[quote]LiveFromThe781 wrote:
Artem wrote:
LiveFromThe781 wrote:
Artem wrote:
elano wrote:
Artem wrote:
But yeah, the college life deal sounds fun, but I’m going to CC for my first 2 years and just working and lifting and getting all As so I can transfer to a good uni later to get my degree. But I can probably meet some cool people there, because these high school kids are lame as hell.
Oh, and college kids are always talking about passing classes. Does it really matter what grades you get in uni as long as you pass? I mean, your diploma isn’t gonna say what GPA you graduated with, right? Fill me in on this.
Smart move about CC.
GPA matters a lot here because you can loose your financial aid. In GA we have the Hope scholarship which pays for your tuition as long as you maintain above 3.0 GPA. College is expensive as hell without it. Also if you get put on academic probation, it would suck… you might flunk out and that means you’re a loser.
Yeah, I think it’s a smart move too, but everybody acts like CC is for fuck ups and my mom is all pissy and won’t say why. It’s because she wanted to be able to go around telling her friends that her son is going to some snazzy uni and not CC.
Whatever, I’m thinking for the long run.
if it makes you feel any better i go to a CC
theres 2 kinds of people who go to Universities
the people who’s parents paid for it
and the people who earned it through scholarships
just cause you get into a 4-year college doesnt mean shit if you dont work at it. you make the best with what you got.
to put it into an analogy (cause i love doing that)
you have people in prison with minimal equipment, DBs, Barbells, maybe a smith and some benches but they can be some big ass motherfuckers. why? cause they want it but you have other people on the outside who have these fancy hi-tech gyms with all the latest equipment and they just sit their reading Charles Dickens novels while they do leg-abductions.
so what im saying is, it doesnt matter, as long as you still gain knowledge in the end. fuck, you could get a University level education from a library and Podcast Lectures if you really wanted to.
plus if you go to CC you can always transfer to a state school. its probaly smarter to do CC anyway cause the credits are way friggin cheaper plus you still have time to think about what you really want to go in for.
Do I need to pick my major going into CC? Or… is it preferred that you do that? I’ve taken Intro to Business and Marketing so far, and I’m taking Business Law next year. I like that stuff a lot, so I’m pretty sure I want to double major in Finance and Marketing, to have more job opportunities and because Marketing by itself isn’t a respectable major.
Also, does double majoring cost more for tuition than just one, or is it an all-around fee and you can study as much stuff as you have time for?
But, I also like Physics a lot, but I don’t know if I’d major in it.
Having 2 years of CC to think about it would be nice. Do you do major-related classes in CC, or do you just get the mandatory stuff out of the way? And what are these mandatory classes I keep hearing of? Because I’ve already taken Physics, Chemistry, AP Calculus, etc. I don’t really see the point of going beyond that for 2 years if I want to get a business-related degree.
im taking Liberal Arts, basically it focuses on MOST (because you still need a minimum number of credits from colleges that arent transferred) of the prerequisites you would need at a 4 year school. youre gonna have to take a lit class, youre gonna have to take psych or soc 101 too no matter where you go.
so the advantage is that if i want to go to a major university most of my credits will transfer because theyre very broad as oppose to if i was a physics major and changed concentration to english, very different fields so not much carryover. however, at the end of the day its still an associates, and an associates of arts may not sound all that fancy but its still a college degree which gives me an advantage over a lot of people for most jobs unless its something you need a bachelors for in which case i could go back to step one and transfer most of my credits in the process of obtaining a bachelor’s. [/quote]
What’s bachelor’s and associate’s?