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Congrats man, I hope you end up having a successful career afterwards. :)
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ellynandroid: ....
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orcishgamer: Hey congrats!

Advice:
1) Studying isn't the only thing to do in college, but it is "a thing" you should do. Make sure you spend time going to parties and in study groups.
2) Subjects that bore the fuck out of you now may be deeply and personally important to you years down the road. Having a minor grounding in something you may not see as useful or care about that much is easy in college, and you never know when a basic knowledge of something like philosophy or anthropology will enable an experience or personal growth you might have otherwise missed. So treat it as liberal arts even if you don't have to.
3) You'll never be around as many open minded people again. Remember though, they are almost all young, and therefor will be ignorant on some things. You can't have everything, but you can take advantage of being exposed to tons of different people, views, and socioeconomic backgrounds. This will never happen to you again depending on your chosen line of work.
4) Debt sucks, seriously, work hard to avoid huge student loans, eat crackers for some meals, have room mates, etc. Don't buy stuff you cannot afford on money you don't have. Even private student loans are non-dischargeable in bankruptcy, this is nearly the only kind of debt treated this way, so treat it as a very useful, but very dangerous object.
5) You are selecting instructors as much as you are selecting classes. Make sure you check their syllabuses, some things smack of lazy professors (e.g. high amounts of grade being dependent on being physically present is usually a bad sign). Ask other students, check any syllabuses they keep on file in the university library, and even check past years' tests (again: library), if you don't find these they are probably lazy and use the same tests over and over again.
6) University is not a trade school, if you want a trade school, stop now, withdraw your acceptance and go to one. I highly suggest if you were under this conception that you take a bit and consider what you want out of this, if the best thing you can say is "a good job" trade school will save you 10s of thousands of dollars and hand you several years of your life back as real work experience.
7) This last one is a personal opinion (more so than the others): any graduate degree that costs you money to pursue is not worth it. You should be payed to do graduate level work (you teach for it and do other things). If you have to pay for it, it is a sucker's bet. Yes, this now applies to law school too. The sole exception is medical school, and only if you intend to pursue a specialty and not general practice.

Thanks for the giveaway, I hope you enjoy your university life, it's unique and you only get it once:)
While much of that makes perfect sense, it's interesting to see how different university is in other places. Debt, selecting classes... those are things I never had a chance to experience.
Congratulations! I'm very pleased that random.org was favorable and you can celebrate with a brand new Defender's Quest!
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Ghorpm: Congratulations! I'm very pleased that random.org was favorable and you can celebrate with a brand new Defender's Quest!
Thank you again for that. :D It's the exact opposite of studying, which is maybe what I need in the interim between now and when the semester starts.
Bump!
Not in, Ellyn, but thank you so much for this giveaway! :D
BTW, what are you going to study, if it's not a problem asking? +1
Did I win?
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dovahcore: Not in, Ellyn, but thank you so much for this giveaway! :D
BTW, what are you going to study, if it's not a problem asking? +1
No problem at all, I've answered several times in the thread. :) I'm doing a bachelor of psychology, which means both psych and neuroscience study. Essentially stuff to do with heads, because I am basically a zombie. Brainsssss. :P

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Licurg: Did I win?
Uhh. It's the 26th that I'm announcing the winner.
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dovahcore: Not in, Ellyn, but thank you so much for this giveaway! :D
BTW, what are you going to study, if it's not a problem asking? +1
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ellynandroid: No problem at all, I've answered several times in the thread. :) I'm doing a bachelor of psychology, which means both psych and neuroscience study. Essentially stuff to do with heads, because I am basically a zombie. Brainsssss. :P

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Licurg: Did I win?
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ellynandroid: Uhh. It's the 26th that I'm announcing the winner.
Oh, right... I had forgotten :P
Congratulations! Thanks for sharing the celebration! +1 to you.

My dream game would take the world of Arcanum, mix in the gameplay of Elder Scrolls or Fallout, and be a healthy balance of combat, real-world decision making (no real right or wrong), and throw in tons of puzzles and riddles. Also add co-op. Kind of true table top Dungeons and Dragons meets Arcanum in video game form. I would love to see character generation include little things like known languages, background traits, etc. All of the details that makes table top gaming so much fun.
Congratulations on your acceptance.

Rise Of A DemiGod is a roguelike game in which one of the gods (determined randomly for each game) has been cast down to earth for one year. All the other gods have bred with mortals to create demigods who will attempt to slay the banished god and thus take his or her place in the pantheon. You take on the role of one of these demigods and can rely on the support of your divine parent (who determines your class) and their followers as you compete against the other demigods and plan your attack on the (now well fortified) high temple of your target. If you strike too soon you will be defeated, but if you wait too long one of your rivals may claim the prize first.

Like Dwarf Fortress the world is randomly generated each time and the people you meet are real people with families and homes, using items someone made, not just spawned out of nowhere. You take quests to hinder your opponents by attacking/subverting their supporters, and to protect your supporters. As part of this you can send assassins after other demigods, and should expect challenging encounters when they send assassins for you, or challenge them to a duel and settle things in person. Eventually you will undermine the ability of your rivals to interfere in your attack and gather a force sufficient to assault the banished god's stronghold. You will battle through his/her followers and demigods to the final confrontation and your shot at divinity.
BUMP!
Bump!
I didn't read all the thread because I'm lazy. :D
Hope you enjoy that career and I hope you become a good psychiatrist!
Post edited December 21, 2012 by dovahcore