Where's Stu?

Well guys, I am officially in college. I am going to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and am loving it so far. All of last week consisted of an orientation-esque welcoming. Its hard to explain but basically we meet as many new people as possible and get to know the town. This week was the first week of classes, I am still trying to get used to the whole 'walking everywhere, all the time' aspect.

As of right now I am a social sciences major, but still have no clue what I want to do with my life.

As you can probably tell I won't be gaming to much. I am having gaming withdrawals, not being able to play BF2 and even a little WoW, seeing as how much fun it appears you are having with it. Needless to say, college is a lot harder than high school, which is expected, but it seems that most of my time is taken by homework and the social aspect.

So, to turn this into somewhat of an amusing thread....how about some stories from everyone's college years? :D

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Originally Posted by [AK?]DiscoStu

So, to turn this into somewhat of an amusing thread....how about some stories from everyone's college years? :D

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One time, at band camp... ;)

I didn't start college until I was 21, and I always lived off campus.. so I can't share any dorm room horror stories or anything like that. But I did have a roommate my entire time there (2 different ones). Anyways, one summer I was taking classes and my roomates girlfriend (of 5 years going back to highschool) was as well. Her and I became pretty good friends and would hang out from time to time to go to dinner, catch a movie, watch TV, or whatever. Completely clean.. we were "buddies". We went skinny dipping once, but that's a story for another time. :eek:

My roommate was, how would I say... not the monogomous type. ;) He wasn't taking summer classes, but he still was at the apartment a couple days a week, whenever, since his family home was only about 45 minutes away, and he still hung out around the college from time to time on weekends, etc. Anyways, one Friday night his girlfriend calls and asks If I want to hang out. I had a "date" with this girl I really had no interest in, but a mutual friend sort of cornered me into it. So I made up some excuse (can't remember it now) and I went to dinner, a movie, and stopped at a club a couple of blocks away from our place with my roomates girlfriend. We had a few drinks, and then a few more, and a few more before it was painfully obvious neither of us could even think about driving even the 2 blocks. So we walked, crawled, walked back to my apartment to crash. I crashed on our couch, and for some 'odd' reason she went to sleep on my bed in my room.. and not my roomates (Maybe it was because I had water bed, but again, thats another story).

So my roommate decides to bring another girl home to the apartment for the night. His room and my room shared walls of course. The next thing I remember was him jumping/falling over the couch onto me as his girlfriend was chasing him with one of those harder Nerf baseball bats. Behind her was the girl I blew off that night standing there naked trying to cover herself with a pillow casing.

It was quite the evening. :beer:

We now return you to the our regular scheduled program that is rated G... ;)

Stu, what is Social Science?

Since I would probably destroy the meaning of social sciences while trying to explain it, I'll just give you what the dictionary says:

-The study of human society and of individual relationships in and to society.

-a branch of science that deals with the institutions and functioning of human society and with the interpersonal relationships of individuals as members of society

See!! My story was "Social Sciences"! LOL

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Originally Posted by [AK]Devil_Dog

Stu, what is Social Science?

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It's the study of.... oh, hell, just admit it. It's what people take when they have no clue what they want to do when they grow up.

Kind of like Psychology without the rat lab. :)

Come on Bri.. we KNOW you have stories about Squidly to share. :uzi:

It's like being a "Stand Up Philosopher" which in short means he will be a "Bull$&!t Artist"
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Originally Posted by [AK]Hylander

Come on Bri.. we KNOW you have stories about Squidly to share. :uzi:

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Yeah, but this is a family channel. ;)

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Originally Posted by [AK]StitchJones

It's like being a "Stand Up Philosopher" which in short means he will be a "Bull$&!t Artist"
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So you have a PhD in Social Sciences? :nuh:

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Originally Posted by [AK]Bribo

It's the study of.... oh, hell, just admit it. It's what people take when they have no clue what they want to do when they grow up.

Kind of like Psychology without the rat lab. :)

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ROFL!!!
That's what I thought, but I didn't want to insult our young scholar.... ;)

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Originally Posted by [AK]Devil_Dog

ROFL!!!
That's what I thought, but I didn't want to insult our young scholar.... ;)

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My only advice is to not graduate with a degree in Social Science, Philosophy, Psychology, etc. Those majors are fine place holders your first year while you try to figure your future out but make HORRIBLE degrees for getting a job once out of school (ask my brother the Psychology major).

Find a major that you both enjoy and that teaches you some skill or trade. I like computers in high school so that's what I pursued in college.

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Quick Squid college story. Squid and I were roommates and went to school in Potsdam, New York. Potsdam is located in northern NY. In the winter it's cold. Think Arctic circle without the pesky polar bears and lots of smoky bars.

