I love this hobby and love being near the ocean. I would really want to have a career in a field with marine biology or something related to the reefs around the world. I found a great college. It's called University of Hawaii at manoa. If your in classes such as zoology or oceanography, you actually get to work on a research island right on a reef! this would be like vacation everyday. for me this college would be difficult to get in with my grades and scores. Im wondering if I should even try to attend that college or do something locally. Tuition for this school is in state plus half which is affordable for us.
Where should I go for college?
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I teach high school and I always recommend to my students to leave the state for college if it is feasible for them/their families. I am biased, for that is what I did. I just think that college is the time of your life where you begin to truly become yourself: you leave behind whatever impression/identity you have made to the same people over the past 12 years and enter a realm where no one knows you and you begin fresh. More importantly, you learn take ultimate responsibility for yourself right away: you're it. Some people shudder at the thought of not having mom-n-dad nearby (I have no idea if this fits you or not), but I think it is invaluable to be in a place where if something goes awry you're the one who has to figure it out. From a distance, mom-n-dad become supporters via advice rather than rescuers (which I see more and more today).
Further, Colorado will always be here for you--take this time of your life where you have greater freedom to explore and see the wider country/world. I also recommend a semester abroad if that is feasible. I never got to, but I took some trips early enough to make me wish I could go for a longer time.
Whatever you choose, make a bold choice. Don't be afraid or hesitant or tentative--go for it. If it doesn't work out, your family will (hopefully) welcome you back.
Cheers
Further, Colorado will always be here for you--take this time of your life where you have greater freedom to explore and see the wider country/world. I also recommend a semester abroad if that is feasible. I never got to, but I took some trips early enough to make me wish I could go for a longer time.
Whatever you choose, make a bold choice. Don't be afraid or hesitant or tentative--go for it. If it doesn't work out, your family will (hopefully) welcome you back.
Cheers
Meh, $$ is nothing. You're young. Do what you enjoy doing, that's my only advice. If someone would have told me when I was 19 I could do anything I wanted to, if I just worked at it, I'd be a much happier person today 
Don't get me wrong, I have a good job and make good $$. But it's a job.
I have friends who were lucky enough to do what they loved for a living. They are happier and wake up every day doing exactly what they dreamed about, and their careers are not jobs to them.
If you're passionate about something, then do it, at any cost. You'll figure how to pay for it.
Don't get me wrong, I have a good job and make good $$. But it's a job.
I have friends who were lucky enough to do what they loved for a living. They are happier and wake up every day doing exactly what they dreamed about, and their careers are not jobs to them.
If you're passionate about something, then do it, at any cost. You'll figure how to pay for it.
I wouldn't go that far.
While the experience of going to school out of state is great. The experience of paying back $60k worth of school loans is not.
There are very few career's where people actually care where you got your degree from. A degree from CSU holds the same weight from a degree at Purdue at 99% of the interviews you will go to.
Honestly if I had to do it over again, I would finish my AS at a community college and then finish the BS/MS at the university.
But to answer your question UCSD has a great marine biology program.
While the experience of going to school out of state is great. The experience of paying back $60k worth of school loans is not.
There are very few career's where people actually care where you got your degree from. A degree from CSU holds the same weight from a degree at Purdue at 99% of the interviews you will go to.
Honestly if I had to do it over again, I would finish my AS at a community college and then finish the BS/MS at the university.
But to answer your question UCSD has a great marine biology program.
+1 going out of state is great, but only if you can really afford it or are going into a field where you could easily pay back the loans. I'm originally from mass, and I came out here to get my engineering degree at boulder, but after my freshman year, I realized I could have more fun and save money by going to cmc up here in Breckenridge, while still being able to get the same degree by transferring back to boulder after two years at cmc.
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My family can afford it easily. Luckily my mom was smart and saved everyday since I was born, so I should have enough to pay for a college that would be $40 thousand a year for 4 years. plus I get V.A. from the military which is like 50k so paying for college is not the hard part, it's just my grades. they are not great, but they are not bad.
I would be very careful to pick something you can make a career out of. If you pick MB, realize that you will be poor, traveling, and wearing khaki shorts FOR LIFE. Just a little bit of advice from a biomedical researcher who has learned that a PhD means 7 years of professional level work for $23k a year. Honestly, if I had to do it again, I probably would have gone for a career that was all about the $$$ and then had science as a hobby. People enjoy something more when it isn't crushing all of their life goals away.
Ok a couple reccomendations first if you really want MB, go with a biological sciences degree as an undergrad you can always specialize into MB in grad school and with MB you will need to go to grad school to even have a shot at getting a job. If you actually finish Biological sciences as an undergrad and have changed your mind on careers by then it will give you more options after college or in grad school. Second if you enroll at CSU their sister school is Hawaii and it is relativly easy to transfer there with a lower tuition rate later. Third get every grant and scholorship you can find the school debt my wife and I have is nearly crippling financially and can dictate the rest of your life for you quit easily.
I agree. Grants and scholarships are worth gold. I'm paying almost $700 a month in student loans and am thinking of going for my masters. That would add another $300 easy. Like Scott said, it can take over everything. Imagine how much reefing stuff I could buy for $700-$1,000 a month.
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