honestly state wasnt the place for me. i performed pretty terribly when i was here due to the fact that i was lazy and unmotivated. i dont even think that when i came to college i was mature enough to be at any sort of school. i paid for it all through loans, and even then it didnt make me study harder or go to class. i graduated yesterday though...later raleigh.

5/10/2008 11:25:16 AM

you'd have the same problems anywhere you went

5/10/2008 11:26:30 AM

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"i was lazy and unmotivated"

you probably wouldn't have done well anywhere with that attitude

5/10/2008 11:27:04 AM

i pretty much feel the same way as jay

5/10/2008 11:27:30 AM

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"i dont even think that when i came to college i was mature enough to be at any sort of school"

^^^
^^
yeah...i know

like i said state wasnt the place for me

at home saving/working would have probably been better, then school when i was around 20-21

[Edited on May 10, 2008 at 11:28 AM. Reason : .]

5/10/2008 11:27:44 AM

i wish i woulda went to community college for a year first

5/10/2008 11:28:28 AM

best of luck kiddo

5/10/2008 11:29:04 AM

im a fairly smart guy

i performed higher than average throughout high school and on aptitude tests

im pretty lazy when it comes to school, and its weird, im the exact opposite with work. i have a higher work ethic and perform better at the jobs i have worked than most people ive known or worked with.

5/10/2008 11:31:49 AM

I found that college really didn't take that much motivation or effort. As long as you went to class enough (if there were attendance requirements) to know when to show up for exams...then you were fine.

Grad school is a slightly different story. Undergrad was a breeze.

5/10/2008 11:35:22 AM

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"Major : Business"

ehe.

5/10/2008 11:45:34 AM

^Point taken.

I could have never gotten through engineering school.

5/10/2008 11:49:10 AM

for some people, they can sit in class and soak in all of the information given like it is nothing

for me, i usually zone out without thinking, and even when im there, im not there

i learn by doing things. the most i ever learned was in labs and at work

5/10/2008 11:50:21 AM

i did fine at state, but state itself wasn't the school for me.

nothing against the friends i made, i love them all. But i realized about halfway through that i came to NC State for the wrong reasons.

now dont get me wrong, i'm a diehard state fan and always will be now. But there is always that sense of what if

5/10/2008 11:52:11 AM

^ summed up everything i was trying to say

5/10/2008 11:53:43 AM

btw, congrats on graduating, best of luck in your future endeavors

5/10/2008 11:55:19 AM

it's days like this that make me wonder why i ever got a degree. for looks only. not only do i never use it, but i wish those 4 years would've been spent at my job so i could've been getting better at what i do.

sure i learned stuff, but my job is so specific to certain technologies that we only briefly scratched the surface of it in maybe 3-4 classes

5/10/2008 11:59:21 AM

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"i did fine at state, but state itself wasn't the school for me. nothing against the friends i made, i love them all. But i realized about halfway through that i came to NC State for the wrong reasons. now dont get me wrong, i'm a diehard state fan and always will be now. But there is always that sense of what if"

5/10/2008 12:01:04 PM

man i so wish i woulda came into state for business like i planned to...i woulda got in and been out in 3 years cause business school here is a joke....

5/10/2008 12:50:25 PM

wow, this is exactly what i'm going to say when i graduate in 3 years.

5/10/2008 12:51:22 PM

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"or some people, they can sit in class and soak in all of the information given like it is nothing for me, i usually zone out without thinking, and even when im there, im not there"

me too. it was a fight for anything to keep my attention.

5/10/2008 12:53:17 PM

sooo, what was your major?

5/10/2008 1:11:28 PM

How about everyone here quit whining about their "bad experience at State" and instead use it as a learning experience and move the fuck on. Good lord.

And dnl...you couldn't finish a community college degree in three years. Seriously.

5/10/2008 5:27:08 PM

this is exactly how I felt when I graduated a couple years ago

except I haven't gotten around to leaving Raleigh until now

5/10/2008 5:29:10 PM

^^ haha nowhere did i say it was the fault of the college....i totally blamed it on myself being lazy, so quit trying to spin it into me passing off my own bullshit.

i made a bad decision to come to state not because of state, but because of myself. you probably dont understand that because you get your shit done and you study hard. i didnt do that at first, and it put me into a huge hole that i just got out of. quit trying to sound elitist because your habits are different than mine were

also i will say this, my adviser never once emailed me unless i initiated it, and they really lost track of me. i think at a smaller school with less students this would be less likely to happen. once again it is mostly my fault, but state is the kind of school where you do your shit yourself or you dont make it, and i wasnt that independent when i was 18.


