What are you doing right now?

[EndOfTheEarth]

Besides posting on here and replying to this thread. Original credit for this goes back to Fate and Nathan on MX.

[EndOfTheEarth]

Try taking classes in them. I didn't realize I was going into English until I'd discovered how much fun and success I was having with the related courses.

So take some Gen-eds in your freshman year. If you despise the course material, then it isn't for you. That simple.

[Xuut]

Well I don't have to major until my third or fourth year right? Because I know my brother is going around changing his major. 

I'll try that out and see how well it works. UBC is one of the biggest Canadian schools so it doesn't have a focus per se, it's generally good all around. 

Thanks End! :) 

[EndOfTheEarth]

At Temple you could be Undeclared through your second year, but after that you must pick some major. After that, you can change your major as many times as you feel is needed.

[nathan_p]

Robert Hare still works there, so while you're doing gen-eds take a psychology class from him omg.

Anyway, yeah, dick around, take classes that sound fun.

[Xuut]

XD Should I record them for you?

[Omega]

One thing I've always regretted about being in a proscribed professional course, is that there was only one opportunity to take an optional paper (and even then the list you were allowed to pick from was small). There are a number of classes I would have liked to sit in on. Great thing about uni? There's no such thing as roll call. You can not turn up to your class, or you can turn up to someone else's.

And Xuut? If it takes you 5 years to do a bachelor's because you've changed your mind, so what? I've got friends now into their 5th year because they keep changing their minds. I've got another friend who decided to do a double degree (and one of those with a double major), and he finished last year. It should have been a 5 year thing, he managed it in four. He wants to do post-grad. meh.

I'm quite seriously thinking of post-grad too, but a few years down the track, and post OE.

tl;dr, tertiary education is what you make of it. Don't stress too much.

[EndOfTheEarth]

Depends on the class. I've had classes that put up to 30% of the grade on attendance or attendance-related matters. I've had other classes where you could miss all of them, then show up and take the tests and that's the end of it.

But I figure, I'm paying for them, so I may as well go.

As for the rest, yes.

[Xuut]

@Omega: Well that's a bit more reassuring. My parent have been pressuring me to choose because basically, they don't want me to fuck up like my cousin and brother. Lol, so I'll just creep into some random class for fun a few times....

And erm, well I'm paying. Of course I'm going. Have you seen tuition rates? Every single cent must be used. I'm poor and cheap.  

[Omega]

We had attendance only for tutorials and labs - lectures didn't matter so much.

Of course, when we got to mels-only lectures, it was a bit harder to skip class, given that there was only 21 of us! There was no mark for attendance in those cases, but if you weren't there, they wanted to know why... eh. First and second year, no problems.

I figured the same thing about actually going - at the very least, you pick some of it up.

[Lamp Post]

Just random, but I decided last second not to apply to UBC because it wouldn't be that realistic.

But if you go there, we're meeting up.  Like, loads.  

But you really need to visit schools and email people.  You can fall in love with a school that makes you question what, exactly you want to do, but you just adore the scene, or only go to a school because it has one fair program...you might be in better shape with the former not knowing what you want to do.

I see your point with the mediocre uni thing.  You want to know you learned something and got everything out of the huge sum you paid.  But doing all that advanced work will help you succeed, regardless.  So might as well be pleased where ever you go.  Be that needing more time to do whatever or going somewhere that seems more high and mighty because of grades.

I totally applied to all the guaranteed admissions schools here.  Hate them all, but, if they become the cheapest option, really good chance I'll be there, for one year at least, then transfer out of country.  So there's nothing bad with doing that, too.  A degree is a degree.  And undergrad doesn't go as far as it used to. 

[Xuut]

:| Well out of country is generally a no-no for first year undergrads. And yes, we actually must. I'll have no friends because I don't know anyone who lives there and will feel horribly awkward for the first 3+ months. 

UBC is not limiting me anywhere. It has hundreds of bachelor degrees that many schools in this province don't have and it has a Law and Med school if I wanted to try those out. I can't visit the campus but I can talk to staff and stuff if I really wanted to. It has a research campus in rural B.C if I'm interested in a smaller campus as well. 

But basically everyone points out that if I dropped down to regular classes I'd be destroying those classes. Essentially, I could add around 5% to all of my grades since regular classes are way easier. 

>.> I just really want to get out of my parent's house. I know it sounds stupid because it'll cost way more, but I swear to god, if I have to spend all of uni like this, I'll go insane. I actually am not allowed to stay out later than like, nine o'clock. I'm sixteen. I have a bed time. The fact that the school I really want due to its atmosphere and prestige is out of province is just a perk. I'm not just picking any random school out of province, I'm picking one that realistically I'll be able to attend that's close enough for them not to harp at me for choosing it. 

[Lamp Post]

Eh, I have two friends up there.  So, it might not have been that bad.

My bedtime is nine, too!  Though it's not enforced because I'll be studying and I don't go out otherwise other than school/sports.