Ask HN: Where did you go to college?
What are the alma maters of the HN viewer base?
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Did a stint at FSU but I was too immature and irresponsible to follow through with it, pissed a 200% scholarship down the drain.
Enlisted in the USAF, grew up a bit and attempted University of Phoenix Online (a joke), American Military University (part of the American Public University System, another joke), gave up on online school for a bit.
After separating I gave Troy University a try (their entire CS department is online) but they use Blackboard and I've grown to hate Blackboard.
I'll be giving Franklin University a try in the next few months - their interface is appealing, the program looks solid and they've received solid reviews.
I really enjoyed my little time at FSU - it seemed as if I was really learning something and I loved the "feel" of being on campus, hanging out between classes in breezeways with other students - it just felt like happy (if that makes any sense).
A lot has changed in the last 8 years though, family/life/work and going full-time on-campus just isn't feasible any longer. The majority of online schools disappoint me because the average student is a complete idiot with no concern for spelling/grammar.
I guess I'm a unique target for the online schools, since I actually want to learn something - not just earn a piece of paper.
Enlisted in the USAF, grew up a bit and attempted University of Phoenix Online (a joke), American Military University (part of the American Public University System, another joke), gave up on online school for a bit.
After separating I gave Troy University a try (their entire CS department is online) but they use Blackboard and I've grown to hate Blackboard.
I'll be giving Franklin University a try in the next few months - their interface is appealing, the program looks solid and they've received solid reviews.
I really enjoyed my little time at FSU - it seemed as if I was really learning something and I loved the "feel" of being on campus, hanging out between classes in breezeways with other students - it just felt like happy (if that makes any sense).
A lot has changed in the last 8 years though, family/life/work and going full-time on-campus just isn't feasible any longer. The majority of online schools disappoint me because the average student is a complete idiot with no concern for spelling/grammar.
I guess I'm a unique target for the online schools, since I actually want to learn something - not just earn a piece of paper.
University of Maryland (College Park) - Go Terps!
School of Hard Knocks
I love posts where people get to talk about themselves.
Oh, and: University of Maryland (both College Park and University College).
Oh, and: University of Maryland (both College Park and University College).
University of Oklahoma (they offered me a nice scholarship which I proceeded to blow in a hurry)
Maybe a better question would be, what school and what major?
UW Madison, Computer Science.
UW Madison, Computer Science.
Nowhere, too poor for that jazz.
Edit: My skill set reflects that, though. ;)
Edit: My skill set reflects that, though. ;)
Nowhere as well. Had I wanted to go I surely would've been held back by finances, but I didn't shy away from College because of that - I just hated school.
Actually, I dropped out my Junior year of High School with 3 months to go. I spent the time plus the summer working for my mom and decided to re-enroll Senior year. Even after going back on my accord, I still barely earned the 10 credits I needed my final year to graduate. I teeter back and forth on whether I regret it or not to this day.
Actually, I dropped out my Junior year of High School with 3 months to go. I spent the time plus the summer working for my mom and decided to re-enroll Senior year. Even after going back on my accord, I still barely earned the 10 credits I needed my final year to graduate. I teeter back and forth on whether I regret it or not to this day.
This mindset always strikes me as questionable. I am a pretty middle class guy but I funded my entire undergrad with government student loans without problems and I don't understand why low income people can't do the same.
Well, short version, I couldn't get government help 'cause my family is considered upper middle class and I'm not yet independent, plus my grades sucked too hard for grants. Whatever other ways there were I was too lazy to look into.
I do plan on trying again when I turn 23, though.
I do plan on trying again when I turn 23, though.
Universidad ORT Uruguay (2nd South American university I see listed :) )
University of Pittsburgh.
UP (University of the Philippines),
AMA Computer University
Vanderbilt University, go 'Dores!
CompSci / English double.
Ohio State University
McGill University and University of Western Ontario
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college? not exactly...I went to ITT (North Houston).
Hey, if they advertise on daytime cable, they have to be good, right?
Hey, if they advertise on daytime cable, they have to be good, right?
FAU
Home of the fighting burrowing owls!
University of Toledo College of Engineering
University of Nottingham, soon to be UCL.
Worcester Polytech, but I didn't finish
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
University of Oklahoma
Go Sooners!
Go Sooners!
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
Arizona State
Wabash College
U Catolica de Chile
Universitiy of Tuebingen, Germany
University of Wisconsin — Madison
Carleton College (Northfield, MN)
Davidson College, North Carolina
Georgia Tech but I didn't finish
University of Central Florida
Brown. With a major in music
Massachusetts College of Art
California State Univeristy
University of Pennsylvania
Colorado State University
Michigan State University
Boston University
Why?
Why?
Berklee College of Music
UC Santa Barbara (UCSB)
University of Cambridge
Texas A&M (Whoop!)
University of Waterloo
Bangalore University.
University of Kansas
Marquette University
University of Guelph
caltech. before numb3rs/big bang theory made it cool.
Syracuse University
New York University
Bentley University
Gettysburg College
Auburn University
Monash University
Carnegie Mellon
Michigan Tech
UANL - Mexico
Virginia Tech
UC Santa Cruz
Case Western
Georgia Tech
UT Arlington
NIT Silchar
UIUC
Penn State
UT Austin
Dalhousie
Stanford
UC Davis
Vassar
Oxford
Duke
Yale
MIT
google form please
Didn't.