COLLEGE!!!

[Henageshi]

I just got back from my college orientation last night. I LOOOOOVED IT! My schedule is freaking amazing. I don't have any classes BEFORE 11:00 AM so I get to sleep in like everyyyday. ANNDD I have Fridays off. NO CLASSES Friday! I'm so excited... but anyway that's not the point.

Who else here goes to college. HAS gone? PLANS on going? And if any of this, WHICH college? And if you DO attend college do you enjoy it? Talk please. <333

[McCorvic Sucks]

Welcome to the club.


I guess...


Yeah. College is much better than high school. You get much longer breaks too.

[Henageshi]

I'm gonna get a B.F.A in Art Education. But I'm gonna do some more research and find out how much more college time I need to get my masters. Sometimes with certain schools you have to go a longer time, sometimes you only have to go 2 more years. If that's the case I'll definitly stay and get my masters. But yeah. ^^ Just a thought though.

[Danae]

Going to Bradley to get my degree in International Studies/Business and then law school.

mmm, school.

[Azure]

I just graduated from Royal Holloway ( University of London ) with a BA (hons) in Ancient History. Probably would have helped my employment prospects if I did something useful. :D

[TomaMoto]

I'm at the University of Florida. Even as a non-traditional student (full-time student + job), I'd have to say that college is more fun than high school. The classes are definitely harder, but not too much harder. Live on campus at least your first year. Unless you're a total recluse, this should help you meet lots of people. Be humble. At a University, most people are pretty intelligent, very much unlike public high school (i don't know much about private high school). If you don't want/need a job, volunteer somewhere related to your major or interests. Don't tell yourself that all you're gonna do is study. You need to dedicate some time to social needs and some time to extra-corricular activities. This isn't just about decorating a resume, it's about getting a proper college experience and not looking like a lazy-ass when the admissions board at a graduate school/your next employer looks over your record.

Well, there are all my tips on college. I can tell you based mainly on actual accounts of friends, family and myself that pretty much all of this is true, especially the last part about not looking like a lazy ass. Still the most important part, IMO, is humility.

[Peterodl]

I just graduated from college (UW-River Falls) with a BS-Fine Arts degree and a German minor.
Enjoy being able to sleep in and having a day off. You will have to deal with early morning and late evening classes soon enough.

[renren_chan]

There are too many Universitys I want to go to...
Oxford Brookes, School Of Visual Arts in New York, Waseda University, Bunka Fashion College, UCLA, University of Bath... Theres too many courses I want to take... *bangs head on table*

Oxford Brookes: Because of the combined honours Japanese Studies and Media courses.
Visual Arts: Because I want to learn more about animation and art is my strong point.
Waseda: Because it's a good school and I like the look of fine arts history course
UCLA: If I take VO seriously, then I want to be in a part of the world where I can get work + it has the courses I want and it looks ok.
Bunka: Because in art I make and design clothes and I want to continue it.
Bath Uni: Because it has the courses I want and its close to home.

.... eeni mini miny mo...

[Matt Alan]

^^ My plan is to head to Ithaca College in Ithaca, NY come next year and grab a degree in theatre. And at the same time see what I can do about making contacts in The Industry and getting some work.

Tis my plan. ^.~

Course, I might just do like a certain other good buddy and take the college experience for a year and then toss my hat into the world of professional voice acting...or try to at least. >D

[Merr]

I'm an incoming Freshman at Trinity in Hartford (Yay! I get to be preppy!)

[fukkatsu]

I am now going to be a Senior, OMG!@#*, at Rowan University in Southwestern NJ (Philly/NJ boarder). I am studying to become a k-12 certified Art teacher for the state of NJ and eventaully minor in Psychology so I may move up in the world and become a Art Therapist for children going through tough times.

I don't like the whole living at school thing. I don't do well with little sleep and lots of noise but I love the friends that I have made and the overall task of just getting through on my own. I will be graduating in a year and a 1/2, maybe, and am really excited about just having a real job and getting out into the world!

