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[BigP50]

Go to Fairly Dick in Son. You can be a 16 seed in the big dance every year!

lol

 

[Capt. Serious]

for basketball?

Something Joey would school yo ass in.

 

[BigP50]

Something Joey would school yo ass in.

smh

 

[Capt. Serious]

smh

Joey..

 

[BigP50]

Joey..

if he was that short I would win 21-0.

 

[Capt. Serious]

uh oh joey, bigp smack talkin yo ass

 

[BigP50]

yeah boiiiii

 

[EnjoyYourTiger]

Joey has the advantage.

Because he's black.

 

[BigP50]

Joey has the advantage.

Because he's black.

always a huge factor

 

[EnjoyYourTiger]

always a huge factor

It was for me in gym class in high school.

 

[FirstTimer]

Went to Northern Illinois for a year and a half right out of high school. I had some offers from some smaller NAIA and D-III schools to go play basketball but passed them up.(REALLY long story). Majored in History/Education at NIU while I was there. Wasn't really happy with where I was heading personally and professionally so I transferred.

Changed my major to Mass Comms(concentration in Radio/TV broadcasting) and took a Cross Country and track scholarship they offered me(I ran in HS). Couldn't find a job in radio doing on air(it's nearly impossible to do) so I worked TV ad sales for a while. Hated that and left and now I'm working inside sales/customer support for a company.

Great company and love the people I work with. It's not what I envisioned myself doing but I still get to do radio work every now and then and I start coaching this winter. I'll be on a high school staff next year and long term might go back to get my teaching certificate to to teach/coach.


Some advice for all soon to be college kids.

1. Don't overlook going to a community college. It's a cheap and effective way to get all your general ed classes out of the way. It may not be the popular choice but you may be happy to not have the student debt you would have had when you graduate.

2. Community college summer and winter classes are your friends. Really easy(and cheap) way to knock out classes like speech, math, foreign language etc at a much lesser cost. That way you can spend more time at your university concentrating on your major classes.

3. If you aren't disciplined at home and in high school(study habits etc) don't even bother going away to a four year school. It will be a very expensive failure. You aren't going to learn study habits at college. If you don't have discipline it's way to easy to blow off class. Make sure if you're going away to school you have good study habits already ingrained in you and have the needed discipline to attend class. You can lie to yourself but not to the report card.

4. Be involved on campus. Some of this goes along with point #3. There's a club for everything...literally. Join intramural, write for the paper, join the campus radio show etc. There will be something to suit your interest. Especially at larger schools. Referencing point #3, much of our discipline in HS and on down comes from everything in our life having a structure. Especially scholastically.

You went to school, went to practice, came home, lather rinse repeat. College can throw that for a loop if you quit being involved. It can quickly become maybe go to class, don't have anything else to do, drink, eat, stay up to late, miss class, lather rinse repeat. Get involved early, create your own new structure(which takes discipline) and go with it. There's a reason schools look at your extracurriculars in HS. People involved in a lot of them are generally disciplined, structured individuals who are more likely to succeed in college, especially right away.

Stay safe, learn a lot, and have a fucking blast...and do a beer bong for me...and my poor poor liver.

 

[Got teeth? Keith doesn't.]

uh oh joey, bigp smack talkin yo ass

Shut the **** up you piece of white trash.

 

[beardown28]

BTW this shouldn't be in the bar as you have to be 21 to be in a bar...

 

[cubsneedmiracle]

BTW this shouldn't be in the bar as you have to be 21 to be in a bar...

shazzam

 

[EnjoyYourTiger]

Went to Northern Illinois for a year and a half right out of high school. I had some offers from some smaller NAIA and D-III schools to go play basketball but passed them up.(REALLY long story). Majored in History/Education at NIU while I was there. Wasn't really happy with where I was heading personally and professionally so I transferred to St Ambrose University.

