<p>@Cayton To be honest, Some days I feel like a have lost all of my ambition. I don’t know what to do anymore. I feel like a should take a break from school and try to figure out what to do with my life. I feel really conflicted. I’m torn between finding a degree that will make me a lot of money, and one that I will like, but those two things seem like they are on opposite sides of the spectrum. Hopefully this is just the alcohol talking! </p>
<p>@CollegeDropout1 </p>
<p>Change that alcohol to mary jane and you’ll stop worrying real quickly.</p>
<p>But in all seriousness, I understand your concern. As I’ve suggested before, double major in a lucrative discipline and a discipline that you truly enjoy studying, if you can.</p>
<p>@Cayton Do you know if we can send transcripts to UCLA by PDF? </p>
<p>What’s with the lack of reviews on bruinwalk? All of my professors are graduate students, so I’m basically relying on the good graciousness of God that I don’t get a horrid professor.</p>
<p>@Cayton </p>
<p>Most, if not all, of the “professors” are grad students, so they don’t have any reviews. Even for the real professors. More than 90% of the ones I searched for on bruinwalk after looking up the classes I wanted for Fall didn’t have any reviews. </p>
<p>I even checked ratemyprofessor, but no such luck.</p>
<p>UCI, at the very least, has solid reviews for many of its professors.</p>
<p>Does anyone know if it’s too late to SIR to UCI? I’m seriously considering dropping out of UCLA. I never, ever want to step foot into that hell hole again only to have a foot shoved up my ass.</p>
<p>It was a mistake applying to UCLA. It was a mistake attending UCLA. It was a mistake stepping foot onto UCLA. </p>
<p>I’m scared ■■■■■■■■ right now. That class really opened my eyes, ears, and ass. I mean, holy ■■■■. If UCLA is the major league of baseball, community college isn’t even highschool level. I’d say it’s peewee, and that’s being extremely generous. I don’t think anything can adequately prepare someone for UC level coursework.</p>
<p>Maybe that one class was a bad luck of the draw, but honestly? You are bound to get one, and what then? Are you going to crawl back to your community college and beg for tutoring? Assistance? Mercy? You are all alone now. No one is going to apply baby powder to your ass. You are going to have to do that yourself, and no, you are not going to have one of those fancy 3 sided mirrors like at Forever 21 for assistance either. </p>
<p>To be honest, I just pulled majoring in engineering geology out of my ass.It was a impulsive decision that I made just to go to UCLA. I’m looking at the curriculum, at it seems pretty boring, at least the petrology classes. If I hate that, then I don’t know what else I will major in. UCLA has a lot of majors, but they mostly fall under the same the catagory, ethnic studies. @BurntCorpse , your self awareness has inspired me to be honest with myself; it also made me laugh. I really just want to go to UCLA for stupid reasons, reasons that will probably never materialize. I never stopped thinking about going to UCSD, which is why I still have not retracted my SIR. I have a horrible CC transcripts. It is littered with W’s,I think 10 of them. There is absolutely no way that I can go to graduate school, probably not even CSULB. I need to pick a major that will be profitable without grad school, and I don’t think that is geology, I think it is CS. Sigh, I wish SD had a better social scene. Part of college is meeting new people, and getting out of your comfort zone, but I think that is something the UCSD lacks. I need to grow, not just academically, but also as a person. I don’t think I can do that at UCSD.</p>
<p>@BurntCorpse Sorry, you’re stuck at UCLA. I feel your pain. I am afraid that if I go to UCLA, I will end of feeling like you. If feel really stressed out. </p>
<p>@BurntCorpse </p>
<p>Day 1 of anything can be really overwhelming. You just have to keep remembering that other people have successfully done this. You were smart enough to get in, so you are smart enough to succeed there. Give yourself a minute to adjust , and don’t expect that it will feel normal immediately.</p>
<p>Readjust your expectations, and then go in to your next class with modified expectations. Then next week it will not feel this overwhelming. And come the fall, you will be in a better place than the rest of us who couldn’t or didn’t take summer classes at UCLA. By fall, you will be an old pro, and some of us will still be trying to get our feet wet.</p>
<p>@CollegeDropout1 </p>
<p>Don’t let me and my dumbass dissuade you from going to UCLA. You may end up excelling like many others have done in the past.</p>
<p>My experience is just one of the many untold stories. There will always be losers in this world, and what may people fail to realize is that despite the thousands of kids who are accepted into UCLA and attend it, there are some who end up dropping out, going to prison, or even turning to prostitution (includes cam modeling) to survive.</p>
<p>I think I am one of those losers. This class made me realize that I am way out of my depth. As for whether or not I will drop out, go to prison, or prostitute myself, I honestly don’t know anymore. My entire life has been derailed by this sudden realization.</p>
<p>Am I being melodramatic? Maybe. Maybe not.</p>
<p>This one class opened up a can of worms I was trying to suppress for the longest time. From believing I didn’t have what it takes to succeeding in college to wondering if I’ll ever end up fulling my childhood dreams.</p>
