College Thread

Engineering @ Georgia Tech here

Holy fuck OP I just graduated from UNT. Wanna hit up Fry Street tonight? Hey have you taken any classes with Kyle Jensen?

S A I N T J O H N ' S C O L L E G E

>>9971451
UChicago and first year so I'm undecided and know nothing

>>9971557
Ayyy UChicago PhD student probably a decade older than you here

Currently starting my masters in linguistics @ McMaster University. I literally moved from South America two weeks ago and I have 0 friends in Canada. Feels lonely my man.

>Oklahoma State University
>Electrical Engineering
>socially functional but voluntarily choose to spend majority of time alone
>conservative and teetering on the brink of white identity politics

>>9971451
Undergrad Engineering at University of Virginia. I have no friends.

>>9971451
>UAS, Universidad Autonoma de Sinaloa
>Psychology, clinical and educational acentuation
>pretty good, many friends and long relationship with gf
>Eurocentrist, classical literature makes me compare the beauty of classical european culture with todays generacy.
>Im better than u in every aspect u can imagine btw :)

Anyone from an ivy wanna tell me the realities?

I feel like I have the grades and flashy ECs for one but I'm questioning myself.
18 by the way..

I'm also considering St Johns. I just want a good education and a route to higher education

>What School do you go to
University of Massachusetts
>Major?
Computer science
>Brief description of social life (fucked up
stories welcome)
Alright, I'm introverted but have a small group of friends.
>What are your political views
I'm pretty moderate in nearly aspect, mostly just conservative with regards to family values and marriage.
>Also pretty much anything else about you would like to rant about
I can't stand the radical liberals around here.

University of Delaware

English

None

Very far right; fascist

Lots of partying

>>9971451
>>What School do you go to
>A&M
>>Major?
>Wildlife Science
>>Brief description of social life
>studying because school is fucking expensive
>>What are your political views
>pretty libertarian I guess
>>Also pretty much anything else about you would like to rant about
>there are people who literally came to College Station to party

>>9971451
>St. John's College
>/lit/ memes
>Tinder and studying on aderall
>Radical Centrist
>FAR RIGHT AND FAR LEFT FUCK OFF REEEEEEE

>>9971451
Oklahoma State University
Biochemistry
Meh
Left libertarian

>>9971451
>What School do you go to
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (basically a very tech-oriented uni, considered difficult)
>Major?
Computer science
>Brief description of social life
I have a few core friends and I get around with whatever group(s) I'm currently involved in. I play both the party guy and the quiet one. Care a lot about but I've never had anything nearly serious
>What are your political views
Fairly liberal I think, but this site definitely affected me
>Also pretty much anything else about you would ike to rant about
IJ contributed to my choice of major
The lively reputation of the city poses a threat to my propositions of applying in school, contrary to what I'd done in HS

>>9972159
*about girls

Harvard
Poli Sci
Any given night somewhere near the square...probably the John Harvard.
Econ and social liberal
Too many Chinese automatons here

>>9972220
How'd you cheese in

Must be one of those rich boys

>>9972220
hope you're getting that rich white boypussi every night my man

Aquinas
English with an emphasis in writing
Very little
Very centrist with a disgust for far right and left
I just want to publish my poetry

>>9971451
Stanford
>major
Comp Sci
>social life
non existent
>political views
don't give a shit about politics

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>What School do you go to
UIUC
>Major?
Political science and geography
>Brief description of social life (fucked up
stories welcome)
I'm still rooming with people from high school who I wasnt even friends with back then and am even less so now. I'd go on to say I actively dislike most of them. Outside of that I really only talk to coworkers, its nice because you get partnered up every night and you're forced to get to know them after a while. I'm pretty self concious of a skin condition I have so its hard to maintain a friendship because it flares up every few days and I dont leave my apartment. Cant say ive made an actual friend in my 3 years here
>What are your political views
Lean more towards the left, moreso on social issues than economic ones
>Also pretty much anything else about you would like to rant about
I'm trying to get closer to a coworker I get along particularly well with, but he's a huge pothead and I'm becoming one as well by virtue of hanging out with him more and I hate that I can see I'm becoming lazier every day. I've always had an issue with drugs and now that he's set me up with a dealer with cheap as shit prices I feel like I'm going down a bad path.

Especially a bad time because I realized one of my issues is that I dont have many hobbies (anymore) and that's a large barrier to socializing with people and basically becoming a better person. Over the past few years all my hobbies have dropped off one by one in exchange for more shitposting here

>>9971475
get back in the library nerd.

gt cs grad here...sad they got rid of junior's

>>9971641
I was accepted into a couple mid-tier ivys, but ended up going elsewhere.
Everyone who applies has a 4.8 GPA, is president/captain of multiple groups, volunteers, etc. etc.
Either you're truly exceptional, or it's just a crapshoot.

>>9972507
>English with an emphasis in writing
Why waste time on /lit/ you should be surrounded by people you can talk about literature.

English major at UCLA

Someone please be my friend. I'm a grill

>>9972253
Hard work and lucked out on the lottery.

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Could a kind anon please defend my wanting to switch my major to linguistics? I feel as if having an English degree just won't cut it these days. Linguistics looks quite appealing to me, since it's the closest that I can get to a science degree, without the difficulty that they entail.

What if I just double major?

What if I just minor in English and major in linguistics?

>>9972220
Poli Sci isn't a concentration at Harvard, Pinocchio.

>>9972220
Also, nobody goes to the John Harvard

>>9972220
>Poli Sci
>Harvard
>lying on the internet

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>What School do you go to
Texas A&M College Station (main campus)

>Major?
APMS with a focus in math. Minors: Philosophy and Economics.

>Brief description of social life
I tend to keep to myself, but I find it easy to get to know people. My being a math major plays on peoples prejudice of math majors being highly intelligent, so my relationships tend to consist of people asking me for help on problems they have and not very much else.

>What are your political views
Classical Liberalism.

>Also pretty much anything else about you would [l]ike to rant about
Free will does not exist. Philosophical Idealism is horse shit (the material world exists and it is intelligible). Math is discovered and not invented. Math begets reason. Math is absolutely necessary for the understanding of the objective world. IQ is real, one dimensional, unalterable, and determined by biological factors only.

>>9973155
I was accepted to an Ivy without being involved in a lot of leadership roles (though I was a section leader in the band my senior year). All I did for extracurriculars was marching band, jazz band, track/field. I did have to have all As and high SAT scores to offset my non-jewish white maleness, though.

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>What School do you go to
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
>Major?
Double majoring in philosophy and pre-professional biology
>Brief description of social life
I hang out with a group of people I went to high school with and I have only a few acquaintances that I've become familiar with since I started attending the university. There's one girl I study with very often that's kind of my friend, but despite spending on average twenty hours a week alone together on top of the classes we take, we've never hung out outside of an academic setting. Pretty sure she's just using me to help her get into medical school.
>What are your political views
Not completely sure yet. I lean conservative libertarian, but I'm not dead set in much besides a Catholic viewpoint. I'm still trying to figure out the best approach to politics and the justification for it.
>Also pretty much anything else about you would like to rant about
We're rated as "The second most diverse campus in the United States and very likely the world", and the administration does not let anyone forget it. Politically, it's not too bad, but there is a sizable illegal immigrant student population that is just thrown free money while I don't get so much as a subsidized loan. Going to college in Las Vegas is not nearly exciting as you'd expect it to be, and since I graduated high school I've been to the strip maybe three or four times in total.

>>9975724
There's no way you still got in. You must've built some more mud huts for Africans are some shit like that.

>What School do you go to
University College London
>Major?
International Relations
>Brief description of social life
Good enough I guess.
>What are your political views
Far-right; authoritarian

>>9971451
>Chaffey Community College, plan on transfering to a different school once I complete all of the non-school specific courses to save on costs.
>Engineering (Undecided) and Business
>Anarcho Capitalist
>I hate colleges for breeding grounds for socialists, seriously its like nobody in these classes has the reasoning capacity to critically think about what they are being taught. Its no wonder there are countless students in debt with useless degress. Hopefully the bubble created by the student loan debt will collapse and stop these schools from telling the retarded youth that everyone, even stupid people need college.

