Summer, The End, and Back To School...thread

[IceBlu]

I'm scared , I become a freshman in college the 29th.


I loved high school. All of the friends, it has been a really emotional month for me. It's tearin' me up.

I hear you man. It was an emotional time for me as well... I hated even thinking about what college was going to be like and more importantly how it was going to be with all of us friends in different parts of the country.

All i can say is that live it up for these few days and tuck your worries away in some dusty corner for now or else you'll just be feeling whiny and preoccupied with all that you're headed for.

Once you're in college though, you'd get so tied up with things, it won't be as painful. You'll make friends and things get a lot better.

Having said that, I miss my highschool and childhood buddies ... its not the same... friends here feel "plastic" at times. The bond isn't the same man...

 

[SlayerDeuS]

School starts Aug 30th here, Junior year is going to rape me like none other. Oh well I can't wait to get to school and party my ass off the first few weeks. Then I turn 21 a few days before final exams begin in December, I hope to god I don't die that weekend.

 

[$teauA]

hey Steaua do you also have lots of IB homework? Dude cause I dont get it, how come you always talk about school so happily and you're doing the f.ucking IB

I have tons of homework for summer, it's so gay,

Simple, I don't do it and then I just slowly but surely bring my grade back up by the end of the year, I mean IBers are the biggest slackers in the universe it's a known fact.

 

[Avalanche]

This year, I won't be doing a damn thing. That's right, I'm taking the year off. There are many reasons why, but I'll just highlight one or two of them:

-My family hardly has any money for me to go to university. I spent the last three years at a junior college, but going to a university, even instate, is gonna break the bank (Instate tuition @ the University of Rhode Island costs $7,500 a year, and my father isn't exactly a rich man).

-I'm burnt out, and I need the time off. Last spring, it felt like I was on autopilot, with no real direction. How I survived, I will never know.

Hopefully, I'll go back to school this time next year, but I seriously doubt it.

 

[SlayerDeuS]

^ I feel for you man. Thank god for the UNC system.

 

[Tom]

Try working full time. all I get is 4 weeks off all year and your complaining about going back to a place where you sit and gorp at a person who talks for ages.

im with liam on this one, we can bang on about school/college/uni but it aint no where near as hard as actual work

TROD.

 

[ShiftyPowers]

"when american people talk about college, is it the english's version of uni, and when we say college is it the american's version of high school?"

Correct. The other person who tried to explain it is a dumbass and wrong.

"Simple, I don't do it and then I just slowly but surely bring my grade back up by the end of the year, I mean IBers are the biggest slackers in the universe it's a known fact."

I took 4 AP classes in high school, history, econ, psych, and calculus. I slacked my ass off, but for the tests I took (all but psychology) I murdered them. Not to be arrogant, but when you're smart you don't really have to work that hard. I guess that's arrogant, but even now I don't go to class and I can read the books in college and do fine.

"Do u already know what kind of law u want to practice?"

No clue.

"Hey Shifty, whats your area of specific study, and what types of history courses have you taken with a view to law school??? I ask because in two years time, I may be in the same boat."

I don't need to have a specific area of study, so I don't have one. I also don't need to write a thesis. I haven't taken any history classes with a view to law school. I've taken quite a few poli sci classes, in fact I could have doubled majored in it and graduated next spring still, but I would have been taking ONLY poli sci classes for a year and a half, so I decided against it. I took a Civil Rights and Liberties class, which was cool and I'm taking the First Amendment this upcomming semester. Probably take another legal poli sci class in the spring.

"^ I feel for you man. Thank god for the UNC system."

Same for the Wisconsin system. I don't see the problem actually, my family is rather well off and I still get 5500 in stafford loans each year. I'm sure you could get 7500 if your family doesn't have any money? Oh well, I know it's not that simple.

"School starts Aug 30th here, Junior year is going to rape me like none other. Oh well I can't wait to get to school and party my ass off the first few weeks. Then I turn 21 a few days before final exams begin in December, I hope to god I don't die that weekend."

To all of you future college students..... this is the mindset you can look forward to. It's basically how we all think

 

[$teauA]

"Simple, I don't do it and then I just slowly but surely bring my grade back up by the end of the year, I mean IBers are the biggest slackers in the universe it's a known fact."

I took 4 AP classes in high school, history, econ, psych, and calculus. I slacked my ass off, but for the tests I took (all but psychology) I murdered them. Not to be arrogant, but when you're smart you don't really have to work that hard. I guess that's arrogant, but even now I don't go to class and I can read the books in college and do fine.

I don't mean to be arrogant either but AP compared to IB is child's play, seriously. See with IB there are all of these s*it projects and papers and a bunch of other crap that the program forces you to do if you want the "prestigious" IB diploma when you graduate (it's not worth it, I have no idea why I took diploma for 3 years, I'm gonna be in certificate this year meaning that I only need like 3 or 4 IB classes instead of 8 like I had last year). Just as an example if I were to stay in diploma for my senior year I would of had to write a humongous paper called an extended essay which is basically the most pointless piece of s*it ever, it seriously has no purpose whatsoever. The biggest mistake I ever did was join the IB program, it's useless extra work that most colleges don't even take into account but what the hell it's too late to go back now and I'm sure the hundreds of hours of community service I've done for the program won't hurt on a college application (no joke I've done around 200 hours of community service in my first three years of highschool because the program requires it).

