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College: The best time of your life?
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But in highschool you live at home and have to follow your parents rules still. College is way better - provided you go away to college anyway.
Anyhow, I said no. College was not the best time of my life. It was nice living on my own for the first time but working while going to school and not really knowing what I wanted to major in kinda sucked. Also, I was always broke.
I like grown-up life the best.
Anyhow, I said no. College was not the best time of my life. It was nice living on my own for the first time but working while going to school and not really knowing what I wanted to major in kinda sucked. Also, I was always broke.
I like grown-up life the best.
i votes i'm not dead yet.
I loved highschool but the parents thing stoped me to think it was the best time.
Uni.... i studied psychology and i was the weirdo girls the whole career, actually some of my mate friends thinks i'm insane in someway as well as a few of my teachers. Also, i had to work while going to school as Iskanderia said... i was hard.
Anyway, i will be back to uni to study dramatic arts and performing for the next year. I'm sure the best moment in my life is still to come with that!!!
I loved highschool but the parents thing stoped me to think it was the best time.
Uni.... i studied psychology and i was the weirdo girls the whole career, actually some of my mate friends thinks i'm insane in someway as well as a few of my teachers. Also, i had to work while going to school as Iskanderia said... i was hard.
Anyway, i will be back to uni to study dramatic arts and performing for the next year. I'm sure the best moment in my life is still to come with that!!!
High school was good, but there were things I might have done differently.
College was good, but there were things I might have done differently.
Post-college life is good, but there are things I might have done differently.
And that's not just me--I think a lot of people feel that way. And some people can't deal with it so they have to paint their blocks of experience in big brushstrokes of "it sucked" or "it was awesome". Take the good, learn from the bad, change things if you're not satisfied.
...TIME TO TAKE MY OWN ADVICE
College was good, but there were things I might have done differently.
Post-college life is good, but there are things I might have done differently.
And that's not just me--I think a lot of people feel that way. And some people can't deal with it so they have to paint their blocks of experience in big brushstrokes of "it sucked" or "it was awesome". Take the good, learn from the bad, change things if you're not satisfied.
...TIME TO TAKE MY OWN ADVICE
I guess it matters what you're majoring in and the folks you hang out with (plus the school you go to), but in high school we were all sort of forced to get to know each other since we had classes together five days a week. I met some great people that I still keep in touch with. In fact, I'm currently rooming with two old high school friends. College, on the other hand... I'm enrolled in a college that 34,000+ other people attend, and I barely see more than a handful of the same people year after year. You would think that in a place so huge you'd meet some really unique folks eventually but I've yet to talk to that many. Then again I hardly ever go out anyway so it's obviously not for the lack of unique people... yeah, I could've done things differently.Einherjer wrote:
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High school really is the easiest time to make friends - I'll give it that. I found it pretty easy in college too though. It's once you get out of school that it's hard because basically the only people you associate with regularly are coworkers and if you're a weirdo like me you probably won't have shit in common with them. Also everyone is of different ages.
I voted not dead yet.
I really missed high school for the longest time once starting college because I didn't know anyone at all. Then I got to know people, but had to leave for japan and met even better amazing people while finally really fending for myself in life. THEN I had to come back to my suddenly restrictive college life, back to knowing no one and being coddled.
So, I'm with Elec- some good, some bad, no real way to judge.
I really missed high school for the longest time once starting college because I didn't know anyone at all. Then I got to know people, but had to leave for japan and met even better amazing people while finally really fending for myself in life. THEN I had to come back to my suddenly restrictive college life, back to knowing no one and being coddled.
So, I'm with Elec- some good, some bad, no real way to judge.
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This :[Iskanderia wrote:
Now that my life is WORK WORK WORK and COMMUTE COMMUTE COMMUTE I don't have time for anything anymore. Totally blows ass trying to make friends and when you do you barely got much time to go out and hang. My coworkers are old enough to be my Mom....or Grandma.
So I would say that I think High School and College where better. While I lived with my parents, had no money and couldn't do that much. I had a lot more free time to see my friends and illustrate. Plus usually you're only in school for six hours maaaaaaaan and I use too think that was long. Working full time sucks D8
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full time school and full time college sucks so hard. especially since this way you rarely have a single day off from something and it makes it difficult to maintain relationships since you always have to be somewhere. I remember hanging with my friends once a week on wednesday nights starting at around 10 pm but by 11 i'd always be passed out on somebody's couch 
On the upside, I was so busy I'd go for days without seeing my parents even though I lived with them. That was pretty sweet.
