I was going to spend some time writing about why I so greatly dislike university life, but now I’m home I find my thoughts aren’t coherent enough to collect and put into words. Headache doesn’t help, nor lack of sleep.
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but i love university life. ah well.
I hate university life too!!!!,
people who have never attended university always say its the best years of your life and that you make your friends for life there RUBBISH!!
im in my second yr, still havent got a friend to my name (long story)
and all i keep hearing is how its about the education, which it is. but with no friends and no happiness, ur not willing to learn a lot are you?!
Yeah It sucks. I am so sick of learning. and people are so cocky and fake. But we have to do it, or else we’ll go nowhere in life.
I’m a second year Chemical Engineering student in Israel. I’m 25. I don’t know if I don’t like university because the boring uncreative way they teach, or because my state of mined. I went to study chemical engineering because I thought I’d like it. But I’m far far away from creating interesting stuff.
my potato is mashed. mashed to a pulp.
unmash my potato, say you’ll fry them again. ungrill this steak you made.
wtf, adi?
I hate university so so so much. I’m in my 4th year and I can barely drag my ass to class. It’s so hard to go and sit there listening to my idiot professors. They’re so fucking stupid – I should be teaching them! The assignments are ridiculous, too. The whole thing is a total waste of time, but if I don’t go, I’ll be the loser who dropped out.
You wound not be a loser at all. Its about time people realised that just because you have a BSc or BA makes you not better a person. Many students should look more deeply into life and all it can hold without studying a degree. I realised in my second year it wasnt for me, I thought it better to be happy than drag my sorry student ass to another lecture of no interest. And i passed that first year with all marks over 70%. Soical order is the only thing keeping many at University. Many want to leave, but the pure expectation of elders and UK sociery suggests that a person who did not go to University is a person of lesser intelligence.
I must say I find it interesting that a short 3-line post I wrote over 2 years ago is still being actively discussed upon.
i feel the same way..maybe we hate it because we leave work to the last minute (like i do)..its frustrating..exactly the way i feel as someone said ‘i’ll be considered the loser who dropped out’ . i thought university was where everyone’s mind opened up – evidently it isn’t. at the same time i dont want to work in some low-end job for the rest of my life, and university does help to get a lesser low end job , haha. worse, my university is like a 1.5 hrs trip from my house. pure crap. its all about regurgitation and memorizing bullshit. but i guess thats the only way to learn, right? hah. who knows. i feel like im heading nowhere with this stupid degree shit. 5 hour science labs ? i mean, come on, its just getting ridiculous. i personally want to be a musician, but external pressures force otherwise. in fact i’d rather be a religious leader or something. who knows. lets see how i feel after exams..i used your site to vent, i hope you didn’t mind. best of luck to all.
FUCK UNIVERSITY!
OOPS. pressed enter too soon. uni life is a piece of shit. 90% of the peoplei wouldnt piss on if they were on fire. they do nothing to help you with anything. sink or swim. the lecturers are mostly uninspiring, boring, or contemptuous of anyone who isn’t a swot. good lecturers are a sparse few. Uni is ruining my social life, my happiness, my sex life (i.e. dont have one), my money, my health, my creative output, MY FUCKING SOUL. and for what? so i can have apiece of paper which makes me accepted in society as not a stupid person? FUCK OFF! FUCK THE SYSTEM!
how do we fuck the system?
i hate university…iv only been there bout two months. i had it branded into me since i was little that i had to go good in school to get into university to get sumwhere in society. there has to b a different way. wtf is it?
There are plenty of different ways, but university is probably the safest.
A lot of the world’s richest men are university dropouts, btw.
I currently attend a respectable university, and am in the top 5% of my class, but I have no fucking life.
University has stolen my soul and my freedom, and every moment of every day I am just numb, as the only thoughts that run through my head are how to ace that next test, be it through studying or giving my professor serious head.
I came to university to learn, to meet new and interesting people, and to grow as a person. NONE of these expecations have been met. Absolutely fucking-lutely none.
FUCK U UNIVERSITY!
i hate university. writing 4 reports on 4 things that i don’t fucking care about is fucking ridiculous. i hate university so much! i worked my fucking butt off to get into there thinking it was the light at the end of the tunnel. no one mentioned it was actually hell. you bastards.
university is a fucking joke. i got a B.Sc. a couple years back and it has done me zero fucking good. I’m certainly no smarter for it. The true reason university exists today is that it is a fantastic tool for class stratification and social CONTROL. And by the way – i hate to break it to you – the tendency for society to dictate to the individual doesn’t end after school. If you want to be free in this life there is only one hope – lots of $$$$. How to get it? hmmmmmm….
Our essay is due in tomorrow and between the two of us we have one page of copied/pasted internet stuff.
Last year we both did a year of Illustration which was hellish, and however hard we worked and pulled our fingers out we just could not deliver. We are both talented and creative individuals and failed that first year. It was difficult because we were faced with many outside problems – relationships and independent living.
So this year, we thought the light at the end of the tunnel would be Fine Art. Not so! We are halfway through and cannot face another two and a half years of school-like institutionalism.
We really feel like the losers who are about to drop out.
Oh! People I can identify with! OH I love you guys! I hate university (damned engineering!) and its killing me! i dont know when the last time i went to a lecture was! I get out of bed at lunch, or later… all i look forward to is dinner! I can feel my brain rotting and feel myself getting stupider every second. But i think i wouldnt mind if i was doing a BA. That would be cool…Mycreativity is dying. I used to think i was different, special, had great things to offer the world… now i can see i am worth nothing, as all those things have been killed
OMG. i felt my brain rotting too. Creativity, happiness, idealism, gone. Cynicism, depression, here to stay. Walk the walk and talk the talk or fail your classes! that’s the name of the game. I wrote a poem about it.
enjoy.
Retrospective
I went to university
And when I was done
I spent the next 12 months
Trying to unlearn
Everything they taught me
Because those ivory towers
Are not the place to be
For people who Hope to
Change their world for the better
At least not if you’re taking Arts
Because what they teach you
Is not how to find the commonalities
That exist between peoples or ideas
But how to seek out the Differences.
It was never about our world, our problems,
Or collective solutions.
It was about what’s yours and what’s mine
and drawing boundaries.
And it really was not about asking questions,
Because if you asked the wrong question,
It could be fatal, academically speaking.
It was about who could walk the walk and talk the talk.
I took a class where someone actually compared
Gandhi to Hitler, concluding both were madmen
And he got a round of applause for it.
That was where the learning officially ended
And when I had to shut the book on so-called
“Higher Education”
Uni work does suck, but if it was easy it wouldn’t be worth getting a degree and everyone would do it!
If you have no friends at uni then you are in the minority, ever thought it may be your fault that you have no friends and not uni? If anything uni helps with all the clubs, interests etc you can join so make an effort!
"I must say I find it interesting that a short 3-line post I wrote over 2 years ago is still being actively discussed upon."
It’s because we’re all typing in the same search terms at Google: "I hate university".
I just chose my courses for the fall (4th year CS), and I felt compelled to do a Google search to find others in a similar state of mind. =)
Amazing, this page is the third result for that search term. Small wonder, then.
Good luck with your degree; I just managed to finish mine (at last).
woo i can join this club, i hate uni , its sunny outsideandimstuckin myroom because iv made no friends for thefirst time in my life and i cant sitin the lounge because half of my flat mates have been the evilist bastards iv ever met, i hate it , really wantto go home or just disapear. this sucks, wasting everyday looking at sites like this because im so bored and on my own arggggggggggghhhhhhhhhh
hey all
its nice to know that uni is making other people crazy 2 and not just me. I am so stressed right now I cant handle it and it never stops as soon as one assignment is done you have to start another arrghh
anyone i just needed to vent
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australian unis r shit too. but it sounds to me like u guys all have a grudge against ppl who made friends. the only reason most of the ppl i no stay is 4 the social scene.i no ppl straight out of school.ppl with kids and ppl who are looking for a career change late in life but we all seem 2 get along ok. maybe u should try and make friends with ppl instead of looking of ways to getaround ur probs instead of through them. no1 said the work was going 2 b easy. what did u all expect? probs the ppl u dontlike r the 1’s who could help u out and make ur uni life betta by being a friend. go out side ur rom n talk 2 some1 in the hall. human interaction helps every1
YES FUCK OFF UNIVERSITY!!! it feels SOOO good to be validated by all your comments.i have been in the system far too long. i joined a BA in Accounting and Finance and gave up 3.5 years into it, deciding NO i do NOT want to a bean fucking counter. Only to ace the entrance exam and get into law school, which i thought at the time before i started was ‘this is it.. i’ve found what i want to do’. Now 2 years later i’m flat on my ass again and realising that studying is not my thing! Does that make me any less intelligent? you try getting into law school! less hardworking? Yes, but why work hard at something you have no interest and cannot find the relevance for in your life?? I should be getting out, getting exposure, meeting people, finding opportunity and earning money and gaining experience, not stuck going to endless lectures and motivating myself to study month in month out when i know success is measured by tons of other ways besides a freakin degree…
Which is why i’m dropping out, taking my real estate agent’s representative certificate and embarking on working life. MY WAY. FUCK UNI!!!!
I too, despise uni. I am in my fifth week nearly and have made no friends. I sit in my room most nights just watching TV. All the people here are thick, arrogant cunts and all they care about is pulling and getting pissed. This is not my scene. I am a kind, good looking friendly guy but I CANNOT hack uni. Its depressing the hell out of me, I dont get on with my flatmates and I want out. Now.
I started my first year in uni and in 5 weeks i have fucking found this place is sum mental institution,… this shitt is a real bitch.I agree university is ripping my soul appart..i have got many friends but i still feel the way many of you do.. and u have literally taken the words out my mouth ,,, Dont push me cos im close to the edge!!!!
Eat a FAT Dick UNIVERSiTY… Waste of money and more importantly LIFE…I dont know why i started uni, but i am thinking it is because its the safest route to take.. like i said …… DIE SLOW UNIVERSITY, not now waite till I finish
I am more on the line of hating University because of the way ’students’ live their lives. I love my course as it’s performing arts so a lot of interaction with like-minded, ambitious people. What i cannot stand is the way students go about behaving. In my first 6 weeks at Uni I’ve had my windows smashed, threatened by drunk fucks, a guy OD on a nice drug cocktail and my bedroom door kicked in. Now if this is the behaviour of the country’s future lawyers, doctors and teachers, our society is facing a pretty dismal future.
What fucks me off the most though, is that because of these braindead fuckwits I may end up leaving my course, there is no justice left in this world.
i have been at uni 2 months now, i have made friends with a few people who arnt on my actual course because everyone on my course is a fucking imature prick who hasnt got a clue. I took a year out before coming to univeristy and got a taste of what goes on in the real world. I am a musician and made the stupid decision to take a degree in music. You cant fucking teach improvisation and creativity in writing music. I played with pro musicians in London in my time out from education and learnt so much by hanging out with people twice my age who have made a career from playing music and dont have degrees but are perfectly happy, interesting people with a story to tell. Since being at this shithole of a university i feel like i have been robbed of my creativity and my inspiration to play music. People on my course are uninspiring kids who have no musical talents nor had any life experiences that show in there music. They dont love the music, they go out to shitty clubs which are the very thing that is destroying the music they are supposed to be studying. These kids are coming from rich familys, fresh out of school, hoping to tick all the boxes and get the marks to please there dickhead parents. I believe the world is going to shit. How can it possibly survive with the next generation of university educated pricks? The lectures teaching at my university are proof that having the very degree they are teaching me gets you knowhere – why arnt they out making lots of money? because they are in £15,000 worth of debt owed to mr blair and for what? so they can stand at the front of a lecture room and read from a book?
Well I’m glad at least other people feel the way I do. The most annoying thing about univeristy to me is how god damn disorganised the teaching seems to be. My department is 3rd best in the UK and still it takes forever to get our marks back,I’m convinced they scan read the papers and make the grades up. Worst of all there seems to be no correlation between how hard you study & the grades you get. I accept that if you do no work you will fail. But working your ass off can be awarded from anything from A to D grade. It seems a complete lottery to me. I cant wait to leave university.
We have all been conditioned from the age of 4 to believe that the firther we go in education the firther we go in life. its supposed to become more inspiring, more empowering as we climb the academic ladder….Unfortunately, as with many of you, I worked my ass off with that dream in mind and Im finally here, at University, doing a very respected course…and it sucks. I hate it here, its costing me a huge amount of money to waste three years of my life in a place full of self-perpetutating self-congratulating bullshit. Unfortunately, if I drop out everyone will think Im a loser, and wonder why I fell at the ‘final hurdle’. If my degree is worth fuck all at the end of all this, Im buying a gun and shooting alot of people. There is so much more to life than this, there has to be.
OMG YESSS. I’m in my second year of a four year Social Work Course. I HATE IT. For the first time in my life I have almost no more friends since we’ve all grown up to be different people who don’t click anymore. I’m from Canada so it can get pretty fucking cold here and trekking to school in 7 in the morning when its the middle of winter and is dark as hell to go to a class full to learn a degree I hate to get a job which I think I may or may not like is the most depressing thing in the world. I’m in the darkest place in my life right now and sometimes wonder how I still come off so cheerful and friendly. But anymore time in Uni and I think it just might sink me. I’m of an ethnic background and ‘need’ to make friends and boyfriends from my same cultural background but its hard as hell too try to connect with them since I grew up away from these people and am not 100% fluent in my naive tongue (which I’m still learning). I don’t feel Uni is something I want to spend more time on but I would get hell if I didn’t go through with it. “its a great degree – your lucky to have gotten into it” they all say, but I’m so fucking unhappy and I’m someone who is easily pleased. I’m not connecting at all with the people in my program and my program and uni in general – its getting in the way of the many personal issues I want to sort out. I am so confused on what to do and If I leave, where do I go and what do I do? I spend stress filled nights thinking and overthinking, I’ve never been unhappy until now and I know that everyday of life shouldn’t be wasted on shit that feeds on your very soul. FUCKING HELL!
im a few weeks into my second year now and I’m facing quite a predicament. My first year was an odd one, very troubling at times – bouts of loneliness and reflection and all that. was gunna drop out after the first term but decided to stick at it for the bit of paper at the end. Towards the end of the year everything was buzzing, i was so happy and confident, the sun was shining so brightly. went on to have the best summer. Had a bit of a funny one towards the end of summer as second year impended, and its been going on ever since. found out recently that 2 of my essays failed to make the grade so now i have to do the first year over again. I live in a house quite far away from the student centre if u know wot i mean and have found myself slipping into quite a reclusive state, becoming distanced from even the closest of my friends, who seem to be getting on with things niceley. I’m quite ashamed of my failing first year and now i’m questioning whether or not i should stay and do it just for the sake of a degree. wot is even worse is that my course is a drama degree – last year i witnessed so much bitching and backstabbing. this still goes on amongst the class of second year, but they have toned it down slightly. to have to go back a year and go through all of this again is not an appealing thought.There are lots of things that i would like to do should i decide to drop out and go back home but i fear it would be way more depressing since home life stifles me even in short bouts during the holidays. i understand that university is about planning for ur future, but at the moment i just feel like im becoming a bit of a recluse, paranoid that noone really wants me around that much. i know this is just paranoia and perhaps in a few years i’ll look back on it and laugh.I just hope i wont be laughing from a cave somewhere in the alps. Right now though, i feel terrible. i slept until 6 today, missing 2 appointments i had.feel like im turning into a parody of myself. im not looking for sympathy, i know i could have got out of bed if i had tried, with nothing to do im losing motivation to see anyone or do anything. during the summer i felt amazing, now i go through pretty bad mood swings, one moment feeling fine, the next, crappy.
im so pissed off. Been at this uni (liverpool) for what 6 weeks and bored shitless out of my mind. I hate it here, people are narrow minded and dont seem to have any depth. Theres too much fakeness and i havent madeone decent friend.. I am a sociable person and make friends easily but its absolute bollocks. Best time of your life!I feel like my heads being twisted and churned into common crap and everyones so into themselves they cant see whats around them. Now all i want to do is sleep. Is this it, is this the palce im going to spend the next 3 years of my life and is this how im going to feel. Fucking crap throughout. You dont need uni to go far in life i know that but life here is shit without friends.
I hate uni, im in my 1st year at liverpool, ive got no money, i hate my course and the people here think they are somebody…Iv got like 1 person who i can really speak to here.Im usually confident and dead friendly,and thought id make loads of friends, but no i havent..i think is it me that they just dont like? I feel so depressed and i just wanna drop out, but thn ive got ppl wuestioning me on why i did, and th family wouldnt be happy…can life seriously get any worse? Another tihng is that i work too, and quite alot of ppl at uni dont but theyre still managing to go out and piss money up against a wall..its so frustrating :’(
lol u frm liverpool 2…its shite, whre you stayin if u eva kum here again
“Worst of all there seems to be no correlation between how hard you study & the grades you get. I accept that if you do no work you will fail. But working your ass off can be awarded from anything from A to D grade. It seems a complete lottery to me. I cant wait to leave university.”
sOOO fucking true. I’m full of bitterness because of university. I’m filled with bottled up anger and stress. I swear, I am going to just blow up one day and my university will feel my wrath.
University is seriously ruining me. It’s sucking the JOY out of my life. University is just a stupid, overly -competitive fucking shithole.
It’s turning me into an emo, and possibly a suicide bomber :@ All I daydream about is blowing up the fucking building
I hate people in university. they are fake, competitive, cold hearted bastards who do nothing but suck up to profs. grad students are the most pathetic people on earth. stay in school till I’m 30 and the only interaction I get is with the Help paperclip in Microsoft Word? FUCK THAT. UNIVERSITY IS HELL.
Choose LIFE.
Choose a job.
Choose a starter home.
Choose dental insurance, leisure wear and matching luggage.
Choose YOUR future.
the problem with university is that it looks for PARTICULAR type of people – people who actually love the misery of doing boring research and endless studying. if THIS isn’t you, you are going to have a very hard time in university. university makes you feel dumb and worthless. university makes you feel like you are never good enough for its standards. don’t blame youself. grades are just numbers. they don’t mean SHIT. they don’t define WHO you are and WHAT you are capable of.
I’m fucking miserable and so close to throwing in the towel on not just Uni but the subject of study I use to be so passionately interested in.
It’s second year of my course and we still have no freedom to create work we originally signed up hoping to create. The assignments, grading all exist to make the tutor’s lazy arsed jobs easier and to kill our spirit. I know exactly who are the true failures each time I enter that place and see their grinning faces.
I feel I’m stuck here to the end and my grades are suffering through the hatred of the situation. I can’t approach these brief with positive thoughts no longer and it’s too difficult now to explain to parents and family that I want to quit. I’ve wasted more of my own time trying to pursue an artist career and thrown away their money.
I’ve never felt so hopeless and cheated in my life. I wish the place burns down and theres a glitch with the banks accounts so I’m refunded as some compensation.
I am so thankful for this website.
I work so hard at this. I try more than anyone I used to know at highschool. I was a straight A student.
Now I feel worthless. I’m working my hardest and it feels like I’m going nowhere. Like I’m not appreciated and never good enough. Like I’m just a number, another paper to mark.
I’m not angry towards university, just sad. Sad that I can’t paint and be who I know I am. I signed up for this though. It’s the only option I have. I don’t want to be a failure in my family’s eyes or my own so I continue.
Like all of you I’m drained.
No friends, no energy, no modivation.
None of me is left.
Found via google also
I feel cheated more than anything. I’ve learnt absolutely nothing as a result of being at uni. The lecturers say “Uni is about teaching yourself”. So why the fuck go to uni then? We pay however many 1000’s of
I’m up to my 12th week of the first semester and looking forward to an evening of deciphering yet another poorly written and unexplained homework in for tomorrow. University has killed all my interest in what i thought was my passion in life. It seems to be totally geared up to a different kind of person, a different kind of person to 90% of the attendees there. Lecturers are arrogant and claim to want to ‘help you in anyway possible’, this seems mostly pointless when their initial teaching methods do very little to explain the material and the best teaching i get is from the few students who can actually understand whats going on. I’m so tired during the day from the previous day at uni (i have a few solid days of work rather than spread across the week) and the lectures are so dull that i often drift off completely and fall asleep. I totally agree that the ‘teach yourself’ attitude is complete bullshit when i’m paying them 3k to do that job. It annoys me when i can see a lot of the exercise material referenced from the internet (I’m doing a computing course), if i wanted to do an open university course id buy Java for dummies and sit down for 6 months and do one. Credit to my subject, my actual COURSE module is brilliant, but my necessary core modules are absolutely uninspiring and on the most part, badly taught. If i had no parents with hopes resting on me i would fucking kick the bucket with university in an instant.
Wow, finally people that can understand how I feel about university. I am in my 3rd year of 4, and don’t think I can stand it any longer. I hate my course, even though I thought it was what I wanted to do as a career, I hate being away from home and from my family and REAL friends, and I hate always being overdrawn! I am currently 6 days from the end of another term, but feel so weak and lonely that I don’t even know if I can make it that far. God knows how I’ve even made it to here.
I too did a Google search for I hate university – and what a fantastic site, full of like-minded people who understand what a pile of shit university really is. I don’t wanna be ‘one of those losers that dropped out’ either – but it’s looking increasingly appealing.
My heart goes out to all of you feeling the same way as me – well, the parts of it that haven’t died, anyway.
Yup, I’m not enjoying life at all. In my first year, only have a few friends. Everyone is on crack here, my flat is shit, my flatmates deserve to be firebombed in the face, everyone is so fake and I’m away from my REAL friends. What also pisses me off is that all my old friends seem to be having a much better time than me! :@
If this place burned to the ground (empty of people of course, except my flatmates), I’d laugh and dance
“It’s turning me into an emo and possibly a suicide bomber” this one made me laugh until I was crying. To think 4 years ago I use to be an ordinary human and then like so many others I enrolled into B.A. Over the years I became more and more pale and sickly, depressed, neurotic, reclusive, lost all my freinds and now I’m on my third fucking lot of anti-depressants, apparently SSRI’s are not sufficent to counter the utter despair that uni induces. The thing is I use to love literature, I use to write poetry, now anything containing words has been eclipsed in semiotics, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, structuralism, hermeneutics, pragmatics.. etc, even when I walk passed a billboard I start fucking deconstructing it, I can’t help it like many a longterm prisoner I’ve became institutionalized. And now that I’m finished my degree I screwed. I developed a kind of stockholm syndrome, I neeeed to go back to uni despite the fact that the very buidings, the students, the course books bring vomit to my lips. I’ve became autistic now, I can only hold a conversation with people who read Kant and Husserl, the ‘real’ world without mediation through theory, and long ponderous philosophizing is too jarring for me. And now the only thing left for me to do is to go back and do a postgrad and become… a lecturer. I mean university has reduced me to this I have no other option, I’ve became to weak and anemiac to work I can only turn pages. It’s pure perversity that inspires me onwards of course, the only thing that academics hate more then their students is other academics, and one imagines there is a fair degree of self-loathing too. If you want to see how despicable academia truly is get the inside view from this lecturer: http://www.kevinboone.com/university.htm
my favourite quote is: “After nine years in the business I feel I can say quite categorically that lectures are mostly a waste of time for most students” a sentiment I’m sure all honest students will agree with.
I typed in to google ‘I hate University’ and got this cool site! I am in my 12th week of Uni, the last week before the Christmas holidays, so I made it through one term nearly, but have been diagnosed as clinically depresssed, on my second lot of antidepressants, cry every day, have lost all passion I had for my subject Psychology and feel like I have very few friends to my name. All these people saying ‘join clubs, talk to people’ have no idea what they are talking about, seriously, if you are going to offer thay sort if shitty common sense repetitive advice, keep it to yourself. Ive made such a big effort to keep on top of work and have a great social life and have appeared to fail both. I live about an hour or so away and spend a lot of time and money going home as much as possible so as not to stay here in this lonely, hostile place. Next year I am commuting, definately, I don’t care how hard it may be, it can’t be as bad as this. Yeah, the being away from my family is the hardest part for me, I am close to them, and the fact I could be happy with them but have chucked that to be here kills me. I also hate the way we are taught, the fucking money snatching way Uni is run and the sheer ignorance of some of the people here. I actually thought I might not be smart enough to come here, how wrong I was…I wonder how some of these kids got in with their ridiculous attitude and childish ways. Lecturers are rude and patronising, assignments teach me nothing and I have lost interest in a subject I once loved. Yet..How can I drop out? I will dissapoint everyone, I will be the ‘one who dropped out’, the ‘one without a degree’ and also I will get to spend less time with my boyfriend as we are long distance and If I am working I won’t get the holidays to spend with him. University is a shithole and the government are all pricks. I was practically forced in to this by my school and I want out.
Going to uni has made me loose everything. My friends, life and my mind. Now 2 years in if I quit ill loose my family as well. I’ve just finished a work placement for my dream job who informed me that as my uni has decreased my learning by removing staff they ‘can’t afford’ my degree will mean nothing. I suppose I’m looking for a miracle. I agree about those idiots who give useless ideas of join clubs, you either came to uni with a group of friends or you fit into society like oh so many fish that swim with the tide. For those who are franticly paddling to keep a float….I hope we don’t drown.
