College Hell

I’m counting on people withdrawing from Computer Science so I can squeeze it in as one of my electives. I guess you got your schedule all worked out now? I’m still agonizing over mine. Right now it’s way too messed up.

I guess Freshmen are like those grade eights in high school… wandering around in the hallway too scared to ask the tall seniors where the bathrooms are.

OMG… I must have switched majors about 5 times when I was in college! Heh =P And I gotta tell you, the majority of those changes happened thanks to the ill-advisement of my “counselor” :P

By the way, what did you switch your major to?

Ahh, it seems that the morons survive past high school. I think I might be severely disappointed once I get to college and realize that some of the people aren’t that much more mature than high school kids!

You know, I somehow never switched majors in the three and a half years I’ve been in tertiary education, but have managed to change the whole degree. I don’t know which is more indecisive. :P

I think it may be time to start a new hazing ritual, to separate the newbie idiots from the sophisticated students. ;)

ARGH! Your university sounds MASSIVE! Mine only as 17,000 and THAT feels big, even though we’re obviously not all on campus at the same time.

I hope all the annoying people asking stupid questions in your classes stop soon, either by leaving the class or growing up!

I just switched majors and I feel alleviated :D As for the population of the school… holy crap. Plus you’re dealing with Floridian high schoolers so it’s worse off.

Oh dear, that’s a gigantic school! o_O My incoming class is ~2.7K and there’s a total of ~10K students, which sounded pretty big to me, but… wow. Those are some special freshmen, to say the least. I hope my classmates aren’t like that - thankfully nearly all my courses are higher level so hopefully I can escape them.

Wow, like almost everyone has mentioned: your college sounds HUGE. Or at least, the student body does, because squeezing in small benches either means that there aren’t too many benches or that there is not too much space at all. The student body of my uni is around 20,000 - and that seems like a lot to me, even with the campus being fairly spacious.

Anyway, I couldn’t help but to laugh at some of those student descriptions you mentioned! They definitely sound like immature kids that haven’t quite grown out of the high school phase. There are idiots everywhere, I guess. We have some at our uni too, but at least I don’t encounter them too often!

Well, good luck with your new major and the rest of your college years :)

Agh, people who don’t take college/Uni seriously are really annoying. They’re ruining for people who are actually there to learn. Especially annoying are the people who act like they’re still in high school - complete with cliques and competing over who’s coolest. *sigh*

45 000 is an immense student body! O_O No wonder it feels crowded.

College is definitely not a joke, but that’s something some people just don’t learn until they’re already 27 and they STILL don’t have a degree. But with a college as big as yours, I’m sure harder to stay focused on one’s priorities.

At my university, a couple of weeks before final exams start is when you see classes reduce by 2/3 due to students dropping the class. Sometimes it’s amusing, but most of the time it’s scary because it’s reality, and it can happen to anybody. One minute you’re on the right path to success, the next minute, you’re retaking a class for the 5th time. I’ve seen it happen plenty of times, and it’s definitely scary. But seeing it happen to others just makes me want to work harder so it doesn’t happen to me. 

Good luck with your new major! :)

Although I’m no where near my freshman year of college, I know what its like to be in a new school. Its not polite to interrupt the classroom to ask ridiculous questions, but I thankful for the people who do. I’ll bet that half the people in the classroom wanted to ask the same question but didn’t have the courage.

As for those who don’t take college seriously, they need to fail, be kicked in the ass. How else will they learn?

Good luck with your new major! =]

I want to change my major back to my original major (I am just too fickle) but I can’t because I only have one more year left. I can’t even do a minor in time. I don’t know what I’ve done the past 3 years.

I wish I went to a large university. I’m sure there’d be more people, which I’d hate, but I think it wouldn’t be as stifling and limited. My major classes are filled with all sort of business majors who are incredibly dumb. I like to think Economics is a social science, but at my school, it’s essentially business for people who aren’t afraid to actually read, study, and maybe learn?

My elective classes are not too much better, but at least it’s a chance to take classes in the humanities.

Just curious, but what did you change your major to?

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I go to a University of about 35,000 students, and the people that are in my electives and core classes aren’t even THAT bad. Though, I’ve seen a lot of arguments with new kids and foreign teachers that don’t end up very well

The conversation above looks like some ghetto school lol. Is it really that crazy? I’m not in a full university because I’m in an international one so there are like only a hundred of us or so. Oh, and good luck with your new major!