The Happy College Thread

[Emilee]

Many people have mentioned their college in the last few days. I am in college too, and I'm curious...
A)Where are you in school?
B)Where is it located?
C)What type of school is it?
D)Do you like it?
E)What year are you?
F)What is your major?

I'll start
A)Smith College
B)Northampton, MA
C)Women's liberal arts college, about 2,700 students
D)I love it :)
E)I'm a first-year (I'm not a freshman because I'm not a man)
F)It'll probably be bio or econ

Thank you, that is all :)

[andygirl]

Lorax- you're a Smithie? Cool. My best friend is a first year, too. She lives in Gilette.

I'm a sophmore linguistics major at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH. It's an Ivy with 5000 and change.

I love my school muchly, but it does suffer from the burdensome "uptight conservative rich white male syndrome" wherein the world at large assumes that everyone at the school is one, when this is hardly the case.

I'm also not crazy about the binge drinking and the administrative idea that diversity means having a lot of minorities, but those are much longer rants. As is, though, I'm glad I go here.

[Nacho4Sara]

A)Where are you in school? University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC (http://www.umbc.edu/))

B)Where is it located? Catonsville, MD - 35 minutes from my house and a killer morning commute on 95S.

C)What type of school is it? UMBC is an Honors, Liberal Arts school, but mostly it's reknowned for its Engineering and Math programs. It's also a big graduate research school. I think like 11-12,000 students attend.

D)Do you like it? Yuppers. My campus is incredibly beautiful, my classes are almost always well-taught and challenging, and all of my professers have been awesome. There's a lot of great campus activities, too - live comics, great speeches, kick-ass concerts (this weekend it was the Roots). And the SCO gives away free movie tickets once a week. Who could ask for anything more?

E)What year are you? Junior. Thanks to an overdose of summer courses, I've finally caught up after taking a semester off last year.

F)What is your major? English and Anthropology, with a minor in writing.

[cw]

Hey Lorax,

A. I'm at Oklahoma State (not to be confused with OU for the college football fans).
B. It's in Stillwater, OK.
C. Uh, it's a state college.
D. Yeah, I like it but the town is a lot smaller than I am familiar with.
E. I'm a junior
F. My major is MIS (management info. systems[business comps]).

[pepperlandgirl]

A)Where are you in school?
University of La Verne

B)Where is it located?
La Verne California

C)What type of school is it?
Private Liberal Arts School. I think there are about 1300 students.

D)Do you like it?
It's beautiful. I don't have one complaint. The classes are small (my biggest one has 22 students), the professors are super, and there are a wide array of fascinating courses to choose from.

E)What year are you?
First year

F)What is your major?
English, with a minor in Philosophy/Religion. (I know, what the hell am I going to do with that combination?);)

[KeithT]

University of Wisconsin - Madison (http://www.wisc.edu)
Madison, WI
Public university, total enrollment 41,000. $500 million annual research budget.
Love it. Beautiful campus, fun city, yet a fifteen minute drive puts you in the country. Once you get past the introductory and "weed the freshmen out of engineering" courses, class sizes can be surprisingly small. Overall, my professors are great. A couple just don't know how to teach well, but they are all experts in their fields. One's even walked on the moon (http://silver.neep.wisc.edu/~neep533/FILES/trip.html)!
Third chronological year; senior standing on what's shaping up to be a 9 semester plan
Mechanical engineering, with a certificate in business

[Le Sang]

A) Where are you in school?
University of Pittsburgh - not a bad place, but more city here than I care for.

B) Where is it located?
Pittsburgh - and yes, I do like to explain the obvious occasionally.

C) What type of school is it?
Well, it's one of those schools. Y'know, the big ones where the state covers a lot of the funding and they let the quality slide a little bit because the numbers'll hide it. Frankly, I couldn't care less about what the majority of the people here do; I am an engineering student and live in my own little world. This, to me, is a good thing, because if I were exposed to more people, there would be a higher chance that I'd kill one of them.

D) Do you like it?
It'd pretty cool. I sometimes wish I'd gone someplace else, though.

E) What year are you?
I'm in my 3rd year now, with n years to go, where n is determined by the following formula... ;)

F) What is your major?
Electrical Engineering, with a minor in Photonics. It's cool stuff, and keeps me busy enough that I can forget all the shit life's pulled lately. My only problem with it is that I can't talk about it with anybody without either oversimplifying it or explaining several years of classes to them.

