where's all this talk of College been a non stop party

arsenallegend

I'm going back in september to college after a few years after my last degree, i lost my job so instead of sitting on my backside i taught i do something productive instead.

Anyway there's something that always bothered me about the Social side to college life which is that there's this myth that seems to be passed down that College is full of parties, lots of casual sex and other fun stuff which when i was a 18 year old lad hearing this was like a dream come true. To my disappintment its never came true which was sort of a letdown after all the talk my brothers and mates talking it up that it a non stop party.

I just want to know is it a load of B.s or Did anyone had the total opposite time to me that it was full of parties and other stuff.

Parsley

you must've been one of them losers. i'm heading into my third year of full-time debauchery.

Hank_Jones

I'm sure that there are people who go to college and party the whole time and have casual sex.
I can't imagine these are the people who do well in college though.
Certainly anyone I know who goes out drinking the whole time and doesn't show up for classes does fairly terrible.

bluto63

I had great craic throughout all three years. It's no myth, college is full of sex, drugs and rock n roll

starlit

Its a great Rollercoaster of a party!

arsenallegend

Hank_Jones wrote: »

I'm sure that there are people who go to college and party the whole time and have casual sex.
I can't imagine these are the people who do well in college though.
Certainly anyone I know who goes out drinking the whole time and doesn't show up for classes does fairly terrible.

Your right Hank i wasn't looking for it to turn into somethign like Withnail and I but at least a bit of fun.

I wasn't expecting a party every night but like on a friday night after a tough week in college to head for a few drinks. I felt like a Ass trying to get them to come out for a drink at least.

karlog

It was somewhat true in 1st year, Rag week mainly but you get sick of parties, nightclubs in no time. Waking up and missing college after partying all night makes you feel sick (and thats not from the alcohol). Going out regularly to drink in college was a complete waste of time and money for me in first year. Not gonna happen this year. I don't want to end up like one of those wasters that graduate college with the bear minimum and a sh*t degree to show for it.

Hank_Jones

arsenallegend wrote: »

Your right Hank i wasn't looking for it to turn into somethign like Withnail and I but at least a bit of fun.

I wasn't expecting a party every night but like on a friday night after a tough week in college to head for a few drinks. I felt like a Ass trying to get them to come out for a drink at least.

Never had that problem.
Suppose it all depends on where you go to college really.
If you go to college in Dublin, people are less likely to go out as much as things are far more expensive.
Go to college in a town down the country, money isn't as much of an issue (rent is cheaper, drink is cheaper) so people are freer to get pissed more.

Did you go to college in Dublin?

arsenallegend

bluto63 wrote: »

I had great craic throughout all three years. It's no myth, college is full of sex, drugs and rock n roll

sadly i didn't sample some of those delights although i did do a lot of rock n roll:D

i 'm just worried i'm in my late 20's now and i don't want to look like the older guy in glass trying to relive his missed spent youth.

starbelgrade

Hank_Jones wrote: »

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If you go to college in Dublin, people are less likely to go out as much as things are far more expensive.

In fairness, that's complete b*llox.

arsenallegend

Hank_Jones wrote: »

Never had that problem.
Suppose it all depends on where you go to college really.
If you go to college in Dublin, people are less likely to go out as much as things are far more expensive.
Go to college in a town down the country, money isn't as much of an issue (rent is cheaper, drink is cheaper) so people are freer to get pissed more.

Did you go to college in Dublin?

yep i did and that was one of the things running through my mind a vast majority of the students lived in Dublin, so its not like they were far from their Friends and home . I suppose down the country you will have people from other parts of the country who can't get home at weekends and you have to make mates to have a good time.

Hank_Jones

starbelgrade wrote: »

In fairness, that's complete b*llox.

Not really, as the majority of people going to college are from Dublin.
Therefore they would have groups of friends from home and then groups of friends from college in Dublin.
So it would be harder to pull money together for partying with both groups.

Plus in towns down the country, college accommodation is more clustered, so it is easier for college friends to get together.

InTheTrees

Ah Belfield Bar.

Who could forget it. There used to be some legal loophole back in the 70's that stopped the cops from coming in.

strokemyclover

Don't mean to sound like a douche but you make your own fun dude. College does require work, for some more than others, but on the whole I would say it is a time to enjoy yourself.

As my local pervert says: "There's always places to go and people to feel! G'is some spare change?"

darragh16

College is nothing like ye see in the films.. if it were it would explain why Americans are fairly stupid!