I have also lost my freinds, life and mind and will be in the same position as you family wise if I drop out. I hate that people expect things of me. Why the hell should they, yeah so I did well in school, that doesnt mean they can choose my future for me. If Love really existed Universities wouldn’t! ‘Higher education’ in my mind is full of low lifes and anyone looking forward to uni should think again. I also have a massive problem with the whole ‘Oxford/Cambridge’ thing..seriously..don’t get me started on those bastards.
arrrghhhhhh im so pissed off with uni too! i also did the google search! i have shit loads to hand in 2morro , i can’t be arsed i am doing an arts course and we have to do tons of writing it really fucks me ofF, all i want to do is the art side of it NOT ALL THIS WRITING RESEARCH FUCKING BULLSHIT WASTE OF TIME BOLLOX. im seriously thinking about dropping out i can’t handle it anymore either im in fourth year now ! i already have a bloody degree but it’s still not enough for everyone to get off my fucking back.
all i want to do is travel and use what i have learned but do it in my own way but i feel pressured from everyone to do this. i have also lost my sanity and on anti -depressents, and what annoys me even more is that this university shite is ment to fucking open our options in life when all it does is give you a massive fucking loan you have to pay back , they have got us exactly where they want us THE BASTARDS!
stuck in the system forever. i think the clever ones don’t go to university and when they get their good job they are not £20,000 in debt.
Yeah the clever ones seriously are the ones who don’t go. I know someone who never went, she’s earning 30,000 a year in an advertising company, shes 25, married with a baby girl and happy as ever. Someone else is on 45,000, never went to uni just did a years course at college in something to do with offices. I am going to come out of this, still not be able to be a proffessional psychologist unless I do a 4th year! be god knows how much in debt and be back living with my parents, as I see it, back to square one, just with a lousy certificate saying I have a degree. Is this stress and illness really worth it? But if I don’t stay, what do I do? Dissapoint my parents, see my boyfriend less? There is no way out.
what annoys me more is that they have these B.A. courses – and they are no use unless you actually do the four years instead of leaving it at the 3- why the fuck don’t they just make the degree the four years, instead of pushing it and making you still feel useless unless you do the whole thing. it’s pointless. i just spoke to my friend and she has given me a boost of at least trying to get something in 2morro, because the shitty thing is that if i don’t i will have a crap christmas with my parents calling me a failure and crap and that in a way would be even worse than just staying up all night frying the little bit of my brain thats left and handing in a piece of crap just to keep every cunt quiet!
I wanna go back to my room and find a message in dry-erase pen on the door!
I wish I could just drop a class…
Or get into a play…
Or change my major…
Or fuck my T.A.
Hey guys, there is now a place for you all to come and be free:
http://www.university-sucks.tk
Post your experiences, read others, decide what you want to do.
Personally, I love my course (sort of) but the Uni itself ABSOLUTELY SUCKS. It has no facilities whatsoever, NO social clubs or societies (the main thing I was looking forward to), this just totally isn’t the best time of my life. 3 months here, and I have like 1 friend. And I’m not some nutjob hunchback kid, I’m just joe average. Sort of. I am seriously considering dropping out and coming back with a vengeance next year at a bigger university, but I may have already missed my chance since its already December. FUCK. Plus I would have to pay more fees, as they just went up here in the UK, which is great! FUCKING NOT! Anyway…
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Tell your friends (If you have any)!
Higher education is a rip off.
I went to a large university from 18-21, left school to start working which I did until I was 26, and now have gone back to a different university to finish up my degree. I thought maybe my dissatisfaction with higher education was due to immaturity on my part the first time around and now as a more responsible adult I might find it a valuable experience to finish my degree.
It’s not a valuable experience. It’s pointless, a waste of time and money, just like it was during my first stint in college.
Fact is I learned so much more, and developed far more as a person while working at a job than I ever did sitting in a classroom or lecture hall or lab all day. Work allowed me to grow as a person, and pay my bills, and become self sufficient, develop confidence in myself. College is nothing but stuffing information into my brain over and over, giving professors what they want, while at the same time functioning as a huge barrier to earning a living and being self sufficient. It’s a form of enslavement, using knowledge as a weapon.
I’m literally eating out of garbage cans because academic commitments rob me of my ability to give time and energy to a job. But I’m supposed to spend mental energy figuring out taylor series polynomials and analyzing radix sort algorithms and other academic subjects. That’s insane. None of these genius professors have ever bothered to confront this issue. They’ve got their nice cars and houses at the students expense, what the hell do they care.
Lets look at the concept. You PAY to do hard work, study all the time, and have no life. For years! That’s fucking insane. Not only that, but a full time academic schedule prevents you from earning a living and being able to support yourself, basically forcing yourself into massive debt. Therein lies the true purpose of college, taking your money so that when you get out you are forced to become tied to a job for years just to break even.
The last thing I want to do after getting screwed like this is contribute to society in any way, but I won’t have a choice.
Hey all. I’m in my third and final year of a BA Marketing degree and I hate it so much!
I’ve got the ability to do really well, I always have when it comes to education. So it’s not like I hate uni because I’m failing. I just don’t want to do another rubbish assignment on something I couldn’t care less about.
Ever since I started school I’ve been told how far I’m gonna go in life and that I should apply to a good university, etc. But when it comes down to it, I just don’t care about getting a degree. People just don’t seem to understand that it’s one thing being able to do something but a completely different thing having the passion to WANT to do it.
I’m so sick of going to classes, worrying about assignments and exams, getting into more debt, and not enjoying my life. Life is way too short to worry about this shit! The real stupid thing is that I want to work in a casino and from what I know you don’t need a BA to deal cards!
I want a job or a career where I can go into work, do my thing, and then come home and not worry! There is so much more to life than reading, researching and stressing out.
I’m so scared of what other people would think about me or say, and I worry about all the money my parents have spent on tuition. What makes things worse is that this isn’t the first uni course I’ve been on!
When I first left college I went to uni to do American Studies. I hadn’t given uni a lot of thought and just went for something I thought might be good fun, but when it came down to it I just didn’t want to be there. I walked away then and was so much happier!
Now it’s 3 years on and I’m freaking out again! I really need to make a decision but I just don’t know what the hell to do.
Sorry for the long post but I needed to get this stuff off my chest.
I think it should be free, then people can feel free to leave if they hate it. I am paying three grand a year to do something I hate. Its a rip off and they take as much money from you as they can while you are there too. My depression is still as bad as it was at uni even though I am home, it is ruining all aspects of my life, yet I still cant bring myself to drop out, as I feel I am doing the right thing. Why do I follow my head instead of my heart? I wish I had the courage to take control but I just don’t. I have realised how little many things mean to me at uni now, and that the only things that really matter are my family, boyfriend, and friends being healthy and happy. This christmas I am not bothered about presents, I just want time with the people I love, I dont know how I am going to drag my arse back to uni in january though.
I’ve been attempting to finish university since 1998. Yes, I know this is a sad ridiculous state. I left university in 2000 and joined the military. While in the military I continued my education distance ed. Now a civilian again, I find university so restricting. I feel most days I’m being held back. When I do ask questions, I’m told you don’t need to know that. Well, good lord… I might not need to know it, but I like to. I pay over 8000 pounds a year to attend uni, and I find myself suffocating in boring assignments.
I suppose having a degree gives you more possibilities, but sometimes the time can eat you up.
I honestly fuckin hate uni..i took 1 year out and i was so free.im now in my final year i just gotta finish this year or else all that will be a waste and il never be able to live with myself because i know i will regret it. also being at a shit uni doesn’t help.huddersfield for god sake…its ruining me now in the holidays i probably put on half a stone due t stress. id think lets do sum uni work then id be like no il eat instead..ive lost all control..ive tried so hard buts its ruining me i cannot even bring myself to do my dissertation and its in for end of march..im fcuked basically. o well nothing any1 can do just gta face the music and dance..thanks for listening. keep strong!
see ya
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o forgot to mention im studyin BA MARKETING like you kiki.
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My god. I thought it was just me. I am sick to my hind gills of University. EVERY TIME I GET SOMEWHERE, THE FUCKING GOALPOSTS ARE MOVED. Like many others here, it’s robbed me of a life. I’m 29 now, and I’ve be though my degree, top ups to augment it and try and get a better job. what should have done is go into full time work straight out of high school like the rest of my mates. They are all married , engaged or in serious relationships and are having babies. Not to mention they earn a hell of a lot more than me. Uni was a waste of time and I sacrificed so much that now, I realise that life has passed me by completely. My plan didn’t work. Don’t be a fool kids, if you don’t feel right within the first 2 months of uni – GET THE FUCK OUT. Don’t make my mistake and slavishly follow a set path which you were sold as “The Right Way”. Only you know what is truly right for Y-O-U!
Sorry, I have gone on a bit, but there ARE other choices than uni. I have found that a degree isn’t really sign of intelligence; it’s how well you can regurgitate the same shit you listen to in mind numbing lectures, delivered as only a uncharismatic bore (i.e. the lecturer) can.
God…if I could turn back the clock!
Hey all. I’m glad that I found this site. Well I’M NOT IN UNI YET, but I’m in upper 6th form and ABSOLUTELY HATE the idea of going to university! I feel like the black sheep in my school because practically everyone is going and thay are all talking about it all the time!!!!!!!!!
I personally can’t get excited about the prospect of going to University to study a course I’m not particularly interseted in ( French an German – my fucking parents are really pushing this one) and coming out with a shit load of debt.
I really don’t know what I’m going to do because EVERYONE is telling me the only way to get a good job and a good life is to get a degree! I would probably like to join the police force but my parents are telling me to go to Uni first so I can get promoted quicker an end up with more £££££££££££!
What the fuck has tis world come to?! What the hell should I do?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Back to Uni on Tuesday, But why? Someone please tell me why I am still going back to this place I hate and am so unhappy. I have been on a constant emotional rollercoaster since I got my results in August and I am sick of it. Should I really have to try to be happy? Cant my feelings just happen rather than me having to control them all the time so i can get on with my life? I am miserable. Help…please…anyone who has any wise words or advise, I need them. x
Hi thank god for you lot!I hate university so so so so much!I thought I was weird for not liking uni-everyone telling me its were you will meet all your life friends and have the best time EVER!Well i HATE IT!1st year psychology student, it is bull!Only a few friends, halls are shit, the course is unbearable. I worked my ass off to get to uni and on this course, now i wish i hadnt bothered. If i didnt have family willing me on id have droped out by now. Ive got exams next week and i just DO NOT CARE! i want out but the thing stopping me is i dont want to become an owner of a council flat working at asda!I WANT A GOOG JOB!how do we get the good job without uni-any ideas…………..PLEASE!I also found this site by typing i hate uni on google!
Hi again i was just reading someones comment who is doing a psychology degree and EVERYTHING you say is true!I cant beleive ive finally found ppl with the same views about uni as me. I loved psychology before uni and thought i had found my subject and a career now i just hate the damn thing. ive just spent last half hour on NHS website looking at what i have to do to train as a paramedic-how did this happen!!!!I really want to drop out but I will be seen as a failure by my family, plus what the hell do you do instead of uni?!
Exactly, the way things are now means it is hard to get a good, well paid job without a degree. I do know people who have done it however, it just seems that the people I care about are telling me ocnstantly how much better I will be if I have a degree in terms of money in the future. I hate the fact that I listen to other people instead of myself sometimes but I am so confused, messed up and depressed, I feel that I can’t make proper decisions on my own now anyway. If the only thing stopping you is your family’s wishes, I say take control, I have more complicated saituations however, meaning it is harder for me to just make the decision to quit. I think I need to see a professional
yes..I am so down
I’m so broken..can’t find my self..I even cried today..I never cried like this unless I’m so hurted..this stupid so called prof. kept ignoring me and never listen to my questions like I’m kinda no-one..
why these so called prof. thought them selves a hot-shot or something? they are no-bodies..they are just standing in our way…
this university killed my soul..my dreams..and let me down ,broken, no friends, no social life..no shit
no one cares..no one listens to me..
evrybody think that university girls are happy….well i’m not
as you said everyone in uni are fake..yes, they never noticed me, but this year everyone suddenley knows my name..huh, that because they want something from me..well, do you want to suck my soul more? go ahead, coz there is nothing left in me to be sucked, thanx to university hell.
I used to think I’m smart and special and that I have something to give..but not anymore…why is this? I want a life..a real one,real ppl,real friends..someone who listen..
finally…people who can understand how i feel. everything that has been said here i agree with totally. im in first yr psychology at liverpool, livin in halls n i hate it! i feel so alone n every1 else seemed to get a group of friends in the first 2 weeks! iv tried tlkin to ppl but know1 seems to want to know. i have a few friends on my course but not at my halls, so wen im at my halls i jus end up stayin in my little shitty room all day feelin depressed lookin out the window seein groups of students walkin past talkin laughin … u know jus bein friends. b4 i got here i tought id be friends with every1 on my floor but it hasnt happend. some ppl here are so stuck up!! i hav loads of ace friends at home n i miss them so much. if i dropped out n went home they wudnt be ther anyway cuz they r all at uni n lovin it. i dont know how these are the best days of your life, cuz for me they are the WORST so far. im not into the lifestyle of goin out n gettin wasted n wantin to pull EVERYNIGHT ….so is that my fault? ? ! i dont know what i would do instead of this but i know that i would rather be happier than go through all this for a piece of paper with numbers on at the end. hell id probably be happier in a dead end job than this, at least i would be at home with nice people who like me. u know…the other day i said ”hi” to this girl on my floor n she said ”hi” back, so i said ”how was ur christmas?” n she looked at me like i was askin her if she could blow up baloons from her ass! i mean do ppl where she comes from (london) not tlk to each other? are they not nice neighbours? she is part of this really clicky group of girls on my floor, the kind of group i wud wana be in if they wernt so bitchy, except i hav no chance bein cuz they arent interested. i have no idea what is soooo wrong with me! anyways rant over, im off to carry on revising for an exam i hav tomorrow…the joy! x
My life is ruined, I am so stressed, I have become indecisive, upset, depressed, over analytical of everything and generally I am now wasting my life being unhappy. Everything I do ends up in tears.
GOD its good to hear people in the same boat as me. Ive been at uni now for 4 months nearly, in my first year and hate it. Is there anyone else who just hates the lifestyle some students lead?? to be honest i’ve got better things to spend £50 on than getting pissed. I’m up for a laugh but these people just aren’t like me, in fact i know no one who is like me… i’m thinkin of leavin. Anyone got anything to say? Is anyone like me?!
LULU it sounds like you really don’t wanna go, if i was u i’d look at other options, it’s not worth endin up miserable like me and all the other hundreds of ppl on here… look for other things..do something u love. Its best to be happy cos if ur like me u will end up makin urself ill from hatin uni so much… dont worry.
KELLY it sounds like ur going through exactly the same thing as i feel.. but what can we do? i mean, there must be ways of getting a good job without a degree, but if ur like me u’ll get ppl telling you a degree is all u need! well thats crap cos i heard that degrees were gettin easier and now u dont always need one. I don’t know about u but even with thoughts like that i still cant find the courage to just drop out. I really liked what i had before uni, my family, my fun group of friends and my boyfriend. Well they are all that keeps me goin, but its hard cos all my friends are now lovin it and i feel like the odd one out. Why don’t i love it like everyone else? I’m not the type that wants to drink til i don’t know what i’m doin but it seems thats all students round here wanna do. My boyfriends great cos he is similar to me but he’s at a different uni and he does like it a bit, unlike me. I don’t wanna let anyone down if i drop out but i dont know how much more misery and depressing days i can cope with. ITS SHIT ISNT IT?!
NOME do you have an email addy or an instant messaging addy? We shoud talk, we will probably end up depressing ourselves more but hey…I could do with talking to someone who doesnt’t think I am crazy x x x
hi KELLY, if you wanna email me my add is gardenome88 AT hotmail DOT com thats also my msn messenger address. Course i don’t think your crazy! I’m just glad there are people who feel the same, cos i really thought i was alone. x x
Edit: I’ve taken the liberty of modifying the email address slightly to protect it somewhat from spam harvesting bots. -ketsugi
oh shut up..look at us whining like old whinos..pffffffff
Hell…
Its my third year at hull uni UK and im back in the first year because i changed course, (stayed in the same department) and discovered that the modules for this year are the same as they were last year.
Ive hated uni since i got here (i only went to uni so i wouldnt have to stay at home) and slowly but surely i have started to lose my mind. every day is the fucking same, with the same worries and same fears. i could leave but then as a few of you have said ‘ill be the guy who dropped out’
in all fairness its my own fault, i guess i just havent got the guts to leave. i get no pressure from my parents about uni (of course they want me to do well) but i still feel like im dissapointing them with the endless wrong choices i seem to make.
so far uni has given me – debt, intense boredom, depression, more debt, a general lack of interest in politics, people who i really dont want to know or talk to and levels of sarcasm i never knew were possible.
rant over
Gotta go back uni on monday and im dreadin it. Im at bangor I hate wales now stupid place. Back to sittin in my room all day I HATE IT! I dont get on properly with any1 on my floor and have only made about 4 friends who i know i could talk to…………i want my friends from home!Im so pleased to hear other ppl say they dont like the ’student lifestyle’ i hate it. I like goin out some nights but not every night gettin hammered.People say these are the best days of your life well if thats true what the hell is life like after uni?cant be as bad as this it totally sucks. Ive got two xams next week as soon as im done on thurs im gettin in my car and drivin back home for ten days.Then ill have another moan that i dont wana go back.aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i hate uni!
I want to transfer to a uni closer to home, In london so I can travel in every day and not have to stay there. I want to try and sort this out for next year. Do you think that would be possible anyone?
I agree with all of you guys, I’m a first year student in a uni in the south-east which shall remain nameless…..I came back after Christmas last Saturday so I’m a week into my 2nd term.
Yeah, uni is crap, I can’t believe I’m paying 3k a year for this, and everything else on top, I haven’t made any friends, everyone is so fake and just out for themselves – nasty, backstabbing. The course is uninspiring and I never learn anything from the lectures. I spend most of each day in bed.
well i was so unhappy after just 4 days that ive come home again, to seriously re think the whole uni thing. Im just makin a list of other things i could possibly do, some possible some stupid! but i just had to get away to think things through. I hate it so much, if uni is about havin fun then why have i cried every day since ive been back? I used to be motivated, passionate about my subject, being at uni has takent hat all away, i had one lecture last week and i couldn’t even go to that cos i was so low. I haven’t slept properly for 6 nights now, and thats cos all this stress is on my mind. Its too mcuh to deal with. i need to be doing something fun and excitin to keep my brain alive! but this has been the worst first term of my life. Im not usually depressed, and my family and friends from home have said how its so not like me to be down and feeling so low, so at least they know what I’m goin through. Its not gonna be easy but we all have to sort it out and follow what we really want to do, regardless of family and friends, after all, its not them going through it. Look at me givin advice – ive gotta learn to take it myself! but i know how hard it is and i totally relate with everyone on here. x
oh and KELLY, a friend of mine transferred from one uni to another after his third year and went staright into the 2nd year on a similar course. I was gonna do the same, so i could live at home, i just e-mailed the admissions departments at the uni askin if its possible, cos i dont wanna repeat the first year if ive already suffered it once! they haven’t replied yet, surprise surprise, but im waitin to hear from them. Thats if i even decide to carry on at uni, cos im so not sure at the mo. x
sori meant he left after his first year and went in to his 2nd!
going back today!!!
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hey…this is to people who are considering living at home for uni….I’m doing it this year and seriously, I’m on the edge. If you hate uni, its uni life, whether you live there or not you are still part of it. I’ve made the deicison today to leave….I cannot put myself through this stress/despair/upset everyday simply to get a qualficition which means nothing in todays society. I really do wish everyone good luck.
I wish uni had never been invented. Although, would a job be any better?
Yeah, I am thinking I might be able to, although, I want some opinions…If I can’t transfer who thinks it would be ridiculous to travel almost 2 hours to uni and the same back so I can live at home? Bearing in mind I will most of the time only be going in 3 or 4 days a week and I am only at Uni for about 22 weeks in a whole year. Every other Monday I will leave home at 6.30am and be back by lunch time, Tuesdays I will leave home at lunch time and be home by 6pm, Wednesdays I will leave at 6.30am and be home by 2.30pm, Thursdays I will leave home at about 8.30am and probably stay the night with my friend on the weeks when I have to be in on a friday, although this is only about 5 more weeks this year, the rest of the time I get that day off. Who thinks this is a bad timetable for the rest of the term?? Like..9 weeks of it. I think its worth it so I dont have to live at uni but I want to know what other people think. I will also be travelling in next year if I cant get transferred, for the roughly 22 weeks in the year I am there. This is not counting all the cancelled lectures, or pointless ones lol. Oppinions needed please
I think you might burn yourself out by doing all of that travelling Kelly, if i were you i would go for the transfer, and failing that just bite the bullet and stay at uni – it will be over sooner than you think, trust me i know because i was exactly the same as you and i tried to travel and it didn’t work. Good luck whatever you do
It doesnt look like transferring will be much of an option and I cant stay at uni anymore, I am going to give up my flat and try and get some money back. Looks like I am going to have to give commuting a go. Hol, how long did you have to travel and why didnt it work? Part of me thinks I will be ok, getting some work or reading done, or listening to music when I have to go in, but I also keep having panic attacks.
Kelly, I too have panic attacks…I know how you are feeling I promise. I find with travelling in my thoughts become magnified, its just me and my head…it makes everything so much worse for me. However, for you, this could be just what you need, some time alone to get things done etc….this whole website just makes me feel that I am not alone etc so thanku all for that. Am i a loser if i drop out? my biggest fear is what people think of me, but I have been told by so many professional advisors that in todays business a degree does not really benefit you (talking about my situation specificially here, I’m not commenting on others degrees) so feel that it is totally not worth it me staying and making myself so ill? I kinda need reassurance from people that just because I dont do the uni thing I’m not a loser….
One of the things I have found is that since coming to uni I have become very reliant on certain habits of mine and my days now are based around my habits and addictions. I don’t mean drugs or alcohol or anything crazy, but just stuff like obsessive compulsive disorder when I am stressed. Like I keep thinking I have left the tap on or the fridge door open. I know that being so uptight and unhappy that I am having these thoughts can’t be healthy but what can one do?
Well I am going to have to give it a go. LOU, just picture in your head yourself having left uni and in a job or something, forget what people think, just focus on your own thoughts. If that seems more attractive to you in terms of your happiness then drop out and don’t look back. However if your doubts about dropping out are about what you truly want, not what other people think then maybe you should stick it out. Please everyone let me know what you think of me commuting all that time to uni.
Lou i think you are in the same boat as me, the reason i have stayed in uni for so long is because i fear what people would think of me if i left.
i guess the other big fear a lot of uni leavers have is ‘where to go next?’ its not exactly easy to land a job straight away so there is a severe lack of money issue and then of course potential employers may see you as ‘non commital’ if you have dropped out of uni.
but all that aside, you are not a loser, no one who leaves uni is. if you are not happy there then you have no reason to make the effort or time for it.
you have to decide in your own mind what is best for you, its not about the other people and all their bullshit. if people cant understand your decision and support your actions then maybe you shouldnt be listening to them in the first place.
the best advice i can give is to leave, experience life in the real world and see what you think. if you then decide after a few years that you should of got a degree then you can easilly get back into uni as a mature student.
do what makes you happy
Hey kelly, i live in bolton and tried commuting to liverpool for a year (around 1 and a half – 2 hours each way) because i hated living in halls and wanted to be with my family more. I was in my 2nd year when i started commuting and it was such a strain – my studies suffered so much and it made me hate uni more than when i was living in halls (which is really saying something!). So i decided to move back into accomodation in liverpool for my final year, and while it was hard and lonely most of the time, the thought of the end kept me going, and that third year really did fly by. When i finished my final exams and packed up my stuff to go home it was the most satisfying and gratifying thing i’ve ever done. It made the whole experience worthwhile and i really feel like a stronger person for it. I am genuinely happy now in a good job (albeit not remotely linked to my degree) and that time away at uni makes me appreciate how good life is now. Stick with it, and you will feel so proud of yourself at the end.Hol.x.
Hi guys, i am one of the so-called “losers” who dropped out of uni – i left in my 2nd year in november and let me tell you it is the best thing i have ever done – i’ve just got myself a job as a trainee engineer with a large telecommunications company, and i have never been happier – i’m back with my real friends, back with my family and earning a decent wage too – beats being miserable and doing something which your heart isn’t in. So if you want to leave, just do it, and don’t look back, it’s not worth worrying about what other people will think – if you are that unhappy do something about it instead of wasting a large chunk of your precious youth.
Hey Hol, I gave up my room at Uni today. I dont think commuting will work either but I guess I am going to have to do it now. What else can I do?
Hi ppl im back at uni i drove back took 3hrs. got bk my window had bin smashed and the dude who came t repair it had not cleaned up. the rock was still on my floor aswell as huge bits of glass and tiny bits aswel. I spent the evening picking up glass off my bed! AS IF IT COULD OF GOT ANY WORSE! i am looking to change courses next year so hopefully that mite make it a little better and try and live with one of my friends. Hope u are all coping-i wudnt reccomnd driving to uni everyday if it takes two hours, u will get so run down with the extra stress it involves.
I wouldnt be driving, it would be on 2 trains. Think that makes it better?
