GB PHR-803T SLEDS *All Gone* Rep if you LOVED it!

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Alright I got half the current orders shipped out today. I woke up at 1:30 and had a tennis match at 3, so that's all I had time for, sorry. I will ship the rest of the sleds out for sure! Thanks everyone.

pullbangdead, about 4 or 5 of my friends are planning to try to go to ucsb. They are going to go to the city college then transfer over to UCSB because they either wont get in or cant afford it. Do you think this is a good idea? and do you like it there? They dont know what they want to major in yet.

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All Gone!   ;D ;D ;D ;D

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wow is this the fastest GB ever?

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;D this is my 30th day here.

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Dang, I just got the money I been waiting for to finance these. I didn't wanna "abandon" this GB, but I guess I'll be waiting to hear about amk's next one now. Good to hear this one went well for everyone.

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Hey airy. I sent you a PM about forgetting to put my forum name on my order, but haven't heard anything back from you. I ordered 2 on the 12th, just want to find out whether or not I placed my order in time.

Thanks

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:'( Damn wait a bit to gather money and they fly off the shelves lol. I'd give you a good rep for it anyway if I knew how.

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I can expect to get my sled in a couple of days, right?

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woot woot!

way to go airy

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Thanks haha. EVERYONE's orders will be fully shipped today, I have about 6 left. "Whoa" I got you're message. I'll post the new receipts that I shipped tonight. Thanks everyone!

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Got my package today!

I was really worried when I saw this sticker on it...

I've never had anything opened by customs before..

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But, when I opened it I was relieved to find that customs didn't see anything they wanted, instead they left me a little note to remind Airy to always fill out customs declarations on any international bound packages.

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Woah, scary. It says on the envelope "camera parts x.x oz". Anything under 13 oz, all you have to do is write what it is, and its weight, and its cleared for customs. weird.

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airy52 said:

pullbangdead, about 4 or 5 of my friends are planning to try to go to ucsb. They are going to go to the city college then transfer over to UCSB because they either wont get in or cant afford it. Do you think this is a good idea? and do you like it there? They dont know what they want to major in yet.

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I don't know from personal experience, but I have heard that going to Santa Barbara City College for a while is a very popular route to get to UCSB if you can't right out of high school, and I've heard of people doing it because of grades and because of money. UCSB does seem to have a liking for SBCC, and I've heard it's a very good city college relative to others, but again,I don't know from personal experience, just what I've heard. I've even heard people who had marginal grades and didn't quite get in that the admissions department at UCSB told them to go to SBCC, and then they would probably get in later (and these are the people deciding admissions, afterall). So I've heard the same things they have, at least. I'm not from here, and didn't do my undergrad at UCSB (I'm a graduate student at UCSB now), so my experience in that is limited. Graduate admissions basically come down to the department, and materials is a small major, so the admission process is a lot different overall.

As far as specifically saving money by doing that, eh, I don't know. Santa Barbara is a REALLY expensive place to live, and that won't change no matter which school you're at. And the cost of the schools, I really have no idea. I have looked absolutely zero at what school itself (tuition, fees) costs at either school, UCSB or SBCC. And even what I would look at for me, I'm a graduate AND I'm out of state, so those both add $$$ to the bill. (But I ignore the costs. Since I'm a graduate student in one of the leading groups of its kind in the country, they pay for everything, so I don't have to worry about it. Graduate school rocks, at least in top engineering programs that have the money to pay you for it).

And majors, yeah, I don't know what to advise there. I loved and still love materials science as my undergraduate and my graduate degrees, but UCSB doesn't offer undergraduate degrees in materials. But engineering was always the way to go for me, and I recommend it to others as well. With no materials available, I probably would have been ECE and tried to get in with the professors in ECE that focus more on devices and processing, and electronic materials (there's a lot of overlap there). In fact, a lot of ECE professors here have joint appointments in both materials and ECE. Same for physics, chem, etc. But really, do what you love and something that you can do for the rest of your life. For example, you may love psychology, but unless you plan on going to a lot of school and becoming a professor or a practicing psychologist, don't do it. Do something you love, that you can get a job in and be happy with.

It's not a thread derail if the groupbuy is over, is it?

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BTW Airy, next time you ship things, print off your own usps shipping labels so that people who paid $13 shipping don't see that it only cost you $2 to ship.
As I understand it you made a bit of profit off this GB, which I have no problem with, but it's kinda offensive to see something like that when you couldn't really afford the higher prices to begin with.

Not trying to be a dick about it, but when you make $5-$10 profit off each sled it's kinda rubbing it in to show people you also made a killing off overcharging for shipping as well.

Again, not trying to be confrontational or anything, that just left a sour taste in my mouth.

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It made things so so so much easier. I don't know how to do the usps printing thing but I'll look into it. It made them easier because the max I could be charged for shipping was 5$, so I knew I wouldn't have to pay out of my pocket for shipping. Some places cost 13, some cost 3, luck of the draw. Sorry to do that to you, if you really have some pretty tight problems with money you should have talked to me about it and we could have worked something out, we've all been there once in our lives and its nice to have some help when you're there.