I am kind of on the fence in regards to my college experience. One I liked the social interaction and being cut loose so to say from my parents. However I did wish that some of my college lecturers were more in touch with the realities of my major or atleast what would apply in the real business world. After my first semster I decided to CLEP out of 4 classes. I was able to do this fairly quickly with the right CLEP Study materials. I used [Prime](http://clixtrac.com/goto/?237705). Would I consider doing college again to learn about the business world etc. Probably not, I was able to improve my analytical skills and my writing skills improved. I most likely would of taken more CLEP and DSST exams to shorten my school time fro 5 years down to a few. I am extreely burdened by student debt at the moment.
@FlaParent: I attempt to be hopeful that things will get better over time but posts like yours are frankly probably the worst things to tell college students like the OP. I just finished my junior year at Columbia and I am not happy here. Things have not gotten better for me here. They have only gotten worse and I am seriously considering graduating a semester early because I am so unhappy here. When people tell me that I will see college as the best years of my life, it pretty much destroys my hope that things will get better. Is the rest of life really so much worse than college? Sorry for reviving this thread but this made me really angry.
OP: I know your freshman year is over but if you still hate college, take as many credits as you can and get the eff out of there.
“When people tell me that I will see college as the best years of my life,”
Undergraduate years were NOT the best years of my life. They were probably the worst on the most part (with a few good moments).
“Is the rest of life really so much worse than college?”
No. For me at least the best years of my life were probably the last 1/2 (at least so far, I am not quite done yet), not the first 1/2.
@IWillKillForMIT I’m not sure why my post is a bad thing to tell college students? That college is 4 years of your life that you will look back it more fondly than you did while there? Given that you are in college it’s frankly not possible for you to have a perspective that 10 or 20 years provides.
This is not a dig at you are anyone else in college, it’s just a fact. Its also a fact that I have yet to meet a person whose tastes, opinions and interests did not change during the 1 or 2 decades following college. Now, these people may exist but it is certainly the exception and not the rule.
OP’s just started (2 months ago) so I wouldn’t call it
and act as if OP is out of time. There is plenty of time to meet people and have fun in college.
Just because you hate college, doesn’t mean most people do. OP loved high school for its social style and probably isn’t an academic-oriented person like you.