Yeah, I hate it as well, my is course is decent and the people are nice but it just isn’t for me. I’m in my first first year studying physics and maths and have already gone past the deadline for getting the 3k refunded so will carry on until the summer and see how I feel then. I will probably stay on until the end of the 3 years because I don’t want to be a failure, plus I believe that it gets you a better job. I have a countdown timer on my desktop that counts down the days, hours etc. until the next holiday and sometimes just stare at that hoping that it will turn into zero. Also for this term (this is sad) I have put some sweets in my cupboard and a message for myself to be opened in the last week- pretty much saying “I told you it went quick and here’s the summer to enjoy” (don’t laugh). I have probably gone mad and not realised. I agree with you all about the idiots- the other day, about 50 people came into our small kitchen and wrecked it, not just that but ripped up all the slabs from outside and laid them on the floor in the kitchen, complete with soil, part of a zebra crossing post and a damn tree-strange stuff is lager.
i hate uni! is it just me or are laot of poeple from liverpool uni?? I hate it here it bores the crap out of me and i think id probbaly be ready 2 join a cult! im a really sociable person i find it all plain here and conversations boring an pointless! im goin mad!
does it get better?
no it doesnt get better. It’s either carry on being miserable doing this or be miserable knowing you dropped out
Hey guys, i really feel bad for you, knowing how bad i felt when i was in your situation. Kelly, i don’t want to keep telling you not to give up on uni because i know it’s not for a lot of people, and just look at what Edie said – he/she dropped out and has made a success of life within 3 months of quitting, and has regained the hapiness which uni took away. I don’t really know what my point is here, as you can probably tell, hehe, but i suppose you only know yourself what the best course of action is – whatever choice you make, it WILL be the right one. This is what i believe anyhow – if you are meant to finish uni – you will, and vice versa. So don’t beat yourself up any longer people
Hol.XXX.
Well I’ve finally made the decision to LEAVE UNI! I got a form last week and it kinda made me laugh that I spent all that time planning and preparing for uni but I can leave in a couple of weeks. I know its been a bit of a waste of time but I think I had to experience it to be able to say that it wasn’t for me. At least i can say i tried! So, even though i don’t really know what I’m gonna do, i’m going home and I’ll hopefully get a job and earn a bit, whilst getting some careers advice, and maybe volunteering for a bit to get experience and something else to put on my CV. Lifes too short to be unhappy, moaning and moping around this crap place, and even though I feel like a bit of a failure at the moment I’m just gonna try this and see what happena, I can’t feel worse than the way I do while Im at uni. And no matter what other people say, its you who has to make the decisions for yourselves…everyone is different and all ahve different experiences of uni. Just because you don’t like it its not the end of the world, you can always go later, or not at all! It really doesnt matter – there are so many options that don’t involve uni, its just finding them. I just hope everyone tries to do whats best for them, don’t let anyone get in your way. x
what I want is to be happy…but how can I at University? And how can I if I quit?
I dont know anything anymore…is it me thats the problem or is it not. I thought i got on with people. Evidently not. Talk about next year and people paying deposits this week is making me sick. I dont know what to do……i think i dno-tried to go out and meet nu ppl etc..but ppl are telling me not to do that and that making friends should be a natural process. Uni is also forced and unnatural. Suddenly 18 due to society some people leave home….and you then have to make friends and you ahve to do this and that. Its society shaping us into these egotostical idiots.
I agree. It is forced and unnatural. I am living at home now but still feel awful, full of fear and uneasiness whenever I set foot in Uni. Will it get better next year if I switch Unis or get a car to make commuting easier?
WTF is wrong with you people… i used to think the same way as you.. but get your fucking heads out of your fucking asses… do u know what university is about… it isnt about the shit u learn.. thats a small part of it.. its about being able to take whats thrown at you.. this is why there is respect for people who graduate.. there is respect for students.. because it is known… all over the world that is is a struggle… and ofcourse this is what sets you different from other people who cant take this shit and leave… you think people dont know the lectures are bullshit.. the shit u do is bullshit.. but look at it this way… if u can take that.. u can take anything in life.. and this is why employers will emply you.. because they know you will be able to take the stress… but what if u were one of the drop outs.. WHY THE FUCK WOULD EVEN I HIRE YOU… you might just drop out of the job.. because its too fucking hard for you and too bullshit… and dont look at the richest people in the world who have no education… theres also bums on the street with no education.. and theres alot more of them than there are rich people… Those are the lucky people who make it… what if youre not so lucky?
Don’t talk to us like that…It’s not just stress and nor are we moaning about nothing. Why do you think we are sticking at it? to try and graduate of course…and having a degree does not mean you don’t have no education. You don’t belong on here so please leave, you have no idea about the sorts of emotions some of us are experiencing.
Thank God that I found this site! I think that you have got to be pretty fed up to type into google (like i did) “i hate uni”!
I find uni absolute shit – i have just 6 hours a week of the course that i actually enjoy and one of those hours is shite. I think that most people who have come to my uni are not here to learn but because they are too immature to go and get a job so they decide to come and dos on some shitty subject at uni. What’s more, those people are the most fake, boring and stupid people I have ever met – and then ur supposed to make friends with them, if not ur a weirdo!!?
I have disliked it here almost since the moment I arrived but I have decided to ignore all those idiots who don’t shut up about their houses for next year (i dont knoz wot the ruish is it just proves how thick they r cos they r all get fleeced by the landlord for summer rent, signing fees and deposits which might only get paid back years ahead!)etc etc. I am gonna stick it out in this shithole until summer and then come June 1st i am gone!!! i am transferring (if i can find out how) to a uni where i have real friends who feel the same as i do about uni.
If i cant transfer then that is me and uni life finished. i will get a job and work my way up, it simply is not worth bein g so unhappy for no reason at all.
I would just like to say to ‘lakshyt’ that i think you are exactly the type of person who makes uni so crap.
oh yeah i just anted to add this:
Have u ever wondered why during the first few weeks at uni u think that u have already met half the people that u r introduced to? Well this just goes to show what a load of stupid sheep the majority of people at uni r – they all talk, dress, walk, act and think the same as each other – thats why they enjoy themselves and i dont – cos i aint prepared to clone myself into that shit!
now if you’ll excuse me i gotta go bust my housemates ass – she is smoking in our non smoking flat and it is filling my room (what a nice person i sound!)!!
i said i used to be like you.. and when i said that i meant it and i might still be. what you have to understand is to suck it up.. and take it.. because these HARD 4 years of your life, will hopefully ease off the rest of your life. so study, hate it, because your not the only ones who do… and hopefully in the future you will be in a much better position that you would have been if you take the easy way out now. life is not easy, and it might get harder and harder as you move along.. remmember this.
even though you may not know this now, you will know later on that this life that you hate now, will honestly be one of the easiest years of your life. and in order to know this now, you need to look ahead, look ahead to what you need to do in the next years of your life, in the years after uni. tell me what you will be doing? working? getting married, then what.. having childeren.. raising them, educating them.. life will only get harder, and you might not be getting another break. me? i dont belong here? why do you think im here? writing what im writing, i am doing this for me too. i hope you understand what im trying to say.
You seem to be missing the point though. Of course life is hard. I am not saying that I am stressed or that uni life is simply ‘hard’. I enjoy hard things, I like a challange, I look forward to the chaos of having children and hopefully having a job that I can get stuck in to. Uni life is not simply ‘hard’, it causes me upset and tears, dispair and depression, panick and anxiety attacks, I feel out of place and alone, I feel desperate and at times hysterical. I have been to a psychiatrist and am on anti-depressants. I hate university because of what it does to me and on top of that I hate a lot of ways it is run. University is more than a challange for me. These years will not be the easiest of my life…please don’t patronise me.
Nick, I am hoping to transfer to so that I can live at home next year and just have a short commute. Either that or I will be buying a car and driving an hour to my current university on the days I have lectures and stuff. I think next year I will be happier and that once the summer comes I can try my best to put all these feelings behind me. I am never going to like university, but I hope it can become something that makes me just a bit frustrated rather than depressed.
I know what both of you two mean and agree with both. I really do actually enjoy challenges and hard work – i had to work damn hard to get to uni. and i do realise that uni is hopefully going to open lore doors in the future, this is the only reason why i am here.
However I know exactly how Kelly feels and hopefully we both take comfort in that. there r some real arseholes at uni who make life really uncomfortable (not hard). i guess tho u just have to go back to why we r at uni – we r here to learn and if u bear that in mind then it does get easier. i sometimes can stress myself out just thinking of all the work i have to do, all the money i owe and i too can get really stressed about not enjoying ,yself here and making more friends. I guess this however will all just take time. Like lakshyt says we just gotta give it time and not bother wot ne1 else thinks or what we should be doing. I think in time, when i start treating this place as a great learning institution, that when i will start to enjoy uni life. i hope u get wot i mean!
It’s my fault for choosing to come here and choosing to put on a happy face every day and go to lectures. I hate it, but I do it with a smile because I’m too chicken to quit. God, talk about lily livered; I am THE epitome of a coward. Sigh!
Ah, kindred spirits. Some of these entries really made me laugh…and I can completely relate because the whole uni thing is just so ridiculous. I’m a philosophy student in my final year and God, I hate it. It’s taking enormous willpower not to just run away from this place screaming and never come back. The only good thing is that I have a couple of good friends…everything else about uni life is so crap. The only part of my course that was remotely interesting was marxism…learning about why the capitalist society that got me here in the 1st place is so fucked up. I’m not doing any work & at this rate I’l prob fail but I just can’t wait to leave…uni is my prison & all i want to do is get out there and be myself, self-sufficient and growing in my own way. So glad there are others like me out there!
I think uni is really going to be a thing of the past soon. So many people become successful without going and so many people have degrees it seems almost impossible to stand out anyway! I wished I’d thought about this before I started but I’m on my third year and not too far from finishing so I might aswell finish. I’ve also just realised I’ve wasted 3 years hanging out with people I actually hate!
Yeah I agree, university blows but at least it’s better then working 9-5 at Mc’shits taking orders from some greesy teenager whose balls probably havent dropped yet.
Bored…depressed…Spent whole of my Sunday in my room and just randomly typed in ‘I hate university’ in google and was surprised to find this with so many like-minded people.
Uni is over-rated (I’m at Edinburgh Uni by the way)Uni is made out to be this amazing thing where you’re intellectual enriched and have a buzzing social life. But I’ve never been so lonely in my life. I have but a handful of friends at uni of only one which I can say is a genuine friend and even then I don’t get to see her much on account of us doing completely different courses and of her living in the catered halls. Instead I am stuck here in a self-catered flats with a bunch of randoms I so incompatible with and I swear we were stuck together because of similiar socio-economic and geographical backgrounds. Never mind our interests and personality… One of my flatmates is ‘Miss Popular’ who makes ‘friends’ with everyone. You know those types? Somewhat fake. Come across as nice but you swear they are saying things behind your back. People who base their friendships on quantity rather than quality. Then there is my other flatmate who has on several occasions played her music at anti-social times disrupting my sleep (8am on a Saturday and 3am on a night when only I was in – How nice of her). My other flatmate, a law student acts somewhat aloof around me. The other flatmate…well she’s just a bit well… dull.
I get out with my ‘genuine’ friend at least once a week and we’re getting a flat together next year. But for now the only thing keeping me happy is my boyfriend who visits once a week/fortnightly.
As for the academic side of things. I’m passing first year so far but I just can’t take it any more. I love history but sitting with my head in a book ALL the time is getting up my nose. Doesn’t help either that my once interesting outsiders course Social Anthropology has taken a great dive (we’re now looking at irrigation systems in Bali!!!).
I should have done something more practical – ignored my guidance teacher and done primary teaching or something.
Wish you didn’t need a bloody degree to get a good job nowadays. 3/4 years in something you could very well hate just so you can avoid working at Tescos… (my ever so exciting part-time job).
*sigh* I need to be doing something more practical. Working with kids. Or travelling the world. Or something in the community.
Maybe I should drop the middle-class lifestyle aspirations?
I love reading but I’m sick of academic texts and sitting on my arse all the time…
Ahhh… It’s fun to vent out pent up anger…
hi just reading what u guys write is awesome finally i have found people with exactly the same thoughts and feelings about uni. I to have only one ‘friend’ at uni who im gettin a house with next year the rest well……..lets not go there. I spend nearly everyday locked up in my room hating that im there.At xmas i was soooo close to droppin out but i so want to get a degree and say look thats what ive acheived and i hated every second of it! im at bangor university studying psychology. A subject which i thought rocked at alevel but actually its aload of bull at degree level i have done one subject that i have enjoyed so far and so am really pissed off, it is all just maths. I to am way to scared to drop out i dont want to be seen as a failure nor do i want to go and work at a till 9-5. Every time i have no lecs im in my car and heading north back to my home. ive just had a week off going back 2moz and back home again.Its totally screwing with my head being at uni god knows what state i will be in three years from now.
It makes me think life isn’t worth living. University is bad, my life is complicated. I can’t face the pain.
i love you all for thinking exactly the same as me, i seriously thought i was the only person who hated uni. I hated the work, i hated the people, i hatedd the lifestyle. I preffered waitressing to that shit. Ive recently quit and gone to college and trust me its so much more relaxed and friendlier, no one is competing with each other and ive found its just generally a nicer atmosphere. And for all of you who think you’re life will be shit if you dont get a degree and a high profile career, trust me it wont be, life is about being happy and doing what motivates you, so follow your heart i say.
I go to UQ in Australia and I hate every second of it, I hate just being there, I hate the people, I hate their godlike attitudes and I hate the fact that as hard as I have tried I just can’t seem to be happy there, I just can’t fit in, no matter what. I can’t make any friends at all. Ever since I have come to this lonely, hostile, anti-social black hole, I have been single, made very few friends (2) and the detrimental psychological effects of this all is making the most simple things in life a daily challenge. When I am not at university I am nervous about having to go back there. It really makes me uneasy just thinking about it. I am in my third year, but I just started studying something else so I am back at the beginning.
Academically I am doing fine, I enjoy what I study, but at university I just can’t study, I can’t concentrate, I don’t enjoy what I do, and just being there, it sucks the joy out of daily life and turns it into a dull struggle that has to be overcome. When I go home my mind clears up, I am surrounded by a loving family and when I sit down and read that maths or biology book I actually enjoy it, I enjoy learning and I can’t wait to learn more. But when I am at uni, my mentality and attitude change, when I am at uni I am lonely, lethargic, pessimist, angry, full of hate and bitterness.
I see big cliques of people, of superficial girls, or jocks, hippies and alternatives with identity issues, but I just get jealous and bitter. I don’t like the fact that other people can come here and make friends so easily but to me making friends is like some stupid game I am never going to win. I just don’t want to play a game I can’t win, and I just hate the fact that making friends seems like a game when in the past it just happened. I hate it because I have never been the kind of person that is jealous. This is just one negative change in me induced by the horrible atmosphere of UQ. I have been the type of person that believes in courtesy and politeness, because when you think about it, when two strangers are polite to each other it is so much easier than if they hate each other. Being polite used to come naturally to me, now it is hard to be polite on account that the person you are being polite to (especially if they are female) just might spit in your face (not literally) for being that way. Some people I know are only friends with me when it is convenient, otherwise they don’t want to have anything to do with me, I just hate the way I meet one of these ‘friends’ and they are all like “Hey there, great to see you again, haven’t seen you for a while, lets go and hang out for the next 6.66 minutes, but then I got to get going, see you later” and after that they will not call you, they will not want to see you again unless you just happen to bump into them by pure coincidence and not by a planned act of simple friendship. I really hate those types of fake friends, I just don’t know what to do with them, on one hand they are being nice to you, but on the other they don’t mean it. I have tried to keep in contact with them but they are always too busy for me. I just don’t know, I just wish university was different, I just wish not everybody had to be there, I just wish it was more peaceful, less crowded, less rushed, more civilized and just a better place to be, a place one looks forward to going to, a place where you can learn in peace.
Everyone at UQ acts like they are the best, they think they are better than everyone else, they act like they go to MIT or Yale, but I seriously doubt that a UQ degree has much recognition outside of Australia. I just hate the way that I am this way; I have been a lot happier in the past, why does it have to be different now?
Because university isn’t for everyone. it makes lots of people genuinely unhappy. University is not for me, I hate it, but I want a degree and now I have started I may as well try to get one so I can have a better future. If I could rewind to deciding whether or not to go to university I definitely wouldn’t though.
I ended up on the third year of a BA top up course after doing an HND in digital art which I am now hating more and more each day with every passing project.
Initially the HND was fun, I stayed local and didn’t go away to university in some far away place like every single one of my friends did, I just couldn’t handle the thought of doing that. Our school pushed us all into applying for the best degrees at the best universities, but I wasn’t going to stand for this, and neither should anyone else. If you don’t feel happy about doing something, don’t do it.
For the entirety of my three years at uni I have been working part time in an off licence where I get to experience alot of the antics of local moronic students, as well as the area in which I live which appears to be populated by the usual idiots proudly parading around their university logo hoodie as if it makes them look educated and better than everyone else. In reality, these are just the people that get up to the same supposedly amusing drunken yob behaviour every year in the same manner. I’ve had enough with caterwauling karaoke at 4am from the students living next door – I’m a student too, and I had a big presentation to make that day. Or perhaps drunkenly pushing people holding road traffic signs into my car at club kicking out time is also amusing student behaviour – I can tell you *not*..
Enough about that anyway, I was fortunate not to have to deal with living in some grotty university halls and put up with these kind of people as some of you have done, and I am so glad about this. Reading these comments has confirmed my suspicions about just how terrible life would be in such a situation, and how glad I am that I have never and WILL NEVER ever be a part of that, as I only have to put up with a few more months of this course from hell.
So why is it a course from hell? So many reasons are pouring from my mind now, but I don’t think I can bring myself to type out too much more of this endless rant and bore you all to death. I’ll try to cut it short…
Firstly, I have had about 7 different course tutors since the start of term due to the major lack of planning and timetable consideration. I feel that because of this I have been the victim of the pot luck grading system again with a very average and disappointing grade given to me by some random tutor who has yet to even understand my work. I came out of the HND with high hopes, I felt so proud of myself, I was achieving the best and even got given a title as student of the year. I’ve always been one for achievement and have pushed myself so far when it comes to the creative arts. I got the top grade in my final exam project on the HND, and produced something that I was extremely pleased with. Now I feel like the work that I produce and the way in which I work is being penalised due to my fine art background.
People on this course make shit work, corporate grey sludge you wouldn’t notice from one piece of work to the other, and they get a big pat on the back. I can see easily that most of these people have no creative skill, eye, or talent, they just tick the boxes and make the most obvious thing possible and it’s lapped up. It kills me to see how people like this can get this kind of congratulatory bigging up when these tutors are telling us always to push the boundaries, think outside the box. The usual phrases.
I just dream of the time when I can stop worrying about meaningless, shitty, projects (currently stressing over having to produce something for a creative competition which it is compulsory for us to enter and have had only 4 weeks to do, when other courses have had 8 weeks), and get on with my life.
If I had known that this course was going to be such a complete soul destroyer, I would have been happy with just an HND. I left that feeling good about my work, like I stood out from the rest. Now I just feel like I am someone stood in the background producing crap work just to fill the spaces in the tutors time. I hate my uni and I hate my course.
Not only that, I am currently working between 20 and 30 hours a week just to be able to pay the bills and rent etc, when the morons on my course seem to think that they can just exist on 20 quid a week and quit their jobs to be able to do more uni work. HOW?!!!! If I had to quit anything, it would be the course, not the job. At least it gives me something back that I can use.
As one of my regular customers said to me, “There are earners, and there are learners.”
I think that phrase sums it all up.
Guys. Guys. Just get the stupid piece of paper/degree. Then you can do two things:
1) Become a high school teacher and perpetuate the cycle so the next generation can know our university pains. lol
2) Pursue your dreams. Live, love, get paid and get laid. And if you strike it rich and famous, take out that degree that was collecting dust and burn it in front of the entire world. Boo yah!
well I had a slight stage at uni were i actually enjoyed the work-stuff on the brain lol. However it has all gone backwards and im hating it even more now. My head is in such a state. would i be happy if i did quit now?what job would i get?should i get a job and go college at night?if i quit ive failed and ive struggled to get this far so is it worth it?
Ive just failed two final exams from semester 1 and told mum and dad yesters after weeks of lying that i hadnt got them (not like me to lie, but i did because to ashamed).now its D Day…..think about where you wana go and what u wana do they tell me.WHO KNOWS, IF I KNEW THAT I WUDNT HAVE A FUCKED UP HEAD!
the one thing that i thought was going to be my thing (psychology)has turned out to be the thing that i hate the most now im left with nothing, nothing at all.
To make this all a hell of a lot less worse i crashed and wrote my car off last week. so the one thing that was my release from the hell is literally crashed and burned. and at this present moment in time I HATE LIFE.
which for a 19 year old is something not good to admit.
It’s not good to admit but at the same time it’s not good to pretend that its not true which i think far more people are doing now. I just found out that I have a test in a couple of weeks, the week I was told I didn’t have anything to do because it was the last week before easter and was for people to make sure they had done all their coursework, which i have almost finished and always planned to give in before then. I was looking forward to staying for a week with my boyfriend who lives 3 hours away meaning I only get to see him at weekends. But no…they tell me now I have a test on the tuesday.
I miss him so so so much, we met over a year ago on holiday and it has always been long distance but I am getting sick of it and things like this make me want to burst in to tears. On top of that, they aren’t leaving us long to revise. I really hate uni and sometimes I feel like I am only doing it so can see my boyrfriend more, i.e holidays which would be non existant if I worked. I do want a degree and I’d like to be a primary teacher if I get there in the end but it really is killing me, I don’t like the people, the place, the course, anything. I am living at home now and driving to Uni 1hour away, which isnt so bad really. I just wish I was doing something I liked. I wish I was happy..it’s been so long I don’t really remember what it feels like.
What do you all think?
Im currently thinking about what i should do-
1-stay at bangor and keep goin with psychology-i hate the subject
2-stay at bangor and change courses-ive not really made any good friends in bangor-not very happy being there
3-change uni and keep doin psychology-will moving to a uni near home (get to live at home) make me enjoy the course more?
4-change uni and start a new course
5-ditch uni and get a job at asda-not really keen on this one!
I have no idea what to do, all these options keep flying round in my head and i have no idea which is the correct ‘path’ please what do you all think?
wow, its so good to know its not just me! i would moan on and on about uni but am so FUCKING tired, depressed and fed up coz i HATE it so much i really dont have the energy to say much more! am now going to go knock myself out on sleeping tablets to combat the fucking insomnia a life of sitting in lectures and studying leads to!
If I were you I would change Uni and keep Psychology. The thing is, living at home would make you happier, it did me! but at the same time, trying to adjust to a new place as well as a new subject might be really hard. Unless you have a subject you think you’d love i’d stick with psyc, I am doing psyc too and I agree it is not what I thought it would be but I have found myself more interested in it since living at home.
thanks thats helped!man glad ive found someone else who thinks this subject is lame! do u take tests everyweek on stats? and do presentations every week? THERES NO PSYCHOLOGY TO BE FOUND! we also have to do writing skills class, dont even get me started!
which uni do u got to?
anyone go to preston?
I go to Kent, Yeah it mostly seems to be about maths with a bit of biology thrown in. I also have to do a ‘wild module’ which is policits. So..no real psychology at all! we don’t have tests but we have assignments pretty much every week.
I was sold this wonderful, bountiful dream of University when I left college (or sixth form to stop anglo-american confusion), where I could sit and debate about the subject I was passionate about and get good, coherent answers and thrilling arguments. But No. Apparently University is only good and enjoyable if you can down a pint in 2 seconds, join a stupid society which revolves more about reputation and sexual prowess than whether youre actually any good at it, and it’s alright to doss off lectures and not say a word in seminars because theres always someone to pick it up, mainly the person who talks a lot because theyve actually read the book rather than go off to Vodka Island at Tiger fucking Tiger. Even the lecturers seem to have given up hope, only a small minority actually argue back at you and contest your views, the others just let you be because obviously your existance doesnt mean a thing. The amount of times Ive wanted to scream in seminars because I cant get my point across because some dappy idiot needs explaining on a simple literary term such as stanza. You learn that in GCSE for petes’ sake. I give up half the time. I really do. I’ve found about two or three other friends that share my dislike for the modern University status and we’ve been branded elitists. Which I actually accept, because I’d rather be an elitist who’ll get somewhere than a socialite who wont.
Really. What happened to the old dream of University?
gah, yours, T.
hey guys. ive just read through from top to bottom, and im totally put of going to university lol. this is my situation…
at the moment im a salesperson at (currrys) for all you people from the uk, and ive been doin it for the past 2 years. when i first started i used to love it, that buzz you get after uve done a big sale with all the extras on it (warranties e.t.c) and ur boss rubbing his hands with a big fat grin on his face but now i cant stand the job. its all about targets targets targets and too much pressure to achieve them. also all of my collueges are money grabbin twats who dont give a damn about the customers just as long as they squeeze them of every penny thay have to their name. so im thinkin of gettin out of this job and going to university and gettin a degree. ive heard its one of he best experienecs of ur life and ull meet loads of new people and so on. im 20 at the mo and i really dont wanna make the wrong choice and cock up my life completely. if i choose to go uni i know ill have to stick it out all the way or me dad would just dis-own me.just need a bit of advice of everyone here on what to do, im sooooooooooo stressed please help.
oh and by the way edie i think ur veyy brave for what u did and following ur heart.