[Kaje]

Why oh why am I still up doing this pointless shit when I have so much other stuff to do?

Sophomore CS/premed/general insanity/don't know major at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY... Basically a big research institution, 15000 students or so...

Also Ivy so it has a lot of the same problems described by andygirl It's great except when, as is currently the case, tests and papers are being shoved in your face a few times a week... sometimes the classes are too big for their own good but you can usually find a professor to ask about shit... Also there seem to be more hyperirritating sorostitute types polluting the dating environment leaving much to be desired in the realm of available/acceptable girls...

guess that's about it...

Now the real question is... Am I going to sleep now for class in 6 hours or staying up and doing problem sets and sleeping through classes? Go Big Red! :rolleyes:

[shdwrnr123]

A)Where are you in school? Western Michigan University. Go Broncos!!
B)Where is it located? Kalamazoo, Michigan (yes its a real place). its halfway between detroit and chicago, or if you want a more accurate description, look at your right hand. its right near that part where your palm becomes concave near the wrist.
C)What type of school is it? Typical public Undergrad/Grad School. Its like UofM or Michigan State, but the standards are a lot more lax to get in.
D)Do you like it? I love it, wouldnt imagine going anywhere else. Campus is beautiful (lots of hills though), and the classes are difficult enough to be challenging. Oh, and we have some sort of intercollegiate flying team, so thats unique also.
E)What year are you? Junior; 61 credits.
F)What is your major? Mathematics, minor in Biology.

[iampunha]

Originally posted by TheLorax
A)Where are you in school?
B)Where is it located?
C)What type of school is it?
D)Do you like it?
E)What year are you?
F)What is your major?


Fairfax County, VA.
Fairfax, VA
Commuter; over 75 percent of the students drive to school.
Sorta.
Junior
English

[Amazing Tiki God]

Ball State University
Muncie, IN
It's the typical decent sized (approx. 16,000 students) midwestern state run university.
It's pretty sweet here. The town is great and the people are awesome. I have small classes and that vast majority of the profs that I have kick some serious behind.
Sophomore
Computer Science, Minor in Classical Culture

[Skip]

University of Cape Town (http://www.uct.ac.za), currently on 3 month research visit at University of Twente (http://www.utwente.nl)

Cape Town (http://www.gocapetown.co.za), South Africa, but as mentioned above, currently in Enschede, Netherlands till 1st Dec 2001.

General University (Science, Medical, Law, Engineering, Humanities and Commerce Faculties). Approx 15 000 students.

Yup, it's built (http://www.uct.ac.za/general/ucmap.htm) on the slopes of a mountain in one of the most picturesque cities in the world. What's not to love!

Postgrad (5th Year)

M.Sc in Computer Science

[PigBoy]

A) Ohio Wesleyan University
B) Delaware, Ohio (just a but north of Columbus)
C) Small private liberal arts school
D) I like it well enough
E) Freshman
F) The plan is Geography

[Juniper200]

<i>A)Where are you in school?</i>
The University of Missouri in general, the University of Missouri School of Journalism in particular.

<i>B)Where is it located? </i>
Columbia, MO. Right smack in the middle of nowhere.

<i>C)What type of school is it? </i>
Your standard midwestern, land-grant state university.

<i>D)Do you like it?</i>
It serves my purposes. This is supposed to be the best journalism school in the country, so it's like it, lump it, or go back to Michigan for me.

<i>E)What year are you?</i>
Senior. I graduate May 20, 2002.

<i>F)What is your major?<i>
Print journalism with a curricular emphasis on copy editing and newspaper design.

[Juniper200]

Well, isn't my face red? That's the first time I've thrown in HTML tags instead of vBcode. I blame LiveJournal.

Again, preview is for the weak! I live on the edge! I fear no codes!

[easy e]

Where are you in school?
I'm another person attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Where is it located
Madison, Wisconsin (duh)

What type of school is it
Public big-10 university. Approximately 40+ k students.

