Describe your time in college
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dark_chris
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Dated two amazingly beautiful women.
A lot of sex and few parties.
Freedom.
Easy.
Free (didn't pay for college).
A lil regretable over some decisions.
Met some amazing people in my life.
Learned the hard way my university is corrupt (Increased tuition so admins get more pay, teachers get paid less, was fired over the most idiotic thing when i worked there, and got bait-and-switched when I applied for an office job there but they gave me a manual labor job).
A lot of sex and few parties.
Freedom.
Easy.
Free (didn't pay for college).
A lil regretable over some decisions.
Met some amazing people in my life.
Learned the hard way my university is corrupt (Increased tuition so admins get more pay, teachers get paid less, was fired over the most idiotic thing when i worked there, and got bait-and-switched when I applied for an office job there but they gave me a manual labor job).
Dreams-Visions
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Fucking amazing. Did everything I wanted to with who I wanted to when I wanted to.
Ran 3 of the largest, most powerful student orgs on campus, volunteered everywhere, banged a couple models, worked hard. Even held a National office in the largest student run organization in the world. Maybe 6 titles down from the National Chairman. Spoke in front of thousands. Pledged a frat. Sat quietly and learned in the beginning...stood up and lectured to the young freshman near the end.
It was far, far from a perfect experience...but I could count my regrets on one hand. I did what I believed in and pushed for what I wanted. I brought new experiences and ideas to people's lives. I made my Dreams and Visions realities that impacted lives for the better and continue to do so post-college.
I guess you all know where my screen name comes from now. Also, Go Blue.
Ran 3 of the largest, most powerful student orgs on campus, volunteered everywhere, banged a couple models, worked hard. Even held a National office in the largest student run organization in the world. Maybe 6 titles down from the National Chairman. Spoke in front of thousands. Pledged a frat. Sat quietly and learned in the beginning...stood up and lectured to the young freshman near the end.
It was far, far from a perfect experience...but I could count my regrets on one hand. I did what I believed in and pushed for what I wanted. I brought new experiences and ideas to people's lives. I made my Dreams and Visions realities that impacted lives for the better and continue to do so post-college.
I guess you all know where my screen name comes from now. Also, Go Blue.
Undergrad: Easy work, I had lots of free time, made lots of friends, drank a lot (especially in the first year) and generally had an awesome time. Graduated with a fantastic grade.
Postgrad: Hard work, I had no free time, I made a few friends, drank barely anything (especially in the later months), and generally did not have an awesome time because the course sucked and they shafted me out of tuition for a shitty taught MA that was oversubscribed and horribly ran. Did not graduate because I really wanted a refund on as much of my tuition as possible, and withdrew.
Postgrad: Hard work, I had no free time, I made a few friends, drank barely anything (especially in the later months), and generally did not have an awesome time because the course sucked and they shafted me out of tuition for a shitty taught MA that was oversubscribed and horribly ran. Did not graduate because I really wanted a refund on as much of my tuition as possible, and withdrew.
Head of Vengarl
Banned
Eh. It was cool but I don't miss it. I don't drink or do drugs so the partying aspect never really interested me that much. Though I did see some Girls Gone Wild shit in the dorms, and my roommates/friends did some legendary drunken/high shenanigans (which, ironically, only I really remember). Honestly though, most of the time I felt really out of place. Most of the good memories had to do with the area I was in, which had awesome surf, awesome Mexican food, and beautiful women everywhere. I also met my girlfriend there, and now we live together and will likely get married in the future, so that's cool too.
My degree in communication is completely worthless. But I didn't have any interests at the time and I knew it would be an easy major, so that's why I took it. I have a good job now, but I really wish I had taken accounting, since I work as a tax preparer.
My degree in communication is completely worthless. But I didn't have any interests at the time and I knew it would be an easy major, so that's why I took it. I have a good job now, but I really wish I had taken accounting, since I work as a tax preparer.
youngplaya21
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Took 5 years. The first two were filled with Call of Duty 4, drugs, drinking, partying, working, and academic probation. The remaining 3 were filled with good grades, little to no gaming, no partying or going out (literally one party a year...), working, and finding a good job post-grad. Wish I learned to balance everything out, but at least I had an experience and got my degree
Actually, this sounds about right...
ZachDeKoromaru
Banned
Like high school except I have no friends and have to share my room. I also had to learn to study, which kinda fucked me my freshman year.
