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How important is a social life to you at university?

Would you still be willing to part with 40k in a way of debt if there was no freshers, no nightclubbing, no drinking... Just studying each night for the certificate?

I guess what I'm trying to ask is, how much do/would/did you value having a really good social life at university?

I'm sure it's easy to have a great social life at uni? You can live with essentially up to 16 people, go out clubbing most nights and stay in making friends any other nights...


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Not if you're commuting. (3 hours of my day is gone through that)
I don't pay tuition fees so it's hard to say.


My gut feeling is I would still go to uni, but I'll happily admit that the social life is a big thing at uni.
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I wouldn't care for nightclubbing, drinking or anything as such because they don't interest me to begin with. Provided I can still go out every other weekend (to do my own thing --not necessarily what someone would associate with uni social life) and make friends id be just fine lol
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social life is as important/drinking to me.
nope, that's one aspect that makes uni enjoyable and commuting 3hrs to uni and back would be so dead without anything to look forward to
Original post by shawn_o1
Not if you're commuting. (3 hours of my day is gone through that)


Whoa, doesn't that bother you?
Original post by Bronco2012
Whoa, doesn't that bother you?


possibly. but lack of social skills means i have no choice but to study
Original post by shawn_o1
possibly. but lack of social skills means i have no choice but to study


Social skills can be learned, trust me :smile:
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Original post by shawn_o1
possibly. but lack of social skills means i have no choice but to study


If you have a lack of social skills why didn't you force yourself to live at uni around people. They would have brought you out of your shell whether you liked it or not.


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Couldn't care less about the drinking aspect in all honesty.

My commute is only 25 minutes by car so I wouldn't be missing much if I put the effort in. Social life is a massive part of university in the first place but I can't say I couldn't live without it.
Don't care for drinking and clubbing or anything but it'd be awful to go through the 3-5 years alone with zero social life :sad:
Original post by lewif002
Would you still be willing to part with 40k in a way of debt if there was no freshers, no nightclubbing, no drinking... Just studying each night for the certificate?

I guess what I'm trying to ask is, how much do/would/did you value having a really good social life at university?

I'm sure it's easy to have a great social life at uni? You can live with essentially up to 16 people, go out clubbing most nights and stay in making friends any other nights..


Very important to me. Uni is a place to meet friends for life and build up your network - pretty invaluable to me. Money should not stop you from enjoying this freedom, although we live in a sad state where we have to pay for education.
Social life is sooo important in uni without my mates in and out of halls i would not have survived .
Yeah part of the 40k or in my case 9K (have now graduated) is to give you the opportunity to socialise a lot if you didn't have the social life it would be:

A) Just like school.

B) Just too stressful you need some R&R.
Original post by Mike_123
Very important to me. Uni is a place to meet friends for life and build up your network - pretty invaluable to me. Money should not stop you from enjoying this freedom, although we live in a sad state where we have to pay for education.


I think it's a bit of a misnomer that you have to *pay* for it.


I equate it to a risk free bet that you can make in a casino. Imagine they give you a £1 spin on a roulette wheel, but with the catch that you get your £1 refunded if your chosen number doesn't land.

That's tuition fees. You only pay them back if you actually earn enough money to be able to afford to.
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Original post by Bronco2012
I think it's a bit of a misnomer that you have to *pay* for it.


I equate it to a risk free bet that you can make in a casino. Imagine they give you a £1 spin on a roulette wheel, but with the catch that you get your £1 refunded if your chosen number doesn't land.

That's tuition fees. You only pay them back if you actually earn enough money to be able to afford to.


Most people who leave university will earn over £21,000...heck. Most people who leave university will earn over £30,000.


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Original post by lewif002
Most people who leave university will earn over £21,000...heck. Most people who leave university will earn over £30,000.


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Your point being?
Socialising is important however I'm not about that night clubbing late into the night life. As long as I'm interacting with people on campus I'm totally okay with that :smile:
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Original post by Bronco2012
Your point being?


My point being its not a case of "they give you £1 and you either win or get refunded"

As if you go to university, get a decent job and sit on 55k, you will get money deducted like a mother f*****.

If you earn 55k, you will pay approx. 8k tax & 3k NI & probably tuck about 7k away per year for your pension.

All of a sudden when your 55k is only 37k & they're still trying to take away another £3,600 (based on 55k salary) it then starts to burn a hole in the pocket as your 37k then basically becomes 33.4k.



So it's not just a case of 'get an amazing job and you won't notice the student loan paybacks as you'll be minted' or 'you won't earn enough for the student loan paybacks to be enough to bother you anyway' as nearly £4,000 per year is a lot of money. 2 decent holidays per year.


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