Western students - decadent?

It seems to me that the majority of white students are incredible self indulgent. Even the ones at good unis hardly ever study. Instead the majority of their time is spent either drinking, having sex, taking drugs and having stupid philosophical debates etc... Gap years too are completely pointless and vapid, I swear these ******* need to do some national service or something. Too many of these ***** in education.

Eastern students generally study considerably more. We are talking a proper 12 hour working day often topped up with a part time job at weekends.

Does anyone else think todays students are taking the piss a bit?

It seems to me that the majority of white students are incredible self indulgent. Even the ones at good unis hardly ever study. Instead the majority of their time is spent either drinking, having sex, taking drugs and having stupid philosophical debates etc... Gap years too are completely pointless and vapid, I swear these ******* need to do some national service or something. Too many of these ***** in education.

Eastern students generally study considerably more. We are talking a proper 12 hour working day often topped up with a part time job at weekends.

Does anyone else think todays students are taking the piss a bit?

It seems to me that the majority of white students are incredible self indulgent. Even the ones at good unis hardly ever study. Instead the majority of their time is spent either drinking, having sex, taking drugs and having stupid philosophical debates etc... Gap years too are completely pointless and vapid, I swear these ******* need to do some national service or something. Too many of these ***** in education.

Eastern students generally study considerably more. We are talking a proper 12 hour working day often topped up with a part time job at weekends.

Does anyone else think todays students are taking the piss a bit?

Way to generalise the huge majority of the student population.

There is no such thing as a typical white student. Please don't be racist. Thanks.

Meh, dont need to do any more than im doing. Im already at first average, so why bother with extra study? I dont need any money so why work? I rather enjoy philosphical debates so why not have them? I quite enjoy getting drunk so why not get drunk every second day?

You only live once.... liven up.

Why waste money going to uni though. I don't get it?!
Your just running up a debt for an average education.

Westerners work less at the weekends than east europeans because they're richer, working class westerners will do part-time work still.

As for the course workload, it depends on the subject, something like engineering, maths, physics etc will be long hours. I'm doing history and it's a joke, I just have so few hours that I have no reason to wake up early, to study hard, or anything.

Even when I should really work, like when I have an essay, I find it hard because I'm so unused to it - so I do it a couple of days before and get a high 2:1 or a low 1st generally, and then when the essays over I slip right back into doing barely anything at all again.

I'm only now beginning to see that the only solution to this is to force yourself to be active and busy by going to society events etc - but for me the decadence of further education has been the bane of my life for years, and the OP is right to question whether it's an effective way to educate people really. My course could literally have taken one year rather than three, that would still only mean 15 hours a week!!

See... this jsut pisses me off. Without uni, what the hell can you do short of go into politics (and even then, most important/infuential polititians have degrees, etc.) or working at pretty dead-end jobs.

Im not running up a debt because im pretty lucky, but for everyone else, going to uni is probably the best investment they will ever make. Uni will in 95% of cases get you a job one hell of a lot better than you would have even after working for 5 or 6 years without a degree.

Also, if you are in the 5% that end up with a crap job, the debts you rack up at uni are not particularly burdening in the sense that you dont not have to pay them back after you start earning 15k and even then, you only pay 7% or 9% over the 15k threshold. So if you leave uni and are unemployed for the rest of your life, youll never pay your debt back and you will have had some really good years, for free.

It seems to me that the majority of white students are incredible self indulgent. Even the ones at good unis hardly ever study. Instead the majority of their time is spent either drinking, having sex, taking drugs and having stupid philosophical debates etc... Gap years too are completely pointless and vapid, I swear these ******* need to do some national service or something. Too many of these ***** in education.

Eastern students generally study considerably more. We are talking a proper 12 hour working day often topped up with a part time job at weekends.

Does anyone else think todays students are taking the piss a bit?

See... this jsut pisses me off. Without uni, what the hell can you do short of go into politics (and even then, most important/infuential polititians have degrees, etc.) or working at pretty dead-end jobs.

Are you serious?? You actually think you're lining yourself up for a job that's not a dead ender? The job opportunities, regarding people who don't go to a top uni, are really not that different. Uni is built up in peoples minds far to a far greater importance than it is. TBH most on here, bar a few will get good, middle class supporting jobs; dead enders, if thats what you want to avoid I'd leave. What are you really expecting?

Journalism or the city?

It seems to me that the majority of white students are incredible self indulgent. Even the ones at good unis hardly ever study. Instead the majority of their time is spent either drinking, having sex, taking drugs and having stupid philosophical debates