Did anyone ever go to one of those semester at sea universi

[Moe]

universities for a semester? or a year?

Just wondering.

A cousin of mine is going to college, and his college started with Ship, and I was all excited until I learned that it was just the first four letter of his college, it wasn't a college at sea.

Then I got all wistful.

And remembered road rules.  Weren't they once at a semester at sea?

or road rules?

JUST SEMESTER AT SEA, don't tell me if you went to Europe for a semester.

[Deleted]

Ooh, I always wanted to do one, but that idea was shut down verrry quickly by my parents.

[underwaterrhymes]

Yes, Road Rules did a Semester at Sea.

I never did it, but I really wanted to. Even after I graduated college I debated applying for a job on board.

[Moe]

No Como Town AND no semester at sea? WHAT CHILDHOOD DID YOU HAVE!

LOLz

I wanted to go to Groningen or Utrecht with all my friends, and my parents were all "The Netherlands is a den of promiscuity!!!"

If they would have just come clean and tell me that Puerto Rico would be cheaper. Hmph.

[moolarkey]

My step niece did, year before last. I think it cost $18k for that semester plus regular tuition. Right now I can't remember if she went to Univ of Colorado or Colorado State. She loved it. She kept a blog through about the first 1/2 of the trip and it was really interesting.

[Deleted]

Aug 20, 2013 20:59:39 GMT -5 Moe said:

No Como Town AND no semester at sea? WHAT CHILDHOOD DID YOU HAVE!

LOLz

I wanted to go to Groningen or Utrecht with all my friends, and my parents were all "The Netherlands is a den of promiscuity!!!"

If they would have just come clean and tell me that Puerto Rico would be cheaper. Hmph.

I know.  DEPRIVED!!  And hell yes, my parents wouldn't have let me go to the Netherlands.  They barely let me go to Minneapolis.  When I was 21.

[Moe]

Aug 20, 2013 21:05:51 GMT -5 @weeble said:

Aug 20, 2013 20:59:39 GMT -5 Moe said:

No Como Town AND no semester at sea? WHAT CHILDHOOD DID YOU HAVE!

LOLz

I wanted to go to Groningen or Utrecht with all my friends, and my parents were all "The Netherlands is a den of promiscuity!!!"

If they would have just come clean and tell me that Puerto Rico would be cheaper. Hmph.

I know.  DEPRIVED!!  And hell yes, my parents wouldn't have let me go to the Netherlands.  They barely let me go to Minneapolis.  When I was 21.

I have a friend from Apple Valley who told me that going to downtown MSP was like, underground and shizz.  That the parents thought that it was going to be the death of them.  LOL.  I'm all YOU CAN SEE THE CITY FROM YOUR HOUSE!!! Ok, not really, but at least from that highway that takes you to the Minnesota Zoo. 

Yet MOA was all good and dandy.  Which is odd, I have a friend whose partner works for an organization that does a lot of human trafficking stories, and you'd be surprised how much girls are snatched at MOA for sex trade.  MOA!!! You know, with Nickelodeon and the Gap.

[aprilsails]

I wanted to so badly but the costs were prohibitive. We were looking at doing a year of high school on the Concordia (recently sunk). I think it was $30k for a year of high school. I have spent over a year at sea on various Tall Ships working as an officer doing sail training though so my parents figured that was enough.

A friend from one of my ships went on the Concordia. It was pretty fun by all accounts.

[Moe]

Although, if you really think about it, it's kind of insular, I'm guessing that it's a lot of days at sea, and that works to control the masses and put checks on them.

So now I'm nixing the idea.

I'm glad that I went to a brick and mortar large university where I could study on the beach then come back to take the test.

Good times.

[zoidberg]

Never did, but you KNOW I still fantasize about stuff like this.

Like, maybe I could volunteer on a research vessel....

[Moe]

Aug 20, 2013 21:12:30 GMT -5 zoidberg said:

Never did, but you KNOW I still fantasize about stuff like this.

Like, maybe I could volunteer on a research vessel....

there's a book I read about ... well... a lot of things.

but one of the story lines is about a mother who might be going crazy in her super high strung upper class seattle lifestyle, and she opts to run away to antartica.

hint.

and she figures to be a stowaway in one of the research ships that tag along the main cruise lines to go to one of these undiscovered antarctic isles off the coast where they do research.

if we ever want to GBCW, let's go there.

between running a 13.1 and drinking wine.

[zoidberg]

Yes.

Did I tell you that one of my friends from undergrad spent a couple of years on an Antarctic research ship? We can get some tips from him.

[puglife]

I'm law a

[Moe]

I have a friend that opted NOT to go to Antartica because of the 2 year commitment.

I mean, really.

Hmph.

Now he's in suburban Chicago with some weird ass phys chem company doing some god knows what lasers. LASERS. HE COULD HAVE GONE WHERE FEW HAVE GONE BEFORE!

[Deleted]

I wish. I lived on a ship for a few months sailing all over the Med, Atlantic, Caribbean, and then one week of Alaska. It was glorious and one of the best things I ever did when I was single.

[bananapancakes]

My husband taught on one but then it sank and he almost died. He has no desire to teach at sea anymore thank goodness.

[bananapancakes]

Aug 20, 2013 21:10:35 GMT -5 aprilsails said:

I wanted to so badly but the costs were prohibitive. We were looking at doing a year of high school on the Concordia (recently sunk). I think it was $30k for a year of high school. I have spent over a year at sea on various Tall Ships working as an officer doing sail training though so my parents figured that was enough.

A friend from one of my ships went on the Concordia. It was pretty fun by all accounts.

