College

**cj001f** · 10-31-2006, 04:44 PM

Congrats! The first of many positive letters I hope.

**mc_roon** · 10-31-2006, 04:45 PM

Originally Posted by glademaster

Just got my acceptance letter to U Wisconsin-Madison, my first one.

U Michigan is under review, so by Thanksgiving I should have heard from them. Gotta love rolling admission, it just feels so good to know already that I have somewhere to go.

From here, we shall see...

wow, i didnt hear from any of my schools until early december. I know exactly what you are saying; you have a place to go that you would be happy at and there is a huge pressure lifted off your shoulders. Enjoy it, BUT dont let your grades tank.

**Ireallyliketoski2** · 10-31-2006, 04:59 PM

Go wherever you'll graduate with the least amount of debt. Just say no to student loans. Go Rhode Island College Anchormen!!

**Brock Landers** · 10-31-2006, 05:09 PM

Originally Posted by Ireallyliketoski

Go wherever you'll graduate with the least amount of debt. Just say no to student loans. Go Rhode Island College Anchormen!!

Screw that, go where youll have a great time and get a good education. If youve got loans coming out of school, so be it- theyll be gone but youll still have those memories and you had the time of your life. Now that youre into a school you already like, youre playing with the house's money so enjoy

**cranked** · 10-31-2006, 05:18 PM

Originally Posted by mc_roon

go to Berkley. You can get a great education, the social life is insane, and Tahoe isnt far at all. I often pick up friends from Berkley on my way to Tahoe all the time - its about 2.5hrs to the parking lot @ Squaw from University Ave.

Slow down there...I have to say, from first hand experience, if you are after social life, Berkeley is NOT high on that list.

Clout, academia, Nobel Prizes...check...

As for social life, I shudder at the thought of attending Berkeley for undergrad...

**mc_roon** · 10-31-2006, 05:24 PM

Originally Posted by cranked

Slow down there...I have to say, from first hand experience, if you are after social life, Berkeley is NOT high on that list.

Clout, academia, Nobel Prizes...check...

As for social life, I shudder at the thought of attending Berkeley for undergrad...

have you ever been to berkley on a Friday or Saturday nite? What about a football gameday? Being in a fraternity helps a lot for social connections, and from the frat guys that ive hung out with are awsome. Berkley has a crazy social life, you just gotta know where to look

EDIT: i just saw that you posted from firsthand experience. Recent first hand experience? Cause i was there a few weeks ago for a concert at nite followed by homecoming the next afternoon and it was non-stop all nite

**ptavv** · 10-31-2006, 05:27 PM

I went to University of Portland so that I could study abroad at their campus in Salzburg Austria.

Four days/week of classes, easy train access to the Swiss/Austrian/Italian Alps, Austrian/Bavarian beer, girls

tough to beat all that

**cranked** · 10-31-2006, 05:33 PM

Originally Posted by mc_roon

have you ever been to berkley on a Friday or Saturday nite? What about a football gameday? Being in a fraternity helps a lot for social connections, and from the frat guys that ive hung out with are awsome. Berkley has a crazy social life, you just gotta know where to look

There are definitely good times to be had...as with any school. I truly believe no matter where you go, it is all about finding your groove. I have had some incredible times there, I just can't put it in the same class as places like FSU, UT, MU Ohio, Mich, SDSU, Madison, etc...now, I wouldn't put those schools in the same class academically as Berkeley, so it is the balance you are after.

Again...good times to be had, just not 'insane'...especially when factoring in the women.

bc · 10-31-2006, 05:38 PM

Yeah, would have to argue against the no social life at Berkeley argument. There are plenty of undergrads who choose not to have a social life, but they must actively choose to ignore all the crazy shit going on around them. Hell, all in my grad program party like freshmen. But as previously said, it's gotten a helluva lot harder to get in here as an undergrad. And it can be quite difficult for science majors to get the classes they need.

