Originally Posted By: Droid
I´ll send you a message with the info.
I have only found one of the stories I have in mind, and I guess it's not something that happens regularly.
Just out of curiousity, where you Raven W/ Writing Desk on the old boards? If not who was that?
Yes, <i>Raven v. Writing Desk</i> was my title for several years, italics included. Were you around then under a different name?
Re college mail, the school I ended up going to (U Chicago) sent me one advertisement that I found so distasteful, I refused to look into the place for nearly two years. I eventually decided to shoot for Chicago, ahead of other options, on two largely irrelevant bases: (1) the existence of a rare program in cuneiform studies that I thought was cool, even though I knew it wasn't likely I'd spend my life doing that, and (2) the fact that there were numerous used bookstores near the school. I ended up being glad I went there, but mainly because of its proximity to downtown Chicago.
The reality is that most BA/BS programs are similar, and most colleges are similar. Unless you have a very specific research or professional interest that you are way more sure about than most teenagers are, or you want a specific, unusual program, the two factors that really retain meaning when comparing colleges are geography and cost, and maybe also the student culture.