Did you enjoy college?

Yogi3 · 21-11-2010 01:51AM #1

Just wondering for anybody either in college now, or finished college in the past – do you actually like college, or did you do your degree just for the sake of having a degree? To be brutally honest, that is the situation I am finding myself in right now, I absolutely despise the subject I am doing, yet feel compelled to work at it and put my best in for the results and the degree (hopefully) at the end of it all.

Also I guess when you start courses, its not the same as they often make it out at the beginning in order to get people interested, and they become quiet tedious. Are / were you in college for no other reason but to get a degree, or did you actually enjoy it?

W.Shakes-Beer · 21-11-2010 01:56AM

Im in college now not to go to lectures, get pissed, protest, get the shift, save the world etc.

MagicMarker · 21-11-2010 01:58AM

I'd probably enjoy it more if I wasn't working 40 hours a week as well.

It wasn't me! · 21-11-2010 02:01AM

It's not all fluffy and delightful, but it's good to develop the discipline of getting a degree and working through the crap stuff. For instance, I foresee myself getting up at eight o'clock tomorrow and working for twenty four hours to finish an essay, and that will suck nuts, but working hard isn't a bad thing. I also do enjoy the material in itself, but I think the way subjects are presented tends to be rushed and unsatisfying. Still, beats the fook out of job-hunting.

Killer Pigeon · 21-11-2010 02:02AM

Hmmm, I'm thinking that the OP desires proper advise, not advise from us feckless wasters on After Hours. I suggest that this thread be moved to the personal issues forum or college forum so that the OP can get some genuine guidance, not witty humour from Hoursians.

christina_x · 21-11-2010 02:08AM

Killer Pigeon wrote: »

Hmmm, I'm thinking that the OP desires proper advise, not advise from us feckless wasters on After Hours. I suggest that this thread be moved to the personal issues forum or college forum so that the OP can get some genuine guidance, not witty humour from Hoursians.

You may speak for yourself, because i aint to waster

shouldnt be in PI anyway... its not a problem

In college atm, thoroughly enjoying it! Love my course, love the whole social aspect of it and love being independant.

Ficheall · 21-11-2010 02:08AM

I hated my degree, it was more an "I've started so I'll finish" job, where it just made me determined not to get a job in the field. I did go in full of hope etc. that it would be a wonderfully enlightening... which it was, to a degree... (npi)
I'm enjoying the phd though.

Ardennes1944 · 21-11-2010 02:12AM

i go because i know its the best thing to do right now. and i want to drive a new audi when im older

Killer Pigeon · 21-11-2010 02:13AM

christina_x wrote: »

You may speak for yourself, because i aint to waster
shouldnt be in PI anyway... its not a problem

In college atm, thoroughly enjoying it! Love my course, love the whole social aspect of it and love being independant.

In general though, Hoursians are wasters of sorts, I mean I only go on here when I'm bored or just plan procrastinating, like now when I'm supposed to be studying ...

And this OP clearly has some sort of problem, that need sound advise - After Hours really isn't the place.

Whippersnapper · 21-11-2010 02:18AM

I went to college, didn't enjoy it at all. Realised that there's no point spending 4 years doing something I'm not happy with so I left. It just wasn't for me.

randylonghorn · 21-11-2010 02:20AM

Yes, I enjoyed my degree and my time in college ... I did work hard, but I played hard as well, and was involved in lots of extra-curricular stuff, as well as having a good social life.

Like lots of things in life, hitting that balance is the important thing.

Stained Class · 21-11-2010 02:22AM

Well, I did my college thing in Carlow RTC frm '85 to '89.

I remember Brian Lenihan Sr. saying at the time that 'Ireland are rearing their young for export' or something like that.

Like many, I went abroad as soon as I finished. Never felt hard done by or anything.

It was just an accepted fact back then.

I've got cousins now finishing third level & see the whole godamm thing happening all over again.

Still, back on topic, I enjoyed my time in College. Made friends that I keep in touch with to this very day.:)

Also I learned to smoke (properly) & gained appreciation for a substance called Beer!:P

jubella · 21-11-2010 02:28AM

Was in college, hated it, dropped out, went back a year later, now I love it

PeterIanStaker · 21-11-2010 02:34AM

I drank, smoked, headbanged and fornicated my way through an honours degree and two masters. Went back to get the second one recently in hopes of upskilling and landing a good job- boy how that backfired! Thanks FF.

Remember one time as an undergrad coming into an exam at 9am after being out on the píss with these nurses until about 5am. How I passed it I'll never know.

Fun times . . . .

m5ex9oqjawdg2i · 21-11-2010 02:37AM

College is awesome...

epgc3fyqirnbsx · 21-11-2010 02:43AM

Does the pope shit in the woods?

elspecia · 21-11-2010 02:49AM

In short no i didn't enjoy it as a whole, i only went to gat a degree, but now as i've just recently graduated i really missed it.

