What is american college like? - Explain it to a filthy european

[Somsnosa]

So with reading about crazy stories of antifa professors, huge debts and safe spaces, I've been wondering: what is American college really like?
How the system works I can just read on the net about, but I'd like to know your experiences with it. Was it worth it? Do you have any crazy stories about fucked up profs or fellow students? Is there a difference between University and College?

 

[cypocryphy]

Non-stop partying.

 

[Doc Cassidy]

Raping drunk girls that passed out behind a dumpster then getting a high-five from the judge.

 

[Positron]

Please refer to the Jonathan Sweet/Iconoclast thread.

 

[ArnoldPalmer]

You get drunk a lot, and watch at least three of your closest friends commit suicide, and walk off the emotional pain of that with worrying about your horrible debt, and studying once in your whole semester to cram for the exam that determines whether or not it was worth it to spend the formative years of your life attending mandatory courses on how not to rape, taught by a jean jacket feminist who would cry if she ever saw a peepee.

But hey, it varies, state by state.

 

[OtterParty]

itt sub-working class white trash pretend theyve seen the outside of a lumber mill / battery farm / turkeys anus

 

[Y2K Baby]

American. Collegey.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Expensive day care centers.

Spoiler

Which sadly isn't so much of a joke anymore.

 

[NIGGO KILLA]

A lot of hijabs

 

[Y2K Baby]

A lot of hijabs

Hip jobs for the hijabs.

 

[Doc Cassidy]

itt sub-working class white trash pretend theyve seen the outside of a lumber mill / battery farm / turkeys anus

Kiwis that work

 

[He Sets Me On Fire]

It's all gravy until you get your doctorate. Then the board of regents kicks you out for being, in general, a poor scientist. You then have to take up a career in the private sector, where they expect actual results. Best go into business for yourself.

 

[Windows10]

6 hours of classes a day, networking with potential and promising employers and working together with other students while you try to balance a shitty retail job and getting your degree.

Well, if you go to an actual fucking university for an actually useful field of study. Or you can go to some horseshit location as you've seen here on the farms.

EDIT for actual info:
University and college are different. Universities are generally more reputable, but I'd only trust a state university. A lot of people start in community college to dodge some of the debt, but if you're going into STEM it's not worth the time waste. It's worth it for a good degree, but not for something like the arts. I've personally had professors of all walks of life and all parts of the political spectrum.

 

[AnOminous]

Best in the world by all objective measurements.

https://thebestschools.org/features/100-best-universities-in-world-today/

This is mostly based on research done in Shanghai, incidentally, so it isn't American chauvinism talking.

As for how we fund it, it's maybe the most fucked up in the world. But when you want your kid to get a good education, and you're rich, and you're anywhere in the world, you either send them here to the United States or a smattering of other places in the world like Oxbridge.

Also you have a lot of options.

Tard option: Get drunk and spend the entire time in a haze and graduate drunk, fat and stupid.

Good option: Study hard and come out a genius.

Chad option: Get drunk and study hard and spend the entire time wasted, and come out a drunk genius.

 

[Zarkov]

Not enough human sacrifices for my tastes.

 

[melty]

It depends I guess. I kind of regret not going to a party school like most public or state schools. I went to a private engineering school, and it was boring and there was a lot of work and partying on weekends mostly. It was mostly upper middle class white guys who didn't care about that stuff. People were mostly politically apathetic. But maybe it's changed
The campus lolcows and weird professors were all autistic-weird, not antifa-tranny-weird.
There was a big push for diversity by the administration, which generated a lot of REEEE about the school's rankings (though the same guys complaining would also bitch about how there weren't any girls on campus) but last I checked it's still ranked pretty well so idk.
Also I'm sure someone already mentioned it's FUCKING EXPENSIVE. I feel really lucky to be able to pay it off before I'm 30.
I still dunno if it was worth it. If I went back in time I'd probably go to a cheaper more fun school.

 

[Y2K Baby]

. I kind of regret not going to a party school like most public or state schools

. I went to a private engineering school, and it was boring and there was a lot of work and partying on weekends mostly. It was mostly upper middle class white guys who didn't care about that stuff. People were mostly politically apathetic.

The campus lolcows and weird professors were all autistic-weird, not antifa-tranny-weird.

WTF, that sounds perfect, fuck you.

 

[D. Sweatshirt]

Quiet and boring, but it has its moments. The most obnoxious thing is dealing with professors (and students) who are obsessed with PC dogma.

Spoiler: Literal Textbook Sperging

We're required to buy a textbook for our Sociology class. After buying an online copy, I was expecting it to be a neutral take on the subject focusing mostly on research terminology, but the whole thing is chocked full of SJW concepts straight off of Tumblr- from cultural appropriation to constant sperging about minorities. I'm learning more from listening to my teacher, an ex-hippie, talk about her experiences in the field than from the text itself, which doesn't even want to load most of the time.

 

[Holdek]

There are safe spaces in most buildings, trigger warnings on just about every syllabus, and SJWs literally trying to force you to hold hands with trannsexuals without recognizing that basically makes them the real rapists on campus.

 

[AnOminous]

The only professors I ever respected were the ones who would mercilessly rip you to shreds in front of the class, like a drill instructor. I was the one who'd come at them, though, even knowing I was probably about to get my ass handed to me.