So far, 4 years of non-fulltime course loads with at least 2 to go.
No social life outside of the 3 people I knew in high school that stayed behind. Now that I'm at a full university I thought it would miraculously change but I also realize it'll only change if I make it, so fuck it.
Classes themselves haven't been too bad but I realized as a junior that I'm in the wrong major so next semester will hopefully bring a welcome change.
No social life outside of the 3 people I knew in high school that stayed behind. Now that I'm at a full university I thought it would miraculously change but I also realize it'll only change if I make it, so fuck it.
Classes themselves haven't been too bad but I realized as a junior that I'm in the wrong major so next semester will hopefully bring a welcome change.
ImpassionateGods
Member
Still here, but college made me realize what an utter failure I am as a person and I still haven't figured out how to cope in the world as anything less than perfect because perfection is all any of my professors are ever looking for. I'm awful at everything that used to make me feel good about myself, I have absolutely zero chance of getting a good job, and every time I have to write an essay I contemplate suicide. I'm aiming for C's at this point because that'll keep my scholarship and I will kill myself before I have to go to graduate school.
Devil Theory
Member
I'll report back in 2018.
Drake Dagan
Banned
Undergrad: I should have studied Computer Science or Information Systems... something with some job prospects.
Graduate School: Working full-time and going to grad school full-time is really hard. I am the study, I am the job.
I ended up with a masters in IS and make a satisfactory wage. I wish it didn't take 7 1/2 years of my life.
Graduate School: Working full-time and going to grad school full-time is really hard. I am the study, I am the job.
I ended up with a masters in IS and make a satisfactory wage. I wish it didn't take 7 1/2 years of my life.
Same. Outside of class I'd say I spent 90% of my time sitting in my room by myself. I could probably count on both hands the amount of times I got to go out and eat with someone or go to a party.
Considering I went through all the trouble and money just to end up working in a pizza joint I'd say it was a wasted experience in more ways than one.
Passive Assassin
Member
on gaf in class :{
drunkendonuts
Member
lot of messing around, a lot of drinking, a lot of games, and a few girls on the way too. one in particular, i still have eyes for. I learned a lot about not just what I was studying, but about life too. Friends came and went, parents got divorced again, but in the end, I know life goes on.
after it was all over and done with, I landed a pretty good paying industry job and got to work on a bunch of big movies. I like to look at college as the biggest transition in my life. did i make a lot of mistakes? yes. would i do it all over again? in a heartbeat.
after it was all over and done with, I landed a pretty good paying industry job and got to work on a bunch of big movies. I like to look at college as the biggest transition in my life. did i make a lot of mistakes? yes. would i do it all over again? in a heartbeat.
I think I can relate to that, actually. It's not about not having friends per se, but rather a general feeling of being stuck with your problems, alone, you know? It's mostly an academic thing for me: I often find myself struggling with something related to my studies and my friends are usually not able to provide any help, which usually causes anxiety.
First year - I will reinvent myself! Oh, wait, no, I actually like being me after all.
Second year - shit, I'd better do some work. Okay, no, I don't have to after all!
Third year - maybe I should do something fun with my free time! Having fun is fun!
Fourth year - fun fun fun OH CRAP FINALS oh, I liked the stuff I'm studying after all, I wish I'd realised that in first year
I would go back and do it all over again in a heartbeat with a different attitude. I didn't get the most out of my time at university at all, but I still had a pretty great time.
If I ever become filthy rich, I'll just spend my life studying things.
Second year - shit, I'd better do some work. Okay, no, I don't have to after all!
Third year - maybe I should do something fun with my free time! Having fun is fun!
Fourth year - fun fun fun OH CRAP FINALS oh, I liked the stuff I'm studying after all, I wish I'd realised that in first year
I would go back and do it all over again in a heartbeat with a different attitude. I didn't get the most out of my time at university at all, but I still had a pretty great time.
If I ever become filthy rich, I'll just spend my life studying things.
methane47
Member
For me it was Meh grades and GAMES + Love Triangles for the first 3 years. And then the last year I pulled my socks up and Aced it all the way through. to bring up my GPA to a 3 lol
Sigh... After I finished I regretted some descisions like not taking a semester abroad. Not travelling... not making closer friends sigh..
I blame the chick i was with..
Ahh GOOD TIMES>
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
Made some good friends.
No girlfriends
No work experience
Little connections
Did not socialize a ton
Did not live up to the hype
Too many papers and presentations
3/5
Last semester, I am in.