Do you like it?
I love it. I wanted to go to a huge school, because my high school (at around 2000 students) was the size of many small colleges. Despite the large campus size, whenever I meet new people, we always turn out to have a mutual friend, or a friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend in common. I love the town--I missed it when I worked in the Twin Cities this summer.

What year are you?
Senior year, year 1 of 2. That would include me being on co-op next semester, so I really only have 2 semesters (after this one) until I graduate.

What is your major
Biomedical engineering, with an emphasis on biomaterials, and biochemistry.

[racinchikki]

A)Where are you in school?
Mississippi State University.

B)Where is it located?
Bum-F*** East.

C)What type of school is it?
Four-year state land grant institution.
D)Do you like it?
It's a good school. I just wish it weren't out in the middle of Bum-F*** East.

E)What year are you?
Freshman.

F)What is your major?
Communications. Going to do double foci on Journalism and Public Relations and probably be a copy writer or editor like my mom.

[Fionn]

A)Where are you in school?
I go to the University of Texas at Austin. Super-specifically where I am in school, I'm in the Perry-Castaneda library, station 63.
B)Where is it located?
Austin, Texas
C)What type of school is it?
It's a massive public university-I believe it's the largest in the US. It has 50,000 students. It has basically everything one could want-liberal arts, engineering, communications, business.
D)Do you like it?
Yes. I've had really good professors and interesting classes.
E)What year are you?
Senior
F)What is your major?
Psychology

[slortar]

Originally posted by shdwrnr123
A)Where are you in school? Western Michigan University. Go Broncos!!
B)Where is it located? Kalamazoo, Michigan (yes its a real place). its halfway between detroit and chicago, or if you want a more accurate description, look at your right hand. its right near that part where your palm becomes concave near the wrist.
C)What type of school is it? Typical public Undergrad/Grad School. Its like UofM or Michigan State, but the standards are a lot more lax to get in.
D)Do you like it? I love it, wouldnt imagine going anywhere else. Campus is beautiful (lots of hills though), and the classes are difficult enough to be challenging. Oh, and we have some sort of intercollegiate flying team, so thats unique also.
E)What year are you? Junior; 61 credits.
F)What is your major? Mathematics, minor in Biology.

No kidding? I'm currently working on my MA there.

[CrankyAsAnOldMan]

Do grad students count?

I'm in a never-ending quest to get my PhD at the University of Michigan. Actually, it is ending. Supposedly. Soon.

[bobkitty]

Originally posted by TheLorax
A)Smith College

I just can't resist this. A long, long time ago, I received my BA from Hampshire College (AKA the Bastard Child of the Four Colleges). I'll never forget the running joke that the bus drivers had about Smith. When asked why there were late-night runs between Smith and Mount Holyoke when all other bus runs had ended, every bus driver I ever encountered responded with a totally deadpan "Lonely lesbians." The fact that Smith students typically *hate* MoHo students only made it funnier. Okay, so it's not so funny now. I think you had to be there.

Hey.. do me a favor. Run down to Atkin's and have a loaf of Ugly Bread and apple butter for me, 'k? :)

Oh, and to answer your questions...

A) State University of West Georgia
B) West Central Georgia, a stone's throw from the Georgia/'Bama border
C) Typical state school, about 18K students
D) Eh. It's okay. Too few good profs, too many close to retirement. The Psych program is totally whacked.. I like the program I'm in now much better.
E) Halfway through my EdS (already have the MA).. might have a year and a half or so left.
F) Community Counseling (as opposed to the school counseling program)

-BK

[bobkitty]

Originally posted by TheLorax
A)Smith College

I just can't resist this. A long, long time ago, I received my BA from Hampshire College (AKA the Bastard Child of the Four Colleges). I'll never forget the running joke that the bus drivers had about Smith. When asked why there were late-night runs between Smith and Mount Holyoke when all other bus runs had ended, every bus driver I ever encountered responded with a totally deadpan "Lonely lesbians." The fact that Smith students typically *hate* MoHo students only made it funnier. Okay, so it's not so funny now. I think you had to be there.

Hey.. do me a favor. Run down to Atkin's and have a loaf of Ugly Bread and apple butter for me, 'k? :) Oh, and make sure you go to 5-Con. I started that whole fiasco.

Oh, and to answer your questions...

