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I'm slightly drunk so excuse me for any errors...

Anyway I've just spent my second day at university and I love it. I've been to a party every night and we've done so much random stuff lke badger hunting and bench wars.

So I'm wondering what your favourite experience at university was/is or if you didn't go then whats one of your favourite moments in your life so far?

EDIT:

And now we have a bench in our lounge

I spent five years in undergrad and I'm doing my Master's now. I can't say that there's one memory that stands out as particularly awesome... the whole experience has been largely awesome... I don't think I want to leave academia.

You're going for a Masters in Astrophysics. I don't think you'll be leaving academia anytime soon. :p


I don't have one specific experience that stands out, but in general the company was the best part. Being able to drink til dawn with one group, watch "classy" movies with your film major roomie and his friends, etc.


Actually I'd have to say my favorite experience in college so far would be wandering around Philadelphia in the snow with a group of about 10 people, just aimlessly wandering in a mostly deserted (at that hour and in that weather) city. Then getting lost for another three hours and finally ending up back at the lounge again, drinking and watching Trigun.

The general contests that the frats hosted were by far the best.

Engaging in epic feats of manliness was the highlight of my college life.

Feats such as distance urination. Extra points awarded for aesthetic looking arcs of urine.

Or Keg pressing. You and your buddies drink from a keg until you can bench press it. The team with the heaviest keg wins. Or the variant, the dude that can bench press the most with a set BAC (often .08 to keep it legal).

Also, in each frat, there was always a brother that had grown a ZZ Top beard. One time, to see who had the manlier beard, we decided to see whose beard could hold the most beer. I can't remember if we ever decided on a winner. They all ended up clean shaven, though.

That, and the romance of my college days. I gotta say, I'm surprised I never came down with anything.

The most unforgettable experience I have had would be being initiated in my fraternity.

Ah, college life...
"Right now we're proving we don't need corporations. We don't need money. This can become a commune where everyone just helps each other."

"Yeah, we'll have one guy who like, who like, makes bread. And one guy who like, looks out for other people's safety..."

"You mean like a baker and a cop?"

"No no, can't you imagine a place where people live together and like, provide services for each other in exchange for their services?"

"Yeah, it's called a town."

Damn, now I remember why I hated all of the other students. Damn, dirty hippies!

Ah, college life...
"Right now we're proving we don't need corporations. We don't need money. This can become a commune where everyone just helps each other."

"Yeah, we'll have one guy who like, who like, makes bread. And one guy who like, looks out for other people's safety..."

"You mean like a baker and a cop?"

"No no, can't you imagine a place where people live together and like, provide services for each other in exchange for their services?"

"Yeah, it's called a town."

Damn, now I remember why I hated all of the other students. Damn, dirty hippies!

Hold on to that thought, got a hippie in my sights.

:sniper:

Okay, now that we got that one taken care of, what were you saying?

well i was at michigan state the year magic johnson took us to the ncaa basketball championship.

that was memorable. the main drag looked like a war zone.

it only gets better, londim. especially if you have chosen the right field of study. a great mix of freedom and study that you are actually interested in.

it doesnt get better than that until....

you get out and get a job.

I've done tons of shit these last 3 years...
Me and my roommate bonded by skipping matriculation to sleep.
We made the objective to "meet hot chicks to get free beer"
we battled with umbrellas
we turned the common room into a club, and then a haunted house
we put detergent into the school fountain on prefrosh weekend
we rioted for the red sox
we drank straight through marathon monday every year
we've been shitfaced in southie every year for St. Patricks Day
We've had classy parties, trashy parties, pimpin pirates and naughty ninjas, and other assorted events
we've been threatened with eviction and had the cops called
We threw the "Boston T Party" on the Boston Subway (nicknamed the T)
ran across the frozen Charles River with cops in tow
jello wrestled


I'll add more

I've done tons of shit these last 3 years...
Me and my roommate bonded by skipping matriculation to sleep.
We made the objective to "meet hot chicks to get free beer"
we battled with umbrellas
we turned the common room into a club, and then a haunted house
we put detergent into the school fountain on prefrosh weekend
we rioted for the red sox
we drank straight through marathon monday every year
we've been shitfaced in southie every year for St. Patricks Day
We've had classy parties, trashy parties, pimpin pirates and naughty ninjas, and other assorted events
we've been threatened with eviction and had the cops called
We threw the "Boston T Party" on the Boston Subway (nicknamed the T)
ran across the frozen Charles River with cops in tow
jello wrestled


I'll add more

Jesus Christ! And you thing dad's going to be upset with me?!

well u said if we havnt gone to college our most memberable so...

im in high school and it is well when our new football coach came we sucked bad and i will remember How awsome it was that we won the 4th game of the season and was honored by the Dallas Cowboys. But also i like the mornings were me and my friends play football in the courtyard of our high school.

