If you like the school, it might be worth staying where you are...it depends on the nature of your distress. Are you being harassed, or do you just feel isolated? There are bound to be at least a few students who share some of your beliefs. In time, you might find common ground with even the more conservative students. I wish I had something more constructive to say, but my college days are loooooong past and I don't remember sensing a political climate on campus, one way or the other. I just hung out with the people who lived near me in the dorm.
It may take awhile to find "your people," but that could be true even in a more liberal town. If you are far from home, if you are homesick, if you are finding the adjustment to college difficult (as many students do), the political and social climate on and around campus may bother you more than it will later on, when you have made a place for yourself.
Plus UT Austin would cost $40,000, and that's in-state tuition.
Tim
It's like society is deliberately raising the costs of all these liberal places to keep me out.
Tim
I plan to transfer to another school based on the prospects of there being liberal Aspie women to date.
Tim
It's like society is deliberately raising the costs of all these liberal places to keep me out.
he he. Not likely that they're particularly aiming at you... but being 18-25 and liberal equals big money to colleges that can meet that need. More like supply and demand is in play here. 
Are you afraid of paying back an expensive school's school loans? I wouldn't worry too much about that... it seems you'd be better off establishing connections in an area that better suits your interests academically and politically.
It's the student loans I'm worried about.
Tim
And this is exactly what I think is so wrong about the pay for uni idea. It should be possible to have a scheme where the fees are capped so that poorer students still have the chance to go to a good school.
And this is exactly what I think is so wrong about the pay for uni idea. It should be possible to have a scheme where the fees are capped so that poorer students still have the chance to go to a good school.
I agree 100%. I also feel that people should not be charged much more to go to school in another state.
Tim
Yes, I cannot understand the reasoning behind charging more for students to transfer interstate. So unfortunately, the economics of moving interstate might well defeat you. Are there any clubs at all you could join where you are? For instance, would there be a gem fossicking club? This would tie in well with your interest in geology.
I don't know much about Wichita Falls but surely there must be something, anything, you could get involved in. Even if it doesn't lead directly to your finding a girlfriend, it would keep you occupied and involved so hopefully would cut down on your worrying time.
Hmm, that's why it would make more sense to have university funding coming out of Federal Taxes instead like in Australia. I also think the idea we have of not having to make any repayments on the university debt until a person gets a job and has an income above a certain amount is a better one.
Yes, I cannot understand the reasoning behind charging more for students to transfer interstate. So unfortunately, the economics of moving interstate might well defeat you. Are there any clubs at all you could join where you are? For instance, would there be a gem fossicking club? This would tie in well with your interest in geology.
I don't know much about Wichita Falls but surely there must be something, anything, you could get involved in. Even if it doesn't lead directly to your finding a girlfriend, it would keep you occupied and involved so hopefully would cut down on your worrying time.
The reasoning is that public universities are partially supported by state tax dollars. Families who do not live in that state are not contributing anything toward the support of the school through taxes paid to the state. Very simple, actually.
It does hinder freedom of choice, though.
Tim
Hmm, that's why it would make more sense to have university funding coming out of Federal Taxes instead like in Australia. I also think the idea we have of not having to make any repayments on the university debt until a person gets a job and has an income above a certain amount is a better one.
That sounds like an excellent idea.
Tim
And what's worse, young people who don't want to go on to university are called "drop-outs". I think that is a very bad thing to call people, as if they are 2nd or 3rd citizens. At the very least, there should be more scholarships for bright young people from poorer families. I know there are sports scholarships but there should also be more scholarships in other areas.
I think the U.S. government should ban tuition hikes, or at least have a nationally set tuition rate.
Tim
Didn't Bush go to Yale?
Tim