I hate LSE

1. Private educated, international, out of touch with reality
tbf, as with everything you have said, you must have expected this coming to LSE. A lot of people complain about LSE and about its stereotype - where everynpe is unsocialbe and everyone just wants to get into finance. But you expected this? If you wanted a really good uni life you wouldn't have come to LSE. You come because its the easiest way to get a wicked job, that will essentially set you up for life. There are loaads of aweomse people as well, by not bothering to socialise with people you're kind of fulfilling this 'LSE stereotype'.

You can probably tell that i'm conflicted about the LSE situation as well haha. sometimes i consider dropping out like some of my firends have done. or even taking a second bachelors at a 'funner' uni..

Don't take my post in the wrong way, I mean I have a great social life outside of university so I don't really need to be active in terms of socializing with the idiots we have here, and you're right, it was kind of expected. I'm basically just here for the name. But just being here for three years, I've kind of seen how the stereotypes are not just stereotypes. Its real. lol



Do you not like the uni as well then? lol

I'm hoping someone from the LSE entry thread sees this and it puts them off

This is why I chose Bristol over UCL. Went for a pre-offer open day and I just saw so many little groups of oriental asians. The south asians as well but they were mostly on their own banging out their books.

Tbh though I'd get a boner if I was going to LSE. That's the next best thing after Oxbridge. Intellectual snobbery.

UCL is the more fun version of LSE, so if you thought cliques were bad there then you wouldn't enjoy LSE


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Thanks for the heads up but how do you know this? You go to UCL?

Don't take my post in the wrong way, I mean I have a great social life outside of university so I don't really need to be active in terms of socializing with the idiots we have here, and you're right, it was kind of expected. I'm basically just here for the name. But just being here for three years, I've kind of seen how the stereotypes are not just stereotypes. Its real. lol



Do you not like the uni as well then? lol

I'm hoping someone from the LSE entry thread sees this and it puts them off

You get these kinds in majority of the good unis. I go to liverpool uni, while not as good a uni as yours, I've encountered similar problems. Although I did get a group of friends and we're pretty accepting of other people. But damn you can actually see a drama in what's happening with other peoples lives though.

Internationals annoy me a lot too. Lived with them in second year. They were so damn dirty man.

Your hopes have come true But I know some people (nice people) who have loved the LSE, surely your experience somewhere is subjective?

I seem to have a theory in my head: considering I live in London, going to LSE was not a big deal. It wasn't much hype to me compared to other people. If I was to actually move far away from London and go to somewhere like Birmingham or Liverpool I think I would have enjoyed university life a lot more. Its good that you seemed to get a circle of friends, that's what I was kind of expecting here as well. In my three years I've only met one decent guy, and he was a Londoner as well. Someone that I could actually relate to. I lived in halls for my first year and it was the worst 6 grand I ever spent in my life (notably because I live 45 minutes away from the university anyway) but also because living with these socially awkward, cliquey unoriginal morons was so cringey.

And yeah, international students are pretty bad, especially over here because we have more internationals than home students. The oriental Asians only befriend oriental Asians. They can't even speak English. God knows how they managed to get into the university in the first place, given that we don't do interviews and only personal statements? The mind boggles. Then you have the European post-graduate students, who are pretty much the same. There is no incentive for these international students to integrate with home students because the ratio of international students to home students is disproportionate. The worst international students, though, seem to be American students. **** me they are so annoying.



Everyone will have different experiences of the university. You may like it, but then again, you may be the type of person I find annoying in the first place

Your hopes have come true But I know some people (nice people) who have loved the LSE, surely your experience somewhere is subjective?

Yeah, the best thing I found was moving as far away from london as possible.

Na real talk, everyone bar 2 in my flat of 6 I liked in first year. She was cool, but the rest were ****ing annoying, one I could talk about football but was a deluded scouser fan(funny though), but anything else we didn't really click too much. One was just so introverted it was impossible to get a conversation with her, didn't help I'm fairly introverted, but I never could get a convo out of her. Final two, not worth a mention.

Although hearing uni stories, some of the guys I know are real dicks man. Just troublemakers, the type I didn't expect to see at uni. But your basic lads who on a night out try to save face and will pick fights for no reason. Though they're usually on ket/coke or overly drunk so go figure, but they're the type who can get you beaten up for no reason. They're actually decent guys, just that they like to save face and compete with each other.

International students. The chinese flatmates left egg shells on the floor for goodness sake, I spent the whole year eating pizza from dominoes and gained like 10kg because the kitchen was so dirty and they decide to cook for EVERYBODY and their dog every night,(they were good at cooking tbf but they took the piss). I live with a european couple currently, getting a convo from them is impossible; it's all professional stuff. I don't have the unwanted pleasure of meeting american students, I reckon the ones at LSE will be ***** as well.

At least you could find someone you could talk to about football. No one here knows anything about football. Although once I saw an American guy in one of my classes with an Arsenal top so I sat next to him during a lecture and tried to talk to him about the season etc., turned out he didn't know **** all about the club and didn't even know the last result to our game. So I didn't sit next to him again.

I'm also an introvert, and I will try with people, but if I don't click with someone I'm not going to bother. I still talk to people when I'm at university, i.e. people before lecture and class, but its just about the course and nothing else. I would never hang out with those people outside of university, nor would I ever consider putting any sort of effort into them given the opportunity. They are not worth my precious time/effort.

Like I said though, fortunately I have a lot of friends in London, and a lot of people I've known since childhood/sixth form. etc are at London universities, so it doesn't both me much. One of my best friends is at London Met, I was going to meet up with him on the day so took the train to his university. The atmosphere in the library felt like Tiger Tiger, it was quite hilarious really. The people there were cool as well and knew how to have a conversation. I probably made more proper conversationsthere than my entire three years at LSE.

In my first year of halls we also had messy international students. Someone took a **** in the showers in my halls and the cleaners refused to clean it up. The **** was there for 6 weeks until it finally disappeared. We had to take a shower in the floor below during the time it was there lol.

What exactly did you not like about the people there? Snobbery, being Rahs or is there some other underlying reason?

A bit of everything really.

I mean at halls I didn't really like the people there, at all. Every undergraduate there acted like they hadn't touched alcohol/marijuana in their life, and when they finally got their hands on it, they felt like they were automatically the coolest people you've ever seen. The guys would all wear skinny jeans and Topman jumpers, and what made it worse is that the girls there actually liked it. Even though the girls were all 4/10 at the most.

There were a lot of upper-class people as well, snobbish ones. Contrary to what some people say, the majority of people here ARE upper class. Especially international students. They pay £15k a year for tuition fees, without student loans, so obviously they're rich. Everyone has an iPad/iPhone and in general no one is really bothered about money because they're swimming in it.

Then you have people with their political/social opinions. Every Tom, Dick and Harry wants to run for halls president or be elected into the Student's Union just so they can write it down on their CV. Its so pathetic.

Everyone wants to get into investment banking. I know at least 10-20 people with offers from Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, etc. etc. Its just so dull and repetitive and every conversation that seems to stem from a person you've just met is career oriented.

Then you have people like this guy...

https://twitter.com/JasonForLSE

I don't seem to have any similarities between the people here. No one that I can relate to or share a joke with, its like some sort of cultural barriers between people like me and them.