Lonely Soul
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Sesshoumaru & Rin together forever! XD
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Post by Lonely Soul on Sept 23, 2003 0:24:58 GMT -5
no hehe I'm using Java right now I did do Visual basic a while ago tho so I MAY be able to help with things here or there hehe [glow=blue,2,300]*sigh* oh well... it's better than nothin'. [/glow]
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Yomi
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Post by Yomi on Oct 22, 2003 9:55:05 GMT -5
I don't understand overseas systems when they differentiate between college and university. Do you guys go to college first before university or something? Over here, after six years of highschool, you go straight to uni.
And damn me, where are the humanities students around here? Bah humbug to the technology driven world plundering our planet of its precious resources! We should be reading, writing, drinking wine and spouting poetry and talking about history!
**In case you missed it, I was being sarcastic**
Not much advice but to aim high and broaden your opportunities and preferences. Better you get a broad field of subjects to choose from than a limited one.
Yomi
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Post by Eyes of Crimson on Oct 22, 2003 18:44:58 GMT -5
Yomi-san - here in Canada we have 6 years of elementary school, two years of junior high, then four years of high school. Then we get to choose between three options: 1. Uni 2. College 3. Career In university we'll learn fundamentals of things (like, I want to study psychology so I'll be taking courses on that), in college we get to learn more hands-on things so we get more experience. ^^ Then, after 16 (legal age for working) we can get a job at McDonalds or something like that. Is it very different in other countries? I'm thinking of going to university Does anyone know any good universities? ^_^
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Yomi
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Post by Yomi on Oct 22, 2003 21:59:43 GMT -5
Hang on...let me see if I've got this.
University is where you'll go if you want a REAL education.
College is like TAFE - the 'degree' you get can't really compare to that from a University and you learn more tradeskills and other stuff which 'tries' to look like a subject. Most highschool dropouts who can't go to Uni go to TAFE here.
And people get jobs at a much younger age here - some 14-15 at McDonalds already. Others take a lawnmower and offer to mow people's lawns and other stuff.
But if you go to college, does that mean you don't go to Uni, or do you do both?
Yomi
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Post by Eyes of Crimson on Oct 23, 2003 15:08:20 GMT -5
Yeah, usually it's either Uni or college, but there's also a collaborate program here you can take, for example if you want to become a nurse, you go to Uni and get your degrees, then go to college (for like a year or two) to learn some hands-on skills.
Some jobs (like doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc) require degrees, and some don't. So if you don't need it you can just go to college.
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Post by Archangel_Dream on Oct 23, 2003 22:47:30 GMT -5
Hehe, we only have college here. Sheesh, I don't know whether to feel happy or bad...XD
Um...Yomi-san, u don't like Humanities...?
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Yomi
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Post by Yomi on Oct 24, 2003 7:02:05 GMT -5
I'm doing a double degree - Arts/Law --> so I AM a humanities student! However, Arts students have a bad image of being 'alternative' and being slackers and generally the type of people you'd find a violent left wing protests. I don't like the way my Uni teaches the arts subjects - I've always hated lectures because they never engage you as a student and then they pack you off to the library to do a mountain of extra reading and you have to fight with the other students for books oh the endless troubles.... and Arts subjects like History and Philiosophy and the like are all pretencious - they use a twisted vocabulary in vain hopes of thinking that will make them more intelligent with more ideas and things to say. Arts students don't usually have bright futures and careers - I swear half of them are on Student Allowance (government payment to students who live away from home and have small part time jobs - they have to make sure they don't starve) and later, they progress onto welfare and the dole. Whoop de doo. Yomi
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Post by Archangel_Dream on Oct 25, 2003 4:57:20 GMT -5
Wow ...so how come you chose Arts then??
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Post by Eyes of Crimson on Oct 25, 2003 9:04:25 GMT -5
@ Yomi-san:: Whoa.... I didn't know that But good thing I didn't choose Art anymore >< I'm getting tired of it and I'm only in HS We were learning Inuit (aboriginal people in Northern Canada) Art and Egyptian Art few years before.... >< @ Reis:: No Universities? So you go to HS, then to college, then you work?
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Yomi
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Post by Yomi on Oct 25, 2003 23:14:37 GMT -5
Nah - that was just a slight exagerration (sp?) but overall, Arts is a pretty slack subject (not arts as in drawing - Arts as in humanties - history, politics, english, philosophy, psychology, languages etc etc) and not specifically career orientated. The hippie looking type of student you find, or the goths, are also usually arts students. I chose arts because I'm a slacker too Nah - did it so I could major in Chinese and love creative writing classes, so it paid off after all. Yomi
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Post by Eyes of Crimson on Oct 26, 2003 11:28:51 GMT -5
Ooooh!! Chinese!! I'd love to learn to write in that language ;D I can speak, I can read (well, most of the words) but I can't write Chinese characters are just too hard
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Post by Garnet17th on Oct 27, 2003 19:10:10 GMT -5
W-ell, I want to learn more about what I would take up soon.....so what courses have you taken/will u take? For now I have my sights to Interdisciplinary Studies (combination of individual arts/humanities, literature, etc.)...coz when it comes to science and engineering--BAH! ;D Hope u guys can help me! I'd like to go to colege for media designe
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Post by Kekowan on Oct 27, 2003 23:18:30 GMT -5
lol I'm in for either computer science,communication science or business~ ;D belive it or not... I actually feel good when programin(cept when there is a mistike and I can't find it) or doing staff for business...
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Post by Eyes of Crimson on Oct 28, 2003 19:26:42 GMT -5
Keko, you should've taken the course I'm taking right now. MSc.com - you know it, don't you? We have enriched science, math and computers, including programming. Then you could've taken business as an optional subject. (I can't take it cause I took it last year and I won't get the credit even if I take it again this year.)
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Post by Kekowan on Oct 28, 2003 20:57:37 GMT -5
lol screw msc(don't kil me) I got other things I like as well... lol if i go 2 venir.,.. there is no way I can take photography~ and I plan 2 talk others later~ msc basicly made me who I should be not who I wanna be... and that sucked...
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