how the fuck do you not know how to do laundryiohdslfnslkfnk it is SELF EXPLANATORY jesus christ

sometimes I think parents should get to choose their kids' majors because I would be really pissed off if I spent tens of thousands of dollars so my kid could get a degree in something like photography or art criticism.

Yeah, I found out about the Digital Media and Design program (computer science + art) here after I entered, and it sounded pretty cool but I figured my parents wouldn't want to pay so much for me to get a degree in THAT. They're already telling me MAKE GOOD GRADES OR YOU'RE TRANSFERRING BACK HERE, which is fairly reasonable considering how much this first year is costing. Man, why couldn't I have made it into Wharton? I would make so much money. Instead I'm studying engineering and will end up making half as much. Still, I try to make myself feel better knowing that my friend who's going to Princeton ($50,000+ per year, sans financial aid) is majoring in Comparative Literature, of all things.

how the fuck do you not know how to do laundryiohdslfnslkfnk it is SELF EXPLANATORY jesus christ

It's kind of funny: I had to show a couple of guys how to iron a shirt the other day. And do laundry. One of them had his mom do his laundry when she came to visit him. Seriously, when you're eighteen, your mom shouldn't be doing that stuff. 

EDIT: Also there is a freakin' STEP-BY-STEP illustrated process hanging over all of the washers at my dorm. This is the Ivy League?!

Your GPA is a bit grim for some colleges, but I don't know what they accept over there so I can't say for certain.  I don't think too much emphasis is put on languages (here they required four years of a foreign language, but I only took two), but you may have some problems when it comes to your core courses. Try to send a course description of your Integrated Math class along with your transcript so that the admissions panel knows what it is that you learned in that class. Same thing goes for other classes with vague title names. Do well on your ACT/SATs, and pop some extracurriculars under your belt. As long as you graduate, I'm fairly sure some college will accept you, be it a community college or a four-year university. Remember that an average is just that: an average. Universities accept candidates from above AND below what Collegeboard posts as their average GPA, so what they say is not written in stone.

At that fact, I'd recommend CollegeBoard.com for some basic college information and whatnot. You might need to fill out their financial aid form "CSS" for some of your colleges when you get in. You'll definitely need to fill out the FAFSA too! Not now, but early next year. Don't forget about it: a lot of colleges require this to give you financial aid! Seriously, my sister missed the deadline for her university's FAFSA application (even though she was a transfer student, so she was accepted AFTER the deadline, which is really stupid), and we're paying the full price of her tuition this year. Go to FastWeb.com to apply for scholarships all that jazz. I've met, like, one person who's won a few, but I figure the awards have to go to somebody. Finally, talk to your guidance counselor about community service opportunities and any scholarships you can apply for. Getting to know them also really helps when you're getting teacher/guidance recommendations. You won't be just a random face and a name to them if you start talking to them now.

As for an application, most colleges have paper or online ones. I applied via the Common Application online for most of my colleges (I applied to ten, all of them online, but two were not on CommonApp). They usually consist of: application, two or more teacher recommendations, personal essays, guidance recommendations (sometimes), transcript, lists of extracurriculars or personal activities, etc. It depends on the college really.

Psyburn, I think you'd have to go to some art school to avoid writing papers. And even then you might write papers about film history and whatnot. There's no way to escape. (Temple is all right. My mom went there for pharmacy, and my sister is going there for architecture [which ][/which]. If you can stay in-state, though, I would suggest it. It almost always costs less.)

ahaha, well i could understand the ironing bit.  my brother showed me how when i was about 19 because i'd never had to iron a shirt in my life basically.  i mean i could do it because it's obvious but there're techniques to ironing that make it easier.  i would be embarrassed to have my mom do my laundry when she came to visit, though.


also VINCEP you sound like the poster child for someone who is going to have to go to community college.  i do not know a lot about this shit so maybe you can get into a legit uni with a 2.0 as long as you've got some sound sat scores or something, but yeah when i was in high school they told us shit like that meant we had to do to tri-c for a year or two before getting into a real college.  maybe that wasn't true though!

I plan on doing my masters overseas, and I fully intend to work as many hours as legally possible while there to help pay for it, as well as applying for whatever scholarships I can get.

don't feel too limited by this btw!!!  idk where you plan to go to school, if anywhere at all yet, but pretty much anywhere you go it is easy as hell to get a job that will pay you under the table so LEGALLY POSSIBLE flies out the window which is good if you really need cash.  mostly i know this because my brother and his friends have gone to school all over the place in europe and he pretty consistently finds full-time+ work because he's poor as hell even though i'm pretty sure that's not legal on a student visa or whatever.  getting paid in cash is handy too because TAXES etc so in general it's nice that plenty of places are willing to do it, especially like individual bars/restaurants/shops.