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

Tar.Aldarion · 11-08-2010 04:23AM

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

11-08-2010 04:49AM

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 · 11-08-2010 05:05AM

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

arsenallegend · 11-08-2010 09:20AM

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 · 11-08-2010 09:32AM

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 · 11-08-2010 09:36AM

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.

11-08-2010 09:39AM

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 · 11-08-2010 09:43AM

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!!

11-08-2010 09:50AM

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 · 11-08-2010 09:59AM

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 · 11-08-2010 09:59AM

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 · 11-08-2010 10:00AM

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 · 11-08-2010 10:04AM

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 · 11-08-2010 10:06AM

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.

11-08-2010 10:09AM

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 · 11-08-2010 10:12AM

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! · 11-08-2010 10:27AM

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 · 11-08-2010 10:31AM

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 · 11-08-2010 10:39AM

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 · 11-08-2010 10:41AM

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

pickarooney · 11-08-2010 10:43AM

cson wrote: »

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.

Back in college or back in time? I don't think I could go back to college.

I realise I can't literally go back in time (yet) either.

11-08-2010 10:44AM

I lived in a party block in Corrib Village when I landed in Galway.. Ridiculous amount of craic.

11-08-2010 10:56AM

drkpower wrote: »

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......;))

Oh, I just love people who make assumptions. Who says it's supposed to be the other way around? Oh yes, you think so, so it's like that for everyone. Of course.

Where did I give any indication I did that on a regular basis? :rolleyes:
I'm simply saying that for me, college is much more demanding than work. I can have the odd night out or stay up too late and still function perfectly well at work, whereas it's virtually impossible to get through a day of lectures when you're tired just because it requires so much more thinking. There is no point in being there if you're not taking everything in whereas if you're doing your job well, what does it matter if you're a bit tired? I don't know what kind of job you have which requires taking in new, complicated information every single day, but I can tell you I've never had a job like that. I've gone to work with hardly any sleep for various reasons and got on absolutely fine. I had an observation the day after the work night out (I was working as a teacher) and did brilliantly. Perhaps I'm just naturally better at my job(s) than you are. Perhaps I realise that college and work require completely different skills/functions and that not everyone's brain works in the same way.

I don't know why people seem to think college is such an easy ride. I had to be up at 7am almost every day (and that's the case with the MA I'm doing now), your work is never done, your weekends are never free. I can't wait to have a 9-5 job again.

Sleepy · 11-08-2010 11:01AM

The_Minister wrote: »

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

I'd be the opposite, I was out 5/6 nights a week during my time in college and in retrospect I'd rather have had a more challenging degree course that would have meant I'd have had to work more and party less. My entire undergrad (B.Comm) could have been covered in a year rather than the three it took and an awful lot more could have been studied in far greater depth. First year was effectively a repeat of Leaving Cert Accounting, Economics, Business Organisation and Maths. The MIS module only got beyond the absolute basics in term 2.

I'd have left college with less debt and a better degree if the course had been a bit more challenging.

cson · 11-08-2010 11:09AM

pickarooney wrote: »

Back in college or back in time? I don't think I could go back to college.

I realise I can't literally go back in time (yet) either.

Back in College time, if you get me. Once you feck off to the real world I'm guessing it ain't the same when you come back. You'll be infected with... what's the word I'm looking for.... begins with 'm' I think..... Maturity! Thats the word! Whatever that is. :pac:

As for going back in time; it never stopped Marty McFly. And we all know Back to the Future was based on a true story. :cool:

Newtown90 · 11-08-2010 11:11AM

College all depends on who ya hand around with!!

Trust me if your not with a fun crowd college will be long and boring!!

Get with a fun sound crowd mad for the craic and you'll have the best few years of your life:D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYx7YG0RsFY&feature=av2n

Nailz · 11-08-2010 11:13AM

It's better when you're like me and hate nightclub, drink at home, have mates over, listen to some Jazz/Metal/Blues/whatever, play poker, pop down to the pub to see one of the local Rock/Blues bands play and that's the night.

pickarooney · 11-08-2010 11:23AM

Milena Damp Backbone wrote: »

I don't know why people seem to think college is such an easy ride. I had to be up at 7am almost every day (and that's the case with the MA I'm doing now), your work is never done, your weekends are never free.

That sounds a lot more like parenthood than college to me.

11-08-2010 11:24AM

neil_hosey wrote: »

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

Unless you want a postgrad or something with funding and they ask for all previous years' results

norrie rugger · 11-08-2010 11:26AM

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.

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.

I can not remember if this was true for me or not as I was pissed for the 4 years

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

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