Describe your time in college

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At 18: I don't want to be here. I don't want to do this.

At 25: I don't really want to be here, but I'm going to do this.

At 27 (now): I'm at a decent college for a good price, I should do this and do it well.
 
Most important part of my life that lead to the priveleged lifestyle I have now. I'm surprised how many in here have taken college for granted in terms of upward mobility. Though it sucks to hear so many people not getting laid as well.
 
Still good but I'm always sleepy.

Working 50 hours a week.
Leadership role in 1 organization.
Have 12 credit hours.
Been missing some class though because my head gasket blew. Professors forgive me though.

It's tough but you gotta do what you gotta do. If I didn't have to work i'd be in a lot more student organizations and probably do 18 hours per semester.

I do think that college is cool though, I personally have no complaints aside from the dried up scholarships (Should be more money out there, should be easier to find) and loans of course. I bootleg all my books (so to speak).
 
Well in the UK college can be 17-18 (i.e. A-Levels) or technically the uni years since the individual sections of a university are called colleges.

A-Level years for me was in sixth form at my secondary school so it was basically just continuing on with a few new faces and a lot more free time spent hanging around the common room playing texas-hold-em poker and chess. Also being the big boys of the block was always fun.

My uni years I spent working hard as I basically needed to. Chilling in the computer labs was fun enough.
 
It's....okay. The first 3 years at a community college has had its downs (English sucking because it's my worst subject, my mother passed away during my second year & just losing all motivation for classes, especially C++ programming and website design, trying to handle homework for multiple classes), but I will say it had some good moments as well (met new friends at a Japanese Culture Club; things were rather decent when I went from 4 classes to about 2 or 3, making it much easier to handle stuff; I started dieting and lost 60 lbs (268-207) during my 2nd to 3rd year). It's also been nice knowing the people are much more friendlier & kinder than in high school.

Now that I've transferred over to a public college (12 credits short of junior), I'm starting to fear my mental health is starting to suffer again (last month, I had a bad case of uncertainty & "is this going to be worth it") with trying to take a Visual Basic class (the teaching style and my learning style don't mix) with three other classes and the addition of trying to do online work for my income, so it makes it hard to feel like I've got free time again & if all of this will be worth it. I'm slowly gaining a few acquaintances in one class & hopefully, I'll get a few more out of class when I go see a movie this Sunday (Grave of the Fireflies) for free in a building close to where I go for classes, so I'm hoping to make new friends and get myself back to normal again.

At the very lease, I'm so glad I've had financial aid all this time (though now it doesn't cover everything, so loans are coming, yet not as bad as most people hopefully) and I'm in the stage of college where I can start taking classes that focus on my career goal (Integrated Technologies) instead of random stuff like History of the Mafia (not as fun as it sounds) and History of Rock & Roll (only from 1945-75).
 
A downhill spiral. It does get better right? Gradually losing hope. Just barely passed and failed a few evaluations... so debilitating.
 
Freshman Year - Was in a study group, met a couple friends.
Sophomore Year - Lost touch with most of my friends from Freshman Year/ Started Driving to School
Junior Year - A close friend started attending my school, hung out a lot after school/during
Senior Year - Went to Japan had the time of my life / Got my first girlfriend / Got my first heart break
 
On and off university for the past 10 years, I have only 1 year completed to show for it. I never connected with anyone there, never made a single friend that would make myself motivated to show up everyday and not to mention the stupidly designed group projects were a single person ends up doing all the work covering for all the slackers.

I wanted to go to a public university to study something I liked but my mother had other plans for me so I changed to this university which I have hated from the moment I step into it. It's too late to switch back now since all the classes are during the day so having a full time job limits the classes you can attend.

At this point I have no plans to continue, I have the money to pay for it but the thought of going there and interact with what I consider kids keeps me from doing so. Worst part of all is that I am really interested in learning and education, I enjoy learning a lot of new things everyday but I can't torture myself with the social anxiety I feel every time I set foot in that place.
 
Wait a second...? Masters a breeze? Why easier than bachelors? That gives me hope :) I was thinking of how hard my program is now and could only imagine how much worse things will get when I get into my masters. Please explain :)

Well, my Bachelor's was in Mathematics, while my Master's and Doctorate are in Education.
Compared to the Mathematics classes I had to go through, the Education classes are a vacation in comparison.
 