That is the ship that my H was on. He was on it when it sank. Scariest couple of days of our lives!

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Aug 20, 2013 21:07:09 GMT -5 @barefootbarista said:

My BFFs H did. He was on RR-Semester at Sea :-)

Yes, Pawel or Shawn?  

[ProfessorArtNerd]

Like Sweet Life on Deck?

I get seasick, but one day, ONE DAY, I will teach a course in Roma. Bucket. List. Item.

[milosh]

Aug 20, 2013 21:20:43 GMT -5 Que? said:

Breaker High!

I came in here to say exactly this!

[VeryViolet]

Aug 20, 2013 21:23:58 GMT -5 @jezebel said:

Aug 20, 2013 21:07:09 GMT -5 @barefootbarista said:

My BFFs H did. He was on RR-Semester at Sea :-)

Yes, Pawel or Shawn?  

Or Yes? Wasn't he on that season too?

[DotAndBuzz]

Eff no. I can barely handle a riverboat cruise, or boating in an intracoastal waterway. Open ocean sailing is probably never going to happen.

My brother's good friend did a semester at sea though. He loved it, even though they had a really bad storm and had to put on life vests and spend something like 2 days on the top deck, pitching in the waves. NO.THANKS.

[donnamartingraduat]

My H did. But not a cruise boat, it was a sailboat and they did research. He loved it (except for the hurricane they ran in to).

[goaskalice]

My university was the one that started Semester at Sea, though they did sell it a while back. I had 5 friends go the year it hit a storm and they were rolling around in the dining hall for days until they came to port. Even though they had that experience all of them who went loved it and recommended it to others. Sounds like a great way to see the world.

[shostakovich]

Aug 20, 2013 21:42:37 GMT -5 VeryViolet said:

Aug 20, 2013 21:23:58 GMT -5 @jezebel said:

Yes, Pawel or Shawn?  

Or Yes? Wasn't he on that season too?

Oh god, this is making me laugh so hard right now.  "Who's on first?"

Also, fun fact: I was *this* close to doing semester at sea first semester of my junior year.  I had paid the deposit, booked the whole thing, etc.  Then I just had a gut feeling that I shouldn't do it (okay, and it was partly financial, because I also wanted to go study in Ireland the next summer).  So I stayed home, and that is the semester I met my H.

[VeryViolet]

Aug 20, 2013 22:08:41 GMT -5 shostakovich said:

Aug 20, 2013 21:42:37 GMT -5 VeryViolet said:

Or Yes? Wasn't he on that season too?

Oh god, this is making me laugh so hard right now.  "Who's on first?"

Also, fun fact: I was *this* close to doing semester at sea first semester of my junior year.  I had paid the deposit, booked the whole thing, etc.  Then I just had a gut feeling that I shouldn't do it (okay, and it was partly financial, because I also wanted to go study in Ireland the next summer).  So I stayed home, and that is the semester I met my H.

Lol I am an idiot. Is the fact that the kid lodged in my crotch is making it impossible to sleep more than a few hours a night a valid excuse?

ETA sorry I am a moron @jezebel

[BlackCanary]

www.buzzfeed.com/jillathrilla/48-telltale-signs-you-went-on-semester-at-sea-5q6p

[shostakovich]

Aug 20, 2013 22:10:47 GMT -5 VeryViolet said:

Aug 20, 2013 22:08:41 GMT -5 shostakovich said:

Oh god, this is making me laugh so hard right now.  "Who's on first?"

Also, fun fact: I was *this* close to doing semester at sea first semester of my junior year.  I had paid the deposit, booked the whole thing, etc.  Then I just had a gut feeling that I shouldn't do it (okay, and it was partly financial, because I also wanted to go study in Ireland the next summer).  So I stayed home, and that is the semester I met my H.

Lol I am an idiot. Is the fact that the kid lodged in my crotch is making it impossible to sleep more than a few hours a night a valid excuse?

ETA sorry I am a moron @jezebel

Definitely 100% valid.  I'm sorry - I hope I didn't make you feel bad.  It was just such a cute misunderstanding, and I am also a little slap-happy right now

[VeryViolet]

Aug 20, 2013 22:13:50 GMT -5 shostakovich said:

Aug 20, 2013 22:10:47 GMT -5 VeryViolet said:

Lol I am an idiot. Is the fact that the kid lodged in my crotch is making it impossible to sleep more than a few hours a night a valid excuse?

ETA sorry I am a moron @jezebel

Definitely 100% valid.  I'm sorry - I hope I didn't make you feel bad.  It was just such a cute misunderstanding, and I am also a little slap-happy right now

You didn't make me feel bad at all. I am glad you pointed it out so I could at least apologize for my lack of reading comprehension.

[aprilsails]

Aug 20, 2013 21:20:49 GMT -5 bananapancakes said:

Aug 20, 2013 21:10:35 GMT -5 aprilsails said:

I wanted to so badly but the costs were prohibitive. We were looking at doing a year of high school on the Concordia (recently sunk). I think it was $30k for a year of high school. I have spent over a year at sea on various Tall Ships working as an officer doing sail training though so my parents figured that was enough.

A friend from one of my ships went on the Concordia. It was pretty fun by all accounts.

That is the ship that my H was on. He was on it when it sank. Scariest couple of days of our lives!

That's crazy. Was he teaching or crewing on board?  I'm still surprised the ship was knocked down like that. I know some reports cited that there was a microburst (which I've experienced - knocked over our ship too but the top masts let go so we popped back up), but overall the results are inconclusive. Nonetheless, considering she went down so quickly it must have been very hectic for all those aboard.