<p>Can you believe that the college we're going to go to will have an affect on our lives forever omg??!!!</p>
<p>chill the f*** out
it doesn't matter where you get your education, but how you use it.</p>
<p>Sweet Lord!!!! Settle down........</p>
<p>EDIT-It DOES matter where you get your education. I understand that it isn't the most important factor, but it's important.</p>
<p>Funny because as a college student I remember exactly how that felt. Now that college life is so normal, it's hard to believe that now that I actually escaped the restraints of home and high school - and that I'm living that dream from three years ago.</p>
<p>hehehe jeeze yall mean ok what till' you graduate hehehhe</p>
<p>z0mg. . . </p>
<p>Hehehehe. :)</p>
<p>Actually I'm not sure what college you attend really matters that much. The big one is who you marry. Not many people think about picking a spouse with the same attention to detail that they pick a college. And then the kids, ....</p>
<p>Where is this thread going? :p</p>
<p>there's a list published of the fortune 500 and where they graduated. i suggest you guys read it</p>
<p>baykin youre a tool post the link dont say there is something and not do the extra effort on posting the link...your post was as worthless as your life.</p>
<p>Wow, this thread came back to life right after I sat down again. </p>
<p>baykin: I haven't seen the list but I suspect most of them did not attend elite schools. "Harvard Schmarvard" by Jay Mathews has a lot of data on that subject. Still, HYP must be more fun to attend than your local state university.</p>
<p>all i'm saying is that it does not define whether you live in poverty or wealth</p>
<p>baykin, again i must say you are a tool</p>
<p>an elite school does define where you will be in life; however a ****ty school will lead you into the wrong direction but some success can come after you suck dick for coke...am i right?</p>
<p>Get over yourself. Lets see great things are when you are a few years into it and have no prospects for your future because you not good enough or rich enough or whatever to achieve your dreams. Lets see you bust your a** only to get your dreams, which you have held for years, shot down by some anonymous figure; just because you may have done one little thing wrong in your life. College is just like everything else, it doesn't matter what you know but whom you know. So unless your parents are rich, you may want to get an umbrella for when the powers that be, up on their high perch, decide to s*** on you and everything that you ever worked for.</p>
<p>JackD
I was alluding to this in my earlier post where I (humorously) said that who you marry is much more important than where you go to college. A person is in life for the long haul and setbacks when you are 18 years old do not seem so important later. Sometimes I will see a post saying that "my life will be ruined if I'm not accepted to ...". Another post will say that "I've worked my entire life to get into...". Maybe you can see how it sounds to an adult for a very young person to talk about having spent their entire life working on something. The OP is along those lines because it is emphasizing a very small part of a person's life and making it sound so important. You will get marrying, maybe divorced, have kids, get jobs, have people die. I don't mean to be demeaning about how you feel, but it really isn't that important if you didn't get into some particular college. There are other colleges, and your prospects for the future haven't really changed. Hey, try and win the lottery. There is a life altering experience.</p>
<p>is it still possible to have the "college experience" if you are off campus housing?</p>
<p>Most colleges require that freshmen live in the dorms. After that, it is common for people at a lot of colleges move into off-campus housing either because it is cheaper, more roomy, or they don't like dorms. There is no social chasm between dorms and off-campus housing at most colleges, but I suppose it would depend on the particular college.</p>
<p>Threats to the "college experience" are commuter schools and suitcase schools, but not off-campus housing. Of course, you can miss out on the "dorm experience".</p>
<p>to the OP... our lives are going to change drastically in the next few months; not because we will learn which "top college" we got into, becuase well be leaving home, living on our own, and meeting new people</p>
<p>i am going to live at home. cuz i live 5 min from the university</p>
<p>but i hope you will be paying rent to your parents</p>