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I am Male, 19 and will be going to university in september, I have a good idea of life as a student as I have been to open days but I am not fully sure if I will like life as a student as I am shy and quiet.
I understand that you go to lectures and do your work, but other than that I won't know what to do with my spare time as I am bad at making friends, and I am not very headstrong when it comes to drinking.
I am optimistic about University and I hope it will help me overcome all the anxieties that I behold, but I am still rather pessimistic about how I am going to take to Uni life as I am far from socially outgoing.
I understand that you go to lectures and do your work, but other than that I won't know what to do with my spare time as I am bad at making friends, and I am not very headstrong when it comes to drinking.
I am optimistic about University and I hope it will help me overcome all the anxieties that I behold, but I am still rather pessimistic about how I am going to take to Uni life as I am far from socially outgoing.
Universities will generally offer you a good deal of free time in which to pursue your own interests or develop yourself. Too many students fritter it away doing basically nothing. So what to do? Up to you: as I recall, someone rather grand once said that men were defined by what they did with their leisure time.
If you throw yourself into it, the university environment offers a lot: you'll have more opportunities to socialise with people broadly similar to yourself than at any other time in life through societies, events, tutorials and so forth. You'll also have great opportunities to pursue any academic interests you have: a massive library at your disposal, experts wandering around just begging to be asked informed questions.
So much to do, so little time.
Join a sports club... its great. You don't have to be the typical football loving guy, join something interesting like fencing... that is what I did, and it was the best decision I could have made... fencing has actually been the main thing keeping me in uni, or at least it was for the first semester.
ilovefatchicks
I am Male, 19 and will be going to university in september, I have a good idea of life as a student as I have been to open days but I am not fully sure if I will like life as a student as I am shy and quiet.
I understand that you go to lectures and do your work, but other than that I won't know what to do with my spare time as I am bad at making friends, and I am not very headstrong when it comes to drinking.
I am optimistic about University and I hope it will help me overcome all the anxieties that I behold, but I am still rather pessimistic about how I am going to take to Uni life as I am far from socially outgoing.
I understand that you go to lectures and do your work, but other than that I won't know what to do with my spare time as I am bad at making friends, and I am not very headstrong when it comes to drinking.
I am optimistic about University and I hope it will help me overcome all the anxieties that I behold, but I am still rather pessimistic about how I am going to take to Uni life as I am far from socially outgoing.
I lol'd
Open days are nothing more than propaganda, not an accurate depiction of university life. Doubt they mentioned the inevitable amount of procrastination that will inevitable beckon.
Being a student is fun, if you grab the bull by the horns and fully take advantage of the perks, balancing it adequately with the work.
Depends. I pretty much did my own thing since finishing GCSE's, so it wasnt really any different for me. Only difference was I had to pay more bills, rather than just rent.
I am Male, 19 and will be going to university in september, I have a good idea of life as a student as I have been to open days but I am not fully sure if I will like life as a student as I am shy and quiet.
I understand that you go to lectures and do your work, but other than that I won't know what to do with my spare time as I am bad at making friends, and I am not very headstrong when it comes to drinking.
I am optimistic about University and I hope it will help me overcome all the anxieties that I behold, but I am still rather pessimistic about how I am going to take to Uni life as I am far from socially outgoing.
I understand that you go to lectures and do your work, but other than that I won't know what to do with my spare time as I am bad at making friends, and I am not very headstrong when it comes to drinking.
I am optimistic about University and I hope it will help me overcome all the anxieties that I behold, but I am still rather pessimistic about how I am going to take to Uni life as I am far from socially outgoing.
ok well done you have been to open days, but open days and actually being at uni full time are totally different in one of the best ways.
making friends at uni can be one of the easiest things to do, just be open and be yourself you make friends no problem, and some of the best ways i have made mates this yr (i'm a first year teaching student) is by over a beer (or two)
at the end of the day your experience at uni is what ever you make it, but i fully recomend you join a sports club of some sort, at the end of it all you will most probably look back and say yeah i had a good time i'm glad i went
Kevin J
The clubbings great. I went nightclubbing with people from the epilepsy institution last night...
...never seen so many fitties.
...never seen so many fitties.
lmfao
its soo wrong but i still funny
Social side can be good, but I regret coming overall. Too much time spent sitting around doing nothing, getting into more debt as the weeks go on. I could be out working full time and enjoying having more money while I'm young, instead I'm sitting here depressed and lonely at 2am with loads of work to do before I can even start to think about revision.
If I were to go back a year, knowing exactly what I was in for, I wouldn't go to uni.
If I were to go back a year, knowing exactly what I was in for, I wouldn't go to uni.
a_t
It's exactly the same as skins, trust me
i hope so
ilovefatchicks
I hate skins its ****
its over rated but i wouldn't go that far
chaywa
I lol'd
Open days are nothing more than propaganda, not an accurate depiction of university life. Doubt they mentioned the inevitable amount of procrastination that will inevitable beckon.
Being a student is fun, if you grab the bull by the horns and fully take advantage of the perks, balancing it adequately with the work.
Open days are nothing more than propaganda, not an accurate depiction of university life. Doubt they mentioned the inevitable amount of procrastination that will inevitable beckon.
Being a student is fun, if you grab the bull by the horns and fully take advantage of the perks, balancing it adequately with the work.
this guy is asking for advice, not for people to showcase how smart they are with words like procrastination. also, you used the word inevitable at the end of that sentence incorrectly. anyway, i have no idea what life is like but my cousin is in his 5th year of doing a doctors degree at nottingham university and he loves it. but he works extremely well, and dosent let partying interfere with his studies, i will take the same approach in 3 years time.
ilovefatchicks
Ok, but you are not the only one at University getting in to debt, and I think the majority of students get into debt, and why are you still at Uni if you hate it that much?
To be honest, I don't know why I'm still here. I don't hate it, but I think there are better things I could be doing at this time of life. The only things keeping me here are the thought of getting a good career and not wanting to upset my family. If I didn't care as much about what they thought, I'd have probably left and got a decent full time job.
I'm sick of borrowing money and spending half the day in limbo between lectures.
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