(i actually found this website by typing “i love university” in google…it works try it lol.
Hi romeo, i don’t think you should allow the stories of woe on this page to put you off going to uni – it isn’t bad for everyone, you will more than likely be one of the lucky people who has an easy time making friends there (you’re still young enough to fit in with the general uni age group), which in turn definitely makes the whole experience better! My only advice would be to think through your choice of degree very carefully – there’s nothing worse than getting halfway through your 2nd year and realising you picked the wrong subject(exactly what my best friend did!).
I did the same as you’re thinking of doing – went to uni after 2 years of working for the NHS in a crappy position after my a-levels, so i completely understand why you want to do it at this stage of your life. Good luck whatever you choose to do!
i actually want to die. i cant cope with this place anymore. im just not good enough.
I don’t want to go next year, I want to get a job and work my way up in an office or something similar, I want my boyfriend who lives 3 hours away to do the same. He doesn’t want to. He wants to go to Cambridge and a different Uni if he doesnt get in there. I can’t cope with 3 more years of hardly seeing him and doing something I hate. But, if I get a job I won’t get any time in the holidays to see him cos I will be working. What do I do? Try and get through something that is making me unhappy so that when the years are over things might be better, or give up now? Please help. I can’t stop crying.
hey guys! I studied computer engineering when i was in my early twenties. I was young and ignorant, and pretty well took this course for all the wrong reasons (very “practical” thinking…..i was good at math, and had the potential to get a lucrative job…) I’ve always fancied myself as being on the creative side, so this was not a great choice.
Well folks, after a year i actually realized what i was getting into, and dropped the f*$# out! It was an extremely demanding course, which i quickly realized i had NO interest in whatsoever. The one redeaming thing about being there was that i actually lived with REAL friends, who were much more cut out for this kinda thing than me (but even with their aptitude, they were a bit down in the dumps!)
Anyways don’t worry about what over people think of you (easier said than done i realize but…) Life is TOO f#*$ING short, and you really have to learn how to live on your own terms. You’re ADULTS (technically…i still don’t always feel like one….
), and despite what your parents think, THEY’RE not the ones living your life! Yeah obviously uni is a lot of hard work…this is a seperate discussion to becoming a manic depressive individual, who was optitmistic that uni would be more than it actually is. It’s overwhelming doing something that feels completely pointless and understimulating for what…. 3 or 4 years!
SO onto my life now. I’ve been in Vietnam teaching English for the past 2 years, and have ZERO regrets leaving uni. I’m learning a new language, have been to 5 new countries, and have experienced something that you can’t learn in school. I’ve honestly learned A LOT more here than i ever did in UNI (or high school for that matter.) I’d REALLY recommend giving the ESL teaching gig a try! You can really learn A LOT about yourself, as well as the world. Do a 1 month TEFL (or CELTA) course and pick a place! It’s not for everyone, but you may very well have the time of your life (you may not even wanna come back!)
Just an option for those who have felt the empty void that CAN BE uni!
oh and one more thing. Have any of you thought of studying online? You can go at your own pace AND can study from home (or anywhere obviously.) There are MANY accredited online uni’s (the idea isn’t so young anymore), and you’ll basically wind up with the same degree as you would from any decent uni (obviously there are certain subjects that can’t be done online.) Not a bad option. No bs social scence (not all cases but some), no lectures, no intimidation from peers or teachers, no waking up at 6:30am etc… and can study at a slooow pace if you’re working….or fast as hell if you have the ambition to tackle 8 courses at a time!) I’ve been doing an online English BA course (not always a practical major, but i’m interested in it (at least 60 per of it) and would eventually like to transfer into teacher’s college and become a “proper” teacher….this means little for most of you uni students i’m guessing…)
Thank you Google!
I’m so glad that I’m not the only one on Earth feeling the way I have been. I’ve just started uni, moved away from home to a new city, optimistic about making a ton of new friends and enjoying my course.
It’s been 6 weeks and so far I haven’t made a single proper friend.
It’s strange. It’s like people don’t WANT to make friends, they only speak to you if they’re made to in some icebreaker activity. I’m so lonely, and I feel like there’s nothing I can really do about it.
I’m only doing my course in Economics for a year before trying to upgrade to Law but so far it’s really not interesting me, the assessment is stupid because it all has to be done online and the subject matter is boring.
Every time I hear we have assessment I get a weird little panic attack, like, I can’t breathe properly for a few minutes. Some of my depressive tendencies (self-destructive behaviour that began in my mid-teens) have started to resurface after lying dormant for a year or two.
So now I’m wondering, is it really worth it? I don’t see a future goal for my life after uni.
Oh by the way, I’m at UQ, so if the other UQ person that was on here before ever returns, I have an idea of how you feel.
This website helps so much
I studied a physics degree for 4 years, I hated every minute of it. I hated studying so much I decided I was not going to be a physicist. Now what, if I get a physics job I will be depressed, if I get a job that doesnt need a degree I will be a clerk for the rest of my life, or option 3 go back to uni and study something that I dont hate yet but soon will.
Coming to this forum has reminded me how much I hated going to uni,
Migranes, headaches, weight loss, depression and anger and over 30,000 words worth of essays, projects and a dissertation to hand in, in 5 weeks! That’s my final year. Oh and my thesis supervisor has decided to prioritise their own work over helping me. They won’t read anything else I hand in, even though its 50% or my grade for this year and 25% or my total grade! And they may or may not answer any research or essay questions I have…and they know about the stress I’ve been under…I think it’s really cruel and unprofessional
I hate university. Every waking moment has to be devoted to studying to maintain a good average, and as a result everything else has to be sacrificed. I dislike all my classes and all the horrid professors teaching them. I’d take something else except I hate the other stuff even more, so I’m stuck studying something I hate the least. But, none the less, I still hate it. I can’t handle this place anymore. I feel I’m just not good enough. That Adam Sandler song is my theme. SOMEBODY KILL ME PLEASE. I’M ON MY KNEES. PRETTY PRETTY PLEASE. KILL MEEEEEEEE I want to DIE
Im sooo glad i found this website, this post started in March of 2004 and its still going one. Makes me feel good that alot of people are in the same boot
I about to complete my first year in computer science at York Uni and still have 3 miserable years to go . yeppie for me … …………. not !!!
I hate university for many reasons, for one its not as social as many think. There basically two option 1) Study hard, ignore friends and social life or 2) be social and watch your money go to waste
Second part. the material you learn is ambiguous. All the theories and nonsense that they force you to learn will never be applied to real life, You future boss will never ask you write a 20 page essay on the origin of life.
Third, despite the high tuition price tag, the cost of food, books, paper copies and everything in between is expensive compare to the outside . They basically milk you for your money. They know every well that most student are already in debt so hey “why not charge them extra for the hell of it”
4) University isn’t exactly paradise, its nothing like what you see in the movies, everyone walks about with a sad, chinned down face either because of the many pressure they’re faced with.
5) the professor are not what we called “user friendly” approaching them for help will only help them remember your name just to fail you on the exam. They don’t want to be bothered during or after class. they’re the last one to enter the room and the first one to leave the room. Thank good for ratemyprof…com for giving us hope on finding that ONE professor who’s willing to help.
Anyways thank you all for posting your comments, sharing my post with everyone brings me encouragement to continue my loong suffering journey.
I’m so glad I’ve found this site. I’m at york st john university. I’ve been studying for 3 years and I have little over a month to go, my dissertation is due in in 7 days and I just can not seem to do it. I’ve been really, really ill for the past year and a half and it’s knocked me completely off my feet. I hate university so much, I get no help from my tutors even when I’m screaming at them for it. It’s completely ruined my life, destroyed my passion for a subject I used to love (art and textiles) and driven me up the wall. On top of it all I know I’ll be brutally murdered by my parents if I give up now, even though I reckon i’ll probably fail anyway.
i havent posted on here in a while, but i still keep up with it.
today i have finally decided to leave uni, and its the best feeling ever.
im unsure what im going to do next but its got to be better than university.
remember guys, we only have one life there is no point in spending it miserable. do what makes you happy.
i wish all of you the best of luck in life
Akilae
Good luck to you Akilae, that’s a very brave decision you just made. I’m trying to get up the courage to do the same ASAP.
Uni sux!
The people are heartless, well at least the people in my subject. Agrhh!
I had an exam at this place which was like a 20 min walk from the uni and I was in a rush and forgot my umbrella.
So when i was walking towards this place it was ok. But after the exam I walked all the way back to uni without an umbrella. NOT even 1 person offered there one, just for the walk back. All i saw was people walking past me…
So i was totally soaking wet, plus i have to travel like an 1hr and a bit back hope. Bus, train then walk. Uni sux!!
Arg my uni have moved the exams a month early so i now have half the time to revise which is two weeks not enough, ruined my summer as i will prb have to retake even then they have a limit to which the marks can go to what a joke the lecturers are also if they dont like you they dont help you once again its not what you know but who you know. sucks ass, just texd my gf she coming over to cheer me up
i wanna get wrecked but cant as im at cuntish university and have to do cuntish, wanky essays, that are crap and utterly useless.If this is the sort of information i need for later in life im not looking foward to getting old.
Fuck it
Fuck the whole thing!!!!!
i am so very very unhappy in university. i know this year was tough for me for a lot of reasons other then school and so my grades slipped. i was even seeing a councellor. i thought i was doing better but i just found out i failed THREE of my classes. omg. i knew i wasn’t doing well but I didn’t realize it was that bad. i really just don’t know if university was the right choice for me in the first place. it’s so overwhelming to have so many courses going on at the same time. i can’t enjoy any of it! i love learning, i really do. i use to the read the encyclopedia as a kid for fun. i love the satisfaction of teaching myself something new. it’s true, i learn most of my stuff from the textbooks, not the lecture. i’m wondering if maybe i should just take one or two courses a year and start working on paying back my RIDICULOUS student loans. why does education have to be so damn expensive??? i love the idea of getting a degree (i’d be the first in my family to get one), but am i willing to stick it through? can i do this? more importantly, is this what i want? and how in the world does anyone expect to be able to focus on courses when they have to work their ass off to support themselves?!?! OSAP never gives enough to even pay the rent! much less buy food for the year! goddamn monopoly. i feel privleaged to be getting a “higher education” but at the same time I can’t help but feel so spiteful over what i don’t have. i wish i had rich parents like most of the suburbian university students at my school. then i wouldn’t have to worry about making ends meet while memorizing 200 slides for the next exam. i wish i had my mommy or daddy pick up me after class each day and take me home, make me dinner and pay for designer clothes and ipods. god, i’m still wearing clothes i had in high school. okay, okay, i’m done ranting, but it feels good to get out of my system.
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Just failed another essay – Uni totally ripped it apart.
I need to know when to give up…
I’ve just been reading some of the previous comments, and to all the people on here telling us to pull ourselves together, stop moaning, get on with it, or anything else to that effect, what the hell are you doing on this website? If Uni is so wonderful, go and talk about it somewhere else. To all the people that have offered support and understanding, thank you, it is only those people that can appreciate what others are going through, how much they hate Uni, why they hate Uni, and the struggle of what decisions to make in a world that feels totally out of control.
Everyone’s situation is different, and everyone should do what’s right for them, but only THEY can make that decision for themselves. So please, to the people who think we’re just moaning, don’t patronise us by making out we’re just making a big deal out of nothing. For some people, Uni can push you to something of a suicidal level. And that’s not over-dramatising, that’s HOW IT IS.
And to those who think being a student is easy, and we don’t know the meaning of hard work, I’d question whether you ever went to Uni. Plus I would just like to point out that I work MORE than full-time to fund this stupid course during my inappropriately named ‘holidays’ – 20-hour days, and still never enough money. So don’t tell me I don’t have any idea of hard work.
Sorry for the rant, all the people that use this site for the support for which it is intended. Just needed to get that off my chest.
Thinking of all of you feeling the way I do tonight. x
Hey there,
Who was that person who also went to UQ? It’s good to find out that there are other people at my uni who feel the same way. I am sure there are many more. It’s a shame that people get so lonely at uni, I don’t know whose fault it is. I try not blame myself because I make honest attempts at making friends, but you are right about people not wanting to make friends at UQ. That is exactly what it is like with me, you try your best and people just seem cold and indifferent. I am sure they got problems too. I wish I knew why it was like that, when you find the cause you can find the solution but I have no idea what causes people to become isolated at places like universities.
Hi I am so pleased I found this site. Reading your comments had really given me peace of mind. I withdrew from uni in December and I have wondered since i it was the right thing to do. Reading what you all have to say has reminded me of why I left and helped me to see how fortunate I am now. I loved studying but hated being a mature student with such diferent priorities and never fitting in. Im doing a degree part time with the Open University now and I loved it. I have a nice little job, not degree related but nice and I can juggle all of this with my family responsiblites. Anyway enough rambling I just wanted to say it takes alot of maturity and self awareness to be able to admit you are unhappy and deal with all of the pressures that you all do on a daily basis. Whatever you decide to do (stay or go) try to remember it is your future and your decision hard as it may be with family pressures etc. Good luck to you all and thank you for posting so honestly it really is great to know that people are sharing similar experiences. For those who do not realise how hard uni can be take a moment to think about your friends at uni. Are they real friends or just poeple you spend time with. Thanks again.
I read all the comments and I can relate to many of them. i study Psychology and found that it is a rather pointless subject as everything is based on theories they can’t prove pretty much. I have three more exams and then I have finished my first year. It went surprisingly quickly. I find that there are lot of fake people at university. They’re more concerned about quantity of friendships rather than quality. I haven’t made any friends on my course at all apart a girl I know from secondary school who I was friends with before. I only see her in lectures though. She gets on really well with her housemates. Me on the otherhand do not in the slightest. They’re intimidating and they like to do pranks on me and shit and I know they talk about me behind my back. I hardly ever go in the kitchen to eat as I’m scared of seeing any of them. I pretty much go hungry all day and creep in there late at night or not at all and just keep food that doesn’t need to be in the freezer/fridge and eat it in my room. Right now I am sick of seeing these same four walls and I can’t wait to go home for summer.
I hate how things are taught at uni. You hardly have any lectures and its practically a self taught subject, reading loads of books. I can’t see how that could cost three grand. Anyways, due to my lack of motivation to go to lectures due to them being pointless and me being too down to even get up at all so I slept my days away and never read the books. Now I am suffering for it as I know I’ll have to resit my exams. *sigh* I wish I had motivation to do stuff, I really do.
Uni was really tough until I joined a society. I’m alternative and joined a society for alternative people. At first i thought it would be really cliquey as everyone is the same and won’t like anyone who isn’t a certain way etc. I thought this as I only have one alternative friend back home the rest are “normal” looking or whatever. Back home everyone is different as we grew up together since we were 11 and nobody cared about what each other looked like or was into, we just clicked. I found the society to have people who were quite mature and they didn’t have the fake aquaintance talking bullshit, they actually wanted to know you. I found something to enjoy at uni at last although all the other shit still kept me down. I am quite shy but how i got to make friends in the society was to go to every event and make myself seen and it paid off. I joined other societies but they didn’t work out the same and I don’t go to them anymore.
I find if you force yourself into a situation you wonldn’t normally like to be in it can sometimes be beneficial. I’m hoping university will be better when I live in a house with people, not who I am neccassarily close to but not the wankerish people I’m with now. I guess what I’m trying to say is if you still have some positive things to say about the university your in try and keep on at it, it may be different next year. Good luck to everyone.
Thank you all so much for your honesty. Your comments have been a true comfort over the past year.
I posted a while ago, I’ve finally handed in my 30,000 words worth of essays, projects and dissertation. I will make a formal complaint about the way my thesis supervisor treated me so that other students won’t be ditched like that last minute.
Other than that, I’m just coming to terms with the fact that uni is finally over, 3 years of pain are finished. I’m thankful for the few good friends I made and the uni counsellor who helped me to relieve so much of my stress and anxiety over this past year.
It was a painful experience but I’m glad that I managed to stick it out because I can move on now and make a real life for myself.
Am hoping to move abroad to do a fully funded internship for a year and hope to study abroad after that on a scholarship.
I had to do this initial degree for career reasons and I survived it. I know it may sound melodramatic but trust me these past few years of uni and my life in general as been so full of drama that I can’t wait to move on grow as a person elsewhere and have lots of fun…before I came to uni I used to party and have a great time.
For those of you who are still in the system, decided if its right for you or not. If not, you could transfer to another course or look into your options.
It seems as if lots of people take science based subjects when they don’t have a passion for it. Why not consider something related to communication and people skills? This thread is full of people who are excellent communicators why not utilise those skills?
If it is right for you to stay at uni I highly recommened that you use the counselling services and support groups offered by your uni and do as much as you can to help yourself.
There are useful online tips as well as books about reading academic texts and writing essays and dissertations, seek them out and try them, they might help.
Tell your friends and family about the situation, get support and help from them if possible.
Write a diary and reflect on the situation.
Join clubs and societies.
And most of all stay calm, eat well and try and get some sleep, you’ll figure it out.
Thanks again everyone,
your comments have truely helped.
I wish you all the best of luck. And I hope you all enjoy the summer.
x
Good advice there anon. I’m probably the odd one on this thread as I for one never even made it to university. All I managed to get at A2 was three low A-levels and a U in physics. Alas, those grades have driven me into much depression and they did when I was at college. How an A’s and B’s grade student at GCSE could barely get higher than a C during the A-level courses really perplexed my mind, to the point where I was nearly broken and nothing but a hollow shell. In the end, I stayed at college only because I feared going to work so much.
Finding this thread really reminds me why this happened. I, as many of you people became sick of the studying and the loneliness, work your butt off in the first year, only to do poorly in the exams anyway and fall into a slump then disillusioned and depressed with the future which failed your idealistic vision. But I feel sad, as many of you deserved to do well far better than I ever did only for the mirror of illusion to shatter, taking your dreams and soul with them, taking far more than my failed dream took from me.
But there is light at the end of the tunnel you know. I work in an office now, the money is terrible but every evening and weekend the slate is wiped clean for me to spend my time how I wish, if I want to study calculus or read Plato I can do it how I like, when I like and as much as I like. The college I left just last June seems not long ago at all, but also a different era entirely so much so it seems it was nothing but a dream I imagined, I suppose it was as my dreams upon entering were probably not to be, at least not through that route.
I don’t know if I’ll ever try and redo my A-levels through distance learning, as I still recall how fed up I was of the whole institution and process in my final A level exams. But I still believe, one way or another my dreams can still be fulfilled if I put my mind to it.
So to those who are rotting inside due to their horrid predicaments, just follow your heart, and with enough determination and enough thought into the right decision, you’ll eventually get to your destination. I hope I’ve been some help, guess this flunker was good for something after all.
Hey it’s not all bad. Sure I hated studying law. No, I hate studying. Period. But I did manage to skip all of my lectures and instead bought a piano and now I’m on Grade 6. So, Uni has been good. It was so dull it pushed me to play piano, something I’ve always wanted to learn but never had the patience to practice. Uni, however, was even more boring so I just swam a lot and played the piano and sat in cafes. Oh yeah I managed to get a 2.1. So you can beat the system. Use your free time to do something enjoyable.
“Use your free time to do something enjoyable”
Free time? What free time? Oh, the free time that I use to crash out because I feel exhausted nearly all the time.
Actually, it’s got slightly better in my third term. Mainly because I’ve just stopped caring whether or not I get into my next year. And I’ve started to do things now like ballroom dancing, art, making things and activities that I actually enjoy.
My grades have almost definitely crashed. But my quality of life has improved. Am thinking of packing it in, even though that would mean packing in The Plan – that’s been around for about seven years.
It would disappoint everyone I know – possibly myself included. But it isn’t like this is the only chance I get. If I find that a degree is absolutely necessary later on life, doing an open university course sounds like the way forward.
My tuppence worth, anyway.
Liz, I totally understand where you’re coming from. This year my grades have also crashed spectacularly, pretty much because I’ve stopped caring (not that they were that great before, I just didn’t see the point of working flat-out 24/7 with bugger all reward for my efforts). I’ve started doing stuff I wanna do now, taking time out when I want to, and I feel so much better than when I was putting my heart and soul into Uni.
Live your life, you only get one and there’s no rehearsals. Enjoy yourself while you can. Don’t let Uni rule you. It’s not worth it. x
I hated living on Campus in my first year, so instead my plan is to live at home and commute to my university. It is a one hour drive away. Do people think this is a stupid idea? There is no way I am living at Uni again so it is either drive the hour there and back for my lectures (about 12 hours per week probably spread over 3/4 days) or quit. I have applied to a London University which would take up to an hour to get there on 2 trains, (but could take as little as 30 mins on a good day) – however, I don’t like this Uni very much and I might not even be able to go there yet as they made specifications about the grades I got in my first year exams. Please people I need some support, I am scared about the driving – will I be able to do it? Anyone know people who do a similar journey? Help…please comment back on this! x x x
Kelly, I think if Uni is important enough to you the drive will be OK, it’s got to be better than living at Uni if it made you so miserable. I know people that drive an hour and back when they are on placements and this suits them better than living away.
It sounds like Uni is important to you, so maybe try the commute and see how it goes? At least then you will have given it a go. And maybe you will find some new people you might wanna stay or live with at Uni.
Sorry, that’s probably been no help whatsoever! Hopefully someone who does a similar drive will comment. Good luck with whatever you choose, I’ll think of you. x
Thanks for the comment Carina …
So … results come out next week and it’s basically been hinted at that I’ve failed one paper. The thing is that it’s not as simple as being told “Pack your bags, you’re out” if you fail the first year. My Director of Studies can write a letter of recommendation and that way I can get into next year. The question is, do I want him to do that?
If I stay: Things could get better, I could be less depressed/stressed and, at the end of it all, I could feel proud of myself for sticking with it.
If I stay: Things could stay the same, and I could be depressed for the next 2 years and possibly end up failing anyway – Waste of time and money.
If I leave: I might regret that I didn’t persevere.
If I leave: I could find some work I find satisfying, albeit lowly paid; I could still get a degree (from the Open University); and I could develop my talents, hobbies, etc.
Any thoughts?
EMMA u just described me!i cant believe it that u feel and act the same as ive done, i feel so much better that someone else feels exactly the same way about psychology. i also didnt step foot in the kitchen untill i knew no one was there-i resorted to eatin cold beans just so that i didnt have to see the ppl on my hall or go to tesco and get ready made meals that i could eat straight away!its pathetic when i look back but i hated them so much. im also going to have to resit as i failed most of my stats-i never knew there would be so much maths!and ure right about all the theories-what a useless course. im only tryin to stick with it because i still cling to the thought that i actually want to be a clinical psychologist-although this course is making me think twice!hope u see this and know that someone else expereinced exactly what u have!
katie
I just got my results today and they are excellent, a 2.1! I’m glad I stuck it out and lasted the 3 years. It was really tough and painfull but it was best for me so I stuck with it.
Before you decide to quit Uni review your options and do as much as you can to better the situation. (See my previous post for some suggestions) Do what’s best for you as an individual.
Anyway Kelly, I think driving is a great idea. I commuted to college 1.30 hour each way on 3 trains and I managed it. You can do it!
Thanks for all of your comments, they are a true comfort. Good luck everyone!
Congratulations on your 2:1! It’s so wonderful to hear a success story and know that there is light at the end of the tunnel! I wish you a happy and successful career, and enjoy your newfound freedom and the thought that you never have to go back there again! Well done x
I stuck out three awful, awful years at University. For nothing. The degree has STOPPED me getting work because it’s a useless bit of paper. For five years I’ve either been suffering horribly at Uni or because of it. University has taken my life away and I will never, ever get that back. It’s a disgusting environment full of nasty little bullies who just want to drink, screw and snipe other people.
true true true 2 all u ppl. uni is so shit n wit £3000+ worth of tutuion it makes even harder 2 drop out cos the of money. just finished 1st year at art uni hate everything bout uni. the corse isnt wat is cracks out 2 be, the teachers r fukkin weirdos, n the ppl are just sooo dam fake. everyday ev1 says hi 2 each other n its so fake cos thats it n wantin 2 kno wats marks u have n stuff n comparing every1! and if sumdays u just arent in the mood and arnt grinning like a fake chesire cat ppl persome you are a miserable fag or sum1 has died. every1 is soo bitchy and up there ass it isnt a nice environment 2 be in 5 days a week 9.30 – 500pm with the ‘click groups’ proper brown nosing the teachers! arghhhhhhhhh i suppose it shud be expected on art courses n compettion n stuff but drives me insane. only made 1 friend who dropped out half way through (dont blame her at all).ppl have even stolen my possensions treating ppl awful. cos im from up yorkshire ppl take the mik out of my accent sayin i sound jamican and how yorkshire ppl r poor n scruffs and im supposed 2 sit there n say nothing.now i kno wat 2 expect 4 the nxt year i just dont care anymore just gotta get on with it. i aint a quitter just gotta tell my self 2 more years then im gettin the hell out of here!
i absolutely hate my university hell hole maybe i should of left in my 1st year but thought it would get better, obviously not- but have to stick it out as spent so much money poured into tuition fees/rent and only have a year left. Its been one of the worst decisions of my life had such a miserable time on my fashion and textile course 9-5pm 5 days a week stuck in a studio on the top floor of a hill! The people there are so clicky especially as its all girls and for 1) not getting into halls didnt help as it stopped me making nice friends, 2) Intimidating teachers who act more like bullys by putting you down and told how u r useless in front of 30 peolpe 3) living in a house where knowone gets on 4) expected to do rediculus amounts of work and produce fantastic projects in an horrble environment not even related to what your doing 5) no support and treated like a piece of shit, I can honestly say that i would never go again and that its taken everything out of me, even to the point where i’ve become ill and rundown from the stress , failed a module had a dr’s note to proove it and then told that i have to redo the whole thing again over summer aswell as a dissertation and another project and i seem to be the only one who feels like this, its like your not allowed to have a life outside university what about people who need to work to support their fees?!! And what am i going to get out of it after all this?!
