Transferring to a much lower ranked school?

[schaden]

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What you’re getting, depends on who you ask. It could be to get a good job, a good education, to expand your knowledge, meet new people, take intermediary steps to living on your own – or you could get nothing out of it. It really depends on you, what do you want out of it?

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<p>Like I said, if it was completely up to me, no way would I go to college. It my opinion it is just a giant day care system. If I wanted to compromise, then I’d go to college to have fun and be care-free. But the situation I’m in right now is apparently for my own good for the future.</p>

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My point is that life isn’t only about being happy. The greatest people in history sacrificed their lives for causes greater than their own happiness. When I am happy, I know that at some point it will diminish and turn to either sadness, anger, loneliness, compassion or some other fleeting feeling, which will then give way to another. I will never chase happiness, and even if I did – I would look for it within myself, not my surroundings.

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<p>Life is about surviving and breeding. Maybe happiness could come a close 3rd?</p>

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If you think everything is relative, you’re just na</p>

[purduefrank]

<p>Bud, I don’t mean to be rude, but you’ve got a thousand miles to go before you know much about anything. Lame or not, you’re the one here complaining. All the girls I want, I get. All the things I want to do, I do. I’m here because I want to be, not because mommy or daddy wants me to be. While you’ve followed the little yellow brick road all your life I paved my own path, paid my own way, and learned what I have. The system you think you’re enslaved in isn’t a room with locked doors, you’re just to scared to figure that out. </p>

<p>If you knew anything at all about girls you’d know that most of them are exactly like you, chasing a feeling, either love or happiness. Again, I don’t need to be rude, but don’t dance around with me… If you want someone to validate your thoughts here, it won’t be me, and I would venture to say that anyone who does is as lost as you. </p>

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Like I said, if it was completely up to me, no way would I go to college. It my opinion it is just a giant day care system.

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<p>How is it not up to you? The ONLY thing in your way is you. Drop out, buck the system, tell mom and dad you love them but you’ll be back in a few years. Tell em you’ll keep in touch.</p>

[schaden]

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Bud, I don’t mean to be rude, but you’ve got a thousand miles to go before you know much about anything.

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<p>You’re probably right. I’d actually much rather be travelling the world right now than studying at college.</p>

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I’m here because I want to be, not because mommy or daddy wants me to be. While you’ve followed the little yellow brick road all your life I paved my own path, paid my own way, and learned what I have. .

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<p>My parents never pushed me in high school, never forced me to do extracurriculars or even take AP courses.They were too busy with their own lives. My mom especially didn’t want me to come to this school. My dad pays for in-state tuition (which is relatively cheap) and sends me monthly checks for food while he works his job in another state. </p>

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The system you think you’re enslaved in isn’t a room with locked doors, you’re just to scared to figure that out.

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<p>The system is a way of life, and I don’t think you can argue that pretty much everything revolves around money.</p>

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If you knew anything at all about girls you’d know that most of them are exactly like you, chasing a feeling, either love or happiness.

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<p>Are you saying I’m a girl? Or that guys don’t have feelings? Or that guys don’t want to be happy or experience love? </p>

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How is it not up to you? The ONLY thing in your way is you. Drop out, buck the system, tell mom and dad you love them but you’ll be back in a few years. Tell em you’ll keep in touch.

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<p>That’s not exactly what I meant. I meant that if I was living on impulse (or even close to impulse) then I would definitely not be here right now.</p>

<p>I’ve been raised thinking that school and work is pretty much the end all be all of everything and is partly the reason why I’m here right now.</p>

<p>I’ve come off to confrontational and I apologize, I know you’re just trying to help. I’m just trying to figure out what I want right now.</p>

<p>Perhaps if I take some time off from school or do a co-op job then I will suddenly see how lucky I am and value my college education a lot more.</p>

[Treetopleaf]

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I’d actually much rather be traveling the world right now than studying at college.

