It's just what it's called that over here. College is something completely different where i'm from. For one, college is far far cheaper than university (university costs £9000 a year) and it seems to offer courses that are more practical for the working world, while university is just more advanced learning that might lead to a good job and often a continuation of what you did at school but in more detail

What did you look at in International Relations? i think it's something I might be interested in  

I will be ending my year of community college this week. Transferring to the University of Michigan this fall. I intend to major in Computer Science. If not, I'll try Actuarial Science or some sort of Mathematics/Economics/Statistics combination.

Is it worth thousands of dollars? Especially 6 of them (ironic that you say "open minded" when you've taken so many courses in the same field)? Not for me.

Out of curiosity, can you list out the course names of those classes?

Philosophy:

lvl 1: The Human Person, this is the only one that was rather meh, the only thing i liked long-term was that we also disussed logic

lvl 2: Moral Philosophy, helped me really define how i look at the world, between the viewpoints of Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, and John Stuart Mill

lvl 3: Uses and Abuses of Jesus in Modernity, took a look at many different (but still western) philosophical traditions and how they interpreted Jesus. Not relevant, but very interesting (the professor was this patently awesome old guy, which helped)

Theology:

lvl 1: Intro to Christian Social Ethics, being taught in a Catholic Jesuit University (although not by a jesuit), showed some interesting insight into Catholic ethics, mainly that, outside of the gay and abortion stuff, it's a pretty progressive religion (highlighting a basis for environmentalism and socialism, for two)

lvl 2: Japanese Religions, this was fun because it was a very diverse course, at once a line on Buddhism, Shinto, lesser religions like Tenrikyo and Soka Gakkai, and basically a Japanese history course all in one.

lvl 3: Origins of Law in the Bible, this was also a course on Ancient Near Eastern law, and really helped to defog some of the weirdness of the Old Testament's more legalistic tendencies, including clarifying who the Old Testament was addressing (free adult Jewish men), which always serves as useful fuel against modern bible-thumpers.

Good luck to you. Graduated last June with a B.S. in Software Development. Got my current job as a Systems Developer 3 months after graduation.

pezus said: morenoingrato said: Will go next year! My country holds a national exam for students. If I'm among the top scores, they'll pay me college in the US! The scores can't come soon enough. Hopefully I get the scholarship so I can go to MIT or Stanford. What do you want to study? ;o And how many do they pay for? :O

Eletrical Engineering.

And about 200 a year. Although many students give it up because of the language barrier.

It's an excellent program from the ecuadorian government.

In my 4th year. I still have a long ways to go. (Masters and teaching credential)

Around 130.000 students.

It isn't as complex as it sounds though. It's a mandatory test if students want to get into a public university. Furthermore, 1/4 of them fail, 1/4 aims for a 70%, 1/4 aims for an 80% and most of the rest aim for the 90%. Only a few are actually targeting the scholarship.

So, there were no classes on skepticism or epistemology? It's really sad that the only philosophy classes you took seem to be centered around "morality" and pretty much touching on religion, rather than exploring some of the other really juicy topics like what consciousness even is (and if we can even properly research such a topic), science-philosophy topics, politics-philosophy, etc.

It seems like you've pretty much settled on your ethical and religious beliefs and tooks classes to reinforce them. If not that, it seems that you weren't really interested in getting your mind truly fucked and challenged by some topics outside of the ones you took.