> UC Berkeley
> EECS
> The full extent of my social life is making small talk with my lab partners
> Don't engage in politics but the compass website sez I'm authoritarian center

I just wanted to do linguistics/phil of language idk how I ended up here

I want a fucking schizo friend to read philosophy with god damnit

>>9971490
Not op, but I'm going to nctc because I'm stupid but I'll get fucked up with you

>>9976084
My friend failed IR on his statistics. I thought he was smart before that. Same as you too - self described as far right.

It is quite a useless degree, don't you think?

>>9976396
Not for the path I have in mind, for which I'm very well prepared. The stats module was ridiculously easy, btw. Only way you could fail it is by either being extremely thick or totally indifferent.

>University of Cambridge
>History
>Few friends but ignore and alienate them
>Incredibly centrist

>>9976453
Civil service? Thinktank?

>Colgate University
>Double Major English (Creative Writing Focus)/History
>Have chad friends and gf somehow despite being weird introverted intellectual
>Individualistic Authoritarian
>comfy

>>9971748
same

>>9975462
how do you get to know people here

>>9976217
are you me?

>Colgate University
>Trying English/Molecular Bio double major but I'm completely willing to choose one
>Frats are annoying and the circle I found is ok when they're not whining for alcohol
>Centrist? I think?
>Lawyer sons are unbelievably annoying and honestly should just fuck off to Penn or something

>>9976564
hi

>>9971451
>What School do you go to
University of Kent
>>Major?
Computer Science specialising in Networks
>Brief description of social life (fucked up
Pretty good. I have a lot of friends but I love winding up the lefties
>What are your political views
Very much on the right. I would say uncomfortably close to reactionary
>Also pretty much anything else about you would ike to rant about
Finding a loyal GF is very hard. Women are easy to get, but it is about quality.

>McGill University
>History and polisci
>almost nonexistent
>democratic socialist
where are my lefties?

>>9975724
Calling total bullshit. Did two varsity sports, chairman of my regional Red Cross, wrote a book at 16, accepted more than one scholarship, ACT of 35, 4.0 GPA with 8 APs, rejected wholesale by the Ivies.

>>9976684
oh shit hi

What class are you?

>>9976700
2021.
is this place as bad as i think it is

>>9976712
ayy shit 2021 too, fucking love not being able to get into any parties

It's wayyyy too fratty for my tastes, honestly. All my roomates are chads and I kind of just have to smile awkwardly as they talk about sports and offer whatever I can remember about my hometown teams. I just want to talk about literature and philosophy and shit, man.

On that note, are you going to the Jug tomorrow? It's Freshman night and my roomies are gonna drag me along.

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>>9971451
>UW Madison
>Psychology/Philosophy, plan to do cogsci
>Fucked up freshman year and only made friends with my 2 roommates. Occasionally go out for drinks with people from work (who I'm close with) but no friends within the university. How do you even meet people?
>Was alt-right, then reactionary, now I'm a sick mixture of catholic monarchism and communism. Maybe this is why I have no friends.
>I ordered pizza 80 minutes ago and it's not here yet.

>>9976670
How?
You just have to build the confidence and strength of character to say howdy or strike up a conversation about anything. If you spend enough time around someone doing the same thing they are, then they will feel obligated to acknowledge your existence and say howdy back.

Where?
In class, at the dining hall, at the math-lounge, or at the gym. Maybe the library if you're extra cunning; the problem with it is the second floor is being renovated and now no one knows where to go in order to study. It's like people are now lost.

>>9971451
youtube university

>>9976720
im not sure about going to the jug but i'll probably show up anyway in a situation similar to yours. if its gets as crowded as i think it will get im totally going to bail.
if you see me walking around campus dont hesitate to say whats up, though. im a fairly average-height ginger with a beard and a dad-cap who hangs around drake and east

>>9976741
1) Collin?
2) Were you at poker night?

>>9976746
1) no sir
2) yes sir

>>9976751
I was the guy who won 30k by going all in at the end of the night.

>>9976754
max?
i was one of the dudes that bilal bankrupted by telling them to go all-in before he hit gold with you

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>>9976762
yes

hmu if you see me brother, we should chill and talk about books

>>9976765
i would be lying if i said i remembered what you looked like; sorry man
my name is miller--literally one of two people on campus with the name. maybe i'll see you at the jug or at frank?

>>9976776
Hah you're good man, I think I remember you. I'm average-height, very pale, light brown/sandy blonde hair. There's way less gingers with beards on campus tho, I'll say hi when I see you

>>9975724
>>9976075
>>9976700
Why would I lie? No mudhuts or other life-changing overseas experiences (these are considered cliché anyway), no legacy or upper-class wealth. I think it was a combination of reasonably original essays and being an in-state applicant that got me in.

>>9971451
>William and Mary
>Law
>Good friends at home, getting to know people here (1L)
>I love Bannon but he'd call me a globalist - basically I think that globalism is inevitable but I want the American middle class to have a better place in the new order
>Americans are too happy, they need to calm the fuck down

Reed College
Philosophy
Have friends but still hate most socializing. Classmates are really bad at having parties
Center left, my school is basically a tumblr meme so it makes me way more conservative.

>>9975065
the linguistics program that I wanted to transfer to sounded kinda funky. As far as I could tell, the degree was basically a 2 year associate degree that you focused on junior and senior year (I assume you spend the first two years picking up pre-reqs, which isn't that crazy all things considered).
What year are you? I decided to stick with English lit and I'm graduating in two semesters, but I plan on going to go to a grad school for psych. Maybe you can look into that if you're not overloaded with loans.

>>9971451
University of Memphis
Finance
No social life
Far right

>>9976698
Man everyone in montreal is left wing what on earth are you talking about.

>>9971576
Dude I go to OSU too. We should get a beer at Coney's

>>9972122
how many cowboys are in here wtf

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'sup brainlets?

>>9977016
>he thinks he's smart for getting into nepotism: the league

McMaster 'cause I don't wanna sell my soul for a low jewishness(UofT, Queens, Waterloo, Carnegie) and didnt get accepted for higher jewishness (MIT, CalTech, Stanford)
>Major
Math
>social life
Alcoholic fat chad witha fetish for lifting and an unfortunate in the closet love for my newfound fellow chad-type engineer friend
>political views
Hard Anarchism

Any mans from mcmaster join me for a philosophical talk over multiple gallons of hard liquor at BSB

>>9971451

Ksu (ga)

English major, no focus, math minor

No social life, all my friends are online. Can't remember how to socialize

I don't have a good label. Probably leftist, but not Marxist or antifa

>>9977032
>he is so aggressively dumb that he doesn't even know which universities are in the Ivy league
>this doesn't stop him from opening his brainlet mouth though

>>9971451
>>9971451
OP you didn't even try to make this /lit/ related. Normally I'd sage and give you a snarky reply, but I just moved to a new city and I'd like to make some /lit/ friends.
>Northeastern
>math grad student
>Boston
>just purchased two different Euripides collections from a small bookstore. Really nice owner, seemed to know a lot about the classics, which makes sense considering that about 90% of the "fiction" in his store consisted of classics.

>>9977032
pls. legacy admissions are an ivy league thing. stanford is 4 real geniuses only

>>9977037
Damn, I wish I was closer to you. I think we'd get along. >>9977072

>>9976863
What does (1l) mean?

>>9977085
Thanks G, Ive got a friend over at berkeley school of music who I visit often so we could talk more then.
Whatre you thinking for your thesis as far as field of study (like dynamical systems or algebraic topology, etc)

>>9971475
Also engineering at Georgia Tech. I don't know if its the asians /pol/ posting or a ton of virgin nerds in one space, but I feel that GT is over represented on 4chan whenever a survey is done.

University of North Texas
Computer Science/Philosophy (Dual Degree)
Only have a few friends so far, just started
Classical Liberal/Libertarian
I'm hoping that the Philosophy department is good, so far I'm only a week into an introduction to logic course

>>9977124
I'm actually only a masters student, and my school doesn't haven't a thesis track for masters; I'm just using this as a launching pad for PhD.
I like dynamics, but I'm mostly trying to make a beeline to the functional analysis course to settle a vendetta I have with that subject. I got way in over my head for a project I did as an undergraduate that would have been a lot easier had I known a bit of functional analysis.