I Hate my course and feel like i have wasted the last two years of my life doing nothing. The worst thing about it is that most, not all there are exceptions, of the lecturers are people who never made it in the real world and have to resort to teaching others. A lot of them are socially inept and drive u insane with the crap they carry on with. I also find it extremely difficult to concentrate on studying because im not enjoying my course but to change course u need to get good marks which equates to study more, its all a load of political waste. I believe if someone has the desire to pursue a course of which they have some experience ie work experience then you have more of a desire to coplete that cousre and therefore should be allowed to change soley based on choice. I Fucking Hate uni
i hate uni too….its so hard to make friends and everyone just cares about themself…so amazingly boring…oh well.
I hated uni so much last year. I was doing a computing course at an annoyingly competitive university. I dropped out in the third term because i couldn’t take the stress any longer and am reapplying to a new uni this year to do an art course, hoping that it will attract a better kind of people. Competitiveness is not a good thing.
I hated the University life. Obviously there were reasons for that. My University was so boring. I never found good parties any thing down there. Students were so bullshit so so bullshit you can not believe it. They never mix with you and even if they want to socialise with you there is something behind that. Some of them were really contemptuous and malevolent. I can’t believe myself that I managed to complete 9 years. For the sake of degrees and for good career I had to do that. It is very hard for the overseas students. I was one of them. You are away from home and it is a different culture. Now every morning when I wake up, I am glad that I managed to survive down there. I mixed so different student from overseas countries they were similar to me miserable, lack of motivation and looking for escape. It was like in Tim Robbin’s the famous movie ‘shawshank redemption’. You know prison life. So sorry for the depressive comments but I just wanted to express myself.
its 5:50 in the morning, i went to bed at 3, so over this feeling of mind numbing tiredness, taken over by copious amounts of caffiene all for the sake of getting a passing grade, so close to goin back to bed right now….fuck uni
The man is keeping us down…
Every time I get interested in something and go off on a tangent (maybe too creative) I get shit marks.
It serves to remind me I can do well as long as I prescribe to the marking criteria of whoever is marking. Apparently you save the creativity for your post doctorate work (as honors is a bitch and you just want to get it done).
By then you’re a part of the system and the man keeps on keeping you down. What happened to the idea of a university that helped the world? It seems to have accelerated things but life is no better, I heard a funny statistic the other day that on average a research article is read 7 times including the mother of the person who wrote it.
Democracy in education, and allowing people to choose what is important to learn rather than being constricted to rubrics and measuring individual potential is alway overlooked…
I tried some shit in real life from my course. Turns out in the real world normal people don’t understand recruitment practices or standard operating procedures, succession management etc…
and why should they? it’s all invented by some guy trying to pass his honors thesis or continuing on the mistake he made in his honours thesis in his post doctoral work.
Idiots all of them, I’m gonna learn skydiving or that sport where you ski and then shoot some targets for some reason, something more exciting than this shit later just to have the satisfaction of saying I finished and can confirm it is a total and utter load of shit.
Agree with all of the above. University = A waste of time and money that would be better spent travelling and seeing the world. I hate the fact that each course costs about 800$ the textbooks another 200$. Then theres the no good professors who just regurgitate what the textbooks say!! So whats the bloody point of wasting my money travelling to class to listen to something I could just read. I say fight the system!!! Bring down the uni institution
I got in to a London Uni which means I can live at home and commute in on two trains which should not take more than an hour. I am transferring so I will go in to year 2. This is scary for me as I will not know anyone but I am not expecting to make any great friends, I am just glad I have a chance to complete my degree and live at home with my family. My boyfriend is starting Uni too in a couple of weeks. He lives 3 hours away from me but luckily is going to a Uni which is about 1 hour away. This means I will get to see him more than last year. It is hard though because we have been together every day this summer staying at each others houses for weeks and going on holidays. Its been about 3 months together so it will be horrible when we both start Uni and dont get to see each other every day. He has promised we will be together at least 3 nights or more each week though. I should be happy – things seem to have worked out Ok and me and my bf have agreed to live together next year which will make me very happy. I am just scared. I will still miss him and be scared going to Uni. I wish Uni didn’t exist, we would be living together and working by now. I have had no positive experience from Uni, the only good thing will be when I get my degree. x x x x
Down with the man! Get the monkey off my back!
I’m so glad I’ve found this site. I really really hate university living and I’m only a week in. My classes are about to start, so I’m hoping it will get better in that respect, but I absolutely hate living down at university. Despite how childish it probably sounds I miss living with my family, especially my brothers. And I miss my friends.
My parents have compromised by letting me stay at home, if I commute the hour and a half down to university. I’ve made it clear to them there’s no way I can stay and this is the best they can do, which I appreciate.
It just seemed like everyone had made friends with each other and I’d been left to get on with it and nobody cared. I was absolutely miserable and have become quite ill.
I know it sounds stupid with it just being a week down there, but it’s the only option I can really see. If I stick at it I think I’ll just get more and more unhappy.
I hope somebody out there understands and I’m really hoping commuting will work out.
I see a few other people have done it or were considering it.
Did it work out?
I’d be glad for any input.
Thanks.
Hi erin, I moved out my university accomodation last year and attempted to commute to and from. However, I was even further away than you are and often a journey could take over two hours! I was missing a lot and not enjoying myself at all. However, I managed to transfer Universities and this year will be going to a Uni much closer to home, about an hour commute, sometimes less.
I start next week and am very nervous but looking forward to going somewhere where I can come home every night. I must say though – one of the main reasons I did not just give up is because I have a boyfriend who is fairly long distance and although I spend weekends with him, the holidays at Uni are long and with him going to Uni this year too it is important to know we can get lots of time together in the holidays.
It is not at all silly to be wanting to leave after a week – I was the same and I never got used to it and enjoyed it. People will try and tell you that you havent given it enough time and maybe they will be right but I know for me that it wasnt right and was never going to be.
How will you be commuting? If it is by train it makes a difference because you can use that time to read etc. thats what I plan to do. If you are driving however, I think this will be harder and possibly quite stressful.
I am not really sure that Uni is for me, and have told myself that if I hate my new Uni then I will leave and get a job or do a college course or something. It means I loose the holidays with my boyfriend but if I am that unhappy it is what will have to happen. Hopefully though I will get used to it and find it ok. Is there a Uni closer to your home? Maybe you could put up with a longer commte this year and try and transfer next year? I would say though that living away on campus is not for everyone and you will probably be happier commuting.
Hope I have helped a bit – although probably a bit biased from someone who hates Uni!!
Kelly x x x
When i first began uni i used to push through my modules regardless of how difficult they were and somehow come out with half decent grades. I used to attend regularly and even go to the campus to study when i didnt have to. I’m now in my 3rd year and now at risk of being thrown out due to repeated failure. I try in every way to find something that will keep me motivated and keep me interested in uni just for the sake of obtaining my degree but that is becoming increasingly difficult to do.
The other day i forced myself to sit in the foyer on campus and do some study. i managed to complete about half an hours worth before as usual i get zapped by some sort of invisible field that cripples me and destroys my ability to think. I then spent another half hour trying to hold my thoughts together before packing my stuff up and going home. I honestly don’t know if ill be able to make it. This is not how its meant to be, uni life is meant to be joyous and fruitful not like the sensation of drowning.
All i can do is keep fighting, i sincerely hope that everyone on this site makes it one way or another,
BJ
back to uni this sunday, ive left it as late as possible to go back. im dreading it!i keep being told that second year will be better than the first, do i beleve them?NO!i really dont want to go back to uni life!!!!
I just stareded Uni down South, I have been here two weeks and I have already given in my resignation… I don’t feel like a failure for it either, although my parents are pretty set on the idea that I am… I got an A in psychology which is what i want to study still at uni even though i have given up on this one. I found the people so cold and depressing that I just couldnt hack it, it was rubbing off on me. I didnt see the point on me staying in a place where all my self-motivation has disapeared.
I need a fresh start, so the south is over for me. But im pretty confidant that I can start again and get it right this time, in a place where the people and the lectures are for me. Because where i am right now they are rude and cold and empty. Its just not who i am. I am so motivated normally, so confidant in myself, but in two weeks I have been stripped of that, and to me thats just not right, wherever I am and whatever im doing i should know in myself that i can achieve and am capable because i have never had that doubt inmyself before.
the lonliness here is also unbearable, with lonlieness there is no happiness, it doesnt matter where abouts you are in the world as long as you have friends and are happy
xxx
Been here a week. Short time you could say, but time goes slowly when you’re so fucking alone. I’ve spoken to people, some even spoke back but this place has made me so empty already. Debating in my head whether to drop out, take the shit from my family, get a minimum wage job and count pay cheques till I kill myself … or just do it now and cut out the trouble.
hi i hate university as hell. i havent studied shit ever since it began 1 year ago and i just barely passed my first lesson without even ever studying, lol
i hate all the competition and everything and i’ve got better things to do than waste the best years of my life studying :#
Hey everyone, I’m back at Uni for my 4th and FINAL year, literally just got back and start tomorrow (I always leave it as late as possible, too). Dreading being back but can almost see the light at the end of the tunnel, this time next year I will be free of this place forever. I do feel better knowing that it’s my last year. But I just wanted to say hi to all of those people who feel the same as me about Uni, I really am thinking of you, and I hope we can all get through our experiences somehow, whether that means pushing ourselves through Uni, or having the courage to leave and pursue a different path in life. Whatever that may be, remember that the most important thing is YOUR happiness, not everyone else’s. I’m only still here cos I know I need my degree to do my chosen career, and I desperately want to do that career, so it is right for me. But that doesn’t make me hate it any less.
Thinking of you all, thank you for providing me with so much comfort and encouragement in understanding how I and so many other people feel x
I thought I was all alone, but I’m glad to find other like-minded people!
Society places WAY too much emphasis on getting a university degree, despite the fact that it makes many people miserable, overworked, exhausted and broke. Making friends is nearly impossible (what with the frustrating amount of conformist jocks and clubbing-kids), getting all the work done requires an unreasonable amount of time (all hours of the day, minus the 5 hours of sleep a night) and the result – at least for people in the arts like me – tends to be an undergraduate degree you can’t do anything with unless you go on to get a graduate, bachelors of education or some other form of extra schooling.
I am at Lancaster university and i absolutely hate it. I am in my forth year, i don’t think i am going to make it through this year. i have lots of friends, and take part in lots of uni activities but i just hate all of it. to all that read this PLEASE for heavens sake avoid Lancaster Uni, the advertising and open days are very inviting but please please avoid unless you like being unhappy.
Oh god i started my first year about a month ago and i just realized that im not a fucking scholar, i hated the copious amounts of reading (4 science courses, each with at least 2 hours of reading a god damned day) +1 hour commute + lectures i barely have time to do jack SHIT and this is only the beggining.
Man this shit is so pointless whats the point of even attending university, you dont learn shit you only learn how to take shit, fall down, get back up and take even more shit. I’d rather be perpetually inebriated than live as a depressed peice of shit making 100k.
arrggggghhh………i’m so shitting lonely. I hateee university. Everyone’s more interested in getting pissed than anything else….if you don’t like clubbing then ur fucked….no1 wants to know you cos ur ‘boring’.
Glad there’s at least some ppl out ther feeling the same way I do….I really hate this shit…definitely the unhappiest days of my life, all I wanna do is go back home to my friends and family, but if I do then every1 will look at me as a dropout. If it wasn’t for my PC I would have killed myself by now for sure.
Finally, I’ve found some people in the same situation as me
I’ve been at Uni for just over 3 weeks now, and i honestly cant stand it. I’ve been ditching lectures left, right and centre cos I’m not in the right frame of mind for education whatsoever. I’m changing my courses but that’s only really to show my family that I’m at least trying to make an effort to stay here. I can see myself being back home by the end of the month (at least i hope so).
The people here are all so outgoing compared to me – i dont hold that against them; i just find it impossible to talk to them and relate to them. My flatmates all know eachother and get along so well and im just the social outcast who cant even cook!
i just want to be back home with my real friends where i feel happy and comfortable.
Now how do i go about dropping out of this hellhole?!
I hate Uni. There is no way around that, I go everyday to be looked down upon by snobby students and talked down to be lecturers who think they are to far above them to even notice that they have students. Add to that the work which feels that it has been taped onto the course with no relevance or regard to the time you need to spend doing it. This is my first year of Uni and as it draws to close I find it impossible in my mind to even consider coming back next year to this place with its ridiculous rules and stupid organization. Changing courses didn’t help me as the university administration stuffed up my change so now I find out I’ve wasted half a year doing subjects I cannot sit an exams for. People here are not friendly; they seem to think that they can make their own time more bearable by making others time more unbearable. I know it sounds like I am complaining but its not so much complaining as stating the facts of it. I’m glad to know that I’m not the only one who hates Uni and the ridiculous notion that we need to get ourselves a piece of paper to prove how smart we are to rest of the world. Good Luck to every one else on here, I hope you can either fight through it or find a better way.
hi everyone well ive been back just over a week and guess what its just as bad as my first year. im so bored i got up at half seven and came to the computer room this am. the lectures are the same (lecturer reading powerpoint). the people are all the same just want to get pissed. the only thing i enjoy here is playing football.i cant wait to go home this thurs for the weekend although i know i will find it dam hard making myself come back.its going to be another crap year but im glad ive got you guys on this site making me feel as though what im going through is normal and that im not some freak just because i think uni is hell!!!!!
I do find it the most miserable place. Atleast when i was working i felt sedated by the earnings. And now, looking out from both paths, all options seem a snare. Even now, with 2 weeks till completion, i wish to leave it more then ever. All I have to say is: How ugly it all is.
Uni is terrible. Lectures are irrelevant bullshit with so many pointless assignments and extra classes. Not worth the pay cheque the degree ‘might’ get you. Surrounded by so many people, and I’ve never felt so alone before in my life. There are people i know well enough here, but they’re not my real friends; I just feel empty around them. I feel closer to the people on this site than anyone i can touch right now.
uni sucks i agree the people are nobs, all on crack and smack urgh!!!!!!! and jmu is the most unorganised uni everrr!!!!!!
This is all very reassuring. I’m finding it incredibly difficult being at uni and it’s depressing when I look around me and everyone’s having fun. Most people seem to have formed their own little cliques already and I’m completely uninspired by my course and my surroundings, despite the fact I’m in a beautiful city. I keep returning home for the comfort and the familiarity and I can honestly say I have never felt so alone as I do here at university.
University is really dragging me down I am in my third year for a geophysics major and i am regretting going into this field just because of money. It just always feels like your never good enough and its just a bunch of hoops you haveto jump through that you will rarely use when your working.
I am a musician as well, I think i would be happier playing my guitar on the corner making money then going to classes and studying bullshit 24/7..
Life changing experience… my ass!! Am at uni in London. The place is a fucking asylum. Arrogant pricks, unhelpful staff. As for the social side ha! What a joke, more like social apartheid.
Wow. I’m really sick of uni. :/ I don’t drink therefore I don’t have an active social life (which is cool since I’ve got a bunch of friends I knew before uni anyway) and the whole time at uni no one gives a shit. I haven’t talked to anyone that I didn’t know from highschool. Once. I mean in my final year of high school I was extremely motivated and getting up to all kinds of stuff even staying at classes longer to finish projects because I actually LIKED the work. At Uni i’m a fricking unmotivated slob,I have no desire to stay at the place
I hate every moment of my existence here. There has to be another way.
Its odd for me,I love the course I do English Lit and its my undying passion. Buts its life outside of lectures paradoxly I despise. My flatmates judge my lifestyle constantly and are a bunch of prigs who go bloody silent and bitch if I appear to be having a good time. The go on and on constantly about how many hours they work part time and how little cash the seem to have,want some advise??? Don’t buy shit you don;t need every day, and futher more if I want “piss my money away” then guess what I fucking will. So they are not hyper socilites with a dive for life,so what just wish they would not have a go at mer for being that way.bloody tossers.rant over
and by dive I mean “drive”, go I am so terrible at typing lol
hmmm so I moved unis a few weeks ago, and I must say I much prefer where I am now… but unfortunatly I am not the happiest chappy of the bunch…. hence the fact that I am back on this web page. I don’t know what it is exactly about uni that I don’t like. I mean… I had to write my first essay the other day… it had nothing to do with anything… I have exams every 2 weeks and each time I can’t help but feel a large competition going on between the people I talk to. Some of them are stuck up… others are down right lazy… I don’t understnad where this whole concept of uni being the best years of your life came from?
What made it worse was when I went home.. my step mum is there stating how easy uni life is (shes never been), how easy the work is… how I’m lucky I’m there because well its simply a way to delay having to do anything with your life and hide from the responisiblity of work. Well I wanted to kil her… I was not happy… I am still not happy, although much better than my other uni as I already said. I had like a panic attack when I realsed that there is a whole other semester after this one that I have to get myself through. I have literally been counting down the days to when It is x-mas time. And I mean, I go home every single Thursday and come back every Sunday… If I didn’t have that to look forward to… I don’t know what I would be doing with myself right now. I would definatly not be here still… it would most def have been a gap year by now… I just can’t see myself here for the next 3 years.
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Have posted before, when I was utterly depressed, and was going to drop out after my first year, because I couldn’t cope with the work.
I didn’t drop out. And things *have* got better since coming back.
I’ve been getting counselling – I recommend it, especially if there’s a counselling service attached to the university. They’re paid to listen to you vent a little steam, and they’re able to help you too. As great as this site is for finding like-minded people, we’re all down the same hole, and can’t pull each other out, so we need someone from outside who can.
I just wanted to say that, contrary to all my expectations, there is hope, after all.
wow thank you all for feeling the same way as i am. it seems like everyone is doing great and making tons of friends or have their own group. It’s my first year in uni and I’m the only one out of all my friends to go to uni so I’m basically by myself. I didnt think it would be this lonely, i was so excited to make new friends and meet new people. University has definately been less than what I anticipated.
AR GGG YESS!! in my head- today i shall quit, stop !!! flee from uni. flee from the idea of that piece of fucking paper that will apparently aid you in your search for the good life. bull shit. no i shall work, i shall travel i shall learn, i shall live i shall be on my own, i shall meet people, i shall learn a language, i shall find out what is inside of me, i shall read, i shall stuggle. i shall be free…… in my head.. where is the strangth to leave.. mid youth crisis … hmmmm
let things go naturally. be strong and optimistic. anyone can survive university. it’s only 5 year. at least for me. i only study little cause i’m not a scholar person. and i know that the things i memorize will not help me in life. if it wasn’t for my family, i’d start working after high school. just do two part time jobs and you’d make more than most people. or go to college and learn something useful and specific. university is just a game. but you won’t die without a degree. but no matter how hard things get, i’d force myself to finish this degree.
damn, i made a post about a year ago and this thread is still moving along… nice to see the endless struggle of university.
my thought of university is still the same from my previous post. University sucks, I find it a complete waste of time. All these research, assignment and reading 30+ page a day for each course is completely useless. None of these material will aid me to my career. Screw university and the stupid paper and we all strive soo hard to earn.
but i dont wanna be a loser who dropped out. the struggle must continue. there must be hope somewhere … ( pot and strip clubs does it for me)
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I am about to receive my degree over an 11 year span, having left school to work full time for about 5 years. Three different colleges in two different states(I’m in the US). College sucked when I first started, and it sucked just as much during my last semester, 11 years later. What a scam. I largely self financed my “education” through long hours at dead end jobs, under a belief I had developed (fed to me by parents, counselors, and adult friends) that having a degree was vitally necessary, even to the point that it was impossible and immoral to exist as an adult without a degree! What a bunch of bullshit! That garbage is mostly on on my parents. But I believed it. Tens of thousands of dollars and 150 credit hours later all I’m left with is impractical knowledge, massive debt, a piece of paper, and a dull headache that never goes away. The satisfaction of feeding information into my brain for exams and then repeating the process hundreds of times across a wide variety of irrelevant subjects is Imitigated by the realization that I’ve been funding the comfortable upper class lives of the profs and administrators with money I busted my ass in dead end jobs to accumulate. Sounds like an enforced poverty scheme to me, yet one which has overwhelming societal support and enthusiasm.
The world of work isn’t anything to get excited about either. You get to deal with cynical college educated assholes like me, every day! What a fucking nightmare! But at least you’re not paying to participate! At least as a human with material needs you are provided the financial mechanism of a paycheck to pay your rent, feed yourself, something all people should have the right to pursue without the self serving interference of appointed sages pushing their institution for their own material benefit.
My life would be better today if I’d spent my youth as an illiterate and became a garbage man. That assertion can be demonstrated as fact. Forgettting the financial aspect, at least in the blue collar world I would have developed the self respect which goes along with adult self sufficiency. As to the profs and support staff who make a comfortable living from excessive tuition amounts many students go through real hardships to generate, those thieves can rot as far as I’m concerned. Fuck them.
My bitter opinions won’t change anything, blowing up every university in the universe past/present/future won’t do a damn thing to the entrenched attitudes of the circus ringleaders, at least until a more intelligent life form comes along. No one will ever stop the momentum of society, despite what those greedy, self serving university assholes spew about intelligence and leadership.
I hate university. I am so glad there are others who feel the same. Everything I have read here gives vindicates my hatred.
In respect of making friends, it usually takes me a long time, and I think everybody else as well, but university has created the ridiculous idea that friendships are formed within the first two weeks of starting, and that somehow you’re going to find all these people who you’ve been told about that are ‘just like you’ at a pyjama pub crawl or an 80’s theme disco. The falsehood sickens me. It’s ironic that those who feel alienated by this are branded ‘anti-social’, when where in society is this a n acceptable form of making proper friends?
I’m in the process of deciding whether or not to stay or to go. I agree with an earlier post which said university is just a place for social stratification. I know if I stay it won’t be bad forever, but only because I would have been broken down so much as that I wouldn’t care anymore.
Leaving university and breaking out of years of social conditioning is one of the bravest things anyone would have to do in life. I really do respect anyone who have left and pursued something that they really want to do and that means something to them.
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first of all, thank god someone strated this up, because its bloody nice to know theres other people in the same place as you. i cant fucking stand it here at university, its the most indifferent, mind numbing experience of my life. surely we’re all asking the same question though in our heads? WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT IT? im a musician and id love to leave, so, so much, but it really dosent seem like theres any alternative. some of you others must feel like this? how do you get out? im tied up with money constraints, a lack of trust in music colleges, lack of anywhere else to live, etc. What do i do? i know this is a bit of a shot in the dark, posting this up on the net, hoping someone sees and can be bothered to voice an opinion, but ive thought A LOT about this, and have exhausted directions to turn in my head. does anyone have ANYTHING to say about this?
My first instinct is to say go and put all your energy into what you love and in to what will make you happy rather than stay on and have any energy and youthful zeal drained. I wish I had the courage, but my family are giving me a bit of a hard time about it.
cheers mary,
i know what i should do but it seems theres something at every turn stopping you. Its so ingrained into society that this is what you should do, there’s hardly an alternative. to you i might say that it’s your life at the end of the day, so you need to do what you want, not what someone else wants, no matter how close they are to you. however, i know that saying and doing are two different worlds, and advice is easy to give. what would you do otherwise?
It’s true, it seems your whole educational life has been a build up to this. But no one tells you how awful it is in reality.
You’re right when you say saying is one thing, and doing is another. There’s always going to be ‘what ifs’ because we shall be going out into an uncertain ground, not advocated by teachers and parents and all those old figures of authority.
Thanks for the advice ben, I’d like to be an assitant librarian actually, just have a pretty simple life!
Hey, you’s should see if your university will allow you to defer a year and keep your place, so you have something to fall back on if you change your mind. However, I think you have to have medical back up.
Hi guys, it’s nice to see other people who dont think UNI is great! I’m in my 2nd year of computer networks and i hate it! I’m going to drop out tomoz its shit
University is a fuckin bastard! God. I don’t even know where I start. I dropped out of my first year because I was so unhappy and didn’t have the mindset. I became a fuckin carpenter – which was my ultimate dream. But because they’ve been building less houses around my city, I couldn’t make enough money and I had to move back with my parents. And every fuckin shithead around me was telling me how in the end you need a fuckin degree. Now I’m back in school, trying to finish my first year courses and I’m more fucked up than before! I don’t even have the time to have a fuckin drink because I’m so fucked up studying for shit that I cannot remember for the life of me. Fuck I want to burn the school down.
