living with your friends, having no responsibilities, free time, a loan. its all there. and it all adds up to making me a very unhappy boy to have left it all behind.
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get a job
you reprobate
no responsibilities?
pfft - enjoy your third class ;)
uni is super fun
i just stayed up all night and wrote 4000 words. i feel like crap.
BUT on the plus side, after i write 1000 more words i have no work till october! hhaahaaahahahahahaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Being a real person >>> being a student
Having a bit of money, no lectures/homework, no snakey-B, no club nights with Chesney Hawkes.
^ i dunno,
i did enjoy being a student. That said, i'm glad i'm not any more. At least for the time being: i may be going back for a post-grad :(
cooooooo-rect
if i heard that baywatch theme tune remix one more time...
just don't go to the student union!
problem solved, students rule again.
but occasionally you're forced to...
also- no more 'self-motivated study'!
i'm never forced to
awful pits of despair that they are.
i look forward to being able to say 'hey i was a student and it was awesome, but now i can move on'
but for now it's awesome. best time of my life.
ha ha
I loved being a student
I don't miss it
^ nail, head - THWACK!!
whoever says being a student is all about snakey Bs and chesney hawks
obviously went somewhere shit!
try staying up for weeks on end going to house parties every night and raves every weekend. thats what being a student is like these days.
HURRAY! my 2:1 will look comparibly stellar
This is why there would be no point of me going to uni.
I wouldn't do any work and end up in loads of debt. By working I have money to do what I want and have no debt.
I would only bother going to uni if I wanted to work hard and achieve the results.
SKINS LOL
^this
:D
not every night
but yeah, this.
naa.
I wish I'd dropped out.
This is the greatest thing in the world:
http://i.somethingawful.com/goldmine/01-07-2003/essaywhutman.jpg
Fuck Student scum = I am a graduate.
im not enjoying it
Notts Trent is the epicenter of mediocrity.
its all about notts uni
altho having graduated and still living here for another year while my friends continue their slack existence and i get up for work at 9 every day is truly bollocks.
fucking depressing knowing that everyone will be waking up, going into the back yard and drinking and playing guitar all day, knowing that when i get hopme ill be knackered from work and the weekend cos ive not had chan ce to catch up on sleep cos of work.
9-5 jobs = shit
student life = paradise
meh
i preferred working.
Meh
My life now is 10000s of times better. I look back on uni with far less fondness than I thought I would.
well my uni life was awesome
met the best peoople i ever have and maybe ever will, spent countless hours drinking and playing guitar with my friends, tried every substance under the sun, didnt have to work in some shit office with idiots who spend their whole days talking about how drunk they were on friday night at flares, went out to awesome house parties and raves, the sort that non students just cant really have, learned some cool shit, met a huge number of new interesting people....the list goes on.
to be honest i think what i most miss is my friends, since the best have now moved away and im left with the dregs of the group.
...alot of your contributions have been
regarding drinking all the time and taking drugs? By default that makes you the same as "idiots who spend their whole days talking about how drunk they were on friday night", only not in an office
^This is exactly what I was thinking.
^this
I work in an office, I wish I still knew how to have fun but instead I have to go to Flares now and talk about how drunk I got whilst all the cool kids go to 'raves' (the kind us non-students can't have) and do 'drugs' and talk about that instead.
Fucking lol.
no...........
i mean i like talking to people about interesting things, not how so and so spewed all over the bar and then had to be taxied home at 11. funny as this is for 10minutes its not my idea of sparkling conversation for 8hours a day 5 days a week.
but typing it on a forum is?
I think you've made a sweeping generalisation, both about students and office employees.
well yes
im talking specifically through experience obviously, whats true for me might not be for someone else.
but this is what my life is like.
So far today
I've spoken to the people I work with about the Frightened Rabbit album, Funerals, ATP, Lasagne and Amsterdam vs Prague vs Barcelona.
youve lucked out then
ive only worked with cunts in my office jobs. people who think paul potts is the pinnacle of opera
you do realise
that there are windows of opportunity beyond working in an office in later life, though?
