waybread
Staff member
App Leo, I don't hate you-- though universities tend to be liberal places. You'll hear a lot of new views, unfiltered.
Just to chime in.....
I am thinking about that VOC moon.
I don't know what type of first-choice university you applied to. Many state colleges and universities, depending upon their legislative mandate, kind of have to take every applicant who is a state resident, has a minimum GPA and a pulse rate. (A court date is OK.) This is true even for some flagship universities. If this is the case, then you should be OK.
(They keep up their standards because a huge number of the freshman class will flunk out.)
But I'm struck by the moon in the 4th house, as well. It's almost like, if you're living at home now, you will continue to live at home-- and maybe choose to attend a commuter campus nearby. (I dunno, maybe as a cost-saving measure.)
Mercury in detriment ready to ping Saturn in the 6th house doesn't strike me as a heap of wonderfulness. I would read this as the possibility that your top choice might not be everything you'd hoped.
Astrology aside, and unless choice #1 is too far away for a visit, I hope you can visit the campuses you've applied to, if you haven't done this already. See if you can talk to students and the undergraduate adviser in the field you currently hope to major it. That way you'll get a more realistic sense of what the next four-plus years will be like.
Also, if you enroll in choice #1 but it doesn't suit your needs after you're there, you can usually transfer your credits to a different campus. You're not necessarily stuck with the place.
On Tikana's experience:
Every university contains some bad apple professors. Sort of like high school. Sometimes these profs have other assets, like their research. Unless they're the only ones teaching a required course, usually you can avoid them. I wouldn't do this on your own, but if you do wind up with Professor Deadwood, a group of students can go and confidentially speak with the department chair about him. It may not help you for your particular course, but you might get him out of required courses for future students. I've seen this happen, where a professor who really couldn't teach well was deferred to non-required elective courses, and then when too few to no students enrolled in them, she gracefully retired.
I hope you really enjoy your experience.
Just to chime in.....
I am thinking about that VOC moon.
I don't know what type of first-choice university you applied to. Many state colleges and universities, depending upon their legislative mandate, kind of have to take every applicant who is a state resident, has a minimum GPA and a pulse rate. (A court date is OK.) This is true even for some flagship universities. If this is the case, then you should be OK.
(They keep up their standards because a huge number of the freshman class will flunk out.)
But I'm struck by the moon in the 4th house, as well. It's almost like, if you're living at home now, you will continue to live at home-- and maybe choose to attend a commuter campus nearby. (I dunno, maybe as a cost-saving measure.)
Mercury in detriment ready to ping Saturn in the 6th house doesn't strike me as a heap of wonderfulness. I would read this as the possibility that your top choice might not be everything you'd hoped.
Astrology aside, and unless choice #1 is too far away for a visit, I hope you can visit the campuses you've applied to, if you haven't done this already. See if you can talk to students and the undergraduate adviser in the field you currently hope to major it. That way you'll get a more realistic sense of what the next four-plus years will be like.
Also, if you enroll in choice #1 but it doesn't suit your needs after you're there, you can usually transfer your credits to a different campus. You're not necessarily stuck with the place.
On Tikana's experience:
Every university contains some bad apple professors. Sort of like high school. Sometimes these profs have other assets, like their research. Unless they're the only ones teaching a required course, usually you can avoid them. I wouldn't do this on your own, but if you do wind up with Professor Deadwood, a group of students can go and confidentially speak with the department chair about him. It may not help you for your particular course, but you might get him out of required courses for future students. I've seen this happen, where a professor who really couldn't teach well was deferred to non-required elective courses, and then when too few to no students enrolled in them, she gracefully retired.
I hope you really enjoy your experience.
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