I hate university because I hate authority. I never knew this about myself until I entered this insititution and gave my life up to a few old white men. I cannot stand the idea of other people deciding my future. I cant stand the way were all just suppose to be stupid little sheep doing what other people want, taking courses that will not benefit us in our future careers (go science go – life cycle of a fly anyone) and always having to try harder than that fool whose still so bright eyed and keen, they still try and care and are determined to do better than u and so u have to sell more of ur soul to do better than them. I hate University. I hate hate hate hate hate university. And what I hate most is its plain not fair. They dont reward merit, they dont give a shit what courses u took, they dont care that some people played the system for everything its worth to get where they are (and hence, theyre so bright eyed and keen, since everyone else did everything else for them) Im trying to get into med by the way and once upon a time i wanted to be a doctor beacuse i wanted to help people, i wanted to make a difference. Now, I just wanna be in a position where i can fire profs. I want cash. cold hard cash. I am so sick of this life sucking place.
I dont know what to do.
I do like university life as in going out and meeting new people, I find my course interesting although a little hard going.
However….my flatmates are not what i imagined. No-one, apart from a rly lovely girl, is sociable. I cant stand the lonliness of my room in the day.
Do i move?…but what if its the same there?
Do i leave?…and regret it perhaps?
Stick it out?….with the possibility of misery?
Do i defer?….what if its the same next year?
i wish it was fine from the beginning. I know i can be happy here…it’s just the luck of the draw who you get. But its ruining my time here, i dont want to look back and remember that i spent whats supposed to be one of the best years of my life…in tears.
NEVER go to UNISA (south Australia)
They are corrupt, overcrowded and don’t care about you or your studies.
They mislead so many people and are pretty much a PR (permenant residency) factory for chinese, indians, africans, arabs, persians and others. The uni is 40% international and this actually inhibits anything, because they don’t socialize, are prioritized, can’t speak english properly and compete for jobs (casual which theya ren’t many of)
It costs so much too.
Th uni lied to me about assumed knowledge. basically there was no mention of maths assumed knowledge and thus i failed repeatedly and as never offered help, even when i asked!
Infact the lecturer told me “i can’t help you and i don’t need to”
Yeah great.
Univeristy in Australia is focused on money and staus, nothing else. I’ve seen very intelligent people quit, even when they are doing well due to money and other reasons (predominantly at UNISA).
So remmebr don’t go to UNISA (UNISgAy)
Also i hope everyone in this thread whi isn’t enjoying UNI finds a way ot a place to make them happy and succeed.
Best of wishes
Basically if you want to leave… LEAVE.
It’s all just bullshit. You pay £3000+ for them to give you a reading list – thanks! that’s dead kind. If you’re interested in something then you might as well just go to the library and get a book save everyone’s time and money. Plus no one at uni is interested in learning anyway so even if you do all the pointless and dull reading you go to seminars and everyone sits in silence because none of them have
even looked at the reading. And lectures are quite possibly the most boring invention EVER.
I only went in the first place because i didn’t have a plan for what else to do and everyone expected me to go. So partly that i was fault but i am still pissed off that i spent a year sitting around saying i don’t want to go to university and no one ever said do something else then they all said yes, you do want to go.
So i lasted 8 weeks if you count freshers and reading week. And it was the most boring time i have ever spend in my entire life. Students drink, and that’s it. They don’t do any work they do do anything else just drink and if you don’t then don’t even bother. It took me one day to realise that so i don’t know why i even bothered staying but i thought maybe learning something would be interesting… it wasn’t you have to learn about so much shit you’re not interested and by the time you’ve done that you have no time or inclination to do anything that does interest you = serious depression.
So i am completely for dropping out. Sure I’m sitting at home with no idea what to do now but at least it’s not costing me huge amounts of wasted time and money to do that. Anyway if everyone has a degree it doesn’t mean anything anymore.
O and read the Teenage Liberation Handbook… it doesn’t matter that it’s about school or if you’re not a teenager but it’s nice to have someone tell you in book form that you’re not a complete failure for dropping out of the institutionalism and bullshit
I’m about half of the way through my first semester and I’m already contemplating throwing in the towel. I’ve always enjoyed learning, debating and being curious about things but the notion of university just seems to render this pointless. Recently, I’ve just found myself churning out work and asssignments and doing it all exactly to exam board specification, there doesen’t seem to be any room for creativity or independence, as I was led to believe. My interest in the subject is rapidly declining and my course grades are becoming alarmingly poor but at the moment I couldn’t give a damn, as all I want is out. Students’ attitudes and behaviour also stink, so much unjustifiable vanity, arrogance and rudeness, it’s actually soul destroying for decent and modest human beings like me. Since attending university, my self-esteem has gone down, I feel drained, lethargic, depressed and misanthropic. If university is the basis for a soundly built civil society, I can only despair.
The dilemma, as is inevitably the case, is the stigma of being a college drop-out and not obtaining a degree, ergo throwing away your ambition. However, I think somebody has to be defiant in this world and realise that having a degree does not make you a better person or any more committed.
well i found this website a year ago andi thank god everyday that i did because listenen to everyone else expereince the same shit as me has made me feel like im not a complete loser!im in my 2nd year and i think ive finally made a decision to QUIT!people kept telling me this year woulld be different.well it isnt!its the same old crap everyday with the same loser students who get pissed evryday.i hate this lifestyle!i have no idea how to tell my family that im quiting though….they will be so disapointed!!!
you guys are my type of people! I’m a student in toronto, canada. I find it miserable to go to Ryerson university and its only my first year! The reason why it sucks is because of many factors. most of these faggots aren’t here to study! They bring their cell phones to class and let them ring during the lecture. Their prescense irritates me. If i want to ask the prof a question, I’ve got to rethink the question to make myself sound smart and say it casually or I would seeing dozens of heads turning my way. Most of these kids are too immature for their age! the professors are all ESL’s from a different part of the world. They cannot explain shit to save their lives let alone give us an education. Its more or less heavy text book reading that saves ur ass. There really isn’t anything fun about the lectures and labs. It makes me feel like my vision of science and beauty was wrong. my program is costing me so much money, money that I earned with my own hard work yet disappearing like quicksand. Is there anybody going to my university? give me a nudge cause maybe we can find motivation from each other.
Been reading all of your comments and it’s a comfort to see others going through the same thing I am. I’m only doing a foundation year since my linked degree required experience in areas which I had never done before. The first week or two went fine until I quickly started to realize that my lecturers (most of them) were all morons! I have a Chinese guy teaching me maths, now no disrespect to race but his accent is so heavy it’s almost impossible to understand what he’s saying.
Next up is my programming teacher and what a wank he is. You guessed it! Another twat who has an accent as heavy as a naval ship. Can barely understand this twit, what’s more on one of the lab sessions he said
“If you need any help, raise your hand and I’ll do what I can”
I know sounds nice doesn’t it? Well I did just that and asked him to help me out on a problem I was having, now bare in mind I have NO programming experience and this foundation year factored that even those with little to no programming skill would be able to learn at a steady rate. So anyways when I ask for help he says to me,
“Sorry you have to do that yourself”
So hold the phone, before he said if you have any problems he’ll do his best to help and now he says I need to do it myself. I’m all for independence and learning on my own but throw me a bone here I’m new to this you pompous schmuck.
I even have lecturers who don’t turn because they say and I quote “Oh I thought the lecture was an hour early”
The degree I wanted to do was computer game tech. I fucking worked like a mule but it’s out of my league so I’m considering changing my course though almost 2 months have passed and even if I did find something chances are I wouldn’t be able to join it.
I sent and E-mail to head of the foundation department and placed all my worries and feelings into. I even had counseling since University has had me feeling suicidal and whats even worse is my parents used the grant and the loan I recieved because frankly my family financially is not doing well so I wanted to help them out.
So to break it down
1) University sucks
2) The lecturers are incompetent who don’t give a shite about their students nor about what their teaching.
3) The so called ‘help’ they provide is nothing more than a sugar coated “Suck it up and do it yourself your old enough to take care of it on your own”
4) I will most likely be in debt
5) Start to break down mentally
6) Die
For anyone who read ALL of this I thank you with all my being. At least someone heard me out properly, hope life deals you a nice hand.
-Wasif Asif-
well i finally did it and told uni were they can go.im offically out of that hell hole that was supposed to giv me the best years of my life.what aload of crap is all i can say.im working part time at the mo and applying for the police in january-i cant believe i actually quit.im still numb and confused by the whole dam expereience.i giv full credit to all u guys who are sticking it out-i couldnt do it any longer i was making myself ill i was unbelievable depressed and i realised IT WASNT WORTH IT!wasif i can totally sympathise with you, i to had lecturers who were from all over the world and found it dam hard to understand a word of what they were trying to ‘teach’. I had a spanish woman trying to teach us stats this year-why oh why would anyone think this would be a good idea!?!god dam it employ some teachers with english accents!!!!i just wana say good luck to everone and thanks for listenin to me rant on for the past year and a half!kx
I say – well done to those who have the guts to leave. I’m in my third year of a Philosophy degree and have only just rediscovered learning…all by myself. University’s are awful institutions. Lectures are dull, you’re adding £4k a year to your debt to read about 7 books per year. I’ve learnt more in the past 6 months reading about things that interest me (Popper, Dawkins, Pinker, Foucault) than I have done in any lecture/seminar. If you’re thinking about getting out – GET OUT! I regret not leaving when I still could. My mind is screwed up and I have huge mood swings. If you complain of depression they stick you straight on tablets just to get you through the course. Most of the lecturers (most) are arrogant and look down on all but the few. There’s no room for creativity, and no room to flourish. Something’s wrong when an institution for learning and wisdom does not allow you to deviate even slightly from any exam specification/essay outline. It’s stupid, it’s numbing, it’s turned me into a depressed alcoholic, and I’m so glad I found this long list of people like me!
If you’re thinking of getting out – get out. Grow some balls (or if you’re a woman…some…weird growths) and get the hell out before it eats away at your life and you become another drone. Meanwhile, I can’t afford to drop out…so…looks like I’ll be working on my dissertation tonight. That started off interesting. Before my ‘dis. tutor’ told me what I had to write.
Bloody hell…
I have just been reading some of these posts and have to FULL HEARTEDLY DISAGREE with people saying that if they would have chosen an art degree then their so called “unique creativity” would be nourished and that they would be happier. What a load of bollocks. I am in the supposedly “best” university for my course in Europe (so they always say). I am at Central Saint Martins. There are over 170 people on my course. It is ridiculously over-stretched. A lot of the people there that I have met seem to be so far up their own arses it is a joke. Art school is not one big drawing session. It is not free-spirited either. It is fiercely competitive and expensive and just the same as a more academic university, very restricted. You do not have free reign.
Urg! I cannot get across how much I hate the place and how disillusioned it has made me feel. I thought I was going there to learn skills, the tricks of the design trade, but I am constantly told that even though I have pade over £3000 for my education, I have to go learn everything at home! Why pay to go there then. A BA is just a money making racket. My tutors even say so themselves. There is no value. Everything I will learn will be on my own time. I will be leaving shortly, not because I am a drop-out, but I refuse to feel victimised by the system. “Oh you must have a degree”… Every Tom, Dick and Harry has one nowadays, I would rather live life. 15 out of my 19years have been in education, I’m going to start learning things my own way, that way there is only myself to blame and I doubt I will have as much as I would if I stayed on this hamster wheel of a life path.
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SO good to find I’m not alone. I have to say my undergrad degree was a blast but I decided to do my Masters in London, what a f**king shock. My Uni has just been ranked no 9 in the world and I have no idea why. I’m paying a lot of money and what do I get? Spoken to like sh*t, professors who think they’re God’s gift, people on the course who are so far up their own backsides just cos they have a degree that they can’t see daylight.
The professors are so lazy, they dish out ridiculous amounts of reading cos they can’t be bothered to do any work. They may all think they’re superbrains (if you can recycling someone else’s work and putting it into your own words brains) but they have no concept of the real world in their little academic bubble. I can’t be myself at this Uni and that’s not what it’s meant to be about – it’s supposed to open your mind to thinking and experimenting with ideas (depending on your degree) in new ways not indoctrinating you into THEIR way of doing things.
All I can say for all those people on here who feel that they don;t fit in at Uni for any reason, most of the great people in history who have ever done anything meaningful and had a real impact on the world were people who were misunderstood and felt that somehow they didn’t fit in with the society they lived in.
No, you’re most definitely not alone. London University for me has been the biggest myth! It is just as bad as a University up north. People thinking they’re above others because they go to a London University, pah! If you have any sense, don’t come here!
Anyone from Canada (Ontario) here? … because university here sucks too!!
Getting my degree (software engineering) is like jail-time for four-five years…
Lectures are boring, professors are insane, classmates + friends are fake-ish…
I came to university with a real passion for learning and since I read the brochures I was so excited about going. It seemed that from this point on life would be so simple, it seemed like all that I would have to do was study and learn and work a little, although being a student would be my first priority. I have a good family life and when I left school I had a few, but very trusting friends. But I was so short sighted and dead wrong. University sucks, that’s it in a nutshell. It sucks because I expected the wrong things. I wouldn’t go on to say that I hate everyone there, although there is the significant minority of complete douche bags of both genders of course. There is this huge majority that I have absolutely nothing in common with. I have nothing in common with any of them, no one. Socializing with them just completely drains me, it sucks me dry of my energy, I just can’t handle study after a day at university, I hate it so much. In my country, Australia, if your idea of having a good time does not involve getting completely ‘wasted’ (i.e. severely intoxicated) and wasting your money, health and time while doing it, then there must be something unusual about you and no one will want to socialize with you, in fact no one will give a god damn shit about you. You will be a god damn loner, and that kind of stress is just ruining me, I thought during the summer holidays I’d get a break of it all, but so far it doesn’t look promising. I am just trying to keep people away from me, not by being rude, but I am just trying so hard to disassociate myself from so many people because I just can’t get on with them. I can be polite to them but in the end I don’t like what they like, I don’t laugh at what they laugh at, I am not involved in pop culture, I don’t watch TV so I never have a god damn clue what group conversations are about, I am just on the side, I don’t participate. I feel more like a prop, just some guy that stands on the side and says things like “wow?”, “damn” and “that is whack.”, (kind of like the token black guy, but white.)
I was introverted to start with but being at university has just made me even more so, and on one hand it feels alright because I am on my side and I do things more effectively when I do them alone, on the other hand I hate it, because I just become self centered and reclusive. I just don’t know what to do, I am really missing something. I just can’t click with anyone and last time I did they had to move away so I don’t see this good friend anymore, it’s such a shame, he was the only person I really had things in common with, everyone else is just a materialistic douche bag. I just wish there was nothing more to university than study, I wish it was just study on your own, sit the exam then study some more. I wouldn’t have a problem with that. But universities are just like assembly lines, knowledge factories, no deviations from the formula, no curiosity, no creativity, just rote learning and intellectual numbness. I hate it, I hate waking up to it, I hate the fact that I don’t have an alternative, I just hate my life, even though on the outside it may seem I have no reason to be miserable.
yeah its nice to hear that other people share my dislike for student life and univeristy. Its crap. I am studying art history at Goldsmiths in London and its SO PRETENTIOUS!!! WHY WHY WHY??? why do people have to be like that? up there own arses, so stuck up, so stupid, thinking they are better then others?
I cant wait to finish my degree, at this boring Univeristy. I havent got many friends there- i tried but its just not me.
Studying art in London.. is fake and unless you know people, wear designer clothes and go to all ‘cool’ places you wont go very far… and there is much more to life that doing that pretentious crap!! good luck!
Hey Paulina,
Have you got Facebook or something? I’m at CSM and it is exactly the same, people thinking they can have an attitude with the tutors for no reason whatsoever.
I don’t think I am going to carry on with my degree, why bother? pay all that money for something that isn’t special at all. It’s not all money, more the thought of those vulgar idiots on the course having the same degree and I think in the art world, there is no escaping those imbeciles!
xx
Hey Morning Crack,
It’s the same in the UK. But do you know what else? They’re sheep.The other day the clicky group on my course all followed each other out of the room in 2 minute intervals to sit in the corridor and talk, drink, read their newspapers whilst a few of us were left watching this documentary. At least you are an individual and not some clone. Out of interest anyone else go to UCL?
Hey LSH,
nope, UAL, but it’s just the same, actually, it’s probably worse… ‘art students’!
Morning Crack,
I’ve been where you are man. I know how you feel just by reading your words. I really feel you. On the outside it may seem like you have no reason to be so miserable and unhappy because you are living the life that society and maybe the people around you have structured and created for you, and you’re simply just playing it all out. This happens first on an energetic level on the inner planes, and then manifests on the outer plane (here, now). You have to start remembering what it is that is truly in your heart and soul and what you truly want out of life: what would make you want to get up every morning? Listen man, I don’t know if you have any religious beliefs or any other beliefs that might block this out but give it a shot anyways try this site http://www.theheavenproject.net this is the best advice I could give you right now
MBS i totally agree with you you’re right on the money man
What a hypocrite you are Mike!
With all your talk of “WE have to take action. WE ARE the generation that has to take action”… If University is so awful for you and you do speak about it with such hatred, why don’t YOU leave?
Because you like to believe that you are above it all. Use your “inner intelligence” and leave, instead of trying to persuade others to.
I started reading your post and thought you were pretty admirable, until I got to your ‘P.s.’
There is an excellent saying… ‘Practice what you preach’.
Well, it looks like we have established the fact that university is an anti-climax. You can look at all these people that have dropped out of university and made success, but they are a very small minority. The fact is, that graduates, on average, get paid more people without degrees. Although at the end of the day, money doesnt make you happy, but more money will probably make you more likely to be happy. If you’re gonna do a career afterwards that has nothing to do with the degree, thinking that it is pointless, then you don’t get the whole picture. A degree (unfortunately in todays society) proves intelligence and to get further in life you have got to have one, even if it has nothing to do with the career. Degrees make promotions and money. Its extremely sad that society has come to this, but that is the world today and you can’t do anything about it.
(Wow, students have a hard life, a bit of reading, some essays, a few lectures and then the whole summer of doing absolutely nothing- compared to maybe people in africa starving with no healthcare etc. where everyday is a struggle to live. An we are complaining about a few lecturers, inability to make friends and a hard life?!? Its time to have a look at yourself and how lucky you are to have opportunities to do anything at all.)
I suppose people won’t like what I have written but its the truth. I hate university as much as anyone and sympathise with everyone on this site. But remember that its only for a few years and “if you’re going through hell, keep going”.
HA! University ‘proves intelligence’, what a joke! They let anybody who can (and cannot for that matter hence student loans) pay the fee’s on to a University.
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Yelir,
I can see where you are coming from, but i totally disagree. You are like a really rational guy who thinks that we must settle for this and we have no power to change things. Imagine if all the greats like Gandhi or Martin Luther King (I dont feel like listing the so many people but there are so many and probably many we dont know about) for example would of been thinking the same way you are…
Like I said, its good to step outside the box sometimes, and see things from a higher perspective. Of course more money is good, and yes it is true university graduates get paid more. I agree man I wanna be loaded OFF MY ASS too. But that is still a part of the system. You’re just zooming in on a small part of the system. I’m saying get outside the system, find your purpose your passion and your drive, and surely you will, in the process, become wealthier than any university education can provide. No, im not a living example of this YET, but I swear to god ill come back to these forums in 5 years and prove it to you. You sound like someone smart who is just “accepting” things because thats what seems like the “easy path”, but thats the system man. It is.
You sympathize with everyone…I can feel the coldness there man, really. You sound like a shitty teacher or some blind system business guy or something “Oh yes well of course lets express our human emotions but the reality is we just brush it off harden up and push through and live our purposeless lives and make money so we can survive and maybe feel some emotions in the process but ignore everything else and do the whole routine then die”…Thats what theyre saying theyre lying to themselves. What are you doing on this planet, try to think of it man. Just Passing through? What are you in purgatory or something. Think harder, feel deeper, reflect go inside man. (im not telling you what to do, im just saying you know…)
Oh and chances are if you hate school like you say you do, I dont think youre life will get any better once you graduate. Thing is we hate school cuz its part of the system, and the system is all about emotional instability, ups and downs, high and low and so much stress because we arent doing the things we love in an environment we love at all times. How could you just “accept it” and “push-through” your life in one of the “safe make you feel like your comfortable outlets” the system provides (a salary) as a remedy to the chaos they create? Its like beauty…lets make people feel shitty and ugly so we can create cosmetics and make them feel beautiful. Yes I know they are ugly to begin with and the cosmetics to make them hotter sometimes (a few beers wouldn’t hurt either) but again it all comes down to the reality we have created for ourselves. Look at humanity just look at what we’ve created. It may seem like I’m attacking you, but honestly I would just love to hear your answer…how does your reasoning provide you with enough drive and energy to wake up in the morning and do what you do? Again i feel like this sounds like an attack, but I just want to hear your answer, maybe even you need to hear your own answer.
Anyways ill be glad to leave these comments open to interpretation whether positive or negative, because for everything i write id love to justify everything from all the many possible angles but I just cant do that id have to write a book on the forum, so ill keenly wait for peoples replies on certain and specific aspects of my comments so i can further elaborate and explain my perspectives and opinions.
one last comment you said:
Its time to have a look at yourself and how lucky you are to have opportunities to do anything at all.)
EXACTLY. SO START DOING SOMETHING PURPOSEFUL. LIVING COMFORTABLY UNTIL YOU DIE IS NOT PURPOSEFUL. SEIZE YOUR OPPORTUNITIES AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE. And i dont think you need to sacrifice anything in the process, i think you can gain more that you can imagine in the process. if you care so much about those starving, then what are your plans on making a difference? Who says at the end of your life you wont die and be reborn as one of those africans because really you were just “passing through” this lifetime and never really accomplished anything except for the material things you acquired and left behind anyways, REGARDLESS of what your beliefs are.
What I’m saying is that university is a stepping stone to some places that only a degree can get you to. That’s life; and you can read your 1984, watch your Matrix and complain about the “system” all you want but you can’t change it. . (What you were saying reminded me of the Matrix film (so in a simile kind of way) in which there are two types of people, those that fight and those who conform and I would argue that the conformists are happier than the rebels).
How many Gandhi’s and Martin Luther King’s do you know. It just isn’t possible to do anything about it. Yes, there are these 1 in a million people, but I am not one of them, if you want to do that, become a politician or something. You’re just going to be unhappy fighting for a lost cause, what’s wrong with getting a decent job, earning a decent salary, living by the sea, eating and drinking the best stuff, being with friends and family, surfing, drinking, sleeping etc. That’s what I want in life and I’m going to get it in the end. So that’s why I get up every morning to lectures etc.
I’m completely content with the “system”, there’s just a few aspects of life here that I don’t like e.g. very hard essays and people who I live with that I have to share kitchens/bathrooms with who I don’t particularly like etc. I’m sure I would be happier to live with people I like and finding the work less hard, but you just gotta take the ups with the downs.
Spending the rest of your life fighting isn’t worth it, just make a few changes and you’ll be happier, maybe quitting university, maybe stop thinking that the “system” is what’s wrong with your world.
Personally Mike, I think you are deeply confused. I disagree with you on so many things that you posted however I am not going to post a 1000 word reply. I am more to the point.
However, I should choose my words more wisely in the future. When I mentioned that your post was admirable, I meant that there was slight admiration for you when I thought that you had had some backbone and left University, after saying how unhappy you were. I state NOT for the sheer amount of waffle you posted (or should I say preached?), that gave the impression of someone quite unhinged and brainwashed.
Yelir,
I totally understand your point of view, and it makes alot of sense. I too want and will have a top notch lifestyle, whether I pursue a University degree or not and I’m glad you want the same thing and I hope you get it all and more. The truth is, I guess it cannot be described unless to those who can intuitively understand it…it is something that goes beyond material wealth and physical health. I respect that. Although, for the record, I must disagree with your statement that it is a “Lost Cause”. Challenging and would take unimaginable effort and work yes, lost cause, no. That is what you have been led to believe (I think). I am aware that it’s not “the system” that is wrong with “my world” since my perception of reality is that it is merely a reflection of what’s going on inside me. But to ignore the sad state things are in is foolish, and to do nothing about it except enjoy your material acquisitions for the time being is in MY OPINION purposeless.
MBS, I don’t really care whether you disagree with me or not. You obviously don’t have all the answers to life, or else you wouldn’t be here wining about how much you hate the institution but still accept it no matter how much it torments you (because you don’t have the balls to leave) and just attack people who are suggesting things outside of your set of beliefs that keep you safe in your little world. Although I’m always open to argument, you seem to be more keen on attacking those with different opinions. Just because you do not understand my point of view, it does not mean I am brainwashed and you are “sane”. I’m probably more successful (in terms of the way you measure it anyways) than you are right now, and I know what brainwash is. I think it is you who are brain washed, as it is obvious you are suffering and are very narrow minded, and can’t see a way out of something you hate. I won’t even get started on that because then you’ll have to read another 1000 post of which importance does not outweigh what you have to read for tomorrow’s class anyways. And do not call me a preacher as it was totally uncalled for and I clearly stated that I express personal opinions and points of view open to discussion and argument, as I don’t believe that I have all the answers or “know it all”. Besides, what do you think your teachers are doing every lecture? Just because it is wide spread and commonly accepted, does not mean it is not preaching. But that might be too “deep” for your limited understanding anyways so this conversation ends here.
