Undergraduate School: Cal State Fullerton (Psych/Biol).
Graduate School: Bucknell University, M.A. (Psych); Idaho State University, Ph.D.
Enjoy it? You bet. Narrad, most of the grad students I knew didn’t have to pay tuition in the US. This was covered by fellowships or tuition stipends, with some form of research or teaching assistanceship attached to provide a minimal (and I mean minimal) amount of support. Here at Rutgers Entomology department, we accept students only if we can support them in this fashion. Student loans are often a necessity if you’re into anything like, um, food. (Earlier this year I finished paying off my $23,000USD loans - whoohoo!)
What’s the highest level of education you’ve completed?
B.A. in Anthropology.
If you went to college, where did you go/where do you want to go for undergrad?
University of California at Santa Cruz and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
If you went to grad school, where did you go/where do you want to go?
I am not currently in school, but I do plan to go back, to study Near/Middle East Studies. My preferred schools are the Universities of Michigan, Arizona, and Washington.
Did you enjoy your experience there? Why/why not?
(Warning: long)
I didn’t like Santa Cruz as much as I thought I would in high school (it’s a resort town on the beach known for absurdly unrealistic liberal politics), but that’s partly my fault. I liked my freshman year fine, but my sophomore year I really withdrew and became totally asocial. I became an internet addict, spending upwards of 40 hours a week online. This was in 1997-1998, the El Niño Year, when it rained pretty much continuously from October to May. It was very depressing. But I spent my third year in Jerusalem, and I loved it. I cannot recommend study abroad enough. It was a fabulous time and a fabulous learning experience. Going back to Santa Cruz for my senior year was very anticlimactic. In Jerusalem, my traffic got screwed up when President Clinton came to town for peace talks; in Santa Cruz, there was debate raging on whether to make the town a “hate free zone”. Fortunately, I was able to graduate early, in March 2000. I haven’t been back to visit yet.
High school. blush I’m getting my bachelor’s degree next year.
I go to Juniata College, the best damn college there is! Oh, yeah, and Penn State. I’m doing a 3-2 program, so I technically graduate from both.
No grad school for me! I’m in engineering–I’m more valuable with work experience, I think
I absolutely love JC. Small college, great people, there’s a great mixture of people in different majors, no worries about safety. Everyone there is extremely serious about academics, but we have a lot of fun too. The teachers are there because they love it (they’re not there for the research or the money, because they don’t get much $) and the atmosphere is welcoming.
Penn State? Hate it hate it hate it hate it hate it hate it. Damn big corporation more interested in research and money than education. I’ve never met an administration that shits on its undergraduates with such abandon before. The teachers would rather be hiding back in their research labs than talking to an undergrad loser like you, and all I ever meet are people in my own major. And I get the added bonus of the fact that everybody in this area has been brainwashed to think that this is a good school, and everybody and their mother went here, so every time I have to admit that I go here, somebody takes up with, “I’m a proud Penn Stater too” and waves the blue-and-white and I have to pretend I’m happy about that. Blech. Eh, I feel a pit rant coming on… :mad:
I start at American University in August. I can’t wait. I hope to graduate with a B.A. in Government from the School of Public Affairs, and I’m considering law school down the road but it’s WAY too early to seriously do something on that front.
Wow, another thread back from the dead. Well I wasn’t around for it last time, so here’s my chance.
Completed a Bachelor of Commerce (Acc Fin double major). Although strictly speaking, I’m still an undergraduate (see below 3).
The University of Western Australia. Of course, I live 10 minutes away from TWO other unis, but I had to pick UWA (the law school here is the oldest and snobbiest and hence the most attractive to me :rolleyes: ).
I’m in the final year of law school. In Australia, law may be studied as an undergraduate course straight out of high school. However, it must be taken as a double degree - so I choose a Bachelor of Laws/Bachelor of Commerce (try writing that on every exam paper). With an course overload it takes just five years. So I’ll still be a sprightly 22 when I gradaute with my degrees - yay!
I love it. Didn’t at first, but I’ve grown into the work and the lifestyle. (I think first year uni is tough: in my state, we graduate from high school at 17 - too young, IMO, for university.) I still look forward to graduating and getting a job, but I imagine I shall feel most nostalgic when I look back at these days.
Yay Smith. I was reading this thread primarily to see if there are any other Smithies here.
I graduated from Smith in 2000 with a BA in biology. This is obviously the highest level of education I have completed but I’m trying to get into med school. I too loved Smith. Small classes, a good sense of community, a great college town, no more sharing bathrooms with boys (I have little brothers), and lots of student organizations. Of course I’d be better off right now if my primary focus had been studying instead of fencing but that’s my own stupid fault.
University of New Orleans - flunked out in my first semester due to major depression.
University of Southwestern Louisiana - two semesters.
Louisiana State University - got a B.A. in English. Woo hoo.
(fast forward several years)
Parkland College - got as much done there before transferring to…
Illinois State University - got a B.S. in Math Education. Didn’t use it, as my student teaching experience was awful and my education classes completely disillusioned me about teaching.
I’m now slogging forth in a job that a HS graduate could be doing.
I loved Guilford–small, Quaker school where they treat you like an adult from the minute you get there. Great liberal arts college, tradition of community service and beautiful campus, great studies abroad program–Munich, London, Mexico, Japan–and I think they’ve expanded it since I was there. I spent two semesters in Munich.
Brooklyn Law School sucked. After going to a small liberal arts college, law school was too big, too competitive and too cold and impersonal. Nothing wrong with Brooklyn, just law school.
Part of a Ph.D. program in behavioral neuroscience
Tulane University - New Orleans, LA
Dartmouth College - Hanover, NH
Tulane - Loved it. New Orleans was a great place to go to college and Tulane gave me a good education.
Dartmouth - Loved the school, hated my advisor (Bitch!) so I left.
Loved loved loved Smith. It was wonderfuly empowering (If occasionally intimidating) to go to school with so many brilliant and engaging women. I got a fantastic education, learned not only new information, but how to find new ways to think. Socially it was a lot of fun and I think also healthy for the boy-crazy 18 year old I was to learn to find social acitvities that didn’t focus around men. I’m 24 weeks pregnant with what they tell me is a future Smithie and I hope she’ll love it as much as I did.
Liked it. For a regional school, it is a good one. I got a decent undergrad education there.
M.S. and Ph.D.: (in Social Psychology) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Liked it a lot. Chapel Hill is beautiful and the Psych department is well-respected.
Respecialization In Clinical Psychology: University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Respecialization is like a second Ph.D. in Clinical without redoing the dissertation. (thank goodness, as a second one would have killed me.) I liked Amherst, and the clinical training there is good. I loved going back to school as an adult.
I only finished a year ago, but on the whole I hated the first two years and loved the fourth and the third was kind of nothing. I don’t miss the study though.