulace. None can deny this. B) |
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| meh | May 5 2012, 11:29 AM Post #7 |
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Talio, I've actually set it up that I will be completely done with my general Ed by the end of this semester. I've taken enough AP classes and enough classes that double dip that I'm almost done with it all. The rest of my college career will be solely major-related classes. General Ed isn't hard, just unnecessarily tedious. I compare them to high school classes, which in my opinion are mostly bullshit. General Ed usually means things like mandatory attendance, daily reading assessments, and other ridiculous hoops they make you jump through. I prefer classes that hold you responsible for knowing the material and getting a passing grade. All this holding our hands and walking us through the course is fairly insulting to me. I'm getting all A's in my classes, but it's just ridiculous at some of the things they make you do. By the end I this semester, I will be at roughly 51 credits, so it's highly possible that I graduate early. I'll see how everything works out though. EDIT: Talio is completely right about letting counselors choose your classes for you. Don't let them tell you what to take. This doesn't mean that you ignore them completely, but take what they have to say into consideration. Also, your first year you'll get grouped together with all the basic Freshmen counselors, who don't really care that much about your major. It's not until you're a sophomore that you get counseling from your actual Department, which is much much better. Edited by meh, May 5 2012, 11:32 AM.
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| Sedulius | May 5 2012, 01:28 PM Post #8 |
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Well, that'd depend on the college. I had my Political Science adviser from the very beginning. Now there was an adviser that knew what he was talking about, but he perhaps overestimated my capabilities a bit too much. Maybe he didn't though, and I've just had a run of tough luck. So, meh, did you start out as a sophomore? At the very least, you were a sophomore by this second semester, and you'll be a junior by your fourth. That's damn fine work, man. You'll be a year ahead of schedule if you take one extra class for a few semesters, but that is going to be way harder in later semesters. So what are you guys majoring in anyways? |
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| meh | May 5 2012, 04:34 PM Post #9 |
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I was a sophomore after my first semester. Right now I'm dual majoring in International Affairs and Political Science. |
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| New Harumf | May 6 2012, 11:26 AM Post #10 |
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That's impressive to me, seeing as I wasn't a sophmore till after my third semester :shy: |
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| meh | May 6 2012, 03:03 PM Post #11 |
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I may be early, but that doesn't mean anything to me. My resume is still completely blank and I have a feeling that there is no way I'll get picked up for an internship. |
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| Sedulius | May 6 2012, 09:16 PM Post #12 |
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That double major will get you a job easily enough when you get. Make sure to add in a rare language, too. Makes you way more marketable. Russian, Mandarin, and Arabic are all good to go for. Russian would be the easiest to learn though. Definitely pace yourself with those internships, though, or you'll burn out pretty fast. Try for some now, but later on when it gets thick, take it easy. ----- I've been a Junior for freaking ever myself. |
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| meh | May 6 2012, 09:46 PM Post #13 |
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I hope so. I'm starting Arabic this summer, and I hope to have a damn good understanding of it before I graduate. I'll be studying abroad in the UAE, and I plan on attending some intensive language institutions next summer either in Morocco or Egypt. |
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| Tristan da Cunha | May 6 2012, 10:12 PM Post #14 |
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This month I'm graduating from medical school and beginning a 7-year training program as a neurosurgeon. The professional field of neurosurgery enjoys mystique among the public but as with anything in life it really is all about the daily grind, the drudgery, and the toil. It's gonna be hellish work hours for the next 7 years. Someone with a dark sense of humor once said, "the best part of being a neurosurgeon is telling other people you're a neurosurgeon." Lol, how very true! Despite neurosurgery being the optimal endeavor of mankind (and I'm unbiased about that), the punishing, torturous hard work involved is really only justified by the ego trip you get by displaying the fact that you are a fancy brain surgeon. When other physicians speak to you with deference in their voice....well, that just feeds into my incipient megalomania. Of course, I would not have entered the field of neurosurgery if I weren't a megalomaniac to begin with, so you can see the deadly feedback loop that exists there. |
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| Sedulius | May 7 2012, 01:08 AM Post #15 |
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The most important thing to do when you're learning a language not based on the Latin alphabet is, before anything else, to master its alphabet. Arabic is tricky, but in the end it's phonetic, so once you master the alphabet, it's just like any other foreign language. The grammar is actually relatively easy. But seriously, be able to write and speak that alphabet forwards and backwards from memory. Once you can that, it's all easy enough. You'd serve yourself well if you started memorizing it now, that way in class you've got a head start. You'll be ahead the whole semester, and that means an easy A. But Arabic is certainly no cakewalk. Despite what anyone says, it is not a beautiful language. If you like the language you're learning, it can be hard to learn. I took the beginning Arabic classes and did not go further. Which will probably bite me in the ass someday. |
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