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<p>The USAF or USN or USA would love to have you. Free travel. GI Bill to finish college when you’re commitment is done. That’s what my under-motivated engineering student husband did, then returned to and finished engineering school.</p>

[cyclone10]

<p>schaden, if you’d rather be traveling the world then go ahead…do something, your attitude is poor and needs to change.</p>

[schaden]

<p>What is this a job interview? scoff</p>

<p>I don’t have nearly enough money to travel the world (actually I have no money).</p>

<p>And also I was nominated for the USAFA but decided not go mainly because of my “poor attitude” wasn’t really aligned for there (I prefer the term free spirit).</p>

[G.P.Burdell]

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G.P. Burdell, while I appreciate your insight, I don’t agree with your dog eat dog climb to the top darwins theory approach to my situation. Perhaps someone with a little less “bias” could offer me advice on how to apply being at Georgia Tech directly to my situation.

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<p>There’s no Darwinian approach. If you’re not having fun at GT, it’s either because it’s not possible to have fun at GT or because you have a problem. Many people have fun at GT, therefore the problem must be with you. Go ahead and transfer to UGA. But what happens when you get there, still don’t have fun, and then can’t find a job at graduation?</p>

[schaden]

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There’s no Darwinian approach. If you’re not having fun at GT, it’s either because it’s not possible to have fun at GT or because you have a problem. Many people have fun at GT, therefore the problem must be with you. Go ahead and transfer to UGA. But what happens when you get there, still don’t have fun, and then can’t find a job at graduation?

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<p>GP I know you get butt hurt when people say anything remotely bad about your precious college but GT has a lame social scene.</p>

[G.P.Burdell]

<p>Even if that was the case, you’re in the middle of Atlanta and you can’t meet people or have a good time?</p>

[schaden]

<p>I don’t know, the times I’ve gone outside of campus I’ve just seen hobos or business people.</p>

[fatpig554]

<p>I totally believe your problem is within you.
Its a psychological state of mind, and transferring to another University will be a waste. But it will be YOUR waste, so I’m not going to try so hard to talk you out of it, since I think what you really want is attention.</p>

[schaden]

<p>fatpig, I know how it looks. I’ve sidetracked from being open to receiving any kind of advice that anyone has to offer. And that’s mainly because I don’t think there is anything left to say. People go to college to have good lives afterwards. In other words, people go to college because it looks good on their resume, and corporations and small businesses like people who have a good work ethic and follow through. Therefore it is in my best interest that I stay here so I can get into a corporation or business or even consult so that I can support myself and/or a family someday and do so comfortably. People on here have pointed out that I should take a break and or get out in the real working world to see what kinds of benefits there are to “working with the system” and I plan to do that. </p>

<p>One of the first posts had all this information in it and all of my subsequent posts were really just reflecting my personal opinions about the college system.</p>

[husk1es]

<p>To be honest, I think you are being pretty stubborn. Everyone has given advice, but instead of taking the advice, you counter them back. </p>

<p>You say you want opinions on what you should do, but to me, it seems you already have your mind made up. So if you aren’t going to listen to what everyone has to say and take it into consideration, why are you still posting?</p>

[G.P.Burdell]

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I don’t know, the times I’ve gone outside of campus I’ve just seen hobos or business people.

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<p>I don’t think anyone could possibly make the case that there’s nothing to do in Atlanta. So the problem isn’t that there’s nothing to do outside campus, it’s that you don’t know where to go to find something fun.</p>

<p>It’s the same thing on campus. There are fun things to do, but you don’t know where to go or who to meet. That’s not the school’s problem.</p>

[schaden]

<p>The case I was trying to make is that fun is very scarce, albeit it exists. I’d say stress is more abundant than fun is.</p>

[G.P.Burdell]