Our uni system is nothing like that. Ours is allot more living at home, and busing it up every day.

You mostly get drunk with your friends same as highschool.

Our uni system is nothing like that. Ours is allot more living at home, and busing it up every day.

You mostly get drunk with your friends same as highschool.

Yes thats true about HS :)

try shooting bottles witha buzz haha :sniper:

Why do people go crazy when they head off to college? Is it finally being away from your parents and having a bit of freedom?

Anyway, I'm not planning on going until next year at the earliest. It seems the only thing I'm missing out on is the classes, which just gives me more time for drugs, drinking, and partying.

Jesus Christ! And you thing dad's going to be upset with me?!

haha...I either a) keep these things on the dl, or b) dad enjoys them.

edit: I take that back...dad knows about all of those

College has been fun so far. The only part that I really don't like (apart from missing my parents) has been the fact that everyone else seems determined to spend all their time drunk and/or stoned.

But so far, I'm now a DJ on a college radio rated top ten in the nation for two years running, and I'm enjoying classes, Anime Club, and randomly waging Nerf Wars with the third floor.

Puking hallmates, quiet hours until noon because of the hungover dimwits, and the guys in the room next to me tripping on acid at midnight, not so much.

my best experience is two years of occupying the thermodynamics lab and converting it into my own (and 3 of my friends) dorm room.
Unlimited internet access, coolers, TV, bed, etc.
I miss those days.
Of course the result of that is, after I graduate, the department issued a regulation that all students using the labs must exit after 5pm.

College has been fun so far. The only part that I really don't like (apart from missing my parents) has been the fact that everyone else seems determined to spend all their time drunk and/or stoned.

But so far, I'm now a DJ on a college radio rated top ten in the nation for two years running, and I'm enjoying classes, Anime Club, and randomly waging Nerf Wars with the third floor.

Puking hallmates, quiet hours until noon because of the hungover dimwits, and the guys in the room next to me tripping on acid at midnight, not so much.Yeah, I think it was the EVERY NIGHT thing that got me as well. It only leads me to speculate on what the lives of most people must be like before they come to university.

I have nothing against getting drunk - some of my best classes were spent drunk (intoxication + philosophy = win) - it's just there are other things I want to do too.

Getting into plays, some of the volunteer work, being able to have a drink at 10am when I felt like it (hot chocolate and Cointreau is yummy), making communal house meals is cool too. Student politics can be fun as long as you don't take it too seriously - and remember to ridicule all the budding career politicians you come across.

Graduation. Its a whole different experience if you work full time and go to school.

i spent most of the 2 years i was at uni high or drunk..... as such i don't remember most of it. i was also depressed. there weren't too many good times i remember.

one of the best though was this huge picnic/bbq we had in the park during summer... loads of people there, portable barbeques, tonnes of beer, weed, frizbee.... :)

one of the best though was this huge picnic/bbq we had in the park during summer... loads of people there, portable barbeques, tonnes of beer, weed, frizbee.... :)
Go Frisbee!

Nay, go Aerobie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerobie)!


I’ve literally just got back from my Philosophy Junior Honours enrolment, and I can’t wait to get back to a third year of uni. I can’t really pinpoint any particular ‘best’ time. Too many new friends and fun times for such specificity.

intoxication + philosophy = win
Damn straight!

Most of my best moments are far too contextual and involve too many 'in' jokes to make good stories. You can safely assume that alcohol was involved in most of them..

I'm slightly drunk so excuse me for any errors...

Anyway I've just spent my second day at university and I love it. I've been to a party every night and we've done so much random stuff lke badger hunting and bench wars.

So I'm wondering what your favourite experience at university was/is or if you didn't go then whats one of your favourite moments in your life so far?

EDIT:

And now we have a bench in our lounge

Well, I think my favourite experience on an average day at University is the train ride home after a stupid day of lectures and labs is at an end.

Graduation. Its a whole different experience if you work full time and go to school.

A-fucking-men.

I went to Purdue full-time right after high school, as an engineering major.

For a year (the year Drew Brees took us to the Rose Bowl, though).

That was a waste of my time.

I took two years off, worked full-time in an automobile factory back home, and then spent another year working full-time while attending part-time. After that, went back to school full-time and finished my Bachelor's in both Economics and History...now I'm at the U. of Chicago working on my Ph.D.

Anyway, for the most part kids should not going into college straight out of high school. Work an unskilled blue-collar job for awhile to keep you from becoming a pussy, and then those interested in the skilled trades can go to trade school. Only those interested in knowledge for its own sake belong at colleges and universities.

Ah yes, the first week in the dorms is kind of like a big summer camp with no supervision.

Ah yes, the first week in the dorms is kind of like a big summer camp with no supervision.

