I’m 24. This is towards the end of my first year of college and I’m enjoying all of my classes a ton. But really aside from my one class in an auditorium with lots of people, my other classes are mostly quiet, aside from myself and a few others. The professors ask questions such as offering examples of things, or seeing if we remember concepts/terms/etc. I usually wait for anyone else to say something and if they don’t, I do.

At the same time though, I don’t want to be the only one who talks. I guess I just wish more people in my classes would speak up so I had more to go off of and the class would feel more diverse with discussion

Anyone else have this problem, for lack of a better word? How did you deal with it? I know it’s a strange question.

Let me give you some background:

Four friends and I are looking for an apartment off campus, and we would have the chance to save a lot of money because there is a large difference between these apartments and on-campus dorms.

All other 3 of my friends have the means to pay the rent for the apartment for the most part (either parents are helping them or have saved up money). One of my friends was receiving a loan from the government, the parent plus loan I believe. He is currently looking to see if there is any way for him to transfer it over to possibly pay off the loan to the rent portal.

He is not sure if it would transfer over, and doesn’t want to have to take out a private loan. Does anyone have any ideas as of what to do or any good loan programs for college students in NY looking to transfer it for rent?

Open to any ideas, and let me know if you need any other information!

Steve Jobs、Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg.

I’m an incoming student and I’m not trying to be dumb I swear but are classes held in the relative vicinity of the corresponding college? For example, a creative writing class would only be held in a LAS hall?

The very first thing to do is breathe. I promise you that as long as you have done the 24/25 FAFSA, things will work out at some point. I am seeing a rise in students freaking out even more due to the fact that some FAFSAs have finally began processing. However, even those that started processing may not be done yet since the Department of Ed detected yet another error for anyone that reported parent assets.

Please understand that everything about the 24/25 FAFSA is an absolute mess for every single college in this country. We are just as lost and in the dark as you. We do not have answers for you regarding things being fixed and about when your FAFSA information will get to us. I am seeing more posts and getting more students in our office because of some FAFSA's being processed. Let me first make sure yall understand what "being processed" means.

Being processed means absolutely nothing in terms of your school having your award package ready. Whenever a student does a FAFSA, the government must first process it. Under normal times, this would take around a few days to a few weeks. Completely up in the air even at best. Once the FAFSA's are processed, this just means that the Department of Ed will be sending those to the colleges you listed on the FAFSA. This is where the timeline will depend entirely on your school and be different for everyone under normal situations. Schools will have their own set schedule of when they download FAFSAs and process them and then notify you of either missing documents or your award letter. This can take days or weeks, completely up in the air.

With this 24/25 FAFSAs, the Department of Ed only started processing them about 2 weeks ago. All this means is that the government has started sending FAFSAs to schools. However, pretty much nobody has been properly packaged or received any notification from college. This is due to many reasons but primarily because its an absolute cluster and theres even errors with those that have gotten processed.

So if your FAFSA is processed, that does not mean your school has any info about your financial aid yet. Your school will E-mail you your next steps. All you have to do is be patient. Emailing them will do NOTHING. This year more than any requires you to be patient and keep an eye on your E-mails. And remember that your school CANNOT help you with any issues that you are having directly on the FAFSA such as website errors or errors within the FAFSA. It may be that your college cant even complete your financial aid profile until April/May/June, etc. I promise you any financial aid deadlines that your school is used to will not be applying this year if they are coming up. We are at the mercy of the Department of Ed.

Hi, I am trying to mentor an ESL student. I am not in hard CS, I do computational bio stuff. The student is pursing a CompSci BS and applied to internships, but got none despite have great grades. I realized that he had no LORs. I am trying to help him get some right now. My background is bio/biochem so I do not know if there is different etiquette to getting LORs in CS or if maybe they are not needed for internships, which is what he told me.

I am planning to share these tips found on the web with him ( 1 2 ) but they mostly mention LOR guidance for graduate degrees, so I think he may be right. Please let me know if there is more I should share, or if I am out of the loop and LORs aren't as common in CS when applying to internships.

My current classes don’t transfer over. I really don’t want to but I’m finally committing to switch to a better college for me in the fall. I have thought long and hard of it and the pros outweigh the one hour commute each way.