Philosophy and Religious studies at ualberta

>>9971451
Georgia Southern
English Literature, Minor in Comparative Literature
Happy, small but nice friend group
Not entirely sure of all my views

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>>9971451
>>What School do you go to
Harvard College haha
>>Major?
Humanities xD
>>Brief description of social life (fucked up
>stories welcome)
God I hate athletes so much. Mainly for making me realize just how fucking pitiful it is to be poor, not rich, and not from an aristocratic family. Like holy fuck these people are living the dream in their fucking final clubs and I'm sitting here on my ass reading literature. Even the artsy people are fucking rich. Everyone is rich except for me and the other half of campus that are getting fucked by these fuckers in their fucking bourgeois machine. I'm glad the administration is shutting them down; hopefully they'll go after student "publications" next.
>>What are your political views
Hardcore communist

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>>9977197

Sorry wrong frog

University of Minnesota-Duluth
Accounting
somewhat normie in that i can converse with anyone easily but i don't hang out with people very often, close friends back home.
so far right i'm left
struggling to focus on practicing guitar/piano in hopes of getting in a band

Emory University

>>9976264
Meet at Riprocks if you're down

>>9977252

never thought id see another accounting major here. this profession is 95% normie neurotypical suburban country club types with healthy upbringings. I envy them

>>9977307
i mean that's almost me,
grew up going mostly to private school cuz dad was an admin, upperish middle class, suburbs, did sports n went to church.

>>9977177
Unfortunately Im still but an undergrad but I read too far ahead with those dumb dover books that give you enough that you can start jotting down dumb shit in notebooks that make sense to you.
I honestly love dynamic systems and probably want to pursue onwards in it maybe

>>9975065

>since it's the closest that I can get to a science degree, without the difficulty that they entail.

if you wanna be a good and well respected linguist you'll need to learn quite a bit of statistics, logic and even some programming knowledge wouldn't hurt.

linguistics is indeed a lot like a science degree, and that's why it's so great: it is much less infested with the kind of charlatans you'll meet in most humanities departments.

of course, with the right mindset, you can certainly become an academic fraud if you want, but i'm assuming you want to be a legit linguist publishing relevant papers on the field.

linguistics has many different fields of study: syntax, phonology, phonetics, morphology, and so on. withing these fields you have many different objects to study, ie you can focus on studying polynesian languages' syntax or you may try to work on computational models to predict and describe Inuit morphology.

I, for one, work with indigenous languages' syntax within a cognitive framework. This means I get to travel to remote hellholes and talk with aboriginal people and run tests and so on.

It is a lot of fun, but it takes a lot of work. and nobody will take your seriously outside of academia, but that's alright.

i highly recommend it.

>>9977429
I forgot to mention you'll end up with a huge knowledge of interesting facts about many different languages, which you'll always try to talk about with people when you're drunk, making a fool of yourself in most cases.

>>9971567
How is McMasters linguistics department if you were to rate it?

>>9977458
It's good. It's no MIT or Cambridge but it has good resources (eye tracking/acoustics labs, good range of courses being offered per term, reputable professors).

Most professors at the program are very passionate about their work, which is great. Plus, the greatest professors at the department recieved their PhDs from MIT, so they were properly trained in linguistics, which makes a huge difference when picking your advisor.

The department leans towards cognitive linguistics, statistical linguistics and neuroscience. If that's your kind of thing, it's a good deal. I'm here because I was given a scholarship for my tuitions and my living costs, so I just couldn't pass the oportunity. If I could chose I'd rather go to UofT since living in Hamilton is not too great (it's way better than living in my third world homecountry tho)

>>9977429
This is pretty much all the advice and information that I could have hoped for. Thanks a bunch.

I've already got a pretty good foothold on semantics and computational linguistics as a result of my self-studies. I seriously love how many subfields that linguistics has; that's why I became so interested in it. An English degree only entails poring over canon tomes and writing half-hearted essays, and I find that boring.

I'm not worried about not being taken seriously because of what I chose to study.

I'm going to seriously consider linguistics as a major now. Would you recommend that I drop English entirely, or should I take hold of it as a minor?

>>9971583
Hahahahhahahah UVA fucks hahahahah
Go dukes
But actually why is Charlottesville full of such pretentious people? I wish you the best

University of Utah
D major in Wilderness Medicine and Philosophy
I'm in a frat, though I'm a bit of an introvert. I bit friends though.
I'm a bit of a leftist anarchist, though I'm more akin to a hippie than any group with violent tendencies.
I literally think I am going insane right now. I'm starting to have nightmares about arithmetic dialogue and static morals. I have no idea how to cope with this, so I have been reading more and more to gain insight on the way we think. Something dreadful is going to happen soon, and all I or anyone will be able to do is watch it happen. Fuuuck

>>9973903
Are you a legit grill or girl (male)? I'm at USC

>>9977016
I know a girl from Stanford who literally did not know how to use former and latter. She didn't know what they meant.
She's a third year

>>9977528
Glad I could help my man

>Would you recommend that I drop English entirely, or should I take hold of it as a minor?

Unless minoring in English will consume too much of your time/money (that you could be investing in studying linguistics), just hold of it as a minor I guess. Just try to take as many courses on linguistics as you can.

Also, I can't recommend this enough: read Chomsky's earlier works on linguistics, even if you're not going to work with generativist theory. You'll be thankful for this later.

I wish you very good luck on your journey anon!

Why do only Anglos post in these threads?

>>9975427
Whys that? It's cheaper to drink there than Russell
House when I don't feel like heading down to central.

Also, yes, I'm at Harvard. Accept my humble apologies for not clarifying HKS in the MPP program. Stay butt hurt.

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>>9971451
>UPMC
>Physics
>Interested in white non-jewish girls only
>Alt-right
>I am redpilled and 135 IQ

>>9977545
avg stanford iq is 115 which means half are below

I have personally ministered and graded admissions tests for many

they are stupid

>>9977925
most people who don't study hard sciences and are not redpilled are fucking stupid anyway, not a big surprise.

>>9977931
most people who study hard sciences are stupid in their own way their math iq doesnt translate perfectly into generalized g. most people who are red pilled have better wits about thrm but are still pretty stupid. both pops are above the median, but probably not by much

i was just making a commentary on the ivies since the convo turned that way

>UWS
>I dropped out haha
>Socially insecure, attempted suicide once, found out the love of my life doesn't like guys.
>Libertarian Socialist/Council Communist, but at this point, I can't really give two fucks about anything anymore.
>Why do they design Pringle cans so that you can't fit your whole hand in it like what the fuck

>>9977535
Also UoU, you sound like a faggot lol

Would a double major in Economics and CompSci be a reasonable choice for getting a career? I'm 18 and don't know jackshit about much really.

I'm not in the US if that means anything.

>>9978170
Why wpuld you combine the two?

If you want to be a quant, the banks just hire physocs and pure math majors

>>9978198
Basically I can't decide what I want to do, something that combines both somehow would be the dream but that's probably unrealistic. I guess it's to allow me to be able to choose between two career paths, but I don't even know if either could get me a job, especially Eco.

I don't really want to be a quant or something like that, I'm fairly average at maths and it just doesn't interest me.

>>9978234
Quants are the only ones whocombine the two. It is more efficient for banks to simply hire people from physics grad pools and train them independently of shitty schools though.

You might wanna choose one or the other. I dunno manz

>>9978247
Do you think Economics on its own gives decent job prospects? The only thing I can think of is being an analyst for a bank or the guberment, and I can't imagine that being in very high demand.

Pharmaceutical chemistry and technology

>>9978263
If you are in the top 2% of your phd class, yeah. Otherwise demand is limited.

The path you are asking about is not the typical path for most middle position bank occupancies

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>>9978278

>>9978282
>>9978247
Well thanks anyway, I'll think about it a bit more. Maybe just do a CompSci major and take eco papers as electives or a minor or some shit, who knows.

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Kind of related, but I live about a half-hour away from Yale. Would it be worth visiting for its library/sitting in classes/etc?

I've already graduated from another university on the west coast, just curious.

>>9978334
Well, of course. It's a very prestigious university - in its past, at least - so I'm sure something good would come out of sitting in on the lectures. If not, no harm in trying.

>>9977565
Because it's the only language that capitalizes the first-person pronoun. Of course they're always the ones who post in survey threads, as if people who aren't data miners give a shit.

