dreamgirlie19 said:
Are you happy with the path you took for schooling?
Yes, very much so, but I should have taken a year off before starting college. The biggest mistake I ever made was not doing so... I have lots of mental health issues, and it would have very much behooved me to take some time to sort things out ahead of time. Now I won't be graduating my four year program until I'm 25. Most of my friends are graduating this spring, and it's really fucking depressing for me, because it reminds me that I fucked up...
![:\](https://bluelight.org/xf/BL_Images/Orig_Emoji/wrygrin.gif "wry grin :\")
Do you think it would have been better if you went the 2-year route then continued on to the 4-year.
No way, not at all. I was given opportunities at my school during my freshman and sophomore years that I could NEVER have received at a smaller/2-year school.
Did you only go to school because you "need" a degree in life or because you wanted to really go to enrich your life and future?
Well, both? I *need* a degree to do what I want to do in life, but I find the topics of my study incredibly cool, so I enjoy learning all of it too.
Do you wish you went to a different school period?
Yes and no. I am going (well, on hiatus right now, but you get my drift...) to one of the best, if not the best, schools in my country for my major (I'm majoring in biochem, with a second major of Spanish, but that was more because I started as a freshman with 20 credits of Spanish and a year-plus worth of credits in general). There is absolutely no better place I could have gone, because it just so happens that this kick ass school is my state school, so it was cheap, and I got a little scholarship money on top of it. Talk about bang for the buck. I did research in a professor's lab as a freshman working on a newly discovered method of building proteins. Not many 18 year olds get to do that, and I couldn't have done it anywhere else. The level of awesomeness of all my classes and available opportunities is, well, awesome!
However, I HATE the city my college is in. I hate hate hate hate HATE it. With a passion. It makes me want to kill people, and kill myself. It is filled with perennially drunk half-wits that seem to do everything they can to make my life difficult. There is nothing to do and nowhere to go. There is not a single dance club within half an hour's drive from campus. All we have is shitty bars and never ending house parties (which get REALLY old, REALLY fast, even if you like that kind of thing). My schools is consistently ranked one of the top "party" schools, and has been ranked #1 many times - the thing they don't tell you is that by "party" they don't actually mean "fun," they just mean getting really loud, rude, and obnoxious, puking in the bushes (or in my apartment building stairwell, whichever is more convenient 8)), and then passing out on the sidewalk or maybe if you're lucky, a nice patch of grass.
Any of the college-organized activities that pique my interest are pretty much unaccessible to me because of time constraints - when you're a double honors major, you don't really have the option of working with clubs'/organizations' schedules. I joined the campus chemistry fraternity (Alpha Chi Sigma - yes, I'm a girl; yes, it's a FRATERNity. We're co-ed), and that has been pretty cool. Lots of fun people, we throw KILLER parties, and it's great on your resume. But other than that, you could nuke the entire place and I wouldn't shed so much as half a tear. The place is a shithole filled with idiots.
