College

Anyway, I got about two years till I decide to go to college.

I was wondering if college is all it's cut out to be.

This might sound stupid, but can you relly do whatever?

By the way, I want to take up Advertising as my major.

What do you mean with can you really do whatever?

Well, if you live on campus, pretty much you can do what you want, I guess...a lot of my friends have left for college in the past week and are telling me stories of all the parties that are being thrown and general insanity that goes on (I, sadly, am stuck going to a local college so I don't get to go anywhere...I'm getting the hell ouf of here ASAP though!)

BUT -- partying and be able to run wild isn't everything, you also have to keep up with your school work and stuff. I don't know about other places, but in the US you can get kicked out if your grades drop too low. Me, I've been waiting to get to college all through high school. I start in a month, though, so I'll tell you how it goes then ✅

(Advertising? That's cool...I'm going into Graphic Design 😄)

nope you can't get kicked out if your grades drop too low (atleast no directly) however, the governement pays a serious amount of money for each student that is enrolled at college and if you fail a year two times, the government will not pay that amount of money again, meaning you have to cough it up and that's a reason to try and get every year in two times.

Wow...here if your grade drops too low for too long a time, you can get kicked out. And from what I've heard it's pretty hard to get back in if you're dropped due to your grades.

Of course, in the US the gov't doesn't spend squat on education...

lol

maybe because you guys get more grades then us, we only take exams 2 times a year, once in january and once in june, if you fail too many courses in either you can retake those exams in august and september dunring summer holiday. If you're grade drop too low here, you just can't pass.

We have exams in December and May usually (at college, in high school it's usually January and June)...and I don't know about retaking exams (and let's hope I'll never have to find out), but I know that for the most part you can retake a class that you fail.

And don't even get me started on education funding...I've been spending the last month filling out financial aid forms and crap...

ooh I don't think I'd qualify for financial aid in belgium, maybe in the US, but then again education is pretty cheap in belgium (and for those who can't afford it it is almost free) education that is open to everyone it is a nice idea.

It's damn expensive here! The uni I want to transfer to is about $23,000 a year 😑 so I've been filling out financial aid and scholarship stuff much of the summer. I got some random $1000 scholarship...which is pretty cool 😄

damn girl
and that 23.000 is only to get you in or does that include lodging and books and stuf?

That includes tuition, room and board, and an approximation as to how much books and other supplies would cost...for me it'd actually be a bit higher since I'm going to study art, and good art supplies don't come cheap.

okie I'm gonna take a small guess at how much I'd have to pay
10*150 (10 months at 150 euro's a month for my appartment) something like 750 euro's a month for tuition and probably around 250 euro's for my equipment and now the tricky part 26*40 (26 weeks of class so I'm at my appartment 26 weeks 40 euro's a month for food and stuff) comes to 1040 which would make a quick total of: 3540

I'm guessing about 4000 a year it costs for me to go and study.

...makes me wish I lived in Europe...this first year I'm going to a local college, and not even going anywhere (I'm living at home still), and it'll still cost me about $5000, and that's just tuition and books.

What are you studying btw?

I studied Modern History last year, but as of next year it's gonna be Political Science

Ooh, political science, cool...I LOVE politics. I'm actually considering taking that as my minor once I transfer to the big uni.

lol as a minor I'm gonna take foreign politics or European Union dunno yet

Heh, mine will be so random...Major in art (concentration on graphic design)...with a minor in political science...can't get any more random than that, I think.

College sounds like hell.

Financially.

lol well in the US it is in Be it's pretty ok