:D!

[Saren]

^^ My plan is to head to Ithaca College in Ithaca, NY come next year and grab a degree in theatre. And at the same time see what I can do about making contacts in The Industry and getting some work.

Tis my plan. ^.~

Course, I might just do like a certain other good buddy and take the college experience for a year and then toss my hat into the world of professional voice acting...or try to at least. >D


Maaaaaatt...does that mean you're going to be auditioning for IC next year? Or have you already been accepted? o.o Either way, that means you have to come visit me and Lucien, you know ^^ we could show you around the town and stuff.

Anyway...my college saga....

I applied to a bunch of colleges this year, all musical theatre programs. Seeing as musical theatre is one of the most competitive college programs, I wasn't accepted anywhere (well, I did get accepted academically by the places that did the academic admissions separately from the conservatory admissions, so I could have been a liberal arts major if I wanted...but I didn't want that XD) I did get wait-listed for two schools, though, and the general consensus was that I was good, just not quite good enough, but certainly not hopeless...so I'm going to be training as hard as I can this year, while getting a job and being more independant, and auditioning again. With all I learned over this past year and with how much I've improved over the course of the year, I'm sure I'll do much better this time around. Even if I don't get into any colleges...I'll just have to do it my own way : D not giving up.

I don't know though, I'm beginning to think that maybe college isn't the place for me, not right away anyway. I want to be able to put all of my energy into studying musical theatre and I've talked to a lot of people who attend these BFA musical theatre programs...they say it's hard to be at rehearsal til midnight, then have to stay up to finish a Global Studies 101 paper (for example) and then be able to wake up and do well in a performance-based class at 8am. Right now I'm looking at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre in New York City. It sounds like the perfect place for me. I'll be visiting there next week, and hopefully I'll get a good impression of the place.

I do envy all of you going off to college this fall, in a lot of ways. I sometimes wish I knew what I was going to do and where I was going to be for the next 4 years of my life....but I've found that not being accepted has made me think very hard about where my heart actually lies and what I actually want to do. If I had been accepted somewhere, I wouldn't have had to think about that. And this certainly won't be the first time I'll face rejection as a musical theatre performer, heh :/

[Taryn]

I'm an incoming freshman for the University of Rochester this fall. Looking at majoring in English Lit for right now, maybe with a concentration/minor in Theater, my other great love.

[ClokeNdagger]

Holy crap did I have a bad college experience. My first time away from home(Im from New Jersey), I go upto Saint Francis University in Bumblefu@k Pennsylvania, which I learned later on, was better known as love city. This place is way out there, heading 6 hours into Pennsylvania, this place is a ways into the mountains. A few years back, during winter-time, Loretto was the coldest place on Earth, not Antarctica, not Alaska, Loretto PA.
Anyways, these people up there were soo white-trash. They were over-joyed when as they described it "Squirrel season is openning!", and man oh man did they love their Confederate flags. I guess noone ever told them that the South didnt rise again? Needless to say, I could not get along with all of the drug-dealers, and borderline alcoholics still in their teens. The security guards were sleeping with the students, and if you ever met the Dean of admissions, he had "Weasely Pri@k" written all over him. I guess that it didnt help that Loretto was where they brew Rolling Rock.
I came back home after my first semester, and attended somewhere a little closer to home. I donno, maybe I was the oddball for not drinking alcohol or doing drugs, but GOD did I love it when I had all these crack-babies coming upto me trying to tell me that drinking diet soda was bad for me.

[Cassie]

Right now I'm going to Wake Technical Community College. I decided to get my general studies done there because it was cheaper, and then transfer. There are a few places I'm thinking of transfering to. NC State, Winston Salem, Merrideth, the University of Toronto. ...

I'm looking to do something in Theatre/Film, though there are some other programs that have caught my eye. Anthropology, for example.