Mike, get a life. You have labelled me with such stereotypes, for you to claim to be open minded is beggar’s belief. This is an internet forum discussing University life, I will not venture in anything or than this on here. You have no understanding as you have very obviously misinterpreted my posts on every level and have just come to your own conclusions. Which is fair enough, but will get you no where in life, only where you are now, a sad and bitter being.
Good Day.
Oh my gosh! I think someone oughta call a Doctor for mike over there.
yer mike man, calm down its only a forum blud. uni is da shizzle i ain’t got no beef with ma lecturers innit. reppin’ Manchester Met! wuh wuh.
I wish I could have gone to university! The turmoil is a small price to pay as we forget that we have perhaps gone through worse. Remember GCSEs where we had to AT ANY COST get good grades. Remembering how you survived and how you made it through university will make you so much stronger a person for adulthood.
By the way Mike, you really need to calm down. I know because I was once where you are now. I drove myself to the brink of insanity in trying to find a purpose in life and in existence. Then it became obvious that there was NO purpose in life, society has been built on people who made a purpose for themselves, who chose to make a purpose. No purpose or a purpose, both are very strong choices and they are both entirely your call. Mike, if you’re really serious, then you need to think rationally and carefully on what you’re doing. Don’t save humanity by destroying society, save humanity by helping society. You’ll end up killing someone if you don’t slow down.
On another note, I would suggest you stick with university, no matter how bad it is. Remember, its just 3-5 years of your life, a small price to pay if it helps you later and helps you become totally independent and confident of your strengths. But also remember that you need strength to walk away if you really need to.
As for me, when I can finally sort out my poor E grades from A-Level I will try my hand at university and hopefully have a less tragic time than you poor folks. My sympathies for all you have all been through.
Blimey, this thread’s been going for 3 and a half years..
Yeah I hate uni too. I’m in my 4th year and I’ve gradually become an exhausted hunchback recluse.
I was irresponsible in the first couple of years (money, skipping lectures etc), arguably because I felt so shit I was constantly looking for short-term ways to feel better (‘I’ll just miss this lecture cos then I won’t have to talk to anyone….’). Anyway, I’m paying for it now. I’m totally the source of my own problems, not uni, and I really want to deal with it and become a person that I like. It’s just uni makes it pretty much impossible to do anything about it:
How can you keep up decent relationships when you are too exhausted to string a sentence together? How can you become less exhausted when you have a shitty diet and hardly get any sleep? How can you eat when you’ve maxed out your overdraft? How can you earn any money when you don’t have any free time? How can you feel good about yourself when you have to sponge off your parents? How can you do any decent work when you’re trying to scrape your way out of all these other situations?
5 months to go.
Ok, then mike, I think you’ve proved just what kind of unhinged and brainwashed being you are now.
Anyway… I know the feeling chio, it’s the same way I feel. I keep skipping lectures but I know it’s just going to back fire and come back on me in the end…
Hmm it seems mikes’ posts have set this discourse away on a tangent far removed from the original objective of grumbling about UNi in its pure and simple form. Delusional, half-baked overly theoretical, conspiracy theory crap.
Anyway, I posted a year ago now I think and my original bitter cynicism of University (History Degree in the UK) has subsided considerably after I’ve rethought everything and got myself a girlfriend (enormous morale boost).
However, a lot still remains about University that I still cannot grasp:
I pay 1000 pounds a term for my course and I only recieve for that money 2 hours of contact time (a seminar) per week. PER WEEK! Effectively therefore I’m paying for a 3 grand library card a year. Furthermore, these seminars seem to be a forum in which all the arrogant, conceited, pretentious, soulless robots get to blather on about what THEY think on whatever tangent THEY want to go on whilst I need to learn how to answer my exam essay questions next term! I don’t want to discuss in a group! I want to be taught precisely what to do! I think sometimes the facade of independent learning is a cop out excuse for not instructing us more thoroughly. It doesn’t make sense to me that we grow up through school under the culture of being assigned homework and then doing it within a pretty rigid set of constraints relative to what I’m doing now, and yet once you arrive at Uni, and get given an essay title and nothing else, it’s like throwing you to the lions! You haven’t been educated to produce amazing degree standard stuff on your own, you’ve been educated to jump through hoops on cue. Anyway, it doesn’t matter. I just need to do what needs to be done and that’s that. Plenty of time to muse about the unjustness of it when my degree is long gone.
More silly introverted musings from me later I’m sure. Disgruntled students of the world, rebels/lazy bohemians/stressed/friendless/ overworked, all of you students alike, keep the faith.
Lee
I’m going to ignore the recent tangent, as I got excited by the posts at the top and wanted to comment.
I’m coming up to xmas hols after 12 weeks at uni, and the fact that I, like all the above, typed in “I hate Uni” on google should give you a clue as to what I feel like.
I had a brilliant time in sixth form -had a great set of friends, enjoyed the work, and really liked the person I felt I was becoming. Now it seems like all of that has been cut off, and that I am turning into a shell of who I used to be.
I was never the best person at making friends, but I never thought in my worst nightmares that I would find myself utterly friendless, and yet here I sit. Although I have forced myself to be friendly, I really have nothing in common with most of my classmates, whose main interests seem to be getting pissed. As the main subject of conversation between them is how pissed they got at whichever club, I am increasingly feeling like an outsider, to the extent of dreading to go in at all. Even worse is that people I initially made a connection with, and thought were becoming my friends, are acting like the more popular people in order to fit in, and not trying to form a relationship with the boring loner.
Anyone who tells me to “make an effort to fit in” is essentially telling me to not be myself, though I should stress that I’m not nearly as much of an arsehole as my way of writing would suggest. It’s just that getting smashed out of my head every weekend is not what I want to do with my time (and money), and because i’m not willing to pretend otherwise, I’m on my own.
All this is really grueling because at my old school, I was fairly popular. Perhaps it was just a case of being a big fish in a small pond, because my personality definitely hasn’t carried over to my new life. But it is heart rending to meet my old friends and be treated like I was still the great person I used to be, knowing full well that the next day I’d go right back to being a nobody.
Even more troubling is that, although my work is being marked as very good, I feel deep down that it is of poor quality. Although I want to do well, I find it difficult to derive any satisfaction from praise for work that I think doesn’t deserve it. It seems like I’m not learning anything other than how to pander to what my teachers expect.
Worst of all, I’m terrified that my new misery-guts personality will effect the relationships that I already have, particularly with my girlfriend. I am finding it harder to talk to my old friends, and feel like I am boring them. My constant stress and tiredness is starting to seep through into the time spent with my girlfriend, and I can sense it becoming less enjoyable for her to be with me. I can only hope that xmas will give me the opportunity to get back to the happy state of mind I was once in.
Sorry to bore you with all that crap, I just had to get it off my chest. I don’t dare tell my family that I’m not liking it, and it felt so good (in a dark sort of way) to see that so many people feel exactly like me. Let’s all of us meet up and solve the problem of friendlessness.
p.s. After reading through my post, I thought I should make it clear that I am not an arsehole in real life. Please beleive me.
Chalk me into the group that hates university (which is majority of the people here). Highschool was 10 times better than this shit. Not only do I need to throw away my social life to get decent marks, I’m getting pressured by my parents to do well, and most of the shit I’m learning has nothing to do with the program I applied for. Not to mention that engineering is a total sausage fest and most of the profs don’t have any clue how to teach undergraduate students.
So you hate uni? This is how to beat the system. I went to Birmingham university for the total wrong reasons, didnt want to get left behind, retake my shoddy alevels, or disappoint my family. So off i went. I HATED IT. it was everything uni life should not have been. I was stuck with the biggest dickhead students in my flat, and uni life was dull and uninspiring. So after month i decided to appy to other higher institions whilst continuing on at birmingham uni temperoraly. I have recieved two offers already. Its now xmas holidays and im about to leave shitty birmingham and work to go travelling knowing that i have the option of going to better uni’s when i return. Things are looking up! Just dont get stuck, its not worth it seriously these are the best years of your life. I know it sounds hard to stand up to your parents. But heck if i can tell my parents i changed my degree course and now am changing uni’s anyone can. Its not that bad. Take control. Get mad and do it. Hope ive been of help. TH.
Some guy earlier on said that no matter how much you work your ass of it just doesn’t count. You’ve got to document your research. Research, research ad nauseum, no ideas or opinions of your own. Uni is a self perpetuating mediocracy.
i hate university so much and want to leave. i am studying acturial sciences and its so strssful. i just feel like packing my bags and leaving everyday, but am afraid that society will see me as a failure. i have attempted to commit suicide 4 times and have failed. i really dont know what to do. please someone help me.i am so glad i found this site, where people understand me.
Some one should start a forum.
I am computer illeterate really so don’t know how to.
If any one hdoes or there already is post it here.
I am at University but I do not understand the referencing and how you are supposed to argue in an assignment. You are too apprehensive to write anything in case you get caught plagiarism-it is a load of nonsence bu I will stick to it as I am sick of being in a dead end job.
While I can’t say that my lecturers are bad, on the contrary, they’re very good and we’re having about 30 hours of lectures every week + tutorials, it’s too much of “the good stuff”, i.e. we don’t get any personal space to pursuit friends or other areas of the program; streamlined and standardized is good when it comes to churning out books in a press, food from a machine, advertising for hollywood-movies, but I came to university thinking it would be a life altering experience, really in a lot more ways than it’s been, with departmental cooperation and knowledge sharing aiming to broaden perspective and mind!
not to be repetative but i completely agree with what everyone is saying, it’s like u all read my mind!!! i’ve always had friends before but when i came to uni it felt like i was some kind of lepper. My course is completely uninspiring and the subject i once loved leaves me cold. I miss my boyfriend constantly, but when i tell him i want to leave and go abroad he even tells me not to. I feel trapped, doomed to live the next 4 years miserable in order to make others happy. Every sisngle person in my year at school went to uni, the idea of not going was laughable. It’s hard to break free from that. Insane or what….
Thank Christ for this thread, I was starting to feel like I was the only one who hated university. I used to watch history shows on TV and talk to my friends about history all the time but uni’s just killed that. I hate history now. College was so good, I had a close-knit group of friends, time to myself and didn’t have to work every second of my life. Uni’s changed that completely. What fuckwit decided to tell the world that uni was the best time of your life where all you had to do was dick around for 3 years and earn money at the end of it? It’s not fucking true.
I cried every day during my first term and I can’t see it getting any better. My Mum started off being very understanding, but now I’m suddenly in the wrong whenever I say I don’t want to be there – she just says ‘it can’t be that bad, belt up’. My girlfriend can’t stand seeing me sad but I just can’t pick myself up no matter how hard I try. I now work 50-hour weeks, have exactly zero friends and miss my girlfriend constantly. The work is pointless and stupidly difficult. How am I meant to learn with ONE contact hour a week which does nothing but tell me why I was ‘incorrect in my assumptions’ in my last essay and give me the title for the next pile of uninspired regurgitated drivel I’m expected to punch-out like some clapping cymbal-monkey?
And no, I can’t leave. My family and girlfriend would disown me if I did. This is one-chance Oxford, where supposedly dreams are made through a perfect education. Fuck that shit, I don’t want to spend my days hearing about how rich the kid next to me’s daddy is or why Oxford is the best fucking city in the world. I’ve never met such small-minded and elitist twats. I just hope I never turn into one of them. Speaking to employers also brings up the soul-crushing fact that an Oxford degree is worth fuck-all more than a degree from KCL or LSE. So why the fuck am I here? My own mistake I guess – I got sucked in by all the bullshit remarks pumped out at me like “Yeah, there’s some work to do, but you’ll totally have time to do other really fun stuff!”. I should have gone to London but hindsight’s fucking 20/20 isn’t it.
I don’t want to do this anymore. Nothing makes me happy. I’ve got this constant burning feeling in my chest. I’ve lost everything that made my life perfect to have it replaced with everything I hate. No degree can be worth this.
Weyyheyy!!! A fuckload of people who share my sentiments!
No fucking wonder Prince Harry’s girlfriend left this pisshole of a city. Depressing weather, depressing people, and the fake facade of an up-and-coming vibrant cosmopolitan hub. BULLSHIT. Fucking find myself sat more and more in my room poring over internet pages trying to kill time between handing in essays and being woken up at 3am by the droning monotonous sound of my one-dimensional blockmates.
Bring on the end of a chorish 3 years.
wow I wish I could find someone at my uni who felt this way too! I’m so unhappy here but stick with it because it’s a good uni and my parents put me through public schooling to get me far in life. But honestly I’m looking for accommodation off-campus for next year and can barely find people to share with…anyone been in this situation and what the hell did you do if so, because I feel totally screwed right now.
i hate uni too! its so good to see some people are in the same boat as me. I don’t see the whole point of lectures if they bloody give us reading lists and expects us to read them all rather than to rely on the lecture notes. What is the whole point of lecturing why can’t they just give us what we suppose to read rather than telling us to ‘discover’ what we are suppose to learn. They stupid lectures only want us to suffer, probably cuz they had a low, sad and depressing life themself and want us to go through it too! another theing if education is about discovery then we should be allowed all the time in the world to do an essay, but, hey presto we have deadlines to fufil – so what the heck forget about personal opinion or let alone discovery, plagerise instead. i hope a uni lecturer reads this blog and learn a few lesson from it, whereby if they really want there students to learn they should be more wiling to share information rather than conceal it and if they want to conceal the info then the should give us the whole time to discover it! the paradox lies in where you have to discover info but in a restricted time!! Hence the system needs to get there priorities sorted.
Hey everybody, listen to this ,,” i was so happy after finishing high school . oh God I’m gonna be going to University soon !!!”
It’s just a dream when you’re 18 years old …
well ..then i apply .. and now i’m a university student . i started feeling frustrated ever since i took my first steps into the registration unit . hey fish !!!, ( a fuckin’ employee would call you) .., how can i help you ? …they never do their job well !!!
Nowadays , I’m a senior student .. and guess what ? that first feeling has always kept my company !!!
all i’m thinking about right now is how to get that ugly fat ass professor to believe me when i say … sorry .. i was late because i was sick !!! …….. while trying to hide the real reason which is all about me getting laid the night before !!!! LOL
Nothing in life seems to have any intrinsic meaning anymore; everything is just in your face, shallow and meaningless. The relationships I have with people are shallow, the people are shallow, I just can’t relate to them, I can’t feel what they feel because from my perception they don’t feel anything worth feeling. They feel instant gratification, excess, avarice, gluttony, physical pleasure, sweet short term euphoria, and the desire to perpetuate all of this, they see no end to it. I see that pathway as being devoid of true happiness and that is why I reject it. I want to see an end to something, I want to know what happens, I want peace, serenity, freedom from desire, freedom from excess, genuine relationships with people based on mutual and most importantly unconditional trust. Except for the last point, all of the aforementioned seems to stand in stark opposition to what other people generally value and that is something that I can’t deal with, I am just not compatible with those people because we differ in values. I don’t like our culture of over consumption, it makes me sick and disgusted in a non-self righteous way, it’s just something that I keep to myself, but the rejection of these cultural values, in the form of abstinence, frugality, simple living leaves me feeling marginalized, powerless, alienated, and different, from other people and ultimately in a psychological mess. Probably one of the major reasons I abstain from excess is not so much because of the real meaninglessness of consuming desires, but more so to do with the fact that such a lavish lifestyle comes at a ridiculous high price and when I weigh out the advantages and disadvantages I realize it is a price I am very unwilling to pay. The most obvious price is money, but I spend little money because I have little money. The reason I don’t have so much money in my bank is because I don’t work a lot, the reason I don’t work a lot is because I think it is soul destroying, it degrades me on a spiritual level. Any job a person my age does is almost always a drudge, a meaningless waste of time spent tending to the desires (not the needs) of ungrateful, gluttonous pigs. I can’t do it, it’s just when I think about the state of the world right now there seems to be more important matters that need attention rather than serving some fat ass another beer.
Well, what does this have to do with university? Well university is the context in which this is all taking place, university is the time in my life that I realized things were not as they seem, people were not as they seemed, values were not as they seemed, life is not as it seemed and now I am broken, I am bitter and lethargic about it all. I can carry on in the hopes that this will end, I hope to emigrate, well maybe delusional but it keeps me hanging on and hopeful. If anyone feels this way too please make yourself known, if anyone has advice then I would love to hear it because I need it. Well thanks for reading yet another post on how much life sucks.
I think pretty much everyone here feels that way
We all typed “I hate university”.
My only advice is get some sort of hobby that you enjoy – preferably one that could earn money, for when you finish uni.
…and it goes without saying that if you hate university – the so called Best Days of Your Life (like all parts of the education system seem to be labelled) – then you’re against all that other soul destroying stuff mentioned.
Abstaining from those things sadly seems to require abstaining from people. Most people anyway. I wish I knew some people at my Uni who also hated it (and the general uni culture).
University has finally defeated me, yeah I’m dropping out, but let’s have none of this ‘oh you’ll end up a failure’ crap. My parents are completely ok with this, and are looking at alternatives for me, such as other colleges, where I can expand my interests into organics or permaculture. Screw this capital ideal of ‘the business world’, let’s not become slaves to this grinding mill and do something meaningful to help others, or at least yourself.
I’m so sick of the self serving culture nowadays, it’s shite, all these cretins who can afford to come to university WITHOUT having to take out a loan, funded by ‘mummy’ and ‘paparrr’, but who lack the most basic understandings of everyday life, then are plonked into some chairman position at BigCorp, having done fuck-all work to get there can all spin on it until it bored through their shallow little brains! WAAAAAAGH!
Aaaah rant over. That feels pretty good.
I hope everyone who hates their universities gets through their program safely and ends up having a degree. Trust me, without the degree 95% of people end up doing slave labor among stupid lowlifes for the rest of their life. If you’re a gifted businessperson and can start your own company or if you have a real talent for art, you might not need a university–but otherwise… you better try to like it.
I hated universities all my life (let’s just say my parents were university profs and I hate them too). I hate universities now. All of them. However, at the age of mid-30s, I had to go back and right now trying to complete my BS in computer science.
Yes, universities are, primarily, instruments of social control, oppression, conformism, abuse such as sexual and racial harassment–and, like someone had said above, of class stratification. They are the tools used by society and governments to package plastic people who will be ready to become corporate units, rivets in the machine of consumer society. Most of the professors at universities are snotty, abusive idiots, who belong in community service facilities.
As much as I hate schools, however, after I had endured long years of slave work doing hourly jobs, in conditions harmful for my health, sometimes, I feel like completing my degree and seeking professional employment.
PS to my previous post.. in response to “Matt”–
I find that Oriental philosophies have a lot of answers to questions like you’ve asked. We often lack the spiritual component in lives: that makes everything appear empty.
I agree with your thoughts.. I think you’re definitely on the way to serenity and peace already
I feel you shouldn’t worry about shallowness of your relations, or stupidity of your customers, or consumer ways of the modern society—because human nature is primitive and life will always be flawed and tainted by mundane stuff. I think that the enlightened person will always be alone, in a sense. (I’m Goth, and feel alone even in Goth community–but still happy) Yes, being free from desires is very liberating–for me, that included being free from desire or need for relationships as well, because I came to believe that all relationships are shallow in nature. If one is to meet a true friend, this happens rarely and by the will of fate, we can’t force it.
I think that true art, which is set apart from consumption culture can be an answer to a lot of things. Giving good part of my time to art, I am free from worries about the society’s ways, even though I have to endure the daily drudgery.
I am not sure why the life of abstinence makes you feel marginalized and powerless… It should make you feel powerful as you’re not a slave to the desires most people are slaves to. Feeling different shouldn’t be a bad feeling as well… (ok, may be as a Goth I’m used to feeling different and as I also am a part of Goth community I don’t feel that isolated.. but it’s better be isolated than be the way the majority of people are, I find the way they live and their interests to be sickening)
Our soul is killed by material things, by the need to fight for survival and make money… It’s a curse upon a human being, we just have to find a way to endure it in the best way we can, because, there’re no way out of it. A lot of money will not give anyone freedom or empowerment. I knew people whose parents were multi-millionaires but these people were empty, depressed and suicidal all the time. The only way out of a mentally messed-up state is within ourselves… I agree with all those who said that work destroys something within us, but I guess, again, it’s a curse upon humankind, just like the time–every day–destroys something in us, etc–if you really hate your job, just keep changing jobs until you find one where you’re more comfortable and less miserable and devote your spare time to something you love, that excites you, be it a go-go dancing at a fetish club or volunteer work with the needy or praying at a Buddhist temple!
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i agree with the person above overconsumption greedy selfish and fake. i hate uni life,the people are rude fake and shallow,for instance i walk by this fake blonde bitch in the hallway while she’s outside someone ’s door saying ‘awww how are you x ,heard u were poorly,feel better!’ then turns to me and gives me this sour dirty look,like wtf?? would it not be easier to say hi!!?? i couldn’t care less whether these kind of people like me or not,it’s when u are on the outside like i am at uni,that u see what people are really like,how fake it all is,i’d rather be on my own than talk to a bunch of fake wannab’s .
I never knew there were so many.. “unhappy” undergraduates in the UK. That’s one big load off my mind. I thought I was the only one that had “issues”. I’ve been here for 5 years (as undergrad) and covered two degree courses in HOPE of getting some form of higher education. The learning is TOTALLY different to that of GCSE or A’ level. I don’t like this style. I liked it when I got 8A*’s and 2A’s for GCSE, not now when I get 38% for assignments (3rd year) and by-the-skin-of-my-teeth pass for 2nd year in Computer Science.
Would I go so far as to say I “hate” university? I know this much – it isn’t for everyone. And for these people that DO go, they really will find it torture. During my years here, I found one word described this place pretty well: “Incarseration”. A prison for the quasi-intelligent.
Pretty much everything you guys have already mentioned I have been through here and have observed. The people are very accurately portrayed. Students are indeed, as a whole, a binge-drinking, loud, immature fake-in-your-face species. Only a few are actually genuine.
Depression, insecurity, loneliness. Some of these factors are still with me today. I’m in my last year and have 4 months 20 days 9 hours to go before I can wave goodbye to this place. It’s safe to say I CAN’T WAIT to get out.
What has kept me going? I joined an archery club at my uni in my 2nd year. It has kept me sane. It has given me proper friends – not some of these single-dimensional false ones that think it’s cool to speak posh even though they’re a chav from Bolton (nothing against people from Bolton.. I’m a brummy myself). As a result of hard work, I have earnt myself 4th place ranking, teetering close to 3rd, in the UK for all university leagues and hold the league record. I found something I was good at! The only thing is after winning a big match I have to go back to the thing I’m not so good at. OK, “not so good” is an exaggeration. I am TERRIBLE at my degree. I’ve been through half of one before and I was TERRIBLE at that. I have come to realise there is no point in worrying or getting upset over how WELL you do at university. You will inevitably make yourself ill mentally and physically (I lost 3 stone in the first few months when I started uni for the first time). Just get THROUGH it. Do stuff you enjoy, work a little bit to keep lecturers borderline happy.. job done. You walk out of uni with some sort of degree, but you’re sane because you’ve done something else while you were there. I don’t know how you guys can cope with a degree without something positive to distract you. I would, quite simply, be in a world of shit if I didn’t have archery.
I took the time to do a coaching course and I can make £20 an hour teaching archery to beginners. I have the ability to talk to large groups of people. I can help organise and run a club. These are the kind of properties that an interviewer is looking for, not just a big fat juicy “BSc First Hons” on your CV. Life’s too short to live life unhappily. To those who have contributed to this (enormous) thread, I wish you all the best of luck, I really do mean that. You are certainly not alone, and yes, given the chance I would love to blow up my university too. I am proud that you can have the courage to stand out from the crowd and state, what is, the obvious to most who stay at uni (but who are far too scared themselves to even think it).
NEVER worry about what other people think. You have control over your own life. And these few years are only a fraction of what is to come. You’re at uni because you know it’s the right thing to do, even though it’s ridiculus and you have no friends. Screw them all. Screw them all to hell. Live life alone, you don’t need these bastards. Concentrate on making ONE true close friend. That is all you need.
Make an effort with work, because a degree isn’t served to you on a plate: even though at THE PRICE WE’RE PAYING IT SHOULD BE!
And just think, every day you are that bit closer to freedom. That little bit closer to being released into the real world, where.. GUESS WHAT? You’re gonna have the time of your life.
I am extremely annoyed at University. I have been here for 1 semester and it is way too dragging. I live at home still and have a ton of non-uni mates who I see 4 or 5 times a week. The problem for me is that I have found 4 good people to sit and chat to during my lessons but they are simply never in and skive a lot. I would love it if these people showed up everyday so I would have someone to talk to. It is awkward to come into a room, see nobody you really can sit with and end up either sitting by yourself or sitting with people who you never usually talk to.
People seem to have made friends so quickly and love uni. I just hate the akwardness of not being able to talk to someone. The most awkward times are during breaks which can range from 20mins to 2hr 30min. Usually I can go home for the long ones or meet up with my non-uni mates for lunch. But sometimes when there is nobody to go to lunch with it is quite depressing to say the least.
Now my second semester has started and I am just hoping the few people I enjoy sitting with come back and improve their attendance!
