What are the things that you love the most about college?

For me a big one would be free access to journal databases (i.e. jstor) as well as excellent libraries. It makes research a lot easier. Also there's generally a lot less busy-work than there was in high school. You have plenty of homework but the homework doesn't feel like a waste of time.

>What are the things that you love the most about college?
Easier access to alcohol.
(come on somebody had to say it)

having to tolerate brosefs and wh**res
all day, every day

having to tolerate brosefs and wh**res
all day, every day

Wrong thread dickweed.
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having to tolerate brosefs and wh**res
all day, every day

Cheaaa, brah! Sh*t is so cash!

Wrong thread dickweed.
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>implying i'm joking
i consider myself a brosef
things have been good and i expect it to stay the same

Living in the dorms is pretty sweet. I've actually found that it's way easier for me to get my work done. I'm worried about being seen as a slacker by my roommate (even though he actually doesn't care) and so I work a lot harder.

my high school has free access to journal databases so I just use theirs.
Uhh, that you can pick your class times?

Living in the dorms is pretty sweet. I've actually found that it's way easier for me to get my work done. I'm worried about being seen as a slacker by my roommate (even though he actually doesn't care) and so I work a lot harder.

my roommate is a fa**ot (not gay though)

The fact that people will pay me to work in their labs and get sh*t to put on my resume.

-not having to get up at 6 in the morning EVERY F**KING DAY
-nobody gives a f**k if you're late
-(if you're big and intimidating like me) nobody messes with you anymore, even if you are a nerd
-learning sh*t in classes that is actually applicable to real life
-course material is usually taught by people who are actually qualified to teach it (Ph.D.s in college vs. community college general studies degree + state teaching certificate in grade school)
-people actually WANT to help you succeed
-you DON'T go through the exact same routing every f**king day

-not having to get up at 6 in the morning EVERY F**KING DAY
-nobody gives a f**k if you're late
-(if you're big and intimidating like me) nobody messes with you anymore, even if you are a nerd
-learning sh*t in classes that is actually applicable to real life
-course material is usually taught by people who are actually qualified to teach it (Ph.D.s in college vs. community college general studies degree + state teaching certificate in grade school)
-people actually WANT to help you succeed
-you DON'T go through the exact same routing every f**king day

routine**
typo

Freedom, and alcohol.

-not having to get up at 6 in the morning EVERY F**KING DAY
-nobody gives a f**k if you're late
-(if you're big and intimidating like me) nobody messes with you anymore, even if you are a nerd
-learning sh*t in classes that is actually applicable to real life
-course material is usually taught by people who are actually qualified to teach it (Ph.D.s in college vs. community college general studies degree + state teaching certificate in grade school)
-people actually WANT to help you succeed
-you DON'T go through the exact same routing every f**king day

College and major?

What are the things that you love the most about college?
There's another thread about the opposite. Let's turn those frowns upside-down.
For me a big one would be free access to journal databases (i.e. jstor) as well as excellent libraries. It makes research a lot easier. Also there's generally a lot less busy-work than there was in high school. You have plenty of homework but the homework doesn't feel like a waste of time.

1) Free/cheap access to computer software, important information
2) Student groups (both academic and social)
3) The idea that we are learning purely for the sake of learning, and that I can worry about the applications of that knowledge later
4) Choosing a schedule of classes and responsibilities, and having a student work position that is flexible, and works around my classes and planned activity times

Learning stuff I may actually use one day, even freshman year.

College and major?

RPI, Computer and Systems Engineering

RPI, Computer and Systems Engineering

Lol, NYU-Poly here.

RPI, Computer and Systems Engineering

Seriously?
Rensselaer?
Good school, I got offered a full scholarship before I even started applying to schools..
But yeah, being able to create your own schedule/not start classes at 7 in the f**king morning is pretty boss.

Juvenile point here but:
no parents
It's really nice not to have your mom constantly nagging over stupid sh*t and your dad constantly flying into a rage over minor annoyances (all parents are like this).

>start a thread asking people to bitch about college
>hundreds of replies
>start a thread asking people to say good things about college
>???
Never change anonymous, never change.

Seriously?
Rensselaer?
Good school, I got offered a full scholarship before I even started applying to schools..
But yeah, being able to create your own schedule/not start classes at 7 in the f**king morning is pretty boss.

Yep, seriously. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Gratz on that full scholarship; I didn't get nearly that much.

Yep, seriously. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Gratz on that full scholarship; I didn't get nearly that much.

Actually I ended up getting a full scholarship to Rice and going there.
But Rensselaer was my second choice.

What are the things that you love the most about college?
There's another thread about the opposite. Let's turn those frowns upside-down.
For me a big one would be free access to journal databases (i.e. jstor) as well as excellent libraries. It makes research a lot easier. Also there's generally a lot less busy-work than there was in high school. You have plenty of homework but the homework doesn't feel like a waste of time.

I had access to all of those databases in high schoo. OP is a fa**ot.

>Also there's generally a lot less busy-work than there was in high school.
Barely. They're just more subtle about it.

I had access to all of those databases in high schoo. OP is a fa**ot.

Well we don't all live in the damn suburbs or wherever it is that high schools give you access to jstor.

