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OneOther
United States10774 Posts
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RaGe
Belgium9949 Posts
On October 17 2008 13:07 yubee wrote: 11) yubee lives by chicago corey u a busta | ||
cgrinker
United States3824 Posts
Why you should go here: Plan your own curriculum, no grad req's other than 180 credits (some must be in science to get a BS) Build your own major ie starcraft without living in someone's attic Individual: build your own course and get credit for it! I met someone this week who did one about polyamoury, he actually went out and had sex with a bunch of people and wrote about it for credit It's as cheep as free! Grad schools love it did i mention NO GRADES! bad things If you can't get your shit together you may end up going here for the rest of your life | ||
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Flaccid
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1) Because McCain is going to win 2) Because McCain is going to die 3) President Palin | ||
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CommanderFluffy
Taiwan1059 Posts
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LosingID8
CA10829 Posts
Some key points: -Highly Selective (21% admission rate) -Large student body: roughly 16,000 undergraduate and 16,000 graduate -Urban environment surrounding the campus (downtown Los Angeles) -Highly competitive athletics (USC FOOTBALL!) -The oldest private research institution in California, and considered to be very research-oriented. -#1 film school in the world. -Strong emphasis in community service -Lot of construction going on, if you come here you'll end up reaping the benefits of brand new facilities your soph/jr/sr years (new student campus center, film school building, light rail line connecting straight to santa monica) -22 libraries -9th in the top 10 list of "dream college" for students based on a survey done by the Princeton Review + Show Spoiler + 1. Harvard 2. Stanford 3. Princeton 4. New York University 5. Yale 6. Brown 7. Columbia 8. Cornell 9. University of Southern California 10. UCLA -Active Greek community -Generous scholarships (national merit finalist qualifies you for an automatic half-tuition scholarship [presidential] and an interview for the full-tuition [trustee]) -Need-based aid (I currently receive over 40k/year in grants for need-based aid) -A lot of attractive people -10 minutes from Koreatown, 15 minutes from Little Tokyo, 15 minutes from Chinatown, 20-30 minutes away from Hollywood -Southern California weather (it rains maybe 5 or 6 days in an entire school year) | ||
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infinity21
Canada6683 Posts
On October 17 2008 14:26 Flaccid wrote: Go to school in Canada: 1) Because McCain is going to win 2) Because McCain is going to die 3) President Palin I couldn't agree more. Ten reasons you guys should come to University of Waterloo because: 1) I go there 2) Bill307 (used to. now just lives in the area) 3) JF might come here lolol (ok someone needs to convince him! UofT sucks -_-) 4) pink (don't yooh want to meet her?) 5) Corinthos! 6) It has the biggest(?) math faculty in the world 7) It has a lot of hot asian girls 8) If you're more into white chicks, we got plenty down the street at Wilfirid Laurier University 9) It's known to have strong math & engineering programs 10) If business is your thing, you can try a Double Degree like me! Math and Business Administration: learn math at U of Waterloo and learn business at Laurier :D | ||
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Element)LoGiC
Canada1143 Posts
On October 17 2008 14:55 LosingID8 wrote: USC (University of Southern California) + Show Spoiler + Some key points: -Highly Selective (21% admission rate) -Large student body: roughly 16,000 undergraduate and 16,000 graduate -Urban environment surrounding the campus (downtown Los Angeles) -Highly competitive athletics (USC FOOTBALL!) -The oldest private research institution in California, and considered to be very research-oriented. -#1 film school in the world. -Strong emphasis in community service -Lot of construction going on, if you come here you'll end up reaping the benefits of brand new facilities your soph/jr/sr years (new student campus center, film school building, light rail line connecting straight to santa monica) -22 libraries -9th in the top 10 list of "dream college" for students based on a survey done by the Princeton Review + Show Spoiler + 1. Harvard 2. Stanford 3. Princeton 4. New York University 5. Yale 6. Brown 7. Columbia 8. Cornell 9. University of Southern California 10. UCLA -Active Greek community + Show Spoiler + -Generous scholarships (national merit finalist qualifies you for an automatic half-tuition scholarship [presidential] and an interview for the full-tuition [trustee]) -Need-based aid (I currently receive over 40k/year in grants for need-based aid) -A lot of attractive people -10 minutes from Koreatown, 15 minutes from Little Tokyo, 15 minutes from Chinatown, 20-30 minutes away from Hollywood -Southern California weather (it rains maybe 5 or 6 days in an entire school year) What is this greek you speak of? Greek community? What's so good about people from Greece? | ||
