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[Rye]

I love university. I just wish they were more organized - I would like to be able to have gone studying abroad knowing that the staff at both my home university and host university will be , and half the classes I'll end up taking won't be for my major, for gen ed classes, and overall, not the classes I signed up for in the first place. I rather like how in England, it's kind of impossible to end up not getting credit from classes, at your home university or otherwise, unless you fail your class.

I also hate how expensive university is in general. That's mostly me griping though, because when I return from England, when I go back to college, I'm going to have to live at home again until next year, because my brother will be starting university. Ughhhhhhh.

But overall, it's great. I like it most of all because a professor, for the most part, appreciates someone who asks questions and actually feels for the material taught, rather than the person who just scores buttawesome grades on their SATs and stuff. I hated that about High School.

You'd see all these kids with these amazing SAT II grades, yet I was the only who actually engaged with the material and got it far more than anyone of those robots did. What is the point of history and literature if you don't feel anything from it? The day the SATs are gone will be a happy day, indeed. And this is coming from someone who ended up doing pretty well on it.

And because they appreciate such, I'M the one who is getting the good grades now. Robot-students can suck it.

EDIT:

@ Jiro - Hahaha, compulsory education. It's ironic how in university, where attendance isn't generally compulsory, I'm much more likely to attend. I took off so many days in High School. In my last year, you'd get a sheet telling you how many days you've missed, and how many days left until you lost credit for that class. You wouldn't believe how many days I just skipped, just to squeeze out those last few days I could miss. xD

My senior year mantra was pretty much "I got accepted to university, why am I still here?"