Reed College! It's a tiny liberal arts school in Portland, Oregon. It's really hard and really crazy.
College comes directly after secondary school, and it is pretty much a requirement for most non-awful jobs. Grad school is more specialized -- like you go to a certain grad school to be a doctor, another one to be a lawyer, another one to go to businessschool -- and more rare. It happens after college.
The Australian version: I got into university, to do a bachelor's degree in Teaching-Secondary/Arts
That meant that I had to do one teaching class, and three arts(humanities) subjects in year one, two and two in years two and three, and three education and one arts in year 4. And I would have ended up with two degrees at the end of the course (it was a double degree course). And within the arts subjects I had to pick one stream (English, or drama, or language, or fine art etc) to specialise in.
Is that similar to America?
I should point out that I'm a dropout. Double degrees = very hard.
The American system does not actually make that much sense.
I applied to the college, as a whole, and I'm going to get a bachelor's degree in something -- I don't have to pick my specific major/ degree until I'm there -- sometimes I can change it as late as junior year. The specific requirements for each degree change according to the college, but liberal arts colleges (like the one I'm going to), tend to have broad requirements that have little to do with your major.
For example, even if I major in political science, I probably will have to take math classes. For some things, like education and nursing and engineering, and for certain colleges, you do apply for a particular major.
It's really complex and doesn't actually make any sense.
the campus is totally gorgeous - the school buildings and ODB are gorgeous. the one year i lived on campus i lived in macnaughton, which was...less gorgeous, but whatever. it was the smoking floor, so i didn't complain.
i know, the woodstock part cracked me up. you know how reed is kind of at the bottom of that hill on woodstock? one year for renn fayre this boy peter filled the bed of a pickup truck with bouncy balls, drove to the top of the hill, and opened the bed and let all the bouncy balls bounce down the street. and then there were a bunch of us standing at the bottom of the hill throwing them back up again...oh, good times.
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(Portland FTW. It's like my second (third?) home, yo!)
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Where? (And also -- the American system confuses me, what the hell is the difference between grad school and college?)
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College comes directly after secondary school, and it is pretty much a requirement for most non-awful jobs. Grad school is more specialized -- like you go to a certain grad school to be a doctor, another one to be a lawyer, another one to go to businessschool -- and more rare. It happens after college.
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What course are you doing? (Are they called courses? My understanding of the American education system does not exist!)
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That being said, I'm probably going to major in political science or history. Or maybe international relations!
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The Australian version:
I got into university, to do a bachelor's degree in Teaching-Secondary/Arts
That meant that I had to do one teaching class, and three arts(humanities) subjects in year one, two and two in years two and three, and three education and one arts in year 4. And I would have ended up with two degrees at the end of the course (it was a double degree course). And within the arts subjects I had to pick one stream (English, or drama, or language, or fine art etc) to specialise in.
Is that similar to America?
I should point out that I'm a dropout. Double degrees = very hard.
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I applied to the college, as a whole, and I'm going to get a bachelor's degree in something -- I don't have to pick my specific major/ degree until I'm there -- sometimes I can change it as late as junior year. The specific requirements for each degree change according to the college, but liberal arts colleges (like the one I'm going to), tend to have broad requirements that have little to do with your major.
For example, even if I major in political science, I probably will have to take math classes. For some things, like education and nursing and engineering, and for certain colleges, you do apply for a particular major.
It's really complex and doesn't actually make any sense.
Double degrees sounds very hard, man.
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Have you had the campus tour and all that stuff already?
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Thank you! I'll be sure to be bitching about it all next year!
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i know, the woodstock part cracked me up. you know how reed is kind of at the bottom of that hill on woodstock? one year for renn fayre this boy peter filled the bed of a pickup truck with bouncy balls, drove to the top of the hill, and opened the bed and let all the bouncy balls bounce down the street. and then there were a bunch of us standing at the bottom of the hill throwing them back up again...oh, good times.
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Congratulations! :D
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