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You state:
When I spent a year as a high school senior in Minn. a long time ago (75-76), my classmates were certainly considering going to the University or to a college - often referred to as a "community college". Maybe things have changed in the 38 years since then, or maybe it varies from state to state.
Although this may be true, the discussion is typically "should I attend a community college or should I attend a University". After the choice is made, however, I expected them to say "I am in college" regardless of whether they chose a University or a community college. If the intention is to make a distinction (at least in the states by a native speaker in the states), the full term "community college" is usually used rather than just "college" or they may offer a further clarification that it is a full University, but, I have never heard a native speaker in the states say "I am attending university". My recollections of things in the states related to college only go back to 1980, however. Things were very different while living in outside the US.
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Same in Brazil. I studied in a college that became an university when they started teaching other areas besides engineering.
Edit:
You could say that you always go to college when you are going to the university, but you are not always going to university when you are going to college.
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson
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Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
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They're used interchangeably but they have some subtle differences. Universities are sometimes comprised of colleges (Taubman College at University of Michigan, for example, and TX A&M has many colleges ).
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They do in the UK.
College is where children (and some adults) go after school to get low level vocational qualifications or to get skills up to a level to go to university.
University is where adults go to get degrees or higher qualifications.
Although it used to be different, there used to be polytechnics for vocational qualifications and universities for academic qualifications but the polytechnics had pretensions of grandeur and soon both were called universities. This happened the year I first went to university IIRC.
Traditional universities are made up of a number of colleges, but that is more of a tribal thing than an educational thing, and they are not related to the colleges from above.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Same here in South Africa. Though we have Universities for the "degrees" and Technical Colleges (abr. Technicon) for vocational qualifications (i.e. Diploma instead of Degree). Or at least that's how it used to be (when I was at uni) until someone thought it sounded not too Politically Correct and now you can get your B.Comm / B.Sc / B.Funny at a tech as well ... 
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The degrees you get at SA Technicons are technical degrees, so it would be a Technical B Com or B Com Tech or some such, I'm not sure about the terminology. Also, they take an additional year or two. So after three years you get your Diploma, and then with an additional year of study you get a B Tech degree. Another two years and you might get your M Tech.
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I stand corrected! Thanks.
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Pleasure 
I only know this because I worked at Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) for a few years doing embedded C coding (I have no tertiary qualification whatsoever).
TUT Engineering Dept had an initiative where they provided office space and students to help small businesses develop products. Ostensibly this provided the small businesses with almost-free labour, and gave the students practical experience. Problem was students were only available for 6-month stretches and didn't have skin in the game.
So the engineer "employeed" me with bursary money to fix their code (a paltry sum but wonderful experience).
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"University is where adults go "
ROFL! 
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Well that took a lot longer than expected.
What is the correct term for those who are no longer legally children but not yet able to act like adults. Twats perhaps?
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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chriselst wrote: What is the correct term for those who are no longer legally children but not yet able to act like adults.
While at uni my father used to tease me, saying: "A student is the lowest form of animal life."
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RyanDev wrote: where you are at?
At my college/university we were taught to not end a sentence with 'at'. Oops, just did it.
(sorry Dude, couldn't resist)
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Gary Huck wrote: (sorry Dude, couldn't resist)
No problem. I get busted by the grammar police all the times. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Veni, vidi, vici.
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8 years in college? I don't think he's a PhD, so even assuming he's got a Masters (4 and then 2 years for 6 years total), given how he took an extra 2 years to complete that, no surprises there I would say.
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Not everyone should be a programmer.
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Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote: Not everyone should be a programmer.
So true and yet so difficult to convince those who shouldn't be that they shouldn't be.
I've worked with at least one terrible programmer -- who did not even understand the basic concept of function calls, so he had thousands of lines of same, slightly altered, for loop peppered through a program which had the same bug throughout. He could not be convinced of his powers of terribleness and could not be deterred from writing more bad code.
Blithely they roll on.
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I was a warehouse person at a company. My job was to receive inventory, stock inventory, ship inventory, etc. I managed to hit myself in the head with a steel rod and get a knot large enough to almost consider a hospital visit. Many questions were asked,
"Are you Ok"
"Do you need to go to the doctor"
"Why was there a steel rod in your hand"
"How come we heard light-saber noises before your injury"
etc.
Bottom-line, warehouse work is not for me. I don't have the capacity for it. I know that, it is my limit. Others should learn theirs as well.
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Amen. Can't wait for this "everyone should code" phase to die.
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I liked the first reply to this article.
"I stopped reading half way though this because the article has nothing to do with entrepreneurship or college. This is a long rant about somebody who lived a sheltered life and got hit hard when they came to the "real world"."
/ravi
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Oh MAN I wish I could follow that boy's life when he leaves school
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Of course, I went to London University, which meant going to a college and, after three years, being able to use BSc(Eng)(Lond) after my name.
I studied Aeronautics at the world's first Aeronautics faculty at QMC.
We 'ad it 'ard.
We had about three lectures on computing and were expected to pick up how to use the card batch system on our ICL 1904 mainframe for Fortran 4 programmes which solved equations - Runge-Kutta, Newtonian or plain algebra - and that was it.
In my final year I chose a full year project, simulating Harriers in full 6 DOF, still in Fortran 4.
By the time I did my first Masters (Cranfield, 1 year), the die was cast and I was hooked on engineering programming.
Nice work if you can get it, but while my degrees gave me general engineering sense and domain knowledge, programming was self-taught.
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Simon O'Riordan from UK wrote: my degrees gave me general engineering sense and domain knowledge
Yeah, to bad most people forget this general knowledge after the exams (and I must confess I too work like that).
I'm not saying University is completely worthless, but you have to do the work yourself, as you said.
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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This is very troubling. A friend's son recently took an intro Python class at a private college. He was stuck so I worked with him for about 15 minutes. He said, "I get it. The professor never explained it that way. All he does is open up the IDE, type lines of code and says, 'you just do this'". Ugh. The boy ended up hating Python and programming because of the difficulties he had in this intro course. Too bad.
Way to kill the inspiration there, Professor.
No wonder IT is in the state it is in.
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