If I withdraw, I won’t be a student until September which sounds like a long time to not be in school. I know I shouldn’t care, but I know my peers will notice (small classes) that I withdrew from all of my courses. I do feel bad about dropping because our classes are group work and I know it will impact my group-mates.

Do I owe my peers an explanation? Most of my classmates are so noisy and will text me the second I miss a single class. Can I just drop my courses and ghost the non group partner classmates?

Would you feel bad about not finishing courses despite knowing they won’t transfer over and you’ll have to still retake them at another college? My current classes were covered by a scholarship so I’m not losing any money. I’m just losing time but it’s only half way through the semester. So is it better to get out now before midterms next week?

I have chronic insomnia and everything prevents me from falling asleep at night, sometimes for 3-4 hours. The college I'm going to has dorms that are just one room, and my parents want me to live in them but I don't except they've already paid for housing. My bad sleep ruined my grades in high school and I really don't want to have that happen again in college, because I know I'm capable and I hate looking like I'm lazy or dumb. My parents dont believe me and dont listen to mental health stuff in general, they just tell me to try harder. What can I do to not have to live in a dorm? Can I just walk out as a last option? I can easily get a job and a cheap apartment, I'm cool with that. I don't want to get in trouble for something as trivial as not wanting to live on campus

I'm a senior In high school, and just had my parents cry in front of me saying they couldn't afford to send me to my dream school. I knew it was a stretch, but I told my parents junior year to not let me apply anywhere too expensive, I didn't want to go through what I just did. The worse part is that I got a yearly $24k scholarship. I thought that would make it feasible and honestly so did my parents.

My parents had recently bought property and a new car and I know it wasn't their intention (they told me that they still had my Uni costs in mind) but I am so angry at them for not holding back more money for me and my future. And any money I've gotten from working, birthdays, etc, I've saved for Uni, even when my parents said I didn't have to worry about that. I've done everything I could do.

I've gotten into my state school which is where my brother went, so I've visited and gotten a feel of the campus. I just don't feel anything for the school, like, it doesn't feel like somewhere I want to go or really could thrive; comparing those visits to the one of my dream school, my state school doesn't feel like where I want to go. But I know now thats where I am probably going to go. I am so heartbroken, I've never felt this way before.

I am stilling waiting to hear back from two universities, both in Canada, but I wont know until sometime in April, but honestly, I have no hope. The other schools I applied to I either got waitlisted (northeastern: somewhere too expensive I just know) or I was pressured to apply there by my parents (schools that I don't care for). So if I have to go to a school I hate, might as well be the cheapest option. I know the phrase "you'll love wherever you go" but everyone has a school they know just wouldn't work for them, and it seems only those are my options right now. "You can transfer", I don't want to have to start over somewhere else.

I am so scared and depressed right now. This isn't how I thought my break would be, and I don't know how I am going to get through these next few weeks with everyone knowing and being happy about where they are going. I feel I disappointed my younger-self who worked so hard to get scholarships like the $24k one, only for it to not even matter.

Basically my really ambitious ass wants to expand my horizons, and go beyond campus to make friends from other colleges. But I’m not sure where to start. I’ve heard ppl say they’ve used Tinder but I’ve never used it and wouldn’t know what outcomes would come from it. I’d be open to it but if anyone has experience making friends off apps like that let me know!

But yeah if anyone here has had the same thought and has experiences I’d really like to hear about it :)

I fear I’ve dug myself into a hole here. At the beginning of the year, me and my three roommates (all freshmen) got along great. Two of them are VERY antisocial, and stay inside all day to play video games and sleep in until 4pm any day they get the chance. Me and my other roommate are very social, and love to go out to occasional parties and hang with friends. It’s a pretty decent mix, if we want a night in, we all hang together, if not, just me and one roommate go out. It worked for a while, but now, things have changed.

I’ve noticed that the three of them have gotten closer. That’s great, but I am now consistently left out. My once very social roommate now prefers to be a recluse and none of them ever want to do anything unless it’s sitting at their computers playing video games. I can’t help but feel lonely when I’m with them, because even conversations have turned painfully surface level.