Freshman: Very drunk. Crew team. Exercise. Minimal work. Ass handed to me. Work harder. Good grades.
Sophomore: Drunk. A little bit high. Lots of work. Good grades.
Junior: Very drunk. Very high. Lots of work. Good grades.
Senior. Very drunk. Very, very high. Lots of work. Good grades.
 
3 weeks so far. It's alright, but commuting makes it a bitch to make a lot of solid friends. Midterms also suck butt. As a premed student, I'm sure it only gets worst from here.
 
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Engineering: choose only 1.
 
Engineering: choose only 1.

Or not even one.

I had classes during the whole day, and had to study at night. Not much time for a life. And all that to get minimum grades, so studying less was out of the question.

So, no life, no sex (long distance relationship with gf from high school) , no sleep, grades just good enough to pass, and those were my 5 years in college. Top engineering in my country's top college, all right, but damn. By the 4th year I wished I had picked something else.

Also, my family was having financial problems, so almost no money. And most of my colleagues were rich, or at least high-middle class, so when there was an opportunity to get some fun, I just had to go home.

If I regret it? I don't know. I have a kick ass job, but so do a lot of people who had a much easier time. I'm still in recovery!
 
First two years at CC felt like an extension of high school with less socialization.

First semester at a university and I love it. Lot's easier to make friends, more freedom. Work+school is a bit much right now though.
 
First yera was relaxing and formed a lot of friendships. I had time for everything.

This semester has been different. All has changed. I barely have time for everything. I have to study the majority of time and have lost my friends because of that. Though I have improved my grades I feel like I need to do other things beside my classes to feel like doing something for my life.

I hope the next years are better, which I'm sure of because at least I'll get better class schedules than the last two semesters meaning I'll get more time.
 
Seeing all these depressing experiences is quite surprising. My college experience was great, especially considering my field is known for being very difficult to break into.

I did a two-year course in print journalism. Became the editor of my school paper's entertainment division, won an award for coverage of a Disney film, covered events and had experiences I still can't believe, and had a job placement secured by the time I left.

I paid my way through on my own, without any financial assistance. I also gained 30 pounds just by eating at the cafeteria every day.
 
Three years ago I started a general semester because I was unsure what I wanted to do, but I knew that I *had* to be in college. The whole time I was panicked and my grades were terrible, and after finishing my first year I decided to take time off and figure things out.

That was two and a half years ago. I planned on going back this September, but now I may be able to go in January if I'm lucky and it's driving me crazy. I keep thinking about how I should have tried harder, how I should have waited done a 12B before going for the first time, how I should have put more thought into it, and even though I'm only twenty, I feel guilty about leaving so early.
 
I decided to go to CC for two years before University to save money on gen eds. I lived at home with my parents for all of my college years. The first two years were basically a breeze. I was working at a Barnes & Noble at the time. I had a lot of fun during this period. Classes were easy, I was meeting girls and dating and had my heart broken for the first time. I was getting into bars almost as soon as I turned 20 and met a lot of cool people that made my time awesome. I was working a lot, going to school, and I was partying a ton. I barely slept. I actually fell asleep at the wheel twice in this period and was saved from death by rumble strips at the edges of the road. Eventually I quit my job because I had a manager I didn't get along with at all. After I finished two years at CC I fooled around a bit too much and missed the deadlines for applying to Universities (I had really bad anxiety when filling out applications for some reason). I took a year off from school.

Basically that year off sort of sucked and sort of didn't. I was actually taking a single class for one term during it though. I had gotten a serious girlfriend at the tail end of CC and I was spending a lot of time with her, which was great, but at this point I was worried if my education would work out for me because I was slacking in that department, and I had quit my job so I was working with my father helping with his business. It was all manual labor and I really didn't enjoy doing it. I decided to get a job at Best Buy and I got my shit in line and applied to a small state university.

This is sort of when shit got crazy. I was still working at Best Buy and they considered me a valuable employee so they piled the hours on me. During summer I was working 25+ hours a week, but during the holiday season they had me on 30-35 hours a week. It was almost full time. About a year or so into that my girlfriend moved from Penn State to Rutgers cause it was cheaper for her, so I went to visit her there like every few weeks. It was like two or three hours drive. Anyway, since I took all my gen eds at CC, all I had left were core classes for my Comp. Sci major. So I was loaded up with like 3-4 core classes and like one gen ed per year for the rest of my college years. It was a crazy amount of work, like 10-15 hours of class time then 40+ hours of homework per week, on top of working 30-35 hours from about October through January. Absolutely no sleep whatsoever. I was getting 3 hours a night, if I was lucky. If I had a free weekend I drove to visit my girlfriend at Rutgers. I was so busy I could barely think straight. At this time I was also vice president of a campus club at my university, so that was a ton of extra work as well.

