psych majors, enjoy. the rest of you, sorry in advance.
so my obgyn today was an slc alum. I was pretty ready to throw the year and a half i spent in college there out of my life, to sweep it under the covers after taking the semester off (aka dropping out)... but when someones talking into your cervix about how their alma mater opens so many doors for them, and how as a writer, its a great name to have on your degree... its a harder counter point to escape, esp. when your feet are strapped in stirrups.
I left SLC b/c i was v unhappy. I was frustrated socially, not having a lot of fun. or feeling like i really belonged. I have the same interests and other aspects that on the surface would suggest id fit in at SLC, but i had a hard time-- i found the student population to be somewhat cold and the location of the college was pretty depressing... i hated both yonkers and bronxville. leaving the city behind was like a really painful break up, but SLC isnt in the city...
Academically i was frustrated too. I liked the small classes, but it was hard to find subjects i was really interested in, and a lot of the time i felt like i wasnt learning anything. I felt on par with the studnets for the most part, but i couldnt write a reasearch paper to save my skin and was always embaressed by the quality of my conference work. I felt as smart as the other students, but they seemed better educated, and that was hard coming from a small school where i felt really ahead of everyone else.
Ive been thinking about staying in colorado, getting in-state tuition (which is about 1/7th the price of SLC), and going to CU. its a good school, i could do well there, and socially its really nice.
But if writing is my "thing" (this entry prob. makes that a pretty pathetic statement), am i making a huge mistake by not going to SLC? Ive also heard that average grades from SLC dont look as good as great grades from a place like CU when applying to grad schools...
thanks for reading. id really appreciate your advice...
I left SLC b/c i was v unhappy. I was frustrated socially, not having a lot of fun. or feeling like i really belonged. I have the same interests and other aspects that on the surface would suggest id fit in at SLC, but i had a hard time-- i found the student population to be somewhat cold and the location of the college was pretty depressing... i hated both yonkers and bronxville. leaving the city behind was like a really painful break up, but SLC isnt in the city...
Academically i was frustrated too. I liked the small classes, but it was hard to find subjects i was really interested in, and a lot of the time i felt like i wasnt learning anything. I felt on par with the studnets for the most part, but i couldnt write a reasearch paper to save my skin and was always embaressed by the quality of my conference work. I felt as smart as the other students, but they seemed better educated, and that was hard coming from a small school where i felt really ahead of everyone else.
Ive been thinking about staying in colorado, getting in-state tuition (which is about 1/7th the price of SLC), and going to CU. its a good school, i could do well there, and socially its really nice.
But if writing is my "thing" (this entry prob. makes that a pretty pathetic statement), am i making a huge mistake by not going to SLC? Ive also heard that average grades from SLC dont look as good as great grades from a place like CU when applying to grad schools...
thanks for reading. id really appreciate your advice...