But guess what. College + no job sucks even harder. At least then I had money. Now I can't afford drugs or new videogames or anything of that sort. I'm looking for something with hours I can handle since I've got a mind blowingly tough workload this semester. No one likes my availability ~__~
Oh yeah, but going back to the topic at hand: Highschool for me was basically just some place to go to hang out with your friends and then after school you'd take your chillage elsewhere like to parks or someone's house or even on street corner. For me it's been much harder to make real friends (I define "real friends" as people you'd hang out with outside of school) in college since it seems like everyone is too uptight and involved with their coursework
On the upside, I was so busy I'd go for days without seeing my parents even though I lived with them. That was pretty sweet.But guess what. College + no job sucks even harder. At least then I had money. Now I can't afford drugs or new videogames or anything of that sort. I'm looking for something with hours I can handle since I've got a mind blowingly tough workload this semester. No one likes my availability ~__~
Oh yeah, but going back to the topic at hand: Highschool for me was basically just some place to go to hang out with your friends and then after school you'd take your chillage elsewhere like to parks or someone's house or even on street corner. For me it's been much harder to make real friends (I define "real friends" as people you'd hang out with outside of school) in college since it seems like everyone is too uptight and involved with their coursework
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I mean, I still see my friends pretty much every weekend but it's the same 4 guys I've been hanging out with for forever (I've known one of them for literally 20 years). Making any new friends at this point is pretty difficult. I don't really care about having tons of friends, but I am kind of getting sick of hanging with these nerds.
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yes, i reached a point in the last year ot the career when i realized i didn't knew any of my career-mates xD the most cause the last year i wasn't at classrooms or something cause i was working on my thesis... so everything was Thesis-library-job-consulting-library-job-AA group (where i was woriking for my thesis)-thesis-job-Social service-library.... etc...
and yes, i find i have nothing in common almost with no one.
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Depends on which post-secondary institution you're referring to.
My semester spent at and art & design college when I was 18 and fresh out of kiddie land was arguably the worst experience of my life. That ended in a complete nervous breakdown which I took 2 years or so to recover from enough to be able to leave the house and get a job (I spent about 2 more years working before I finally went back to school at the ripe old age of 22).
But my time at the local college last year (my second year there) is a close second. Depression, stress, anxiety, disinterest, lack of motivation, procrastination... Somehow I made it through (barely) and now I'm at university.
University is, so far, quite awesome.
But maybe it's just being a creative writing major that rocks? Full course load, but with very little reading or workload and a ridiculous amount of spare time. Money-wise I'm good even without a job. Sure, I'm stressed being away from home, but it's only been a month and I'll settle in soon.
High school? What the hell was that?
Best time of my life was when I was 5 years old. Everything else since, no matter how good it gets, will be a far cry from that unadulterated, giddy, innocent, sickeningly sweet happiness.
ROCK STARS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO COMPLAIN (especially about non-rock stars' attitudes). Even the only mildly famous ones.
My semester spent at and art & design college when I was 18 and fresh out of kiddie land was arguably the worst experience of my life. That ended in a complete nervous breakdown which I took 2 years or so to recover from enough to be able to leave the house and get a job (I spent about 2 more years working before I finally went back to school at the ripe old age of 22).
But my time at the local college last year (my second year there) is a close second. Depression, stress, anxiety, disinterest, lack of motivation, procrastination... Somehow I made it through (barely) and now I'm at university.
University is, so far, quite awesome.
But maybe it's just being a creative writing major that rocks? Full course load, but with very little reading or workload and a ridiculous amount of spare time. Money-wise I'm good even without a job. Sure, I'm stressed being away from home, but it's only been a month and I'll settle in soon. High school? What the hell was that?
Best time of my life was when I was 5 years old. Everything else since, no matter how good it gets, will be a far cry from that unadulterated, giddy, innocent, sickeningly sweet happiness.
Elec wrote:
ROCK STARS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO COMPLAIN (especially about non-rock stars' attitudes). Even the only mildly famous ones.
