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

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Ewaf said:
Lol :p Yea you definitely made the right choice staying at home.. Uni isnt for you.
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Sorry to persist here but you are talking ****. If you mean life staying at uni isn't for me then you can say that. Uni as a place to study suited me well and I've came out with a pretty decent qualification so I don't understand how uni wasn't for me!
 
I mean living at uni. You seem to have your mind set on everyone being drunk stoned louts, which is a pathetic assumption, and you made the right choice staying at home with such a tainted view.
 
Ewaf said:
I mean living at uni. You seem to have your mind set on everyone being drunk stoned louts, which is a pathetic assumption, and you made the right choice staying at home with such a tainted view.
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It is based on my experience and that of mates who did live in halls. I think it's a fairly accurate account too. Maybe in Belfast there are more louts!
 
ringo747 said:
Nope. I was in them occasionally when a mate lived in them. He hated them and moved out at the end of first year.
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Well the vast, vast, vast majority of the universe would quite happily salute their time in halls. It's extremely unlikely you won't find anyone you can't get on with and the vast, vast, vast, vast chances are they won't just be stoners or louts.

Infact, if someone didn't like the atmosphere of halls I think I'd just have to conclude we weren't meant to be friends :p

Saying this, I prefered living in a student house to halls.
 
ringo747 said:
It wasn't a **** uni. I either had a choice of living at home and saving or else waste money on paying rent to be stuck in a box and be forced to hang out with people who are stoned losers. OK there would be one or two normal ones but I'd rather save money and hang around with my normal mates.
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I have to agree with everyone else. Your idea that if you joined in with everyone else they would all be losers is ridiculous.

I lived at home - but still had a great group of mates, we still went out 4+ times a week and I had a great social life (Something I didnt have before I went to Uni - it really changed my from being a socially reclusive moron to just a moron), etc etc. Because I don't drink, I was able to get into Uni for any sort of random night or whatever in under 15 minutes by car, so it was all great fun. I spent most of the final year at my girlfriends place anyway, as she lived right near Uni.

Uni is great for two reasons - firstly the opportunities it presents you with afterwards and secondly it really does go a long way to improving you as a person and helping you get more confidence. I started Uni as a single social retard who was a **** on the internet. I finished Uni with a great bunch of friends, far more social skills, a partner, but sadly still a tendancy to be a **** on the internet. Oh well, you cant fix everything!

Oh yea, and a degree.
 
[TW]Fox;18632628 said:
Uni is great for two reasons - firstly the opportunities it presents you with afterwards and secondly it really does go a long way to improving you as a person and helping you get more confidence. I started Uni as a single social retard who was a **** on the internet. I finished Uni with a great bunch of friends, far more social skills, a partner, but sadly still a tendancy to be a **** on the internet. Oh well, you cant fix everything!

Oh yea, and a degree.
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Bah, you beat me to my joke :p

Well said.
 
It was fun, but not the "best" time.
I went to uni to learn more about the subjects I like.
The studying was less to do with enjoyable learning and more to do with simply sucking up information in order to gain as many marks as possible. Sad, because you rarely get the opportunity to appreciate and enjoy the subject (physics and maths for me).
Honestly the best things were the sports clubs, which motivated me more than the course lectures.
 
If you are one of those people who is lucky to already be outgoing, confident etc etc and you have eyes on a field where a degree isnt much use then Uni probably isn't that useful to you. But many of us need it not just for the academic education but also for the social education. It's very different to school and the relationships you form with Uni mates are very different to school mates.

I'm in contact with nobody from school, but I'm confident my Uni friends will be there for many years :)
 
So if you're a bit of a social retard Uni is great.

For everyone else it's really nothing amazing, unless you like drinking every day. It's certainly not easy either!
 
I had exactly the same experience as you Fox. Really changed my life, for the best.

P.S. Holy ****, your post count!
 
University isn't for everyone but I did consider it.

I strongly feel that some people go for the wrong reasons. At the end of the day, you go to get a qualification but the overal journey is obviously important and builds character, changes people and in some ways defines the person you are at the end of it. I thought it would do me good to go, meet people and experience "Uni Life". I really didn't care much for the learning side of things at the time, because I wasn't very academic and my heart just wasn't in it. So I'm glad I didn't go in the end.

In the end I left school, studied software engineering at College, worked in retail for a few years before getting a job in IT at the local high school. Now I'm an IM&T Analyst for the NHS and I work in the IT Department based at my local Hosptial. It worked out for me against all odds (living in a relatively small area where IT jobs are super rare, not willing to move away) and it wasn't all easy...

I have to say I regret nothing. I have had some of the best years of my life doing things my way and I honestly believe that you don't have to go to Uni to experience the best years of your life. I have in the past lived with friends in a big house for two years and had an amazing time. I have a very active social life and am fortunate to know some amazing people. So I guess you could say I have experienced some of what Uni life is like from a social point of view but without all the hard work and debt!!!

But a part of me still wonders what it would have been like and how different life would be had I taken the plunge and gone to Uni.
 
[TW]Fox;18632657 said:
If you are one of those people who is lucky to already be outgoing, confident etc etc and you have eyes on a field where a degree isnt much use then Uni probably isn't that useful to you. But many of us need it not just for the academic education but also for the social education. It's very different to school and the relationships you form with Uni mates are very different to school mates.

I'm in contact with nobody from school, but I'm confident my Uni friends will be there for many years :)
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I would class myself as outgoing and confident before I even went to uni so the social skill building wasn't relevant I guess. I still met up with class mates that I was friendly with but friends outside of uni were the ones I saw more of and still do. Everyone is different I guess and it's all about what you want to get from it.
 
I didn't go to Uni but I know that out of my school mates who did, I don't think many of them are still friends with the people they met at Uni, one said that freshers week he just felt everyone was forcing friendship on each other due to the circumstances.
 
sigma said:
So if you're a bit of a social retard Uni is great.

For everyone else it's really nothing amazing, unless you like drinking every day. It's certainly not easy either!
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Lots of my mates at uni were confident people, and they still absolutely loved it.

Ok yes a lot of the socialising involved drinking, but it was still v fun and didn't get as repetative as you might think.

Don't forget, there are lots of interesting societies, clubs and sports teams to get involved with and the chance to meet like minded people. It may take a while to find your 'niche' so to speak, but once you have it's great fun.

As you may have gathered I absolutely loved uni, made some (hopefully) life long friends and learnt a lot.
 
To those who went to uni do you tend to make most of your friends with the people on the same/similar course as you or completely different courses? Also what do you do when you're not in a lecture and at weekends? Sure you probably go and get drunk at night but what about in the day?
 
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