Not for me. What with my nice ensuite room not being finished, I'm sharing a room for the foreseeable future, in a college that redefines "squalid" in new and depressing, and, most crucially, cold, ways. All in all, I am not a happy fresher.

Best time in college so far. 19th of September. I spent the day dressed like a pirate.

University currently entails

Catch bus to uni
Go some lectures
Play cards
Go to some more lectures
Catch bus home

It's tough ;)

Most of my best moments are far too contextual and involve too many 'in' jokes to make good stories. You can safely assume that alcohol was involved in most of them..

QFT

But let's see: Seeing a friend puke in the main hall of the university. Getting a university bar closed for 2 weeks because of drunk people accidentally destroying a coffee vending machine. Playing poker until 6 AM in the morning and do the same thing the day after again.

But the best things are International Evenings at congresses and such, in which all delegates brought drinks from their respective countries :D Oh, they also brought food, but that detail gets overlooked somehow ;)

Not for me. What with my nice ensuite room not being finished, I'm sharing a room for the foreseeable future, in a college that redefines "squalid" in new and depressing, and, most crucially, cold, ways. All in all, I am not a happy fresher.
Just be thankful you didn't live in the halls I was in in my first year. Mmmm...toasty warm...that would be the asbestos in the (very cracked) walls keeping us warm. Certainly wasn't the single-glazed windows. Or the radiator (because apparently there was one in my room). No wonder it was marked for demolition (and has now been demolished and replaced by an utterly soulless modern piece of architectural wankery).

Not for me. What with my nice ensuite room not being finished, I'm sharing a room for the foreseeable future, in a college that redefines "squalid" in new and depressing, and, most crucially, cold, ways. All in all, I am not a happy fresher.

Mine had a leak in the roof that had a habit of changing the point it dripped onto. No matter where I moved my bed it still dripped on my face in the night.

I loved it :D The crappiness of the place made everyone bond even better and it meant there weren't many worries about trashing the place

Just be thankful you didn't live in the halls I was in in my first year. Mmmm...toasty warm...that would be the asbestos in the (very cracked) walls keeping us warm. Certainly wasn't the single-glazed windows. Or the radiator (because apparently there was one in my room). No wonder it was marked for demolition (and has now been demolished and replaced by an utterly soulless modern piece of architectural wankery).

where we you?

Up here in York (fuck me its cold up North, nobody told me about that....), merry Goodricke college still has single pane windows, and faulty radiators. Even better, said windows go from ceiling to floor for about 3 metres, facing a lake. I am freeeeeeeezing.

where we you?

Up here in York (fuck me its cold up North, nobody told me about that....), merry Goodricke college still has single pane windows, and faulty radiators. Even better, said windows go from ceiling to floor for about 3 metres, facing a lake. I am freeeeeeeezing.
Leicester. Best university in the country according to student surveys. I am highly dubious of said surveys.

Mine had a leak in the roof that had a habit of changing the point it dripped onto. No matter where I moved my bed it still dripped on my face in the night.

I loved it :D The crappiness of the place made everyone bond even better and it meant there weren't many worries about trashing the place

It's difficult for me though; I'm only staying in crapy accomodation until mine's finsihed in mid-November, when I'll be moving out. Hence, whilst sharing a room, I'm not really a part of the college or their activities, so I'm sort of ostracised by accident.

Incidentally, I don't suppose you were homesick at all? This is unexpected.:(

Leicester. Best university in the country according to student surveys. I am highly dubious of said surveys.

hmmm....on the up side, Frechers Ball tonight, with B*witched playing!

1. The parties - hookers and pimps, costume, and lots of drinking in the dorms and not getting caught except once. Our RA came in once and said "Quit making toasts, I can hear the glasses clinking from down the hall!"

2. Meeting intelligent people.

3. Going to the sleazy section of town with a group of girls to see what a real, live porn shop looked like...

4. Actually learning something - didn't learn a thing in HS

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And the worst of it was when I got kicked out. My roommate claimed I was suicidal, when I wasn't. And apparently they kick you out for that...

It's difficult for me though; I'm only staying in crapy accomodation until mine's finsihed in mid-November, when I'll be moving out. Hence, whilst sharing a room, I'm not really a part of the college or their activities, so I'm sort of ostracised by accident.

Incidentally, I don't suppose you were homesick at all? This is unexpected.:(

Every frosh is homesick at some point...some just hide it, some don't get it till later. But they all feel it.

As for sharing a room, that would be the standard college experience over here...*shrug*

and why are you ostracised by your living arangement? Surely, they don't inquire for campus activities or at parties...

Damn I'm looking forward to uni! I heard that once you're at uni you just get on with everybody and there are no divided social circles, is this true?