They are under the impression that we are going to move out of the dorms and into an apartment/house next year. For the sake of my well being, I just can’t live with them anymore. How do I break it to them without making it seem like I don’t want to be their friends anymore? I fear they’re going to take this as a termination of friendship. They are VERY non confrontational.

(They also have put ZERO effort into looking for housing for next year. They think I’m the only one looking and are fully comfortable not contributing.)

Hi, I got rejected by most of my private colleges or got bad financial aid from them, and I’m worried about my future.

I want to major in physics and do great research but I’m afraid that I’m going to be limited in what I can do now.

Does anyone have advice for this stuff?

As a freshman right now, just wanted to complain about the grading for one of my quarter classes, haha. I got a 100 on my first calc midterm, 98 on the second, and 93.5 on the final, and my final grade was a 3.9. I got 100 on all the other homework assignments, too. I'm still happy with it, of course, but man, I thought that would've guaranteed me a 4.0. I guess everyone in the class did really well.

Suggestions.

I am a current high school senior, and I recently got my results from the Avant Stamp 4s language test, and I got a score that would lead me to getting 16 credits towards french classes. I am not that interested in doing more french learning, although it probably would improve my french. 16 credits would get me the most way through a french minor, but the college I am enrolled into has a requirement where I would have to take 9 credits at said college to get a minor.

Am I close enough to where I should just get it, or should I find a different minor that I am actually passionate about even though it would mean more classes I would have to take?

I feel kinda bad about posting this, but I was sorta proud of myself for doing well these past two quarters. I'm a first year engineering student, and my classes were mildly difficult, but my cumulative GPA right now is a 3.96. I've gotten 4.0's in everything except for calc I and II, which I got 3.9 and 3.8 respectively.

I'm kinda bummed I didn't ace my math, lol, but I'm really happy with my results so far. Here's to hoping I can keep this up, haha.

My friend’s birthday is coming up and I’m wondering if anyone has some creative ideas on how I can make their day special. We won’t be able to step off campus, so what I have planned so far is decorating the office where I’ll have their cake, gifts, and favourite snacks/drinks ready and then order their favourite food. I know I already have a plan, but it just seems so basic and I’m wondering if you had some suggestions?

Ok, so I just got accepted into a couple of colleges but looking at the finances I don't know if it will be ok for me to attended. I only have savings to cover the cost of one year in college, even with the merit scholarship I received, I will be around 180k in debt. On top of that I want to go to law school.

Fasfa is being an ass, but considering my family income I'm not sure I'll receive any benefits.

So that's around 6 years of school I need to cover myself. Theoretically, if I get a well paying job through my career and get a partner also with a well paying job, is this amount of money doable?

My parents never went to college in America so they don't know what it's like, but they do have well paying jobs (at least above average).

Please help me out :)

So I'm in a bit of a pickle because as it turns out, one of my professors was instructing us wrong for our current assignment. The class is advanced composition and the assignment is a literary review. Personally, I've never written one of those before so I was really starting from nothing. Usually I don't struggle with writing, but I am with this one. So I go to my school's writing center in the library and ask for someone to look over it because it looks like one giant annotated bib (17 sources ugh). She's looking over it and explaining and I show her the parameters for the assignment and she tells me that the instructions are for an annotated bib, not a lit review. So she emails my prof and I guess they're duking it out about if the assignment is actually a lit review or not.

The problem is it's literally due on Sunday. I technically did exactly what the directions said to the best of my ability. It's an online class so it's hard to ask questions. And I haven't heard much back from either professor on clarification about this assignment so I'm not sure what to do.

FL, 27m, stuck at my job(Property Insurance with known company) for 7+ years and every other position with my experience is lesser or lateral without room to grow.

I have the funds, mental capacity, and motivation to go back to college (would be transferring credits from 7 years ago to WGU) for a bachelor's degree. I would be speed running it doing the transferable credits from study and sophia for the available general/core classes I need and once enrolled to WGU my goal is to complete within 6months. I already have a spread for each breaking down the total time and cost. I thoroughly enjoy technology and literally anything involving developer, cyber security, etc. has my interest. I would also like highest chance of "future proofing" with the more sought-after degree. I've seen mixed perspective about WGU and I'm curious for the non-WGU subreddit affiliates some unbiased opinions. Which brings me to my questions which are:

tl;dr

0. IT or CS?

1. Why?

2. Your thoughts about WGU?

3. Why?

Any and all input is greatly appreciated Thank you!

