The university is irrelevant. You make your own future.

If you have chronic depression, chronic social anxiety, difficulty adjusting to new places etc etc , it's irrelevant.

Everyone in life has to create their own life, social life, career, and work on themselves.

The university is just a building where you learn stuff.

When I first started uni, I joined no societies, and made no friends.
But in this week alone I have socialised with more people than ever and had the best experience yet, and enjoyed every minute, and I have learnt a lot from this.

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sexilexi

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So you’re telling me that going to university in a garbage underfunded university with barely any funding and no ambitious students and overall garbage reputation is equal to studying at Cambridge or Oxford University? Thing is that it’s a lot easier to find good connections, societies, career prospects if you go to a better university, it’s just a proven fact. The type of people that I want to be friends with are ambitious, driven, successful, and hardworking, and those types of people happen to be at the top universities, so for me it does make a huge difference. I know there are still some of those kind of people in worse universities, but you cannot deny that going to oxford can give you an edge in life compared to if you went to an unknown university

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username738914

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Original post by tinycharlie

So you’re telling me that going to university in a garbage underfunded university with barely any funding and no ambitious students and overall garbage reputation is equal to studying at Cambridge or Oxford University? Thing is that it’s a lot easier to find good connections, societies, career prospects if you go to a better university, it’s just a proven fact. The type of people that I want to be friends with are ambitious, driven, successful, and hardworking, and those types of people happen to be at the top universities, so for me it does make a huge difference. I know there are still some of those kind of people in worse universities, but you cannot deny that going to oxford can give you an edge in life compared to if you went to an unknown university

Can confirm.

Went from average/meh uni to very good one.

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The_Lonely_Goatherd

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Original post by Nalk1573

If you have chronic depression, chronic social anxiety, difficulty adjusting to new places etc etc , it's irrelevant.

Everyone in life has to create their own life, social life, career, and work on themselves.

The university is just a building where you learn stuff.

When I first started uni, I joined no societies, and made no friends.
But in this week alone I have socialised with more people than ever and had the best experience yet, and enjoyed every minute, and I have learnt a lot from this.

I agree with the general sentiment - whilst I'm generally a prestige whore, I think TSR peeps tend to overemphasise things like rankings etc. Your future is generally (in most fields of work) in your hands and yours for the taking/making! :moon:

I disagree with the sentence I've put in bold, though. One should never underestimate the joy of learning stuff, or the power it can give you. And I don't think that's all a university does or can do, in any case :tongue: