New Journey

[nepenthes gracilis]

I start college tommorow at SUNY Cobleskill. I'll be around and about later at night probably, see you all around, wish me luck in my studies of Ornamental Horticulture, Nursery Management, and Botany!

Cheers, its been fun!

Dustin

 

[vft guy in SJ]

Just remember.. you are at college to party, meet girls, and party. Make sure you don't let that school stuff distract you too much.

Good luck
Steve

 

[jimscott]

Hey.... good skill, man! Potsdam is probably closer, but I'll bet it didn't have what you were looking for. And good luck with dining hall food!

 

[flytraplady5]

Good luck in your new Journey,
Lois

 

[PlantAKiss]

Awww...please don't abandon us.

This place won't be the same without Nep G around.

I do hope you have fun and learn lots. Sounds like a great course of study! I'm envious!

 

[Clint]

oh i can't wait until i go to college and am free of parental constraints!

1 year and 3 months!

 

[scottychaos]

Hey Dustin,
have fun at Cobelskill!
some friends of mine from Albany went there..

I went to SUNY New Paltz..loved it!
best years of my life.
I would have gladly stayed in college 10 years if I could have..

My sister went to SUNY Cortland.
My wife went to SUNY Buffalo.
I used to spend many a happy weekend at SUNY Oswego.
I lived in Albany for a year and worked briefly at SUNY Albany.
and now I live a few miles from SUNY Brockport.
Its a good college system, and IMO a great value for the money.
(much less expensive than private colleges.)
I got through 4 years of college and only owed $9,000 in College loans total,
(of course that was 1988-1992..prices are higher now..but still better than any private school.)

Your "course of study" sounds very interesting!
good luck with everything..

Scot

 

[schloaty]

Hey Nep G, good luck in school! Don't be too much of a stranger.

I went to school in Clinton, NY (right up the through way - right outside Utica).

I actually taught in SUNY Purchase (down here in Westchester).

 

[nepenthes gracilis]

Hey guys, i'm here all settled in...a little different but I know it will be great once i get going here. And Im glad all my plants are safe at Tony's, he graciously accepted most of my plants! So I can study knowing they are safe.

 

[herenorthere]

The SUNY system is great and I've had friends from a few of them and my nephew plans to go to SUNY Buffalo next year.

Enjoy it and learn something and be willing to go wherever it takes you. My list of majors (spread over the 27 years since I graduated from high school) is nuclear engineering, mechanical engineering, civil engineering, geological engineering (BS 1984), geology, agricultural engineering, geography (MS 2006), and I'm applying for a MPH (public health) program in the winter. When I started college, there's no way I'd have believed I'd end up with degrees in geological engineering & urban geography and be looking at public health.

 

[nepenthes gracilis]

Well guys its nice to talk to you all, it really comforts me and takes the chill off the inital collegiate shock here! I switched rooms because I was stuck with a wierdo who was 21 and thought I was going to put up with his going to the bar every night and trying to hid beer in my fridge, which is not allowed. SO I got sick of that and called campus police, they took care of it and now I'm in a 100% better and bigger room with a real nice roomate, he likes his rap music but I'll tolerate that much more than someone drinking all the time! College isn't about partying all the time, its about bettering yourself and then partying! lol But seriously it really isn't that bad here, I'm starting to like it, now i just need to get to know some people, but I think that will really come into play once classes start.

TTYL!

 

[Clint]

you didn't have to narc on him... i hope my roommate is 21!

your right though, it's not about partying, partying is GREAT, but if you let it interfere with your education your screwed. you gotta find the balance between studying and partying.

have you met any of your HS friends yet?

 

[BigCarnivourKid]

Quote[/b] (JustLikeAPill @ Aug. 25 2006,6:01)]you didn't have to narc on him...

Why not? He obviously didn't care what Nep-G wanted or liked and already considerd Nep-G's stuff fair game or he wouldn't have used his fridge without permission for storing contraband booze. If the campus police had got there before Nep-G called them, the guy would have easily finger Nep-G as the guilty party, as the fridge was Nep-G's, and gotten off scott free. The guy was trouble from the get-go and situation would have gone down hill fast from there. He nipped it in the bud.

 

[jimscott]

And to add to Scot, I went to SUNY at Plattsburgh. Stayed in the dorms all 4 years. Felt like I grew up 6 years in the 4 that I was there. There were some less than wonderful moments (like being tossed in a triple my first semester), but for the most part it was a positive experience. Glad you've found more than a suitable place to entrust your plants!

 

[nepenthes gracilis]

Hey guys, yah he was bad news. Im in a triple now Jim, but the kid and I that are in it are the only two because the last guy never showed up! We got a bigger room all to ourselves!

 

[jimscott]

I hope they aren't requiring you to find another roommate or pay more for the room. I was faced with that prospect when my 3 semester roommate just didn't show up for the 4th semester. So I had to go out find another roommate.

My first semester was a total social nightmare. The one roommate was an alcoholic. The other smoked, drank, and was a burnout. He was growing certain non-carnivorous plants on the window sill! I was totally straight and didn't fit in at all. I fled that room after the first semester.

 

[Clint]

i don't blame you for getting another room lol, i would have been a nervous wreck with pot plants growing on the windowsill!

 

[herenorthere]

I twice had roommates who went home just about every weekend. When my daughter leaves for college (in 5 years), I say she has to go at least 1000 miles away to make sure she doesn't do the same. She says she needs to go at least 2000 miles away.

 

[jimscott]

Quote[/b] (herenorthere @ Aug. 26 2006,4:21)]I twice had roommates who went home just about every weekend.  When my daughter leaves for college (in 5 years), I say she has to go at least 1000 miles away to make sure she doesn't do the same.  She says she needs to go at least 2000 miles away.

I still remember feeling that I wanted to get as far away as I could from home (Long Island) and still be in NY. Plattsburgh wasn't the farthest SUNY school (Buffalo State & UB were), but P-burgh was a good 300+ miles away. I can't say that I was pining to be home, but it was still quite an adjustment. One of my closest friends, a girl buddy, if you will, also chose PSUC and I hung out with her a lot that first year, especially that first semester.

I didn't go home on weekends, just the usual breaks - Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc... But that very first time I went home, I remember feeling like I was a guest in my own home. I literally asked if I could get some food from the fridge. That wasn't anything coming from my parents. It was just me with that awkwardness.

I'd say that all freshmen feel lonely that first semester, whether they articulate it or not. Usually, it manifests itself in less than constructive behaviors. There were a lot of "closet raised" kids that went absolutely nuts as freshmen, with their new found freedoms.

 

[herenorthere]

With the nearest cities being Burlington, VT and Montreal, going to Plattsburg isn't really staying in NY.