I am glad I was able to keep it all up though. I got a great education, and ended up marrying my girlfriend three years after graduating. Going to visit her definitely cost my grades a lot because I actually had to choose between getting homework done or maintaining my relationship, but it worked out for the best in the end.
 
It's pretty fuckin sweet so far OP.

Love my college friends way more than highschool "friends"

Met my first "real" relationship. Been together almost 9 months. Love her.

Living off campus in an apartment with 3 other awesome bros and we have the girls in our friend group living 2 floors down in the same building.

Boston is an incredible city to spend these years of my life. Best decision I've ever made. I apologize in advance to my future self for the crippling debt. #YOLO
 
i brief college experience was very enjoying. had a nice girl while going there. good roommates. great places to skate. hung out a bunch

smokes various things out of various devices. broke up some fights. played a bunch of hacky-sack

went to most of my classes
 
Engineering: choose only 1.

I don't get this talk. I'm a 1st year in MEng and I have plenty of time in the night and weekend nights are always free. I study during the day and go out in the night. My sleep schedule is a little messed I admit but I'e gotten used to it now.
 
I am glad I was able to keep it all up though. I got a great education, and ended up marrying my girlfriend three years after graduating. Going to visit her definitely cost my grades a lot because I actually had to choose between getting homework done or maintaining my relationship, but it worked out for the best in the end.

Congrats. That was pretty much the same situation I was in during my 2 years at a community college and then 4 years at a university (yeah, my Bachelor's took much longer than it should have), working 20-something hours per week, seeing my girlfriend (who lived an hour away) on the weekend (and talking to her on the phone during the week), and, since I had gotten my gen eds out of the way at the community college, just having piles of Mathematics courses for my major left at the university, and just wondering how I was ever going to get it done. There were plenty of times during it that I felt like I wouldn't be able to.

Made my way through it (finally), and married her a couple of years later (during my Master's).
 
I went to sixth form college which wasn't all that fun.
Bad grades, a lot of skyving, a lot of time distancing myself from everyone.

I'm at a different college now, pretty much the same though.
 
1st Year- Seriously the best year of my life. Every single day was just incredible and I met so many people in my college, plus people from colleges that my friends went to. All in all awesome times.

2nd Year- Things still going pretty good but at this point is when my Social Anxiety was starting to kick in. I still had fun most of the time though.

3rd Year- Terrible, awful, terrible. Very much terrible. That Social Anxiety I mentioned, it got much worse. Couple this with the fact that I was the only one out of pretty much all my friends that had to stay in my college this year since I was unable to go abroad to study. I had to do random modules that weren't gonna be counted towards my final grade, so I barely even showed up to College...That ended up being a mistake.

Repeating 3rd Year due to failing one of those pointless modules- Yup...

That's where I'm at now. All my friends are in 4th year while I'm repeating. All because of Socail Anxiety. FUN TIMES!
 
I don't get this talk. I'm a 1st year in MEng and I have plenty of time in the night and weekend nights are always free. I study during the day and go out in the night. My sleep schedule is a little messed I admit but I'e gotten used to it now.

Maybe you're just good at time management and/or studying efficiently!

It all really comes down to this: the most important thing is not how much hours a day you study, but how much you actually get done within a given time period.
 
Based on my first year... one of the best years of my life. Although I kind of want to get these exams over with asap so I can enjoy the rest of my holidays. Excited that I have 3 more years of this and have aspirations to go back for graduate school when I spend 7 or so years in employment.
 
My undergrad wasn't but almost 3 years ago and all I can remember was extremely long hours on campus, part time work weaved in between, and lots of robots. Oh and no women whatsoever. My university is like 10% female. Oh and I lost a bunch of weight in the first two years and gained it all back in the last two pretty much starting when I started specializing in robots. so in case you were wondering ROBOTS MAKE YOU FAT.
 
I liked college. I wasn't very social. If I had spare time, I spent it refining my programming assignments rather than socializing with anyone but my girlfriend.

It all culminated in a three day sprint to finish my senior project (a database-driven web application) and me winning the award for outstanding IT student.
 
