Simple survey about colleges, for students and graduates?

What college did you/are you attending, what was/is your major, and are you happy about the decision?

Simple survey about colleges, for students and graduates?
Ferris State University, Elementary Ed, and yes.
Reply:I go to Colorado State, I'm a business major, and I love it! College is the best thing ever.
Reply:I will answer this one and everyone will laugh ...but you can't argue I am educated!





Northwest Missouri State University - 1997 BS in Psychology. I liked this school. Small but not TOO small with plenty to do on campus and a rocking D2 football team! Also, the only school I still go to homecoming at.





University of Nebraska at Kearney - 2003 BAE in Social Science Education. This school was ok. I really liked my professors. I can still go back here and walk into a professors office and they know me by FIRST name. I still keep in touch with the professors here too. I think that is VERY important in any school. I can not say the same thing about NWMSU....At NWMSU I had more of a social life but I was younger too.





University of Kansas - Masters in Education (in progress). I am enjoying being a graduate student in a highly respected and well established research university for my graduate degree. The professors are world class and I love the challenge. I definately like the amount of freedom I am gettin at KU coupled with guidance and direction. The professors are accessible which is also key!





I hope that helps. I do plan to go on to get a PhD but have not decided if I am going to stay at KU or go elsewhere.
Reply:I attended Northern Arizona University, then transferred to The University of New Mexico.


I chose to emphasize three areas of liberal arts: music, psychology, and education. I earned a Bachelor of University Studies degree.





Later, I earned a Master of Arts degree in Community and Agency Counseling within the College of Education at U.N.M.





Yes, I am happy with my choices.
Reply:I started at Rutgers University in its School of Engineering in the Fall of 2001. I quickly discovered that the engineering curriculum was too rigid for my taste, so I transfered to Rutgers's liberal arts Rutgers College, where for the next two years I bounced between Computer Science and Physics before deciding to do a double major in them both. I graduated last May.





As to whether I was happy with my choice of university and major, the answers are respectively not at the time but eventually yes and definitely. As to Rutgers, I ended up going there because I flubbed my college admissions process, so that's the only place I got in. In NJ, Rutgers (the state uni. of NJ) doesn't have a great reputation, which in retrospect I feel bad about. By the time my second year started, and certainly in my last two years I was very happy that I ended up at Rutgers. It has earned a place in my heart. As to my majors, I chose subjects that I liked and was good at, so for the most part it was a good time (there were some courses that you had to get through in order to get to some of the more juicy stuff, but in the end that's alright).





Right now I'm in grad school studying physics (which is, if you need it, yet more evidence that I like physics because if you don't like physics, grad school for it would drive one to suicide I'm sure... :) ). The university is the University of Pittsburgh. It's a lot of work (let me rephrase, it's a *lot* of work), but there's a lot to like. There's something of a fellowship of suffering with your fellow grad students, and you're doing something that should interest you greatly.





So, to sum up, I have to admit I've been lucky. I haven't always done the best job of things I could have, but still managed to stumble into doing things that I enjoy and which are interesting. I can't say I had a master plan (because I never do, and tend to just wing it... :) ), so I've got someone looking out for me up there.
Reply:Started off at University of Western Ontario with a BSc in Biology. Hated that school because is was too big, not enough attention from professors (how do you learn in a class of 1000 people???!!!), and had one course where 2 profs taught, got a 52 on the first exam from the first prof and a 96 on the 2nd exam (marks were divided up 50% midterm, 50% final)...how is that right having 2 profs who are so different in their teaching styles that i could go from almost failing the class to almost perfect?!?! Because of that I left, took 3 year off and moved to Florida. Then when I got my head back on straight, I went back to Canada, finished my Honours BSc at Brock and was VERY happy I did this. Why? Because Brock was a much smaller school, where I got to know about half the biology faculty personally so I could get help if I needed to. WORD OF ADVICE FOR ANYONE OUT THERE....SMALLER SCHOOLS ARE WAY BETTER IF YOU NEED MORE ATTENTION!!!


Because I did so well at Brock (my marks went up from a low B average to a mid A) I was able to go to Graduate school. Now I'm attending McMaster University and doing a Masters in Biochemistry. Not sure if I like the 'biochemistry' part, although i'm mostly working with bacterial proteins, however...grad school although sounds scary...IT IS! haha, but you don't have to take courses like a mad person...like you do in your undergrad.


Hope that answers your question!