>>9977957
>found out the love of my life doesn't like guys.
Its like sandbags being thrown across your face everytime you see them.
>>9978170
Terrible idea, both are saturated especially comp. Sci, the other anons idea is marginally harder than doing a double major and Math is less about arithmetic and more about understanding
>>9978247
Is this still a thing? Granted I thought they hired more from Applied Math than pure.

Nothing you learn in college is important. Your entire purpose of going to college is to get a piece of paper that enables you to get a job where you can actually learn what you need. Don't forget this.

>>9978571
of course quants are still a thing

they hire from oure math because they are looking for raw iq. they retrain individuals from the ground up. they dont care about the applied math you learned

>>9976217
Medicated schizo here, Why do you want to read with me

>What School do you go to
Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education
>Major?
Computer engineering
>Brief description of social life (fucked up stories welcome)
Visit the same friends from highschool every Saturday. Somewhat insecure about myself, not socially awkward but enough to not get a qt gf anytime soon
>What are your political views
Not american. I don't even understand what does this question tries to imply.
>Also pretty much anything else about you would like to rant about
I wish i was born rich but sometime not. Being somewhat poor had thought me not to be a prick and value hard work over luck, genes and good intellect.

>What School do you go to
somphore at cornell
>Major?
biology (neurobio or computer bio concentration, ideally the former)
>Brief description of social life
literally just transferred from emory, using the free time that having no social connections nets me to get into cooking (soak 1/4 cup of lentils in water, then drain. brown onions in a pan, then add minced garlic and cook for 2 more minutes. add lentils along w two cups of water. cover and cook for 30 mins or until the lentils absorb the water. i get about 2-4 servings out of this depending on whether i eat something else with it or not)
>What are your political views
i can't bring myself to get interested in this sort of thing, which i guess is sort of a juvenile perspective. sorry.

any other cornellians gonna see lynch's films at the cinema? i'm hoping to catch his short films tomorrow, and then eraserhead on the weekend.

>>9971451
>>What School do you go to
None
>>Major?
None
>>Brief description of social life (fucked up
>stories welcome)
Drugs
>>What are your political views
Nechayev
>>Also pretty much anything else about you would ike to rant about
Memes
>>Also no comfy fags
Comfy

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Anyone else end up at this cesspool of progressivism obsessed liberal degenerates?

>>9976700
are you asian? most ivies and other elite schools cap asian enrollment at 25%

University of Georgia
Management Information Systems (intended)
Social life is overall lackluster
Center Right Libertarian I guess

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>>9971451
>school
You probably don't know it, but it's the one that did the world's first successful penis transplant.
>Major
Medicine
>social life
I'm a complete shut-in apart from my one fellow shut-in friend whom I see on some weekends. I know the names of less than 5 people in my class and my dorm and I don't even care.
>political views
I don't even know anymore man, I'm so immersed in my studies that I barely follow what's going on in the world
>rant
My degree is full of rabid sjws. I have no idea why these fuckers gravitate towards medicine where there are actually legitimate and serious issues to be dealt with.

>>9971510
Go read the Iliad and study your paradigms or you'll drop out by winter break.

>>9979034
>medicine
kek, say goodbye to anything but being a doctor for the rest of your life. what's your planned speciality?

>>9977488
Thanks

>>9979034
>medicine
>shut-in
You're going to have a rough time.

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>>9979129
>say goodbye to anything but being a doctor for the rest of your life
That's the entire point of me doing this degree. I'm a complete autist, life confuses me and I don't want any interpersonal relationships, but if I don't keep myself busy day and night I start craving those things and it makes me horribly depressed. I'm obsessed with medicine, it's really the only thing that gives me happiness and makes me feel fulfilled and needed. Why shouldn't I devote my entire life to that?

I don't know yet. Maybe some kind of surgery. Maybe urology or nephrology. I can't quite describe why dicks and piss fascinate me so much.

>>9979185
>I can't quite describe why dicks and piss fascinate me so much
Probably because you're autistic

>>9977280
ree chik fil a at cox hall when
neeeeeeed tendies

>>9979174
>>9979174
Funny thing is, I'm extremely good at interacting with people in a professional environment. When we're doing simulations and shit like that, I usually take the lead. But the moment I have to have a non-professional conversation, I drop my spaghetti everywhere.

My dad is the same. He's one of the top chemical engineers in the country but he has literally zero friends and does nothing in his leisure time but sit on the computer. I'm pretty sure he even mentioned 4chan at some point.

>>9979195
I'll be making money with my autism. What could be better?

I don't expect to find any UIC students on /lit/

>>9979203
>That's the entire point of me doing this degree. I'm a complete autist, life confuses me and I don't want any interpersonal relationships, but if I don't keep myself busy day and night I start craving those things and it makes me horribly depressed. I'm obsessed with medicine, it's really the only thing that gives me happiness and makes me feel fulfilled and needed. Why shouldn't I devote my entire life to that?

You have probably never got over deep seated social anxiety. Grow a pair and take some risks otherwise don't moan about it. On the other hand you could genuinely be an Autist but even this is no excuse. If you crave social connection you probably need it.

>>9977159
I didn't expect any other GT grads here on /lit/

it's STEMlord nerd central

>tfw no one to rant about philosophy with

>>9979436
Wow rude
t. CS student at Emory

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>>9971451
>What School do you go to
Queen's University in Kingston
>Major?
Computer science with cognitive science on the side
>Brief description of social life
Moved into residence the other day. Frosh right now. Went to some parties on university ave last night that were ridiculously crowded and there was a fair bit of drinking all around. Not against parties at all, just hope I'm able to find people that aren't complete booze hounds. Nobody on my floor have any interests and they all seem boring and quiet. Hard to keep conversations going.
>What are your political views
Authoritarian Left if I had to pick but I'm fairly centered.

>>9978650
Oh cool, do you know anything about how they live with their 6 figures too or nah?

>>9972220
Wanna meet up? Go here as well.

>>9977197
What year are you in? Freshman here, witnessed some of the things you talked about.

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Bocconi University (Milan)
Masters in Finance
Neoliberal
>tfw guaranteed success

>University of North Texas (email me [email protected]
>Major
Literally exact same as you OP
>Social life

Literally the only friends I have are girls in my class. I have zero motivation to walk up to a group of dudes and start chatting them up
>Political views are complicated. Lean left but am disillusioned
>not a comfy fag
I'm living in West Hall btw

>>9980123

C L A S S I C
L
A
S
S
I
C

Shitty school in Georgia
Comp Sci
I fucking hate dealing with people, having a service job (not some food shit, it's actually somewhat respectable) makes it worse t. misanthrope
tldr National Socialism
idk man life is suffering

>>9971451
>What School do you go to
University of Toronto Med School
>Brief description of social life (fucked up stories welcome)
Made no significant connections throughout four years of undergraduate studies. Regret it everyday.
>What are your political views
Socially conservative, economically centrist

>>9979532
How's Queen's? I heard its humanities areas are pretty bad.

>University of Leeds
> Law LLB
> Slay sloots every night out brahs

Pretty comfy Russell group life

>>9979968

I'm a sophomore now. Yes, they are ubiquitous, but you're probably a normie and you'll figure it out. But if you haven't comped a serious organization / been admitted to another by the end of freshman year, it's basically over for you and you can feel comfortable calling it a day at Harvard. I'm only here because I'm paid to be here on financial aid (basically).

>>9980503
wow, that's really filtered

literally studied nothing but marxism

now i take klonopin and clean for a living, at least I listen to music + drunk all the time

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Which University can you do the most extreme/fringe/esoteric/beyond the cuttine edge studies in theory or humanities or social theory at?

>>9980450
Classes don't start until Monday so I'm not sure about that yet. As for the people, everyone wants to drink themselves stupid and party as often as physically possible.

>>9980772
Liberty university

>>9980976
The Master of Arts in English is a 36-hour, graduate-level degree in English language and literature.

what in the absolute fuck

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>What School do you go to
University of Pittsburgh
>Major?
History and Economics double major
>Brief description of social life
I have few friends but I never hang out with them outside of getting food
>What are your political views
center

>>9981101
Jerry Falwell is an American hero, don't you forget it

>>9980503
Lol we're pretty similar. Also a lefty and on a ton of aid.

Wanna meet up some time? Looking to meet new peeps

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>>9981306

Sure. I'm on lamont floor B every day. I always study behind the alcove full of macroeconomics textbooks. And I wouldn't necessary call myself a lefty, just a liberal [1] with very liberal [2] interpretations of what liberal [1] means.

