what difficulties you encounter during your Uni life?
1)Motivation (must train self motivation )
2)Time management (huhu i think now it's ok)
3)Working with difficult(means: Lazy, copy-paste, late, no discipline, arrogant) people
4)Hypocrites
5)Meeting real people. (Real people here is people who have goals in life. not social lofting or those who step on you to succeed)...after nearly 2 1/2 years in uni, i can actually count with my 10 fingers how many people are in this category
Re: what difficulties you encounter during your Uni life?
Are you asking us to agree with you or suggest our own additions to your llist?
I agree with 1 and 2, but time management is getting easier with experience. By time I graduate I might have got myself organised!
3,4, and 5 however, I think you must be at the wrong uni. I have been extremely lucky and not encountered any of these problem people.
I would add
6) Roller coaster emotions: one day I am as happy as can be, the next I am ready to pack it in and go live as a hermit.
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You know what, after having experienced university life to its fullest, both academically and socially, I still sometimes feel that everything seems to be overwhelming, and that makes me pretty much deperessed every now and then.
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Originally Posted by yhal
Yep. I do agree with that...it literally is another world that some 'students' live in...
I think that's true of most groups of people.
Two people I used to work with, both really hated the job. If 1 quit, they'd be 'skint' (definition: ask their parents for money, get it, maybe go without one new pair of £70 shoes that week), the other if she quit, she'd be 'skint' (definition: kicked out of her house, no money for food).
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Originally Posted by 2026
Coming from a working class background, being constantly surrounded by students from privileged backgrounds at university can be very frustrating.
lol i don't see it as frustrating its more satisfying just to hate them for their pathetically small minded perspectives.
i was over in the posh accomdation the other week, and this guy was saying that cos he was a true friend he would jet back to india if his friend said he felt down and needed to see him. he was like oh if my friends are in and i'm going to the shops i'll just get their groceries for them cos thats what true friends do. he then tried to convince me that the economist was unbiased and that his friend was paying 30k of uni fees (USA) working two waitoring jobs and had paid for him to go first class to america and visit him (in response to me saying that not all students can afford the stuff he can). At which point i got so pissed off i had to leave
Re: what difficulties you encounter during your Uni life?
Originally Posted by newman24x
1)Motivation (must train self motivation )
2)Time management (huhu i think now it's ok)
3)Working with difficult(means: Lazy, copy-paste, late, no discipline, arrogant) people
4)Hypocrites
5)Meeting real people. (Real people here is people who have goals in life. not social lofting or those who step on you to succeed)...after nearly 2 1/2 years in uni, i can actually count with my 10 fingers how many people are in this category
Money?? I know I have to work 2 part time jobs to keep myself ok!!
Re: what difficulties you encounter during your Uni life?
I also met a lot of people from 'posh' backgrounds but have never ever felt discriminated against or something. Many parents don't let their children just go about and spend their money at university, probably realising how devastating it would be for their wallets, so we're all practically equal. I wouldn't say money in itself is a big problem... Money management, however, is a different matter. This probably is one of my major problems, since part of being independent is to stop asking your parents for money. This does not mean not getting money to help you with your rent etc. but - you wanna go on a holiday in the summer, well then manage your expenses, collect your own money and go.
As about people - different people do it their own different ways. I saw people who didn't stop getting stoned or high on hard drugs throughout the year, I also saw people who sat down and read and would definitely do better than the first group at the end... balancing is the best way to do it, unless you become too carried away - a drug addict (not really likely, but then a time-waster anyway) or a sociopath...
Re: what difficulties you encounter during your Uni life?
Originally Posted by 2026
Coming from a working class background, being constantly surrounded by students from privileged backgrounds at university can be very frustrating.
ah yes indeed. especially with money issues. towards the end of term when funds are usually extremely low my housemate has no concerns whatsoever because of his rather stupidly generous monthly 'allowance', i ofte feel like gently digging the knife in further to his head when he questions why myself and other housemates have such an issue with money. such is life i suppose
i agree money management is the most difficult thing in my experience anyway
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Having no money and the fact that everyone i seem to meet has, what in my opinion is, an appauling music taste, everyone likes going to terrible clubs, so i dont go out very much no more, not been to a gig in the best part of a year, and im constantly going back to manchester to have a decent night out, which is expensive when i have no money.
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I guess the hardest thing was having everything going well to my best mate at uni betraying me and stealing from me, and having to go through the hassle of the police, etc. and just feeling like crap for ages, as I wouldn't have thought someone I lived with and was really good friends with would find it in them to do that... so yeah, that made me depressed for ages.
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Hmm... let me think... a few minor niggles, I suppose.
The accusatory eye-casting of the 'town' pedestrian, the subtle acknowledgement that you are quite separate from himself. It even happens in other university towns, and instils in you the realisation that you are separated from the great mass of citizens in their eyes. Bloody students.
Silence. It is, it seems, something which the student can ill-afford, in my experience. Your fellow students, flatmates, your odd daysleeping patterns, the clunking out-of-date boiler systems in your digs, the fighting neighbours next door, the electronic buzz of computers. It seems far less abundant now than it used to be for me, although to be fair I did grow up in the country, so I may have rather different ideas about such things than others.
Spying out true wastrels. Back when you were a child, you doubtless had your parents looking over your shoulder, concerned that you didn't get in with a 'bad crowd'. As it perhaps seemed ridiculous then, so it may in your early years of university; and almost inevitably, you'll give it a shot. The lazy, the unmotivated, the cynical and the dull are to be avoided at all costs by any right-thinking individual: their disease is not only harmful, but more contagious than a bad AIDS joke.
That's it. Go forth, and learn... but don't let university get in the way of it.
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Originally Posted by GreenBlood
Many parents don't let their children just go about and spend their money at university, probably realising how devastating it would be for their wallets, so we're all practically equal.
Ha. I recall my girlfriend shared a flat with a chap from the north of England (not that you'd know it to listen to him) whose family seemed to own half of their county. Yet, as his dear parents kept him on an entertainingly tight leash, he was the most skint of the lot of us.
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Sometimes it might get a bit lonely during the evenings and you may miss your home, but try to keep proactive. If I could quantitatively rate the uni experience so far, I'd rate it a good 7 to 8 out of 10. This is influenced by meeting people, partying, drinking (in moderation) and generally having fun. Just remember that the holidays you get are pretty awesome!
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Originally Posted by L i b
The lazy, the unmotivated, the cynical and the dull are to be avoided at all costs by any right-thinking individual: their disease is not only harmful, but more contagious than a bad AIDS joke.
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