I'm not disagreeing with you that being a student is enjoyable, but alas Peter Pan is not around and therefore i'm afraid it has to come to an end at some point. I'm hoping to get back for a post-grad this year and dreading going back to having no excess money, written tasks, exams and scheduled lectures
Bingo
yeh i agree with what you said there
what i wrote basically paints the picture of a drunken drugged up layabout.
which i was occasionally.
what i really meant was that since all students have nothing to do then i have always found them the most fun people to hang around with.
what i mean by the rraves and house parties i do actually mean - i really dont think ill ever EVER find the sort of party/rave scene that lenton in nottingham has. ant maybe imn wrong in thinking that non-students party that hard, but i just cant see it personally!
by the way!
im not trying to be all high and mighty about students and badmouthing non students
Lenton
hahahahahahahahahha
"coked" up public school twats with popped collars, drinking cans of beer, being kerazy.
yeh theres a lot of those cunts
fucking southern rugby boys everywhere!
but theres also shitloads of quality people too!
^that's a bit unfair
Harsh
but so true. I was friends with some of them at the time so I'm not here to judge
Well
I'm currently friends with a few people in Lenton and they're nothing like that.
^This
I'm still at Nottingham Uni, and man, am I fed up of these people! I'm looking forward to getting a real job or starting a PhD, which obviously is not comparable to being an undergrad...
you get your fair share of those at nottingham, sure, but
i reckon you do everywhere. i had good mates at nottingham who were just, well, normal people. not really annoying in any way, it all depends on who you end up mixing with
I went to Nottingham too
sounds similar - for the next couple of years I said what you just said. I just feel like even though offices are dull, I have the evenings and weekends to myself, with way more money, London floats my boat more and I know a wider variety of people of different ages etc. Uni is great but it's a myth that you have to cram all the fun in there and that's it...
Also -
it's a bit entitled and spoilt to say that it's great because it's basically paid for and you don't have to work. Going out etc is way sweeter if you've actually grafted for it...
and the 'raves' you speak of are, if my years at Nottingham a decade ago are anything to go by, as underground and dirty as Tiger Tiger.
well.....
take it from me theyre not!
Well done
if you've actually found a good underground scene at Nottingham Uni, but found more in my first month in London than I did the whole time up there. And I haven't been threatened by smackhead pikeys, or burgled, or had to be subjected to the horrors of the 'music venues'. Although Rock City was ok. And it was full enough of hoorah henrys back then - I now shudder to think. Uni is great but give real life a chance, it may grow on you!
yeh
i agree nottingham has its fair share of total shite! i dont even like going out in the city centre, havent done for years!
i prob will start to enjoy normal life,
what i think i miss about uni is similar to losing a girlfriend or something. like i was dependent on the free lifestyle and having my best friends around. then suddenly that was over, but im still in the same city, so i cant really get over it.
im going to manchester next year tho so im sure i will then!
Uni was alright
Glad I'm not there anymore. Three years is about enough. Quite like having money, going on holiday and that.
nah it's all about being a graduand
Uni's finished, no more work to do, but my job doesn't start til September, so I've got 4 months to sit around and have all the best bits of being a student, no responsibilities, free time and pissing about without any of that rubbish studying malarky...and in a few months time i get hit on the head with a dead guy's pants...awesome...i highly recommend it
worst three years of my life
undergrad life was FUUUNNN...carefree nonsense.
doing a PhD is.... insanely stressful.
but they're paying me 100K to do it, so it's not all bad. i treat it like a job.
100k?!?!
what are you doing?
£100k?!
I think he means 100 Kroner
I pity PHD students these days, all being paid in outdated Danish currency
£100'000
although fees alone cost £35'000
so it's not all shits and giggles.
oh my god.
i've got less than 2 months left
and I know exactly what you're saying. I'll miss being within easy reach of loads of friends, the many opportunities to meet interesting people at parties, societies or whatever, and how easy it is to be involved with music - form bands, see gigs, do student radio, etc.