>>9978910
Cornell senior here. I wanted to watch Mulholland Drive the other day but ended up missing it. Did you watch this documentary about Lynch they showed last week? I liked it a lot. I'll probably go to one of the Eraserhead screenings.

>>9979105
tell me all the st johns secrets

>>9971510
Read your books while the midshipmen are getting all that naptown pussy.

>>9980123
honestly my dude you've got to just talk to people. First couple weeks are crucial but it's never too late. A social life won't come to you, you have to make it

>>9976901
also go to reed
see you in descartes class anon

>>9976700
What did your application letter look like?

>Harvard
>History of Art and Architecture
>My social life is good bordering on very good. Freshman year was a low point but got into a club and now have some really good funny friends. Still want to Kms though.
>Whatever is good for me in the short run

>Princeton
>History
>was socially functional the first three months of freshman year so have a handful of friends, but they slip away a little more every day
>deeply reactionary
I'm really scared I won't be able to get a job, idk what the fuck I was thinking with a history degree but it's too late to switch fuggg

>>9979210
I live near there. My condolences

Okay boys anyone who did A levels in England or anyone really who fucking graduated high school help me out-

I'm twenty and got AAA in maths phys and bio a couple years ago, hated it, didn't apply for uni

I'm doing English Lit this year and am going to apply to top unis, see if I can get anywhere, but I need three fucking A levels for UCAS in one year - I'm going to have to self study two of them.

So, what are the two easiest A-Levels that require no coursework? I was thinking something from economics, psychology, sociology.

The latter two seem to mesh better while if economics is mainly statistics then it could be a piece of piss. And btw I did Further Maths already two years ago and got a C, haven't done any maths since then, and I generally think that is too difficult an option.

TLDR; Need to get three As at A level in one year, both AS and A2. Am doing English Literature, what are the two easiest self study A levels that aren't media studies level? cheers lads.

>>9980017
where are you from originally? Looking into this place but UKbro so dunno

>>9971451
>What School do you go to
Sydney
>Major?
Phil
>social life
ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
>political views
Reactionary Modernist

Greek phil is comfy af.

>>9976698
At Conc, everyone here is a leftie

>>9975462
>math is being discovered not invented

why would anyone believe the latter?
it's the same with any science really

>>9978263
what the other anon said about top 2% of phd class is bullshit. AVERAGE income for an econ phd is $100k

>>9981636
i unfortunately missed mullholland drive as well. lynch is a seriously skilled painter and i appreciated seeing his art on a big screen, but i found the narration underwhelming. there wasn't much that felt unmistakeable genuine/not willfully self-curated, but maybe lynch was being 100% frank and i just don't get his style. (context: the only lynch thing i've ever seen is the first episode of twin peaks, which i did not enjoy.)

the scenes with lynch doing art were pretty good. i think i'd like to try ceramics.

what did you like about the documentary?

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>>9982384

I think you'll be waiting a while bud. Not too many Britbongs on this board.

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>>9980017
>neoliberal
my man

>>9976477
how is history?

>School?
UT Knoxville
>Major
Data Science and Economics, minor in English
>Social life
Practically not there. Strongly dislike the student population as a whole, prefer to work on my own projects instead
>Politics
Used to care a lot more as a younger student. Right-leaning conservative, converted to Christianity a few years ago.
>anything else
Writing is way easier and more fun when you stop trying to get the first draft perfect.

>>9982384
Surely it matters what subject you want to apply to? Top unis will want something course-related. If you're doing wanting to do English Lit then I guess that A-level will be enough but you might want to reconsider Further Maths if you're gonna do STEM.
Can't help much because I did the same A-levels as you (plus Chemistry, wouldn't recommend). But economics is not statistics-heavy, there's barely any mathematics. It's more about explaining economic concepts and applying them. Seems easy, though I only know about it through my friends.

>>9977925
>"avg stanford iq is 115 which means half are below"
>calls someone else an idiot

>>9971451
Ayy I just graduated from UTD with a B.A. in History

>social life
I'm basically a shut-in cause my roommates are braindead potheads from Austin and I spend around 5 hours a day practicing guitar anyways. Most of my friends went home after graduation.

>Political views
The human being is tragic, and nothing will change this fact. No political doctrine, system or ideology can alleviate our... "condition"

>>9982689
there are a few of us. plus like I say, anyone with understanding of post-high school education

>>9983080
Yeah, I did chemistry at AS, not the easiest subject.

I've come up with the prospect of doing economics and classical civilisation through the open study college, will cost me like a grand for the two courses. Would AAA in Eng Lit, Econ and Classical Civilisation be good enough to get into top unis? Oxbridge even? Bearing in mind I'm doing it in a year and already got AAAC in stem shit a couple years ago.

>>9983019
Workload can be fairly heavy but overall it's pretty enjoyable and the supervisors are generally brilliant. Lot of variety in the course and flexibility to study what you want as well. Also the other people on the course are all very like-minded, intellectual and mostly down to earth, other than a few Etonite snobs.

>>9983270
From what I've seen AAA might get you on a course at Oxford (as that's their standard offer) but if you're gap yearing / applying after you've got your results it will be tough, as many in the same position will have 1-3 A*s. Those subjects are fine, make sure to avoid undesirable/meme/easy courses though as Oxbridge look down on them.

>>9976700
Your essay probably sucked.

>>9983301
Okay, thanks - yeah even though I'm doing this stuff in one year I think I should be able to get As in Econ and Class Civ, plus a good shot at an A* in English. I know a guy who's doing History at St Johns and he got A*AA. I haven't got to worry about beating the private school A*A*A*A*A* kids, just the smart state schoolers.

Do you think Classical Civilisations is an easy course? Only alternative would probably be psychology, which may be better regarded (neither are anything special though) but doesn't tie in so well with English Lit.

>>9983292
What are you studying?

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>School
UC San Diego student in a few weeks.
>Major
International Business possibly Math/Philosophy
>I live at my grandparents' house with no car 30 minutes from all of my high school friends... :(
>political views
Defeated fascist

If I were to write my actual political opinions in a paper what would happen?

>>9977916
R u white yourself
>inb4 no

>>9977037
>fat chad
that's where you're wrong kiddo

>>9971576
>>9972122
Lol im going to oklahoma state too

School is kinda shit

You guys enjoying it?

>>9982384
Economics at A level is 90% essay skills with a dash of stats embedded in to support your arguments. It is also hard, especially in the context of self study where you don't have a teacher critiquing any ideological holes you might fall down. From what i understand Business Studies is the 'easy' economics.

I got 3 As and i'm at Oxford doing EngLang/Lit. It's far more important to be able to interview well.

>>9983086
He's at Stanford, give him a break. Knowing the difference between median and average is hard

>>9983647
Okay thanks for the advice. I will be probably doing it with a distance learning program so I will have at least some access to a teacher - I need it to be somewhat hard because I can't have too many weak subjects on my UCAS; classical civilisation is related to the course but it isn't classics proper and it isn't as esteemed.

What did you do at A level? And how much had you read when you interviewed? - I don't know how much the average student has actually read outside the A level course. In terms of the Oxford course I've read all of Shakespeare, The Canterbury Tales, Paradise Lost, important parts of the Bible and all with supplementary critical reading (maybe only wikipedia and gradesaver for some things but its something) and I have interest in rhetoric and close aesthetic reading - this should suffice, right? - I feel like I'm bursting with things I could talk about and reference points to approach questions from but I don't know for sure how much the smart kids have read.

>>9983505
Thanks for the (You) real funny one.

No but really its possible, just not very exciting after n number of girls. Try to settle for a girl instead of sleeping around, otherwise you become lonely/obsessive and dont enjoy it anymore.
I suppose thats the problem with chads.

>>9976213
What do you make of Berkeley? Pros? Cons? Thinking of transferring there in a year.

>What School do you go to
University of Tallinn
>Major?
Comp Sci
>Brief description of social life (fucked up stories welcome)
Have a couple of friends from way back, don't usually get invited to parties, but that's probably my fault for seeming so distant and keeping everyone at arm's reach.
>What are your political views
Classical liberalism.
>Also pretty much anything else about you would like to rant about
Anyone else finding no trouble answering lecturer's questions and having dialogue, but being very brief with classmates?
I think the internet has made me so bitter that I presume everyone my age is an annoying brainlet.