No girlfriends
No work experience
Little connections
Did not socialize a ton
Did not live up to the hype
Too many papers and presentations
3/5
Last semester, I am in.
What exactly goes on at university anime clubs? Do I even want to know?
Pagusas
Elden Member
How did this happen, were you in a dorm or apartment? What do you feel kept you from socializing or doing things with people? It may give others insight to avoid a similar thing.
IT was formed by anime fans from the 80s so it was actually pretty fun. Lots of classic stuff in addition to new stuff that was coming out at the time. Ranma and Captain Tylor and Gundam and Eva. Stuffl ike that. Then whatever we felt like watching.
FO-totality
Poet Centuriate
Some good friends made, great internships done (seriously, never thought I'd actually intern at NASA), abysmal dating-wise, and looking towards Grad School atm.
Overall, not bad. It was good.
Overall, not bad. It was good.
Aquavelvaman
Banned
First day moving into the dorms:
Friends are renouncing their religion. Friends are doing cocaine in their dorm rooms. Roommate begins making connections to try to buy large volumes of painkillers. There is a thong hanging from the ceiling in the elevator. Some random guy shows me a photo on his phone of him fingering two girls at the same time. I go to a frat party, drink beer and smoke a cigar with some dudes. Is this what college is?
Two months later:
Friends are failing their classes and having all sorts of friendship/relationship drama that I never imagined in high school. Roommate is selling cocaine and meth from our dorm room, and doing cocaine with strangers in our room when I'm not around. A lot of my things are stolen from my room. Roommate is always smoking weed in our room, which you can smell from the elevator, and we live across the hall from the RA. Some of my college friends steal a car and are arrested. Two times I walk into my own room to find two strangers I've never met having sex in my bed. Is this my life now?
The rest of the first semester:
A strange older guy who does not attend our university moves into our suitemate's (connecting bathrooms) room does a lot of weird, gross shit all the time. Roommate trades a bag of cocaine for a truckload of stolen university property, which he stores in plain sight in our room ("It's okay because it's not on your side!") Roommate failing most of his classes, decides to do speed to study for finals and then sleeps through them all when he crashes. A couple of my friends kill themselves. Someone detonates some explosives on campus and dies during a football game. I just do my best to finish without being arrested or having more of my stuff stolen.
Semester two:
Move in with another friend. Things are better. Have casual drinks, meet people, go to parties, have fun. Class is still easy but not engaging.
Semester three:
Time to move out from the dorms and into an apartment. Live in a really cool place, right on the main drag of bars and restaurants and really close to campus. A little price but whatever. Oh wait, it's infested with giant roaches, the air conditioner breaks every week during summer, the roof caves in during an ice storm during finals week...
After that I moved into a decent apartment and felt like I could actually handle life for the first time since I had left high school. University was entirely different when my living conditions weren't miserable. Managed to learn a lot of life skills and pick up some useful hobbies with the free time. Finished my degree and have since had a tremendously better life as a working adult than I ever could have had as a student.
Friends are renouncing their religion. Friends are doing cocaine in their dorm rooms. Roommate begins making connections to try to buy large volumes of painkillers. There is a thong hanging from the ceiling in the elevator. Some random guy shows me a photo on his phone of him fingering two girls at the same time. I go to a frat party, drink beer and smoke a cigar with some dudes. Is this what college is?
Two months later:
Friends are failing their classes and having all sorts of friendship/relationship drama that I never imagined in high school. Roommate is selling cocaine and meth from our dorm room, and doing cocaine with strangers in our room when I'm not around. A lot of my things are stolen from my room. Roommate is always smoking weed in our room, which you can smell from the elevator, and we live across the hall from the RA. Some of my college friends steal a car and are arrested. Two times I walk into my own room to find two strangers I've never met having sex in my bed. Is this my life now?
The rest of the first semester:
A strange older guy who does not attend our university moves into our suitemate's (connecting bathrooms) room does a lot of weird, gross shit all the time. Roommate trades a bag of cocaine for a truckload of stolen university property, which he stores in plain sight in our room ("It's okay because it's not on your side!") Roommate failing most of his classes, decides to do speed to study for finals and then sleeps through them all when he crashes. A couple of my friends kill themselves. Someone detonates some explosives on campus and dies during a football game. I just do my best to finish without being arrested or having more of my stuff stolen.
