guys i need some lol college advice

yea, ditch the boring classes, but are you able to find some other fun, elective, and not-too-difficult-to-mess-up-your-GPA classes? i wish i took more interesting classes for the hell of it.

but investing a lot in your creative writing class seems like a good alternative.

its two weeks into school and most profs wont sign me in--plus theres an exorbitant fee for adding classes after the deadline

Ditch the classes. You will be happier in the short term and probably in the long term.

i don't think the 3.7 vs 3.8 will mean anything in the future, even for grad school

The magna might be worth enduring the classes for, though.

unless there is some technical reason, like you need a certain number of classes to get scholarship or loan $$$ (or to defer loan payment) there is no reason not to drop the classes. maybe look for an internship in your field? having actual work experience is 9345890465 times more important than an extra point on your gpa.

Ditch the boring classes! Take up an interesting new hobby, like collage or decoupage or learn to play a new instrument.

More collage, less college.

is there any reason NOT to just do this?

no. do it tomorrow. spend the time on writing, if you want. or spend your afternoons hanging out and drinking. whatever. nothing you do with the time will be more wasted than spending it on classes you don't need and aren't interested in.

max. do what is pleasure. but realize pleasure will be reconfigured in your near future. freewheel out.

it was weird to stumble onto this thread, max, cause i'm basically in the same situation. i'm working on my honors senior thesis (first semester of the two), and trying to figure out whether to apply to grad school. i'm actually meeting with my thesis adviser tomorrow afternoon to talk about grad schools to look at. i've also got this escape hatch planned out in my head where i start an MA in Media Studies (or Performance Studies), and if the whole post-grad thing isn't thrilling me, I parlay that into something media professional. And if it does thrill me, go into a PHD.

Meanwhile I'm reading Hal Foster, Fredrick Jameson and Jacques Attali for my thesis and wondering why I can't spend the rest of my life talking about post-Marxist critiques of pop culture. (On that note, I saw The Counterfeiters tonight and loved the Marxist critique of the Holocaust thing going on in the background of the film.)

So, feel good that other people are trying to feel this thing out alongside you? :-P

Also, I'm also currently in a Creative Writing class.

ditch the classes. i was only going part-time last semester and it made me feel cool, like i had a life.

i dropped two classes am saving boatloads of $$$

AND i used the extra time to finish a draft of my thesis way early, and i havent disappointed anyone

ilx is hella good at advice

i mean i still totally hate my paper and it could probably be a million billion times better, but at least its done

high five bro

way 2 go homes

aw, congratulations, max!!!! so proud of you (sorry to sound like a mom).

no HS thx a bunch for all your amazing advice on the thread

good work, max! making the best out of college is a challenge.

my advisor wants me to just hand it in and be done but i feel like there are 10000000000000000 things that i need to revise. it feels too simple & elementary but i wonder if thats just because ive spent so long w/ my texts that i know there are so many more things to say. it does feel good to be in the clear!! i have to defend it sometime in the next couple weeks, and after that i can devote my time to fixing up the radio station

Wish I could go part-time!

haha adam i dont want to brag but you have no idea how nice it is. my house is clean! im getting daily exercise! and eating 3 meals!

i am so jealous!

should I see about using my new company's TR program to just attend a couple of throwaway grad courses a semester on the pretense of pursuing another master's degree? NB the actual primary purpose of this would be to meet ladies.

Yes, you should Tom! Learning and ROMANCE go hand in hand.

yeah dude definitely

meeting men is the whole reason ladies even go to lol college

I should go to lol law school and meet rich ladies

i think boys meet lots of girls at lolcollege, but girls do not necessarily meet lots of boys.

i was in lolrelationships all through lolcollege, i squandered my education. :(

boys at lol college are easily distracted by all the other lol activities and forget that they are supposed to be trying to hook up.

I found my wife in lol college! ^_^

(I also confirmed that I had, in fact, found the lol clitoris.)

I squandered my time at GWU by not being single for any of it.

Sign up for lol artschool.

lolgradschool is kind of a bust bc everyone's already married.

Or ugly.

Ed I was actually thinking of going into an education program. I hear the business of teaching is mad riddled with lonesome babes.

i should go back for library science, apparently it's like 95% lol women.

and ned.

at my old non-prof job we had a library science/archivist grad school intern and she was a 10.0

became engaged shortly after joining tho :'(

lolcollegeadministration isn't so great for meeting well adjusted women my own age

xpost, true dat, one of my teacher mates hooked up within two weeks of his first teaching job, he was too pre-occupied with a local bar-maid during his actual teacher training to get busy.

95% women, 5% ned

lolibrary!

lol raggett

Tom, you should consider something near a lol music school, as that will be rife with single women looking for a rich husband to help underwrite the expense of getting their performance career off the ground. (We have a friend who did the young artists program with National Opera who was SUPERMADPRETTY and super single but she might have only been interested in dating other native Koreans.)

anywhere but Georgetown. I also suspect my prospects would be minimal were I to enroll at Gallaudet or Howard.

Although you never know!

dan is absolutely correct!
i speak from experience of going to a lol music school - they are rife with single women desperate for straight guys.