>>9982384
I did Ancient History, which was fab, and an easy self-study A level. I assume it's similar to Classical Civilisation too and, as an Oxford student, it's very common for undergrads to have done the latter at sixth form so it's not media studies level.

>>9983740
Don't worry you're not as smart as you think you are.

>>9976217
I volunteer.
>>9976677
Is everyone me?
>>9978657
This. Also, what do you want to read with me?

>Dominican University of California
>Undeclared
>I don't have many friends from the same year, but I do have a couple upperclassmen friends.
>Centrist
>This school is very small, and once the weekend arrives, there seems to be absolutely nothing to do. Also, there are a lot of retards here.
>Centrist

>UT Austin
>Philosophy major, Classics minor
>Life is decent. I think I'm an addict. I need a girlfriend.
>Ur-fascist
>I feel mediocre a lot. Being a great philosopher seems to require genius. I enjoy what I study but I am unsure I want a career in academia.
>Secretly just want to open a comfy esoteric bookstore and read and share obscure classics all day

>>9983755
>>9983647
Okay lads, I'm closing in, thanks for the help.

Final thoughts - I figure if I'm going for English Lang & Lit at Oxford then I shouldn't bother with economics - I've already got 3 As in stem shit so I should focus on humanities.

Therefore, in addition to English Literature, what two should I take as self study (well, via a distance learning school) from History, Philosophy, and Classical Civilisation. Bearing in mind the only one that Oxford actively recommends is History.

Also, does anyone know if Classical Civ and Philosophy are only done by private school smart kids? Because that would kind of suck for me.

>>9983992
Have you ever advocate fascistic ideas in your philosophy papers? What happens?

>>9984080
My A-Levels were Eng Lang, Eng Lit, and Economics.
As per the kind of reading that I had done around the course before I went:
I was fairly intimately familiar with the key Romantic poets, i'd read a significant proportion of Shakespeare's work, and I had a working knowledge of a few basic areas of literary criticism (think Barthes' Death of the Author and Foucault's response to his arguments). Other than that I was reading a lot of continental existentialist stuff, and a healthy amount of other classic lit from Hemingway backwards - but that didn't really come up until they asked me what i 'read for fun'. The interviews are constructed around the names you drop in your personal statement, and the topics of your submitted essays.
What they want in the interview is for you to be engaged and enthusiastic about the material you have been studying in school, and to be able to demonstrate that you are developing the modes of thought which that entails to explore other ideas about literature. They are NOT looking for an encyclopedic knowledge of the entire western literary tradition, and nobody who i met at interviews who could rattle off Milton's bibliography and then not talk about his ideas managed to secure a place.

>>9971683
Amherst? I went there. It sucked so much. I can only imagine what the place was like on election night.

anyone in New Jersey need a friend?

>>9984388
It's a fun idea, especially in undergrad, to think that you're going to be a cool rebel who flirts with dangerous ideas, but you quickly learn that professors are faggots who abuse their power so systemically that they wouldn't even see it as a "challenge to their ways of thinking." They'd just personally dislike you and use it as an excuse to drag your GPA down.

Or if you're in some intro class with 200 people, the TA grading your paper will barely know more than you do about philosophy anyway, he's just some 25 year old fucking retard, so your casually edgy, technically-true mentioning of the ambiguity of some Nazi policy to illustrate one of your points will simply be seen as "HITLER DID NOTHING WRONG! BE NITPICKY ABOUT 50 OTHER ASPECTS OF MY PAPER THAT I CAN'T REALLY DISPUTE, AS AN EXCUSE TO HOLD MY GPA HOSTAGE!"

In certain contexts you can do interesting things at college, but in general, it's best to be mindful of which appendage of the gigantic bloated bureaucracy you're really offending.

>>9972705
I also go to UIUC but I'm and Economics and History major. I also have mainly hung out with friends from high school except I have made a few friends from my classes as well. I'm also graduating this semester so I've mainly been splitting up my time between work, gym, hanging out with friends and figuring out what the fuck I want to do after I graduate. We like to play pool at Murphy's on Thursday nights ($2 craft pints) if you're ever looking for a gang of autists to hang out with.

>>9985006
You go to Rutgers?

>>9985181
nope. further north

>>9976264
That's 2 minutes from my house

Fuck off weirdo

>>9985185
TCNJ? Princeton? Montclair State? Monmouth? NJIT?

>>9985015
Oh...

Non-American here, does entering Ivy Schools actually that hard or is it just requires exceptional social skills which makes it look hard?

>>9971451
northern arizona university
economics
social life is fucked recently cause a close friend isnt here this year
independent
desu i hope i wont be sad sitting in my room for much longer, i miss my friend

>>9985337
Social skills + being filthy rich.

Of course that's unless you work your ass to get a scholarship which is near impossible on many terms (having a near percect GPA, tons of admission letters from respected people, belonging into a privileged class like being a white protestant or a jew, etc.) Still, each Ivy League school have their own terms but that's ganaerally the main idea.

>>9985367
>belonging into a privileged class like being a white protestant
You're joking. That's the most persecuted group in America now.

>>9973903

I just moved to LA - I’m a gay dude. I’d love to be your friend.

>>9985367
Ivies only give scholarships based on financial need if I recall correctly.

>>9985337
Only 3 kinds of people enroll in those schools, literal Chad Thundercocks that are rich as fuck, middle class nerds who worked their asses off to got in those places and foreign students which are extremely gifted or just sons/daughters of important world leaders, politicians or conglomerates.

who here /drivenandderidedbyvanity/?

>see girl with great jiggly ass walking in front of me
>follow her an extra two blocks past destination just to see more

>see qt in math class
>go to all six recitations to find whichever one she's in
>never actually interact with her

This is getting ridiculous, virginity seems to be making me a little bit more of a creep every year.

Kent State
English, with a TeFL certification and Arabic Minor.
I had sex with two different girls the very first week of school. I found a girlfriend and now fuck her daily; the other girl I fucked is her roommate. Somehow they're both okay with this. I've made no passes at the roommate since first week. I also have some other good friends whom I cherish deeply.
I bounce between generally libertarian values,
and some classical liberalism. Sometimes I really feel like a hardcore conservative, and there are days where i'll fantasize about building libraries in the ghetto. My politics are mucky to say the least.

I think college is a very good life-learning experience and is a necessary requisite to the character building of the nation's youth. It has, in our time, inflated into an ugly and inefficient means of job securing and is moreover a general delay to adulthood for many college students. This issue is continually exploited by the abhorrent conglomerate that is now ''''higher''' american education, textbook corporations, retail companies and most of the service industries being contracted to build stuff for the colleges. People today, I think, are too fixated on whether a place is prestigious, which is much less important than the work you yourself are contributing as an academic, or the education you are obtaining for the job that you otherwise seek.

And why the fuck is Ohio so fucking awful?

>>9985337
Education in America is really expensive and Ivy League schools are the most expensive ones out there. That's why people won't risk graduating from an average profession in those colleges when you can literally get the same degree in a less expensive state school. Most of us in/lit/ could easily get into an Ivy League college but only a few of us could manage to graduate from there because of the cost of it. To be honest, I don't see the appeal of graduating from an Ivy unless you're aspiring to be a doctor or a lawyer.

>>9985436
Wrong, Ivies have a high sticker price (and there are countless other private schools just as expensive) but they give great financial aid. I would guess more than half the full cost of attendance is covered for more than half the students.

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>>9981615
You in Lamont right now? Which of these are you closest to?

>>9985006
I go to Princeton. Let's be friends

Why, this thread has more Americans than /k/. I thought /lit/ was a more international place.

>>9983643
I'm liking it. What's troubling you?

Simon FrAser University

English Major, mAth minor

SociAl life would be better if I liked going out more. Got a GF, so I don't like going to bars in Vancouver cause I don't really drink and have no other reason than to meet girls. Going to concerts is fun as well. Yet, I wanna go to grad school after I finish this year so I have to study too much.

Liberal scum, but very centrist as well cause I'm a pussy

Grad school applications are so fucking stupid I swear. Also, every schools application takes forever. How am I supposed to support myself w/out a job, do well in school, have a social life, and still do extra curricular to get into school. I wish profs were more chill.

Also, Vancouver peeps, where's a good place to study late in east van?