Semester two:
Move in with another friend. Things are better. Have casual drinks, meet people, go to parties, have fun. Class is still easy but not engaging.
Semester three:
Time to move out from the dorms and into an apartment. Live in a really cool place, right on the main drag of bars and restaurants and really close to campus. A little price but whatever. Oh wait, it's infested with giant roaches, the air conditioner breaks every week during summer, the roof caves in during an ice storm during finals week...
After that I moved into a decent apartment and felt like I could actually handle life for the first time since I had left high school. University was entirely different when my living conditions weren't miserable. Managed to learn a lot of life skills and pick up some useful hobbies with the free time. Finished my degree and have since had a tremendously better life as a working adult than I ever could have had as a student.
matt360
Member
At first it was fucking awesome, but by the time I was a 2nd-year senior I really just wanted to hurry up and graduate.
Florida State here. I lived in a dorm freshman year and I loved it. Roomed with a buddy from high school, which is usually frowned upon, but we remained good friends and still do to this day. Tons of pranks, parties, clubs, concerts, football games, meal plans, and skipping classes to play NBA and NFL 2K1 on my Dreamcast, later to be replaced by Tony Hawk 2. I nearly failed out. Most of my friends did.
Second year I moved into an apartment with some of the guys from my dorm. It was mostly more of the same. That's when I started studying Japanese. I also started dating my Japanese teacher. She was a TA though, not a prof.
Third year was more of the same. I had a tighter group of friends and went out less, but we still did things like "Lost (the TV show) Nights" and "Poker Nights" fairly regularly. Instead of going to huge keggers in the forest I would go to a friend's backyard BBQ.
Later that year my roommate killed himself with a plastic bag over his head. No, I didn't get straight As because of it. He was depressed but it was still a pretty huge shock. His girlfriend was the one who found him. He was from my Japanese class, so my girlfriend/Japanese TA had also taught him. She was utterly destroyed by his suicide and broke up with me because of it. To this day I have no idea why, but whatever. I found solace in becoming a guild leader in Halo 2, and pretty much fell into a depression myself. I got super fat.
Fourth year I was still kinda depressed. I just played Halo all the time. I was constantly at home gaming. I almost failed out again.
By my fifth year I had made the choice to get my shit together. I lost a bunch of weight, and got my grades back on track. I managed to graduate and got accepted into the JET Programme. 5th year was serious business, I was at the library all the time. My closest friends were my study group friends from my major classes. I also got jumped that year by four guys in front of the library around midnight. They thought I had a laptop in my backpack. I very clearly remember thinking that if they got ahold of my notes, there'd be no way I could pass my finals, which meant that I wouldn't graduate, which meant I wouldn't be able to realize my dream of going to Japan. I know it was dumb and I should've just handed over my bag, but I fought them off instead. I took a pretty good beating, but I managed to hold on to my bag. Campus police did fuck all, but I scored huge sympathy points from my professors. I ended up acing every final anyways.
So yeah, ups and downs, but all in all I had a fantastic time. Go Noles!
Florida State here. I lived in a dorm freshman year and I loved it. Roomed with a buddy from high school, which is usually frowned upon, but we remained good friends and still do to this day. Tons of pranks, parties, clubs, concerts, football games, meal plans, and skipping classes to play NBA and NFL 2K1 on my Dreamcast, later to be replaced by Tony Hawk 2. I nearly failed out. Most of my friends did.
Second year I moved into an apartment with some of the guys from my dorm. It was mostly more of the same. That's when I started studying Japanese. I also started dating my Japanese teacher. She was a TA though, not a prof.
Third year was more of the same. I had a tighter group of friends and went out less, but we still did things like "Lost (the TV show) Nights" and "Poker Nights" fairly regularly. Instead of going to huge keggers in the forest I would go to a friend's backyard BBQ.
Later that year my roommate killed himself with a plastic bag over his head. No, I didn't get straight As because of it. He was depressed but it was still a pretty huge shock. His girlfriend was the one who found him. He was from my Japanese class, so my girlfriend/Japanese TA had also taught him. She was utterly destroyed by his suicide and broke up with me because of it. To this day I have no idea why, but whatever. I found solace in becoming a guild leader in Halo 2, and pretty much fell into a depression myself. I got super fat.
Fourth year I was still kinda depressed. I just played Halo all the time. I was constantly at home gaming. I almost failed out again.