It's difficult for me though; I'm only staying in crapy accomodation until mine's finsihed in mid-November, when I'll be moving out. Hence, whilst sharing a room, I'm not really a part of the college or their activities, so I'm sort of ostracised by accident.

Incidentally, I don't suppose you were homesick at all? This is unexpected.:(

I've never really been homesick but the reason I didn't go to university in Northern Ireland was because I wanted that independence and distance from my family.

I'd had a lot of arguments with my parents before i'd left and to be honest my relationship with them is a lot better when we just talk on the phone for 15 minutes every month.

HAHAHAHAHAHA call that cold. Try going to Dundee for the winter with a hobby that involves you jumping out of a plane at 10k feet and falling at 120 mph. Frostbite is finally becoming a legitimate concern for me :p

Yes I do call it cold. Very fucking cold in fact.:D

Try wearing skiiny jeans in this weather....

where we you?

Up here in York (fuck me its cold up North, nobody told me about that....), merry Goodricke college still has single pane windows, and faulty radiators. Even better, said windows go from ceiling to floor for about 3 metres, facing a lake. I am freeeeeeeezing.

HAHAHAHAHAHA call that cold. Try going to Dundee for the winter with a hobby that involves you jumping out of a plane at 10k feet and falling at 120 mph. Frostbite is finally becoming a legitimate concern for me :p

And the worst of it was when I got kicked out. My roommate claimed I was suicidal, when I wasn't. And apparently they kick you out for that...

Lucky they didn't do that to me. Just made me retake the year and take counselling

It's easy though to meet a much wider variety of people though if you put in a little bit of effort

:(

Damn I'm looking forward to uni! I heard that once your at uni you just get on with everybody and there are no divided social circles, is this true?

I find that the medics here form their own clique but that may be due more to the fact that they study off campus at the hospital.

It's easy though to meet a much wider variety of people though if you put in a little bit of effort

I find that the medics here form their own clique but that may be due more to the fact that they study off campus at the hospital.

It's easy though to meet a much wider variety of people though if you put in a little bit of effort

Medics certainly do form their own cliques, mainly due to the highly intensive nature of the course, and long hours working together. Having said that, several of my friends are medics and are perfectly normal. Well, normal for a medic.

Yes I do call it cold. Very fucking cold in fact.:D

Try wearing skiiny jeans in this weather....

You'll get used to it. My girlfriend is from East Sussex and it's only taken her 2 years to get the hang of it :p

Just join a club or society and they'll work wonders for you. I was a very introverted person before I came to uni but now I have plenty of great friends

(Beware impulse joining at sports fayres, etc. Half the time people who join the clubs pay their money and never turn up)

Yep, thats how half us clubs stay solvent! :D Impulse joining ftw!

:(

Just join a club or society and they'll work wonders for you. I was a very introverted person before I came to uni but now I have plenty of great friends

(Beware impulse joining at sports fayres, etc. Half the time people who join the clubs pay their money and never turn up)

Yep, thats how half us clubs stay solvent! :D Impulse joining ftw!

I'm the captain of the Skydiving Club this year and the Sports Union screwed us over by banning us from taking membership money at the Sports Fayre. Luckily we just pretended we were taking money for courses instead and skirted punishment fines that way

Lucky they didn't do that to me. Just made me retake the year and take counselling

nobody gave a shit at Cardiff. i swear, if my attempt had succeeded it would have been weeks till they would have found my body.

i had a "personal tutor" who was supposed to be your 'go-to guy!' about how uni is going and if you're needing help or support. he fucked off on sabbatical in the first week of semester. then i lost all my friends thanks to the wonders of depression. i'm thankful my parents pulled me out when they did and made me stay home.


yeah, i had a pretty shit time at uni. but i'm aware others have a great time. so i try not to be too grumpy about it :p

Well, normal for a medic.

I tend to avoid them when i'm outside the hospital. They have a bad habit of bringing the course into any conversation and setting

I'm slightly drunk so excuse me for any errors...

Anyway I've just spent my second day at university and I love it. I've been to a party every night and we've done so much random stuff lke badger hunting and bench wars.

So I'm wondering what your favourite experience at university was/is or if you didn't go then whats one of your favourite moments in your life so far?

EDIT:

And now we have a bench in our lounge

My favorite experience at University ... hmmm. Possibly graduating - which entailed studying - which was not my favorite experience - especially calculus.

I'm the captain of the Skydiving Club this year and the Sports Union screwed us over by banning us from taking membership money at the Sports Fayre. Luckily we just pretended we were taking money for courses instead and skirted punishment fines that way

That's weird? how much was your membership? Our (hiking club) was £20 maximum, but I know the leeds skydiving club charge £200+ for the first lesson or something.

That's weird? how much was your membership? Our (hiking club) was £20 maximum, but I know the leeds skydiving club charge £200+ for the first lesson or something.

