Anyone else thought uni would be more different

To be honest I am a little disappointed. I know people are just one year older than the year before, but I thought things would be a little different.
Now I do business, and most of the people I go to school with went to well recognized schools before they came here (it's an international environment). Yet still, people are extremely noisy in class, the most childish sense of humor ever (boys especially), everybody seems to be excited about going to student parties during weekends, where you dress either S&M/pyjamas/porn star (those are the themes), get as drunk as possible and add pictures on facebook later (pictures of a type which your future employer would hold against you). The girls are clique-y and gossipy, at the level they were at my old school in my home country at 14. They talk about boys and girls being seen together as if we were in high school. There is no chance of dating anyone in private without people knowing, and most people frown upon hanging out with people outside of school. If you don't include yourself in the drunken student evenings, you're not part of it, and being difficult. Anyone else have a similar experience? Feel like I'm in a bad American high school movie. When do people become adults?

They're the same in the "real world" when you enter full-time employment too. Welcome to humanity

Running around screaming at 3AM and getting drunk until you puke? Doubt it.

Oh I don't!!!

I know a group of 35-year old nurses and social workers who do this on a regular basis. Last year, one of them hurled up in a taxi at 4am and instead of paying the £50 fine she ran away absolutely pissed in her high heels and hid in a garden.

Sounds like you know a bunch of immature people. I'd bet a hell of a lot of money that those types of people are in a minority. The boyf is pushing 30 and almost all of his friends are either career people or family people - nobody puking in bushes.

Being stupidly drunk is definitely a majority young people thing.

Maybe it's a class thing, in my area this is the norm! Down my locals people aged 20 to 60 are getting drunk every Friday night. 35 is still young. 35 is still getting drunk with your friends, having fun and going to gigs. Life is what you make it!

My mum and her colleagues at work (All aged 40-50) recently jetted off to Dublin for St. Patrick's weekend, they look like they had a brilliant time. If I am still as lively and having as much fun as her when I'm that age, I'll have had a fantastic life.

I really don't know anyone over the age of about 25 who overdoes it and gets off their face. Older people might have a few drinks and get loud in the pub, but they're not staggering home from a nightclub and screaming in the street. Take a look in a club, how many people there will be over 30? Dunno about in your area, but in my hometown it won't be many. People's priorities change. But that's my perception of it.

(I come from a working class family btw.)

To be honest I am a little disappointed. I know people are just one year older than the year before, but I thought things would be a little different.
Now I do business, and most of the people I go to school with went to well recognized schools before they came here (it's an international environment). Yet still, people are extremely noisy in class, the most childish sense of humor ever (boys especially), everybody seems to be excited about going to student parties during weekends, where you dress either S&M/pyjamas/porn star (those are the themes), get as drunk as possible and add pictures on facebook later (pictures of a type which your future employer would hold against you). The girls are clique-y and gossipy, at the level they were at my old school in my home country at 14. They talk about boys and girls being seen together as if we were in high school. There is no chance of dating anyone in private without people knowing, and most people frown upon hanging out with people outside of school. If you don't include yourself in the drunken student evenings, you're not part of it, and being difficult. Anyone else have a similar experience? Feel like I'm in a bad American high school movie. When do people become adults?

Sounds like you know a bunch of immature people. I'd bet a hell of a lot of money that those types of people are in a minority. The boyf is pushing 30 and almost all of his friends are either career people or family people - nobody puking in bushes.

Being stupidly drunk is definitely a majority young people thing.

Your boyfriend is almost 30...how old are you?