<p>i agree with soccer’s sarcastic remark. due to having to pay my own expenses (my life sux, QQ, i know) I live in an apartment instead and im not really able to be involved at my school at all… oh well…i’ll live</p>
<p>but im saving about $850/month so all is well</p>
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<p>I haven’t gone to college yet, but that’s like saying you should pay to make some friends ><</p>
<p>I empathize with XX55XX, and I guess sometimes, it’s just hard to click with ppl on the campus, esp. as time approaches infinity.</p>
<p>Maybe try reaching out to other ppl IRL for a bit more, and if that doesn’t work, it’s worth it to take the extra classes, because obviously, you’re not enjoying BC the way you should.</p>
<p>Yeah, good advice given on this board. Take out a 50k loan to make some friends and party once in a while.</p>
<p>Who said anything about 50K? OP would be looking at 20K maximum. </p>
<p>The fact is that OP complains about not enjoying BC and not enjoying college, but hasn’t made any kind of real effort to get involved in the community. Why not just go to CC if all you’re going to do is show up for class and then leave?</p>
<p>By the way, overloading your schedule is a good way to ensure you have a lower GPA, and good luck getting a decent job offer/accepted into a good grad school without any other activities besides academics.</p>
<p>College isn’t all about academics. The primary mission of universities is to educate, but it is so much more than that. Especially at a school like BC with big-time sports and a big city 15 minutes away.</p>
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<p>Well commuting clearly isn’t working for OP, where I believe he is one of maybe 2 commuters at BC. Maybe living on campus should be the next step.</p>
<p>I do empathize with OP, but all I see here is complaining and pity pleas.</p>
<p>I kinda do, not really because of a dislike for college but because I wanna make money and have a job, and really be able to ‘start’ life.</p>
<p>Solution: Make Friends.</p>
<p>Because believe it or not, “Networking” is an adult term for making friends.</p>
<p>Honestly I’d stay in college a lot longer than 4 years if I could, but then again, it’s the fact that I only have four years to spend in college that makes me want to live it out as best I can in every way possible.</p>
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Uh yeah cause 1 maybe 1.5 years tops room and board is really going to amount to 50k.</p>
<p>The kid has tuition paid for and is completely miserable. A year or two of room and board is all that’s needed to make friends with whom you can live off campus later for far less money. 4 years without any friends is pretty f-ing unhealthy.</p>
<p>I’ve been in College for 4.5 years and as far as I have observed:</p>
<p>Many people say that College is the best 4(Scratch that, 5 to 6) years of their lives because they only focus on the social aspects of the environment and use things such as Facebook to show to other people how much fun they are having.</p>
<p>After they graduate life generally sucks since they didn’t try very hard in College and end up working for $30,000-$35,000 per year in a desk job in a cubicle from 8:00-5:00pm.</p>
<p>Obviously this doesn’t happen to all people(George W. Bush is a good example) but it happens to the majority described above.</p>
<p>Just how a lot of people who do nothing in College except study and graduate with a high GPA but have nothing to show besides grades, grades, grades on their resumes don’t typically end up going very far(Excluding graduate schools).</p>
<p>Morale of the story: There is nothing wrong with enjoying College just as there is nothing wrong with not enjoying College and commuting and/or studying too much just to get a high GPA.</p>
<p>No way of life is better than the other. Both have benefits and both have consequences…</p>
<p>Just because you study all the time and have the highest gpa doesn’t make you any better than the rest of the students. Just because you party every weekend and have fun doesn’t make you any better than the rest of the students. Just because you study and socialize doesn’t make you any better than the two examples listed above. You are all humans and you are all pawns of the system of higher education.</p>
<p>This is something that you really don’t understand at the ages of 18/19 in which you can be making decisions that will harm your College experience socially or academically.</p>
<p>And for the record: Why must whether or not you socialize/study/party/playvideogames/sleepallday be such a major life decision on all of these forums?</p>
<p>College is all about what YOU want to do with your life. It would be nice if someone in this this forum was intelligent enough to see beyond the mundane issues in human society and actually understand what they can do with their life when given the right opportunities.</p>
<p>^Ok and how does this solve the OP’s problem of being absolutely miserable and counting down the days til graduation when he’s only been in college for like 5 months? Your platitudes really dont help.</p>
<p>You say “there is nothing wrong with not enjoying College.” You honestly think acquiescing a month into 2nd semester freshman year and resigning yourself to be friendless/miserable throughout four good years of youth is OK? Sometimes it’s unavoidable, yeah, but it’s not OK.</p>
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<p>I really have no stock in this thread, but this is bunk. Most people work that job and that salary because those are starting salaries and starting jobs. It’s silly to believe that a starting salary is going to be over $75,000 - that’s a stretch even for the most lucrative majors and careers.</p>
<p>" I really have no stock in this thread, but this is bunk. Most people work that job and that salary because those are starting salaries and starting jobs. It’s silly to believe that a starting salary is going to be over $75,000 - that’s a stretch even for the most lucrative majors and careers. "</p>
<p>My brother’s friend who is a business major went to Brown for undergraduate years. The moment he was out, he became a consultant and made $80,000-$100,000. Now, I bet since years have passed by, one’s salary increases, he should be making a ton loads of money right now. It also depends on where you attend college, but most importantly, employers would like to hire candidates with strong work experience pertaining to that field. Saying the person with 30k-35k, he or she must’ve underachieved in college.</p>
<p>I think people need to realize that the college life is not for everyone, but the way our society is structured, pretty much anyone who wants to get somewhere in this world needs to go to one. So, if you don’t like campus life or living on campus, then that’s fine. If you need to find some friends, go get an off-campus job, or go to a church or something. There’s nothing wrong with not liking college.</p>
<p>^ I think you need to realize that college experience is what you make out of it. There are always a group in college that you will find are worth being your friends. If you take general ed. courses to fulfill the graduation requirement and STUDY hard enough for it, college will be a breeze. If you take curriculums that you might like, you won’t have a problem with having a difficulty about it. Like I said, it’s up to you what you can do to adjust in college. Dropping out with an associates degree without a bachelors is an imperceptible idea, which everyone should try to avoid.</p>
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<p>That doesn’t make any sense. Different majors lead to different careers, and different careers have different salary expectations. An A average social work major and a C average med school graduate are going to have very, very different salaries, regardless of how they performed. Major choice is in it. Even then, the reality is that very few college graduates are going to have a starting salary of over $50,000. Sure, they exist. Absolutely! And I’m happy for your friend or whatever. But no one should expect that.</p>