By my fifth year I had made the choice to get my shit together. I lost a bunch of weight, and got my grades back on track. I managed to graduate and got accepted into the JET Programme. 5th year was serious business, I was at the library all the time. My closest friends were my study group friends from my major classes. I also got jumped that year by four guys in front of the library around midnight. They thought I had a laptop in my backpack. I very clearly remember thinking that if they got ahold of my notes, there'd be no way I could pass my finals, which meant that I wouldn't graduate, which meant I wouldn't be able to realize my dream of going to Japan. I know it was dumb and I should've just handed over my bag, but I fought them off instead. I took a pretty good beating, but I managed to hold on to my bag. Campus police did fuck all, but I scored huge sympathy points from my professors. I ended up acing every final anyways.
So yeah, ups and downs, but all in all I had a fantastic time. Go Noles!
Dark Stalkers
Member
If you looked up the word demonic in the dictionary you would see my college experience.
So far I've just been in CC. It's been a really good time though. It's taking a while, but I blame the trouble in the first year getting classes. I've enjoyed classes more than I did in HS (though I get stressed PLENTY), I still miss classes but my attendance is a lot better, I haven't made a ton of friends that I hang out with outside of class, but I'm busy as hell. I spent the first 2 years basically in a relationship, though I had a great time, I'm really loving talking to women openly and not caring. Have a hook up going now, which is terrific.
Looking forward to transferring next year and hitting a Cal State. Though CC has been better than I expected, I really want to just move out of this area.
Looking forward to transferring next year and hitting a Cal State. Though CC has been better than I expected, I really want to just move out of this area.
hairypeckpeck
Member
met a bunch of people.
met a bunch of assholes (mainly professors).
met my girlfriend
didnt party that much, spent most of my time in the research labs. by the time i got out, i was too burnt out to do anything.
got a decent
internship my last year of college working for a big pharma company that gave me a bunch of free useless shit (shirts, bags, plaque for helping release a drug for commercial use)
took a lot longer (5 and a half years) than i thought to graduate thanks to all the impacted classes that were only offered once a year. those classes had to be taken in a certain order which made it that much harder.
overall... it was alright.
parents paid for everything, no loans or anything, so that's good.
met a bunch of assholes (mainly professors).
met my girlfriend
still going out 3 years later
didnt party that much, spent most of my time in the research labs. by the time i got out, i was too burnt out to do anything.
got a decent
paid
took a lot longer (5 and a half years) than i thought to graduate thanks to all the impacted classes that were only offered once a year. those classes had to be taken in a certain order which made it that much harder.
overall... it was alright.
parents paid for everything, no loans or anything, so that's good.
Dorimukyasuto
Member
Pretty much what I have right now. Except I didn't make many new friends, I did however strengthen my friendships with the couple kids who I was friends with before college.
AND WTF AM I DOING WRONG? I DON'T KNOW HOW TO GET LAID!!
- Lost the biggest chunk of my weight loss in college. Easily 100 pounds of the 165-170 that I lost all together. Was pretty active to boot. Played a ton of intramural sports, basketball/football with friends, etc.
- I had one girlfriend (and was another's bitch for a time), and that one relationship soured me on commitment for a good 1.5-2 years. Relationships for me in the tail end of my junior year, and all of my senior year, basically consisted of one night flings and casual sex. I thought I had fucked up and knocked up chicks on two occasions, fortunately I lucked out in that regard.
- I drank a ton. At least 3-4 nights (and days) a week, and blacking out was pretty common. Pretty sure I have a drinking problem. I don't need alcohol seeing as I can go months without desiring a drop, but once it hits my lips, I tend to lack self control. Unfortunately, I do some stupid - borderline crazy shit - when I am or close to being black out drunk... so I've had to experience a lot of my college 2nd hand (retellings, pictures, video, etc.) So that kind of sucked...
- I went to, and hosted a ton of parties/forest raves/kickbacks.
- My attendance was horse shit, but my grades never faltered (3.78 GPA overall - thank you based liberal arts education). I'd say my average attendance for a class was 50% overall, give or take.
All in all, pretty enjoyable. I had no business graduating, let alone with a good GPA, and I did little in the way of networking/internships - but things turned out alright for me I guess.
- I had one girlfriend (and was another's bitch for a time), and that one relationship soured me on commitment for a good 1.5-2 years. Relationships for me in the tail end of my junior year, and all of my senior year, basically consisted of one night flings and casual sex. I thought I had fucked up and knocked up chicks on two occasions, fortunately I lucked out in that regard.
