<p>Maybe you could explain what doing it right is? Like I said, I enjoyed it in 1st year and, to a lesser extent, 2nd year. If I never liked it to begin with you’d have a point, but I don’t like the things that I used to. After a while there were no new experiences. I also got older and I’m nowhere near as social as I used to be. Combine that with much harder classes (engineering) and you have a person who doesn’t like school.</p>
<p>Living life for the first time. Elementary, middle, high school- all just a waste of time. I’m just now feeling the extremities of consciousness.</p>
<p>Well, I guess it sucks for you that you think your first ~18 years of life were a waste of time.</p>
<p>best things:
~independence. Seriously, it is so nice not to have anyone looking over your head worrying you because you came home 5 minutes after curfew.<br>
~my roommate. Went in blind freshman year, ended up with the best roommate ever. Super lucky, I know<br>
~living with your friends. It is amazing to just walk a couple doors down and being able to hang out with your friends (instead of calling them, organizing a meeting time etc)
~being around a bunch of kids who actually care about their futures, have ambitions etc. (something that I definitely didn’t have in high school). I love random conversations about politics at 2 in the morning
~being able to take classes in subjects that you really care about (after you get past gen. eds and into your major classes, homework almost becomes fun! At least for me)
~Social life (college sports and parties). Always something to do, tons of great memories to be made!</p>
<p>worst things:
~miss home food…so much. nom nom nom
~miss best friend (goes to college in different state)
~miss family (once in a while…go to school 3000 miles away from home)</p>
<p>hum…going to college is going to college! it’s 4 years in a huge surronding of intellectuals and interesting people!! I guess the most exciting part is meeting new friends…</p>
<p>Benefits
- I can get insanely involved, allowing me to structure my time incredibly densely
- I can take what I want to, 18+ hours every semester, keeps me busy and fun
- I can still do my laundry at home for free [live 5 minutes from home]
- Met some of the best people ever, my fraternity brothers are awesome, give me a quintessential college experience
- Ability to work in real world environments via Internships, etc. </p>
<p>Disadvantages
- I spend so much godamn money…</p>
<p>Being able to be who I am. High school was very clique-y, conforming, and I really hated it. Instead of conforming and buying Uggs every winter (like most people at my school who had the money to throw around), I just got the label ‘quiet nerdy girl.’ After graduation I think I unfriended everyone in my graduation class except like 10 people on facebook.</p>
<p>Anyway, I can be myself now. The one who wants to succeed in engineering. The one who likes to solve puzzles and tinker with Rubiks Cubes. I can be the one to embrace my culture as I wish to.</p>
<p>That being said… I LOVE HUMONGOUS PUBLIC STATE UNIVERSITIES.</p>
<p>@Highlife…and everybody else.</p>
<p>i thought in college you have a better social life than in high school?? or am i wrong people?</p>
<p>There’s the potential for a much better social life, but it depends on your personality and your location. In my 1st year I had a slightly better social life than high school because I maintained my high school friends and made new friends in university (my school’s only 30 minutes away from where I grew up). I went to parties, met new people, and had a good time.</p>
<p>But my social life didn’t improve THAT much. Yeah, I went to parties and other campus events, but not that many, mostly because I commuted. At my school (like most other canadian universities), most people commute so the campus life isn’t as big at some other schools. Also factor in that, where I live, legal drinking age is 18 so the bar/club scene is MUCH bigger than the school party scene. I did go to dorm parties and knew people in dorms and they had what seemed like really fun social lives.</p>
<p>Anyway, i’m currently going into my 6th year (for 1 more semester) since i switched majors so many times. It just isn’t the same anymore. I’ve become increasingly antisocial and independent in the last 4 years and there just isn’t anything new.</p>