A) State University of West Georgia
B) West Central Georgia, a stone's throw from the Georgia/'Bama border
C) Typical state school, about 18K students
D) Eh. It's okay. Too few good profs, too many close to retirement. The Psych program is totally whacked.. I like the program I'm in now much better.
E) Halfway through my EdS (already have the MA).. might have a year and a half or so left.
F) Community Counseling (as opposed to the school counseling program)

-BK

[bobkitty]

D'OH!!!!!

Uh, ignore that first one from me. Thought I'd stopped it in time. **grumble**

[Daowajan]

A)Where are you in school?
Beloit College
B)Where is it located?
Southern Wisconsin.
C)What type of school is it?
Private, non-affiliated, unabashedly leftist. 1000 students.
D)Do you like it?
Yeah. I complain about it all the time, but I like this school.
E)What year are you?
First-year.
F)What is your major?
Not decided yet. Is either going to be English or Creative Writing.

[beegirl13]

A)Where are you in school? Wells College
B)Where is it located? Aurora, NY
C)What type of school is it? Very small (+/- 400 students) women's liberal arts college
D)Do you like it? I love it!
E)What year are you? Sophomore
F)What is your major? Biology (pre-vet)

[slight hijack] My best friend is also going to Smith! She's a sophomore, and lives on campus. [/slight hijack]

[ultrafilter]

A)Where are you in school?
The University of Virginia.

B)Where is it located?
Charlottesville, VA.

C)What type of school is it?
It's a state university. I seem to believe that it's one of the smaller (and more exclusive) ones. It's also pretty widely thought to have the most beautiful campus in the USA.

D)Do you like it?
Yeah, it's pretty cool. It took me a couple years to get situated, but (looks at beer fridge) I'm having a good time of it now.

Dammit, my beer just fizzed all over my mouse. Fuckin' A! Oh well, mouse seems to be working.

E)What year are you?
I'm a 4th year. Around here, people don't refer to themselves as freshmen, sophomores, etc. We all go by how many years we've been here. Mr. Jefferson wanted it that way. :rolleyes:

F)What is your major?
I'm a double in math and CS. Anyone looking to hire a software engineer with good analytical skills, drop me an e-mail at the address in my profile.

[Ooner]

A)Where are you in school? UNLV

B)Where is it located? Las Vegas, baby!

C)What type of school is it? Pretty big public school. About 25,000 students.

D)Do you like it? It's my first semester, so I'm not totally sure yet. I'll probably know by about February.

E)What year are you? Freshman, but I have a whole year's worth of community college credit, so I *could* be a sophomore.

F)What is your major? Film.

[Tiggamoo]

A)Where are you in school?
The University of Mississippi
http://www.olemiss.edu

B)Where is it located?
Oxford, MS

C)What type of school is it?
It's a great 4 yr. university with about 12,452 students.

D)Do you like it?
Ole Miss is great!!! It's got a beautiful campus, great professors, and it's better than Missisissippi State( sorry,
racinchikki....ok, I'm not too sorry. :p )

E)What year are you?
I'm a SENIOR!!!!

F)What is your major?
I'm a social work major.

[Gunslinger]

A)Where are you in school?
Kilgore College
B)Where is it located?
Kilgore, TX
C)What type of school is it?
Middlin'-large community college.
D)Do you like it?
Mostly.
E)What year are you?
Sophomore.
F)What is your major?
Engineering, considering changing to photography. According to the teacher (O. Rufus Lovett...anybody heard of him?), I'm unusually good at it. And I'm not all that good at math...

[My Darn Snake Legs]

Originally posted by TheLorax
Many people have mentioned their college in the last few days. I am in college too, and I'm curious...
A)Where are you in school?
B)Where is it located?
C)What type of school is it?
D)Do you like it?
E)What year are you?
F)What is your major?



A) Southern Methodist University
B) Dallas, Texas
C) Private Liberal Arts college. That's misleading since our b-school and Engineering school are great as well.
D) Yep, I love it here! It's the only school I applied to.
E) They tell me I'm a senior, I don't quite believe it.
F) I'm a Philosophy major. Yep, it's almost useless and I have two possilbe minors: Anthropology and Religous Studies. Both equally useless :)

--==The Sax Man==--

[Terminus Est]

Another grad student chiming in.