I may be biased, but do check out Davis. Close(r) to Tahoe, fun (& huge) ski/snowboard club, lots of partying, and the sciences are damn good, if not as well known as UCLA and Cal. The club arranges cabin trips to Tahoe every weekend as well as an out of state "all cal", a Tahoe "Nor Cal", and a Mammoth "So Cal" all with the rest of the UC's. Oh, and Houseboats, Memorial Day, Shasta.

**Art Shirk** · 10-31-2006, 05:46 PM

Originally Posted by Ireallyliketoski

Go wherever you'll graduate with the least amount of debt. Just say no to student loans. Go Rhode Island College Anchormen!!

Good ole Ric. The only place where a "ref beats his wife" chant is commonplace at all sporting events.

And yes, let the money sort itself out and go to a place you love and (*cough cough*) provides a good education. Congrats.

**groundskeeper willy** · 10-31-2006, 06:42 PM

if this college thing doesn't work out, ye can always help willy unclog toilets.

**KingLouis** · 10-31-2006, 07:26 PM

Speaking as a current undergraduate Berkeley student, I can say that we defiantly get to ski a lot here. I'm part of the Cal ski team, and we go up every weekend. Now this also depends on your major, but if you stick with environmental, you'll get plenty plenty of free time on your hands. (I'm an electrical Engineer, I have little social life outside the team, my teachers suck the life away from me. Such is the pains of being in the top 3 programs for EE)

Also, when applying I was debating between McGill and Berkeley; I would say McGill is an AWESOME school as well.

If you get into Cal, I recommend it over McGill; but if not, McGill is great stuff.

As for everyone talking about the social life at Cal, it goes in seasons, homecoming weekend for example is a constant party, while 2 weeks later you'll be hard pressed to find a party.

If you know the right people, you can always find a party though.

**GBB** · 10-31-2006, 10:39 PM

Originally Posted by ptavv

I went to University of Portland so that I could study abroad at their campus in Salzburg Austria.

Four days/week of classes, easy train access to the Swiss/Austrian/Italian Alps, Austrian/Bavarian beer, girls

tough to beat all that

How long did your study abroad last?

**Art Shirk** · 10-31-2006, 10:51 PM

Any other SCU broncos here?

**Big Blue** · 11-01-2006, 12:03 AM

Originally Posted by KingLouis

Speaking as a current undergraduate Berkeley student, I can say that we defiantly get to ski a lot here. I'm part of the Cal ski team, and we go up every weekend. Now this also depends on your major, but if you stick with environmental, you'll get plenty plenty of free time on your hands. (I'm an electrical Engineer, I have little social life outside the team, my teachers suck the life away from me. Such is the pains of being in the top 3 programs for EE)

Also, when applying I was debating between McGill and Berkeley; I would say McGill is an AWESOME school as well.

If you get into Cal, I recommend it over McGill; but if not, McGill is great stuff.

As for everyone talking about the social life at Cal, it goes in seasons, homecoming weekend for example is a constant party, while 2 weeks later you'll be hard pressed to find a party.

If you know the right people, you can always find a party though.

As a former Cal ski teamer with a degree in Mech. Engineering I can confirm this. I skied four days a week during the winter.

**0BernhardFranz** · 11-01-2006, 06:43 AM

my granddad had best finals in law studies in bavaria and that is like in germany of the year but i did not study although i do read a lot of scientific american etc.
"the solution" does not seem to be a ski college either i better like to hang out between my ma and other people then whoom go off 4 years or 6 to a college or the air force or whatever i lived in cali for a year oxford for a years and london and did many 3 month holidays to the us but i much missed my ma always now i move "with her" i think college kids become really terrible monsters beiing torn away from their ma and home etc that pay back mankind for this rupture all their lives see redstone and clinton blair and even bush
i tried to skip school as i could and skipped kindergarden
mankinf is koyaniskatsi and tearing kids into preschools schools and worst colleges all away from their my and family and homes creates the psychos of terror that roam this world
but the oxford deacon awarded me with professorates once on tv and also i was invited to do research in stanford in a permanet position but i hoped to feel and find more soul in hollywood movies music - but there are people there who are in for money and they ruin everthing

**0BernhardFranz** · 11-01-2006, 06:44 AM

please, be anyone so sweet to find the typos in what i just did? that would be so sweet !

