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Did you go to University?

Yes 139 79.43%
 
No 17 9.71%
 
I want to in the future 19 10.86%
 
Total:175
Mr Khan on 04 May 2013
Akvod said:
Mr Khan said:
Akvod said:
Mr Khan said:
Akvod said:
Graduated. It was a waste of money. Or rather, most of the classes were worthless. You're really just paying for access and networking, so focus most of your time on that.

I find that the people who think that way aren't taking an open mind.

Did i think that being required to take three philosophy and three theology classes before i graduated would be anything short of a train wreck? No, but i'm glad as hell that i took those classes.


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.


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.

My choices were complicated by a need to take classes that were part of the "Honors Program," or i likely would have gone for something more exotic than Bible Law or the Jesus class



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DevilRising on 04 May 2013

Got me an English degree and a couple of psych/sociology degrees, an Honors certificate of completion, and a mountain of student loan debt. lol



pastro243 on 04 May 2013

Im on my 5th year of Law, it sucks



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MoHasanie on 04 May 2013
morenoingrato said:
pezus said:

Cool. One of my friends is getting his B.S. in EE very very soon.

How many take this exam each year? O.O

Top 200 sounds really hard to do in a country with millions of people

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.

Wow, if you make it into the top 200 then that would be incredible! Good Luck! Is the exam very hard? 



    

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Moren on 04 May 2013
MoHasanie said:

Wow, if you make it into the top 200 then that would be incredible! Good Luck! Is the exam very hard? 

Thanks! I actually took it two weeks ago. Results will be published on Monday.

It was divided into three parts: Logic Reasoning, Abstract Reasoning and Verbal Reasoning.

Logic and Abstract were a piece of cake for me, although many people have a lot of trouble on that. Verbal reasoning was harder, as synonyms, antonyms and all of those things are not my strong point.



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hsrob on 04 May 2013

I graduated ten years ago this year, Bachelor of Science followed by a Bachelor of Medicine/Surgery.

Even though I don't work directly in my field any longer I really enjoyed my time at Uni and don't regret my choice of study. I still have a great interest in Biology/Medicine and could happily go back to Uni and study more of the same/similar stuff, alas mortgage and a job make that impractical.

Congratulations in getting into Uni, follow your interests and you'll have a ball.



Akvod on 04 May 2013
Mr Khan said:
Akvod said:
Mr Khan said:
Akvod said:
Mr Khan said:
Akvod said:
Graduated. It was a waste of money. Or rather, most of the classes were worthless. You're really just paying for access and networking, so focus most of your time on that.

I find that the people who think that way aren't taking an open mind.

Did i think that being required to take three philosophy and three theology classes before i graduated would be anything short of a train wreck? No, but i'm glad as hell that i took those classes.


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.


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.

My choices were complicated by a need to take classes that were part of the "Honors Program," or i likely would have gone for something more exotic than Bible Law or the Jesus class


So you were forced to take the same classes. How open minded. Did you have to take 3 philosophy and 3 theology courses? Why not take other ones.

 

Anyway, don't fucking lecture me that I'm not open minded.



Max King of the Wild on 04 May 2013
Mr Khan said:
Akvod said:
Mr Khan said:
Akvod said:
Graduated. It was a waste of money. Or rather, most of the classes were worthless. You're really just paying for access and networking, so focus most of your time on that.

I find that the people who think that way aren't taking an open mind.

Did i think that being required to take three philosophy and three theology classes before i graduated would be anything short of a train wreck? No, but i'm glad as hell that i took those classes.


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.

What school did you go to? I'm going to Marquette and have to take 3 of each also. That's why I'm minoring in philosophy because 3 other classes transfered over from the community college



Mr Khan on 04 May 2013
Max King of the Wild said:
Mr Khan said:

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.

What school did you go to? I'm going to Marquette and have to take 3 of each also. That's why I'm minoring in philosophy because 3 other classes transfered over from the community college

Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia.



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Cobretti2 on 04 May 2013
pezus said:
morenoingrato said:
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.

Cool. One of my friends is getting his B.S. in EE very very soon.

How many take this exam each year? O.O

Top 200 sounds really hard to do in a country with millions of people

Excellent choice. It is a fun job.