Colleges- Page 2

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 10/8/04 at 3:39am

Fair enough. But I thought you were supposed to be the brains in the family!

(Where is your signature from?)

[Guido Contini]

Posted: 10/8/04 at 3:41am

heh with an ACT and SAT score as high as mine, I'd have no doubts about that sweetie.

and my signature is from "A New Brain"

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 10/8/04 at 3:42am

Thank god. You can make up for my miserable LSAT score last weekend. ::cry:: The $160 spent on it would've better been spent wiping my ass.

[Guido Contini]

Posted: 10/8/04 at 3:46am

heh...I'm a good test taker.

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 10/8/04 at 3:47am

That's why we make a good pair! LOL I suck at tests. I get nervous and totally blank out. I'm a much better essay writer. (Despite my incoherency on a lot of these treads.)

[Guido Contini]

Posted: 10/8/04 at 3:49am

yeah I guess we are...

SAT - 1477
ACT - 35

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 10/8/04 at 3:51am

What's the SAT out of again?

[Guido Contini]

Posted: 10/8/04 at 3:52am

1600

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 10/8/04 at 3:54am

WOW. Impressive! Why did you go to two universities? Transfers?

[Guido Contini]

Posted: 10/8/04 at 3:59am

I transfered due to not liking the programs or not liking the actual university itself or staff.

[~FloweryFriend~]

Posted: 10/8/04 at 4:12am

I am in my third year at Saint Mary's College of Notre Dame, IN.
I am currently a double major of Humanistic Studies and Theatre.
Although today, one of my professors said I should consider withdrawing from the humanistic studies program (because I slept through her class. gah!)
So who knows whether it'll stay like that for long...

[Guido Contini]

Posted: 10/8/04 at 4:13am

sleeping in class is bad, FF....you're a naughty girl.

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 10/8/04 at 4:13am

What's Humanistic Studies about?

[~FloweryFriend~]

Posted: 10/8/04 at 4:27am

I didn't sleep in class. I slept through class.
Medication has been screwing up my sleep patterns, and today was the fourth time I have failed to wake up.
And for whatever reason, the only class I miss is this one Humanistic Studies class at 11:00 on Thursdays. (especially weird, since I have a 9:00 every other day of the week...)
And 4 times is apparently enough for them to ask you to withdraw.


Humanistic Studies is a combination of a bunch of different things. It's kinda like a combination of Literature and History, but it's also got a lot of philosophy, theatre, sociology, psychology, anthropology, art and theology in it. It is a major that is specific to my college, and it's the perfect fit for me, because I'm interested in so many different things.

And now I might have to give that up.
I'm heartbroken.

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 10/8/04 at 4:29am

So it's like a Liberal Arts degree? That would be fabulous! Can't you explain that your medication screwed you up?

[feinstein9]

Posted: 10/8/04 at 4:34am

i'm so sorry FF!!! you should totally tell them what happened, though. i'm sure they'll understand. it's not like you were up partying, you're having probs with your meds! don't back down without a fight. you're in the land of the fighting irish!

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 10/8/04 at 4:44am

^^ Yeah, that. Really, if it's a medical problem, they can't force you to withdraw! (How do they know how many classes you've missed, anyway? Is it a seminar/intimate format, or a lecture?)

[~FloweryFriend~]

Posted: 10/8/04 at 4:48am

It's not like a liberal arts degree. (But I'm at a liberal arts college, so my degree involves a lot of different classes anyway.)

Humanistic Studies requires you to take two classes simultaneously every semester for two years. One class is "Cultural History" and the other is "Colloquium". They are taught by different professors, but they are very intertwined. In fact, part of the grade from both classes is keeping a "journal" in which you write a 2-5 mini-essays a week relating the two classes with each other. The classes are set up as a bit of a discussion forum. There are 15 girls that are in the same level of the major as I am now. We will have all of our Cultural History and Colloquium classes together for the next 2 years. The semester that we're on currently is "Medieval", which means we're reading things from Virgil to Chaucer. I have a HUST class every day of the week, and at any given time, I am reading a minimum of 2 books and writing 3 papers. It's a very difficult and intense major, but it's worth every minute.

Almost all HUST majors go on to graduate school (usually law school), and grads of the HUST department have the highest average income 10 years out of this college.

One of the former HUST majors here produced Jelly's Last Jam (don't know her name).
Another HUST major from here, Adriana Trigiani, is an author who has had a couple books on the NY Times bestseller list (she wrote Lucia, Lucia, the Big Stone Gap trilogy, and Queen of the Big Time). She used to write for The Cosby Show.

Anyway, it's a great major, and I don't want to give it up.


The funny thing is, at just about any other college, a student missing 4 classes could go completely unnoticed. How lucky I am to be at a small private school where professors care whether or not you attend. That's why I chose a small school, right? So that people would know my name and care about me as an individual? But somehow I don't remember reading anything about the cracked out attendance policy in the admissions paperwork...

Updated On: 10/8/04 at 04:48 AM

[laactress]

Posted: 10/8/04 at 12:09pm

I never really liked school so much so I attended the community college in Santa Monica California. And then I attended California Healing Arts College to get my liscense in Massage! But hey, I am going to visit Berklee School Of Music in a few weeks and I know that, that is where I would have gone if I could have afforded it!

[Jess1483]

Posted: 10/8/04 at 1:57pm

I know what you mean FF. We can't miss classes here, they notice. I think I missed two classes all of last year and I have yet to miss one this year. There are definitely benefits and draw-backs to going to small liberal arts schools, but I love mine!

[Taryn]

Posted: 10/8/04 at 6:43pm

I'm applying to Fordham University (Lincoln Hill), University of Rochester, Goucher College, and University of Pittsburgh (my required in-state public school).

[bythesword84]

Posted: 10/8/04 at 6:56pm

Lincoln Hill? Its Lincoln Center (Where I am) or Rose Hill (the Bronx)

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 10/8/04 at 9:38pm

"I get nervous and totally blank out..."

I totally know what you mean. I am a senior in high school, but I am taking two courses that are going to count for college credit. They are UCONN History (Modern Western Traditions) and UCONN Physics. Physics is OK, but on my first history test I got a 51 and the second one I got a 64! I admit, the first time I didn't realy study, but the second time I did all the vocab words, which counted as notes for the chapter (there were so many!) and read the chapter. I was POed. I don't want it to ruin my chances of applying to colleges that might be a bit of a reach for me, including Fordham and Boston (although Fordham may be easier to get into than Boston Uni.). I am probably going to apply to Boston University, Fordham University, Quinnipiac University, and University of Connecticut. There may be a few other schools I'm considering too. Time is running out!

[Thoroughly Modern Cara]

Posted: 10/8/04 at 9:58pm

OHhh Millie I have a few friends at Quinnipiac and it's absolutely gorgeous!

I noticed a lot of people said Marymount Manhattan, I was going to go there. I got in and I have some friends there but thanks to my lovely parents I wasn't allowed.

I am sophomore at SUNY Oneonta. I applied as an Anthropology major, then when I got here I decided to be a Bio/Pre Med major and thanks to my recent epiphany or what I like to refer to as my "mid college crisis"...which there is a thread on by the way...I just switched to a Communication Studies major with a minor in Theatre Production.