I'm in my sixth year of getting a Ph.D. in Plant Breeding at Cornell University located in lovely Ithaca, NY. I'm going to finish soon. Soon, I tell you!

Kaje has already described the basic environment, although class sizes tend to be much smaller at the graduate level. You also get less of the sorority types, and more of the irritating know-it-all types.

[The Red Menace]

A)Where are you in school?
North Dakota State University
B)Where is it located?
Fargo, North Dakota
C)What type of school is it?
Engineering and agricultural school. 58-42 Male-Female ratio. Very very very conservative, very racist, very xenophobic, very homophobic.
D)Do you like it?
Some of the time it's ok. Most of the time I dislike it. The rest of the time I hate it. I think I'm getting a decent education, but it's really tough to say. I never envisioned college as being like this.
E)What year are you?
I'm a 2nd semester sophomore by credits. I'm working at graduating in 3, as opposed to 4 years, so in terms of time I have 2 more years to go including this one.
F)What is your major?
Political Science

[Tattva]

A)Where are you in school? The University of Missouri - Columbia (http://web.missouri.edu)
B)Where is it located? Columbia, Mo. How's your memory??
C)What type of school is it? One of those big 12 public universities.
D)Do you like it? I like it so much I haven't left for 5.5 years
E)What year are you? See above.
F)What is your major? Electrical and Computer Engineering. Minor in math. General geekiness.

[fish in the sky]

A)Where are you in school?

Northland College (http://www.northland.edu)

B)Where is it located?

Ashland, WI (http://www.visitashland.com/) That's way, way, way, way up north, on the shores of Lake Superior, near Bayfield and the Apostle Islands. Yes, it is very pretty up here.

C)What type of school is it?

Northland College is an environmental liberal arts school (or, excuse me, it is THE environmental liberal arts school. I work in PR, I should know this.) Enrollment just under 1,000, co-ed, but there's way more women than men (and believe me, this lesbian isn't complaining :D) Politically left of left. Culturally it is impressivly diverse, considering we're in nowheresville Wisconsin. Etc. (http://www.northland.edu/welcome/profil.html)

D)Do you like it?

I LOVE it here. The people--students and faculty--are amazingly friendly and tolerent. I'm getting a good, well-rounded liberal education, and my time at Northland has made me love learning and love life, in a way that nothing had before. The people here have what one of my writing professors call "shameless passion." There is an incredible honest enthusiaum and energy on this campus that I haven't seen anywhere else.

E)What year are you?

Senior.

F)What is your major?

Fine arts major with a 2-D visual arts emphasis. Writing minor.

[king of spain]

The University of the South. (http://www.sewanee.edu)

Sewanee, Tennessee, USA.

very small (~1000 undergrads) rural private liberal arts school.

Only been here a couple months and can't really say if I like it yet - I've met some nice people but don't really have any really good friends yet.

freshman (I'm a girl, but none of this PC "first year" stuff. Freshman. :D)

We don't declare majors until second semester sophomore year. I might do History. Or English. Or PoliSci...

[Nightsong]

Let's see here:

A)Where are you in school?
Currently, University of Memphis (http://www.memphis.edu). This is the fifth of five colleges/universities I've been to.

B)Where is it located?
Memphis, TN.

C)What type of school is it?
General Purpose, state (under)funded.

D)Do you like it?
Well, at least it has a 'normal' mascot. No more kangaroos or gamecocks for me!

E)What year are you?
Errrr. Fifth-year (or so) senior. Number of semesters left depends on if I can sweet talk the Powers That Be into letting me use previous coursework in new and exiting ways. ;)

F)What is your major?
CompSci: this paricular program is a math/theory/programming base. Might branch over into math, or MIS, dunno yet. Depends on how burnt out I am, and what my course options are next semester. :p

(Waves to The Red Menace, and tosses over a buffalo nickel. Also waves to Tattva, even though I was on the edge of the state, and not smack in the middle.)

___
<< Lutefisk. >>

[Jeep's Phoenix]

Where are you in school?
North Carolina State University. (http://www.ncsu.edu)

Where is it located?
Raleigh, NC.

What type of school is it?
It's a four year public (state-supported) university with about 30,000 or so students. NCSU is well known for its College of Engineering as well as its numerous Agriculture-related departments.

