I’m a little late to the party, but this thread brings back some memories. Lots of great advice and I’ll echo the support for the community college route. I was an above average student in high school, NCSD. I applied to about 5 UCs, way overestimated my application and found myself without any acceptances. Devastated and humbled at the time. In retrospect, I honestly don’t think I was focused or mature enough out of HS for the full college experience and probably would have floundered. I spent 2.5 years at a SD community college. It bought me some time, allowed me to narrow down my interests and save a ton of $$$. I had quite a few amazing teachers in the lower division courses at the JC, not just lecturers forced to instruct as part of their funding. Ended up transferring fairly seamlessly to UCSD (some version of the UC TAG program) and honestly feel that the instruction at the JC prepared me extremely well for the upper division courses at UCSD. Graduated summa cum laude with department honors. No debt. Spent a few years as a researcher at the Salk Institute. From there, 4 years at UCSDs med school, then residency training at UCSD, and then got hired on as faculty at UCSD. I think the stigma around junior/community college education has really disappeared over the last few years, and for most, there is little downside.
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Dang, my kid didn’t get into any public CA University with a 4.2 GPA that was applied to.
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Not to be insensitive, but has he tried getting some pussy?
I've heard this story 100 times at least and have witnessed it happen to super smart creative kids. It's really just a maturity thing. Parents probably did coddle him too much and he is having culture shock compounded by the weeding out process the teachers put freshmen through. Going to CC and getting a part time job to see how the real world works will be an eye opener. When I finally graduated, I was like holy fuck the real world is so much harder, I want to go back to my surf school. My friend nearly dropped out of engineering school. Enrolled in the navy before being expelled for too low GPA. Sat in a nuclear submarine for a couple years. Came back and breezed through school. He said sitting in his dorm staring out the window and doing homework is 100x better than sitting in that tin can getting irradiated everyday. He could careless about all the parties and titties running past his window.
I'm from that area...Villa no fun. He's really not missing out on anything. Small, boring suburban campus. Everyone there is from interior North Jersey. It's right next to Bryn Mawr College, an all girls college for weirdo creeps (I'm married to one)
I didn't believe it until I heard it from his younger brother, but apparently my kind of nerdy, kind of hipster eldest nephew, despite keeping mainly to himself and his very small crew of fellow hip-nerds, was a total babe magnet in high school. He's handsome, and has a really sharp wit when he chooses to engage, and apparently the girls threw themselves at him all through high school and he got laid whenever he felt like it.
Too much pussy can fuck you up too.
Every girl you see becomes a kunt to fuck.
That doesn't really work in this society.
Every girl you see becomes a kunt to fuck.
That doesn't really work in this society.
It’s never too late to go back to school.
My wife went back in 2019 right before covid hit. She was the oldest in all her classes and continued to work fulltime. Mid-late 40’s. Zoom classes worked great in her situation. Got a Masters of Law (two years of law classes) which has really benefited her for work. Really cool program and surprised it is not utilized more.
My wife went back in 2019 right before covid hit. She was the oldest in all her classes and continued to work fulltime. Mid-late 40’s. Zoom classes worked great in her situation. Got a Masters of Law (two years of law classes) which has really benefited her for work. Really cool program and surprised it is not utilized more.
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Yes, that is partially true. You can either take the design or analysis route in the aerospace engineering world. In the analysis side of things, I found out the UC’s colleagues with a few years under their belt who moved on IRAD/CRAD (Independent Research & Development/Customer or Contract Research & Development) side of things were superior.
The recent graduates of UC schools did not feel comfortable touching hardware. The CS’s students were more comfortable with a soldering iron, DVM or oscilloscope! UC kids were more comfortable using analysis tools i.e., Mathlab etc.
I'd guess he's never worked a day in his life or had to shop, feed, clothe, and clean for himself....
I got kicked out of high school, left home at 18, graduated via home study and was working in a recycling warehouse for my uncle from 6am to 6p daily sorting glass bottles and baling cardboard
the only upside was living with my grandmother at the time and coming home to her cooking every day
talk about fkn motivation to go to college
my eldest just turned 14...I told him he just leveled-up on the chore ladder and is now responsible for cooking one meal a week for the family...I've been very clear that the entire thrust of my fathering is to prepare them to be successful out of the house.
What is his favorite thing to cook?
I love a steak, sweet potato, salad and avocado.
I can whip that up fast and it taste great.
I made spaghetti with meat ball last weekend.
That is pretty good too
The UCs are set up to produce grad students and PhDs. The applied science profs - at least in engineering - tend to be all thumbs in the lab. The highest profile professors tend to be good at winning grant money but are not good at engineering.
This is pretty bad actually. There used to be more industry partnerships with the UC that resulted in engineers that could do something. Those ties have weakened.
he's the asshole who decided to be a vegetarian
constantly complaining that I don't cook good vegetarian food
this contributed to his **promotion**
ffs...these kids
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College is often a spark for depression etc. Hope he figures it out.
yeah that definitely has us all concerned, . I went to NYU- I don't know if its true every year, or maybe it's trended down in recent years, but in my day and for whatever reason, NYU was consistently the national leader in freshman suicides. f-ing gnarly. Our library is infamous for the amount of jumpers off the 6th floor balconies into the lobby. I think there were like 7 in the library alone just in my freshman year. Maybe the combined shock and pressure of a giant and intimidating University, in the heart of the biggest city in the country? Just complete system overload for some poor kids that just aren't wired to handle it?
While this could be true, I didn’t interpret it that way. Going to a giant school where you have minimal social ties (assumption) can be intimating at that age. It happens. Lots of freshmen do not have the American Pie/Racer1 Chapman experience (btw can we ban that guy already?).
Damn I had no idea you were such a fookup