- I drank a ton. At least 3-4 nights (and days) a week, and blacking out was pretty common. Pretty sure I have a drinking problem. I don't need alcohol seeing as I can go months without desiring a drop, but once it hits my lips, I tend to lack self control. Unfortunately, I do some stupid - borderline crazy shit - when I am or close to being black out drunk... so I've had to experience a lot of my college 2nd hand (retellings, pictures, video, etc.) So that kind of sucked...
- I went to, and hosted a ton of parties/forest raves/kickbacks.
- My attendance was horse shit, but my grades never faltered (3.78 GPA overall - thank you based liberal arts education). I'd say my average attendance for a class was 50% overall, give or take.
All in all, pretty enjoyable. I had no business graduating, let alone with a good GPA, and I did little in the way of networking/internships - but things turned out alright for me I guess.
Valkerionseven
Member
Started in 2007 fresh out of HS
Got talked into taking a freshman course string w/ the same group of people for 4 classes, ended up not making friends with anyone which was the point. Hung out with about 2 of those people several times and that was it. Since I did not and still don't live on campus its pretty impossible to make decent friends.
Everything went fine for the first year.
Second year, really started hating college, kept getting pressured to pick a major, while at the same time getting no help in deciding. Ended up picking liberal arts just so they could put something down.
Failed some classes, still in school.
Find out that my school is actually a research school which accounted for the shitty professor quality and why no prof was there more than a year.
Go into the third year, start to get super depressed not seeing the point of any of it since there is no support for a guy like me. Parents don't get the hint I'm not happy there and insist I keep going.
Meet a girl, goes well, end up breaking up that summer. Get kicked out for bad grades.
Could go back in fall but decide fuck it, I need to get my life together a bit before I go back.
End up taking a year and a half off, get nothing done I wanted to do before going back, like a drivers license! (Hate living in a small town where one is not needed)
Go back summer of 2012, start doing well again, slowly ramping up to finish school with a Liberal arts degree w/e that is.
Hope to graduate 2013, and do the English teacher thing in Japan for hopefully 3 or so years and learn a language and some skills finally. If not... doubt it will be good for me lol. Finally met two professors I literally adore because they are not bullshit slingers, have not known them enough to have the balls to ask for a recommendation letter, which might be for the best because both are pretty unreliable and would most likely not get it by the deadline lol.
Coming out of it, with no real friends, no work experience because working at best buy for a few months does not mean shit, no real sources of advice because no one at my school works there more than a year it seems, still a virgin, parties were boring because everyone thought it was cool to underage drink and smoke weed, could have stayed in highschool for that shit, still a virgin.
Fuck college. Not worth it unless you have a plan, sadly no one gives people time to get a plan before going.
Got talked into taking a freshman course string w/ the same group of people for 4 classes, ended up not making friends with anyone which was the point. Hung out with about 2 of those people several times and that was it. Since I did not and still don't live on campus its pretty impossible to make decent friends.
Everything went fine for the first year.
Second year, really started hating college, kept getting pressured to pick a major, while at the same time getting no help in deciding. Ended up picking liberal arts just so they could put something down.
Failed some classes, still in school.
Find out that my school is actually a research school which accounted for the shitty professor quality and why no prof was there more than a year.
Go into the third year, start to get super depressed not seeing the point of any of it since there is no support for a guy like me. Parents don't get the hint I'm not happy there and insist I keep going.
Meet a girl, goes well, end up breaking up that summer. Get kicked out for bad grades.
Could go back in fall but decide fuck it, I need to get my life together a bit before I go back.
End up taking a year and a half off, get nothing done I wanted to do before going back, like a drivers license! (Hate living in a small town where one is not needed)
Go back summer of 2012, start doing well again, slowly ramping up to finish school with a Liberal arts degree w/e that is.
Hope to graduate 2013, and do the English teacher thing in Japan for hopefully 3 or so years and learn a language and some skills finally. If not... doubt it will be good for me lol. Finally met two professors I literally adore because they are not bullshit slingers, have not known them enough to have the balls to ask for a recommendation letter, which might be for the best because both are pretty unreliable and would most likely not get it by the deadline lol.
