this is the thread for ilxors who are in lol college

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i dont know about anyone else, but i don't want any ilxor facebook friends

― artdamages, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 01:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I'll have a pretty much useless degree in Creative Writing this Summa...

― Colin_C., Wednesday, 25 April 2007 02:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah I think last time this was brought up somebody said "I don't think I want all my friends knowing how much time I spend on a message board" and everyone tended to agree.

Colin, we'll be broke with useless Creative Writing degrees together! xpost

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 02:24 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm a grad student and i think i finally came up with my thesis idea today woot

― iiiijjjj, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 02:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Most of my facebook friends are ILXors.

I am old and in college.

― Casuistry, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 02:31 (seventeen years ago) link

link

-- JW, Tuesday, April 24, 2007 8:37 PM (1 hour ago)

http://oberlin.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2234642804

― elan, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 02:32 (seventeen years ago) link

man am i glad i don't wanna go to grad school after this

― elan, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 02:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Being a Creative Writing major is pretty cool though. For one final project, I'm making a comic book, for another, I'm putting the finishing touches on a short story, and for my English Lit 2 class my prof's letting me do my final paper on the Sgt. Pepper's album (instead of some boring poem like everyone else)

Shit could be worse!

― Colin_C., Wednesday, 25 April 2007 02:47 (seventeen years ago) link

I am old and in college (again) picking up a third major - a certificate in nursing. In 2 1/2 years I will be able to take the boards and hopefully pass to become an R.N. I'm currently taking prerequisites for the nursing program I'm in (physiology, sociology and biomedical ethics). REALLY envying the idea of a creative writing major!

― Sara R-C, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 03:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I am really getting ready to graduate. I'm seirously going to miss all the comfort and friends and lack of financial worries, but the homework is just too much, I spend hours fantasizing about travel instead of doing it nowadays.

― Maria, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 03:15 (seventeen years ago) link

sara that's awesome, though! i always thought if i ever feel the need to go back for something that will actually get me jobs, it will be nursing or med lab tech. blood diamonds, baby.

― tehresa, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 03:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Thanks tehresa! I hope I don't hate it... I'm taking out loans to pay for school. That being said, I adore the other students in my cohort (there are a total of 30 of us that will go through the program together). And yeah - it will be nice to have a job where there are many options and schedules available. You should do it if you want to!

― Sara R-C, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 04:48 (seventeen years ago) link

undergrad for about 2 more wks (tho i have nothing to do until then)

― impudent harlot, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 05:41 (seventeen years ago) link

nursing is A+++, especially since you can get a job pretty much anywhere and practically name your price. the country/world is in dire need of nurses. plus, you're not-so-secretly in charge

― river wolf, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 05:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Am I the oldest? Well, I have to distinguish myself somehow.

I have also (likely) been to more colleges than anyone. Five so far. I like collecting credits.

― aimurchie, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 06:15 (seventeen years ago) link

i've been to four, maybe i should finish up at a different school just to spite u

― A B C, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 06:19 (seventeen years ago) link

hello, I'm an annoying undergrad.

― Roz, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 06:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Do it ABC!
Maybe we should trade colleges!
(You might not like my major, or my GPA.)

― aimurchie, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 07:55 (seventeen years ago) link

I think college is becoming more and more something you have to do, whether or not you are particularly interested in learning/your major, and I think that is kind of detrimental to the atmosphere. But then again it means people who care a little look really great and stand out so it's acceptable. To keep you out of the unemployment stats.

The fact that I can go back to pre-college maria threads, when I was posting from my third year makes college seem a long way distant.

― Ed, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 08:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Sophomore at Rutgers. I'm actually trying to write a paper on "Raging Bull" as I type this. It's not working.

I love it though.

― Stevie D, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 20:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I took the last two years off to work but I will be a freshman at UNC Chapel Hill this fall (assuming I actually get off my ass and send in my deposit before the end of the month).

despite the posts on this thread, I am looking forward to it.

― bernard snowy, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 20:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I am starting grad school in August. I am old too.

I don't know what Facebook is and I don't want to know.