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<li><p>Fun in Atlanta is not scarce. What do you do for fun? I guarantee it exists, if not within walking distance of campus, at least within a MARTA ride. If you go to a place like Athens, you will have far fewer options. Why do you think so many UGA, Clemson, and Auburn students come to Atlanta for weekends?</p></li>
<li><p>Fun on GT’s campus is also not scarce, except certain times a year (summer, dead week, etc). It’s also not hard to find: on campus concerts, parties, movies, CRC activities, student center activities, etc. There’s actually a good amount of on-campus activities even compared to other much larger colleges. And that’s just school-organized activities, there are plenty more if you go to people’s off-campus housing or fraternity/sorority houses. Then of course there’s the events in Atlanta and some of the neighboring college campuses. Tech has shuttles to Emory and MARTA will take you to Agnes Scott (though it’s usually the Agnes Scott girls that come to Tech).</p></li>
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[chococookie]

<p>I know what you mean. It seems like all we’re supposed to do in life is go to a good college, get a good job, raise kids, then die. Where’s the “living” aspect of all that? There’s way too much stress for the sake of honor and prestige. Sure, it feels good to feel respected in society. Sure, you will probably have an easier time finding a good job, but money does not equal happiness.</p>

<p>I would say get out of there if you wanted, but you’re already halfway through so you might as well stick it out. Just make sure the grad school you choose is right for you.</p>

[hadsed]

<p>You keep making excuses… you’ll never make it through GT with that kind of attitude. Why is everyone here telling you the exact opposite of what you’re trying to convince us of? You’re making stress for yourself, and you’re not finding fun in things because of you.</p>

<p>It is a bit tiresome when someone asks for advice, and 10 different people give it to him yet still that can’t be the right answer… If you think partying and women is all there is to life, then that’s your priority. May not be good for you in the future, but you’re not thinking about that now, immediate gratification is much more important to you. Your life is yours, not ours.</p>

<p>[shrug]</p>

[schaden]

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1. Fun in Atlanta is not scarce. What do you do for fun? I guarantee it exists, if not within walking distance of campus, at least within a MARTA ride. If you go to a place like Athens, you will have far fewer options. Why do you think so many UGA, Clemson, and Auburn students come to Atlanta for weekends?</p>

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<li>Fun on GT’s campus is also not scarce, except certain times a year (summer, dead week, etc). It’s also not hard to find: on campus concerts, parties, movies, CRC activities, student center activities, etc. There’s actually a good amount of on-campus activities even compared to other much larger colleges. And that’s just school-organized activities, there are plenty more if you go to people’s off-campus housing or fraternity/sorority houses. Then of course there’s the events in Atlanta and some of the neighboring college campuses. Tech has shuttles to Emory and MARTA will take you to Agnes Scott (though it’s usually the Agnes Scott girls that come to Tech).

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<p>I’d much rather not go into specifics and reiterate my generalization that it’s hard to find fun at Georgia Tech.</p>

<p>edit- I see you’re trying to point out potential things to do and have fun with, but overall I just feel this place is “culturally” different from what I prefer.</p>

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You keep making excuses… you’ll never make it through GT with that kind of attitude. Why is everyone here telling you the exact opposite of what you’re trying to convince us of? You’re making stress for yourself, and you’re not finding fun in things because of you.</p>

<p>It is a bit tiresome when someone asks for advice, and 10 different people give it to him yet still that can’t be the right answer… If you think partying and women is all there is to life, then that’s your priority. May not be good for you in the future, but you’re not thinking about that now, immediate gratification is much more important to you. Your life is yours, not ours.

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<p>I was kind of hoping for someone to come up with an argument that would go against mine and completely blow it out of the water. Then I would be like “Oh, yeah, hey that makes sense, now I can start working harder at this school for whatever you just told me about”.</p>

<p>Instead, pretty much all the advice I’ve gotten I’ve already known, and is 100% the reason I’m here right now. I’m here so I can have a good life (and apparently a better life compared to a lower ranked school) after I graduate. Do I think that’s worth sacrificing my “immediate gratification” that I could be getting somewhere else? I dunno, but hopefully after I get a job somewhere or take a break from school to go explore stuff I might see things differently.</p>

[saraleigh117]

<p>You could always just say to hell with money, hitchhike to the Alaskan wilderness and live in a broke down bus. Let me know how it goes.</p>