I was lucky last semester. My earliest class was at 1:10pm. Now my earliest is at 9:45. And it's an acting class. Mornings are never good for my voice XP

I've actually found college to be as equally easy as highschool. Then again, I was homeschooled using college-level material.


I love the atmosphere too. And I've been lucky to have great teachers. I actually had two teachers who gave us the answers to the test before we took the test. And in one class all we did was debate and discuss stuff that was going on.

The only thing that I've never liked about school is when I *have* to read something. Then it isn't enjoyable to me. Though, I have to admit, I did have fun reading the material I had to read for some of the research papers I wrote. Mind, I would've rather JUST done the reading.

[Henageshi]

The only thing that I've never liked about school is when I *have* to read something. Then it isn't enjoyable to me. Though, I have to admit, I did have fun reading the material I had to read for some of the research papers I wrote. Mind, I would've rather JUST done the reading.

That is exactly how I am. I love reading but when it's actually required for me to read something, then I hate it. It's weird. ><;;;

[Taryn]

Holy crap did I have a bad college experience. My first time away from home(Im from New Jersey), I go upto Saint Francis University in Bumblefu@k Pennsylvania, which I learned later on, was better known as love city. This place is way out there, heading 6 hours into Pennsylvania, this place is a ways into the mountains. A few years back, during winter-time, Loretto was the coldest place on Earth, not Antarctica, not Alaska, Loretto PA.
Anyways, these people up there were soo white-trash. They were over-joyed when as they described it "Squirrel season is openning!", and man oh man did they love their Confederate flags. I guess noone ever told them that the South didnt rise again?

That's odd, because I've been to Saint Francis several times for forensics competitions and I live about a half-hour away and I've never seen anything with Confederate flags. That makes absolutely ZERO sense, because Pennsylvania's such a Yankee state. Having moved here from South Carolina (where lots of people still haven't figured out that they lost the Civil War), I've found people to be more intrigued by Southern pride than holding any sort of feelings over the Civil War. Hmm.

[cheetahd586]

I really have no college experience yet, considering I am a senior in HS right now, but I can tell you what I plan to do. *crosses fingers* I hope to go to Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA and major in theatre, with a possible minor in broadcast journalism. My second college choice would be Northern Illinois, but we'll see what happens when I get my SAT results back next week.

[Cefaclor]

LOL. Well, atleast now you have something to talk about! lol. The uni I go to has eerily well rounded students. No occasional mohawks. No druggies I know of. No weirdos. Just normal. Maybe Im experiencing another side of my school? Perhaps theres a darker unkown. MUAHAHA.. Or.. so I hope. Coz "normal"?? -- thats some freaky shit.

[Maverick]

I'm not in college, but my aim is UCLA. I'm gonna try for a double major on Acting/Film and Business.

I've got my work cut out for me, don't I?

[ClokeNdagger]

That makes absolutely ZERO sense, because Pennsylvania's such a Yankee state. Having moved here from South Carolina (where lots of people still haven't figured out that they lost the Civil War), I've found people to be more intrigued by Southern pride than holding any sort of feelings over the Civil War. Hmm.

Well, when I was there, there were quite a few people up there from the deep south...which was about 6 months ago, not that I needed to meet them to not enjoy that school lol.

[fukkatsu]

I remember my first semester at college I got placed in an apartment with 4 sorority girls that told me the first day that I was not going to stay with them. GREAT. It turns out that they were so unbearable that I wound up not staying after one of the girls threatened me and the rest of them kept making fun of me because I wasn't "like" them. Pft. Whatever.

The second roommate I got for that year didn't shower, loved chickens so much that she kept bringing them into the dorm to show me them, and was a complete slob. She liked anime so at least we had that but I would have rathered her shower.

This year my roommate decided that she hated people and moved out the third week of school. It worked out great. Next year I am rooming with 5 other girls from my anime club that I have become awesome friends with so hopefully it should be better.

