Twenty Somethings

[BXGemini20]

Thanks. I guess I'm just maturing at a bit of a slower rate than others

 

[Munachi]

oh, slow rate maturing is much better than too quick maturing. personally, i am just now being 13 for the second time, next year i might turn 14, or maybe the year after...

 

[My Own Way]

Hi everyone...!! I hope the New Year is going well for ya'll. Not much going on here. School starts again Monday and I have sort of a weird semester since it's my last one...but that's ok...weird is good. Christmas and New Years were good for me. Christmas is always good in my family...we're a bit spoiled and I got to spend New Years with my best friend...something we're making a tradition...and trust me..that's never boring. As for New Years resolutions...I try not to make them...but I guess I'd like to work out more, find a job, and have more fun and be less serious. Anyway...that's all for now...I'm off to chat with a professor then run some errands...

 

[Munachi]

oh i hope this semester is my last one too - i.e. i hope i get all done i need to do...

 

[BXGemini20]

Looks like college is almost done for more than one person around here. I got one more class semester then get an internship. Good Luck on your semesters, Muna and My.

 

[chinalady]

Sorry it's taken me so long to respond China...I've been home for the holidays and I generally avoid lit in those cases. Lets see...grad school. It wasn't easy to get into...but it wasn't hard either. Like college you have to pick places that are realistic and right for you. As for the GREs...they're sorta like the SATs with the writing, reading, and math sections...except there is no calculator allowed with the math part. The Kaplan books are always good to a certain degree...but also, if you register far enough in advance for the GREs...they will send you a study cd which is sorta helpful...Also, the thing with the GREs is that they're all computerized, so everything you do is on the computer and you leave there knowing two of your three scores....

Anyway....hope that sorta helps...let me know if you have any more questions...and welcome the the thread!!

Thanks for getting back to me, My Own Way. Your info was helpful. Taking those standardized tests can be such nerve-wrecking. Did you use different review books when you studied for the GRE? Did it help you? Just curious...

 

[My Own Way]

Thanks for getting back to me, My Own Way. Your info was helpful. Taking those standardized tests can be such nerve-wrecking. Did you use different review books when you studied for the GRE? Did it help you? Just curious...

Hmmm...I had one rewiev book...probably a kaplan one since those are the most well known...but honestly...it was a waste of money for me. I just never saw the point of studying for a test that is practically impossible to study for...I mean...they give you examples of possible test questions...but to me...thats not at all helpful...but I know my best friend took her LSATS twice, once without using a book to study, and the second time with a kaplan book as well as a class and she did substantially better the second time. For me, taking the GREs was all about experience...you can take them as many times as you want and then combine scores...so i took them i think twice or maybe three times...and by the last time the test held no mysteries for me....although...I do admit to still being mathmatically challenged....

 

[Munachi]

Looks like college is almost done for more than one person around here. I got one more class semester then get an internship. Good Luck on your semesters, Muna and My.

good luck for your semester too!

 

[HybridCrow]

Well, the only reason I'm NOT finishing college yet is because I didn't start when I was in my Junior and senior year of high school. I was actually at a Tech Prep school those last two years, and I really fucked it up. I spent my first year in Computer Information Tech Prep (got great grades and a $3,000 scholarship to a community college), and ended up changing programs my senior year for Auto Body Repair. I fucked up because I didn't get any certificate of completions, just participations. And by switching programs, I couldn't keep that $3,000 scholarship.

So, I ended up starting college like 2 years after I graduated high school. I probably won't be finished with my Associates degree in Game Design until next fall. I have to take a few more classes, retake a few classes, and then of course, get a bunch of loans which I'll hate. I've got no chance of getting any scholarships, and with my debts right now, I have no chance of even paying for any of my classes w/out the need for loans.

As far as resolutions go, like MyOwn, I don't make any. I guess cause you don't really keep them. If I HAD to make a few resolutions, one of them would be working out more often and finding the time to do it. It used to be that I'd make one to get laid, but I stopped doing that like 3 or 4 years ago.

Don't take it the wrong way ladies, but I don't care anymore. I don't care if I get a girlfriend, get laid, etc. I'm tired of trying and I'm tired of hearing the same old bullshit. I can only give so much to a woman that I'm really interested in before I realize I'm not getting anywhere. Yes, it goes both ways, but I really hate the mental abuse. Pretty much the questions of "why" "how" "what". Believe me, I just realized I've come to the point where I'm now scaring them off everytime they try to have a convo with me. I mean this one rather cute girl my age tried to have a conversation with me at work and everytime I kept giving her 1-worded answers, her face just started to look hurt/sad. Soon as she had left, I mentally hit myself and said, "Way to go Charles, The girl was cute, she wanted a convo, and you had to scare her off."

Again, don't take it the wrong way and it does work both ways, but I'm tired of the lies, the abuse, and the runarounds.

Well, off to bed now. Lates and have fun

 

[Munachi]

well... i am 26 and still not done with university. around here while we have the advantage of not paying for university, it is quite normal to take a year or two off before starting it, or changing what we study, or studying slowly due to working at the same time - and thus not getting done all that quickly... university isn't only about a diploma...

 

[EndCredits]

Heh... with tuition where I'm at it's 4 years, no question. Don't know if I'll do grad school, though. I have to figure out what I want to do after I graduate first.

 

[BXGemini20]

I'm still not sure if I want to go to grad school. Maybe I'm getting burned out of school. Just not sure.

 

[HybridCrow]

I'm still not sure if I want to go to grad school. Maybe I'm getting burned out of school. Just not sure.

ROFLMAO... I've been burned out of school since I BEGAN school. However, I love to learn about new things. So, that's one of the reasons I went to school, to learn. Now college is all about applying what you've learned making it to your advantage.

My biggest problem with classes is group projects. I never got along well with people and it took me awhile to fix a few things that are left hanging around.

Well, I'm off to bed. Gotta get back up in about 5 hours to go to work again. Gah!

Laters!

 

[Munachi]

what exactly was grad school again?

 

[phdbio]

so has everyone started classes again? what classes you taking etc.?

 

[Munachi]

same ones as before christmas.

quechua II, portuguese IV, german-czech translation, antropology and history in peru, sarmiento and his works, something or other about nation (don#t remember the full title), the amazonas in literature, classics of romanian literature, romanian essay writing.

 

[HybridCrow]

I start classes next week on the 17th. I'll be finally taking College Algebra, and a Marketing class.

 

[BXGemini20]

I got two philsophy classes, Accounting, Microeconomics, and Arena and Stadium Management.

 

[Munachi]

what exactly are your philosophy classes about?

 

[BXGemini20]

what exactly are your philosophy classes about?

Ethics and Metaphysics. I hate that my college requires this for all students. Philsophy is boring...

 

[Munachi]

weird - to me philosophy sounded like the most interesting of what you named, hehe...

well anyway, the only obligatory classes some people get here is foreign languages - if they only know one modern language some subjects require to learn another one.

 

[BXGemini20]

I still have to take a language class as well. I'll do that in the summer along with an internship.

 

[Munachi]

what language will you take?

 

[BXGemini20]

Not sure yet. I'm leaning toward Spanish since I took it in High school. Just have to see what is offered.

 

[Munachi]

okay... well spanish is good as it is quite useful in the US, and I guess also on a world wide scale...