College is coming...

[Sophita]

Saben raises a good point. If you're not quite ready for college, then I do recommend taking time off. Buuut...It's a double edged sword. And there are a lot of drawbacks to doing that.

- For one thing, I find that for every year you don't go to college, the likeliness of you going drops quite a bit. It can be frightening to go back to school after so many years off.

- A lot of colleges now make incoming freshman take exams to ensure they're at the levels of schooling the college wants them to be at. These are big moneymakers for a lot of places; a lot of these classes are really expensive and you have to finish them before taking any classes they might be a pre-req (if you haven't cleared the test) for. English might not be a problem (it's something that, if you live in the states, you hear on a daily basis) but math? A lot of these tests quiz you on formulas - and if you don't remember the formula, there's no way to solve the problem.

- It will take you a lot longer to earn your degree if you're working fulltime (which you likely will have to, unless you are extremely lucky.)

- Not everyone can afford to move overseas or the like or perhaps can't due to some lasting arrangements at home. For those who can't, I would recommend trying Community Colleges - they are cheaper than 4 years and you can get your associates degree and transfer on to a four year in just a couple years. They're closer to home, so those nervous can "test the waters" so to speak, before jumping in to a bg 4 year instituition.
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[ayoloco]

*Sigh* How I wish I am still a student :(
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[Njord]

I also agree with Sophita and Saben on taking some time before rushing for collage because if you aren't that much confident about taking the responsibility of college then don't, but I also wouldn't recommend taking a lot of time because you might lose interest in it.

I for myself did take some time after graduating from High School because at that time I wasn't that much confident about my ability in taking that kind of responsibility, so all I did is postponed college for a while.

To be honest with you... even if I did go to college at that time I wouldn't know if I could keep on with everything duo to my lack of experience in life, but now I'm absolutely sure about taking the experience of college because I know that I'm not the same person as before.

So all I want to say to you is before going to college do gain some knowledge on life around you because it will surly help in your journey through college.
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[Lechium]

my advice is simple -- dont join frat/sorrority.
Make friends with frat people so you can go to their parties but dont join them.
Paying $ to have friends who will humiliate and use you for quiet some time is plain stupid.
Also 'challenges' they pose are ridiculus -- one sorority on our campus sneaks in a date rape onot its pledges, and other frat forces pledges to do 'elephant walk'. Obviously you most pledges do not know about this until their times comes.

[Excalibur1027]

Sorry I can't give you any real good advice, since I'm pretty much in the same boat that your in. I'll be a freshman as well, I start next Monday, a week from now. I'm really not that nervous. I already scouted out my college and checked where all my classes will be, just so I know ahead of time. I've actually gotten to know my way around my college pretty well now (I should. I've been back there three times in the past week checking if they have any more of my books in yet and I still don't have all of them.)

So, anyways, good luck! I hope everything works out ok. That goes for all the new freshman here. :D
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[TheAngelicSin]

Yay for freshmen. ;P

It's just occurred to me that I'm moving away from home to live in a dorm with someone I've only spoke to on the phone and online twice. It also just hit me that starting Monday I have to go back to classes and the school year is beginning. Ohh boy...

And I'm leaving for college tomorrow, so what did I do? Not figure out everything I'm taking, again! Again...

Yay for freshmen ;P
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[Goldy]

I am finished college! Got me a degree in Architectural Technology.
I will be going back in a few years to do some part time postgrad courses though.

[Kohaku]

Hmmm, college? yes, this is also my first year in college, it's the University of Indonesia (UI) which is so damn hard to enter. I am one of those lucky 4000 people from about 100.000 applicants (yes, the university is the most favorite one in my country :mrgreen: ). I take the Bachelor Degree for Bussiness Administration (BBA degree).

And yeah, the first week is really tiring. The first day I got a homework to make 30+page papers for three days using MANUAL typewriting machine. And right now i'm too tired to make it so I browse the internet for refreshing, haha. I live alone at the dormitory, with lots of different nationality around me, in my right is a korean student's room (his name is Bin, and he couldn't speak english, which made communication between us is kinda hard since his Indonesian is not that good, but it's so kind of him to help me doing my homework). And in my left, there's an australian. Hmm, but I guess college life is not that bad after all
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[Goldy]

I found college to be the best years of my life!
I did a four year degree course in Architectural Technology.
And i am soon to graduate with First Class Honours! Yippy!
One of only five people in the class to get it.
First and second year were handy enough and i did go out and party alot!
Third year was a different story, man the work load that year was crazy!
We has something like big 27 projects to do in total but i got through it.
As for fourth year, that was a breeze, less projects and they were mainly
report writing so that was not too bad.
Thank god i wasnt stuck in the books all the time, in fact i never had to buy a
book because my course was mainly practical work with lectures thrown in here
and their for the theory end of the course.
I really really enjoyed my time in college and i hope you do too.

In a few years i hope to go back to do some part time courses to suppliament
my qualification but for now i am working fulltime to save for travelling!

[Gwendal]

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but since English isn`t my native tongue and all...what is really the difference between college and University? Is it the same thing?

Anyway, I`ll hopefully be starting at university next year...I`m a very "academic" kind of person, so I doubt I`ll want to go off doing something else first. I`ve been looking forward to university for a long time, so I`m pretty determined about it.
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[Eriatarka]

I hated college...which is why I stopped became a graphic designer for a top ad agency...heh

[Celes Tilly]

OH MY GOD! Goldmember is a Manchester fan! O_O Good job.

Ayoloco, your image seems a bit... on the LARGE side. Make it smaller.
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[Njord]

[TheAngelicSin]

[KoRnholio]

I'm not entirely sure, but what I think the difference is, is when a state has a huge university system.

Say, here in Illinois, we have University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana, and also University of Illinois at Chicago. They are both 'University of Illinois', but are different colleges....in fact they're over a hundred miles away from eachother.

Even within, say, the U of I at Champaign/Urbana campus, they have specific 'colleges'...for example the Engineering program is actually called the College of Engineering or something.

Private colleges won't be big enough, and will just be called (insert name here) college.

So what my guess is, is that large universities can have multiple colleges in them. Which kind of works like how Njord explained the Kuwaiti university system was.