Changed my major to Mass Comms(concentration in Radio/TV broadcasting) and took a Cross Country and track scholarship they offered me(I ran in HS). Couldn't find a job in radio doing on air(it's nearly impossible to do) so I worked TV ad sales for a while. Hated that and left and now I'm working inside sales/customer support for a company.

Great company and love the people I work with. It's not what I envisioned myself doing but I still get to do radio work every now and then and I start coaching this winter. I'll be on a high school staff next year and long term might go back to get my teaching certificate to to teach/coach.


Some advice for all soon to be college kids.

1. Don't overlook going to a community college. It's a cheap and effective way to get all your general ed classes out of the way. It may not be the popular choice but you may be happy to not have the student debt you would have had when you graduate.

Be careful though. There are a lot of schools, like mine (Loyola), that unfortunately are prudes when it comes to accepting to community college transfer credit. So if you get 60 hours in community college, make sure you discuss with the transfer student department at schools you look at to make sure you'll get at least 95% of those credits.

2. Community college summer and winter classes are your friends. Really easy(and cheap) way to knock out classes like speech, math, foreign language etc at a much lesser cost. That way you can spend more time at your university concentrating on your major classes.

Again, this depends on not only the community college, but also the university. I took general chemistry after my freshman year of college, but I couldn't take it from a community college. It had to be done at a four-year university.

3. If you aren't disciplined at home and in high school(study habits etc) don't even bother going away to a four year school. It will be a very expensive failure. You aren't going to learn study habits at college. If you don't have discipline it's way to easy to blow off class. Make sure if you're going away to school you have good study habits already ingrained in you and have the needed discipline to attend class. You can lie to yourself but not to the report card.

Pretty much. No one forces you to go to class and very few teachers take attendance.

4. Be involved on campus. Some of this goes along with point #3. There's a club for everything...literally. Join intramural, write for the paper, join the campus radio show etc. There will be something to suit your interest. Especially at larger schools. Referencing point #3, much of our discipline in HS and on down comes from everything in our life having a structure. Especially scholastically.

No lie. My first two years, I didn't do anything. I volunteered a little bit, but did very little on campus. This year I'm writing for the newspaper, I'm on my residence hall association, and am active in community life. I'm not even kidding when I say you will have more fun and meet more people if you don't just sit in your room playing NHL 10 and watching Sportscenter.

You went to school, went to practice, came home, lather rinse repeat. College can throw that for a loop if you quit being involved. It can quickly become maybe go to class, don't have anything else to do, drink, eat, stay up to late, miss class, lather rinse repeat. Get involved early, create your own new structure(which takes discipline) and go with it. There's a reason schools look at your extracurriculars in HS. People involved in a lot of them are generally disciplined, structured individuals who are more likely to succeed in college, especially right away.

Stay safe, learn a lot, and have a fucking blast...and do a beer bong for me...and my poor poor liver.

Added some comments in bold. FirstTimer is most wise.

 

[derosabomb]

1. Do drugs
2. **** bitches
3. ?????
4. Profit

 

[EnjoyYourTiger]

1. Do drugs
2. **** bitches
3. ?????
4. Profit

Girls, if you haven't already, have a lesbian experience and let some guys watch.

 

[FirstTimer]

Added some comments in bold. FirstTimer is most wise.

Very good additions to my post.

Good counselors are key to helping you know what took take, from where and if it will transfer.

Both schools my counselors were awesome and all I had to do was hand them the coursebook from the local CC they would look through it and let me know what I could or couldn't take based upon what I was looking at if it would transfer in.

 

[CODE_BLUE56]

1. Do drugs
2. **** bitches
3. ?????
4. Profit

3.

 

[Captain Iago]

Added some comments in bold. FirstTimer is most wise.

1 & 2. Very simple solution - earn an associate degree and it's covered. No worry about transferring credits then. Start at the university as a junior with the gen eds completed.

3. I had an asshole professor who actually passed around an attendance sheet (those are foolproof, ya know...) in a large lecture hall class. But yeah, it's your bucks.

Oh, as an aside, my counselors for my undergrad were good, too. Can't be too complimentary of 'em beyond that.