Yeah, it seems like 90% of the friendships here are between teammates and people who are "old money" (i.e. have tons of friends from their high school that happen to be going to OU too). So you definitely have to join a group, org, sport, or something to make friends here is what I'm seeing (me with all my three weeks of college experience XD). I'm trying my hardest to work fencing club in (Einherjer wrote:For me it's been much harder to make real friends (I define "real friends" as people you'd hang out with outside of school) in college since it seems like everyone is too uptight and involved with their coursework
) and French club is right around the corner!I'm still pretty optimistic about making friends here, honestly, even though it's been a month and I only have a handful of acquaintances to show for it. The fencing and French clubs should be a good start, and once I make that first good friend, they'll have me meet their friends, who have friends, who have friends, and so on.
And, failing that, I'll just start hitting local concerts and be ridiculously outgoing and persistent with those peeps
Because who needs reservations at a concert?But even though I don't have the kind of friends that I did in high school yet, I still think college is better. There's more opportunity, potential, interesting people, etc.
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My friends in college are somewhat the same kinds of friends I had in high school. There are cool kids, chill kids, bitchy girls. The only group I'm missing is the bicurious jocks.
I haven't found any that I think have the potential to have the quality of friendships I had in high school. These are more like, "well I see you, so let's hang out for a while" friendships instead of like, making time to get together friendships. But whatev. Contact is contact.
I think the only thing stopping me from truly enjoying college is my fucking retarded roommate. He is still trying to control all parts of the room. Like, in the middle of the night, he will put stickers over the lights on my computer and shit, even though the lights don't even shine near him. He is really passive-aggressive and is always like, trying to poke and prod me to annoy me. It's fucking gay.
I haven't found any that I think have the potential to have the quality of friendships I had in high school. These are more like, "well I see you, so let's hang out for a while" friendships instead of like, making time to get together friendships. But whatev. Contact is contact.
I think the only thing stopping me from truly enjoying college is my fucking retarded roommate. He is still trying to control all parts of the room. Like, in the middle of the night, he will put stickers over the lights on my computer and shit, even though the lights don't even shine near him. He is really passive-aggressive and is always like, trying to poke and prod me to annoy me. It's fucking gay.
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My college roommate sucked so fucking bad. I hated her so much. She talked constantly, even when I was trying to get to sleep, she masturbated every night and I could hear it, she was a pathological liar, she was dirty as hell. Ugh.. It was such a terrible experience that the next year I moved the hell out of the dorm and into an apartment with my best friend from highschool. So so much better.
BTW, I definitely agree that a really good way to make friends in college (besides going to parties) is by joining clubs and stuff. There were a few different clubs I went to meetings for every once in a while but every week me and my friend went to the Gay and Lesbian Student Union meetings and it was fun because we just fucked around and talked and watched movies and then sometimes went for drinks afterwords. Most of my best college memories come from the GLSU.
BTW, I definitely agree that a really good way to make friends in college (besides going to parties) is by joining clubs and stuff. There were a few different clubs I went to meetings for every once in a while but every week me and my friend went to the Gay and Lesbian Student Union meetings and it was fun because we just fucked around and talked and watched movies and then sometimes went for drinks afterwords. Most of my best college memories come from the GLSU.
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what a nightmare!!
It is what you make of it.
For me, it was definitely the best academic period of my life. Even only being "freshly out". I enjoyed myself at college at lot. My actual major classes sucked balls, but I had enough free time to teach myself and/or overachieve, and the academic classes were fun. Friends were fun. Campus life was fun too. That's the thing I miss most right now--not being able to run across the hall and bug my friends for some waffles at 2 am.
Also, I REALLY miss having a dorm. Call me crazy but I am not moved out of my family house yet, so I have to work (I'm an illustrator) in my bedroom and I don't feel like I get as much done as I did in my dorm. I need an office or something!
However, my elementary and high school years were quite miserable, so it's not much of a contest.
For life overall, I am hoping post-college will be the best because that is still what I have to look forward to.
For me, it was definitely the best academic period of my life. Even only being "freshly out". I enjoyed myself at college at lot. My actual major classes sucked balls, but I had enough free time to teach myself and/or overachieve, and the academic classes were fun. Friends were fun. Campus life was fun too. That's the thing I miss most right now--not being able to run across the hall and bug my friends for some waffles at 2 am.
Also, I REALLY miss having a dorm. Call me crazy but I am not moved out of my family house yet, so I have to work (I'm an illustrator) in my bedroom and I don't feel like I get as much done as I did in my dorm.
I need an office or something!However, my elementary and high school years were quite miserable, so it's not much of a contest.
For life overall, I am hoping post-college will be the best because that is still what I have to look forward to.