Its not the subjects i miss it more the people and seeing them every day, also the "college lifestyle" basically getting drunk alot, not going to classes i didn't want to go to was great. There was a lot more freedom, than work you know.

Also doesn't help that i'm still in the job i have been doing for 4 years while i was in college.

But all in all i miss college the same way i miss school its all about the friends you made and its a real adjustment knowing that alot of them you'll never again, its really something that should be looked into in the future. Because i really found it hard to get over the realisation that college was over and alot of good friends will fade into the distance only to be seen every now and then, but that is life

Hayzooz · 21-11-2010 02:52AM

Yogi3 wrote: »

Just wondering for anybody either in college now, or finished college in the past – do you actually like college, or did you do your degree just for the sake of having a degree? To be brutally honest, that is the situation I am finding myself in right now, I absolutely despise the subject I am doing, yet feel compelled to work at it and put my best in for the results and the degree (hopefully) at the end of it all.

Also I guess when you start courses, its not the same as they often make it out at the beginning in order to get people interested, and they become quiet tedious. Are / were you in college for no other reason but to get a degree, or did you actually enjoy it?

Change your course. Take it from me, change your course.

You will really, really regret doing a degree you hate.

Change your course now.

entropi · 21-11-2010 02:54AM

I'm in college now as a 1st year undergrad and loving it. The people are great, lecturers are friendly and DO help us in what we study

The workload is tough enough, but the rewards will outweigh any negatives there may be from lack of sleep. Social life is decent too so yeah, overall I'm happy about college.

Three more years and I'll look back with fond memories!

Dudess · 21-11-2010 03:08AM

Only had interest in the social aspect when I went to college first, and failed the course miserably. Went back a few years later and loved the social life again, but also the course.

Piste · 21-11-2010 03:15AM

I love, love, LOVE college! The course I'm doing is so so interesting, with loads of different aspects to it, a lot of the modules are so different to each other but all tie in together. The people are great and I always have fun before and after (ok also during0 lectures messing around with them. Even though it's a small college they events that they throw are always such a good laugh. Even though there arent that many hours, the elctures are so spread throughout the day that I'm with my class all the time either messing about or studying in the library so I've made great friends and gone on some really fun trips away. Even though I can come close to tears around exam time, there's a lot of support as everyone's in the same boat. I like the idea that we'll all be working together probably in years to come (if everyone doesn't emigrate that is...) I'm having the absolute time of my life! (says she who has been working on a project on and off for the last 12 hours...)

College is great

epgc3fyqirnbsx · 21-11-2010 03:17AM

students...

Hayzooz · 21-11-2010 03:18AM

Dudess wrote: »

Only had interest in the social aspect when I went to college first, and failed the course miserably. Went back a few years later and loved the social life again, but also the course.

but dudess, you do have that massive hole to contend with!!!!

:)

Dudess · 21-11-2010 03:20AM

Try harder IanCurtis...

Rothmans · 21-11-2010 03:22AM

Hayzooz wrote: »

but dudess, you do have that massive hole to contend with!!!! :)

Say what!

Contessa Raven · 21-11-2010 04:07AM

I LOVED college! Graduating forever on Tuesday and I'm quite sad really.

I loved the parties and the drinking but I also made some great friends and I got to study abroad for a year. It helped immensely that I loved my course though. I think if you like your course you're experience as a whole is better.

yizorselves · 21-11-2010 04:17AM

I loved the nights out during the week

Spirit on a Thursday night, Big Tree on a Wednesday night, Coppers any night

I think when you're in your 20's you'll have a better idea of what you might want to study and what it includes, than deciding at 17/18 at leaving cert time. A lot of kids dont know what they're getting into and it can make for a miserable experience when it comes to getting the head down

KnifeWRENCH · 21-11-2010 04:25AM

College has been a very up and down experience for me. I've had both the best times and the worst times of my life over the past three years. Yet I think it's made me a smarter and stronger person.

I do have a love/hate relationship with my course; I find it interesting but very difficult. I pretty much flew through secondary school and expected to do the same at 3rd level; alas, when I actually had to use my brain and not just get by by rote learning I discovered that I was not nearly as intelligent as I thought I was.

I'm in my final year now, and really hope I do well in my exams this year to get a good degree overall. And even though it hasn't been plain sailing, I will be quite sad to leave the place come summer.

Killer Pigeon · 21-11-2010 04:38AM

The whole college experience for me holds some odd paradoxes; you lose so many braincells yet you somehow become smarter.

Dinner · 21-11-2010 04:49AM

I graduated today. And if nothing else, its shown me how lucky I was to have such an incredible bunch of people both teaching me, and in my class. So yeah, I did enjoy it. Even the shit moments.

Davidius · 21-11-2010 04:50AM

Enjoy the course. Don't enjoy not having much to do between lectures or having to use public transport. The horror of it all.

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