<p>I was thinking about going to Columbia or dartmouth.</p>
<p>But does it really matter where I go if i want to be an author/ computer science major?</p>
<p>CS Major? No idea. </p>
<p>Author? Being a great author is not something learned in college. Practice, practice, practice. If you have the talent, you’ll eventually develop the skill through practicing; poems, short stories, novelettes, novels, what have you. Just keep writing.</p>
<p>So If I don’t get into an Ivy, I shouldn’t feel down and continue writing?</p>
<p>Berkeley kicks the ass of most ivy league schools when it comes to computer science.</p>
<p>Yeah, Ivy is definitely not necessary for novel-writing. It’s an interest you could pursue anywhere.</p>
<p>For computer science, Ivies certainly aren’t bad, but there are probably schools with better departments.</p>
<p>MIT, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon and Berkeley > Ivies for Computer Science. Do your research.</p>
<p>I want to major in english and maybe Minor in CS?
Or double major in both.</p>
<p>I pretty much want computer science so I can make money while I write books.
I’m not betting on my books to be my meal ticket. It might happen but I’m setting up my bases so I can get a good job too.</p>
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Not at all! Look at all of the great writers; how many of them went to an Ivy League or other “top” school? It simply isn’t necessary. Keep writing!</p>
<p>You’re right.
Stephen King didn’t go to an ivy.</p>
<p>Yeah, i guess I just feel pressure.
All my high school life I have been a great student, but I couldn’t be the “top” student in the class. I slipped some and now some people are doubting my intelligence.</p>
<p>I guess I want ivy league to Prove that I am intelligent.</p>
<p>I am a junior right now, so I don’t know if I got denied yet.
But I’ve been a straight A student until this year</p>
<p>Got 4 B’s so Now I’m starting to doubt if I’ll get into an ivy. Now I’m looking at other choices and trying to be more comfortable with them.</p>
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Why do you need to prove your intelligence? And college admissions don’t measure intelligence. Neither does writing, technically, but being a great writer proves your mental capacities much more.</p>
<p>Oh I’m not being a writer to prove my intelligence.
I’m being one because I have a story (Several) to tell. And I love the art.</p>
<p>I feel the need to prove my worth because, well, I’ll just explain</p>
<p>I moved around a lot, when we finally settled down in Alabama, I was put into regular classes for 9th year. I took honors/ap after that but I had no idea how the AP/honor system worked, I’ve always thought that teachers put you in it after seeing your potential in classes or seeing you work hard. It also didn’t help that I was taken out of school for 2 years for homeschool. But we never really homeschooled so I got 2 years behind. </p>
<p>So it put me back in class rankings (I’m still in the top 10%). I’ve always been insecure about my intelligence because of my past, I couldn’t do well in math when I was younger and a lot of people thought I was special ED because of the way I acted. It wasn’t until my sophomore year that I realized that I thought in a very abstract way. I used this to my advantage to do extremely well in all of my classes. I got too good that I got bored and I wasn’t challenged enough (this was in AP/honors). So I started not studying until the last minute. It worked but I started building a habit that carried into my Junior year. I started slacking off and when I worked in groups with people they would ask me how to do something and I wouldn’t know. People used to look up to me as some smart guy but now they think I’m a poser.</p>
<p>I’ve wanted to fit in with the smart kids (the top 10/ academic team kids) and join the Academic team. I didn’t make either of the teams and I got denied to the National Honor society (Because of my freshman year). I started getting more depressed and looked towards other outlets to cheer myself up. This led to me not doing homework and slacking a lot which got me a B- in Chemistry, a B in precal-, a B in physics, and a B in English.</p>
<p>I try to ignore what people think but it gets me every time. I even get jealous of the other kids for being ahead of me in classes or having higher grades.</p>
<p>I also began writing poetry during this time. I found out that I love writing it, but nobody seems to read my poems. I want to start a club or something where we read, write, and revise each other’s work. Like a writer’s club or something. But I’ll have to do that later when I got free time.</p>
<p>Oh, and I know I’ve fooled around (■■■■■■■) in the past. But this is a serious post. I’m not playing around.</p>
<p>Be true to yourself then. Don’t do something just to prove you’re intelligent. Going to an Ivy certainly doesn’t prove that.</p>
<p>You’re right.
It’s just hard for me to get my mindset on this.
I’ve wanted to go to harvard since I was 9, but It wasn’t until I was 17 that I didn’t start asking myself “why?” I realized I’ve only wanted to go for the prestige.
All that time, my goal has been a fallacy.</p>
<p>F Scott Fitzgerald</p>
<p>Ah… btw CS isn’t the only way to make money. There are tons of ways.</p>
<p>[Ned</a> Vizzini - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Vizzini]Ned”>Ned Vizzini - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>Fitzgerald went to Princeton…</p>