# The Happy College Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 10, 2001, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happy-college-thread/86527 "2001-10-10T05:29:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Emilee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cab0a1/32.png) [@Emilee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emilee)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happy-college-thread/86527/1 "2001-10-10T05:29:37Z")
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 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happy-college-thread/86527/2 "2001-10-10T05:41:38Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Nacho4Sara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Nacho4Sara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nacho4Sara)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happy-college-thread/86527/3 "2001-10-10T05:49:27Z")
**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. ---
**Author:** ![cw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71c47a/32.png) [@cw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cw)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happy-college-thread/86527/4 "2001-10-10T05:51:56Z")
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]). ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happy-college-thread/86527/5 "2001-10-10T05:55:17Z")
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?)😉 ---
**Author:** ![KeithT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47774/32.png) [@KeithT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KeithT)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happy-college-thread/86527/6 "2001-10-10T06:31:15Z")
[list=a][li][University of Wisconsin - Madison](http://www.wisc.edu)[/li][li]Madison, WI[/li][li]Public university, total enrollment 41,000. $500 million annual research budget.[/li][li]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)![/li][li]Third chronological year; senior standing on what’s shaping up to be a 9 semester plan[/li][li]Mechanical engineering, with a certificate in business[/li][/list] ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Sang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ee7513/32.png) [@Le\_Sang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Sang)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happy-college-thread/86527/7 "2001-10-10T06:35:47Z")
\*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. ---
**Author:** ![Kaje](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f04885/32.png) [@Kaje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaje)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happy-college-thread/86527/8 "2001-10-10T06:43:49Z")
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: ---
**Author:** ![shdwrnr123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@shdwrnr123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shdwrnr123)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happy-college-thread/86527/9 "2001-10-10T06:44:32Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happy-college-thread/86527/10 "2001-10-10T06:48:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*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 ---
**Author:** ![Amazing\_Tiki\_God](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazing\_Tiki\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazing_Tiki_God)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happy-college-thread/86527/11 "2001-10-10T08:13:19Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Skip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@Skip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skip)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happy-college-thread/86527/12 "2001-10-10T09:54:06Z")
[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 ---
**Author:** ![PigBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/97f17d/32.png) [@PigBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PigBoy)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happy-college-thread/86527/13 "2001-10-10T12:23:26Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Juniper200](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@Juniper200](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Juniper200)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happy-college-thread/86527/14 "2001-10-10T13:11:18Z")
\A)Where are you in school?\ The University of Missouri in general, the University of Missouri School of Journalism in particular. \B)Where is it located? \ Columbia, MO. Right smack in the middle of nowhere. \C)What type of school is it? \ Your standard midwestern, land-grant state university. \D)Do you like it?\ 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. \E)What year are you?\ Senior. I graduate May 20, 2002. \F)What is your major?\ Print journalism with a curricular emphasis on copy editing and newspaper design. ---
**Author:** ![Juniper200](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@Juniper200](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Juniper200)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happy-college-thread/86527/15 "2001-10-10T13:12:55Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![easy\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb8c5e/32.png) [@easy\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/easy_e)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happy-college-thread/86527/16 "2001-10-10T16:13:47Z")
**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. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happy-college-thread/86527/17 "2001-10-10T16:17:41Z")
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._ ---
**Author:** ![Fionn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happy-college-thread/86527/18 "2001-10-10T17:23:52Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happy-college-thread/86527/19 "2001-10-10T17:31:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*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. ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happy-college-thread/86527/20 "2001-10-10T17:54:37Z")
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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happy-college-thread/86527.md?page=2)