Someone tell me that all of this is just as possible when you're working?
its not
do a masters
Now THAT
was the worst decision I ever made, I reckon. If I'd just got a job, I'd be having a lot more fun now with less crippling debt repayments!
Yep
if you make the effort.
that's good to know
the short-term problem is that rather than having a job lined up, I'm taking a year out to figure out what I want to do career wise and apply for stuff and do a bit of travelling. Unfortunately this entails doing temp jobs while living at home for several months to save up money, which really is going to be pretty bleak.
yes! thankyou
someone who agrees with me!!
this is what im talkin about!
why would you have to stop doing the above
just because you're no longer at uni though?
Duh!
You can't have fun unless you're a student. Have you learned nothing from life?! Now, get back to your dull conversation in your dull office with dullness all around you and NO MORE FUN! EVER!
this is never what i said
but i dont think its all wrong. ill certainly never have as much fun ever again as i have had as a student. its just not possible, the freedom and youth will never be available again.
You don't know what's going to happen, you idiot!
It's not like your life suddenly ENDS now y'know.
On second thoughts, yeah it does. It's all downhill from here and you'll never be so young and care free again. Kill yourself. Now. Quickly before someone has a rave without you.
ok wiseguy
im finding it hard to make an example here, but imagine you're a famous musician, say britney just to make it easy,
everyone love you, youre top of the world, you can do no wrong, you have the best life. then suddenly it just ends and youre having to start all over again as if you may as well have not existed for the last few years
im not saying life will never be fun again, but you're gonna know what youre missing+that its never coming back again.
am i making sense? or is this a bad analagy
Of course it's possible!
Just because you're not a student doesn't mean you can't do stuff you enjoy- forming bands is just as easy and from people now have money to pay for practices and won't bugger off home during non term time.
I don't see why you should stop meeting interesting people just because you're no longer at uni?
we don't have to pay for practices!
we practice in the band room. Which is free.
I dunno, I just think it might be harder because the way people talk about their jobs on here, they don't exactly seem to be surrounded by like-minded people. Whereas in a student community, there are so many people that you've got quite a good chance of meeting people you get on really well with. I'm sure you're right though, I just tend to worry a lot when anything big changes in life.
I'm not surrounded by like minded people at work
so I don't socialise with them in my own time, preferring to spend time with my own friends with whom I have things in common! When people finish uni they don't just disappear y'know, whilst it might be a bit trickier to initially meet people, it's not too hard.
Plus you have the bonus of having evenings and weekends totally free with no deadlines or anything.
that's true
and hopefully I'll move to London at some point which is where a lot of my friends are going and where everything interesting in this country seems to happen.
I feel more positive now! This is good.
Although, on a side point... no deadlines? I mean, I'm sure it depends on the job, but I don't think it'd be too much of a generalisation to say that most 'satisfying' jobs are ones you can't just 'leave behind' at 5pm, yeah?
no
no
nah
depends in which sector you work. I work for a council, so I can forget everything after 5pm (or earlier as I'm on flexitime), and I find my job satisfying, more satisfying that studying anyway.
If all your friends are moving and you fancy a change of scene just move with them.
finishing uni sucks...
...... when all your mates move to different parts of the country and you rarely see em.
i enjoyed being an undergrad
i didn't like temping last year
i'm enjoying being a postgrad
i'm looking forward to doing a job i enjoy that i can actually do with this degree
no responsibilities and too much free time can get absolutely fucking boring
^ looks like you did the exact
same thing as i'm doing. Post-grad interview Thursday - erk :s
hurrah for postgrads!
I am tired of being poor.
And I like structure. Looking forward to the real world, although I'll miss parts of being a student.
i don't see how it's that much different to working, or being unemployed.
I live with friends, have no responsibilities, loads of free time, wages...
its not the same
i think what i miss the most is living with people i like.
having lived with the best friends i will ever have and now facing the prospect of never doing so ever again is pretty depressing.
theyre all spread out over the country now and 2 have actual job jobs meaning theyre stuck where they are now.
Skins box set?
i prescribe
a DiSmeet up in nottingham for you.
i was depressed before i met Sadpunk too