college .. what is it like?

by **Guest** on Mon Sep 06, 2004 9:01 am

MC Hao wrote:tits, beer, and STD's...

No its beer,tits and STD's..............Thrown off your course because you have missed to many lectures because you where at the STD clinic everyday, so now you have to work at Mcdonalds.

by **Stevan** on Mon Sep 06, 2004 3:10 pm

really? what happened afterwards?

Not sure man. This happened a couple of years or the year before I got there. Near the bar there's a hall and a cafeteria and some other stuff, and this fool apparently bursts in and just starts shooting. :shock:

But that can happen anywhere, it happened at another university here I think last year... just depends on the crazy ass individual!

Have you started yet Tombz? Going alright? How are the ladies?

by **wangster** on Mon Sep 06, 2004 5:54 pm

I live in the vancouver area too, and just curious which universities tombz and idiot are going to. SFU? UBC? UBC is the one with the pub, isn't it?

I'll be graduating high school this coming june, and I expected university to be way tougher, but from the looks in this thread, I might have been happily mistaken... :shock:

by **j.23** on Mon Sep 06, 2004 7:00 pm

whats up wangster.. i'm going to kwantlen man and then i'm goin to sfu in 2 years.. i gotta complete 60 credits in kwantlen then my other 60 at sfu.. but yeah.. what part of van do u live? i'm in surrey.

stevan that's some crazy stuff man, where do ya live? it's surprising how sick some ppl are.

anyways i'm starting on tuesday.. i got one class at 12.. but i'm sure it'll be fine, everyone says college/university is the best time of your life so i'm sure i'll handle it well. how was college/university for you?

by **Matt** on Mon Sep 06, 2004 7:20 pm

yeah my mum was telling me about how hard Uni will be, and here I am lazing around more than ever

by **Stevan** on Mon Sep 06, 2004 7:47 pm

Man I've finished one course and doing the next - that's how much I love it :lol:

When I first started I thought, "Nah, there's no way I can leave a 2000 word essay till the last minute, still get it done on time and get a decent grade"... then I found out I could do that!

I guess the further you get, the better you become at leaving things till the last minute. LOL - BUT DON'T DO THAT, IT'S DETRIMENTAL TO YOUR HEALTH. I just don't care personally

Disclaimer... this is bad, very bad
Last semester, I had an essay to do for intro to ethics... and I just could not be bothered. I picked up the books for it the day before it was due, and came home ready to work at 6pm. I had been getting like 3 hours sleep a night (because all my semesters work was due in a two week period at the end of the sememster) and I hadn't done much during the semester. I skipped that class a fair bit too... So anyway, I fell asleep on the couch before I even started! Woke up half an hour later so dazed I didn't know where I was. I stumbled around the house trying whatever I could to wake myself up. Got back to work, and realised I didn't understand anything I was reading!!!! I was ready to give up

But I persisted of course. Turns out the first book I went through was just poorly written. I finished the essay on time, and got like the 2nd highest grade out of everyone. It wasn't a great one but they were harsh markers.

I managed hand in all my other shit on time, passed everything and got some ok marks too. I sat around for about 10 weeks and then worked my butt off the last 3 or so weeks when everything was due. Uni does that to you sometimes, because nobody's going to get on you to study. After high school I promised my self I was going to cruise, just make sure I pass everything and get my degree(s).

Depends what type of person you are. I'm doing something worthwhile now so I'm more motivated then I've ever been - I'm starting to enjoy what I'm doing, really get into it. At the same time I'm as lazy as I've ever been, so it's a constant battle within myself

Just think about all the ladies you'll meet that you would otherwise never see, and you'll get through it. You won't learn much, but you'll survive :lol:

enjoy the first day dude...

PS: where are the Yankee's to share their experiences? I know there's gotta be atleast a couple (y)

by **Matt** on Mon Sep 06, 2004 8:24 pm

Stevan wrote:Man I've finished one course and doing the next - that's how much I love it When I first started I thought, "Nah, there's no way I can leave a 2000 word essay till the last minute, still get it done on time and get a decent grade"... then I found out I could do that! I guess the further you get, the better you become at leaving things till the last minute. LOL - BUT DON'T DO THAT, IT'S DETRIMENTAL TO YOUR HEALTH. I just don't care personally

yeah i did that on my first assignement and got 78%, so, i did that with every assignment. In one unit i got 25% on 2 tests (10% each), but did an assignment the day before it was due and got 93%

now i gots 1 1/2 weeks to do an assignment that has 30 references....30 :shock:

Stevan wrote:PS: where are the Yankee's to share their experiences? I know there's gotta be atleast a couple

yeah, spill the beans. Ive seen them teen movies and everyone gets laid in college

by **j.23** on Mon Sep 06, 2004 8:30 pm

thats nuts.. you're supposed to be lazy in high school and smarten up in college.. looks like you did it the other way around

by **Matt** on Mon Sep 06, 2004 8:36 pm

^^^yeah, we've been lied to our whole lives...i can understand lying about santa clause and the easter bunny but lying about college is inexcusable

by **Nick** on Mon Sep 06, 2004 9:03 pm

BluntMan© wrote:
MC Hao wrote:tits, beer, and STD's...

