College Thread • Page 98

Knee deep in my first returning semester of college after two years of travel. I feel like I’ve finally been able to acquire the ability to enjoy learning for learning’s sake and that has rendered the semester very refreshing! Spring break would be a neat concept though.

 

It's always the "no stupid questions" professors that make you feel pretty fucking stupid when you ask a question

 

Overwhelmed as fuck. So many student projects to grade and so little energy to do them. Doesn't help I'm stressing about housing shit. Ugh.

 

Managed another 4.0 this semester. Pretty jazzed about this one, given it was 17 credits. Honestly think I may try and apply to UPenn as a transfer student for yrs 3/4 which is 2000% not something I ever imagined possible...definitely aiming for Temple at the very least

 

I have just graduated from college, and I am not coming back. It was the most difficult time of my life. There were some cool moments, like an exchange semester in Norway, but other than that, it was rather difficult. I am not saying it was not worth it because it was, and now, I feel that I have the necessary knowledge to become a good specialist. Thanks to asa miami college, I have already got a job, and I hope to build a nice career there. I want to earn enough to support my family and my elderly parents. We don’t need much, but life becomes more and more expensive due to inflation.

 

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I started college a couple weeks ago! Decided to go back in the summer for an IT program, it's been almost a decade since high school. I still have a lot of nervous feelings but I think I'm acclimating quite well. I am the oldest in my class and I was a little concerned about that and the social aspect of it, but so far, it's going very well and we are all basically on the same page. It's so cool and scary to be in a learning environment again, I really missed it. My instructors are also super relatable and approachable, and I'm already forming little bonds with a few of the students in the class, despite differences in age. It's people I probably would've just passed by in high school because we'd have different "cliques of friends" or interests or whatever, but it's so cool to come together with some people all based on a common interest. It feels surreal and it's a huge shift, but it feels like the best decision I've made in quite some time, possibly ever. I am very, very stoked to be a student again.

I also think it's funny because one of my instructors is really, really good friends with one of my really good friends. My girlfriend's best friend of decades also recently took a teaching job with the same college, just at a different campus. I always thought there was like, an unspoken limit on education in general when it comes to my age, but it's a cool feeling realizing that there really is no one path for things to pan out

 

Hello thread that hasn't been bumped in over 2 years because we're all old as fuck now.

I am cross posting this from the genpol thread since it's more on topic here and also I'm just talking my way through the decisions lol

Off topic from the horrors of life right now...I'm looking at classes to register for this summer and I underestimated how hard it was going to be to pick between certain classes for this degree. These are week long, all-day classes, and I really can't pick which one (or possibly ones?) I want to take between 1. From Reconstruction to the Nadir of American Race Relations, 1865-1905, 2. Ethnic America, and 3. The Long Civil Rights Movement: A Second Reconstruction and the Struggle for Equality. The latter two are up against each other the same week so literally can only take one of them if I wanted to.

Complicating this is that they all fall under the same course number, which in the Course of Study is listed simply as "Topics in American History and Government", so these are special courses that get offered maybe once and then who knows if ever again. But the fact that they're all under the same course number makes me question if I can even take more than one of them, or if multiple courses that fall under that course number wouldn't count towards my degree. I sent a message to the program director to figure that out but yeah.

They all sound interesting as fuck. I'm leaning towards the first one just because I'm really interested in the failures to complete Reconstruction and I won't have very many other classes in this program that take place during that time period that will address racial issues, whereas there's a few other classes I'm going to take that will, at minimum, spend some time on the Civil Rights Movement. The Ethnic America one and it's concentration on immigration is reallllllly tempting given *gestures wildly*. I should probably just post this in the college/school thread or whatever lol.

 

Is there a beginning/end set of years that The Long Civil Rights Movement covers? Sounds like it could be a lot more generalized than the first two options.

 

It seems to start post-WW2 and concentrate heavily on the civil rights era, but does not give an end date or any hints to an end date in the description sadly

 

If it focuses on the 1950s - 1970s, I’d go with that one due to the vast number of archives available from that era. Just my personal preference when it comes to choosing courses. Larger variety of source materials.