I had access to all of those databases in high schoo. OP is a fa**ot.

Yeah lucky you fa**ot.

God, I love JSTOR too. Online journals are definitely amazing.
I like football and my sorority.
I also like sitting here, haven't started my 8 page paper due at 9 am.

not having a job. thank you Post 9/11 GI Bill and military savings. 2 years and counting FTW!!!
also, being surrounded by experimenting 20somethings who have yet to be sullied by real life. being a 25 year old sophomore ain't that bad. plus, I can show up to class high, no one gives a f**k, and I can just live my life and pass my classes. good sh*t.

Surrounded by young hot people everyday, working only about 1/2 of the year, being able to get by with no job just an allowance from the goverment, not working a mind numbing dead end job for the rest of my life

not having a job. thank you Post 9/11 GI Bill and military savings. 2 years and counting FTW!!!
also, being surrounded by experimenting 20somethings who have yet to be sullied by real life. being a 25 year old sophomore ain't that bad. plus, I can show up to class high, no one gives a f**k, and I can just live my life and pass my classes. good sh*t.

Go away, this isn't a f**king baww thread.

I f**king hate college and jstor is the bane of my existence. It's 2 AM and I am cruising for articles that I can use with this sh*tty 12-page paper due tomorrow, and I only have 6 pages so far. Only problem is that NO ONE HAS WRITTEN ON MY F**KING TOPIC BEFORE AND THERE ARE NO ARTICLES THAT ARE EVEN REMOTELY RELATED TO MY THESIS, F**K LIBERAL LEARNING.

I like that my school's new nazi policy on cheating has allowed me to master the use of a piece-of-sh*t TI-30X calculator.
If I can program a differential equations solver into my graphing calculator, then I deserve to cheat. Dumb mother f**kers.

Had access in high school to accessscience, annals of america, britannica, CIAO, CQ researcher, Ebsco, Gale, Granger's world of poetry, Grolier, Hummanities e-book, JSTOR, LexisNexis, NoveList Plus, Oxford english dictionary and art online, Project MUSE, ProQuest and Worldbook.
I still have the username and password list so I still use them

I like that my school's new nazi policy on cheating has allowed me to master the use of a piece-of-sh*t TI-30X calculator.
If I can program a differential equations solver into my graphing calculator, then I deserve to cheat. Dumb mother f**kers.

I agree fully. Teachers in high school used to lose their sh*t over me being able to program my calculator to solve all the equations we learned, and I always used that explanation to back myself up.

I like that my school's new nazi policy on cheating has allowed me to master the use of a piece-of-sh*t TI-30X calculator.
If I can program a differential equations solver into my graphing calculator, then I deserve to cheat. Dumb mother f**kers.

I never knew how to program in equations so I just made a program and just wrote them all down in that program and other random notes and just hit edit program and looked through it.

I love college, I love women, I love drinking, I love college.

Had access in high school to accessscience, annals of america, britannica, CIAO, CQ researcher, Ebsco, Gale, Granger's world of poetry, Grolier, Hummanities e-book, JSTOR, LexisNexis, NoveList Plus, Oxford english dictionary and art online, Project MUSE, ProQuest and Worldbook.
I still have the username and password list so I still use them

>I still have the username and password list so I still use them
Do want.
Come on help someone out who likes to learn but never went to college.

>free access to journal databases
YOU NOW REALIZE YOU CAN JUST WALK IN AND GET ONTO A COMPUTER TO GET THAT WITHOUT HAVING TO ATTEND COLLEGE
I DO IT ALL THE TIME
I DROPPED OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL

>I still have the username and password list so I still use them
Do want.
Come on help someone out who likes to learn but never went to college.

I would but I just cant risk giving it to someone that (probably wont) but just may spread it around and ruin it for me.

>free access to journal databases
YOU NOW REALIZE YOU CAN JUST WALK IN AND GET ONTO A COMPUTER TO GET THAT WITHOUT HAVING TO ATTEND COLLEGE
I DO IT ALL THE TIME
I DROPPED OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL

www.jstor.com
Yeah, thought so.

www.jstor.com
Yeah, thought so.

I mean org. Balls man.

LIVING ON CAMPUS.
I got there the first week before classes started...it was like summer camp...but with absolutely no supervision

24-hour access to a GIS lab with a hookup to the NGIA databases (Pentagon's GIS servers), blazing fast data downloads and access.
I've gotten to the point where I have CODMW2 on a jump drive which I plug into the workstation in the lab and play with zero latency. People think I'm hacking when my ping comes up as an 8.

I guess the best thing about college is you're gaining something that absolutely cannot be taken away from you. That's always a good feeling.

-Girls are generally very open to me practicing my game on them.
-Going to a party, running into a guy in your class that you never talked to, and having a kick ass time with him.
-All the free time I have.
-Excellent gym, olympic sized pool, food courts, and stores all within walking distance. It's like a micro city.

Playing pokemon during class
having a respectable major
away from home (fuggin parents)
so many hot girls...that want nothing to do with me
most classes are a blow-off but physics
gym membership ( comes with pool, sauna, hot tub, rock wall etc... )
wi-fi everywhere is nice