[Edited on May 10, 2008 at 7:19 PM. Reason : .]

5/10/2008 7:16:03 PM

congrats Jay...but honestly, after leaving raleigh i miss it more than i thought i would.

i guess it's just familiar to me

5/10/2008 8:51:31 PM

^^thats another reason i dont like state...just too many people....

5/10/2008 8:52:47 PM

^^^ yeah but if you went to a small school you might be saying "my advisor wont stop hassling me, My teacher is bitching b/c my Homework is late, and i only get to see the same 50-100 people at one of three bars b/c this place is so small.


so maybe it would have been worse at a small school

5/10/2008 9:14:23 PM

by the way, in my opinion, the advisor shouldnt initiate any contact with the student...to me thats the students responsibility

5/10/2008 9:15:24 PM

i went to a small school for undergrad (~1600, same size as my hs) and the advisors paid no attention to you. you had to meet with them to get forms for class registration. it was all done on paper. they generally had no idea what you had taken or all the requirements. all the teachers were also instructors; there were no guidance counselors like in hs

5/10/2008 9:17:07 PM

peace out whoever-you-are

5/10/2008 9:22:36 PM

i transferred TO state and definitely loved it. perfect place for me even though i'm from raleigh and thought i hated raleigh. but then state changed my mind!! but i get going to a school where you don't feel like you are in the right place. that happened to moi.

5/10/2008 9:22:54 PM

honestly, and i mean this as disrespectfully as possible...i consider NCSU the biggest highschool in the state

5/10/2008 9:24:01 PM

how come?

5/10/2008 9:25:50 PM

i just think the quality of people state lets in is very sub par....i feel like my college is a giant highschool

or maybe it just reminds me of MY highschool...idk i just see a lot of losers failing out or that dont care, or leech off their friends, or cheat....a bunch of rednecks here too

[Edited on May 10, 2008 at 9:28 PM. Reason : peckerwoods]

5/10/2008 9:27:30 PM

i'd have to say i'm pretty glad i went to school here though for the fact that almost any company will bring me in for an interview b/c of the fact that i graduated with my specific degree

5/10/2008 9:27:33 PM

I think State was ranked as the 64th best college/university in the country by US News & World reports or whatever this past year...

You get out of it what you put into it, as with any school. If you are too lazy to do the work, that's your problem.

5/10/2008 9:28:39 PM

i'm almost certain knowing what i know now i would not have came to ncsu

[Edited on May 10, 2008 at 9:30 PM. Reason : prolly unc-charlotte, ecu, unc, or app]

[Edited on May 10, 2008 at 9:32 PM. Reason : not to mention our ugly ass campus]

5/10/2008 9:29:44 PM

UNC C and ECU over state? hmmm. not so sure i'd do the same. i loved the time i spent at state so i can't complain. i'd even consider doing a grad program there (i mean, another grad program if i ever return to school again after law school)

5/10/2008 9:32:08 PM

with all due respect, i would never go to ncsu to get a 4yr degree and then turn around and teach school or work for a job lower than 50k starting salary.

5/10/2008 9:32:10 PM

^^prt with ncsu or business with any of those other 4 schools?


yeah i'd pick the other schools

5/10/2008 9:32:36 PM

I think it's funny how people complain about the ugly campus. State's campus looks fine. I've been to some universities where they don't even bother planting trees anywhere.

5/10/2008 9:55:54 PM

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"i just think the quality of people state lets in is very sub par"

-DNL



oh lawd, you so crazy

5/10/2008 9:58:19 PM

idk about you but a bunch of bricks...ugly ass hillsbourough...and constructuion 24/7 is not "fine" by my standards

5/10/2008 10:01:14 PM

Would it be better if State didn't do the construction and just let the buildings become even more overcrowded than they already are?

And I like the bricks. Not every campus needs to be built out of granite.

5/10/2008 10:03:21 PM

chapel hill sounds like a nice school for you dnl. lol

5/10/2008 10:04:26 PM

Welcome to the real world.

Grow the fuck up

[Edited on May 10, 2008 at 10:11 PM. Reason : x better said]

5/10/2008 10:04:52 PM

lolwut

5/10/2008 10:06:36 PM

wow i wish i was done with school ...

5/10/2008 10:09:09 PM

yeah, really though i already have a ton of job interviews and phone calls, and i think if i graduated from somewhere else that might not be the case. i do respect the fact that state provides people with jobs

5/11/2008 1:35:41 PM

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"wow i wish i was done with school ..."

Thats what I thought my whole college career. NO YOU DON'T!

Stay in school forever. I wish I could go back.

5/11/2008 5:46:34 PM