>>9972732
what are you doing with ur cs degree. hs senior (18) here and i want to major in it. im a fucking brainlet low self-esteem beta, idk why i added that

>>9971451
Cool op, Denton isn't too bad. I am in Dallas at SMU, finance undergrad. Good to see so many Texans ITT

>>9976264>>9977290

Please tell me if you two met up and how your night was.

>>9971683
Fuck, are radical liberals that bad on every campus? Also how do you like compsci/where do you want to be in 5 years

>>9973903
I'm a PhD student at UCLA. What year are you?

A-anyone at Bard?

>>9985627
No

>School
SUNY Stony Brook
>Major
English, finishing an MA.
>Social Life
pretty much only hang out with my girlfriend. have some leftie friends that im getting impatient with.
>politics
like most people my age i got pushed pretty far to the left last year. this was a combination of electoral politics and reading a lot of marxism. but as the list of defeats gets longer, as the crypto-liberalism becomes more evident among those claiming to be leftists, and as the ignorance and limpness of the organizations im affiliated with continues to force them to disintegrate, im somewhat withdrawing from political life. im trying to start a life for myself. i have someone i love. i like watching baseball with her. i dont want to keep hating everything. nonetheless, i dont see a reason to abandon marx. he is right, i think: everything i enjoy will disappear.

>>9985496
The loneliness.

>>9985494
Continental Europe doesn't partake in the dick measuring contest of who goes to the most prestigious university because it doesn't have an Ivy League or Oxbridge equivalent.

>>9986001
he is wrong my friend
any criticisms he made that were right were of man not capitalism

>>9986269
>what is Sorbonne
>what is Ecole Polytechnique
>what is Sciences Po
>what is Heidelberg
We don't partake in the dick measuring contest because we don't see our schools as commodities unlike Anglos.

>>9985436
The real benefit to ivies is networking. You have alumni in high places who are willing to help you out. People will also have high expectations when they get your resume. Being from an ivy opens many doors that others have to prove themselves to even attempt trying

>>9986019
dude yes. Stilly is fucking weird

>>9985478
You're not very close I'm afraid. Maybe we should do an NJ meetup
>>9985249
Go to montclair currently but used to go to TCNGay

>>9987294
Its just filled with a bunch of white midwestern kids who are all either bible thumpers or some dumb conservative that voted for trump, and they are all a part of greek life. I should have gone to a coastal school.

>>9986019
You want to meet up?

>>9984877
thanks for the advice, doing eng lit, classiv and philosophy, just got to work hard as fuck now.

and yeah, don't worry I make no claims to have read the western canon or anything, just that I have my passions and interest within the subject - of those I mentioned the only one I really love is Shakespeare, most of the guys I really love are not on the English course so I guess they're less worth mentioning on a personal statement

>>9987442
Are you going to rape me?

>>9971563
how did u get into uchicago for phd? Im currently a math student at reed 3rd year and I really want to be able to get into the math or social thought program.

>>9976901
hello fellow reedie. Im in Van Hauser if you want to chill

>>9972705
>>9985086

ayy I go to UIUC as well and I'm also socially autistic. majorining in stats. This might be my last year here, not sure yet. Unironically want to meet up with people from /lit/

>>9983992
Good luck with the bookstore, anon. I go to St. Ed's.

>>998800
>tfw waitlisted from Reed
Now I go to some JUST college in Texas

>>9987992
Just luck and autism, I guess. Good GPA and GREs, good letters of rec, but my sample and proposal were "good" at best, not great.

Social Thought has some incredible professors, literally some internationally leading figures. I love a lot of the people in the program and I take a lot of classes there, but you gotta be slightly careful with a Social Thought PhD in terms of the academic job market.

Personally, I think it's a little bit too much of a cliche around here that Social Thought is terrible for job prospects, post-PhD. Sometimes it seems like people are just saying it because it's the thing to say. But I have been told by more than one professor that it's a good thing I didn't go Social Thought.

I think it depends what you do and who you work with, and how serious you are about professionalization. Some Social Thought people seem to spread themselves a bit thinly across interdisciplinary boundaries and not worry enough about gearing themselves for a tenure track position. Just make sure to research the program (and maybe get an in-the-know grad student drunk, if you visit).

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>>9971451
>Fordham University College at Rose Hill
>English
>Pretty good, I got my friends. And things are a little better for me since I'm on one of the school teams.
>I just wanna see people fight
>I really need to bust ass to get a job to keep me hear in New York post graduation. Tbh, I'm freakin' out. Any of you guys got recommendations for what to go for?

>What School do you go to
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Anyone else?

>>9987966
No

>>9987297
that's too bad. I would definitely be down for one of those, though. An NYC meetup might get more people, though

>>9988342
>>9988342
We have three cowboys in the house yeet

>>9987370
quit being a fucking pussy and believe in jesus already

>>9981121
Same, what year are you? Wondering if History/Economics is the way to go as well

>>9987297
What are you doing at TCNJ? It's a pretty cute campus desu

I'm Rutgers pre-med btw

>>9971451
>Ryerson U
>Journalism
>Have like two or three people I talk to on a regular basis, otherwise a dead social life
>Pretty lefty
>I'm pretty sure I fucked up my life decisions to end up here and will regret them in five years. Oh I'm also surprised at the amount of comp sci, math, and bio majors on /lit/, though not much of a rant.

>Rowan University
>Chemistry
>0 friends at college (lots back home) and in a 5-year long relationship with a beautiful woman who goes to the same school and also has no friends
>probably a socialist, but not rigidly

>>9971708
Your parties are great

>>9988725
Sophomore, my plan as of now is to go to business school, but I have the urge to forgo that and become a history professor.

>>9988342
So you wanna meet or ehat?

>>9989474
Where at? Would the Edmon Low work? How do I know you aren't going to rape me?

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>>9977016
it's shitheads like you that make me glad I'm a grad student

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>>9989487

Hmmm i usually linger at the student union in between classes.


Pic related is me

>>9989524
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA
*breath*
AAAAAAAHHHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAAAHAHAHAHAHA

>>9989531
D-d-d-doooo you recognize me?...

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>>9989531
Aight then, i see how it is.

>>9989531
>>9989544
Why you laughing?
You look pleasant anon. Also, checked.

>>9989379
I don't go to TCNJ anymore but it was pretty nice when I did. The student body had a strange sadistic vibe to it though which probably has something to do with the union of relative wealth and that anxiety common to all career-driven students who have spent years repressing themselves in virtue of earning accolades. I kind of regret not going to Rutgers because of their philosophy program, but w/e. I go to Montclair now which is unremarkable and unpromising.

>>9989592
*meant in service of rather than in virtue

>>9989524
Why the student union? It's too crowded during the day and most places close after lunch.

>>9989611
I eat lunch at the SU,
I like passport

>>9977545

That's not surprising at all to be honest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_nyx1vDiTw

>>9989652
hey I can swing by too desu, where in the union

Should I go to grad school for medieval studies? My academics are good to the point where I could get into a high-tier school without much trouble.

>>9981646
Memorize your paradigms, edit your fucking papers and take tutors to lunch. Don't hang out on the Quad and never go to a bunker party. Freshman year done.

>>9981646

>>9989709
>
Glasses would have exposed me too. Never had heard that definition before.

A small school in North Louisiana that I won't name because I'm noided.

Computer Science.

My social life is alright. Nothing too bad. I embarrass myself when I'm drunk but it's never anything bad enough to greentext about.

Analysis wise I'm a pretty classical Marxist, politically I go by "libertarian socialist" because it's an easy catch-all and emphasizes my anti-bureaucratic position.

>>9971451
>Private liberal arts school in Indiana
>English Lit, minors in German and Religion (lol)
>No real friends. Acquaintances through classes and student organizations. I'm not a sperg; I'm really quite personable, but I spend all of my weekends alone. I wouldn't do anything fucked up anyway, because I'm a puritan
>Increasingly socially conservative (or maybe the goalposts are just moving). I don't talk about politics with anyone, though, and I think dwelling on it too much is because unhealthy for me

>>9989758
last year there were only 2 medieval scholar job openings in academia in the entire us. take that into account, but if you think you can hack it, good luck

>>9989914
Source? Not that I disbelieve you. I waver a lot on whether I really want a career in academia, but my professors push me a lot.

>>9989920
I don't have a source, but one of my professors told it to me last year, trying to warn me off that route.