<p>As of right now, I am contemplating trade school or applying to CSULB/CSUF for spring transfer, but I think it may be too late for even that. Maybe I’ll take the year off and apply to UCI? We’ll see.</p>
<p>@2016Candles BurntCorpse has sent me into a panicked attack. I don’t know what to do anymore. I don’t even want to go to UCSD. I should have just gone to UCSC. Oh, how I regret turning down UCSC and for what? Just to get a foot shove up my ass? If crawling on my knees and begging UCSC to take me back is what it takes to get into SC, then I will do that. I would have another beer to calm my nerves, but it is too early in the morning. </p>
<p>You guys have to stop freaking out. That’s one of the disadvantages of this really long summer - we all just have way too much time to think and re think. </p>
<p>I don’t know what the right choices are for every person, but I do know this. Going backwards is not the option. We all got through community college in some way shape or form. Whether it took us a year or 10 years we all got through. There are some people and community college who are never going to get past going to community college.</p>
<p>At some point, we all decided that we wanted to go beyond community college, and that’s why we’re all here. If you decide to go back to community college, and reapply to schools next year, I can almost guarantee that when school starts you’ll stop and you’ll think what the **** did I do?! Then a year from now, you’ll be in the same tailspin, and still no closer to finishing your BA.</p>
<p>No one promised any of us that going to UCLA would be easy or comparable to what we’ve done in community college.
Put on a big girl and big boy underpants, and just push through. </p>
<p>You can do this. I can do this. We can all do this.</p>
<p>@CollegeDropout1 </p>
<p>I’m in the same boat as you. I never wanted to major in Philosophy as badly as other phil majors. I just chose it because I had fulfilled many of its prereqs already and it was my last year at CC. </p>
<p>I don’t think I will be attending grad school anymore after what I had just experienced as well.</p>
<p>Oh, man I was a fool to think that I could ever graduate with a STEM degree, let alone a degree from UCLA/UCSD. I was a fool to believe that I could ever become a software developer. I was a fool to forged transcripts to take classes that I was not qualified for. I was a fool to even think that I could become president of this great nation. I was way in over my head. I feel so stupid. I should have know better. The only think that I have ever been good at is history, which is a useless degree. I guess my only option now is the military. Hopefully the air force will take me, but I think that it is pretty competitive. My entire dreams have been shattered into a million pieces. How stupid was I to think that I could ever be anything more than a grunt. </p>
<p>@BurntCoprse I own you a galaxy for helping me come to my senses and for making me laugh. You really saved my bacon. If I could buy you a beer, I would.</p>
<p>U2 need to either go to sleep, or get up and start your day. All of this deep contemplation, is messing you up.</p>
<p>@CollegeDropout1 </p>
<p>I had dreams of majoring in STEM, but that soon faded after I realized I sucked at science. Just major in something you enjoy and somewhat passionate about. Most kids who graduate from college won’t end up in those highpowered jobs everyone dreams about, so hopefully that’s some consolation. Many of them will end up as ungrateful ingrates who get quit after the second week after realizing they aren’t in management just for graduating last week. </p>
<p>The military is a solid option. I was in the Army for a bit and would definitely recommend it for anyone who’s serious.</p>
<p>Just don’t get into it thinking it’s free college tuition, tricare, and life insurance. It is a job and a taxing one at that. If you’re serious, do some serious research first and don’t sign up for infantry just because it sounds bad ass. I did that and I ended up regretting it immediately. It is not like call of duty or any other FPS. I wish it was since at least Id get to play with a sniper rifle, but no. I only had an M4 that I had to lug around everywhere.</p>
<p>@2016Candles How can I go to sleep when my dreams have just been shattered into smithereens ?</p>
<p>Just FYI–It doesn’t sound as cool when it’s 5 in the morning and you feel the wrath of cold steel against your already numbed fingers. Sure, it’s pretty cool prancing about with a real weapon, but that novelty soon wears off when you’re holding it above your heads and being yelled at.</p>
<p>@BurntCorpse I really want to join the Air force. I don’t think I have what it takes to make it in the army or marines. Those two branches are too demanding, and I am pretty sure that I am developing arthritis. I actually wanted to be an officer, but I heard they only take STEM degree holders as officers.</p>
<p>YOUR DREAMS AREN’T SHATTERED!!! :-)</p>
<p>You’re freaking out a bit, which I get, but nothing is shattered. It’s 5:25, right now. Give yourself 20 more minutes to throw a pity party. Set a timer or alarm on your phone for 20 mins. That 20 mins is all the time you’re allowed today to wallow, and doubt yourself. After that time, move on to do something else. </p>
<p>@BurntCorpse Are you still going to go to UCLA? You haven’t accepted any housing offers or loans, have you? </p>