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buzzingtalkMember
152 posts
Location: London, england


Posted:
OK. So having spent nearly half a year at univeristy so far, I have come to the conclusion that university as a whole is overrated. Maybe i chose the wrong uni, but the whole lifestyle sucks. The social life here sucks. The people suck. My social life has died since i moved. My expenditure on ebay has increased. My boredom and frustration levels, well lets not talk about that.

Has anyone else found that uni isnt what its cracked up to be?

peace

Kiss me now, You're beatiful, For these days are truly the last.


LemonkeyStalking amidst the desert, carrying an oversized scalpel...
1,019 posts
Location: Huddersfield + Hull Uni... UK.


Posted:
Yep. I didn't enjoy my first year. I changed course, and University, learnt to juggle, and I'm loving it.

Willy - is bad for your health...


buzzingtalkMember
152 posts
Location: London, england


Posted:
hmmm. i just cant afford to move. and i have no where decent to move too. ill have to put up with the stupidity of my uni for another 2 years i guess.

Kiss me now, You're beatiful, For these days are truly the last.


Mint SauceBRONZE Member
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1,453 posts
Location: Lancs England


Posted:
Uni was the best 6 years of my life (I loved it so much I went back for a second helping)

what uni you at go meet the poi spinners near you they will take you in and give you lots of tea and hugs

have a hug from me to keep you going
hug

before i met those lot i thought they'd be a bunch of dreadlocked hippies that smoked, set things on fire ,and drank a lot of tea but then when i met them....oh wait (PyroWill)


milkajourneyman
89 posts
Location: Limoges (France)


Posted:
That's what I felt until the late 2nd year, then things changed radically and I can tell you I miss those year terribly...

buzzingtalkMember
152 posts
Location: London, england


Posted:
im at a crap chav uni brunel in west london dont go near it with a stick, if there are poi-ers here then i dont see them :9 there is no poi or juggling society, there is however 23,579 sport societies.
just made a bad social choice i guess!! and thanks for the huggage!! hug

Kiss me now, You're beatiful, For these days are truly the last.


buzzingtalkMember
152 posts
Location: London, england


Posted:
heres the lo down so far.
i have no money, so i dont go out. cant join socieites, they cost money. most people here i have encountered are chav alcohloics, no people here to my taste (not being a snob but there isno one here with the same kind of interests). the area i am in is boring as hell and expensive too. the people i was supposed to be moving in with effed me over when i got taken ill and went home. now i have no where to live.
etc etc etc etc

maybe i made a crap choice. maybe there is some secret society of uber fun people here. but whereee!!

Kiss me now, You're beatiful, For these days are truly the last.


polytheneveteran
1,359 posts
Location: London/ Surrey


Posted:
Right, if there is a circus skills lot, go looksie, they're usualy cheap, if not check with your uni if it's not too late to START a society (some have time limits from the start of term).... you can decide on your own fees (or lack of! smile) and create a cheap pasttime and new social circle for yourself. Just need to find a few like-minded individuals (and let's face it, something as simple as spinning outside usually attracts other spinner like flies!) There will be a social niche for you, you just have to find it. (Brunel's not a bad uni, but I don't know much about the social scene there) Once you do.... uni will be wonderful smile

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The pessimist fears this is true.

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buzzingtalkMember
152 posts
Location: London, england


Posted:
ive already looked for a circus skills one beleive its the first thing i looked for biggrin there isnt one and there is pretty much no interest to start one. you have to have fees, i started the respect coalition in september and we have to charge. the uni isnt bad, but the social is poor. frown
ill have to wait til summer till hopefully i can get some people into poi and flags by just spinning randomly on campus.

Kiss me now, You're beatiful, For these days are truly the last.


milkajourneyman
89 posts
Location: Limoges (France)


Posted:
Try to organise a spinning society in your university wink

Mint SauceBRONZE Member
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1,453 posts
Location: Lancs England


Posted:
Can you get to Clapham confused if yes come to the first Clapham meet of the year biggrin

Follow [Old link] smile

I should be there (down from Manchester) with my lovely little lady Jem ubblove ubblove

you shall receive much huggage
hug

before i met those lot i thought they'd be a bunch of dreadlocked hippies that smoked, set things on fire ,and drank a lot of tea but then when i met them....oh wait (PyroWill)


buzzingtalkMember
152 posts
Location: London, england


Posted:
mint suace, i will be there!! ive already confirmed it hug cant wait either, wil be good to get out and meet new peoples!!!

and milka, im looking to start a spinnig society but ruels are strict, you have to have 10 people who are the organisers and 50 signatures and cash £3 each before it is a proper society. frown

Kiss me now, You're beatiful, For these days are truly the last.