We charge £120 for the RAPS course and the first jump, £30 membership (£25 if you paid for your 'course' at the sports fayre) and thats it, although it's another £120 or so for your BPA membership when you move onto freefall.

The change was something to do with an accident in Aberdeen which i'm unaware of. Not sure how the new system helps either

nobody gave a shit at Cardiff. i swear, if my attempt had succeeded it would have been weeks till they would have found my body.

i had a "personal tutor" who was supposed to be your 'go-to guy!' about how uni is going and if you're needing help or support. he fucked off on sabbatical in the first week of semester. then i lost all my friends thanks to the wonders of depression. i'm thankful my parents pulled me out when they did and made me stay home.


yeah, i had a pretty shit time at uni. but i'm aware others have a great time. so i try not to be too grumpy about it :p

I had the same kind of thing with my personal tutor. I wasn't even told there was such a thing until after i'd had to withdraw.

Most of the time I thought I hid it pretty well (I didn't want anyone to think it was a weakness) but my girlfriend noticed when I didn't sleep at all and in the end I just had to tell her what i'd been thinking about. It was her that made me go to a counsellor in the first place. I doubt I would have made that step myself without her help.

Favorite college memories? Hmm...performing an impromptu karaoke/lip-sync rendition of the entirety of Sondheim's Into the Woods in one of the smallest dorm rooms on campus. Having badly-translated-anime-and-mango-lassi parties in my friends K. and P.'s giant loft of a common room. My Lord of the Rings costume party. Dining hall dinners in which we managed to fit up to twenty-five people around tables designed for six. Organizing flash mobs for said dinners and other events. Contradances. Having the poet laureate of the US tell me that I was such a good student she would even forgive me for being late to practically every (8:30 AM) class. Inventing the "Pride and Prejudice" drinking game. Getting a standing ovation from the packed-well-past-legal-limits concert hall in which our choir performed Mozart's Requiem. Staying up till well past sunrise with my then best friend goofing off on the giant, beautiful, worth god only knows how many tens of thousands of dollars Bosendorfer concert grand, and only not getting kicked out because the security guys liked our music and stayed to listen. Having five million in-jokes with my ridiculous, insane, brilliantly talented concert choir group. Late night conversations in the snack bar about everything from politics to philosophy to sex to "your mom" jokes to string theory to everything else under the sun.

How's that for a list? :)

Up here in York (fuck me its cold up North, nobody told me about that....)
Haha this is nothing yet for York weather. Tommorow it's going to piss it down. This is a shame. But when the winds really start in early December - BRRRR!

Just wait until February, that's when it's worst - not coincidentally, that's when it starts snowing here, too, although the most blissful experience EVAR in York for me was getting stoned on New Year's day, making snow angels.

I'm in my last year at school and I'm going too uni next year just so I can move out of this godforsaken place I live in. I don't think I'll have such a god time as most people at uni. I think I'll have it better than now but it certainly doesn't mean that it's going to be god. University is just another four or five years at school.

I just can't stand all the booklets I get from universities where all students are happy and smiling and apparently there are almost infinite amount of jobs no matter what you choose to study.

hmmm....on the up side, Frechers Ball tonight, with B*witched playing!
They’re still alive?

I find that the medics here form their own clique but that may be due more to the fact that they study off campus at the hospital.
Yeah, medics and lawyers tend to do that. It’s the courses they take.

I took a wee course in Jurisprudence last year; really interesting, but there was only two other people in a class of 250+ who wasn’t taking law as their main subject. As they all knew each other from two years of study, walking into the lecture theatre was like walking into some Wild West saloon and pissing off Buford ‘Mad Dog’ Tannen.

Best thing though, when the lecturer started talking and brought up a couple of pertinent cases, all the lawyers started scribbling down the case notes and myself and the two other philosophy/politics students waited for the theory. When the lecturer started talking about the theory, we took down notes, while the lawyers waited for more cases. :p

hmmm....on the up side, Frechers Ball tonight, with B*witched playing!
Sorry, where's the up side? :p

University is the best time of anyone's life I think. It just so incredibly awesome that I can't think of just one or two awesome things.

University is the best time of anyone's life I think.

Read some of the previous posts and you'll find that's not quite accurate

Read some of the previous posts and you'll find that's not quite accurate

If someone has a bad university experience, they're not doing it right.

I had the same kind of thing with my personal tutor. I wasn't even told there was such a thing until after i'd had to withdraw.

