I'm a big kid now!

[beandelphiki]

I went to school today for a !*!BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!*!, which I've been getting email reminders about for a couple of weeks now.

Turns out I'm no longer attending college.

...No, I'm attending university!'S'right, my college got officially declared a university today. (And boy am I ever glad that I didn't buy a school hoody or anything like that

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[feebeeglee]

Looky there, it's a Bean!

When my uni changed names it made for a fun way to cut up a bumpersticker I put on my car - Oklaversity of Central Unihoma.

[weird_fin]

Oh. Hello there.

Is Canada like the UK and Australia then? Calling Universities actually a 'University' rather than all main tertiary educations as 'college'? I was presuming after highschool in Canada it was called college like the US.

*cringes* (Please don't take that as an offence, i have no real inkling as to even if the US calls their tertiary providers colleges, its only American movies that have "college" in them i base most of my uni/college terms for the US on.)

I really like that sound of your subjects/classes much more interesting to me than what I have this semester. :P Though Chemistry would probably kill me at times too.

Make friends with the Music students perhaps they will let you study/chill quietly when they rehearse and Chemistry or 8am other wing starts get a little much. ^^

[beandelphiki]

I was honestly unsure how to answer your question, as I wasn't aware that "college" and "university" are used differently in different places!

So I went to Wikipedia, and found this. I think that explains it, pretty much?

My school used to only offer applied degrees, so it was a college. Now it has undergraduate degrees, so it's been re-designated a university. (Although I guess it's really a university-college, as mentioned in that Wikipedia section, because it doesn't have graduate degrees.)

[weird_fin]

Sorry I was just curious. Haha. Didn't mean to put you on the spot!

Ah righteo, that pretty much sums it up. Even though Wikipedia there says Australia and UK use college as secondary schools, I think (at least where I am) a lot of American language is drifting over and people sometimes use college and University interchangeably when referring to uni. But not that often.

[siegeengine]

That is sick how classes that have been around for 800 years have to have a new book every year. Talk about impacting the environment.

I read somewhere that some colleges (and universities) are renting books now, for prices that are far better than a person would spend even with a buyback at the end of the year. I don't know what would compel them to do this, but it's nice.

[beandelphiki]

Oh, renting is kind of cool. I think I would like the option to keep the book though, so I don't know.

But yeah, the constant new book thing? Effed up. Last year I went through a biology course, and had to buy an enormous, $200 book for it. This year, they're using something else! I didn't want to return my book because I thought I might take the second course which used the second half of the book (and it's a GREAT book!), but it appears I'd be unable to use it. (I now have no plans to take that second course, so I guess that's okay. But if I wanted to sell that book back, I'd get pennies for it.)

It blows my mind, because the book I have is really, honestly well-written and beautifully illustrated, and JUST PUBLISHED! Why would they need another book so soon?

[weird_fin]

I agree the ridiculousness of re-printing, changing over to different books for different sections of courses can often be too much! I have heard a little of places renting/borrowing books for study.