Living on campus is an experience. Really.

[Peterodl]

Ahhh, roommates....

Lemme see. I had 9 semesters in the dorms (cheaper than getting an apartment and less commute time) and 7 different roommates in that time.
My 1st roommate was a slight alcoholic and a tabbacco chewer who'd keep his used chew spit bottles scattered around the room.
My 2nd roommate was a amateur bowler and he'd practice his throw in the room much to the dismay of the people living below us.
My 3rd roommate kept a large Bowie knife in a drawer and stayed up all night playing computer games and stayed in all day playing video games with the lights off and the shades drawn. A couple friends I knew had a running bet on how long I'd live.
My 4th roommate was a very religious guy but the best one I had. Stayed with him for 1 1/2 years until he graduated. We'd get in religious arguments occasionally but more often then not we'd have a good time.
My 5th roommate was an okay kid. Not as great as the 4th but okay.
My 6th and 7th roommates were I think exchange kids. One from Kenya and the other from the United Arab Emerates (Jorden I think). I had more problems with those two idiots than anyone else. The 6th one called me selfish for wanting to watch a tv program that I had been watching intently until he came into the room, grabbed the remote and changed the channel to some dating show without asking if I was watching something! How rude!
Yes, I was the selfish one in the room. I bought a DVD player fro $65 that actually worked. I supplied a microwave oven that he did not clean up, and I'm the one who provided wall to wall carpeting and yet I'm the selfish one for complaining about his changing the channel. Uh huh.

I did work for one summer at school and had 2 roommates then.

The 1st roommate was an exchange kid who couldn't speak hardly any English named Ryogo from Japan. He lasted 1 week with me. Very inconsiderate kid. Very pushy. He would wake up at 2am, turn on his laptop, get a streaming web radio, turn the volume sky high and fall asleep again. Meanwhile, I have to get up at 5:30 am to get to work at 6am! He couldn't stand me apparantly and moved down the hall into a room with another Japanese kid who apparently moved out of that room after a short while.
My 2nd roommate in the summer was a tall, lanky white kid with long hair named Scott. Fun guy but a bit of a lazy bum. He was on the painting crew but skipped at least 1-2 days a week. I would go to work in the morning and come back at 2:30pm and he'd still be sleeping!
He could pack away the beers though. We went out for dinner and he had 2 glasses of beer. Then we went back to the room to watch Harry Potter (1st one) and he bought 2 40oz. beers. He drank those 2 and went back to the store for a 3rd. When I woke up in the morning for work, there he was, passed out on his bed with a 3rd and a half finished 4th 40oz. beer bottle. He skipped work that day.

For the most part, except for the last 2 roommates (numbers 6 & 7) I had to put up with, I had a good time with my roommates over the years at college.

[Hawkeye_GGK]

I currently attend Stetson University here in Florida, but I'm preparing to leave the school because I'm so unhappy with where I am in life and I don't want to get the degree I'm in school for.

You see, I'm a Music Education major and, while I love learning about and performing music, I just can't be happy with the education track and what I'm doing. I don't want to teach public school, but my saxophone professor is forcing me to do that. So, I'm taking leave of school for a couple of years even though I have over 120 credit hours.

Don't be a Music Education major, kids. It leads to 20 credit hours a semester and too much pain and hassle to deal with.

[fukkatsu]

I knew quite a few people that are music majors and well... other then late night chats online, I don't see them at all. It IS a hard major to go after. In NJ it is much stricter then in Florida especially for the Education program so I can only imagine what the music majors must be dealing with here. They have so many classes just for education now. I am STILL seeding through them and I am an Art Ed Major which is actually MUCH like a Music Ed Major except I am a FANTASTIC BSer. We are also special though because were are certified in K-12 unlike every other major who has to chose between elementary and secondary.