Most of the time I thought I hid it pretty well (I didn't want anyone to think it was a weakness) but my girlfriend noticed when I didn't sleep at all and in the end I just had to tell her what i'd been thinking about. It was her that made me go to a counsellor in the first place. I doubt I would have made that step myself without her help.

your girlfriend at uni sounds pretty damn helpful. and that's what you need: a bit of help, and a bit of care. my parents were urging me to go to counselling while i was in Cardiff, but when i was there it was impossible to get either the energy to go, or the will. by the time they worked out what was going on i'd been depressed, at uni, for almost 2 years and it was almost more comfortable to stay that way.

thank fuck i have my girlfriend now, who's wonderful and takes care of me :) if i'd had her at uni things would have probably worked out ok :)


she's going to uni next September, hopefully here (in Southampton), so i hope to be able to support her in that way everybody needs :fluffle:

Ah, college life...
"Right now we're proving we don't need corporations. We don't need money. This can become a commune where everyone just helps each other."

"Yeah, we'll have one guy who like, who like, makes bread. And one guy who like, looks out for other people's safety..."

"You mean like a baker and a cop?"

"No no, can't you imagine a place where people live together and like, provide services for each other in exchange for their services?"

"Yeah, it's called a town."

Your memory of college life is ripping of South Park without giving credit?

I'm in my senior year of high school, so I'll be at the University of South Florida next year by this time. I've already been accepted. Even though it seems so far away it's exciting. :)

where we you?

Up here in York (fuck me its cold up North, nobody told me about that....), merry Goodricke college still has single pane windows, and faulty radiators. Even better, said windows go from ceiling to floor for about 3 metres, facing a lake. I am freeeeeeeezing.

Oh man, I'm a fresher in york too. It's scary to think I may well have seen you around, maybe even talked to you. Not in the same college though, so unlikely.

Just a quick pop in to say University is still as great as ever! I never want to leave!

@Chris:

Hahaha! Double glazed, snug rooms, Richmond Park is my back garden and 87% female.

Just a quick pop in to say University is still as great as ever! I never want to leave!

@Chris:

Hahaha! Double glazed, snug rooms, Richmond Park is my back garden and 87% female.

As we used to say in first year, 'giggity giggity goo!'

I've been going to school now for a few weeks and find it boring and the students childish and stupid. I prefer my Army days of living in the barracks before our deployment. There I was breaking the rules by underage drinking and knew that my drinking buddy could die guns ablazing a few weeks from then.

Am I the only one who's posted in this thread that doesn't live at their university? And spend all day and all night drinking?

hmmm....on the up side, Frechers Ball tonight, with B*witched playing!

B*witched is not an upside. That is a rather large downside.

I've just finished my first year at University and hated my course so much, I'm repeating a year and changing course.

The Uni societies are , to be honest, rubbish. Nothing fun ever happens here. It's just night-clubs and booze. Which is not my idea of fun. I want to go to some American or Canadian Uni, and do some completely random over-the-top student pranks and stunts.

But no. Not in Scotland. Nope apparently the only "fun" thing to do here is just drink and dance half-arsedly, then throw up next morning. Yeah... Real fun.

I've just finished my first year at University and hated my course so much, I'm repeating a year and changing course.

The Uni societies are , to be honest, rubbish. Nothing fun ever happens here. It's just night-clubs and booze. Which is not my idea of fun. I want to go to some American or Canadian Uni, and do some completely random over-the-top student pranks and stunts.

But no. Not in Scotland. Nope apparently the only "fun" thing to do here is just drink and dance half-arsedly, then throw up next morning. Yeah... Real fun.

Do pranks yourself. The lulz will cause people to seek you out. Some to join your hilarious pranking quest, others to arrest you for vandalism.

Hmmm... so far...

Stealing one of those car-blocking posts they have in the road...

Taking a pair of track pants from the lounge and burning them in the middle of the night up on Science Hill

Many instances of getting quite drunk at parties, including one of my friends' birthday parties when two girls made out topless on her porch. Then of course there was St. Patrick's day... that was pretty awesome.

Oh, and of course, the pee incident. One of my friends left a medical cup of her urine in the fridge, since she needed a urine sample for something. So we took it when she had forgotten to take it down with her when she went home over a weekend, and we traipsed over to a rival residential college and tried to throw it through a window, but failed, and so threw it onto someone's welcome mat. The best part was that it was the weekend before Halloween, so there were hella parties, and people everywhere that could have seen us. Even a cop car around the corner.

We almost wanted to get caught just so we could have the police officer say "So let me get this straight, you were throwing pee at people's windows?" to which we could respond, as if it somehow completely made everything okay: "Well, it wasn't OUR pee..."

Everyone involved in this incident was completely sober, strangely enough.

Am I the only one who's posted in this thread that doesn't live at their university? And spend all day and all night drinking?

Nope. I don't live at my uni, and I don't drink much - on campus or off. But then, I'm the worst lightweight you've ever met. I'm not even a skinny little thing, but I've never been the drinking type, so maybe it just gets to me more. :p

Do pranks yourself. The lulz will cause people to seek you out. Some to join your hilarious pranking quest, others to arrest you for vandalism.