Dudess

I'd imagine it's best if you're living away from home.

The Agogo

To be honest I always had more fun just doing the extra-curricular stuff. This business of going out to a nightclub, spending over €100 a night, and having "fun" in a loud sweaty ****box got tiresome really fast.

I really can't believe that this way is considered fun for the majority of students. I'll never get my head around it...different folks, different strokes.

There was plenty of sex though thank god.

SugarHigh

starbelgrade wrote: »

In fairness, that's complete b*llox.

No it isn't. I paid €65 a week rent but my mates in Dublin paid €110.

aDeener

i get what the op is saying in that the image of college, portrayed by such films like american pie, that no matter where the party or what kind of a lad you are there will be a smoking hot woman sitting on a table rubbing another smoking hot womans gee and just waiting to have a threesome with ya.

nonsense, i only ever experienced that twice

Hank_Jones

SugarHigh wrote: »

No it isn't. I paid €65 a week rent but my mates in Dublin paid €110.

My mate pays €50 a week.

I was paying €75, hoping to get something cheaper this year.

rossie1977

college was great and yes if you want it can be a whirlwind of partying. a few of the lads in my class used to go out every night getting drunk/high, one guy kept a massive journal of his conquests and he still passed his degree

i do agree about the smaller the town the crazier the party, when i moved to galway for my postgrad it seemed a little more relaxed but still great craic there

Doc

I went to University in England so I was away from home living in Halls of residence at the age of 19 surrounded by other 18 and 19 year olds who where also living away from home for the first time.

There was a lot of drinking and partying and all that goes along with it and it was a really fun time in my life. I think a lot of people miss out on the full experience of going to university by living at home. I was lucky enough to qualify for a grant and also worked part time to pay my way through.

I was studying architecture so it was no easy ride workload wise but we still partied all the time. I think the fact I joined one of the sports teams for the University helped with the amount of parties and fun I had as well. In second and third year I had moved in with friends and things got a lot quieter but there were still always parties to go to.

RolandIRL

Parsley wrote: »

you must've been one of them losers. i'm heading into my third year of full-time debauchery.

must be an arts degree then :pac:

Black Swan

The University of Spoiled Children is not a party school!

Feu

arsenallegend wrote: »

sadly i didn't sample some of those delights although i did do a lot of rock n roll:D

i 'm just worried i'm in my late 20's now and i don't want to look like the older guy in glass trying to relive his missed spent youth.

well, late 20s is still a young maturie, so you can go out with the kids, and not look like too much of a perv Up to you how much you go out. Coppers 4 nights on the trot gets a little old tho

whiteman19 wrote: »

must be an arts degree then :pac:

my first time around was and it was very very crazy! Now i'm doing a science, and i've like 35 hours a week of classes or placement, so there is little to no partying mid week. Just the weekends. Few times been out with the kids mid-week, but you don't want to be feeling ropey in anatomy or it gets messy!

arsenallegend

rossie1977 wrote: »

college was great and yes if you want it can be a whirlwind of partying. a few of the lads in my class used to go out every night getting drunk/high, one guy kept a massive journal of his conquests and he still passed his degree

i do agree about the smaller the town the crazier the party, when i moved to galway for my postgrad it seemed a little more relaxed but still great craic there

i really can't afford the going down to the country to study right now the funds are low. I really wanted too when i was younger but i was a bit scared off cause i'm a mummy's boy who as the youngest was a bit spoiled by having everything done for him so having to cook and clean for myself wasn't something i looked forward too plus going somewhere you don't know people for some its great for others like me it scared me a bit.

cc87

Ive had 2 years of college living at home and 2 years of college living away from home.
College at home will never live up to college away.

The amount of completely random stuff, with or without alcohol, you get up to cos you have nothing else to do is ridiculous.

The_Minister

I never really partied that crazily in college, which in retrospect I regret.

arsenallegend

The_Minister wrote: »

I never really partied that crazily in college, which in retrospect I regret.

In my case its not so much its bug me my whole life(i have party hard with friends and family so i haven't missed out) but its more partying with people you have something in common with and wanting to see if you can build friendships from it.

andrew

People need to realise that having fun in college requires, at first at least, that you put just as much effort into making friends as you would into studying. In the first term, your social life should take precedence. You've the rest of the year to catch up on stuff you missed.