― admrl, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Hello, creative writing majors. What a load of shit, right? It's like paying someone lots of money to give you a reading list and say, 'This is it. Oh yeah, you're gonna be great now.' Except a lot of people don't read the books or just aren't cut out for brooding and flimsy deadlines. So it isn't that good.

http://www.yellowumbrella.de/catalog/images/Yellow_Umbrella_Cover_stoned-steady_Front.jpg

― the table is the table, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 20:57 (seventeen years ago) link

facebook is very funny. and a good repository for imgs.

― the table is the table, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't need humour or imgs, I'm old.

― admrl, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 20:59 (seventeen years ago) link

postgrad in oct I hope

― RJG, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 22:39 (seventeen years ago) link

good luck!

― admrl, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 22:42 (seventeen years ago) link

not sure whether I need it or not!

but thanks!

― RJG, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 22:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Except a lot of people don't read the books or just aren't cut out for brooding and flimsy deadlines.

lolz, this is why I am not a English major of any sort. That and being a slow as shit writer.

― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 22:46 (seventeen years ago) link

better catch-all major: history or English?

― milo z, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 23:14 (seventeen years ago) link

im an english major and i hate the fucks who major in english because they cant find anything else

― max, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 23:39 (seventeen years ago) link

I wrote "a English major" instead of "an English major," wtf college has made my grammar go to shit.

― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 23:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Good catch-all = poly sci/government.

― HI DERE, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 23:40 (seventeen years ago) link

English, major of last resort

― milo z, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 23:41 (seventeen years ago) link

"I guess I could teach, if nothing else."

― milo z, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 23:43 (seventeen years ago) link

English, major of last resort

you have yet to meet the "Hospitality" majors at GSU

― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 23:48 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah where LEISURE STUDIES at??

― max, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 23:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, you go in knowing that you're coming out that with a BBA in Hotel Management.

I'm talking "I'm 27, I've had six majors... fuckit English it is."

― milo z, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 23:52 (seventeen years ago) link

guyz my thesis is going to be trying to prove my hypothesis that tree species most stunted by a climatologically-anomalous two-day early April freeze in Northwest Arkansas this year have a more southerly mean geographic range and are therefore less acclimated to freezes than the ones that survived. It's kinda conceptually simple but I will be analyzing remotely-sensed differential NDVI datasets to identify areas the most and least stunted by the freeze (NDVI indicates healthy vegetative intensity -- patches of stunted trees will appear darker in a high-resolution satellite NDVI image), georectify these images to a map projection, delineate these areas on a GPS device, go and identify the species, consult with botanists or probably some other grad students from the ag/bio department who want to work on something similar, and then use GIS to do some extremely unpleasant spatial analysis of the ranges of the tree species in question. Ultimately it could be used to map what areas of forest are most suspectible to wild climatic fluctuations (which, of course, there will be more of).

but that's the next two semesters. for now I have to worry about finishing 3 projects before next Thursday.

― iiiijjjj, Thursday, 26 April 2007 00:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I flunked out of college.

― Jeff, Thursday, 26 April 2007 00:07 (seventeen years ago) link

did you at least get laid Jeff

― iiiijjjj, Thursday, 26 April 2007 00:13 (seventeen years ago) link

But now I'm back and I'm trying to do statistics for the first time in 10 years and my little brain just isn't working.

xpost: not in college part 1.

― Jeff, Thursday, 26 April 2007 00:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I slept a lot. That was some good sleeping.

― Jeff, Thursday, 26 April 2007 00:14 (seventeen years ago) link

my final assessments are due monday but instead of writing i'm listening to unwound, smoking weed, and eating wotsits & angel cake.

― creme1, Thursday, 26 April 2007 00:15 (seventeen years ago) link

wonder how louis is getting on man

― creme1, Thursday, 26 April 2007 00:18 (seventeen years ago) link

"American Studies" is the catchall in my area.

I've got two papers due in 18 hours.

I have not started either.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 26 April 2007 00:18 (seventeen years ago) link

better catch-all major: history or English?

I'm a liberal studies major.

― Casuistry, Thursday, 26 April 2007 00:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Mostly because pretty much every department/field of study pisses me off (except maybe Math) (I am probably going to be a Math minor just to keep my blood pressure down).

― Casuistry, Thursday, 26 April 2007 00:20 (seventeen years ago) link

hey adam are you going to grad school in the bay??

― moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 26 April 2007 00:21 (seventeen years ago) link

xp american studies is some bullshit

― max, Thursday, 26 April 2007 00:22 (seventeen years ago) link

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