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In my experience YMMV, financial aid always comes late, meaning too late for bills due the current semester.</p>
<p>Mike</p>
<p>It’s one thing if you’re already at the university, but when you’re a prospective student and have three other universities to consider, you cannot wait until AUGUST to make a decision. You can, however, wait until May. I’m more complaining about not having a definitive answer than maybe not receiving notification until August.</p>
<p>When I was a prospective transfer student, Michigan State didn’t tell me whether or not I was accepted until like June, even though I applied in like October, was a match, and nagged them regularly after the end of April. I had a good laugh about it since I’d been accepted to Umich in February, but otherwise it would not have been funny.</p>
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I do have to say that I didn’t have any trouble with U-Mich :). I never received any conflicting answers, which might mean that the information was laid out for me correctly in the first place. I was informed early on about the financial aid website and checked it regularly until my package showed up! 
It was the first to come, too! Too bad what seemed generous at first turned out to be nothing special…</p>
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<p>So when someone becomes belligerently argumentative without cause, I do consider them belittling my intelligence, as if I haven’t given due thought to what they’re saying and don’t have legitimate reasons for believing what I do.</p>
<p>Like I said, I prefer not judging people until they make a fool out of themselves and render their company an annoyance. Just because someone is dumb doesn’t mean they have to babble belligerently. Someone without wisdom on the given matters can just as easily be good-natured and shut his/her mouth. </p>
<p>You can take the approach of thinking some are so dumb that they don’t know better than to be belligerent and babble nonsense, but frankly I think it’s a matter of courtesy to avoid this, not intelligence.</p>
<p>I also want to add this:</p>
<p>How much of what is said on Urbandictionary or other college review sites is actually 100% true</p>
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I guess whether it’s a matter of courtesy or not depends on the motivation for argument in the first place. What reasons might someone have for openly disagreeing?
-to obtain the satisfaction of being correct when others are not
-as an act of generosity (no one has the responsibility to teach anyone anything, unless it is their occupation)
-to establish dominance
-to act in accordance with one’s morals
-to promote/defend a desirable policy/lifestyle/behavior that requires a particular belief among the majority of people</p>
<p>Anything else? Some reasons are more selfish than others.</p>
<p>I was a bit taken aback by some of the answers, but I suppose that’s the nature of the beast. Each person has their own POV, too bad a greater variety of people aren’t providing their input. </p>
<p>Instead of trying to understand why some folks have provided their answers, why not get back on track and just focus on what surprised you most …</p>
<p>Mike</p>
<p>How professors at reserach universities could care less about students and teaching and instead worry more about their research and getting grants from the federal government/institutions.</p>
<p>How one campus (although not as well known) provided a better college experience then another well known state school (with d-bags at every corner).</p>
<p>Gotakun, openly disagreeing is fine. Babbling in hostility is not. Usually when two people who fully understand each other disagree, they will get something out of the discussion, and hopefully consider each others’ points. That qualifies as courteous behavior.</p>
<p>I find that when people babble their own point over and over, they’re frequently assuming something is obvious, which really isn’t. Or they’re assuming the other party is making an obvious error, which they aren’t necessarily doing.</p>
<p>“How professors at reserach universities could care less about students and teaching and instead worry more about their research and getting grants from the federal government/institutions.”</p>
<p>That is not the experience I’ve had at umich at all. I actually prefer the research professors because, in my experience, they have seemed much more passionate and knowledgeable and excited to teach me.</p>
<p>I don’t mind people asking dumb questions if they honestly want to learn. Better to ask and be enlightened than just be dumb forever. That’s what college is about, after all.</p>
<p>I go to a college for women, so I was surprised that I actually met a lot of guys and found an amazing boyfriend within the first few months. Didn’t see that one coming, I didn’t even have to experiment with my sexuality.</p>
<p>I also am surprised by how much I do things on a self voluntary basis…I make my own time to study and do work now, it’s not like in high school where teachers and parentals control study habits and assignments. A lot more academic responsibility.</p>
<p>I’m surprised that I completely morphed from being a humanties’ student to majoring in Neuroscience.</p>
<p>Another thing that surprises me is how intelligent and driven everyone here is. There are days when I feel like a complete idiot in comparison, but I have to step back and realize who I’m comparing myself to.</p>
<p>Oh, and for the Case Western people, I have a friend who goes there and she loves it social life and everything</p>
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<p>Dumb questions don’t bother me either. </p>
<p>Some of the worst questions are when the questioner is asking them in attempt to show off. If the question actually has an answer that provides a lot of insight, then it is a good question, but in my experience, most of these questions don’t have that.</p>
<p>If you want to talk with the professor about some small point that’s mostly irrelevant to whatever we are trying to learn, do it on your own time. Don’t let lecture grind to a halt while you are worrying about some small unimportant detail.</p>
<p>In the same vein as the number of “dumb ****s…” I was surprised by how smart the smartest people I met are (why aren’t these people at MIT or Harvard), and how dumb the dumbest people I met are (why aren’t these people in some sort of day care center). I’m not referring to dumb questions (unless they’re asking about high school level math questions in honors math classes).</p>
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<p>Oh good because I’m going there in the fall :D</p>
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<p>So, so true.</p>
<p>The fact that quite hours where ignored</p>
<p>I now hate skateboards with a passion <em>imagin laying in bed at 3am hearing, click click clik</em></p>
<p>Some food in the dinning hall is questionable and isn’t worth risking your life on.</p>
<p>Forks are rare, come early to get one.</p>
<p>Being on the 4th floor can be good and bad at the same time. Good would be we got no bugs, bad would be the hick when the elevator was out.</p>
<p>Maintencence people do a very crappy job at snow removeal…</p>
<p>^wow, that’s like unimaginable at my school…</p>
<p>"The fact that quite hours where ignored</p>
<p>I now hate skateboards with a passion <em>imagin laying in bed at 3am hearing, click click clik</em></p>
<p>Some food in the dinning hall is questionable and isn’t worth risking your life on.</p>
<p>Forks are rare, come early to get one.</p>
<p>Being on the 4th floor can be good and bad at the same time. Good would be we got no bugs, bad would be the hick when the elevator was out.</p>
<p>Maintencence people do a very crappy job at snow removeal…"</p>
<p>sounds like my school. lol</p>
<p>I want to add that i was surprised by the amount of people who complain about doing horribly on a test and end up getting a B on it and ultimately an A.</p>
<p>Also, unrelated to that, there are still the unpopular kids and the people that everyone makes fun of still at college</p>