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Huge Decision
« on: October 23, 2007, 07:01:02 pm »
I am currently deciding whether or not to transfer back to my old college, Hampden-Sydney College. I came to A-CAP last year because I thought the A-CAP degree would be worth its weight in gold after graduation. The problem is that I gave up the place where all of the best memories of my life took place. I gave up my friends, I gave up the teachers who changed my life. My grades at A-CAP are below what they were at HSC and Ive sunk into the deepest depression, last year coming close to the end of it all. I had tossed around the idea, hypothetically, of going back to HSC. However, now it seems like something that is on my mind everyday. I have until Dec 1 to apply of transfer. I don't know if theyd overlook of performance here and accept the fact that I made a wrong decision (given the kind of people who work there I think theyd be kind and forgiving enough to forgive my error. After all they readmit honor code violators, etc). Whether I stay here or go back, I will still have 2 semesters of college to go. HSC is significantly cheaper than A-CAP as well. Any suggestions from you folks?
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Re: Huge Decision
« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2007, 07:14:56 pm »
Go back to your old school. Read your message and pretend someone else wrote it. It couldn't be clearer. Also, ditto what Ash said.

I used to be an undergraduate student advisor, so this is a professional imaginary internet person opinion.
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Re: Huge Decision
« Reply #2 on: October 23, 2007, 09:13:48 pm »
The location your degree is from may matter for your first job out of college.  If they're deciding between the kid just out of Harvard and the kid just out of Commuter State Tech U., guess who's going to get the job.

Beyond that, once you're out in the real world... it's really not that important.  What you actually, you know, do in your work life will go much farther toward establishing your professional credibility than where you got your undergrad degree from.

Agree with the prior fake Internet friends:  if your total life experience is going to be enriched by going to Hampden-Sydney, then go back there dammit.  You'll have the rest of your life to look back on college; don't let that look back be one of regret.
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Re: Huge Decision
« Reply #3 on: October 23, 2007, 10:56:54 pm »
um, i would say go back.

did you know Stephen Colbert went to Hampden-Sydney?

Also: Clay. Clay goes there.
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Re: Huge Decision
« Reply #4 on: October 23, 2007, 11:15:07 pm »
No brainer.  I've got a great job at an industry leader - and I went to school at Humboldt State University (which is a great great school, but I bet has most of you going "Where?".  Look it up.).  My first job out of school (other than the T-shirt factory to pay bills) was with a start-up run by a friend's dad, which lead to bigger and better things within 2 years on the strength of the recommendations I got there.  I think you know what to do - the question is, will you change your username to HSC if you do?
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Re: Huge Decision
« Reply #5 on: October 23, 2007, 11:23:53 pm »
I know wher Humbolt is, that is for sure. 


it is where some of the best weed in the country comes from.  I know a guy who knows a guy, and, well, that is good.
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Re: Huge Decision
« Reply #6 on: October 23, 2007, 11:27:12 pm »
Go to whichever of the reasonably-fruitful options makes you happiest... and then let the cards fall as they might afterwards.

Don't make any dumb choices, of course, but if the options are roughly even in most other ways, a good tiebreaker is always whichever is the more pleasant temporary diversion on the path to the grave.

If most other things are even, go to the place where you'll have more joy for a year of your life.
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Re: Huge Decision
« Reply #7 on: October 23, 2007, 11:28:23 pm »
Somehow, I knew you would Keith :)

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Re: Huge Decision
« Reply #8 on: October 24, 2007, 02:41:20 am »
Yeah A-CAP it sounds like you want to go back and unless you really think the quality of your education is going to suffer (and it sounds like it's suffering anyway) it probably won't be a bad idea.
But you totally have to change your name.
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Re: Huge Decision
« Reply #9 on: October 24, 2007, 02:57:14 am »
Hrm.  With my recent travels, all I can say is that leaving a place does not leave depression behind.  I found myself far away from all my personal problems, with numourous dream-job style job offers but still went back to my hotel and felt like hell... so sad, so disenchanted.  So, I don't know.  Even if the depression feels like it's tied to a certain place, it's actually something you carry inside you.  Though it does sound like the situation you're in now triggered it, so who am I to say?
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Re: Huge Decision
« Reply #10 on: October 24, 2007, 04:19:34 am »
Quote from: jaydub on October 23, 2007, 11:15:07 pm
No brainer. 

I can't believe I used that phrase.  There's a radio commercial that bugs me that uses it.  If I start using "..in the history of mankind" regularly, I'll have to rethink my position on subliminal advertising.
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Re: Huge Decision
« Reply #11 on: October 24, 2007, 05:04:24 am »
Dude, you need to stick it out at A-CAP.  You do not want to be the dude that graduates from HSU.  That is just crass.
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Re: Huge Decision
« Reply #12 on: October 24, 2007, 05:56:03 am »
You mean HSC?  I'm the dude from HSU.  It has nothing to do with weird con-man on Hillary's speed dial.
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Re: Huge Decision
« Reply #13 on: October 24, 2007, 01:48:29 pm »
Go back to HSC.  In five years, nobody is going to give a fuck where your degree came from. 

Go back to HSC.  You are young and deserve to be happy. 

Go back to HSC.  If you can't get a good education at a supposedly prestigious college, the degree isn't worth the paper it's printed on. 

Go back to HSC.  The hardest thing you can learn in college is how to admit you made a mistake. 

Go back to HSC. 

I can take care of the display name change for you. 
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Re: Huge Decision
« Reply #14 on: October 24, 2007, 01:56:30 pm »
Here is a picture of a friend that graduated from A-CAP last year:

http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/1613/n805099348851502299jo8.jpg
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