Coming out of it, with no real friends, no work experience because working at best buy for a few months does not mean shit, no real sources of advice because no one at my school works there more than a year it seems, still a virgin, parties were boring because everyone thought it was cool to underage drink and smoke weed, could have stayed in highschool for that shit, still a virgin.
Fuck college. Not worth it unless you have a plan, sadly no one gives people time to get a plan before going.
Some good times which were hampered by me spiralling wildly into depression and having to repeat a year. My already shaky self confidence subsequently hit an all time low; meaning I'm unable to make new acquaintances and those that I had have either left or become distant. I've also always kind of struggled with the course, and it feels like if I get a 2:1 it'll be by the skin of my teeth.
I don't regret it, but man did I become an utter mess in the process of it all :/ Really hoping I can end final year on a high note, but even if so there's no way I'll be able to label it as "the best years of my life" like so many do. Still utterly hopeless with women too, despite the regular gymming I've done throughout.
I don't regret it, but man did I become an utter mess in the process of it all :/ Really hoping I can end final year on a high note, but even if so there's no way I'll be able to label it as "the best years of my life" like so many do. Still utterly hopeless with women too, despite the regular gymming I've done throughout.
Dating age can help you man. Just be open, socialize with girls. You're bound to get it working sooner or later. Really adapt an attitude that you don't care. Go to concerts (alone or with friends), helped me open up more.
Very different than my current life, but...
I loved it. It was an amazing four years. I loved what I studied, spent hours every day in the library, graduated magma cum laude (0.01 from summa y tho) and wrote an honors thesis I'm incredibly proud of. I worked my ass off.
At the same time, I went out every single Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday (eventually, Thursday. Then Tuesday. Then Monday). I had the best friends who I still talk to almost every day 2 1/2 years later even after I moved across the country, I was in a fraternity I loved, and just has the most amazing college experience that maximized fun and education.
I would do it all over again in an insant.
I loved it. It was an amazing four years. I loved what I studied, spent hours every day in the library, graduated magma cum laude (0.01 from summa y tho) and wrote an honors thesis I'm incredibly proud of. I worked my ass off.
At the same time, I went out every single Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday (eventually, Thursday. Then Tuesday. Then Monday). I had the best friends who I still talk to almost every day 2 1/2 years later even after I moved across the country, I was in a fraternity I loved, and just has the most amazing college experience that maximized fun and education.
I would do it all over again in an insant.
I was a poor kid and everybody was rich so we had nothing to talk about as I had spent my last 6 years working grueling dishwashing jobs that had killed my social life and any optimism I had.
I had to work another job while in school just to be able to eat and so i was getting 3 hrs. of sleep a week day and my grades were shit.
I faced a test that I had to pass in order to be able to move on and I failed after none of the teachers were willing to stick their neck out for me even though I asked; they wanted to keep their rate of failure I guess.
When going into my final class they asked what I wanted to do in the future and I said "I just want to make it to 28 cause I know I'm going home to the same min. wage jobs that nearly killed me before but with 30,000 in debt now so I'll probably be forced into the streets if I don't want to commit suicide from being treated like shit day in and day out." So they kicked me out until I was mentally evaluated and no psychologist will let me back due to the stress of the environment I was in.
So my prophecy is now playing out, I wrote a book but nothing will come of it, so now I'm just waiting to be arrested, but I actually plan on killing myself before the coppers take me away because I don't deserve a worse hell than this.
College was good for a while though, I felt like things were going to get btter for me for a little while... man.
I had to work another job while in school just to be able to eat and so i was getting 3 hrs. of sleep a week day and my grades were shit.
I faced a test that I had to pass in order to be able to move on and I failed after none of the teachers were willing to stick their neck out for me even though I asked; they wanted to keep their rate of failure I guess.
When going into my final class they asked what I wanted to do in the future and I said "I just want to make it to 28 cause I know I'm going home to the same min. wage jobs that nearly killed me before but with 30,000 in debt now so I'll probably be forced into the streets if I don't want to commit suicide from being treated like shit day in and day out." So they kicked me out until I was mentally evaluated and no psychologist will let me back due to the stress of the environment I was in.
So my prophecy is now playing out, I wrote a book but nothing will come of it, so now I'm just waiting to be arrested, but I actually plan on killing myself before the coppers take me away because I don't deserve a worse hell than this.
College was good for a while though, I felt like things were going to get btter for me for a little while... man.
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It was stressful at the time....and then you get out into the real world and wonder how the hell you ever stressed over something as meaningless as getting good grades.
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