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CruelMedia · 12-09-2009, 08:11 AM

I spent 18 years in school.. University.. Masters.. Marketing..

Johnny G · 12-09-2009, 11:28 AM

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Originally Posted by degban

Did ya go to uni? if yes what was your major( Just curious randomly!)

I have a bachelor of fine arts in filmmaking from School of Visual Arts in NYC.

quiet · 12-09-2009, 12:33 PM

my university years were some of the best years of my life. i don't regret one minute of the experience. and those who are saying it's not difficult, haha. i mean, obviously some subjects of study are easier than others.... but, for example, my upper level chemistry classes (and labs) were some of the hardest things mentally i've ever done. spend 6 hours in a lab at the end of a week of wrapping your mind around complex organic/inorganic compounds, and you make one mistake, you are fucked. biochemistry, graded on a curve, people were passing with 30% in absolute terms (taught by the faculty of medicine, scary isn't it?). 3rd year calculus and linear algebra - another curved grade, prof couldn't speak english (he was Russian), the only way the students and him spoke was through symbols on a chalkboard lol. anyway, pretty difficult stuff.

Genetics: i think more than everything else i studied (my major was honors genetics), i took the largest amount away from it. logic and problem solving: you can apply it to anything you do, for the rest of your life. Plus IT'S FREAKING FACINATING stuff to be exposed to, and learn about.

working in a genetics lab my last two summers with borderline geniuses was pretty cool too. genetics prof's are an interesting bunch lol.

microbiology classes/labs, virology, prokaryotics/eukaryotic genetics, statistics, physics, zoology, damn i learned and experienced a lot of shit in uni. you haven't lived until you've made, then eaten sauerkraut from a flask in a microbiology lab lol. grown e.coli and then mutated them, in very specific ways. mutated fruit flies, knocked them out with ether to work out the mutations without them flying around. i almost got knocked out myself once by sniffing a little to close to the ether hehe. in my inorganic chem (year 2) we had to sniff pure ammonium before we were able to use it, it's like getting cold-cocked in the face. anyway, this is all just random ramblings i'm spitting out on the fly. bottom line, it was an awesome experience.

on the other hand, philosophy, which i minored in, was like taking a vacation (no slag to phil majors). i loved it, as it was the exact opposite of everything in the world of science. i always looked forward to my phil classes, i'd always try schedule them at the end of the day, get all of the hard work out of the way (poet didn't even know it), and just chill out. it always seemed ridiculously fun and relaxed. read a couple books each week, argue with the prof and students while drinking a cup of coffee, and write a couple of papers. i was completely entrenched with taking notes (in science, in my case genetics) it's almost a war. all you do is write in each lecture, figure it all out later. not so in phil, i tried to write some shit down the first couple of classes, then i just stopped. completely redundant. the only sort of hard stuff in phil was logic. but if you are taking anything past year two math, and some statistics, philosophy logic is easy.

and then there is the social aspect: killer. if you want to meet friends and girlfriends, there is no better place, period. all of what i consider my life-long friends, were met in highschool and university. emphasis on university.

negatives. hmm. well, it sucked being poor. i lived with my then gf in her apartment with two other girls (pretty crowded lol). tiny little room, lots of noodles and cheap tomato sauce with pasta. even with a couple of small scholarships, i had to go the student loan route. one of the best days of my life was paying that fucker off.

also, not really being able to work outside of the summers kind of sucked. after my last two years of uni working in a lab in the summers, i never had a real job ever again. it was great having good access to the internet back in 93, and then using it to be able to start a company in 96. yet another +1.

holy stream of consciousness. anyway blah blah blah /blah.

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12-09-2009, 12:33 PM	#103
quiet we'll miss you our friend. RIP Industry Role: Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Fernie, BC Posts: 25,115	my university years were some of the best years of my life. i don't regret one minute of the experience. and those who are saying it's not difficult, haha. i mean, obviously some subjects of study are easier than others.... but, for example, my upper level chemistry classes (and labs) were some of the hardest things mentally i've ever done. spend 6 hours in a lab at the end of a week of wrapping your mind around complex organic/inorganic compounds, and you make one mistake, you are fucked. biochemistry, graded on a curve, people were passing with 30% in absolute terms (taught by the faculty of medicine, scary isn't it?). 3rd year calculus and linear algebra - another curved grade, prof couldn't speak english (he was Russian), the only way the students and him spoke was through symbols on a chalkboard lol. anyway, pretty difficult stuff. Genetics: i think more than everything else i studied (my major was honors genetics), i took the largest amount away from it. logic and problem solving: you can apply it to anything you do, for the rest of your life. Plus IT'S FREAKING FACINATING stuff to be exposed to, and learn about. working in a genetics lab my last two summers with borderline geniuses was pretty cool too. genetics prof's are an interesting bunch lol. microbiology classes/labs, virology, prokaryotics/eukaryotic genetics, statistics, physics, zoology, damn i learned and experienced a lot of shit in uni. you haven't lived until you've made, then eaten sauerkraut from a flask in a microbiology lab lol. grown e.coli and then mutated them, in very specific ways. mutated fruit flies, knocked them out with ether to work out the mutations without them flying around. i almost got knocked out myself once by sniffing a little to close to the ether hehe. in my inorganic chem (year 2) we had to sniff pure ammonium before we were able to use it, it's like getting cold-cocked in the face. anyway, this is all just random ramblings i'm spitting out on the fly. bottom line, it was an awesome experience. on the other hand, philosophy, which i minored in, was like taking a vacation (no slag to phil majors). i loved it, as it was the exact opposite of everything in the world of science. i always looked forward to my phil classes, i'd always try schedule them at the end of the day, get all of the hard work out of the way (poet didn't even know it), and just chill out. it always seemed ridiculously fun and relaxed. read a couple books each week, argue with the prof and students while drinking a cup of coffee, and write a couple of papers. i was completely entrenched with taking notes (in science, in my case genetics) it's almost a war. all you do is write in each lecture, figure it all out later. not so in phil, i tried to write some shit down the first couple of classes, then i just stopped. completely redundant. the only sort of hard stuff in phil was logic. but if you are taking anything past year two math, and some statistics, philosophy logic is easy. and then there is the social aspect: killer. if you want to meet friends and girlfriends, there is no better place, period. all of what i consider my life-long friends, were met in highschool and university. emphasis on university. negatives. hmm. well, it sucked being poor. i lived with my then gf in her apartment with two other girls (pretty crowded lol). tiny little room, lots of noodles and cheap tomato sauce with pasta. even with a couple of small scholarships, i had to go the student loan route. one of the best days of my life was paying that fucker off. also, not really being able to work outside of the summers kind of sucked. after my last two years of uni working in a lab in the summers, i never had a real job ever again. it was great having good access to the internet back in 93, and then using it to be able to start a company in 96. yet another +1. holy stream of consciousness. anyway blah blah blah /blah.