Adventures Attending College

[PUNdit]

Ursa, exclusive clubs and organizations are not for everyone,

Rich, that there college education is sure making you smart!

[Ursa Major]

Yogi Berra would be proud.

[Ursa Major]

As a preemptive measure, I should clarify that it's not my intention to belittle your achievement, Rich. I know that your acceptance into that society required an admirable academic record; one which I myself never approached as an under graduate. It's the whole pseudo-masonic networking angle that offends my proletarian sensibilities.

[RichPella]

LOL, PUNdit. What I really meant was that there is no club that suits everyone. That's why there are so many different clubs. Thanks for de-Yogi'ing my statement.

The other thing I meant to mention earlier but forgot, is that many organizations on campus, honor societies included, do some sort of work in the community. Sometimes such work is limited to the university, other times it's the broader local community, and still other times it may extend to a more global effort. So these societies benefit not only their own members, but others, as well.

Originally Posted by Ursa Major

It's the whole pseudo-masonic networking angle that offends my proletarian sensibilities.

I don't quite get it. Are you saying that clubs in general offend you, or just ones that restrict their membership? Or something else that I'm not understanding?

[Ursa Major]

Originally Posted by RichPella

I don't quite get it. Are you saying that clubs in general offend you, or just ones that restrict their membership?

Just ones that restrict membership to the "right kind of people". By the time I got to college, I was fed up with cliques of any kind and was rather appalled that college students had institutionalized the kind of attitude I had hoped I'd left behind in high school. I know it sounds like sour grapes but it's really just my particular brand of anti-snob snobbery at work. I've never owed my success to "who I know", and I don't think anybody else should either.

[OpalCat]

My mom says that she's had her Phi Beta Kappa membership get her sort of in-the-door access to people and opportunities that she may have not had otherwise. My degree is from a college that only had Golden Key, and while I was invited, I turned it down because everything I read about it has been that it's $70 in exchange for diddly.

As for the transfer student thing, some honor societies require that X number of your credit hours be from the university the chapter is at. If you went to school all at one school, that isn't a problem. If, on the other hand, you are like me, and collected credits from 6 different colleges, you may not have enough from your final school to qualify for the traditional honor society.

[RichPella]

Thanks for the insight on traditional honor societies, Opal. North Texas is my sixth transcript, too. I've attended 8 schools, though. I took classes at two separate colleges in each of the two community college districts I attended.

[RichPella]

I'm registered for my Spring classes! They are:

1) Business Statistical Analysis Using Spreadsheets (a long name for Business Statistics)
2) Finance
3) Greetings and Salutations, Your Most Glorious and Wonderful Opally Cattyness!
4) Real Estate Law and Contracts
5) Property Management
6) Beginning Tennis

#1 and #2 are Business Foundations courses, which everyone in the College of Business must take. #1 is the second part of a course I'm taking now.
#4 and #5 are for the Real Estate major.
#6 is just 'cuz. I've wanted to learn to play tennis for many years. I don't need any more P.E. credits, but hey, why not?