Recently I’ve failed 3 of my exams over small stupid mistakes and moments where I lost my focus. I’m not sure what to do anymore. I feel like I get so stressed before exams, I mess up even the things that I know. I’m a first year student and my major is considered to be one of the hardest in my country, and all these mistakes have me questioning my intelligence and whether this major was even made for me. I really don’t want to quit, but the results are definitely discouraging. Compared to a lot of my peers, I feel like I’m falling behind.

Everyday I (sophomore) use my cogsci major to violently question the meaning of life. I take classes that will help me figure out why we suffer, how we model systems to map the world, how we measure time, existential lens stuff. I honestly thought this was enlightening at first, but now it's just depressing. Every day I think about how we really don't have free will, we conform to match the in-group and to be accepted by our friends. Is it just gonna make me more depressed to sink into the cogsci route or psychology to learn how humans are messed up from our parent-child dynamics? Am I just internalizing and viewing this in a deeply personal negative lens and need to seperate my identity from my studies?

Coming into college, I was on the law/humanities track, but switched sophomore year into psych/cogsci which is CS & biopsych heavy. I did not like my intro polisci classes. I've always been stronger at writing & speaking than math. I am so ass at coding but it is invigorating and exciting to learn, but no way can I compete with SWE & actual CS majors. Should I just go back to writing argumentative essays in legal studies or try out English? I'd give philosophy a go but it's very logical reasoning heavy at my university? Am I just depressed lol? Thanks for any advice, cheers and I hope your college day is going a lot better.

I have 1 f, 1 d, 1 c and for the last class this teacher doesnt grade things for some reason at least not where the students can see them but its an engineering class and the main thing being graded was a presentation which me and my team did well on and some essays she doesnt grade which are alright like b or c worthy so like for this class at least a b or a. The thing im worried about is the f and d how badly will that affect my gpa and i know what to do now so i can actually do well next quarter but will these grades put me on academic probation?

its a community college if that helps

I know people probably ask this question a lot. I am a 2nd year student at a school in Virginia, and have lived in Virginia for more than 2 years and even moved to Virginia before starting college. I moved in with my aunt. I have a license in Virginia, have had multiple jobs, and pay my own taxes here as well. My parents don’t claim me on their taxes and like I said I do my own. I understand that I am not an independent student in the eyes of fafsa, and still have to include my parents information. However is there a way to be considered independent by my schools standards so that I may qualify for in state tuition. I genuinely think I qualify and have good merit, the whole dependency thing however, throws a wrench into my plan. Can anybody help me understand what the registrars office is really looking for, what they look into, and the best way to present my case.

I'm sure other people have had this struggle, and I'd love to hear from you.

I'm so conflicted; I'm about to be a 4th year in my Biology B.S. program, and I love the subject. However, I've been an artist my whole life. I chose to go into STEM because I heard so many times that artists don't make any money. And now I'm graduating soon with an undergrad degree that no one wants to hire for. Grad school is an option, but I don't want to spend too much time/money and feel like I can never do art again. Art is more than just a hobby for me, it's everything. I can't just give it up. What have other people done in this situation?

18F. College was my escape from a dead-end, middle of nowhere hometown and constant bullying that made my life hell. Now that my first year has come to an end, changes with the FAFSA application are going to prevent me from getting financial aid for next year.

It's uncanny and heartbreaking just how easy it was to not have enough money to attend university after the summer. I can't take out any more loans, and I can't cover the difference out of pocket. I've exhausted my options. Dropping out felt like something I would never do.

Saying goodbye to all of the people I met and loved this year feels like the end of the only happy period of my life. I'm a first gen student with no prospects for the future whatsoever when I go back home. I do think it's the end of the line for me. But this past year was a hell of a high note.

Appreciate your time in college, guys. You don't realize just how easily it can come to an end.

I totally get that FAFSA is such a mess this year (2024-25) but mine is out of review and it's processed. It doesn't say I need any additional information, yet none of my colleges have sent me emails saying they received it and are starting my financial aid package. Is this happening to everyone? I'm just getting worried is all.

