<p>Fish out sympathy? Do you think people on here who have social problems LIKE having those problems? Or that they want random people that they dont know to feel sorry for them and give them an internet hug? NO! They come on here and post their problems because they want real advice from real people who have gone through the same issues as they have. Take for instance people who have problems with social life because they commute. Thats actually a common problem to not have alot of friends as a commuter and also there are alot of people who commute. Those people more than likely hate the fact that they cant make alot of friends or have a social life at the school. So they turn to CC to get advice from real people who might be dealing with or have dealt with the same situation before. But you, you look at their situation as if it is so stupid or such a no-brainer. Everyone has issues and just because you may not see them as important, it is important to them and that doesnt give you the right to just sit on your high horse and act as though people dont have the right to want to change something that is really bothering them.</p>
<p>@ TomServo
Just forget it. If you dont understand it, then i guess you never will</p>
<p>I agree with…pretty much everyone else. Lose the attitude. You aren’t as special as you think you are. Even as you say that maybe the problem is other people…you ever consider maybe the problem is you? I certainly wouldn’t want to socialize with you. And I am not part of the group you describe. Almost never drink, parents don’t give me money, smart, etc. I also go to an even larger college. And to most people I would say at a school so large, everyone can find their type. The sad thing is, you probably can too. You can’t possibly be the only egotistical cynic at OSU. There may even be someone worse.</p>
<p>I find it funny that you think you’re wise enough to know exactly how college will be and what the people will be like. No, college is not the real world, and I’m sorry that’s not your cup of tea, but you are not the first intelligent person to walk the earth. Your assumptions about college life seem to be similar to what’s seen in movies and the like, but I think nearly everyone in college could tell you how inaccurate this idea is. I work two jobs so I have enough money for school, my freezing, mouse-infested apartment, and basic food like potatoes and eggs. This is far from my biggest worry, but I feel uncomfortable telling complete strangers anything more than this. Maybe you didn’t consider that most people would feel the same? It makes me wonder if not liking college is the biggest issue in your life. If that’s so, then you have not experienced the real world yet. Yes, I do get drunk and high, far too much even, but I think I’m a little more in tune with the real world (and college life) than you are.</p>
<p>It isn’t, because Magneto is correct. We all have our own “ish” (seriously, this was the most funny serious use of a silly word I have ever seen) and I don’t care much to share my big troubling personal issues with strangers. I think most people that do think that the internet is like their personal diary and don’t expect anyone to say anything that doesn’t conform with their sympathy-seeking intentions. </p>
<p>I posted this because I have never been to college. I hang out with college-aged people all of the time down here in the Village, and from what I see, I am not missing much. I posted this to see what other people would think about this perception. Apparently, I am horribly misguided in my views of college kids and I shouldn’t be concerned and I will find all sorts of awesome people wherever I go. So shall it be done. I should have expected the whole condescending bit to come out when I talk down about college people on a college discussion website.</p>
<p>Like your choice on attending a Big Ten institution. Great school pride, athletics, academics, parties = Hell of a college experience. Better than going to an institution in the city or the Northeast imo. The best schools for athletics/tailgating and school pride are located in the Midwest and South.</p>
<p>I’m curious what you said in your “Why do you want to come to OSU?” essay on the OSU application. Your hate of “immaturity” (god forbid someone drink or go to a football game…) pretty much makes OSU the worst option for you since it’s a massive D1 school with a party reputation and serious football/tailgating. </p>
<p>That’s not what I consider - or most people consider - immaturity. Especially the going to football game part… I don’t understand why going to a football game is immature. If you can drink responsibly without abusing girls, getting into fights, or destroying property, then drinking alone doesn’t qualify you are immature.</p>
<p>So yes, this point is lost on me. Do most people think that drinking or going to sporting events are immature activities?</p>
<p>^ You pretty much implied in an earlier post that “the only thing that matters is alcohol” so obviously you’re not too into the idea of drinking. And not gonna lie, people are drunk at the football games, especially at OSU.</p>
<p>As you were, I meant to imply the idea of binge drinking or believing that the only possible way to have a good time would be to get absolutely plastered as possible all of the time, every weekend, with alcohol consumption being the focus of or a party to their entire social discourse. Maybe get blackout drunk after defeating Michigan or winning the Rose Bowl or celebrating the basketball run, but college kids generally do not understand moderation to the point that their social lives become repetitive and tasteless and dangerous. It’s like they didn’t learn a thing from high school. It is easy for me to escape that kind of nonsense at the moment because I can walk into anywhere and hang out with all sorts of people.</p>
<p>I am not diametrically opposed to drinking or even going to a sports game drunk. Really. I’m a normal human guy. I just think I don’t identify with the brainless alcoholism of my generation. The first guy I run into who starts keeping count of the number of beers he has had and goes telling everyone about it… Oh, I am going to let him have it. People don’t get that things like counting beers makes you look like a tool.</p>
<p>Manhattan, I go to one of the biggest party schools in the nation. My 10 closest friends don’t drink (nor do I) and these are people just in my HALL. <em>GASP</em> I THINK that there MIGHT even be more around campus like us! </p>
<p>Seriously, you’re arrogant and don’t know the first thing about a real college campus or college life (and it shows).</p>
<p>Tyler, not everybody cares about that stupid rivalry. I, for one, would go to to UM, all other factors aside (for example, I don’t want to live in Michigan, I don’t even like Ohio but it’s where I’m currently stuck), since its engineering college is ranked higher. Yes OSU is my choice because it’s the highest-ranked engineering college in the state I currently live in, being in-state makes it affordable, plus it gives me lots of close contact with die-hard Buckeye fans that I can mock.</p>
<p>I admit, you guys have been way better at football in recent years. However-</p>
<p>University</p>
<p>–noun,plural-ties.
an institution of learning of the highest level, having a college of liberal arts and a program of graduate studies together with several professional schools, as of theology, law, medicine, and engineering, and authorized to confer both undergraduate and graduate degrees.</p>
<p>In which the school the people you call “scUM” attend and exceeds ALL or most of the criteria mentioned above.</p>
<p>The vast majority of kids are obviously going to be as you described in your first post. Of course, that doesn’t mean you won’t be able to find some that will be able to really empathize with you. I’m going to attend Michigan in the fall knowing this is the truth.</p>