What if you could go to college right now?

[Miles D]

Sorry if this isn't an acceptable topic for EC, but I definitely think it's relevant.

I go to a college called Simon's Rock-- I came here after 10th grade. I didn't have to graduate early, didn't have to take special entrance exams, I never took the SATs, and I basically skipped 11th and 12th grade and now I'm a freshman in college.

From my school's website:

We’re a small, selective, supportive, intensive college of the liberal arts and sciences in the middle of the Berkshires, one of the nation’s cultural and natural treasures. All of our 400 students come to us after 10th or 11th grade in high school. We give them a broad-minded, paradigm-shifting education; faculty trained in the country’s best universities; inspired and inspiring classes; first-class facilities for the sciences, the arts, and athletics; and an astonishing range of opportunities for conducting specialized research and gaining hands-on experience. We offer 43 concentrations, many of them interdisciplinary; our academic program leads to an A.A. or a B.A.

So in two years, when all my friends will have their high school diploma, I'll have my A.A. degree! And Simon's Rock is one of the Top 10 most LGBT-friendly campuses in the US!!! We're 2 hours from Boston, 2 hours from NYC, and 1.5 hours from Northampton, which is sorta a gay capital of sorts.

I'm not trying to recruit, but if anyone really is trying to drop out of high school just to get away from where they're living now, don't! This is really a great school, I can vouch for this place!

https://www.simons-rock.edu/

<3

[Lexington]

I'd wonder what hell I was doing back there...and why all the students looked so damn young.

Lex

[Apocalypte]

I'm a senior in college now. It makes me hate humanity. I just finished a 3,000 word paper today and I have a huge coding assignment due in a couple of days which I've barely started, and I'm sorely in need of sleep.

[Paul_UK]

Originally Posted by Lexington

I'd wonder what hell I was doing back there...and why all the students looked so damn young.

Lex

Yes, that's what I was thinking too!

McGill University.
Seriously. (I AM recruiting. )

Wanna hear one of our chants that we were taught during frosh?
WARNING: SWEAR WORDS.

McGill once. McGill twice. Holy fucking Jesus Christ. Wham bam goddamn son of a bitch shit. Three cheers for McGill: Fuck fuck fuck! Three cheers for fucking: McGill McGill McGill!

And another:

I'd rather be a Redman than a fucking Bumblebee,
I'd rather be a genius than flip burgers as McDee's,
I wouldn't wipe my ass with a Concordia degree
So fuck you bumblebees!

[interstella]

I'd love to go to college. GCSEs are hell

[musican]

I'm graduating early anyways, but I did hear about that college. Hopefully the college I want to get into is really accepting too.

Lol college is pretty chill. The work is absurd though.

[starfish]

I would love to go back and get a masters degree. Since I work full time it would take me at least 4 years, maybe 5 and I just can't do that again. I had to work my way through my bachelors and it damn near killed me.

[No One]

wait so this school is in the united states?!?!?!?!!?

[Amy]

Sweet. I'm set up at Vineyard for the next few years. Or at least until I get all of my credits, which might not take that long.

I'm looking forward to being in a traditional educational environment for basically the first time ever.

[Bunny]

Want. That would be so awesome, it almost makes me wish I lived in the States.

[Miles D]

Originally Posted by No one

wait so this school is in the united states?!?!?!?!!?

yes! It's in western massachusetts.