I go to Birmingham Uni because it looked like such a cool, lively campus with loads of stuff going on. But after a while the campus gets claustrophobic because it's nice, but the surroundings are just horrible (it's Birmingham). So I spend most of my time in Birmingham on campus which gets really boring as it's just not as great as they make it out to be and a lot of societies aren't as active as they profess to be (I have tried my best to get involved in as much as I can, and have succeeded to a certain extent, but a lot of societies just revolve around drinking, or just aren't that fun). So much just revolves around drinking and clubbing which I realised I hated in the very first week of freshers (I'd never really done any before). I've gone to the city centre quite a few times but in the end it's just a big shopping mall. I became really depressed in my first year and almost dropped out half way through the first term, but decided I couldn't deal with another wasted year (I took a gap year purely because I had terrible AS results and had to start new subjects). Anyway, I wish so much that I'd gone somewhere like Exeter where the campus is nice but also the city is nice and you can spend a lot of time on the coast or outdoors. But I didn't because when I applied to uni, as I said, Birmingham seemed like a great and lively campus, and I've spend 2 miserable years in this place and I'm finally going into my third year and I'm really really not looking forward to it, and obviously changing uni now is not an option. I still have very few friends even though I've been here 2 years and it's just going to be another horrible, boring, depressing year. To top it all off, first year student accomodation was nice but Selly Oak is really an awful place to live. Obviously I can put things into perspective and say it's better than living in a third world country but it's still horrible. The only good thing about Birmingham is that it's really easy, cheap and relatively fast to get home so I can do that at weekends. So... does anyone else really regret their uni choice and why?