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[curvedsky]

I was reading Prep (excellent book, btw) when I suddenly thought about transferring schools. I had pretty much shelved that idea, since how can you turn the deal of CUNY Honors down + the academic prestige of various honors upon graduation, but reading about the protagonist in Prep made me think about how actually unhappy i am here. I know

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[narfiepoo]

i'm always proud when i say i went to hunter
but then i realize that no one gives a shit here.

and it's cool. that's the way it's supposed to be. i think you need to go somewhere where hunter is not the center of everything.

i couldn't believe i'd ever give up new york, but i'm glad i did. it makes me appreciate the city much more, and the separation forces me to focus on the here and now, and now what used to be/could have been.

go to a school you love. or one that you could learn to love.

[cool_mcsuave]

That was really articulate, especially about HCHS. I've heard a lot of people say that lately, but not that well.

A lot of people (family and older kids in college) say that you start to realize you like where you are after the first year, like over the summer you start to miss things about school and then realize it's actually where you want to be. I don't know if that's true, but applying to transfer in the fall would give you that chance to wait and see.

Good luck, man.

[zeitgeisha]

Yeah, I know exactly how you feel, especially about what associating yourself with a college says about you. I've pretty much dealt with it by making 2 friends and otherwise not really associating with the honors college (well, besides ben, fanny, twitchy , but they dont count >_>) I spend most of my time at Columbia and, sadly enough, the high school, trying to deny the fact that I go to Hunter College >_>. It really sucks, but I *have* to stay here because my family is poor. If you can get out, kudos to you, but then again, if you go to a grad school, then undergrad wont matter? I dunno, but good luck ^^;;