[Joanna-Marie :)]

Student's Past & Present!
Quite often I hear people say; ''University is the best time of your life''! so is it really true?

Freedom from your parents, all night parties and eating what you want when you want as well as making life-long friends at the same time all sounds good but is the reailty of university more like having tones of stressful assignments, living with rude flatmates and being constantly skint?

Feel free to add;

What were/are the up's and down's to your university experience? &
Would you do it all again or it is the biggest hangover of your life?

Edit; Maybe I should rephase slightly and say; ''ONE of the Best times of your life .. SO FAR''?

[Jackso]

I hope not.

[Aeschylus]

So far? Without a shadow of a doubt! 3 years to study what I love, talk to like minded people about it, learn from the best in my field and join as much stuff, and find what I enjoy, all of which while finding some truly awesome friends. Absolutely love it.

[Joanna-Marie :)]

(Original post by Jackso)
I hope not.

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[Sadie_Stonell]

It can be the best years of your life, just depends how you approach it!
In my first year I would have disagreed with this... leaving home and living by myself whilst all my friends and family were a good three hours away was hard to deal with...but now (in my third year) I love the uni bubble I have here, its a proper little life and I don't want my last year to end!

Do everything, meet people, try new things and get enough work done and it'll be one of the best times of your life.... its like being an adult (being able to drink, live without parents, and have money) but you're still free of full time 9-6 work and can go out and drink as much as you want by using the excuse that you're a student

[consumetech]

(Original post by Joanna-Marie :))
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Im geussing he doesnt want his life to peak during his 20s? =P

[Cicerao]

Probably the easiest and most carefree. I certainly hope it won't be the best time of my life, knowing that my life is only going downhill from the day I graduate would suck.

[coca]

Not for me. It's different for everyone.

[saberahmed786]

I'm not there yet but i seriously can not wait, its not a peak but a stepping stone of your life...like a new level of indipendancy (providing you leave home of course).

[CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK]

Having left uni back in August and moved back home I can safely say I wish I was still in Oxford. It did get boring at times but just being able to socialise with people my age and the freedom you get in your own house and space not being under the eyes of your parents all the time, coming and going pretty much as you please.
Yep, last year at uni was one of the best years of my life, along with Upper 6th at school.

[Omar.Ebrahim]

I'm only a fresher so I can't make a valued argument - there are high and low points.
Being away from friends and family sucks a bit (my home town is London), BUT I made new friends pretty much straight away, and everyone feels the same way.

The independence is amazing. I never did that well at A Levels as I was bored ****less, but at uni it's so interesting here.

I can probably come up with a more valued argument after my first (foundation) year.

[electriic_ink]

(Original post by saberahmed786)
I'm not there yet

So you're not in any way qualified to comment on this issue?

All I can add is that university is better than school and life is what you make of it. If you end up spending every hour of the day doing a job you hate then that is ultimately your choice. I suspect most people who say things like this are only remembering the good times of uni.

[Akuma]

Depends what you make of the rest of your life. If you leave and end up in an unhappy relationship with a job you hate then yes. Otherwise no.

[miser]

Best time of my life so far definitely. Met a lot of people, shared a lot of great experiences, and enjoyed living with my friends. Not looking forward to graduating and working 9-5.

[X_mark_the_spot]

Yes, everything is downhill after uni. And no, you won't make lifelong friends. Just ones that'll last until they find themselves a girl/guy and settle down, breed, have little puke machines running around, whom they'll have to drive to ballet/soccer practice rather than having a midday beer with you, and then when they finally manage to pry themselves away from their over-bearing spouse to spend time with you, all they can seem to talk about is how little sleep they've had and how they'd rather be sleeping. And all the boring normal stuff that's supposed to exemplify adult life, like building a fence from scratch *wow* and laying turf in time before the frost sets in .

So enjoy uni. It is indeed the best time you'll have doing things that will be more or less free of "real world" consequences. It's that magical moment when you still harbour all the optimism of infinite possibilities and the belief that the world is your oyster if you just work hard enough. Because I'm nice, I won't actually tell you what lays ahead.

[tif49]

People keep telling me they really are the best time of your life.

[tif49]

Which is why I'm working hard through my A Levels to get there...

[emerset]

Quite frankly, my first term now, Ive had no time to party in the least. I'm doing a hardcore engineering course, lectures/labs 7hrs/day 5days/week, and then homework, (5-6 hrs sleep on av.) living on campus, Ive made a lot of friends but I hardly hang out.
Hoping things will be going smoother later on but for now, I can see this being a memorable slavery period of my life...

[defuzion]

Not really.

[tazarooni89]

I wouldn't say university was the best time of my life.
I don't really see the big fuss about leaving home and going to a new place by yourself. My home is actually pretty nice. My parents and family are nice. I didn't exactly celebrate the fact that I left them behind.

I think I preferred school to university, where teachers actually taught you, rather than just talked at you without even knowing who you were, or caring in the slightest about how well your studies are going. And where most of the people you saw each day recognised you, rather than at university where you've never met half of the people in your class.

I actually prefer work to university as well. I actually have something to do each day - whereas at university I'd have strings of completely empty days. It's much more of a team environment as well, so you can feel close to the people around you. It feels like I'm actually useful for something, rather than wasting three years of my life on something that should really take a few months.