Mistakes you wish you didn't make at uni ?

I think that's a bit of a myth. Maybe its true of a handful of clubs, but every sports team I was ever involved with spent 10 hours on the pitch for every hour in the pub.

Most manager's main criteria for selecting candidates is to never pick anyone that might turn out to be smarter than them. That and looking like the sort of person who will take endless **** without complaining, and possibly being an asset to the works sports team.

This is what "overqualified" means. It translates as "we're worried you would show us all up". Meritocracy is bull****, its not what you know, its who you know. The entire point of going to uni is to make contacts, unfortunately the contacts you really need are probably not at universities.

I should have tried harder in first year even though the marks didn't count; being better at basic material would have made later years easier for me.

Every sports team i chatted to during freshers were just like "yea, we play but all the fun is on the nights out, yea, gotta come out and get wasted, give you a stupid nickname we can yell at you on the pitch. this is Slaggo, lol, great story behind that one". They were all just the classic "Lad-y jocks and i cba'd with that crap.

I did hear that one or two of the others were alright but also saw a bunch of the initiations/other crap the rugby/hockey teams do which was just a mess.

Ironically, I think most sports teams deliberately exaggerate the social side because they think that is what freshers want to hear.

The truth is, if you turn up, train hard and play well, you will be extremely welcome regardless of how much you socialise.

Every sports team i chatted to during freshers were just like "yea, we play but all the fun is on the nights out, yea, gotta come out and get wasted, give you a stupid nickname we can yell at you on the pitch. this is Slaggo, lol, great story behind that one". They were all just the classic "Lad-y jocks and i cba'd with that crap.

I did hear that one or two of the others were alright but also saw a bunch of the initiations/other crap the rugby/hockey teams do which was just a mess.

Focusing on doing well in my degree.

What I should've done is spent 3 years brown-nosing people, building connections and otherwise being cunning.

Think hard, anyone who isn't doing a vocational subject.

Most manager's main criteria for selecting candidates is to never pick anyone that might turn out to be smarter than them. That and looking like the sort of person who will take endless **** without complaining, and possibly being an asset to the works sports team.

This is what "overqualified" means. It translates as "we're worried you would show us all up". Meritocracy is bull****, its not what you know, its who you know. The entire point of going to uni is to make contacts, unfortunately the contacts you really need are probably not at universities.

Despite what some people have said on this thread, I'd say party hard, work hard, get yourself out there (making friends all the time), and really get involved in Uni via extra curricular activities etc. Don't waste your time sticking to one group of people as well. I finished Uni 2 years ago, and one thing my friends always say to me is that they wish they got involved more and made friends outside of their comfort zone. Luckily for me, I did all of that and don't look back at uni with any regrets.

This is really important. A lot of people fritter the first year away and miss out the fundamental basics of their subject.

hmm so what you advice

try get experience as itl help youre presentation skills and being able to convince them to take yeh on:?

Ive no fecking contacts:O...but im rather convincing when i wana be.at least experience counts for something right...especially in nhs jobs:?

If you can, try to be born with a millionaire dad like David Cameron.

That or be clearly incompetent at everything you do and the Peter Principle will kick in.