Does anyone else find university hard?

It's not that hard if you put sufficient effort in. Go to your lectures, do your coursework, and you should be ok.

For me, it's a lot harder cos I'm a lazy **** and don't go to my lectures, and then have to cram like mad in the last couple of weeks of term. But I still managed to do ok last semester. Would advise you take the advice above though, rather than following the same route as me
 
It depends on the person but at the same time I believe it depends on the type of degree as there are a lot of degrees known as "soft degrees" which are the easy ones.

However, it seems the hard ones are the ones that pay well I.e engineering, law, Accounting, economics, sciences. But in a nut shell most numerical degrees are the hard ones but also top payers in most cases.

I'm currently studying Accounting and Mathematical Economics and I am struggling at times :(
 
Depends if your doing a BSC or a BA ;)

I am in my 2nd year of a BSC and its getting trickier right now due to time frames, revision and exams etc as it is a much larger step up from the first year. This is however mainly due to the fact I leave essays until the last minute and have not taken the best notes or done any home studying.

If you do things as you are expected too then you should be fine, but I know a large percentage of people are lazy like me and its their own fault.
 
I'm in my final year of BEng Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Brunel, and my dissertation hand in is in 6 days.

Yes it's hard, that's why I'm still up!
 
It depends. Some courses are tougher than others and some people have better aptitudes for skme courses over others.

Altogether I found uni ti be okay. Once I got caught out in economics and got only 20% on one exam as I hadn't been to any lectures etc.

Then with accounting and finance I initually struggled but then for my exams I hid myself away from friends and distractions and studied hard while everyone was chillaxing having bbqs out in the sun etc. Ended up destroying the exam and got over 80%.

If I'd tried all through the three years I could have gotten a first but I guess I was having too much fun to allow that.

edit as Kreeeee said memorising the last 5 years exams and practice answering them is what pulled my grades up.
 
McMav said:
I work in a uni and I find the students to be hard work :D
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This. Even PhD students are whiny as **** and all I want to do is be like "go away, your PhD is supposed to take over your life and destroy your spirit." :D

Thing about university, year 1 bachelors is easy then it gets exponentially more difficult throughout. My masters broke me, it was like 'nam back there man, chippenham admittedly but still I went a little mad during those two years. I mean I remember year 3 Bachelors, it was nothing in comparison.

I think a lot of people don't have a great work ethic (procrastination) and a lack of project management skills when they go to university, like these folks doing all nighters because they didn't plan it out properly. If you treat university like a full time job you will find it much easier, you won't be in the library 20 hours a day coming up to your deadlines you'll be putting the finishing touches on it.
 
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I found my A levels harder than my degree but I did them nearly 20 years ago now.

I've no idea how I passed my degree with a 2:1 when all I did was get drunk, 'spread the love' and bunk in other students digs......left with zero debt as well, good times! :D
 
pitchfork said:
Thing about university, year 1 bachelors is easy then it gets exponentially more difficult throughout. My masters broke me, it was like 'nam back there man, chippenham admittedly but still I went a little mad during those two years. I mean I remember year 3 Bachelors, it was nothing in comparison.
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Masters are a lot harder than Bachelors :p I changed disciplines for mine too, so was pretty intense. Still, I only did my masters because I didn't work hard enough in my BSc, so I went from a 2.2 to a distinction :D
 
Whilst I konw masters should be a lot harder, I've been working alongside masters students in the labs. Most of them seem to be thick as pig **** to be honest, and the mech eng guys have churned out stuff for their group project that I in all honesty could have done better while I was still at school. In fact, based on the strength of one of their products (welded box section to support a bike generating power) I did, for my product design A-Level :D

And as for the planning, I started work a long time back, electronics can be fickle, so I ended up behind where I wanted to be. I have 2 days work left and 6 days to do it in, I just like to leave my self some emergency room!
 
Doing my final year (5 year masters degree in mechanical engineering) and I've found it pretty hard throughout, I find I do far better in assessed coursework (very little) than exams, eg grade A in my dissertation

Overall I'm just getting a 2:1 though. (however very good gpa thus far this year due to good dissertation)

As far as how much free time I have, lots! I find I can't revise for more than 4 hours a day (done 10hr days before to my detriment). So just do slow and steady pace.
 
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If you don't concentrate and work hard for a couple of years - yes most likely you'll find it hard. I've been to a preview event at Bradford University and 70% of the students said this (LOL!): "You can party, party, party all the time and still get coursework handed in; you can sleep 12 hours or more Mon - Friday - still attend classes and get work (assignments) completed to standard as well as handed in roughly on time or just over the time limit during the hand-in date." (But they didn't say it as good as the impression I got from them).

People like this make me laugh, as they're the ones who resort to plagiarism in order of getting their coursework completed. I have finished the first half of my year in college within less than 6/7 months. I don't think university will be that much of a hard process (I am also studying abroad in another part of Europe, although have numerous countries as options).
 
Judgeneo said:
Masters are a lot harder than Bachelors :p I changed disciplines for mine too, so was pretty intense. Still, I only did my masters because I didn't work hard enough in my BSc, so I went from a 2.2 to a distinction :D
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I don't know why I did my masters in hindsight, I think I thought I could do loads of drinking and drugs and playing in bands "like the good old days" when I was doing my bachelors.

Although I still got a first on my bachelors ;)
 
I'm finding lack of motivation to be more of the problem rather than lack of ability. Either way boils down to the same thing though. My attendance this year has been tiny yet I'm headed for a first. Not at the best uni though.
 
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Tuppy_Glossop said:
Sounds like your course isn't challenging enough for you.
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idk kind of regret picking the subject (comp sci) but now I'm 2 months away from finishing it I have less motivation than ever. I got offered a paid internship at the university this summer to continue working on my final year project so maybe that will motivate me.
 
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Dont know, never went. DO I feel like I left out, socially yes job/career no.
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I don't think you missed out really, I didn't find university any more social than any other experience in life. I didn't change remotely before or after university.

I hated this idea that because I was a student I should do studenty things - I just carried on as normal and I've pretty much done it since.

I wasn't friends with the folk just because they were on my course, same as I'm not friends with people just because I work with them, a great deal of the friends I made weren't even students.
 
I've never been, nor would I ever go, because I'm useless at academia. I know full well that I'd find it hard, I'd struggle, spend a fortune and get something like a 2:2 or a 3rd. However, I'm sticking to industry certifications, and just learning through work, and I don't think I'd get any further than I am doing, or even this far, if I'd opted to go to Uni.
 
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