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OneOther
United States10774 Posts
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Flaccid
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KOFgokuon
United States14900 Posts
On October 17 2008 13:52 bludragen88 wrote: My brother went to UMCP so I'm a Terps fan... so yes I was messing around. I go to MIT though. Edit: If anyone wants to hear about why to or not to come here, I'll gladly edit this post with reasons. MIT in a nutshell: good reasons: ridiculously smart people significant fraction greek (if you're into that) you're in boston, awesome city for young people great opportunities for undergrad research, work with top tier faculty members (well, at least work in their labs, not so much working with them) bad reasons: NO FUCKING ESPN umm NO FUCKING ESPN what else NO FUCKING ESPN god damnit NO FUCKING ESPN | ||
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Amber[LighT]
United States5078 Posts
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Caller
Poland8075 Posts
On October 17 2008 23:10 KOFgokuon wrote: MIT in a nutshell: good reasons: ridiculously smart people significant fraction greek (if you're into that) you're in boston, awesome city for young people great opportunities for undergrad research, work with top tier faculty members (well, at least work in their labs, not so much working with them) bad reasons: NO FUCKING ESPN umm NO FUCKING ESPN what else NO FUCKING ESPN god damnit NO FUCKING ESPN we don't have espn at chicago either unless we want to pay 50$ a month or something worth it. | ||
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hellhawk123
United States84 Posts
1) very few people here have AIDS 2) | ||
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artofmagic
United States1951 Posts
anyway i got to RIT and it sucks up here. Cons: - Poor diversity - Female population is low. Most of them majors art or bio. - Low asian population. Not to mention asian females.. (I'm asian) - Many weirdos/geeks especially in my major. (CS) - Grade is only A B C.. etc.. no A + -. It's either high or die. - We only have days off only for Thanksgiving and Christmas. The break schedule is totally different from all colleges in US. - Winter is a fucking bitch here. - No shit to do up here (I'm from nyc) Pros - Required Co-op. (land me to co-op for IBM for 6 month. YES!) - Have decent numbers of clubs, activities, intramural (My intramural basketball team is kicking ass) Overall: Don't come.. I will die regretting if I didnt co-op for IBM. | ||
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bludragen88
United States527 Posts
On October 17 2008 23:10 KOFgokuon wrote: MIT in a nutshell: good reasons: ridiculously smart people significant fraction greek (if you're into that) you're in boston, awesome city for young people great opportunities for undergrad research, work with top tier faculty members (well, at least work in their labs, not so much working with them) bad reasons: NO FUCKING ESPN umm NO FUCKING ESPN what else NO FUCKING ESPN god damnit NO FUCKING ESPN But MIT pays for ESPN 360, so life isn't completely over. Plus the bandwidth/connection at this place is awesome, so you can actually use ESPN 360 and have it be worthwhile. And the wireless everywhere... but I think a lot of schools have that. More good reasons: Check stats on % admission to grad school med school and the like Check stats on starting salary Bad reasons: Food - dining halls serve 5 meals a week (wtf?) | ||
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Empyrean
17035 Posts
On October 18 2008 01:34 bludragen88 wrote: But MIT pays for ESPN 360, so life isn't completely over. Plus the bandwidth/connection at this place is awesome, so you can actually use ESPN 360 and have it be worthwhile. And the wireless everywhere... but I think a lot of schools have that. More good reasons: Check stats on % admission to grad school med school and the like Check stats on starting salary Bad reasons: Food - dining halls serve 5 meals a week (wtf?) MIT is catered by the same company that caters for Duke, I believe...Bon Appetit managing company. They actually do a pretty good job, I'd say. | ||
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bburn
United States1039 Posts
