Is University really some of the best years of your life?

ive met some awesome people there, but its a bit underwhelming tbh. im only on first year HND computing and living at home, thats most likely why....
 
I didn't complete my Uni course but I have made some life long friends and for that... I am very grateful!
 
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I had some great times, and some dreadfull times at Uni. Put in halls with druggie losers in first year was the worst of it. Overall it was good, and I'm glad I did it, although I'm not working in an area connected with my degree. I made some friends for life, and met my wife there.

On balance I'm more happy now though. Job I enjoy, own flat, fantastic wife, beautiful baby daughter, few money worries. Are these the best days of my life? Don't know but I've always found that a rather depressing thought. Life should always be about looking forward.
 
I wouldnt say it is, after the initial experience it wasnt that great. and as said by year 3 you are working most the time.
I think the last year of A Levels or the couple of years after uni were the best in terms of social life/not being tied down.
 
When i was young i used to think University was a strict type of boarding school.. only years later when i started visiting my girlfriend at her Manchester Uni... what a shock, Uni is so cool and i had some of the best nights of my life there.. even though i was just visiting :p
 
Ive always hated this saying about school.
What a load of **** it is too. So all these people go around saying once School/Uni is over then there is nothing else that could top it or look forward to?

Id prefer to keep try and living and making more out of life and have more fun then i did in my **** school years.
 
flibbage0 said:
Is University life really that good as people make it out to be.
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No.

I hated Uni.

I ended up going to my second choice university so missed out on going to halls (which nobody warned me about) and had to share a house with people i didn't particularly get on with. The town, on the sort of fleeting visit you do when visiting a uni looked ok, but in fact it wasn't. It was a dump.

So i was in a town i hated, sharing a house with people i didn't like.

And i'm not particularly academic either so i really struggled with time management and began to fail exams and become depressed. Being depressed made me not much fun to be around and i ended up becomming a loner with people being my friend more out of pity than anything else.

I left after 18 months and never looked back.

Had i gone to my first choice uni and gone to halls of residence in my first year, and gone to a town that i actually enjoyed living in, i would probably have enjoyed it a hell of a lot more.

moral of the story is - choose your uni wisely.
 
Jamie23 said:
Have to agree that it is one of the best times so far. Loved the whole aspect of moving away from home and meeting a whole new set of people.
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I didn't go to Uni, but achieved your last sentence any way by moving from SA to London when I was 19. Got a job, and partied hard up until the age of 25. :D

From what I've seen and heard about UK Uni, don't think I would have enjoyed it personally, being permanently skint, hungover and living in squalor isn't my idea of fun. ;)
 
Was walking into work last Wednesday and the Uni had an open day. Oh my god they all look so young! It feels like yesterday I rocked up to the uni with my dad to be shown around halls and campus, and now I only have a few months left. It goes scarily fast, literally flashes by.

I am so jealous of anyone starting this year. 1st year is so awesome. You only need 40% to pass, and none of your grades count towards you're degree, so it literally is a huge year long drinking and sex bender. Awesome.
 
J-FRO said:
Your social life at uni is still part of the uni experience.

Living at home and not enjoying it is either your fault for not moving away or just you being unfortunate to not be able to for financial reasons.

You need to remember as well, accommodation prices and drink prices vary up and down the country. I had friends who went to Newcastle/Leeds that could go out and spend as little as £20 and be absolutely wasted and likewise friends in Portsmouth who could also do the same. An equivalent night for me would have cost £30 - £40. How do I know? Because I visited them at their uni's as well and went out with their social groups too.

University is what you make it, all the ingredients are there for you to make the most of it , you shouldn't have to rely on others to make it fun for you.

The point that it isn't for anyone is as far as my opinion goes only valid in relation to the further studying itself. Even the most sheltered and shy people can come out of their shells at uni, it just takes initiative.
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I live about 20 mins drive from the university I went to. Absolutely no point in moving out and wasting money staying in a kip of a town in a small box room. Class mates who still find themselves paying off massive loans 4 years later won't have saved the same as I have and I've been able to save £20k+ for a house deposit so it has its advantages!

Drink, living in a kip, being stoned all the time and hanging about with louts didn't have much of an appeal to me so I don't feel I missed out on anything.
 
My personal experience at uni has been this.

I first went to UEA in Norwich and started medicine and I hated it. Course was great but I was stuck with a bunch of idiots that wanted to 'go out' every bloody day of the week. Plus the number of arrogent stuck up ***** there was beyond belief.

Now I'm studying Biology at a different uni, and I'm loving it. I'm living with people who have a social life that doesn't just involve drinking.
 
Drink, living in a kip, being stoned all the time and hanging about with louts didn't have much of an appeal to me so I don't feel I missed out on anything.
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Once again, you're doing it wrong. Uni isn't for you.

I'm living with people who have a social life that doesn't just involve drinking.
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Holy crap you're doing it even more wrong.
 
Loved uni. For me it was about defining myself, building life long friendships, having fun, finding business opportunities and where better to do that in London at two of the best unis in the world:D
 
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