Evil Genius

Cal State Long Beach currently an Industrial Design Major... Anyone from Long Beach??

To2fPic wrote:Cal State Long Beach currently an Industrial Design Major... Anyone from Long Beach??

i live in PV which is like 5 minutes from Long Beach, but ill be going to UCI in the fall.

Cool that'll make us like so-cal buddies then

To2fPic wrote:Cool that'll make us like so-cal buddies then

yah ill be an hour from anything in socal when im at newport next year.

where you live right now?

Exactly where it says on my avatar.

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geez im fucking stupid....


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Utah Valley State College

My school is called "Sint-Jan Bergmanscollege". omg this sounds really dumb. But it aint a college, it's more like middleschool. He got a really crazed system in Belgium.

Since I'm 17 I can't go too school with a car, b/c in Belgium, you need to be 18 years old to have a driver's license. So I go by bus, which sucks

Devil_Dante wrote:My school is called "Sint-Jan Bergmanscollege". omg this sounds really dumb. But it aint a college, it's more like middleschool. He got a really crazed system in Belgium.

Since I'm 17 I can't go too school with a car, b/c in Belgium, you need to be 18 years old to have a driver's license. So I go by bus, which sucks

Same for me here in germany. But I'm 19. I'm just not in the mood to get my drivers license.

Busses suck.

*Hands shaking* Must have car.

I have been driving since I was 15 and alone since 16, and god I think that was too late. Granted you can start drinking earlier, you lucky bastards, though our drinking age never stopped me.

McMaster University, Biomedical and Electrical Engineering (3rd Year in September).

I had a tough time choosing universities, so I decided to stay at home and save the 9k-11k on res fees.

That means I'm still using the same computer from like 4 years ago (P4 1.7gig) It's served me well even with the 3D modelling software, and whatnot but I mostly use it for reports, SPICE and programming. You really do not need a laptop at all. Universities are completely equipped with computers for your use at every building practically (at least up here, it's like that) and campuses usually have at LEAST T3 connections and provide massive e-mail accounts so that you can send stuff to yourself. On my campus they encourage use of flash drives. It's usually best to use university computers anyway since they have all the necessary licensed software with the hardware to support it. It's only when you get home that you'll need to use yours, so a desktop is way more economical and useful.

At my uni, parking is really damn expensive and hard to get. We have bus passes included in our tuition so I mainly use that or get rides from people. It's never absolutely necessary to get a car, unless you plan on commuting greater than 30 minutes to get to school. I'd suggest trying alternate routes like busses and carpooling for the first few weeks to see if that's doable for you first.

One thing, if you can find used books that are the same edition from outside sources, ie not university, you can get it generally for a lot cheaper. And make sure to look into what you're paying for in your tuition, for example, mine includes basic dental and 80% on drugs etc.

Good info to know thanks!! ^^

seriously, i didnt know there was dental plans and such...

as for me in the fall, il be on campus for my freshman year. So transportation wont be too much of a problem for me.

Yeah most universtities have some healthcare type plan. Also I am pro laptop, mainly because I live off campus and most of my campus is all wireless so I can sit down with a big table my laptop and spread my books all over it. If you are at a computer lab you don't have that kind of space around the computer. If you are at a table in the library by yourself you can have all kinds of space and a good internet connection. Also a laptop can do what a desktop can so why get a desktop. If you want a monitor and stuff jsut get a docking station and then you can have all that nice and fancy stuff.