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Originally posted by clareyfairy_:
--Yeah the system with Universities is really different in America..I'm sure Jude or whoever will be able to tell more but they study more than one subject at College/University and then choose to major in one in their final year I think. (I mainly know this from Dawson's Creek...they have ridiculous amounts of classes in different subjects at College!)

Yeah, its totally different. For a start you can apply to as many universities as you want, you have to pay for each application (law school in California is $75 application fee, I guess its about that much) but there's nothing to stop you applying to every school in the continent.

Each major has required courses in other areas, everyone has to take introductory english/maths courses or whatever, regardless of what major they do. And you can change your major as many times as you want, so it can literally take you years and years to get all the required courses and grades to graduate. As far as I know you can do them in any order you want too, so if you and your best friend both went to the same uni to do the same degree, you wouldn't necessarily ever be in the same classes, it would depend on which semester you chose to take classes in and what classes had spaces left on them.

I dont know if you have to apply to be on a course or at a university, I guess you just apply to the university? It seems a bit random, I never thought to ask anyone.

I did wonder though how they think they're going to get into some of the best schools in the country when not one of them has any sort of extracurricular activities - Ryan was only on the football team at the beginning of S1, Summer was a candy striper in S1, Marissa was supposedly social chair, but we havent actually heard of any of them doing anything in the last season and a bit! Unless of course they're going to get in on their good looks and grades. And money.

Thanks for the insight Jude! I think it's quite a good idea to do maths/english introductory courses, our French lecturer was telling us the other day how so many English students fail the basic skills tests you need to do to be a teacher here.

I got the impression on the OC you apply to the university, they certainly didn't discuss courses! Seth was a president of the comic book club and they've all been known to help newpie events. In the Mallpisode didn't Marissa and Summer do some charity work?But you're right, they haven't done much in terms of extra-curricular activities.

I liked this week's episode. Johnny/Marissa storyline annoys me though! I even missed Taylor!! I'm loving the fact that Kirsten and Julie are setting up business together.

But next week is the Chrismukkah episode!! I love Chrismukkah!

Before I leave for university, I just want to say how much I loved the Chrismukkah episode!!!

Yay Wasn't it just...*the* best?
I had to go back and watch the whole ending sequence again, it was so cute!

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Yay Wasn't it just...*the* best?
I had to go back and watch the whole ending sequence again, it was so cute!

I love episodes with family scenes! I've still no interest in Johnny though, he's very annoying! Bring back Taylor!

urgh I know...Johnny...*yaaaawn*

spoiler
johnny dies woohoo
i like taylor she is very cheery and exciting johnny is jusy boring an dlooks sad al the time

I love Johnny!

But what is there to love? He is so D-U-L-L and just gets in the way of the Ryan-Marissa-ness.. He's not even that good looking.

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But what is there to love? He is so D-U-L-L and just gets in the way of the Ryan-Marissa-ness.. He's not even that good looking.

I agree! However it never takes much to get in between Ryan and Marissa!

Taylor is fab. I actually miss her when she isnt in it now. Never liked Johnny though. Occasionally he's nice to look at but that's it. No more, usually much less.

I found out more about applying to colleges - if you apply to start from the beginning you just pick the school you want to go to, if you go to another college first and then transfer in (which is freakishly common) then you choose a major when you apply. Just in case anyone was still wondering.

Missed last week's OC. Hopefully Ryan's 18th wasn't that important. Someone will have it when I get back to England in a few weeks though so I can catch up. Unless anything really important happened though I think Ill just keep watching to the end of the season. Not long till August now anyways if I start to skip some. Lord knows I skip ER all the time.

I'm missing Taylor. She wasn't in yesterday's episode! I hope that's the last we've seen of Johnny but I have a feeling he'll dominate next week's episode too

I'm not feeling sorry for Seth! But I like the idea of Neil and Julie dating. The new Kaitlin made me laugh at first, super transformation(nothing beats Home and Away for transformations though!)

Well yes that's the end of him , i heard about it few weeks ago.

Personally-i'm surprised it took catiyln that long figure out That he wasn't quite himself, there were obvious sign that jonny was trying to forget about the letter Marrisa gave him.