Whilst the prospect of becoming a Vigilante Prankster, running around the campus commiting acts of hilarious prankery and random stunts for great justice is very appealing, I fear that people at my campus may be simply too boring and/or drunk for me to even attempt to redeem them.

I don't know. Maybe I'll try creating my own society or something. We can throw random themed parties at night, and then during the day parade around in ego-maniacal costumes and commit hienous acts of funny to spark up less boring attitudes in the student faculty.

No vandalism though. That just pisses people off.

It'll be like Red Nose day every week.

We could also be a protest group, doing increasingly ridiculous and humorous stuff to raise awareness for various causes.

Whilst the prospect of becoming a Vigilante Prankster, running around the campus commiting acts of hilarious prankery and random stunts for great justice is very appealing, I fear that people at my campus may be simply too boring and/or drunk for me to even attempt to redeem them.

I don't know. Maybe I'll try creating my own society or something. We can throw random themed parties at night, and then during the day parade around in ego-maniacal costumes and commit hienous acts of funny to spark up less boring attitudes in the student faculty.

No vandalism though. That just pisses people off.

It'll be like Red Nose day every week.

We could also be a protest group, doing increasingly ridiculous and humorous stuff to raise awareness for various causes.

Dress up as a pair of testicles, to raise awareness for testicular cancer.

Oooooh, it's breast cancer awareness month, dress up as a giant boob.

Dress up as a pair of testicles, to raise awareness for testicular cancer.

Oooooh, it's breast cancer awareness month, dress up as a giant boob.

Meh. That's maybe taking it too far.

Meh. That's maybe taking it too far.

If anything that's nto going far enough. *nods*

But no. Not in Scotland. Nope apparently the only "fun" thing to do here is just drink and dance half-arsedly, then throw up next morning. Yeah... Real fun.

Funny that's not my experience of Scottish university

I joined a fun sports club that socialises around things other than drinking (although this is a big part of it due to Beer Fines). Last year we went paintballing, white water rafting, etc.

Last year we went paintballing, white water rafting, etc.


Bwahahah damn, me I just misread that as 'paintballing, while rafting' I thought shit now that sounds like fun!

Bwahahah damn, me I just misread that as 'paintballing, while rafting' I thought shit now that sounds like fun!

Hmmmmm so thats our next trip sorted :p

Thanks for the idea

Hey Dundee-Fien. Where the heck are you at? I'm in Glasgow Caledonian.

Hey Dundee-Fien. Where the heck are you at? I'm in Glasgow Caledonian.

It's in the name. Dundee uni

Hmmmmm so thats our next trip sorted :p

Thanks for the idea

You are welcome, count me in!

Hey Dundee. How about paintballing... But in a tank? There's a place down in England where you can ride around in APC's fitted with paintball cannons.

Awesome!

Hey Dundee. How about paintballing... But in a tank? There's a place down in England where you can ride around in APC's fitted with paintball cannons.

Hey Dundee. How about paintballing... But in a tank? There's a place down in England where you can ride around in APC's fitted with paintball cannons.

Oh sweet paintballing gods (http://www.mayhem-paintball.co.uk/scenarios.aspx#tank)

I was going to go down to the wind tunnel in Milton Keynes anyway so I could always just keep driving to there

I say we make the next NS UK meet include a Tank Paintball match.

If someone has a bad university experience, they're not doing it right.

Fuck you. You have no idea how hard I'm finding uni right now

Fuck you. You have no idea how hard I'm finding uni right now
I think I know what you mean. I've been at Sheffield for a month nealy now, and I found the first couple of weeks, including fresher's, a nightmare. It just wasn't my thing at all. Now I'm a couple of weeks into it, I've managed to find a few societies I like (like Real Ale), got some work to do, got used to the people I'm living with and know then a bit more and it's a lot better.

It's different for everybody - but I'm sure you'll end up wondering what you were thinking once you find a few people on your wavelength and start having a good time.

Well, at least that's my take on the whole 'starting uni' thing.

Fuck you. You have no idea how hard I'm finding uni right now

What exactly about it is getting to you? The whole isolation thing or more than that?

Dress up as a pair of testicles, to raise awareness for testicular cancer.

Oooooh, it's breast cancer awareness month, dress up as a giant boob.There were giant condoms and sperms running around the campus last year at my university. I think the only apt way of describing it would be to say it was 'inspired'.

I think I know what you mean. I've been at Sheffield for a month nealy now, and I found the first couple of weeks, including fresher's, a nightmare. It just wasn't my thing at all. Now I'm a couple of weeks into it, I've managed to find a few societies I like (like Real Ale), got some work to do, got used to the people I'm living with and know then a bit more and it's a lot better.

