<p>Reasons for the first transfer from a school in Pennsylvania back in 2006
1. It was full of rednecks.
2. It was full of extreme skating kids.
3. There was no sense of unity as everyone who attended the school went home on weekends and put the school down constantly.
4. I wanted to go in a liberal arts direction rather than a technical one.
5. To add to the lackluster social life, I was forced to live off campus in a crappy apartment where it was impossible to meet anyone.
6. Student body was 70% male.</p>
<p>Now reasons for transferring from my community college
1. I hate living at home.
2. Commuting is a huge pain.
3. Most of my friends are away at their schools and the ones that aren't are busy with work.
4. I want the "college experience".</p>
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<li>not challenging enough</li>
<li>weak student body</li>
<li>i dont want to stay in the middle of nowhere</li>
<li>school offers insurance and accounting in which i have no interest at all</li>
<li>i want to learn business, especially in a biz school</li>
<li>i want large campus</li>
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<p>I went to comm college, so I kind of have to transfer if I ever want to finish! I actually really ended up enjoying myself overall. I am kind of sad to move on. There were many other classes I would have enjoyed taking if I had more time. I actually almost took a couple of extra classes I didn't need just to cram them in, but decided to stick to the necessary stuff. I try to make the best of any situation, and I needed to be here for now. I think I made it into a great experience. </p>
<p>I guess if I had to think about it though, the things I don't like are:
1. Generally low expectations from students, because everyone has different backgrounds and outside demands. The honors program was really a big saving grace for that, the instructors seem to expect SO much more out of me and I am grateful for it. I feel like it helped ready me for the next step.<br>
2. Losing touch with interesting people regularly. A lot of people seem to just stop going in the middle of the semester, and at the end of every semester there are always so many people moving on.
3. People having so many outside obligations or local friends so aren't as interested in the social side of things.
4. Not really "set up" for certain things like research. I conducted my own research last semester and was bogged down to unreasonable levels in the approval process and had to beg for provisional approval just to proceed, so now I'm having to go through it again so I can submit those findings to something. I am readying some documents for a larger scale research project this semester too and will probably get hit with the same red tape. Whee. </p>
<p>Number 4 is probably the biggie for me. I was ready to pull my hair out last semester. Every time I get sad about leaving, I should just think about that. :p</p>
<p>All the academic reasons (academic atmosphere, student body, interdisciplinary approach to knowledge, etc.....) are listed one my applications, but I guess the big motivation is this:</p>
<p>I can already predict my life here. Graduate in two years while still living at home, find a middle management job afterwards, move in with the girlfriend (whom I love but certainly don't see myself spending the rest of my life with), promotion, business school at night, buying a condo in Hell-city suburbia, mortgages and fetuses, etc....</p>
<p>And while that's the American dream for some people it scares the crap out of me (It's a freaking Dean Koontz novel by my books. I'm hyper-ventilating just writing this ****). So in many ways transferring to New York, New Haven or Palo Alto is the best exit for me to escape the 'Suburbia by 2015' highway I seem to be on right now.</p>
<p>I don't want to become one of those guys with a gut, that barbecues on weekends and considers watching TV to be foreplay to monthly sex with the wife. I'm a cartoonist hobo and indy-music snob, who binge drinks, plays street hockey, is obsessed with hot air balloons and thinks he can start his own advertising agency and make it big. I refuse to grow in any other direction. </p>
<p>And if I ever start to consider golf as an activity I want someone to shoot right in the face.</p>
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I don't want to become one of those guys with a gut, that barbecues on weekends and considers watching TV to be foreplay to monthly sex with the wife. I'm a cartoonist hobo and indy-music snob, who binge drinks, plays street hockey, is obsessed with hot air balloons and thinks he can start his own advertising agency and make it big. I refuse to grow in any other direction. </p>
<p>And if I ever start to consider golf as an activity I want someone to shoot right in the face.
<p>haha stoneimmaculate, niiiice. it's funny that that is the one school my school does offer. the sorority-like alumni social networking. i'm not a fan.</p>
<p>i want a city. and i suppose having boys around would be convenient.</p>
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Snap. Aren't you clever? I especially like the italicized 'such'. What witty repartee you can dish out.
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Clever? Who's being clever? I was merely expressing my amazement at how much of a free spirit you are. I mean, you're a binge-drinker and a cartoonist hobo? Damn.</p>
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Clever? Who's being clever? I was merely expressing my amazement at how much of a free spirit you are. I mean, you're a binge-drinker and a cartoonist hobo? Damn.
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<p>Well to be fair, I was first going to go for "internet douche" to make up for my shortcomings and project my insecurities, but at the end of the day a drawing pad seemed less time-consuming. I however applaud your commitment to the title. Bravo.</p>
<p>Now if you'll excuse me I have to go shave my head to really fully display my anti-conformist ways (you know how that goes...). Feel free to have the last word in this needless exchange; I trust it matters a lot more to you. </p>
<p>All the best and good luck with your transfers. Sincerely :)</p>
<p>-I'm honestly so entitled to think I deserve to go to school with people other than idiots
-I didnt even apply to any schools I wanted to go to out of HS out of sheer disillusionment - I went to one of the hardest college preps in the country
-I know more about the classes than the TAs do
-I am sick of my college "friends", and I wouldnt miss them one bit if I moved
-I hate how this college takes attendence for every single class, I might as well plan my grade down half a letter before I even register for it</p>
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<li>STRESS. Seriously. I was so stressed out from having to study so much (and still only getting mediocre grades) that I had a nervous breakdown. And it's not just me. Everyone here is stressed out all the time - it's an epidemic. Yes, I know stress is expected, but not to this extent. I don't necessarily want to go to an "easy" school, just one that isn't such a pressure cooker. I love learning, but I would actually like to learn something, you know, a bit useful.</li>
<li>I was miserable, I had no social life, and the counseling services were terrible (I guess this is sort of expected, but I figure if I go somewhere less expensive I'll be able to afford a shrink that isn't a total hack).</li>
<li>Oh, and I do sort of miss men.</li>
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<p>The fact that it’s a community college where the highest degree I can complete is an AA, I’ve basically exhausted the courses relevant to both my majors and my interests, and I’m still living at home.</p>
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<li>The school I’m at is a commuter school - I want a campus community</li>
<li>The classes I’ve taken in the last semesters either haven’t been challenging or we’ve been graded on whether or not we agree with the professor.</li>
<li>There is a really big core curriculum, which I would like to get away from.</li>
<li>There is no social world on-campus, other than greek life, which in itself is a joke (I started to pledge a sorority last year and really regretted it)</li>
<li>I live in my own apartment in the middle of Brooklyn. Bored out of my mind most of the time and really lonely the rest of the time. No fun :(</li>
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<p>Hundreds of other reasons but I don’t want to complain :P</p>