<p>What's an A.A?</p>
<p>A.A. is an associates in applied arts degree (2 year program). The one thing about transferring with an AA is that pretty much all of your credits are transferrable. You may get elective credit for some of your courses, but the whole degree gets transferred which is not always the case if you go to a 2 year school and you don't complete the degree.</p>
<p>In addition you would always be able to say that you have an associates degree vs a person who drops out in year 3 or 4 and will have nothing to document for it (being all or nothing).</p>
<p>Kenshi, Congrats on you going back to finish your education. Sounds like you got a really priceless lesson that will serve as motivation for you to complete your degree.</p>
<p>Good luck and all the best to you</p>
<p>Ah, I thought that's what it meant. Thanks.</p>
<p>Biggest mistake was drinking so much I had to get my stomach pumped. </p>
<p>Nothing like waking up in the hospital lobby with your clothes cut off and a catheter inside of you. The worst part was I didn't have my insurance card on me so the 'rents got a nice bill for $900.</p>
<p>Other than a bad day after and the fact that I'll never drink another jager bomb...it wasn't that much of a mistake.</p>
<p>My biggest mistake was going to a university that my parent force me to go to. And study like hell getting 4.0 in the first semester in the freshman yr, ending up not having any real friends for pretty much the rest of my college career.</p>
<p>Biggest mistake was that I didn't learn to find a balance between academics, social and extracirricular activities fast enough.</p>
<p>shagging two girls in the same sorority</p>
<p>Lol@ Shagging two girls in the same sorority.</p>
<p>This thread is pretty interesting. How do you guys suggest someone balance academics and a social life in a healthy manner? I'm going to a school this fall where the academics are extremely rigorous, and I don't wanna be holed up in the library all the time and miss out on making some great friends.</p>
<p>Not immediately switching out of my 8-person suite when I found out they were all binge drinking jocks. My room was so unbearably disgusting and dirty all the time that it severely affected my academic performance, and I became quite depressed. </p>
<p>Schools need to be more sensitive when assigning rooms: what people put on those forms are sometimes more serious than colleges seem to believe.</p>
<p>Probably I would say not knowing what the hell I was doing or what I should have been looking for during the whole college search process, but technically that's before college actually starts. Went to look at too many schools that I pretty much knew I'd probably never consider before I even got there and didn't bother going to see too many of them that I might've liked. Makes it harder when you're restricted to only about 1/3 of the country but I had no control over that so I guess it can't really be my 'mistake'. Picked my school for its location and pretty much nothing else, which ended up being too close to home and people I knew from home, so I started out not necessarily having to make new friends and then when my old friends inevitably ditched me I got left with a school I didn't like full of people I didn't know. Oh well, it's almost over.</p>
<p>That reminds me...one of my biggest pieces of advice is be as OUTGOING as you can when you move into college. First semester freshman year is a time to make tons of friends. Noone has any friends yet and everyone is in the same situation as you; everyone is trying to find friends. Be outgoing and put urself out there and you'll eventually find people you like a lot. Make sure you don't confine urself to just studying like that person above me said because like he said, everyone is finding their friends at that time. I found great friends and I hang out with them every night and if some random kid suddenely started trying to hang out with us it would be awkward for a while since we already have a group. If that person did in the beginning when we were all becoming friends it would be a different story. So make sure to be outgoing and make as many friends as you can becuase eventually you'll find some REALLY good friends and then you'll also have lots of people to say hi to and talk to while you're around campus. Just remember to balance friends, work, and ECs. All should have a place in your life...but especially work and friends. Try to do great in both realms and you'll be happy as can be lol. Best of luck to everyone starting college soon!</p>