>>9989758
I have several medievalist friends in grad school and they talk pretty openly about jobs for medievalists not being great, it's not a very trendy field right now obviously

Your best bet is to talk to a lot of professors and grad students and get the inside scoop from them

>>9989942
I mean, I doubt I would be that specialized. We don't have a medieval studies department at my school. We have one professor that specializes in that area, but a lot of what he teaches are more typical survey classes

>>9980450
It really, REALLY depends on what program you want to do. Research into the profs for what you want to study and judge from there. My program is extremely small but full of pretty prominent people who have taught at Oxford and some Ivy Leagues. But be careful, some of them are hot garbage that I wouldn't be a part of if I had a full ride. Because of how small we are (especially when compared to like U of T or UBC) the faculty for most programs is tiny, which contributes to why we rank so low (wayyyy less output of research). If the program you want to do has good faculty you should definitely come here, because we're a lot smaller than the other major Canadian schools it's much easier to build good connections with your profs and have them set you up for the future. I know several people who are going to Ivies + Cambridge for grad school because they played it right. We even pumped out a Rhodes Scholar last year.

>>9979532
To the frosh, have fun this week. I'm not sure what the fuck Compsci frosh week does but I've meet Alex (head tech) through some mutual friends and she's a riot. Stay safe and flip cups not cars. I'm fucking dying as a gael but frosh week is what you make of it.

How hard are ivy league schools compared to Oxbridge to get into?

And how do they compare in terms of how much they're worth - rankings put Oxbridge pretty high usually, but they seem so much easier to get offers for.

>What School do you go to
Universidad Rafael Urdaneta and Universidad Católica Cecilio Acosta
>Major?
Law and Political Sciences (URU), and Philosophy (UNICA). Yes, three majors.
>Brief description of social life
I still go out occasionally with my old friends. Nothing exceptional.
>What are your political views
Reactionary, aristocratic. Modernity is a mistake.
>Also pretty much anything else about you would like to rant about
I'm just doing it for fun. I'll probably do commercial activities for a living (I'm from a wealthy family tbqh).
>Also no comfy fags

Also, some advice: avoid progressive educational institutions like the devil if you're going for humanities. Better stick to small institutions with old programmes. Catholic universities are always recommended for classic literature studies.

>>9989960
Is it stupid to opt out of frosh week? Me and my friend in west campus thought it came with residence and never ended up paying for it. The promotional videos just kind of looked like a summer camp so we decided to just skip it. We've just been hanging out with some friends in second year, drinking, and occasionally hitting up parties.

>>9982597
You wouldn't believe the number of people who have claimed otherwise.

>>9976989
Me too.
>Major:
Aviation
>Favorite book series:
Aubrey-Maturin
>Politics:
Catholic.
>Social life
Not much currently outside of band. The CMB are bros though, that's all I really need.

>>9987294
Fuck off Stilly rocks.

>>9977925
>avg is 1145
Are you serious

Jesus fucking Christ I go to an average university, I must be a fucking moron then

>>9983450
Hey Senpai
What do you think of the school

Also at least you live at home,
And don't have to fucking pay a fortune for rent

>>9989782
thanks mate

>>9971451
>>What School do you go to
Princeton University
>>Major?
Computer science
>>Brief description of social life (fucked up stories welcome)
I don't think I am very likable. I don't enjoy what I do. I have no serious friends but I want them desperately. I started playing Magic: The Gathering last year to be able to interact with other people and fill a sort of sick gap in my useless, filthy life. I became engrossed with it and began thinking about deckbuilding and optimization for hours a day. I waste hundred of dollars a month buying cards and it is running me dry. I know some people who also play MTG now, but I think they do not know or care to learn my name. I know their names. I think they resent me and I dislike them much of the time. They slight me in games and I cannot forget about it. I hold numerous grudges for minor game events and I want to open up my skull for thinking this way. I cannot help some things. Most people might find me unpleasant but I try to be kind and accommodating. I think I may be just extremely vain and unintelligent.
My mother likes me I think. My younger brother ridicules me. I do not like haircut people touching me or being near my face som my hair is sort of long, and my younger brother (who is 10) calls me "creepy" and I hear him laugh about me in front of his friends. My dad talks to me occasionally. He was an alcoholic when I was a kid, did AA two years ago, became "spiritual," "changed," all that, and has been trying to interact with me more. He bought me a pack of M&Ms today when he got home from work and I feel sick about it. He was earnest about it and all. Something about it makes me feel immense guilt.
>>What are your political views
Infant circumcision is the the most widespread, disgusting scourge on the West. I can't sleep thinking of all the neonates being genitally disfigured. I think about foreskin excision, bloody bloody infant prepuce, infant screams, day after day and I do not want to think about this all the time anymore. I think it is affecting my wellbeing. My family is Jewish and I said something about these thoughts to my mom and she stopped talking to me for a while and I don't talk about it anymore. They are Jewish and they think I am but I revile it all, the ceremony, the rituals, the blood. It is not good for me. I am not a chosen person I am a normal man like other men. I do not want to hurt children in their most vulnerable state.

>>9990482
Let's meet up and be friends. I am the anon that posted earlier about going to Princeton. I'm going to be a junior. When are you getting to campus? I'm going Monday.

I'm also ethnically jewish but I fucking hate Jews so much so I'm well acquainted with your struggle, even if I don't think about circumcision that much

>>9990482
>>9990489
Also this is the first time I've ever seen another Princeton anon here, and I check most of these threads, so I'm really excited m8y

>>9990482
>>Also pretty much anything else about you would like to rant about I took the GRE today and did worse than I have done in practice but the thought of taking it again makes me want to go into my closet and lean my neck on this wrinkled black belt that I got at this sort of Native American festival I went to when I was 5. It has little turquoise beads in it. I never wore it. Such it is. Tests always fuck me up and shorten my lifespan. I obsess and stress and over practice and have this weird jerking panic reaction during the actual thing that infects my composition. It happened to me nine hours ago and I feel nauseous still and think I may have contracted a virus of some sort from the breathing of the woman who took the test next to me.
I think I need a serious friend that is not only my friend on the basis of a card game. I do not think I would be able to offer anything to the friend for being my friend though. I have no social currency. I also want to have sex desperately. I have never done so and am thinking about trying as I think it would be beneficial to me, though I have this sinking feeling that I would just be leeching off another person, they would be there only for my gratification. I have nothing to offer.

The M&Ms are sitting on my desk and twisting up my brain. My dad got them for me for doing the test. I told him about the test I would take this morning and he wished me good luck and told me he was proud of me and he gave me the candy earnestly when he came home from work. He has never done anything like that and I did so poorly that I feel horrible about it. He asked me about it and gave me the candy and I am sure I am getting pneumonia or hiv at this point. You can say I am vain as it is mostly mostly a true thing to say.

>>9990489
I get to campus on Sunday. I also have never seen another here.

>>9990512
Want to meet up when we're both there, then?

I do nothing all day once I've done my work and have actually 0 hobbies besides 4chan so all my friends are just "meal friends" where we can eat together but that's basically it since I don't know how to partake in normie activities. I'd love to make friends with someone that I can browse 4chan with I'm a girl will that be a problem I'm not attractive at all so I feel like it shouldn't matter

If you want, to send your netid to joshbings@gmail and we can connect that way, or we can pick some location to meet Monday or Tuesday like in Chancellor Green or something

Reed
English
>>9976901
>>9981653
>>9988000
>>9987992
Ay

Oh yeah, my political views are pretty far left but not to the degree stereotypically associated with Reed. I have a few friends but I hate parties and meeting new people makes me nervous.

>>9990536
Oh man, in retrospect, I would not have posted >>9990504 had I seen >>9990489 first. I wrote and submitted both before refreshing, got too worked up on the second one, didn't expect anyone from Princeton, fuck me.
I will send my netid, assuming you are still interesting. I also had meal friends for a while, but they evaporated. I don't know if the meal friend trend is a common thing at universities but is a disgusting thing.

>>9990577
don't be embarassed, I have also posted disgustingly honest shit here before too, trust me I can't judge, please send it

>University of Helsinki (Finland)
>Theology/Comparative religion
>I'm a bit older and married, so my social life is quite boring.
>Conservative/reactionary (NOT "alt-right" or any crap like that)

>>9988166
I did my undergrad there. What's your major?