 

[ShiftyPowers]

HAHAHAHAH!!!!! You're right, no college takes it into account. You'd be better off with the higher GPA and class rank taking regular classes. Hell, you don't even get college credit from IB do you?

 

[Gerrard 17]

Yeah. Just imagine that IB in Europe is even harder. That's at least what I've been told by others. That probably explains William's comment.

But yeah, after hearing so many stories about how colleges don't even recognize IB, or if they do it's rated on the same level as AP, I switched my IB courses to AP. This year I'm only gonna be taking 2 AP classes anyway so it's not really a big deal.

 

[$teauA]

HAHAHAHAH!!!!! You're right, no college takes it into account. You'd be better off with the higher GPA and class rank taking regular classes. Hell, you don't even get college credit from IB do you?

Higher GPA? IB is great when it comes to GPA you can have straight C's and you will have like a 4.5 GPA :sun:

 

[Help?]

Going into my freshman year at University in September. I'm really dreading the school part as I'm in a program that could be out of my depths and failure is a possibility (:/).

Also, about 90% of the people I went to HS with (including all my friends) are all going to one or two of the same universities (mine not being one of them), so I have to start fresh .

Im in an all guys dorm, but theres an all girls dorm 10 feet away, and apparently my residence (and the girls) are nicknamed "the Bible Belt", so that'll be interesting when Im trying to hook up with girls

I'll get pretty much no football coverage on TV as well

And Ahmed, I still think its kinda early to be 'packing it in' for the summer. At least for me around August 20 is when the fun stops and ****s gets serious again

You go to the Wilfrid Laurier University right?

 

[SRB]

IB sucks... i got accepted into all of them at the H.S. i applied to, but when i realized that college courses don't take them into account it was a no brainer not to take them. the amount of work was not worth the payoff, especially when you work full time besides school. i've heard the program is hard in itself though from people who took it. i stuck with honors and ap classes like the rest of the morons at my school and i turned out just fine*







*still up for debate

 

[$teauA]

The thing that's good about IB is that there isn't much that college can teach you because from 10th to 12th grade all IB courses are college courses with college textbooks.

 

[SRB]

yea that was made known to me also

but i don't really learn anything in college anyway, so in retrospect, i didn't miss out on much did i

plus im still smarter then anybody from say, winsconsin

they call themselves "cheeseheads" for god's sake...

 

[SlayerDeuS]

College would be so much better without classes. ::sigh::

 

[-William-]

Yeah. Just imagine that IB in Europe is even harder. That's at least what I've been told by others. That probably explains William's comment.

But yeah, after hearing so many stories about how colleges don't even recognize IB, or if they do it's rated on the same level as AP, I switched my IB courses to AP. This year I'm only gonna be taking 2 AP classes anyway so it's not really a big deal.

Exactly, Steaua is saying he's taken the IB for a couple of years now, wtf?!
The IB is suppposed to be for the last two years of highschool 11th and 12th grade. And I was in the IB Diploma program for 4 months and realized how pointless it was if I wanted to go to college in the US, so I switched to IB Certificates.

And Steaua how can you turn in things later on when you have a whole bunch of deadlines!!!

 

[AhmedK]

I still don't know my major, nor do I have any career in mind. They have me set for an engineering program, they said if it is too hard I could always switch to plain Physics. Which really is not that much easier, I was told both would be hard and would require at least 5 hours more works a week than most other majors. **** THAT!! I don't even really like Physics, but I had to choose a major so I just picked the one that I was most interested in. You have to understand something, I am not interested in a damn thing, but I like the nice pictures of planets on space.com, so I picked Physics.







oh, I like to dress really nice, I like to talk to people, I like to make good mone and I like to travel a lot. ANy ideas based on these things? What are those young guys who are in business class and driving BMWs do? I know they are business men, but any type?

 

[Gerrard 17]

What are those young guys who are in business class and driving BMWs do? I know they are business men, but any type?

Haha that's exactly what I think every time I see them.

What school are you going to?


Oh yeah, with IB at my school we do Pre-IB in 9th and 10th, and then the 'real' IB in 11th and 12th. They don't count for IB credit, but they're still pretty advanced. I really couldnt be ****ed doing the extra IB work so I took regular English in 11th (my school has AP English only in 12th). The level of work in regular English 11 was wayyyyy easier than 9th grade Pre-IB.

 

[$teauA]

Exactly, Steaua is saying he's taken the IB for a couple of years now, wtf?!
The IB is suppposed to be for the last two years of highschool 11th and 12th grade. And I was in the IB Diploma program for 4 months and realized how pointless it was if I wanted to go to college in the US, so I switched to IB Certificates.

And Steaua how can you turn in things later on when you have a whole bunch of deadlines!!!

Yeah 9th and 10th grade I did something called IBMYP (IB middle years program) which is like gerrard said pre-ib but i still had 2 or 3 college courses in 10th grade.

And about the stuff, well I just don't do it and don't turn anything in or if I do I cook it up the day before just so that I don't seem lazy turn it in get a bad grade and then once 3rd and 4th quarters roll around I start to work harder and I study A LOT more so that I can get mostly A's and B's which by the end of year gives me a nice average in the class along with the final exam (which in the school system I am in counts for 25% of your year grade )