College

[AntiVirus]

I moved into my dorm on August 12th, and I can't say much..  It's pretty nerve racking and a little annoying trying to figure everything out.  They keep having "Get to know you" activities and I have been partaking in and they have been okay. 

Man... I think it's better at home, personally.

Atleast my room mate is cool.

[Newby]

University of Missouri? That sucks.

Good luck. Get in on the p2p that goes on inside the LAN at your university. If all else fails, set up your own wireless network called "MOVIE PIRACY" and peddle movies and music and other warez around. Just don't let it touch the WAN and you'll be OK. What the RIAA/MPAA doesn't know, doesn't hurt them. Make all the traffic encrypted as well. Set up a wireless AP on FreeBSD running WPA, and post the passphrase on your door. Run a BitTorrent tracker on it too.

Ooh, these are such good ideas. Fuck. I think I'm doing this when I go off to college.

[deadly7]

University of Missouri? That sucks.

Good luck. Get in on the p2p that goes on inside the LAN at your university. If all else fails, set up your own wireless network called "MOVIE PIRACY" and peddle movies and music and other warez around. Just don't let it touch the WAN and you'll be OK. What the RIAA/MPAA doesn't know, doesn't hurt them. Make all the traffic encrypted as well. Set up a wireless AP on FreeBSD running WPA, and post the passphrase on your door. Run a BitTorrent tracker on it too.

Ooh, these are such good ideas. Fuck. I think I'm doing this when I go off to college.

Unfortunately, AntiVirus does not have the *nix/BSD knowledge you do.

[rabbit]

I plan on doing something similar when I move into my dorm (not this year, saving money FTW!), though I probably won't post the password, as I'm aiming for the honors dorm, and posting "WAREZ NETWORK PASSWORD: BLAHBLAH" on my door would probably not be so good...

[Newby]

That ain't what I meant, rabbit. Just post the passphrase on your door. Associate it with nothing, but make it look like a password. i.e. make the password "bobby123456789aBCdefghkijlmnoqrpstuvwxyzpassword" so it's hard to bruteforce but people could figure out it was a password.

Plus if it isn't encrypted you can get in serious trouble if they sniff it.

Alternative to posting the password on your door is spreading via word of mouth, but being a freshmen would suck to do that. You know nobody!

[Joe]

I think I'm going to go to the same college as Newby. Hm.. or bible college. I must make Newby go to NorthCentral University.

[iago]

Hm.. or bible college.

Is that like clown college?

[rabbit]

That ain't what I meant, rabbit. Just post the passphrase on your door. Associate it with nothing, but make it look like a password. i.e. make the password "bobby123456789aBCdefghkijlmnoqrpstuvwxyzpassword" so it's hard to bruteforce but people could figure out it was a password.

Plus if it isn't encrypted you can get in serious trouble if they sniff it.

Alternative to posting the password on your door is spreading via word of mouth, but being a freshmen would suck to do that. You know nobody!

Hm.  Actually I know a lot of people already.  Anyway, how would they know what the password was to?  You're assuming everyone knows what they are doing with a computer.

Hm.. or bible college.

Is that like clown college?

ROFL

[Rule]

I moved into my dorm on August 12th, and I can't say much..  It's pretty nerve racking and a little annoying trying to figure everything out.  They keep having "Get to know you" activities and I have been partaking in and they have been okay. 

Man... I think it's better at home, personally.

Atleast my room mate is cool.

I remember exactly how that felt....  Even though home was so much nicer (in some ways), I started to really enjoy myself a few months into classes.  Just be yourself and don't do anything stupid to fit in .

[Newby]

I think I'm going to go to the same college as Newby. Hm.. or bible college. I must make Newby go to NorthCentral University.

Fuck that. I'm aiming for a high end college. I plan to do good on my SAT/ACT tests so I can get into at the very least, a good technical school. (I want into a school that can teach you business as well!)

[rabbit]

NEWBTARD!!  Go to Drexel.

[AntiVirus]

University of Missouri? That sucks.

Good luck. Get in on the p2p that goes on inside the LAN at your university. If all else fails, set up your own wireless network called "MOVIE PIRACY" and peddle movies and music and other warez around. Just don't let it touch the WAN and you'll be OK. What the RIAA/MPAA doesn't know, doesn't hurt them. Make all the traffic encrypted as well. Set up a wireless AP on FreeBSD running WPA, and post the passphrase on your door. Run a BitTorrent tracker on it too.

Ooh, these are such good ideas. Fuck. I think I'm doing this when I go off to college.

University of Missouri-Rolla**.  A little bit different from MU.  And if I knew how to do all that stuff, I still don't think I would.  I would eventually get caught by someone or the RA would figure out what was going on.  Even though the RA doesn't care he might get in trouble himself if he lets it go on and that would be very selfish of me if I let that happen.  Besides, I only live (now) an hour and a half away from my college, so I could always go up there on the weekends and get my music off of my desktop.  No worries.