Do you like it?
Absolutely love it.

What year are you?
Sophomore.

What is your major?
Double major in Computer Science and Computer Engineering. I hope to get an MBA before I'm finished.

[KarlGrenze]

Many people have mentioned their college in the last few days. I am in college too, and I'm curious...
A)Where are you in school?
B)Where is it located?
C)What type of school is it?
D)Do you like it?
E)What year are you?
F)What is your major?


A) University of Florida- College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
B) Gainesville, Alachua county, Fl, USA, Earth...
C) State(public) university, I really don't know much about it. Let's just say I applied at random, more or less. I didn't know they had a football team named Gator.
D) Depends on the day and mood. I like the people, they have treated me nicely so far.
E) Fresh(wo)man with a few college courses passed thanks to dual-enrollment(but I don't know if I got credit) and ahead of track by a semester.
F) Animal Sciences, pre-vet track, to become...a veterinarian.
G) Random facts: F-big, lots of fraternities and sororities(which I politely abhor), by what I have read and been told, elitist student governmen, overall good public school, has bureocracy problems, but the people are nice and try to make it a bit easier for you

[Firx]

Where are you in school?: Univerity of Texas at Austin

Where is it located?: Austin, Texas

What type of school is it?: Public, 50,000+

Do you like it?: Yeah, but it's too bleeding hot here.

What year are you?: Sophomore.

What is your major?: Mechanical Engineering. Hope to add geophysics.

So how come I never see you around, Ballybay?

[Serendipity]

Where are you in school?
Boston College (http://www.bc.edu)

Where is it located?
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts -- six miles from downtown Boston.

What type of school is it?
BC is a Jesuit university with about 8900 undergrads and 4600 graduate students (53% female, 47% male).

Do you like it?
Most days.

What year are you?
Sophomore

What is your major?
Psychology

[JadedNaive]

Where are you in school?
California State University Fresno

Where is it located?
Fresno, Californa

What type of school is it?
State University

Do you like it?
It's all right. There's a lot of stupid people, but it's alright overall.

What year are you?
Second year/junior (AP's)

What is your major?
Psychology

[Airbeck]

A)University of Illinois at Chicago
B)Downtown Chicago, just outside of the loop.
C)Big, public, state school. 90% of the students commute.
D)It's good sometimes, not so good other times.
E)Senior
F)Computer Science


I'm going to be graduating in May. That means that I need to find a job. I was hoping that I'd never need to grow up, but it seems inevitable. Actually I have a job interview tomorrow morning and another on Friday, hopefully they'll go well. Ah well, I better get to bed so I'm awake for the big interview tomorrow. I don't think that nodding off makes a good impression on an interviewer.

[bouv]

Where do you go to school?
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Where is it located?
Troy, NY
A nice little ghetto town.

What type of school is it?
Private technical school. A lot of engineers and architechs, and a bunch of computer-related majors. About 5000 undergrads, and 2000 grads.

Do you like it?
Definetly. For being a nerd school, there is a suprisingly large social life.

What year are you?
Sophomore.

What is your major?
Undeclared engineering. I have to declare by this spring, and will choose either electrical, or electric power.

[HubZilla]

Where do you go to school?
1) Undergrad: University of Hawaii at Manoa
2) MBA: University of Nebraska - Lincoln
3) Current (PhD): Boston College (hello, Serendipity!)

Where is it located?
1) Honolulu, Hawaii... kinda nice place to be
2) Lincoln, Nebraska... staid midwestern college town
3) Chesnut Hill near Boston... and I love Boston!

What type of school is it?
1 & 2) State schools, nothing too special. UH was basically a commuter school. NU exists to give the football team a university it can be proud of.
3) Ultra-expensive private school, a lot smaller than I'm used to. Thank goodness for that fellowship.

Do you like it?
I like BC the best. I wish I had spent my undergrad in Boston instead of a commuter school in Hawaii. Then again, I'm sure many Bostonians would rather spend the winters in Hawaii.

I went to Hawaii on a football scholarship... would've been nicer to go to Nebraska for that and make my millions in the NFL ;)

What year are you?
Working on my PhD... should take a while.

What is your major?
UH: History, NU: MBA, Accountancy emphasis, BC: Accountancy