[quote]24Animal7 wrote:
The 16 grand difference is the cost of living in the dorms for two years, 8 g/year. Home costs nothing. Also I like your point about having fun. You only get 1 life to live.[/quote]
jesus christ.
when i was at UoAlabama i lived in a pretty decent apt with 2 other dudes and we each paid like 450 a month in rent.
that sucks bro. maybe check out facebook marketplace and see if a buncha dudes in a house have an extra room? might be cheaper.
^^^ You went to U of Alabama at Birmingham? My Uncle teaches there.
Also, with what major is it possible to work 40 hours and do school full time?
IMO, an extra 15g in debt would be worth it assuming you can secure a good job out of school.
BUT, like holymac says, you dont have to live in a dorm. Maybe live in a dorm your first year, if that! Do you know anyone where you’re going? Just a few connections can really blossom if you “network” correctly.
The dorm I lived in was notorious for being antisocial, and my roommate (who I didnt know previously, but we found eachother on the roommate finder that the Univ. of Texas has) and I went door-to-door to every dormroom in our building and met every single person that first Sunday afternoon when everyone was all moved in before classes. I can’t tell you how much this exponentially catapulted my social life for the better.
After freshman year, live in apartments or houses. Saves money, and also a good social experience.
I’m graduating in May, and college has been fucking awesome. <3
[quote]koleah wrote:
[quote]24Animal7 wrote:
Haha koleah, were you able to find a job as an ME? I know junior year is going to be the hardest. Thats what I hear. I already have the maths, chemistry, physics, and lower level engineering courses out of the way as well as some electives. Thanks for the advice though, I am thinking living on campus is my best bet. [/quote]
Yeah, if you’ve got all that stuff out of the way, then freshman and sophomore year are probably going to be awesome living on campus. But I can’t even imagine why you would still need to go a full four years if you’ve got all of those courses out of the way. Why are you still thinking four years with all that done? Those courses were most of my freshman and sophomore year. If you can skip fresh/soph years you’re going to save a lot of money.
And I didn’t look very hard coming out of school (grad 2005, from Gonzaga in Washington state). A number of my friends went on to engineering jobs at Boeing though, and some other engineering jobs in different companies around the area. I went into construction management instead.[/quote]
Lol, I’m only at umass for two years. Two years at a CC and two at a university. I will be a junior at the university.
And for the record guys I already have a job. Working 40 hours per week and attaining an BS ME is not really possible at all. School IS a full time and job and more. Like someone else said, I find it working 20 hours per week. I think it was Bones who said that, idk, but he’s straight on.
I think I am going to live on campus, off campus apartments arent really much cheaper, still need to pay utilities, groceries, etc, and commute to some extent. As of now, commuting from home im looking at 2.5 hours of driving daily. If I dont like living on campus I’ll move out after 1 semester.
[quote]24Animal7 wrote:
[quote]koleah wrote:
[quote]24Animal7 wrote:
Haha koleah, were you able to find a job as an ME? I know junior year is going to be the hardest. Thats what I hear. I already have the maths, chemistry, physics, and lower level engineering courses out of the way as well as some electives. Thanks for the advice though, I am thinking living on campus is my best bet. [/quote]
Yeah, if you’ve got all that stuff out of the way, then freshman and sophomore year are probably going to be awesome living on campus. But I can’t even imagine why you would still need to go a full four years if you’ve got all of those courses out of the way. Why are you still thinking four years with all that done? Those courses were most of my freshman and sophomore year. If you can skip fresh/soph years you’re going to save a lot of money.
And I didn’t look very hard coming out of school (grad 2005, from Gonzaga in Washington state). A number of my friends went on to engineering jobs at Boeing though, and some other engineering jobs in different companies around the area. I went into construction management instead.[/quote]
Lol, I’m only at umass for two years. Two years at a CC and two at a university. I will be a junior at the university.
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Ahh, I thought when you said you were transferring to a four-year university, you meant you were going to be going all four years there.
[quote]therajraj wrote:
^^^ You went to U of Alabama at Birmingham? My Uncle teaches there.[/quote]
wtf?
no bish. tuscaloosa.
roll tide dammit
[quote]24Animal7 wrote:
And for the record guys I already have a job. Working 40 hours per week and attaining an BS ME is not really possible at all. School IS a full time and job and more. Like someone else said, I find it working 20 hours per week. I think it was Bones who said that, idk, but he’s straight on.
I think I am going to live on campus, off campus apartments arent really much cheaper, still need to pay utilities, groceries, etc, and commute to some extent. As of now, commuting from home im looking at 2.5 hours of driving daily. If I dont like living on campus I’ll move out after 1 semester. [/quote]
2.5 hour daily drive??? holy shit, you should absolutely live on campus. And trust me you will love it. As a BSME, ill say you will definitely have enough time to party/live it up while living on campus at least for the first half of the semester (before shitloads of projects start getting due).
There should be no reason for you to dislike staying on campus for the first couple of semesters. Networking is a huge part of having fun at college, and you are not going to take broads home from college to bang them in your house that is 1 hour 15 mins away.
Those who live on campus have higher grades.
[quote]24Animal7 wrote:
As of now, commuting from home im looking at 2.5 hours of driving daily.[/quote]
Campus.
I live at home and commute to school. I always wanted to live on campus and experience the dorm life my first year or two, but we couldn’t really afford it. My parent makes enough money annually to exclude me from financial aid, but we’re in enough debt that I can’t get that much help paying for a dorm/apartment/etc.
I save about $7,000 a year on my loan by not living on-campus, and that doesn’t count meal expenses (considering how much I eat that would tack on a substantial number as well).
I hated it at first. I managed to party on campus on weekends but always had to worry about having a place to leave my car overnight, somewhere to crash, and of course I didn’t have my own room to bring girls back to. This made meeting girls a bit more challenging than for most. Also my first semester my grades weren’t awesome (but that probably had more to do with underestimating the difficulty of University vs. CC classes).
I have no problem with living at home now. I have a steady girlfriend of about 6 months who goes to a different school with her own room, I work a job on campus, my grades have improved substantially, and thanks to a student bus pass through the University the only money I spend during a semester is on gas to visit the girlfriend on weekends and the occasional meal on campus. Between the difficulty of my courses and the commitment to a serious relationship I rarely party on weekends any more, nor do I have the desire to.
And I save fucktons of money!
Oh, and word to the wise, I would suggest doing most, if not all of your studying in a library or some such place on campus if you live at home. Once I switched to doing this, my grades shot up.
Well, I just saw the part about the 2.5 hour commute.
Fuck that.
This is a no brainer. School.
I say find some apartments or houses right next to campus. The university i went to had places to live where it took only about 5 minutes to walk to campus. That would be ideal in my opinion.