No its beer,tits and STD's..............Thrown off your course because you have missed to many lectures because you where at the STD clinic everyday, so now you have to work at Mcdonalds.

Calven uses long dots too..................guilty as charged.

by **wangster** on Tue Sep 07, 2004 4:04 am

tombz [j.23] wrote:whats up wangster.. i'm going to kwantlen man and then i'm goin to sfu in 2 years.. i gotta complete 60 credits in kwantlen then my other 60 at sfu.. but yeah.. what part of van do u live? i'm in surrey.

I live in Port Coquitlam. Haven't decided which universities I'm going to. Might go to Eastern Canada, or maybe even down to the States.

Yeah, I also would like to hear about the university situation in the States.

by **Colin** on Tue Sep 07, 2004 4:12 am

I'm the resident richboy then :oops:

West Van here.

Actually Mazzochi "I have 25 jerseys" is the resident richboy.

by **j.23** on Tue Sep 07, 2004 6:14 am

poco eh, sweet - what high school did ya go to?

colin what school do you go to

by **idiot** on Tue Sep 07, 2004 6:56 am

i'm goin to sfu... surrey campus... tomorrow!!! :shock:

i'm so fuckin scared... i hardly knows anyone there

bah!!11 why is summer so damned short

it also seems like the surrey campus is not as good as the main campus, to most people at least, in a way... because its admission requirements are lower, and it's inside a fricken mall

!!1 but the place is smaller, class size is smaller, the library is awesome, transportation is awesome too (5 min walk from my house to skytrain station....skytrain for 20, 25 minutes, 5-10 min walk to the school) and it's mostly comp stuff so ...yeah

funny thing is that i live in burnaby, pretty close to the sfu up there... :lol:

by **j.23** on Tue Sep 07, 2004 7:22 am

why wouldnt u just go to sfu burnaby? what are you takin in sfu surrey?

by **idiot** on Tue Sep 07, 2004 8:07 am

i'm taking techone... and interactive arts in 2nd-4th year (hopefully)

if i go to burnaby i'd take computer science... but... blah i've had enough of programming shit in gr12.....

by **Colin** on Tue Sep 07, 2004 9:38 am

I go to west van high. I love it. Well as much as I can love school. Except for our shit basketball coaches.

by **Matt** on Tue Sep 07, 2004 4:55 pm

the bigger the class size the better. More ppl = more chances of attractive titty =

the rules of college

by **Stevan** on Tue Sep 07, 2004 5:22 pm

...and to add to that - if you have a chance to do electives in different faculties (ie: law, phsycial education, science, anything really) take it, because variety is good, and in your own course you might only get to see the same people

by **Matt** on Tue Sep 07, 2004 6:10 pm

yeah what are electives Stevan? is that where your course allows you to do a unit from a diff course that has no relevance to your course?

Ive heard something bout electives but i tend to zone out at Uni

by **j.23** on Wed Sep 08, 2004 1:41 pm

well my first day was today.. wasn't bad i guess, we had to do the " get to know each other " shit.. i thought that was over and done w/ but i guess not. hey are there lots of presentations in college/uni? thanks.

by **PRoPuLsiOnDJ** on Wed Sep 08, 2004 1:56 pm

I'm going into my third year now.
I'm studying Electrical Engineering at my Uni.

Let me give you some advice.
The first few weeks are easy. Wait till you see the first midterms. When you see the finals, midterms are like nothing. I know other schools have different systems, but at my school, we have all our finals in one week. Last semester, I had 3 finals in one day! That was just brain drenching.

Anyways, College is a lot harder than high school. After a couple of years, it starts getting real hard. It also depends on your major. I have a pretty tough major and it's very demanding of me. But there is nothing you cannot do. Everything is logical and all you need to do is have a good work ethic. Make sure you do all your work and do everything your professor asks you. Then you should be fine.

Even though college is harder, it's a lot more fun than high school.
First of all, the girls there are AMAZING!!! My uni has 38,000 students and 60% are girls. Believe me, I see hot-ass girls with every turn of the eye. They are in every corner. It's amazing.
Second, it seems as if every day is a weekend. And like someone above mentioned, you will have a lot of free time. You need to use it right otherwise it can lead you to your destruction (haha ... just kidding). But yeah, it's important to plan out things ahead of time in college. You want to be as organized as possible.

Well those are my two cents on how college is. I'm not trying to scare you or anything but it is what people expect it to be. It's challanging, it's fun, and there's a lot of FREEDOM!!! It's hell of a lot different than high school.

by **Stevan** on Wed Sep 08, 2004 5:28 pm

yeah what are electives Stevan? is that where your course allows you to do a unit from a diff course that has no relevance to your course?

Ive heard something bout electives but i tend to zone out at Uni

Yeah you got it one. It's not bad if you want to try something different.

Good advice Propulsiondj (y)

by **hmm** on Wed Sep 08, 2004 8:35 pm

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by **Matt** on Wed Sep 08, 2004 9:33 pm

Ive been told that the scond year is the hardest because that's when teachers mark the hardest

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