Topic: College/Uni!

[Kpyna]

I saw a discussion of first world problems about this and I think that this is something where if a lot of our members aren't of age yet, they're quickly coming of age and hopefully we can all impart some wisdom on each other and talk about stupid college stresses and all panic together during the last couple weeks of school when everything comes crashing down on us.

So, talk about where you're going or hope to go, if you're comfortable sharing that, what goals you wanna accomplish this year, etc.

This year I have two main goals: I really wanna get my GPA up, and I also wanna make some solid friendships. Although I gotta admit, the friends part almost seems like a waste, since I'm planning to transfer out of my university and to somewhere else. But, after I had a pretty massive falling out last year with my friends, I really need to get out there and be proactive with friendships. I'll probably swing by a few gaming club meetings and see what gamer friends I can pick up, but that kind of sucks because gaming club is on friday nights which... if there's one night i wanna dedicate not to gaming, it's friday night. The GPA part should be easy enough. My GPA just took a real dip because first semester I cut a bit too much class, and second semester I got into that car accident which really threw me for a loop.

I'm really glad my college FINALLY got a good green space! I think it's exactly what my school was missing last year. We used to have to literally play frisbee and stuff in the streets and parking lots and now i'll be able to just set up a towel and study out in the sun hopefully  and of course staying on track so i can hopefully go to italy is an objective haha

[Lord Raven]

I want to finish my second year of graduate school, be done with qualifying exams, and get a goddamn RA so i don't have to TA ever again.  Also, smoke less.

[Kpyna]

Also, smoke less.

Are you still just smoking hookah? Stop partying so hard, that will help.

[Lord Raven]

if i party harder it'll keep me away from the demon shisha

[That Girl in the 'Roo Suit]

Muhed you naughty boy! (Although chuck some hookah my way yo)

Also if anyone has anything they want to ask about university, feel free to ask away. I'm not a student any more, and unless I do a PhD I don't plan on being one any more, but I'm still very much a part of that community, so I'm not completely out of the loop yet =]

[Shaymin]

I wish I could actually stick to one course rather than 1) dropping out in the first semester or 2) failing at the end of the year rip

[Kpyna]

if i party harder it'll keep me away from the demon shisha

not sure what demon shisha is, my friends and i started smoking dokha and i had no idea tobacco could mess you up that much. we actually stopped smoking hookah for a few weeks because our tolerance built up to the dokha REALLY quickly and regular hookah would legit do nothing which sucks because going to hookah bars is usually like a bi-weekly occurrence and they don't carry it.

i need to pick up a minifridge for my room still pretty badly. i also saw this idea for making an at-home projector setup and there's this area just off campus that's railroad tracks and under an overpass by a river and i REALLY wanna make a lazy projector setup there so we can watch movies there haha

[Lord Raven]

oh i meant that shisha is the demon

[Milsap]

I miss uni. Both of them.

Life was easier back then.

[Kpyna]

my roommate finally showed up. she seems cool so far, but i feel like you don't know anyone's personality until the first few weeks are up. there's also this cute moroccan boy on my floor i talked to for a while last night. i have further gained the trust of the freshmen in my dorm because i had a gigantic tapestry to sit on for the movie being shown in the field. aaand i'm just killing time before my first class, microeconomics, right now

[Pam-the-Lamb]

 Uni has just sent me two reading lists for vital and recommended books and the two lists come up to about £250.

 Guys.

[Inferna]

I'm moving tomorrow aaaaaaaa
I've got pretty much everything I need except food but I'm probably going to get it once I work out how much kitchen space I'll get.
Got an email saying how my flats windows haven't been fitted yet lol (it's a new build btw) so I've got to stay in a temporary flat in the same block for two weeks.
Going to miss my dogs the most though

[not chloe]

Still 18 days until I move but I just did my very final uni shop (got some all-purpose heels for £8, too).

Signed up to my student account as well. Everything's coming up Milhouse.

[Shaymin]

I got 26 days to go and the only thing I ain't lookin forward to is having to pay for the first year of my course. Rip the dream

[Kerou 犠牲]

Uni has just sent me two reading lists for vital and recommended books and the two lists come up to about £250.

 Guys.

Get the editions from a few years before, they'll be far cheaper on Amazon and there's also the Uni library which you can borrow some of the books from