Boring beyond belief, frustrating due to professors that showed no mercy and I learned nothing important from, depressing, and lonely. I still have nightmares that I'm in it sometimes and have exams are coming up. Definitely the worst time of my life. I feel like I spent years in prison. Computer science major.
 
Best fucking years of my life by a mile.

I mean, I lived with my friends, I didn't have a job (for part of it at least), I had a full ride and money in my pocket, I coasted by on 12 credit hour semesters, and I routinely skipped class because I was hungover or simply didn't want to go.

My life consisted of video games, movies, beer, parties, sex, bars, and hanging out with friends. What's not to love about that setup?
 
Best fucking years of my life by a mile.

I mean, I lived with my friends, I didn't have a job (for part of it at least), I had a full ride and money in my pocket, I coasted by on 12 credit hour semesters, and I routinely skipped class because I was hungover or simply didn't want to go.

My life consisted of video games, movies, beer, parties, sex, bars, and hanging out with friends. What's not to love about that setup?

It depends on whether you landed okay afterwards.
 
Everything I did was a huge mistake.
 
Probably the worst years of my life. Didn't make a single friend and only started to relate with my classmates this very last year, when I had a ton of group projects.

And to think that I still have two years left to go and I've already been there for 5 years... It's not a difficult degree by any means (Economics), but given that only have exams in February and July, I have spent years not studying at all. I guess the huge amount of free time is the only good side of this years.
 
It depends on whether you landed okay afterwards.

Got a pretty decent career going. My last year was sort of atoning for my sins. Was working a lot, going to class, and also doing a 20 hour a week unpaid internship.

But the first few years were just magic.
 

Haha, BS. Learn time management and enjoy all 3, maybe not to extremes like some do, but if you can find compromises you can be a 3.7+ GPA student, have friends and a good social life, and get more than enough sleep (though midterms and finals will always suck, no way around it). Yeah everyone is different, but a lot of problems you see in college with people are lack of responsibility and lack of time management.
 
Well... Started out fine. The first year was good in terms of socializing ( at school) and grades. Made a couple of really good friends my freshman and sophomore year. Got my first kiss from a guy my freshman year. Got into a relationship my junior year and, well, all hell broke lose then. Hello depression and everything else. College sucked from that point on as I wasn't able to focus on my classes as much as I wanted, I was dealing with two very needy people demanding all of my time (My grandfather and my boyfriend), and I was suffering from really back breakouts of my eczema.

So, started off good, and went to shit. Has pretty much stayed shit since I've been in graduate school and the shitslide is still continuing downward.
 
First Year: Went to a really shitty school for a year in order to transfer to the school I really wanted to go to. Had almost zero social life because I was so obsessed with meeting the required GPA to transfer. Come post-exam week and discover I just barely missed the required GPA to transfer. Fall into deep depression for a good week before seeing an email from my Anthro professor notifying me that my grade changed from a B to a B+, putting me at the required GPA to be accepted into the University I really wanted to go to.

2nd Year Fall: I'm automatically accepted into the University, but my intended major denies my application. Have a bit more of a social life, but not much - still stressing on transferring into my intended major. Ended up coming down with a temporary case of something called Dissassociative Identity Disorder. I end up unable to focus on anything relating to school for a good month, fall super behind in class, fail one class and get a D in another. I'm on academic probation. Intended major obviously denies my application again.

2nd Year Spring: My temporary DI disorder pretty much goes away, quit smoking weed, I work hard as fuck to bring my grades up. I finally get involved in the student television station (so as to look better for my major application), end up meeting some cool ass people there and get to do a bunch of cool stuff like interviewing Adam Sessler, getting press badges to gaming conventions, etc. Crawl out of academic probation, end up with awesome grades to boot, although not enough to get into my intended major.

Summer: End up having a huge falling out with my roommates, they kick me out of our apartment, scramble to find a place to live before the school year starts. Did a lot of stuff to build up my resume over the summer in hopes that would look better than my still shitty GPA

Now: University puts a new policy that a student can only attempt to apply for the major I'm applying for twice (thankfully I'm grandfathered in), so now I have the added stress of if I'm not accepted by this year, I'll be a senior unable to study in the major I spent all of my time and money in the last three years striving for. I'm a lot less social this semester and I hate it, but I know I'd hate it even more if I ended up fucking up again and couldn't get into the major I want to get into.

That was cathartic
 
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