Join a society which meets up at least once a week. This means a party at least once a week. Then, you'll get to know people from said society, which means people with which to party on other days of the week. Then, get to know people in your class. Yet more people to go out with. Aaaand voila, more parties and booze than you can shake a rusty stick at.

ColeTrain

The Agogo wrote: »

To be honest I always had more fun just doing the extra-curricular stuff. This business of going out to a nightclub, spending over €100 a night, and having "fun" in a loud sweaty ****box got tiresome really fast.

I really can't believe that this way is considered fun for the majority of students. I'll never get my head around it...different folks, different strokes.

There was plenty of sex though thank god.

What student has €100 to spend on a night out? I'd be lucky to have anything near that for the week.

Tar.Aldarion

I drank like ****, repeated exams second year, motto was 40 40 40 1.1. So had 3.5 years of having a good time

I love college so much, I am heading for ym 6th striaght year of it. Prob am that typical student that everybody seems to hate: Did 2 J1's, hardly attended lectures(till final year of my first degree), was drunk 6 nights of the week, sleep till 3PM everyday etc.

Overheal

cliphunter assured me that every night at college was orgy night. False advertising I tell you.

arsenallegend

ColeTrain wrote: »

What student has €100 to spend on a night out? I'd be lucky to have anything near that for the week.

thats true though
you'd have one big night out maybe if your lucky someone in your class has a free gaff or owns there own place apart from that i can't see too much nights out on the town.

drkpower

Hank_Jones wrote: »

I'm sure that there are people who go to college and party the whole time and have casual sex.
I can't imagine these are the people who do well in college though.
Certainly anyone I know who goes out drinking the whole time and doesn't show up for classes does fairly terrible.

Karlog wrote:

It was somewhat true in 1st year, Rag week mainly but you get sick of parties, nightclubs in no time. Waking up and missing college after partying all night makes you feel sick (and thats not from the alcohol). Going out regularly to drink in college was a complete waste of time and money for me in first year. Not gonna happen this year. I don't want to end up like one of those wasters that graduate college with the bear minimum and a sh*t degree to show for it..

Good God - youth really is wasting on the young. Lighten up. If you cant go through a college degree, at age 18-23ish (anywhere between 10-30 hours a week, about 28 weeks a year?) and have a very hectic social life and get a decent degree, ye are fcuked in the real world. In that place, some people, who are quite a few years older, have to work 40 hours a week, 48 weeks a year; yet they still manage a decent social life. :eek: Some people even work longer than that:eek::eek:.

aaaarrrrgggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh

pickarooney

Forget the Hollywood lies -poor people always have the best parties. College for me (in the early nineties, away from home) was all about the parties, the piss-ups, the pranks and the pussying around deciding if you were going to go to 11am classes. Even the science geeks were getting trashed at keg parties at least twice a week.

karlog

karlog wrote: »

I don't want to end up like one of those wasters that graduate college with the bear minimum and a sh*t degree to show for it.

Graduating with a bear could be interesting

neil_hosey

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

I drank like ****, repeated exams second year, motto was 40 40 40 1.1. So had 3.5 years of having a good time

i can attest to the 40 40 40 1.1 method... only way to do it!!

drkpower

drkpower wrote: »

Good God - youth really is wasting on the young. Lighten up. If you cant go through a college degree, at age 18-23ish (anywhere between 10-30 hours a week, about 28 weeks a year?) and have a very hectic social life and get a decent degree, ye are fcuked in the real world. In that place, some people, who are quite a few years older, have to work 40 hours a week, 48 weeks a year; yet they still manage a decent social life. :eek: Some people even work longer than that:eek::eek:.

aaaarrrrgggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh

I had a better social life after leaving college. It's hard to study properly when you're hung over/tired all the time. With work you can just show up and get through the day. Plus, I was broke all through college. I couldn't afford to join in with the 'spent 200 quid last night' brigade. I used to have about 10 euro a week left for entertainment which I usually spent on the cinema. Postgrad is even worse, nobody ever goes out. We used to meet up once a week in the pub but even that's over now because of dissertation panic.

pickarooney

I think the Celtic Tiger ruined the fun and imagination for students. €200 would have done us a month (living in a shoebox, jumpers for goalposts, yadda yadda yadda) or paid for 40 kegs of homebrew. Except we didn't have euros then, it were real money (lick road clean wi' tongue, all fields around here, etc. etc.).