[Hawkeye_GGK]

I knew quite a few people that are music majors and well... other then late night chats online, I don't see them at all. It IS a hard major to go after. In NJ it is much stricter then in Florida especially for the Education program so I can only imagine what the music majors must be dealing with here. They have so many classes just for education now. I am STILL seeding through them and I am an Art Ed Major which is actually MUCH like a Music Ed Major except I am a FANTASTIC BSer. We are also special though because were are certified in K-12 unlike every other major who has to chose between elementary and secondary.That's actually basically like what I have to go through.

There's actually two programs at my university for Music ED majors; Certified and Uncertified. The uncertified program is only 120 credit hours of classes and focuses more on the musical aspect of our degree, while the certified program is 150 credit hours and ensures that you will be certified by the state when you graduate because they load you with more education courses and less music courses. Either way, you're going to be in school for 5-6 years for just a Bachelor's degree.

Also, my university is a private institution and is far more strict and difficult than most other schools in the country. Hell, our Music Theory program is second only to Eastman in the nation and our former Assistant Dean just left to teach Composition at Eastman the year before.

Says something about the school.

[Henageshi]

Ahhh, roommates....

Lemme see. I had 9 semesters in the dorms (cheaper than getting an apartment and less commute time) and 7 different roommates in that time.
My 1st roommate was a slight alcoholic and a tabbacco chewer who'd keep his used chew spit bottles scattered around the room.
My 2nd roommate was a amateur bowler and he'd practice his throw in the room much to the dismay of the people living below us.
My 3rd roommate kept a large Bowie knife in a drawer and stayed up all night playing computer games and stayed in all day playing video games with the lights off and the shades drawn. A couple friends I knew had a running bet on how long I'd live.
My 4th roommate was a very religious guy but the best one I had. Stayed with him for 1 1/2 years until he graduated. We'd get in religious arguments occasionally but more often then not we'd have a good time.
My 5th roommate was an okay kid. Not as great as the 4th but okay.
My 6th and 7th roommates were I think exchange kids. One from Kenya and the other from the United Arab Emerates (Jorden I think). I had more problems with those two idiots than anyone else. The 6th one called me selfish for wanting to watch a tv program that I had been watching intently until he came into the room, grabbed the remote and changed the channel to some dating show without asking if I was watching something! How rude!
Yes, I was the selfish one in the room. I bought a DVD player fro $65 that actually worked. I supplied a microwave oven that he did not clean up, and I'm the one who provided wall to wall carpeting and yet I'm the selfish one for complaining about his changing the channel. Uh huh.

I did work for one summer at school and had 2 roommates then.

The 1st roommate was an exchange kid who couldn't speak hardly any English named Ryogo from Japan. He lasted 1 week with me. Very inconsiderate kid. Very pushy. He would wake up at 2am, turn on his laptop, get a streaming web radio, turn the volume sky high and fall asleep again. Meanwhile, I have to get up at 5:30 am to get to work at 6am! He couldn't stand me apparantly and moved down the hall into a room with another Japanese kid who apparently moved out of that room after a short while.
My 2nd roommate in the summer was a tall, lanky white kid with long hair named Scott. Fun guy but a bit of a lazy bum. He was on the painting crew but skipped at least 1-2 days a week. I would go to work in the morning and come back at 2:30pm and he'd still be sleeping!
He could pack away the beers though. We went out for dinner and he had 2 glasses of beer. Then we went back to the room to watch Harry Potter (1st one) and he bought 2 40oz. beers. He drank those 2 and went back to the store for a 3rd. When I woke up in the morning for work, there he was, passed out on his bed with a 3rd and a half finished 4th 40oz. beer bottle. He skipped work that day.

For the most part, except for the last 2 roommates (numbers 6 & 7) I had to put up with, I had a good time with my roommates over the years at college.

Hmm. Me and my roommate have been writing letters back and forth. We have very similar interests. We like the same hobbies, the same music and share the same religion. Hopefully nothing will go wrong right? o_O