On October 18 2008 00:53 artofmagic wrote: wow so many MIT here. I thought whatisprotoss was the only one.. anyway i got to RIT and it sucks up here. Cons: - Poor diversity - Female population is low. Most of them majors art or bio. - Low asian population. Not to mention asian females.. (I'm asian) - Many weirdos/geeks especially in my major. (CS) - Grade is only A B C.. etc.. no A + -. It's either high or die. - We only have days off only for Thanksgiving and Christmas. The break schedule is totally different from all colleges in US. - Winter is a fucking bitch here. - No shit to do up here (I'm from nyc) Pros - Required Co-op. (land me to co-op for IBM for 6 month. YES!) - Have decent numbers of clubs, activities, intramural (My intramural basketball team is kicking ass) Overall: Don't come.. I will die regretting if I didnt co-op for IBM. To add to this (I also go to RIT in my last two quarters of BS/MS I cannot wait to be done this place sucks balls) pros -There are several schools not to far from RIT with high female populations (although they are relatively smalls schools) that you seem to get an auto in with once they know you go to RIT manly cause we are in general much smarter than the guys who go to there school...although most RIT students lack social skills so this in is usually wasted lol... -Fairly well known in the northeast -Many professors actually have practical experience. This is actually a huge plus I find as when you go on a co-op you have a much better idea what to expect than from professors who have only academic skills/experience -good gym facilities Cons -If you aren't going to have a car it will be very difficult to go anywhere (fairly awful public transportation) -essentially no school spirt -no football team (although we do have a rather good hockey team) -Everything is made of brick/campus is ugly -no sense of community | ||
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mnm
United States4493 Posts
GO BEARS! Pros <li> mnm ('03), Yosh, LastRomantic, evanthebouncy!, WhizKid77, phase, Wasabi, paper, LxRogue, B1nary, davidgurt, Zalfor <li> http://www.decal.org/home/index.php - Democratic Education at Cal (I took a course on professional wrestling through this. there is also a class on shows like the simpsons, few classes on video games with starcraft being one of them before, and lots of other fun stuff) <li> Top Public School in the Nation - http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/college/national-top-public <li> Top 3 Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs - http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/college/spec-doct-engineering <li> Top 3 Best Undergraduate Business Programs - http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/college/spec-business <li> Olympic Bears (including Cavic, Coughlin, Jason Kidd) - http://calbears.cstv.com/sports/olympics/spec-rel/athletes.html <li> there's something for everyone - north side of campus is more for the cs nerd types while south side of campus is more humanities oriented <li> there's always something going on, esp around sproul plaza such as the A cappella groups <3 <li> there's a lot of life in and around campus - http://berkeley.edu/life/ent.shtml <li> <a href="http://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=restaurants&find_loc=berkeley%2C+ca&ns=1&rpp=10#mapCenterLat:37.8699723732/mapCenterLng:-122.258605957/mapZoom:13/places:CA%3ABerkeley%3A%3A[UC_Campus_Area%2CDowntown_Berkeley%2CTelegraph_Ave]/sortby:composite_rating/show_more_search_options:true" target="_blank">good restaurants/bars</a> <li> helps a lot in getting a job to mention having graduated from Berkeley <li> cs classes train you to be able to handle any language by emphasizing on theory. <li> i liked the environment. there is a good enough number of trees and places to sit and chill. <li> i enjoyed working at the computer labs. they have a great community. <li> fun teachers. I heard Alex Filippenko is a great Astrology teacher and I always wanted to take his class but didn't get to. Among my favorites were Ben Bergen and Brendan Ferguson (who works as a game developer and currently is on Sam and Max - http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,59187/ ) <li> prestigious teachers - http://berkeley.edu/news/features/nobel/ <li> Best of Berkeley - http://bestofberkeley.dailycal.org/ Cons <li> extremely competitive, esp if you're in cs <li> can't think of much really, i have a lot of berkeley pride | ||
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Dutch
Canada110 Posts
1) University of Denver, Colorado. 2) Davenport U in Michigan. Both are offering Masters degrees and I have no idea about either as I'm in Canada. | ||
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