So I wanted to make this post, cause I have scene a lot of people asking if mid 20's is to old to be graduating and what not.

Last night it hit me hard that I am finally graduating at 36 years old. I was at my schools commencement fair last night and once I got my picture taken and saw the card with my name on it and my degree, I was just flooded with the feeling of accomplishment and relief.

I graduated high school back in 2005. I went to community college right away and flunked out. I was 18 and all I cared about was partying and girls.

Flash forward 5 years and I am now dating my then wife and we have a 2 year old. Thought of going back to school, but bills were piling up and ended up picking up a 2nd job at a pizza place to just get to a place at least our bills were payed.

3 more years we are doing a little better I am still working 2 jobs and just reapplied to go back to school when bam wife is pregnant now with out 2nd child so I put off school again.

5 years later finally climbed the corporate ladder flirting with idea of going back to school but it was in gods plan to yet give us our 3rd (and last) child so I just worked, finally down to one job because I worked my way up and was making decent money

2 years after that covid hits, 75% of the company I work for got laid off (luckily I was essential enough to stay aboard), my wife got laid off from teaching ,everyone is in lock down, I am now nervous cause of the lay offs I decide its time to get my degree.

I reenroll into community college, take all my transfer credits (outside of 2 gen ed classes I didn't know about and I am now taking them in my final semester, 36 years old with a bunch of 18 year old's doing first year course work lmao) graduate community college with just a general studies associate degree, and transfer to a 4 year university.

Initially I was going for operations management degree because I have been in manufacturing my whole life, but something happened to me while I was getting ready to transfer. I ended up not wanting to do manufacturing because I didn't want to live in constant fear of something happening to whatever plant I am at, so I took a shot on myself and switch majors to Graphic Design so I could free lance, have a back up plan I can work on solo wise, and start looking for a marketing job which is what I wanna do more than the purchasing I do now.

4 years later from covid lockdown and I graduate next month in April!

It is possible to go back whenever your ready, I wasn't ready until I was 32. Being 36 now I am going to finally graduate, my kids and wife get to see me walk, and my children learned hard work does pay off.

So I guess if TLDR I just wanna say, take a chance on yourself if you think your ready to go back! You can do it, the first step to reenrolling is the hardest and biggest step you can take!

For Context: For a long time I've told myself that I want to be a Psychiatrist, and I know that means I have to go to med school, and you know what, I told myself that was fine because I really do enjoy learning and school. (I know I sound naive ASF) Here's the thing, my real interest is using the opportunity of college as a chance to pursue and learn things that I've loved all my life such as Psychology which currently is my major, but I also wanted to pursue English because of my love for literature, I thought why not double-major? In a way Psychology and English can compliment each other. Then again, maybe my head is a little too high in the clouds. Double-majoring while being pre-med would mean full utter commitment to my academics, it also means no time for extracurricular activities which is a huge deal breaker for me. Like everyone else, I wish I could just go to college and study everything I want without it being too much but i'm not a genius, one can only take in and remember so much information. Basically, I've been thinking of a more grounded and easier to achieve plan that involves just majoring in Psychology while being pre-med. To be honest, that sounds sad to me. I know it sounds a bit ironic to say I want to learn so many things but then not like the sound of pre-med classes on top of a double major, but that's just how I am. It'd be cool to hear what some of you think and if any of you have a recommendation I'm happy to hear it. I've been playing around with the thought of maybe doing a single major and a minor or a single major and two minors, anyways, that's all.

So today I got accepted to take a biotech course in high school but I have to take 2 out of the 4 science courses to take the course. I am also planning on being a doctor so I want to take Health and human Services as well but I have to choose either on of them but I majoring in Biochemistry in college so I wanted to ask should I still take biotech if I majoring in biochemistry in college and which classes down below are the best for me for biochemistry.

Also here are the Science Classes I want to take: - AP Environmental Science

• Chemistry Honors ( required)
• AP Physics 1 ( Not required but I heard that it is best to take all 3 sciences)
• Anatomy and Physiology Honors ( Best to show colleges)

(I can choose only 1)

• Health and Human Service Honors ( 2 credits)
• Biotech Honors ( 2 credits)

I also keep in mind I am going to be a junior when I take the classes