There are two colleges in Potsdam - Potsdam State and Clarkson University. (Yeah, Squid and I went to the cheap one). One tradition every winter is the annual Potsdam versus Clarkson snow ball fight. No one is really sure how this starts every year but copious amounts of liquor are surely involved. What ends up happening is a mass of students from one school or the other charges across town and proceeds to pelt every dorm and student with snowballs. A retaliatory force is gathered to push the mass back across town to the opposing campus where more snow mayhem occurs. This process proceeds through the night, each time gathering more and more numbers as the sea of drunken fools ebbs and flows.

This is where our hero Squidly enters. Squidly and I had a very spacious suite in the top floor of Bowman hall. The night of this particular snowball fight Squidly had been drinking heavily. Jim Beam I believe was his poison of choice back then. By the time the snow assaulters from Clarkson made it to our campus Squidly was pretty well blasted out of his mind and bound and determined to join the forces of good and repel the attackers. So he went downstairs and disappeared into the crowd.

Now realize there must have been 500 kids down around our building and it was dark. Myself and a few friends were looking out of our window, also drinking heavily, and hurling expletives at every one down there freezing in the cold winter night regardless of which side they were on.

Then it dawned on me. "Y'know a full garbage pail of water would really 'dampen' some unlucky attackers spirits!". So I grabbed the nearest plastic garbage pail, ran off to the mens room and filled it to the brim with ice cold water. I carefully hauled the heavy pail of water back to my room and positioned it on the window sill. Peering over into the sea of people in the dim light it was very hard to see who anyone was. Then a likely target entered my field of view and I pushed the sucker over.

Direct hit! All 5 gallons!

The unlucky person froze in their tracks and slowly turned his eyes skyward.

It's at that point I realized I hit Squid.



Let's just say he wasn't happy when he came back to the room.

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Originally Posted by [AK]Bribo

It's the study of.... oh, hell, just admit it. It's what people take when they have no clue what they want to do when they grow up.

Kind of like Psychology without the rat lab. :)

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:D Well....ugh.....yea, like I said I have no clue what I want to do, and while it interests me I don't think its what I want to do. I had to declare a major to get into SLO. The good thing is, the female to male ratio in the social sciences major is highly in my favor. :)

Hopefully that doesn't alter my decicion in my later college years.

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Originally Posted by [AK]Bribo

It's at that point I realized I hit Squid.

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Hrmmm, I don't remember that. I do remember getting hit in the eye with a snowball though.

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Originally Posted by [AK?]DiscoStu

:D Well....ugh.....yea, like I said I have no clue what I want to do, and while it interests me I don't think its what I want to do. I had to declare a major to get into SLO. The good thing is, the female to male ratio in the social sciences major is highly in my favor. :)

Hopefully that doesn't alter my decicion in my later college years.

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Don't worry about what you want to be when you grow up. Few people ever do. I just started college last month for pete's sake! (Of course, you could always drop out and join the Marine Corps)

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Originally Posted by [AK]Squidly

I do remember getting hit in the eye with a snowball though.

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Oh really now.... Did you also make snow angels and share some Hot Chocolate?

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Originally Posted by [AK]Squidly

Hrmmm, I don't remember that. I do remember getting hit in the eye with a snowball though.

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You don't remember that because you were three sheets to the wind!

We have a ton of great stories (girl you met on the plane, drowning in the sink, the fake mustache, B'Kumba, Sherry). Way too many to write here. You need to make a visit to one of our Superbowl parties to here them in person. :)

Ahhhh, Sherry. /whistful sigh... Too bad she wasn't the one I met on the airplane.

I call my degree in Sociology what it is, Uselessology.

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Originally Posted by [AK]Choozoo

I call my degree in Sociology what it is, Uselessology.

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Not really, you've told me many of times, how helpful it has been when you needed to wipe.

I have a sociology class.......

Seems interesting, but why does the professor have to be so boring. :(

Welcome to college.

No wild stories for college. Currently in my junior year at a college of entertainmentmy degree is in Business with a minor in Entertainment. I am currently in Business Maeketing and Business Management.

Hahaha. You all never cease to amaze me. Soon after, I'm sure Squidly tipped over into a snow bank. What with all the alcohol.

While we're on the subject, I guess I should throw in my current happenings. I'm currently a BioTech major at UCSD. Concordantly, I'm working on a Criminal Justice associates'. See, I'm one of the lucky ones, who have always known what they wanted to do with their short, insignificant lives. :eek: :beer:

In any case...Congrats, Stu! :beer:

Two of my step brothers go to UCSD, its nice.

Since this was bumped back up, Chooz, what exactly do you do? I guess what I'm trying to say, is how has the sociology degree helped you, or so it seems, hurt you?

My best advice, do something you are truly interested in. My degree has shown that I stuck out the 5 years (4 to prospective employers) to get it, nothing more. I have never had nor will entertain a job that would be in the sociology field.

I work in IT, namely, application security/ethical hacking. Nothing to do with sociology

Thanks for the info.