Hm.. or bible college.

Is that like clown college?

Lmao Ron.  You're so mean.

I moved into my dorm on August 12th, and I can't say much..  It's pretty nerve racking and a little annoying trying to figure everything out.  They keep having "Get to know you" activities and I have been partaking in and they have been okay. 

Man... I think it's better at home, personally.

Atleast my room mate is cool.

I remember exactly how that felt....  Even though home was so much nicer (in some ways), I started to really enjoy myself a few months into classes.  Just be yourself and don't do anything stupid to fit in .

Thanks for the advise Rule. ^^  I don't think I will have to try too hard to fit in.  Alot of the people here are very very nerdy and so they are always easy for me to get along with.  Even the non-nerdy kids are pretty nice.  My room mate isn't a nerd and he is a really funny and goofy kid.  The only part that sucks is that out of my whole graduating class, only about 5 of us came to UMR, so it has been hard trying to find them.  But all is well, I will see them eventually. 

I hope that I start to enjoy myself when classes start.  I am terrified I am not going to do well/like what I am going into.  I'm very worried about that.

[Newby]

And if I knew how to do all that stuff, I still don't think I would.  I would eventually get caught by someone or the RA would figure out what was going on.  Even though the RA doesn't care he might get in trouble himself if he lets it go on and that would be very selfish of me if I let that happen.  Besides, I only live (now) an hour and a half away from my college, so I could always go up there on the weekends and get my music off of my desktop.  No worries.

If it is encrypted and never touches the WAN, he really can't get in trouble. And you'd hardly ever get caught unless you lived on campus with a member of the MPAA/RIAA, at which point I'd rub shit all over the guy's door. Or maybe just burn the section of the dorms down.

[iago]

Oh yeah, a little back on topic..

Yeah, for my first couple years of University I didn't really meet anybody, or attempt to.  I lived at home for the whole duration, so that made it easier.  I've always been a loner, so I was happy to keep to myself, spend my spare time in computer labs, etc. 

Towards the end of second-year, I was playing around with a Web-bot in a lab, and the guy sitting beside me asked what I was doing.  I told him, and he knew all about Battle.net and was in his own clan and stuff.  Since then, we hit it off to the point where I visited him while he was working in Alberta and I helped him get a job where I work.  After meeting him, I met his friends, who I'm still not terribly close to, but I'm friendly with them.

Along with him, I entered our Co-op program (http://coop.cs.umanitoba.ca).  About 50 students/year are accepted into it (very few are rejected, that's all who apply).  Usually about 3/4 of them (35 or so) are fairly sociable with each other, and we generally end up taking the same classes, since due to every second term being a work-term we're out-of-stream with the normal program.  As a result, we end up being a fairly close group, and I met a lot of people I still talk to through that.  It also helped that after entering Co-op, I discovered that another guy in co-op is my mom's cousin's son, and I don't know what the hell that makes us.  But it helped to have family. 

By the first half of my last (5th) year, I knew pretty much everybody in my classes varying from being comfortable talking to them to being pretty close friends.  In the second half, a good majority of the people I knew graduated.  However, at that point I have enough respect and comfort that I was spending a lot of time with the younger Co-ops and I ended up being friends with a lot of them.  Towards the end, I had a lot of friends and I still keep in touch with most of them. 

[Joe]

I think I'm going to go to the same college as Newby. Hm.. or bible college. I must make Newby go to NorthCentral University.

Fuck that. I'm aiming for a high end college. I plan to do good on my SAT/ACT tests so I can get into at the very least, a good technical school. (I want into a school that can teach you business as well!)

I talked to the sound tech guy from One Accord (a band) and he turned down a 100% scholarship to MIT to go to NCU. In fact, I ended up playing volleyball with most of the band. Also, if you've ever been to a church where they have the song/hymn lyrics on a projector during worship, I did that job at camp too.

[Newby]

I talked to the sound tech guy from One Accord (a band) and he turned down a 100% scholarship to MIT to go to NCU.

And this is why religious people FUCKING SUCK AT LIFE.

[d&q]

That's so rediculous I hesitate to believe you.

[Newby]

It is ridiculous and I honestly think it's either an exagguration (on behalf of Joe, to make people he knows seem cool) or a lie on that guy's behalf. Who the fuck would turn down a 100% scholarship to MIT? Either that person has ZERO common sense, or that person is lying. Someone that smart should realize what a 100% scholarship to a school as amazing as MIT is and how great that truly would be.

[Rule]

Who the fuck would turn down a 100% scholarship to MIT?

Someone who got a full scholarship to Cambridge?

I agree though, it seems pretty unlikely that "NCU" could ever be a preference to MIT.

[Joe]

NorthCentral University is a bible college. If I got a full scholarship to MIT, I'm not so sure if I'd accept.

[Sidoh]

If I got a full scholarship to MIT, I'm not so sure if I'd accept.

Fool.