buzzingtalkMember
152 posts
Location: London, england


Posted:
hey wow your first paragraph is exactly what i envisioned! cultured people you havent met beofre, people that challange you, people that inspire you.

my problem is i have no freinds here, i have been ill the last 5 months and just started gettin better so i havent been at uni a lot as i find it really depressing. before i moved here i could do what i wanted i come form a free house, i can smoke spliff at home, throw raves at home, i had loads of awesome freinds like i thought i would meet at uni. but no. its just a bit poo really. i havent met any people that strike me, or any people who make an effort to contact me, i dunno why.

i have no flatmates for next year, im probably just the ill stoner girl with funky hair who listens to music way loud. ive tried to find people to hang with, but to no avial. uni had effed up my whole perspecive on life, i never had a problem finding my freinds and having happiness, al uni has done is given me depression. it just seems a bit weird really!

sorry i rambled a bit there! tell me to hush if i ramble again this isnt counselling |;D

Kiss me now, You're beatiful, For these days are truly the last.


AsenaGOLD Member
What a Bummer
3,224 posts
Location: Shatfield, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom


Posted:
I love my Uni, but there is a no society here. I'm taking it upon myself to set one up next year in time for the next set of freshers. However it means I have to fill in 12 pages of budget plans etc frown

Putting it off, anyone wanna do it for me?

buzzingtalkMember
152 posts
Location: London, england


Posted:
it is hard work setting up a society, i helped set up the respect coalition and the paperwork was obscene!!

Kiss me now, You're beatiful, For these days are truly the last.


EeraBRONZE Member
old hand
1,107 posts
Location: In a test pit, Mackay, Australia


Posted:
What attracted you to that course at Brunel in the first place? If you genuinely wanted to do whatever you are doing, then stick with it.

If you are there because you thought it might be fun or were pressurised into it, then seriously reconsider before you waste any more money doing something you have no real interest in.

You get one false start out of the Student Loan Company, any more and you'll be paying upfront.

Don't emerge in 3 years time horribly in debt because you thought it'd be a huge continuous party; universities are set up as learning and research institutes, not social clubs. Do it for genuine interest or your future prospects.

There is a slight possibility that I am not actually right all of the time.


NYCNYC
9,232 posts
Location: NYC, NY, USA


Posted:
I had a wonderful time at Uni. I picked the perfect school for me. Then again, I'd have been happy anywhere away from my mom. wink

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Yes, let's go.
[They do not move.]


buzzingtalkMember
152 posts
Location: London, england


Posted:
The only reason why I am still here is beacuse the course is great. That side of the uni is wicked, but it is hard focussing on work when your surroundings and the people around you are bringing you down. I never expected or wanted uni to be one big party, but i expected to meet some cool people and have a good life overall, but i find im hating the social side. And to me, I find if I am not happy it is hard for me to work, especially in practical and composition (i do music/sound engineering type stuff) as im just pissed off all the time. I have considered swapping unis but form what I have heard its the same everywhere so there is no point.

Kiss me now, You're beatiful, For these days are truly the last.


EeraBRONZE Member
old hand
1,107 posts
Location: In a test pit, Mackay, Australia


Posted:
All universities really aren't the same. It's well worth your while going on a few visits to ones that run similar courses. If you're going to spend 3 or 4 four years of your life there you need to find it at least tolerable.

I believe Virgin published a university guide based on what the places were like to live, not just study. Have a look at that, compare what they say about Brunel and see if it's the same as your experience.

Incedentally, my university had no circus skills society, but by talking to a couple of people it turned out there were a few people on my course who spun and we used to have informal sessions together. It ended up with a good 10 or so people by the time I left, small, but fun.

There is a slight possibility that I am not actually right all of the time.


KyrianDreamer
4,308 posts
Location: York, England


Posted:
Hey... yes, all uni's arn't the same. And a good course isn't everything either. I'm starting all over as a year 1 next year at york because york offers a good course, atmosphere,. mix of societies, and some other sundry details. The place I used to go was gorgeous with good weather, had an excellant course in what I was then studying (and still study, altho i'm not going to wind up working in the feild) and generally a pretty interesting mix of people.

But it didn't wind up being right for me, because I didn't have any money in part (something I aim to fix this time around) but also I just never wound up making that many close friendships... could be related, or not.. and of course there's always a million factors but a new enviroment might be the right thing. You shouldn't hate it. Don't have unrealistic expectations, but it also doesn't quite sound like the right place for you!!

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Rouge DragonBRONZE Member
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13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia


Posted:
i'm not feeling too crash hot about uni either. i had been looking forward to it for all the learning and the atmosphere, but i just cant get motivated. at all.

hugs

i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey

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MiGGOLD Member
Self-Flagellation Expert
3,414 posts
Location: Bogged at CG, Australia


Posted:
and the best thing is, in australia at least, we're oversaturated with degree graduates... Too many chiefs, and not enough indians.

