Did you enjoy your time at uni?

Loved every minute of it, looking back I can't believe how much I could drink and still function the next day. The bands I saw, the friends I made, the way my outlook on life changed and how I didn't catch and STD :eek:

I often wish I could relive it :(
 
For me:

1st year - made a great group of friends, we all discovered e, fell in love on e to a beautiful intelligent and really messed up girl. Traveled round south america with said girl during summer

2nd year - moved out of halls and in with 7 mates, and said girl came too. Was like juggling grenades. Said girl got pregnant, my life span out of control. She didn't want to keep the baby, I got depressed. Lots of break ups, lots of make ups. Traveled south east asia with said girl during summer.

3rd year - moved into a different house with the same lads, broke up with the girl for the last time, knuckled down and passed with a 2:1.

Masters - Moved to Nottingham uni, new bunch of mates, good times but less intense, got a first class for my MSC. :D

Looking back, it truly was the best, and worst of times. :)
 
Yes it was great, but wish I had tried a little harder at A Level and attended a university with a better faculty. So many crap lecturers.
 
I loved my time at uni :D But as people have said - you have the best of times, and the worst of times. A lot can happen in 3 years!

It was a little life journey for me... I left home for the first time, met some amazing friends, learnt lots of life lessons and a lot about myself. I could’ve tried a bit harder/got more involved and achieved more, but it was as much a social experience as well as a learning experience.

My single regret was not doing a more specialised degree. But I think that was a mixture of being young/naive, and also not really knowing what I wanted to do.... I had the ‘do now, think later’ attitude. Haven’t done too badly for myself though, and I'm pretty happy with my career path :) I definitely wouldn’t be where I am now if I hadn’t gone through uni.
 
Loved uni to bits (probably even more so after I've finished, and looking back). Met some of my best friends through uni, it does have its downs from time to time but so does everything else in life.

You have to strike a balance between the social side and the academic side I feel - if you only party all the time then you'll fail and have washed away a huge chunk of money for little gain, but if you only work and never socialise then you're missing out on a huge part of uni life and may as well do an open university course.
 
It was OK, pretty much working for the bit of paper with hindsight, but you got to find out who you were a bit.
Certainly that was the one time I can look back on and honestly say I was happy, which was when I passed (first one out of my family and relatives to go to poly).

When I look back given the stuff I like to study now, I realise just how little we were taught about anything. Also annoying that every subject apart from Engineering and the sciences was a complete doddle, so not a level playing field at all.

I think it has changed over the years, appears to be less serious but the facilities kids have now are fantastic - the only programming course in my day was on a stupid mainframe. (Jelly) with lecturers wandering around telling us that Pascal was the language of the future.
Fatheads, even I could see it was all C and Java.
 
Theophany said:
Loved it to pieces. Even the total drunken, cack-handed screw - ups and unadulterated **** ups were awesome.

It was like how Butlins should be.
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This, three years unadulterated madness and hilarity. Depends on the uni though, some of the naff ones look painful.
 
Rhodri said:
Loved uni to bits (probably more so after I've finished). Met some of my best friends through uni, it does have its downs from time to time but so does everything else in life.

You have to strike a balance between the social side and the academic side I feel - if you only party all the time then you'll fail and have washed away a huge chunk of money for little gain, but if you only work and never socialise then you're missing out on a huge part of uni life and may as well do an open university course.
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I'm not sure. We partied like crazy on my undergrad course. Seriously our group was quite famous for being the hardest going on the course. Most of us did ok, I think out of about 20 of us most got 2:1's and only 3 fails. Uni is all about knowing when to knuckle down and get your sorry as to the library!
 
Almost finished now, it's not been bad, but not great.

Course was a bit of a shambles at times, but the general way of life is fun.
 
I was 23 when I went to uni, the 5-6 years average age gap between me and the others was hard, not like I was anti social, just didn't seem to gel with the others.

I had mates who were in their 2nd and 3rd years so it wasn't all that bad.

That and I gave up when someone asked me "What's Trap Door?" :D
 
As mentioned before, its the best and worse times of my life so far... I'm almost finished, only 2 months to go !!

The best times is the people you meet and fun things you do, some of the modules taught are also pretty enjoyable, the worse times is that sleep deprivation and depression. I've been working like mad the past couple of weeks going at around 80-100 hours per week !! :( Now a bit panicking as it looks like I need to keep doing that for couple of weeks and not sure if I can cope.

edit: Oh, and there are some ridiculously dry subjects that you're gonna have to force your way through... no way around it
 
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Loved it undergrad, Belfast was hilarious for that, lost my dad during it which wasn't good and defiantly took its tole on my final result, but I learnt so much about almost everything including what I found most interesting.

Stayed in Belfast a little too long and got caught up in too many relationships (as seems to be the done thing really).

Loved my masters degree as well (despite the arcane teaching style/assessment) and met a couple of friends for life there too and London uni was a good change of pace from Belfast too really.

Only real wish would have been to do something with a clearer career path but realistically I look back on all my time at uni and wouldn't have changed a minute of it! :)
 
Hated it, if I'm honest.

First year I spent living there, but with my then girlfriend and some people I didn't like across the other side of town from the people on my course. I didn't make many friends and eventually spent more time back at my parents' house than at Uni.

The 2nd and 3rd years I lived at home, my life outside Uni was fine but by the end I was sick to death of being in education. I just wanted to get a job.
 
Maccy said:
I enjoyed it more than I thought I would, looking back on it I miss the student lifestyle of drinking far too much and playing a lot of Fifa!
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I also miss it, absolutely fantastic time, but then I didn't get a good grade.
Also the first few years after uni are equally good, everyone has more money and still go out drinking every weekend and lots of hollidays and other stuff. Then people start having kids, getting mortgages, and it goes downhill.
 
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