Daisy Steiner

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

I drank like ****, repeated exams second year, motto was 40 40 40 1.1. So had 3.5 years of having a good time

neil_hosey wrote: »

i can attest to the 40 40 40 1.1 method... only way to do it!!

Que?

I'm hopefully heading into second year this year, did zero socialising last year, big mistake! Will have to work a lot harder to make friends this year

pickarooney

Daisy Steiner wrote: »

Que?

I'm hopefully heading into second year this year, did zero socialising last year, big mistake! Will have to work a lot harder to make friends this year

Meh, rag week, top off, job done.

prinz

Work hard, play hard was my motto. Entire semesters went by in a bit of a haze tbh ..and by no means was I spending €100 - €200 a night. :eek: Most partying was done at home, so over €15 was splashing out.

Came out of it with a fine degree too.

Motley Crue

arsenallegend wrote: »

I'm going back in september to college after a few years after my last degree, i lost my job so instead of sitting on my backside i taught i do something productive instead.

This kind of makes me laugh, because if you have a Degree, unless your going for an Honours top up or a Masters in the same field you're really discounting your first Qualification. I'd be interested to know what Degree you have?

arsenallegend wrote: »

there's this myth that seems to be passed down that College is full of parties, lots of casual sex and other fun stuff which when i was a 18 year old lad hearing this was like a dream come true.

I blame American Pie. No, really, because most American colleges have this idea of fraternity and frat parties and just basically sleeping with as many women as you like. That doesn't happen because by the time you get to college people have made friends from school, some of whom they usually hang onto, and you end up becoming either a drinking buddy or just another college mate. In terms of the women you find that most of them already have boyfriends and are in committed relationships.

At this point, I'd also like to blame my parents, who sent me to a single sex school. In many cases it was worse then prison. And thus ends the lesson.

arsenallegend

arsenallegend wrote: »

I wasn't expecting a party every night but like on a friday night after a tough week in college to head for a few drinks. I felt like a Ass trying to get them to come out for a drink at least.

We were out every Thursday night for the first three years and sometimes a night earlier in the week also, the lads living in town would definitely be out at least twice and the lads like me driving in and out at least once during the week. We would usually be drinking by 6:30 on a Thursday evening.

We would all go out every Saturday night also.

In 4th year there was not as much going out during the week but always at the weekend.

Ush1

Depends what course your on and what the people on your course are like. First and second year was savage craic for me, only the half serious people were left for third and fourth year, and me, who was a quarter serious.

Ended up with a degree anyway, not that that's any use really these days!:pac:

Fajitas!

We had a great time in college. There was something to do every evening, and some fantastic parties/nights out.

It all depends who you're in college with though. Put a class of drysh*tes together, and you're going nowhere.

ColeTrain

arsenallegend wrote: »

thats true though
you'd have one big night out maybe if your lucky someone in your class has a free gaff or owns there own place apart from that i can't see too much nights out on the town.

That's like it is when I'm back home but most people in my college rent. A lot of drinking back in the houses, spending as little as possible. Not so bad then, as you're just paying into the night club. Still would never be anywhere close to spending €100.

drkpower

Milena Damp Backbone wrote: »

I had a better social life after leaving college. It's hard to study properly when you're hung over/tired all the time. With work you can just show up and get through the day. Plus, I was broke all through college. I couldn't afford to join in with the 'spent 200 quid last night' brigade. I used to have about 10 euro a week left for entertainment which I usually spent on the cinema. Postgrad is even worse, nobody ever goes out. We used to meet up once a week in the pub but even that's over now because of dissertation panic.

FFS; what did you go to college for? So you could get a job to which you would just 'show up and get through the day'......:rolleyes:

If it is easier for you to work hungover than it was for you to go to college hungover, you need to think about what you are doing with your prfoessional life. Hint: its supposed to be the other way around.

(And yes, I am aware of the irony of me making this statement while wasting time on Boards while in work - but hey, I am super-efficient and will do a bit of work in 10 minutes, promise......;))

cson

College time is living the dream to be quite honest. It took me about 3 weeks working full time to realise that. If you balance it out nicely it really will be the best time of your life; I'd almost guarantee that if you asked anyone in a full time job that'd have graduated in the last 5 years if they'd like to go back they'd all say yes.

It's not just the drinking/riding aspect either. It's watching Home & Away, not havig to get up before 9am most mornings, learning to cook for yourself, general craic and pranks you do that are ok because you're in College but would be frowned upon if you were working, road trips.... there's a lot too like about it