Where did u go to college?

[gimpy117]

Currently at Western Michigan University

I'd love to know where everybody else went and maybe hear a story or two.


ps. If you went to CMU i hate you

[Krauter]

Concordia University for me at the moment.

Major in History (Hoping to finish with a Specialization in Eastern European history, aka Soviet Union and its actions in WW2 and Cold War and the implications this has had on Europe post CW).

Oh and a minor in applied human sciences.

Cheers!

[JSLTIGER]

Pre-college: University of Pennsylvania. Took courses there as a high school student (did pretty well too, if I may say so myself).



Undergrad: Duke University, August 2004 - May 2008. History Major (American concentration), Political Science Minor, Jewish Studies Certificate.

Before you ask, yes, I was there through the whole lacrosse mess. Aside from being villified for simply being a white male student, the worst parts of that experience were the endless repetitions of following conversation until they were declared innocent:

Q: "Where do you go to school?"
Me: "Duke University."
Q: "Oh...were you on the lacrosse team?"
Me: "No."
Q: "What do you think? Did they do it?"
Me: ::Sigh::

Then there were the helicopters. Have you ever tried taking finals with 500 helicopters hovering over campus? They're freaking loud and distracting!



Grad school: University of Florida, Levin College of Law, August 2008 - May 2011. Juris Doctor.

I'll be graduating with my Juris Doctorate in a little over a month. Then taking the FL bar exam this summer.



Next year, I'm looking at pursuing a LL.M. (legal master's, kind of like a post-doc for lawyers) degree. So far I've been admitted to Temple University up in Philly (where I grew up, funnily enough), but I'm still waiting to hear back from a bunch of other schools.

(?)

EDIT: Pics added.

[Hottentot]

Originally Posted by Krauter

Major in History (Hoping to finish with a Specialization in Eastern European history, aka Soviet Union and its actions in WW2 and Cold War and the implications this has had on Europe post CW).

Colleague! Well, except that I'm in different university (duh) and my timeframe ends pretty much where your begins. Could be interesting to do some comparison, though.

[Krauter]

Originally Posted by Hottentot

Colleague! Well, except that I'm in different university (duh) and my timeframe ends pretty much where your begins. Could be interesting to do some comparison, though.

Very true Will have to try and keep in touch!

Whereabouts are you studying?

[CCIP]

In Canada, prestige of schools is really pretty relative, and oftentimes it matters more what department, rather than what university, you actually went to. This is a bit contrary to the US' formal prestige of schools as such.

I started off at Brock University - nice school, my best memories are actually of hanging out in the library building perched atop the Niagara Escarpment, from which you could see for dozens and dozens of miles across Lake Ontario on a good day. I started off in Linguistics, but really picked up a whole range of subjects in my two years there - including programming, geography, and a number of history courses.

I then moved to Ottawa due to family circumstances, and transferred to Carleton University. Much the same - nice school, good circumstances to study. I had to commute from far away so my social life was slow and in fact it wasn't until I was about to move away from town that I discovered that I really liked life in Ottawa.

I graduated with a major in Linguistics and minor in History, and continued on to a Masters in Applied Language Studies. Outstanding program - very small, like a well-kept secret, there is just an amazing bunch of faculty working in that department. It was a very different experience from my undergrad studies, where I really learned to think with a practical mindset - not just what I could learn from something in theory, but how I could apply it to real data and real people-to-people communication problems. That still informs my thinking to today.

I graduated and got into the PhD program at the Department of English here at University of Waterloo, a big school further south in Ontario that is famous for its Engineering and Computer Science departments, but not so much english. So far, my experience here so far has been... well, disappointing, really. I won't go into too much detail, but although I found some fantastic people to work with in the university, it's been an uphill battle. I've become very disillusioned with the education system here, and Waterloo as such - despite its massive student population and apparent concentration of wealth and brains in town - is, well, boring. There's really not much to do in town. Fortunately, it's a good environment to work in, and by far the safest and quietest place I've lived or am likely to ever live in. But that's about all I can say for it - and in the last year or so, I've turned to saving as much as I can and traveling out of here regularly to hang out with friends elsewhere. I can work here, yes, but staying here really sucks the life out of me in the long run.

I still like what I do though. Both teaching and working in research fields like medical communication is, in the end, extremely rewarding.

[Krauter]

Originally Posted by CCIP

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Why not check out McGill? Great university and city

Edit: Brock University eh? You wouldn't happen to know a particular coach there with the last name of Calder would you? That was one of my initial choices for a university but.. differences in how I want to get my education and pursue my sport made me end up here.

[Hottentot]

Originally Posted by Krauter

Very true Will have to try and keep in touch!

We'd go far too offtopic if we started comparing our sources, methods and such in this thread, but a PM might work.

Whereabouts are you studying?

Here. The funny thing is that because of history we are occasionally referred to as "the red university" by the people who don't like us. The common idea is that we are all leftists who just steal money from the tax payers for useless research. I don't know about that, but I guess I'm not helping the situation by researching the Soviet Union .

[ajrimmer42]

Currently at Sheffield Hallam University in my first year studying Aerospace Technology In fact I actually only have 2 weeks of my first year left before summer break, we finish proper early for some reason

[Betonov]

Originally Posted by CCIP

In Canada, prestige of schools is really pretty relative, and oftentimes it matters more what department, rather than what university, you actually went to.

Same here

University of Ljubljana, faculty for maritime and transport sciences, nautical department

[Jimbuna]

Westoe Secondary Modern

[mookiemookie]

[Takeda Shingen]

Taking mookie's lead.

Bachelor's Degree:



Master's Degree:



Doctorate:

[Torvald Von Mansee]

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

Never knew you spent time in my neck of the woods!



I'm half way though my 1st semester at Monroe Community College.