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

Dkore-DeX said:
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.
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Most of my mates who went to uni are closer with their friends from school/6th form than uni ones.
 
Yateszy said:
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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I have a part time job at a games company at the moment so my days of I work here. But in my days off in 1st and 2nd year involved not a lot really. Hanging out, going to the beach in summer, just generally taking it easy and catching up with any work I had. 3rd year is a bitch though, got so much work to do. Luckily I cope well under pressure and it's the only way I work, but damn, it's tough.
 
[TW]Fox;18632771 said:
I counter it probably was - you might have learnt not to class an entire group of people as stoners :(
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You really would need to have seen the crowd that my mate was in with before commenting on that!
 
[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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Yo, back from my mock physics exam, 1st paper was rubbish, 2nd paper was easy.

I have to say that is a really good piece of advice there. I'm not that outgoing and I do want a change of scenery. I think I do want to go now.

I would love to move away from my parents, be more independant instead of my mum saying oh you're doing it wrong or whatever.

Being able to have a lot more freedom than I do now.

The only negative I can see is the money. How many of you had a part time job at uni? I am interested if it worked out well or not and how many hours is sensible.
 
Yateszy said:
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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Most of my friends came from my first year accommodation, I didn't really start getting to know people off my course properly until we were shipped abroad together in third year. Others were mostly friends of friends, expanding through getting involved in club nights or meeting at parties and such. I had a lot of preconceptions of people on my course and why they were doing Chinese - most seemed to be in it to make a lot of money, which wasn't really my idea for it, but I (happily) turned out to be wrong in quite a few cases.

Daytimes? In first year, that was mostly just getting drunk too :p Or going off exploring the area around Edinburgh, kitesurfing, making random pointless electronics projects, playing football, sitting about in the park or, very occasionally (before exams), studying.

flibbage0 said:
The only negative I can see is the money. How many of you had a part time job at uni? I am interested if it worked out well or not and how many hours is sensible.
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I never had a part time job in my first years, as I was lucky enough to have my parents supporting me, but I'd have had to otherwise. The maintenance loan wasn't even enough to cover accommodation, but now I'm back in my 5th year of a 4 year undergrad degree (deferred my finals due to family circumstances) and ineligible for any sort of student loan, so have to work near enough full time to afford to keep living here, while finishing off coursework and revising for my finals. Depends on the job, obviously, but working and studying can be incredibly draining, and you're unlikely to want to sit and write a paper after an 8 hour shift somewhere.
 
flibbage0 said:
The only negative I can see is the money. How many of you had a part time job at uni? I am interested if it worked out well or not and how many hours is sensible.
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As I said early, I didn't have a job 1st or 2nd year but had abit of financial help when I needed it from parents, however this year I got myself a job at game studio here which is awesome because I do a degree in Computer Games (yes it exists) so it's great on the CV, and it funds my nights out/living nicely :D I do 2 days a week on my days off.
 
I had a great time and definitely if I could re-live my life would do it again.

However, I have had better times since, or at least had times which are brilliant in their own way.

Ultimately, whilst at uni, that is all you know - the present.
 
I've got a part time job, at a school. Lettings assistant is what its called. Im just a bit of a dogs body tbh, dont mind though, jobs a job and I hate working in retail!
 
Yateszy said:
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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A mixture, until my final year my main friends (apart from 1) weren't on my course. This was largely to do with playing rugby so had friends who were from a mixture of courses. Most people I knew had a mixture of friends from their own course and other courses.

Free time during the week/weekends was split between doing work, revising, doing nothing, sleeping, watching TV, recovering from a hangover, playing sport, going to the gym....basically it completely depended on the situation at the time and how much work I had on.
 
Yateszy said:
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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In my instance I made friends mostly with the people I lived with and the people around my campus, all who did different course to me. That was because my campus was seperate from the rest of the university, only a 10 minute walk, but makes a huge difference.. If I didn't have a lecture I would either get some work done, relax, play games, chill out in the uni grounds or go to the bar!

On weekends, I had a part time job so did that and chilled in the evening if I didn't have work to do.

I'm in contact with the majority of my university mates, meet up regularly and one of them is getting married in the summer which shall be fun. University forced me to step out of my comfort zone and I have no regrets in doing so.
 
went uni for a year dropped out got a job i really like and probably have a similar amount of fun (which is a lot) while feeling like im achiving something which i didn't at uni.

just because you work doesn't mean your boring, i can still go out 3 times a week and get uncontroably drunk and often do. am involved in a lot more sport as well.
 
There's also no real drinking culture within my American football team - well, most people drink, but there are players who come to our socials who don't drink, and there's no pressure on them to drink anything.
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Oh, my, god. Are you serious? The most battered I've been in my life is when I attended a rugby social. They are ruthless. And your American football team has no real drinking culture? Holy ****
 
Moses said:
People don't have to worry about drinking, really. In my house, for example, there's a girl who doesn't drink - there's no pressure on her to drink, and for her birthday we just did non-drink related stuff (obviously!). There's also no real drinking culture within my American football team - well, most people drink, but there are players who come to our socials who don't drink, and there's no pressure on them to drink anything.

There aren't just hordes of people, with beer bongs, forcing all and sundry to get ~crunkkkkk~ at uni... and I don't know many people who take drugs... just to counter some of the, "everyone just drinks/takes drugs/are stoners/wasters" stuff peoeple are coming out with. All kinds of people can be happy, imo.
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Whilst you're right in saying that nobody is forced to do anything, it's fair to say that 90% of uni/student socials revolve around alcohol.
 
My university is about drink and drugs. Literally nothing else.

Not a bad thing but it's not terribly fufilling.
 
kenmare said:
My university is about drink and drugs. Literally nothing else.

Not a bad thing but it's not terribly fufilling.
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There is a lot of that. I go out and drink a lot, I'm making the most of it because student nights are the best. I hate going out at weekends because it's full of utter ***** **** heads, old people, it's expensive, and theres always trouble.

In regards to drugs, you will probably encounter it, just don't succumb to peer pressure, unless you want to. If it ain't grown don't touch it ;) (Unless it's salvia, that stuff is messed up).
 
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