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do you think uni is as good as people make out

i think unis are so hyped up. I go to Nottingham by the way-dont get me wrong i love the uni and ive got a good group at friends but being home these holidays i realised that i prefer being at home than at uni. I had the best night out in ages with my friends the other night and nights out at uni just dont even compare and even just being without the home comforts as well. Does anyone else agree or am i the only one that thinks the whole uni experience is way overhyped and im not referring to the educational aspect more the life experience/social aspects of uni.

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Reply 1

username21537

why the hell is this anon?

I do think its as good as people make out, if not better. Its been gret to really get to grips with independence and everything that comes with it, ive met amazing people, i did find love and found a course i thoroughly enjoy.

yeah, its as good as its meant to be :biggrin:

Reply 2

JKLJKL

no its not.

Reply 3

steelmole

I think it is, but that's mainly because I'm obsessed with physics, so the educational side appeals greatly. The social side is just like an added bonus.

Reply 4

nanananabatman

That's because your comfort zone is at home. My comfort zone is uni.

Reply 5

Ashes_to_Ashes

Apparently Durham is a sausage fest with mules. Btw, these are NOT my words... these are the drunk ramblings of someone else. :s-smilie:

Reply 6

JKLJKL

generally. the course is great. but the people arent the people i would choose to be friends with if i didnt have to be. miss my girlfriend too much, miss my friends too much, and my flat mates dont speak english very well/the others are very anti social. overal. very bleh.

Reply 7

*Sparkle*

It's better.

I want to go back.

I have never been so bored/lonely as I have at home at the moment.

Reply 8

Yes it is, I absolutely love university life, it's much, much better than being at home. I'd live there permanently if I could - coming home just reminds me just how much I love being there, and how much I miss it.

Reply 9

ßlαcksωαn

I miss home :frown:

Reply 10

Lottie

My first term was brilliant.

Reply 11

Kater Murr

It depends who you are as a person.

A lot of people embrace it as being the first time away from home properly, if you have very liberal parents already, I guess this won't matter.

It all depends on circumstance.

Reply 12

Bear_Grylls

Uni is better than its made out to be, ive been back home for just a week and im so bored, i just want to get back to uni, these next 3 weeks are going to seem so long.

Reply 13

Overmars

Uni's awesome, but I'm with the OP here. At home, you know all your friends inside out and it's really easy.

Reply 14

k-lee C

in a word, 'yes'! it really, really is that good. i don't prefer the friends i've found there (although i am as close to them as i am to my home friends. i miss them :frown:

) but the general atmosphere and convenience and the whole freedom thing that people always go on about is awesome. i miss that too :frown:

i bloody love uni.

Reply 15

Thud

No. I like waking up and getting nice cereal out the cupboard and nice cold fresh milk out the fridge. I don't like waking up shivering from lack of heating, dodging the slugs on the kitchen floor, finding someone's eaten my cereal and my milk is out of date. I miss home.

Also I only have xbox and DS at uni, at home my brother has a subscription to xbox live on his xbox 360 - how could I possibly be bored? :biggrin:

I'm possibly inclined to say I hate uni even.

Reply 16

ellabella

i'm opposite. i hate the work and wish i was doing a proper job, but i LOVE the freedom of being out of home.

mum gets a bit much for me sometimes and i know she just cares and stuff, but i wanna have the freedom to do what i want, make my own mistakes, and have fun even if it does mean taking risks. plus she gets angsty with me when i'm home. i love all the friends i've made in my uni town, but most of the friends i go out with have nothing to do with my uni

on the flip side i do enjoy home comforts and i love my mum and dad and home friends a lot.

Reply 17

matt@internet

No, it's not as good as it's hyped up to be, at least not in my experience. Still beats home though.

Reply 18

yazoo

O well- im not someone who misses my family or anything but my uni experience has been rubbish! I think alot of its potluck as in the people you meet, accomodation etc, dont feel ive been very lucky! And i wonder what you do- whether its just been hyped but each situation is differnt. Most people have it good. I had crappy accomodation, with nutters and the sane ones all left really!!

Reply 19

Thud

and another thing, the people at my uni are all really stuck up, arrogant, mean %%%%%%%%%%, the uni shop is full of ben and jerrys ice cream, $1.10 flapjacks (no pound sign on keyboard), and other wastes of money that all these super rich toffs seem able to afford whilst I'm wondering if I've enough for rent. It's not even that they can afford it and I can't, the fact is I don't even want it, I just don't get why they're wasting money like this and how they can all be such self-obsessed clones of each other. Why the hell would I want to be around these people?