The government needs to get its head and its arse connected. They're importing tradespeople from south africa, while they continue to push university. Then they whinge about unemployment...

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Adya MiriyanaGOLD Member
*slou?
6,554 posts
Location: Adelaide, Australia


Posted:
keep at it a bit.. out of the hundreds of people there.. there has got to be just a couple likeminded people there.. the thing is finding them.. they're generally the sorts who've sussed it out and spend as least time there as they have to.. so they're hard to catch.. but do keep an eye out

otherwise, what're you studying? and are you happy with the course [apart from the lifestyle thing]?

hug

MedusaSILVER Member
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1,433 posts
Location: 8 days at Cloudbreak, 6 in Perth, Australia


Posted:
I dropped out of uni after one semester. i twas not what I expected and taught me nothing that i didn't already know.

I am very fluent in Indonesian and was studying Asian studies with a major in Indonesian I asked if I could be skills tested and they said no you have to start from scrtach...i was stuck in a class doing stuff I already knew how to do and just getting extremely bored with not having to put any effort into getting High Distinction marks.

Also at the uni I went to they make you do this stupid module that has nothing to do with your course to apparently get you into the swing of uni life...biggest waste of time.

I also found being a part time student no one really socialised with you, you could try to make friends but it seemed once they found out you were a part timer they wanted nothing to do with you....very sad really.

So I dropped out and went to TAFE (government funded college) instead, learnt more and it was more hands on instead of listening to boring lectures all day!

buzzingtalkMember
152 posts
Location: London, england


Posted:
 Written by: Medusa


I also found being a part time student no one really socialised with you, you could try to make friends but it seemed once they found out you were a part timer they wanted nothing to do with you....very sad really.




Yeah, people here have the same attitude. The freindships between people in my halls are alcohol based, and when they are sober most people really don't get on. A bit pathetic really.

My cousin went to Oxford (the big famous clever people uni) and she loved it, she came out with these amazing freinds, a husband, and she always said to me, go to uni you will love it.

I am studying music, and I love the learning side of it, the lecturerers are lovely and the course is good. The social life is just poor!!

Thanks for the advice about that Virgin research, I'm going to have a look at that.

hug

Kiss me now, You're beatiful, For these days are truly the last.


buzzingtalkMember
152 posts
Location: London, england


Posted:
woa postgrad is expensive though!!! i am hoping to do it at royal academy of music, so hopefully theres cooler people there.

it just seems so unlikely that EVERYONE here is a complete twat, and youre probably right all of the cool people have met each other and gone off, but i have been off most of the last 4 months learning at home cos of illnes, now i am able to get out i wanted to get to uni and really do the whole thing, but i came here and theres no one here frown

Kiss me now, You're beatiful, For these days are truly the last.


MedusaSILVER Member
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1,433 posts
Location: 8 days at Cloudbreak, 6 in Perth, Australia


Posted:
You will prbably find that the other nice, decent and cool people are doing what you are doing and trying to avoid the twats, thereby making it harder for you to meet them cause they are in hiding...

smile

Pen DravenUnofficial Lord Of Confusion And Pirate Extrodinaire
1,363 posts
Location: Nuneaton


Posted:
hmmmm,, having never been myself my experience is coloured somewhat with having to work with graduates and well.... the nicest things i can say is they can tie their own shoes when given nice easy to follow instructions for the most part.

But then thats in IT,, I'm sure most others are bloody nice folks smile

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buzzingtalkMember
152 posts
Location: London, england


Posted:
haha thats quite funny. I am hoping the onset of summer will bring out some more funky people. i have to live in halls again next year : ( cos i couldnt find any housemates, surpirse haha
so now ill have to put up with another year of imbeciles puking out of windows, rugby chants and swapping STD's like pokemon cards

Kiss me now, You're beatiful, For these days are truly the last.


buzzingtalkMember
152 posts
Location: London, england


Posted:
its true though. so bloody true.

Kiss me now, You're beatiful, For these days are truly the last.


SethisBRONZE Member
Pooh-Bah
1,762 posts
Location: York University, United Kingdom


Posted:
 Written by: Kyrian


...and some other sundry details.



ubblol I'm a sundry detail! Woot! ubbloco

I'm having the best time of my life here. I've met people I think may possibly be friends for years and years. I've joined societies and am loving my course. University is great.

But I guess the entire thing is a lottery. You don't know what A-Levels you'll get. You may have problems getting in. When you get there you might not like your course, the people, the place or the faculty. Sounds like you got a sucky selection of problems there. Stick with it though, there are lots of people who say the second year is much better.

Take Care ubbrollsmile

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