[rabbit]

He wouldn't get one anyway.

[Newby]

NorthCentral University is a bible college. If I got a full scholarship to MIT, I'm not so sure if I'd accept.

You're a god damn moron. You'd rather go to a shitty bible humping college and walk out making an average paycheck, versus going to a top of the line school, and walk out with a degree making easily $70-80K a year.

I hope Jesus bitch slaps you.

[Rule]

I should re-phrase myself.  It seems unlikely that someone actually accepted to MIT with a full scholarship would choose NCU instead.  We could turn this thread into a "don't do drugsreligion" infomercial.

[Sidoh]

I should re-phrase myself.  It seems unlikely that someone actually accepted to MIT with a full scholarship would choose NCU instead.  We could turn this thread into a "don't do drugsreligion" infomercial.

Hahaha.  Yeah, that's a good point.  It seems that MIT would only accept someone who's exceling in science, which I don't think Joe's religious ties will allow him to do.

[iago]

NorthCentral University is a bible college. If I got a full scholarship to MIT, I'm not so sure if I'd accept.

You're a god damn moron. You'd rather go to a shitty bible humping college and walk out making an average paycheck, versus going to a top of the line school, and walk out with a degree making easily $70-80K a year.

I hope Jesus bitch slaps you.

You've been with your dad too long.  Here's the thing: money isn't the most important thing in the world. 

[Sidoh]

You've been with your dad too long.  Here's the thing: money isn't the most important thing in the world. 

No, but I think knowledge is (or should be) high on everyone's list.  I'd go to MIT for the awesome education more than anything.

[iago]

You've been with your dad too long.  Here's the thing: money isn't the most important thing in the world. 

No, but I think knowledge is (or should be) high on everyone's list.

Yes, definitely.  But it depends on the type of knowledge you want.  Isn't MIT a technical school?  What if somebody doesn't want a technical education?

[Sidoh]

Yes, definitely.  But it depends on the type of knowledge you want.  Isn't MIT a technical school?  What if somebody doesn't want a technical education?

MIT is a university; it isn't a tech school.  A "technical school" is something like ITT Tech.

MIT is renowned for its excellence in all/most fields of engineering, but it has exceptional programs in other areas.  Most of the professors are Nobel Prize laureates.

[Newby]

NorthCentral University is a bible college. If I got a full scholarship to MIT, I'm not so sure if I'd accept.

You're a god damn moron. You'd rather go to a shitty bible humping college and walk out making an average paycheck, versus going to a top of the line school, and walk out with a degree making easily $70-80K a year.

I hope Jesus bitch slaps you.

You've been with your dad too long.  Here's the thing: money isn't the most important thing in the world. 

It may not be, but an education is, and with a good education at a good university comes a much easier way to make money once college is over. Everyone has to work at some point in their lives. Unless you're rich or something...

rofl @ Rule. "Don't do religion" <-- It's so true!

[iago]

Yes, definitely.  But it depends on the type of knowledge you want.  Isn't MIT a technical school?  What if somebody doesn't want a technical education?

MIT is a university; it isn't a tech school.  A "technical school" is something like ITT Tech.

MIT is renowned for its excellence in all/most fields of engineering, but it has exceptional programs in other areas.  Most of the professors are Nobel Prize laureates.

So if you wanted to do religious studies/philosophy/archeology or something like that, wouldn't you be better off going to a school that specializes in your chosen field, not in engineering?

[Sidoh]

So if you wanted to do religious studies/philosophy/archeology or something like that, wouldn't you be better off going to a school that specializes in your chosen field, not in engineering?

Chances are, if you applied to MIT and got accepted with a fully paid scholarship, you excel in fields that the school is interested in, ie engineering.  I'm not saying MIT is the best choice for every field of study, but I am saying anyone who is accepted with such a scholarship and denies it to go to some bible college is probably lying.

[iago]

So if you wanted to do religious studies/philosophy/archeology or something like that, wouldn't you be better off going to a school that specializes in your chosen field, not in engineering?

Chances are, if you applied to MIT and got accepted with a fully paid scholarship, you excel in fields that the school is interested in, ie engineering.  I'm not saying MIT is the best choice for every field of study, but I am saying anyone who is accepted with such a scholarship and denies it to go to some bible college is probably lying.

I admit that applying for MIT and then going somewhere else would be weird, for sure.  But it's fully possible that somebody, though they excel in the fields that MIT is looking for, isn't interested in pursuing them professionally. 

[Sidoh]

I admit that applying for MIT and then going somewhere else would be weird, for sure.  But it's fully possible that somebody, though they excel in the fields that MIT is looking for, isn't interested in pursuing them professionally. 

Yes, it's possible.  It's extremley unlikely, though.  For that reason, I choose to believe Joe's friend is a liar.

[d&q]

Why waste the $50 application fee in the first place? You can't exactly get any better than a 100% scholarship, so I think its unlikely that he wastef his money on applying if he was so sure he would not go.