Does anyone else miss university?

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Zebedee, Mar 18, 2019.

  1. Not the actual lectures or course work, but the social life, having friends who you see more than once every few months, going out drinking or to gigs on a week night, etc.

    Real life sucks. :(
     
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  2. Betty the Bay

    Betty the Bay Supporter

    University...... Oxford or Cambridge young fellow?
     
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  3. Barry Haynes

    Barry Haynes I dance in leopard skin mankini’s

    Yes I do every day, but you just have to try and move on:thumbsup:
     
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  4. No !

    I went as a 'mature' student 25 years ago , having already been in industry for 10 years.

    I could only manage one term sharing a student house, before tiring of them helping themselves to my food, bouncing cheques for bills and whining about how unfair anything course-related was.
    Didn't even bother with the graduation ceremony.
     
  5. bernjb56

    bernjb56 Supporter

    Sounds very like retirement to me :chewie:
     
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  6. Day

    Day

    I miss the 'drive and ambition' we all had...as well as the social scene.
     
  7. University was for posh rich kids when I was at school.
    Now we have too many chiefs and not enough injuns
     
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  8. I miss it a lot. I quit my crap job at age 36 and did a degree in fine Art. It was mostly mature students who came from all over the same county so no shared housing rubbish or bad attitudes. I miss the out of box thinking and being inspired by others creativity. The best time to go imho as we all had proper life experience.
     
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  9. Jack Tatty

    Jack Tatty Supporter and teachers pet

    Does Polytechnic count? :thumbsup:
     
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  10. Yep - I've interviewed people for administrator roles, after they'd spent three years and £XXXXX getting a degree.

    We now have people who aspire to be chiefs, but end up as degree qualified injuns.
     
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  11. I was lucky the course was only 3 yrs. Any longer and i'd have drunk myself to death i think.

    I enjoyed it to the max, but harbour no desires to go back.
     
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  12. matty

    matty Supporter

    No
    I did my qualifications while working

    But my taxes did subsidising rich kids to go to University
     
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  13. Barry Haynes

    Barry Haynes I dance in leopard skin mankini’s

    No silly he’s talking about us university students not council college boys:thumbsup:
     
  14. Jack Tatty

    Jack Tatty Supporter and teachers pet

    Excellent. Money well spent then :thumbsup:
     
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  15. JamesLey

    JamesLey Sponsor

    Not overly no. I made a few good close friends, but found the whole binge culture a bit tiresome.
    I'd definitely not have my current job without my degree though.
     
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  16. MorkC68

    MorkC68 Administrator

    I dont miss it one bit, 9 years of studying till midnight, not being able to have a wander down the pub for a pint at will and getting moaned at by lecturers for not attending a tutorial 50 miles away from home.

    Aside to that, its the most worthless piece of paper I have been awarded (even to the point I tore my degree certificate into quarters), its not done me much good on a career level.
     
  17. scrooge95

    scrooge95 Moderator and piggy bank keeper

    Art college?
    We had a huge amount of freedom as film students, no lectures, and complete autonomy to go out and do what you wanted.... so yeah I guess I miss that, but more for the lack of responsibility we had back then, and the fact the whole of my life was ahead of me, and absolutely anything seemed possible.
    To differing degrees I’m still mostly in touch with the friends I had then- and they were really what made it what it was.
    I’d do it again.
    I still have the same dreams as I did then, some I’ve achieved, some I have yet to.... anything is still possible.
     
  18. Lazy Andy

    Lazy Andy Supporter

    Some of it... I guess it’s that tight knit social aspect of it, constrained into 3 (or 7 years). My course was pretty intense so the hair down p ups were really a pressure release at the end of term.

    I teach at uni part time, so not allowed to undermine my standing by getting drunk in the union :D
     
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  19. At junior school the world is the mollusc of your choice when it comes to jobs. You could be an astronaut, train driver, fireman etc. Infact anything your little heart desires.
    At secondary school your choices are trimmed a little as you choose which subjects to do.
    6th form, yet again, choices trimmed a little more after choosing just a couple of subjects. Being an astronaut is definately out if you just chose A level art and french.
    Go to University and you've now really narrowed your choices down to maybe one of two professions.
    Finish Uni and realise you're now qualified in a subject you don't enjoy anymore and don't have anything else remotely useful to offer and you're properly screwed.
     
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  20. MorkC68

    MorkC68 Administrator

    Dont get me wrong with my degree / career, I cant grumble careerwise as its interesting & can be enjoyable (we're working on C17 Globemaster landing gear at the moment) but when others argue the toss constantly and devalue all of the effort you have gone through, it makes you a tad bitter :D
     
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