**0BernhardFranz** · 11-01-2006, 06:58 AM

please, be anyone so sweet to find the typos in what i just did? that would be so sweet !

the german word for college is internat pretty much and that is to kids like the death penalty

there must be methods to make yanks that can murder with so much passion from intelligent humans littel adults as kids already crime slavery the death penalty the abundance of guns drugs high school college the social role an employee can play if employeed etc USA is like AD&D to me ! sure if someone says move into a big villa a present to you in the US i wont say no but really like most countries few people will escape normal society being a torture machine - so I go outdoors to be alone !

they have : ski internat ! already hitler knew so well that kids need someone to look after them , need something to do !

**telecincy44** · 11-01-2006, 09:46 AM

What are your guy's feelings about Montanta State vs. CU Boulder? Im thinking about going into enviromental science and/or ceramics...

**Missing Sock** · 11-01-2006, 10:36 AM

Depends on where you want to live/work. Anywhere outside of Montana Idaho, Eastern Washington, Oregon I would choose CU. Has a much more national reputation

**Gripen** · 11-01-2006, 10:45 AM

Originally Posted by telecincy44

What are your guy's feelings about Montanta State vs. CU Boulder? Im thinking about going into enviromental science and/or ceramics...

University of Montana has a neat EVST program, great town, good skiing, nice alterntive to the 'zone. http://www.umt.edu/evst/default.htm

Interesting how most out of staters only think of MSU...

**puma** · 11-01-2006, 12:13 PM

Originally Posted by glademaster

Atmospheric sciences or climatology.

WWU in Bellingham treated me well. Baker is not far away. Bellingham is a nice town. Environmental program is good at Huxley. Worth a look.

**Sirshredalot** · 11-01-2006, 01:07 PM

The skiing at MSU's pretty damn good, and the school has some very strong programs. But keep in mind that this is a land grant school - we're good at ag, engineering, math, that sort of thing. If your academic interests lie elsewhere, you may be better off at a larger or more academically diverse school. I don't know much about the environmental science program here except that they must be somehow involved with the Big Sky Carbon Sequestration Project. As for ceramics, I am clueless about the art classes here except that there seem to be lots of photography majors.

**shmerham** · 11-01-2006, 01:38 PM

Originally Posted by cranked

There are definitely good times to be had...as with any school. I truly believe no matter where you go, it is all about finding your groove. I have had some incredible times there, I just can't put it in the same class as places like FSU, UT, MU Ohio, Mich, SDSU, Madison, etc...now, I wouldn't put those schools in the same class academically as Berkeley, so it is the balance you are after.

Again...good times to be had, just not 'insane'...especially when factoring in the women.

No doubt that if hot chicks is the sole criterium for social life; a school like FSU is hard to beat. As far as fun goes, I think it's different for everyone. For starters, at a tough school, things totally go off on the weekend because everyone needs to let loose after a crazy week of tests and projects. ...and I think that when the parties aren't as crazy as at an FSU type school they can still be as fun at a tougher school when you have smart, creative people to have a good time with. That's my 2 cents.

**Buzzworthy** · 11-01-2006, 02:41 PM

Originally Posted by glademaster

Just got my acceptance letter to U Wisconsin-Madison, my first one.

U Michigan is under review, so by Thanksgiving I should have heard from them. Gotta love rolling admission, it just feels so good to know already that I have somewhere to go.

From here, we shall see...

I knew by mid October from the 3 schools I applied to and accepted at all 3, Penn State Main Campus, WVU, Ohio U. Not telling why I picked the school I did, but lets just say in that day I would be posting more in Sprocket Rockets.

Then: End homework. None of these schools cared if I dropped a bit on the GPA as I had 4.0 when applying. Gradumacted with 3.8. Never brought a book home again after November and skied/partied 38 days of my senior year away after that (could not graduate with 39 or more days missed).

Note: I am not a role model. And congrats on the first acceptance letter, it feels good doesn't it!