It's different for everybody - but I'm sure you'll end up wondering what you were thinking once you find a few people on your wavelength and start having a good time.

Well, at least that's my take on the whole 'starting uni' thing.

I'm hoping that's gonna happen here really; don't get me wrong, the freshers activities are awesome, but I'm just not really a huge fan of getting 5 hours sleep a night, having several cumulative hangovers and generally feeling out of place.

Thanks anyway.:)

Among my favorite activities so far (I'm only a freshman):

Every single meeting of the sci-fi/fantasy club.
The few D&D games I have played so far.
Taking over the Rathskeller cafe to watch Heroes every Monday night.
Spending six hours with a friend, talking about all things nerdy.
Spending four days at her house, doing pretty much the same.

What exactly about it is getting to you? The whole isolation thing or more than that?

I don't know. It probably doesn't help I'm insecure and prone to severe depression, but I'm just finding the periods inbetween doing something torture.

Hmmm so you're me then :p

I think I'm much like the rest of NSG in that particular respect:D

I don't know. It probably doesn't help I'm insecure and prone to severe depression, but I'm just finding the periods inbetween doing something torture.

Hmmm so you're me then :p

There were giant condoms and sperms running around the campus last year at my university. I think the only apt way of describing it would be to say it was 'inspired'.
Were the condoms trying to hinder the movement of the sperm?
I say we make the next NS UK meet include a Tank Paintball match.

That would be so epic. Have a liberals VS conservatives grudge match.

Were the condoms trying to hinder the movement of the sperm? Not really, but they did keep running into each other and laughing.

That would be so epic. Have a liberals VS conservatives grudge match.Won't that be unfair though. It'd be sure to be a massacre.

Am I the only one who's posted in this thread that doesn't live at their university? And spend all day and all night drinking?
Most Americans live at uni. And most of us, given our freedom, lack of responsibilities, and lack of a need to drive, do drink heavily and frequently.
I've just finished my first year at University and hated my course so much, I'm repeating a year and changing course.

The Uni societies are , to be honest, rubbish. Nothing fun ever happens here. It's just night-clubs and booze. Which is not my idea of fun. I want to go to some American or Canadian Uni, and do some completely random over-the-top student pranks and stunts.

But no. Not in Scotland. Nope apparently the only "fun" thing to do here is just drink and dance half-arsedly, then throw up next morning. Yeah... Real fun.Do you guys really not do any pranks? I find that amazing considering MIT and Harvard are both well known for their highly organized pranks, and all of my friends having been involved in some at some point.
Fuck you. You have no idea how hard I'm finding uni right now
Give it time and try to not focus on the bad. It gets easier. I, too, had a hard first semester, and now love it more than anything.

And if it makes you feel any better, this is coming from someone who woke up seran-wrapped to their bed.

Most Americans live at uni. And most of us, given our freedom, lack of responsibilities, and lack of a need to drive, do drink heavily and frequently.
Do you guys really not do any pranks? I find that amazing considering MIT and Harvard are both well known for their highly organized pranks, and all of my friends having been involved in some at some point.

Give it time and try to not focus on the bad. It gets easier. I, too, had a hard first semester, and now love it more than anything.

And if it makes you feel any better, this is coming from someone who woke up seran-wrapped to their bed.

The American education system confuses me. Your university lives sound completely different, and quite frankly crap.

The American education system confuses me. Your university lives sound completely different, and quite frankly crap.

Funnily enough, I'd say the same about yours.

I see absolutly no downsides: I live on my own, away from my parents, with 3 of my best friends. My parents support me financially. Everything I need is within walking distance, but I have a car if I choose to go somewhere else. When I mess up, there are consequences, but they are generally reduced. I have the privileges of being an adult, without all of the responsibilities that go with it. I attend a world class university, in a world class city.

What part of this is crap?

I'm hoping that's gonna happen here really; don't get me wrong, the freshers activities are awesome, but I'm just not really a huge fan of getting 5 hours sleep a night, having several cumulative hangovers and generally feeling out of place.
I felt, and still sometimes do, feel like a bit of a spare part, but I found that as you get more stuff to do and meet more people that seems to go away. I mainly felt out of place because I don't know that many people and don't have that much in common with the people in my flat, including going out every night, but that's life really.

Thanks anyway.:)
I'm sure you'll be fine in no time.

I'm sure you'll be fine in no time.

How wrong you are. 4 weeks in, I've now come to the conclusion that history at York is, in fact, a joke. Not only has it fallen from 5th to 8th in the country, but the standard of discussion and teaching is a joke. Hence, I've tried to change to English literature, on the grounds the course is rated higher, and I;m more than good enough to get on it; result, the course is full, so I'm facing one hell of a battle to get on the bastard course or I'm going home and reapplying next year.