<p>So I just got back from Columbus and I have finalized my decision to go to OSU (Sorry, Iowa, close, but not cigar...). If you want to stay away from your favorite Cantankerous (love that word), Arrogant New Yorker, I would stay clear of Columbus for at least four years.</p>
<p>My only snag with this whole college deal is that - please God, don't let me turn this into another one of "those" threads - I don't think I will be at home in a college environment. I like the real world. I always looked down on college as being fake and insular and populated by snot-nosed kids who don't have any concept of the real world or an appreciation for anything without an alcohol content. But I can't do what I'm doing now forever (well, I could, but I would like more opportunities and pay I guess, even if I do really like my job) and I think the value of a college degree would be very helpful. So I'll swallow the pill and go to school and make the best of it and I won't complain. That's another thing. College kids complain all the damn time about everything (see: basically every other thread in this forum), but never do anything to make anything better. They have a never-ending umbilical cord. I realize the hypocrisy of what I'm doing now, just in case you think this point was lost on me, but I think this is an important point of contention and not something stupid, like, whining about not being able to have a fondu set in the dorm room.</p>
<p>So I'll end it there. My main point, for those people who don't read paragraphs, is that I am looking forward to school and getting a degree and making the best of my situation, but I am sort of concerned that I will really not fit in with other students on an idealistic/worldview/maturity kind of level. I'm a very outgoing person, so I know I will be able to make friends with just about everyone, but I really like the work environment I am in now and hanging out with my coworkers. I think college kids will be too phony for me, a la Holden Caulfield...</p>
<p>Holden Caulfield is obnoxious. Well, he’s not real, but you know what I mean. </p>
<p>It sounds like you’re saying, “Well, I’m smarter/more mature than everyone in college, but I’ll deign to go since I want a better job.” don’t go in with that attitude. OSU is a big school, you’ll find people you click with. Or you’ll be sad and alone and buy a fondu set, I don’t know. </p>
<p>also, you’ll probably develop more of an appreciation for alcoholic beverages at Ohio State.</p>
<p>Lol… I’m sorry, but I had to stop reading when I read the word “snot-nosed” in reference to college kids. Snot-nosed ONLY refers to children like under the age of 10, who actually have snotty noses. I don’t know what impression anyone thinks they’re giving when they use “snot-nosed” in any other situation, but I instantly give said “snot-nosed” group more respect than the speaker.</p>
<p>In this case, I immediately felt like OP was LESS mature than the referred “college kids,” and believe he, MORE-so than “college kids,” has “no concept of the real world.”</p>
<p>@OP
If that isn’t the impression you were trying to give, maybe a different choice of words would have been better.</p>
<p>Also, OSU was one of my top picks. I’m still waiting on my financial aid package… If it’s like U-Michigan, which it probably will be, then I just can’t afford to go… :S</p>
<p>Yeah, kids who live off of their daddy’s credit cards in their own little suspended alcohol-induced fantasy world aren’t snot-nosed - and no, it isn’t a literal term, gotakun, if you haven’t heard it.</p>
<p>@ Manayy, this thread is like a public service. Don’t want any delicate/PC college confidential people to run it to me at their school and feel any worse about their lives.</p>
<p>I think your perspective going into college is really negative even though you claim that you are “looking forward” to school. If you come into college with this stringent mindset, you won’t have a good time. I like the real world too…I love my jobs more than I love my classes. But that doesn’t mean I don’t love college also. You have to take college for face value - it is a time that most everyone loves, drinkers/non-drinkers alike. College isn’t just about the divide of drinkers/non-drinkers, mature/immature, and complainers/noncomplainers. I definitely wouldn’t call the atmosphere of school spirit/college basketball/football games phony (you aren’t going to get that in the real world). Yes, parties are a part of college but are only a small part of what makes the experience fun. College is definitely not in the real world. But you can definitely make it a beneficial experience that you can take with you to the real world, and establish friendships of a kind you wouldn’t find anywhere else (and eventually, use these friendships to gain connections for jobs in the real world). Plus, your college has a vast amount of resources that you can’t really find anywhere else (in terms of career/networking opportunities, clubs/organizations, etc). Not to mention Ohio State is a great school</p>
<p>Manhattan, you ought to go in with a more positive perspective. Also, you could try and make friends with adult students… you might have more in common with them.</p>
<p>I’ve been wanting to say this to you for a while Manhattan75: Take the stick out of your butt. You always get on me for posting my stuff on here, and here you go putting something ■■■■■■■■ like this up. You are not better than anyone at all. You trash everyone on here who is going through something in their life. The fact that you need to realize that no college is perfect and no one is perfect. We all have are ish that we’re going through. Not one person in the real world or on College Confidential is perfect no matter what test score or what school they go to or what major their doing or their gpa. No one is better than anyone.</p>
<p>Now on to your issue. OSU has like a bigillion people (exaggerated). Take this stick out and meet some people. There are always people that like to have intelligent conversations about whatever at OSU. You will meet them. But as long as you continue to harbor this feeling of superiority to everyone, you will definitely hate OSU. And if you act like you do on here at OSU, you will be forever labeled as one of “those people” who everyone talks crap about because of the unnecessary way that they act. </p>
<p>My point is that you need to stop looking down on people as if their some 5 year old who needs you to be their teacher. Your situation isnt bad at all. Just go to OSU and enjoy yourself</p>
<p>I don’t believe I claim anyone is perfect, Magneto. I don’t go on CC for the purpose of pointing out people’s flaws. My point is that most of the problems that people seem to be ruining their lives over on this website are either petty things, or the poster is actually a victim of what I’m describing; it isn’t in their book of personalities to fit in with a lot of the nonsense and idiocy that most of their peers subscribe to, but people on CC never like to point themselves out as the issue because I guess that is just too forward. It is always “I can’t stand that others do this, that, or the other thing”. When you say others are the issue, like I am, suddenly it is a problem. I actually believe that most people on CC are smarter than the average college student, probably more intellectual, and probably more mature. Yet everyone on CC seems to have these big problems with their social lives. I don’t think it fits together. I think most people would agree with me, but they just wouldn’t like to say that they do. They like to complain a lot about being anti-social and whatever instead and fish for sympathy because they feel better about themselves while they open the next pint of ice cream.</p>