I guess I am extremely lucky to be able to still have a large group of non-uni friends who I can see nearly everyday of the week. No matter how shit some of Uni can be, I usually always have something to look forward to, wether it is lunch with a few pals or heading down to the pub on a Friday night with the usuals.
I can safely say that I would NOT have survived in halls.
Good luck to all of you at uni!
I had high hopes about university. i loved my degree course, loved the thought of what lay ahead for me here .. freedom, like minded people, etc. i got what i wanted regards to an interesting course but the ppl I’ve meet have been absolute fucking retards. I’ve never had to deal with so much shit in my whole fucking life & because of it Im leaving. I dont want to go but I have no choice. Back to my crappy small town, but at least I’ll be away from stupid pretentious student FUCKERS.
Right on Anonymouse, that is exactly how I feel. You can really enjoy something but when you are surrounded by superficial pretentious douche bags, it’s hard to stand alone and it’s only a matter of time before the tearing and wearing breaks you down. I am approaching that stage sooner than I thought. Well, all the best. I am sure it is at least a relief to be away from all the crap you come across at a typical uni these days, it shouldn’t be an American teen flick but unfortunately it is.
SO do u give up your dream of becoming a zoologist because of these idiot students who make u feel like shit and an alien? i sit in my room everyday and cry,it’s so depressing i feel so excluded,i HATE my housemates SO much,how can they make someone feel like this,feel so alone and excluded,I passed my idiot housemates last night on the hall,they were on their way out to a club,i had tears in my eyes,and all they did was give me a dirty look,they would never ask are you ok?,no,i just feel so alone and want to cry,i sit in my room all day ,i may be shy and quiet,but is that a crime? i hate it here,i feel like such a loser,people from my home(ireland) say i’m a really funny person,but knowone hear will even give me a chance to talk,they give you these filthy looks,i’m thinking,why would you do that,how can you make someone feel like that without feeeling any guilt? whats SO wrong with me?
Most likely nothing is wrong with you, you have probably heard this before but in this case I think I can see that the problem lies with your house mates, they got problems. I am not so different to you in that I don’t go clubbing, I am quiet and shy, I sometimes spend days on end in my room completely alone and of course I hate it, but I have completely given up on other people because in general I find uni students are pretentious, narcissistic, anti-social, superficial, boring, over confident douche bags, and the ones that have the most pride always seem to be the ones who are least able to justify it and that is probably their biggest problem. But really, don’t get caught up in that crap, don’t even think about it, just let it be, let them rot in their own avarice and conceit. If becoming a zoologist is your dream, then don’t forget that dream and stay with it, it can be hard being alone but personally I find that if I acknowledge that genuine people are a rare blessing then I also realize that what other people are doing or saying just becomes immaterial. If you are so lonely, try joining a club, maybe you won’t make instant friends, but it will definitely ease the pain of alienation. I joined Judo, and there is no one there that I have become really close friends with, but they are friendly, and they are there, they offer some degree of association so I don’t feel that lonely, I feel that at least these are people out there on the horizon that I know. So I don’t know you, but that is just my general advice to you. I said I have given up completely on people, but maybe not, I have a small margin for that rare person I occasionally come across that is genuine, and they exist and are worth holding out for.
you guys are nuts, i dont hate university cuz of the people. i hate it cuz of the endless bullshit courses we’re forced to take which wont benefit us in the real world. Uni is just an institute with false hope. lyin to students making us believe that there’s no future if u dont have that piece of paper that says “Degree”. So being stuck in this inevitable rip off, they make us pay high tuition fees, buy expensive books that will only used in 4 months, then staked up in the shelve to collect dust.
I know enough people graduated from Uni only to be working at a shitty cubical job making shitty wages barely enough to pay the bills. coming home to a small apartment with no life cuz they gotta wake up at 5 am the next mornin only to repeat the small bullshit all over again
Ya University sucks, profs dont give a shit about ur success, they’re just there to collect their paycheck and fuck off just like every other being in the world.
bottom line. If you really want a future, Fuck Uni, go out there and make ur own
peace
I really don’t like the english *sheep* students who treat me as a second class citizen because I’m Irish… racists
YAY!!! I fucking hate uni too – final year French and German student and the work this year is killing me, not to mention that I am living in halls with a bunch of fuckwits who think it is funny to run around hammering on people’s doors. 4 months till i leave!!!!! Cannot bloody wait!!!
The annoying thing is that I changed universities after my first year because I thought i was going somewhere better. Nope, its worse. Bastards.
The worst thing about uni is how the lectures go through so much information in such a little time and expect us to somehow fully understand it straight away. I am doing a very respectable course, and I am about to start my 2nd year. I don’t understand what is the point of them teaching us all of this information, but because they rush it, we only understand the bare minimum as to pass the final exam. High School was so much better as we could study more slowly, absorbing more information, and the fact that we did not have to do assignments/study every single waking moment.
hate university too.. It is a hard problem to drag me there and stay in the bus 40 mins or more. I had enough. I hate it , it isn`t for me but I wanna become an architect , now ca coalworker…… or worst. I hate listening teachers Anyway fuck university
I’m glad now I didn’t go to university, as I soul searched and found that I was only wanted to go for the social life, not the actual course. I think a lot of people are the same.
As my university dreams have been shot down again and again and the Peak Oil theory is really getting me down I’m going travelling around the world soon. I’m alone but I’m happy for company. So if anyone who has dropped out of university and wants to come with me then just say it. I think a trip would do you good as you must feel pretty crummy if your dreams have fallen apart.
But if you can hang in there, then do. Three years is a relatively short time when you could live for another 40-50 years. So do you best and I’ll be thinking for you all. Make us too-dumb-for-uni lot proud!
Chris
I’m really not liking uni right now, my course sucks as they lied on their website about what I got to study, so now I’m learning stuff I’m really not interested in. I also hate the way everyone here seems to have gone off in little groups, I tried to make friends here and I have a few, but not best friends for life. My flatmates annoy me and some nutter lives upstairs and trys to break into the flat at night, fucking scary.
Finally people who understand me!
I am a 2nd yr student at Melbourne University and I despise it.
The people there are absolutely horrid and it has been nearly impossible for me to be very socially involved. I currently have no friends and very few acquaintances.
I would love to make friends whom I could bitch and moan with :p
I must say its lovely to see that there are people out there that hate uni as much as me!!!
I’m in my final year now, a little less then 4 months left, although this seems like forever when I think about the amount of work and exams to get through before I finish. I hated uni from the very start, but decided to stick with it because I had worked so hard to get there, and I kept saying to myself it would get better next year… but it never did, if anything it got worse! There has been many times when I have been extremely close to dropping out… but I was too scared of making the wrong decision and regretting it… in a way I wished I had dropped out during the first year then at least I wouldn’t have wasted much time and energy, but I have to carry on otherwise I would of wasted nearly 3 years!
I feel I am now half the person I used to be, before uni I had a good group of close friends, I had a decent social life and was generally happy. Now, I have no friends at uni, I hate the people I have to live with at uni, I don’t have a social life, I have little money, and I spend my days trying to do uni work which makes me stresses me out like hell. In a way I feel ashamed that I have not enjoyed my time at uni… to me it is a prison sentence. I know I put myself through it no one forced me to go, but I thought it was the best thing to do was to stick at it…. but now I feel what’s more important is being happy.
I agree with Chris go travel the world instead of uni, or at least go travelling before you decide to go to uni. It’s a real eye opener and it will put things in perspective. xxx
I just had my first week of uni and already I HATE it. It is so hard to get to know people here. Why? Despite what many automatically think, it’s definitely not because I’m someone who is anti-social, weird or anything along those lines. I’m a nice, funny and friendly person, someone easy to talk to when you first meet. It’s just that the uni environment seems to make it exceptionally difficult to make friends. For instance, except for 2 lessons in a week, none of the people I already know or have met are in my classes. Also, in each lecture so far I have ended up seated next to a different person because the class numbers are so huge and so I can never really see any of the people I met last time. It means it’s difficult to actually become friends with any of them – since I most likely won’t see them again. I guess all I can do is laugh at my own bad luck – which undoubtedly, has something to do with it. Such as: my timetable (hardly any classes or breaks at the same time with people I know), who ends up sitting next to me (they either happen to not be in any other common classes as me or I don
I am in my second year of sciences in a canadian university and I agree with alot of you…I hate it! You cannot say that I’m not in the right program because I have tried taking courses from many other programs and they all were boring and shitty, and sciences is the least shitty one. I don’t know what to do anymore, I want to get into medicine, but because of all the stupid professors I keep screwing up marks and I just feel like I’m being fucked everyday of my life…I love the idea of medicine, I want to do it, and I have been through lots of experiences in my life that made me realize that I want to be a doctor, but it’s not that simple when you study stupid ass chemistry courses about industrial reactions, and biology courses about plants and all that crap. I wouldn’t wanna go into the health science faculty or the biological medicine program because I know that the courses there suck too…any advise?
I am taking this semester off university and already I am noticing some significant positive differences in my mentality, attitude, and general spiritual well being. Maybe some of you guys should try it, because it is such a nice feeling not having to go back to that place for a while. I hated it so much. I have always been studious, but I just can
You guys are the BEST! I thought I was the only fucking person who thinks university is a joke! I want to be a musician or own my own business. However, my Dad is pushing for CEO of some ridiculous bank. He’s been on my case since I was about 7 and I unfortunately did very well in my final school exams and landed in a laws double degree by default. Arhghhh somebody get me the rope. I’m already looking forward to my escape and it’s only week 4.
Anybody who is really really fucked up because of Uni and needs somebody to talk to, email me… frankie_mansfield@hotmail.com Especially if you’re in Australia. Fuck, man. I HATE the arrogance of the Law students I have to study with. They are so fucking pretentious and uncultured. There is no way I associate with that shit – if I make friends, it’s with the Arts people. I can’t stand the majority of Law students: they all whine and whinge about this and that, they are all upper class bastards who have lived in a city their whole lives. My god. Who gives a shit that you hate Tort Law or you have to get up so early on a Friday morning? You didn’t move from a small town more than 2,000 km away to study, you didn’t move for more than 6 months without family, you didn’t have to spend more than 3 hours a day on public transport to study. I am miserable being surrounded by all these cliquey city people. Pub crawls can seriously fuck off.
I totally agree with the UNI idea, why should it take soo long to get anywhere? and then finding you could have done better doing something else or you have to go back, because what you really want to do requires more life years spent reading too many words that no normal person will ever understand again. Next time I will learn the dictionary.
I am very disillusioned and go about my life in a mechanical schizoid way. The courses are quite engaging, but my fellow students are lacking in quality. Everyday for them is the same dull facsimile of the day before. “Are you drinking tonight?” How many unwanted conversations about the sex lives of boors have I been made awkward witness to? Alcohol, marijuana, and other vices occupy the minds of my so called peers without reprise. Simply put, the extreme majority of students I have met have no imagination or sense of creativity. Nightly they piss their money away, make loud noises, and irritate me. I really don
Ive been at uni since sep07 and i absolutley detested it at first. Im nt sure what happened but i think i was just shell shocked by the whole experience and kind of just had a bit of a breakdown. It was NOTHING like what i expected it to be. Never had i been surrounded by sooo many ppl but still felt like the loneliest person in the world. It was strange and id always been fine at home. I suppose i just expected to click with people staright away just like i had in high school and that wed spend time together and hang out all the time. But as time went on and i realised i didnt click with my flatmates i just gave up and stayed in my room since i thought it was pointless spending time with ppl i dont even like or know. I know that thats not the right attitude and doing that just made me feel more reclusive and depressed but i couldnt help it. Luckily my boyf lived in the same city as my uni so i could see him whenever i felt low but that still wasnt enough. I think ive now come to the point of not detesting uni anymore cos i realised that theres nothing wrong with not having the ’stereotypical’ uni experience. I have a couple of mates i can hang out with now and even though its not my ‘dream’ scenario since i know theyre not my best mates in the world (like id hoped id make) i still have fun with them and it doesnt matter. Ive learned not to take things too seriously. After all itll all be over in a couple of years. Its not worth dwelling on. I mean we only actually spend around 6months there at a time. The only thing i do dread about uni is the constant noise. It can really take its toll if your living in halls as well as the constant fire alarms
university is a fucking BITCH
FUCK UNIVERSITY, it’s a RIP off. So depressing and sad.
What the FUCK is with the random posts above? Isn’t this supposed to be a place where we vent about uni, not advertise ‘women wrestlers naked’ and all that other crap up there?? Wtf happened?
i am starting uni this september, all of you have really crushed my dreams and expectations of what uni will be like, i dont want to loose my creativity and passion but from listening to all of you, it seems inevitable.
@Jessi: That’s what happens when I forget to check on the site for a few days. I’ve removed the spam. Now you see why I need people to help maintain the site
(Especially since I’m no longer in university myself and I’m kinda out of the loop now.)
“I Hate University” is what I typed in my Google search…by the look of it so have half the students in the world. It’s weird that this feeling is so common, when students discuss it so little face to face, maybe it’s pride, or people feel they have to keep their heads held high. I am at uni in Australia studying a BEng and am in my 4th year. I am a mature age student (29) and even though I am so close to the end of my course (November) I am very disheartened, despite being one of the top students. Uni has taken my creativity, what happened to my dreams of being a writer? Why can’t I find time to finish my book? Where is the desire to be different…fucking sheep is what uni turns out. If you talks up against the system and stand up to the cock sucking lecturers they hold it against you forever by giving you shit grades. Fuck, I just want to get half these useless fuck lecturers in the boxing ring and smash fuck out of them. It’s all I can do to not walk in that place and knock half of them out. CUNTS. As for my course it’s wicked, engineering is cool (for me anyway), it’s just the uni system that fucks me off, and most of the students are alright. The cockheads will learn the hard way when the get into the real world…trust me, I’ve seen it happen many times before. They’ll still be crying to mummy and daddy when they’re 30. I feel much better guys, thanks for the opportunity to post. Oh well, only 11 hours and I’ll be back at uni again ha ha ha Be strong everyone and be lucky
omg it is amazing what you come across when you are trying to run away from the guilt of not studying. i typed in “i hate uni” in google and have come across the greatest thread in history!! I HATE UNI with a PASSION!! coming on the 5th and final year of study and ive just had enough. im burnt out. toast. finished. im going to be venting here from now on. whoever created this site – BRAVO!
hey im towards the end of my second yr of my psychology degree it seem like im doing everything wrong and that im the only fucking stupid bitch in my uni thats failing near enough everything just dont know what the fuck im doing i have a feeling im gona fail my degree with flying colours and wont get a decent job and be working in asda for the minimum wage then again you need fuckinh experience to be working in asda these days{ which i dont have} any one else in the same boat. rox. xxx
i too typed in ” i hate university” and this came up! i have an essay for Civil Liberties, a subject in my first year law course, due in for tomorrow at 12, and have written absolutely nothing. I can’t stand the course, i thought i’d find law interesting, i should have gone and done an artistic degree like i originally wanted but my parents wanted me to do a “proper” degree first and now won’t let me leave. I failed half of my courses last term as i can’t find enthusiasm for any of the content. As others have said there’s so many people who go out almost every night, get wasted, set fire alarms off and run around halls, and i feel like i can’t join in with that because it just isn’t me. I have a few friends up here but most of them are from my part time job, or used to go to the same school as me. it’s so so depressing and now i totally realise why so many people commit suicide at university, and why the government doesn’t give a damn or do anything to change it. i want to be a film maker, but how can you be one without a top american film school degree, or enough money to buy professional camera equipment? university is like a whirlpool that you get drowned into.
i think that teachers should just stop nagging us and let us be,stupid bitch ms kelly keeps pestering me in physics and i honestly felt like smacking her. might move to london such a nice place RnF
Hi guys. This is just a quick one, I found this site through typing in ‘ i hate university’ as I have felt for quite some time now, that I might be the only one that hates this pile of crap. I am finishing my second year of media in Liverpool, I done really well in the first year, although I have social anxiety disorder and it meant I made no friends. The second year has been a fucking nightmare though, my attendance has been awful and the students are all pretentious shitty faced pricks, that I hate. They think the world is their oyster and that the most important thing in the world is where their next weed is coming from. I am on anti depressants and seeing a councillor, but I hate this. GRRRRRR. Please someone, anyone, save me!!! Love Hannahx
Hey Hannah, (and everyone else for that matter), sorry to hear you’re having a shitty time at uni. My advice to you would be if you’re really not happy and it’s affecting your attendance and performance to take a break or ‘temporary withdrawal’ as it’s known after your second year. If you’re on anti depressants and seeing a councillor, that’s more than a valid reason so there shouldn’t be any problem. The advantage of doing this is, you get a break from Uni, but still have the option of returning next year should you wish. In the same breathe, if you find during your year off, you really don
Hi Hannah, your post sounds exactly the same as me. Also in 2nd year at uni, have SAD, on antidepressents, hate university etc. I think having SAD is probably the worst possible thing to have at university, completely socially disabling and I hate it more than anything (yes more than university!)
I HATE UNI SO DAMN MUCH. I am now ready to throw in the towel. i am in my 3rd year of primary teaching and have transferred from monash (great uni) to deakin (shit uni), i did not have a choice in subjects at deakin due to crediting what i had already done, and i only have one subject that is actually about teaching! 2 x 1500 word essays due on monday and im trying to decide NOW whether to quit the course, so that i dont do those waste of time essays for nothing. A bitch of a teacher gave me a pass, first pass i have ever gotten! she wrote the most sarcastic rude comments on my essay, bitch whore slut! i walked into uni today to have a go at her, only to find another bitch whore slut had taken her spot for the day. so i went to see the course counsellor, and suprised myself because i burst into tears in front of this complete stranger! the stress makes me sleep all the time to avoid thinking about what essays i should be doing. oh but everyone will think im a quitter, a loser. do i even want to be a teacher anymore with the crap wage, is it just a glorified babysitting job. it is a 24/7 job, the amount of planning u have to do when u come home! ahhhhhh im so bitter!!! what am i going to do? p.s. meanwhile i have my fiance telling me i can manage and teach at his acting studio he is buying in two weeks. the thought of never having to write a pointless essay again is BLLLLISS
I am sitting at Uni right now on a public holidayy, typing “I hate Uni” into Google, and I am so enlightened by what I find in these forums. I am in my last year of a B.Sc. at UQ in Brisbane and people ask me all the time what I want to do when I finish. I’ve no freaking idea but I know I definitely could not hack doing an Honours in the immediate future, I don’t want to do research and I don’t want to work in a lab. What is there for me? I spend ten hours a day at least at Uni working my arse off in an attempt for good marks but the work never stops, it’s one assignment after the other or hour after hour in the lab doing pracs. When does this shit ever end? It is going to get me nowhere in the end and then I’ll have wasted three years of my life being a broke, stressed, unhappy student. Where was the advice before we started Uni about the kinds of hell you would go through just for a ridiculous piece of paper at the end of it? It would have made me think twice about entering this shithouse-lifestyle and putting myself into massive debt. University is all about making money, they are businesses not educators. The lecturers are mostly untrained in how to actually teach and are most unmotivating. University is a glorified highschool where once you finish nothing actually matters, all they want is your money. I don’t know how I will manage to get through this last year but I can’t quit now. When this shit is all over no-one will know me as a Botanist, I will still be me but now I might have a chance at getting a job that will pay off some of my student debt and help me get the hell out of here. I dream of travelling – not of being a scientist. I want the life I had before I had to sacrifice my soul to Uni. To all of you, I am so pleased to know I am not alone in my thoughts or bitterness, nor in the urges to quit Uni and stomp all over their prestigiuos reputations. Good luck!
I bit the bullet today and packed it in. I said to myself if they wouldn’t let me transfer course, I’d quit. I hated my course and I hated the people I lived with, what was the point of staying? I would have done well, but there’s no way I was going through another 3 soul-crushing years like the one I’d gone through. I can honestly say that I haven’t felt so happy in a very, very long time. I’m going to teach myself German over the summer and move to Munich in the autumn, and do what I want to do and not what society expects of me.
man this website has helped me see that I’m not alone. I have all ways been able to make friends very easily which I did when I moved in to halls on the first day. I studied a lot in the first semester but started to lose intrest in the second because I couldn’t see why we were learnin this utter bullshit. I’m nearing at the end of my second year and I am feeling quite depressed because I dont want to let my family and especially my dad down but I think I’m gonna drop out. My dad came from a shitty council estate and is well off now, but has worked his bollocks off to get where he is. I dont want to be stuck in a job I dont like but Now a degree mite aswell be a bit of fucking shit roll cos it really aint worth shit. Fuck uni. I just dont want to let my dad down and if I being honest I dont want to let myself down. I dont know what to do.
uni has turned me MENTAL! I should be doing a two week project in one night tonight for tommorow instead googling ‘i hate uni’..i’ve decided i’m not going to go in tommorow..buying me the weekend to finish my work..though i know i’ll leave it to the last minute again. my teacher has completley erroded my self esteem and creativity. now i don’t even know where to start with new projects. i have no motivation. i feel scared and overwhelmed to even start projects…even something like ‘design a leaflet!’ i just feel like i don’t know where to start and feel as though i can’t do it. i know i was a bloody good graphic designer
and i got three distinctions for my btec…but now i hate it! but everywhere i go…i see graphic design everywhere! and it just guilt trips me from doing my work! uni has really changed me as a person. i can’t really explain how i feel..it’s really strange.. i kind of feel as though I have nothing to say anymore. when i ring friends or family..i’m so unhappy that.. i just have no conversation and i find it really hard to talk to people now. i’m really self concious and judge everything i say/do and compare myself to other people in social situations, thinking i’m not as good as them. even though i know that i wouldn’t like to be like them and i’m probably a nicer person and i’m quite pretty and should probably be confident with myself. i feel constantly ill and tired and miserable 
i get periods when i’m like ‘pull yourself together! be happy. everythings fine!’ and go to uni feeling positive, but i walk home feeling negative again. i’m really lonely 
i have a few close friends but i hate the nights when they’re out and i’m just stuck at home by myself. i have accquantances and i want to get closer to them. but it’s hard to pass the line of becoming friends and hanging out and stuff and just saying hi and having a quick chat. the highlight of my life when i think ‘i love uni life!’ is the drunken nights out but i hardly have time to do that anymore with the workload. i’ve been single my whole time at uni. i recently started seeing someone that I’ve loved my whole time at uni,but i think ruined by being clingy, because i’m lonely here:( i just feel like a want someone to look after me and make me less lonely! i felt like i couldn’t show them my true self cos i’m so unhappy. but i know that until i’m happy with myself and my life i won’t have a relationship. i miss college and my btec so much! i was a million times happier then. my course inspired me and i loved graphic design. i have no idea what to do with my life after uni though! this course has completley turned me against graphic design and i hate it now 
i’d quite to be a hairdresser lol! but again that’s a few years at college that i won’t be able to afford. i wanted to design for a fashion magazine after uni…but i think i’ve ruined my chances of that 
cos i can’t do the work anymore so i won’t have a good portfolio to get me the job. i’m missing my family and feel guilty that i never see my grandparents and things like that 
and i toss and turn at nights when i’m trying to sleep, loads of thoughts of money, work i haven’t done…going through my head. i wake up in the morning with a knot in my stomach 
arrrgghhhhh.i don’t see myself getting through next year 
but i have to. i’ve come this far and i’m half way through. x
the most fucking experience that influenced my life i did not get it until the end and i’m feeling suck about it shit university when you are inside it’s a probleme and when you leave it it’s a probleme holy shit i become nerveous about not being complete my studies mamamamama i wanna cry shit. sorry this is how university make you
Sory to hear this Sophie. The torture will never end unfortunately. It’s a shame you’re half way through because giving up will become harder and harder to do as you get closer to finishing. I have 26 days left until my degree is offically over. I have nothing left to do but revise for just two exams then I am done completely. University can go fuck itself up its arse.
OH GOD that felt good saying that. I’m usually quite a polite person, but that needed to be said. As quite a lonely person, you tend to notice other students’ behaviour around you better. Tell me guys whether you think this is true of all students (especially in collegiate universities): 1) You are guaranteed to find them in clusters between 2 and 15 people. 2) You will never find a student on their own and if you do.. well, that’s me! 3) EVERY SINGLE student will put on some kind of posh fucking accent to ‘blend in’ 4) When they’re in their little cluster they talk VERY LOUUUDLY – as if they’re trying to grab attention to other clusters, to make them look very cool. 5) Clusters will always fucking walk in ONE BIG LINE.. EVERYWHERE! Single file is a big no-no here; to be part of the cluster you must be seen at all times by taking up the entire hall, forcing to to be pushed into the fucking wall. 6) Students LOVE to draw attention to themselves subconsciously – They will walk wearing ridiculous shoes that flip and flop very loudly, or scrape their feet along the ground on purpose to make noise. 7) The more “drunk they got last night” the more “popular” they are. 
Are vain, self-centred, careless and don’t give a shit about disrupting other people unless it’s someone from their “cluster”. 9) ALL WEAR THEIR COLLARS UP.. what the fuck is that all about? I was born in the 1980’s.. I’m not that out of fashion am I?! I think that’s it for now. I’m vented and feel much better. Thanks to the person who made this page. I salute you.
I see a lot of people enjoying their time at uni, but not me! I think its because I feel like im getting ripped off big time; everything we do we have to do on our own and yet we’re paying massive amounts just to do this (when we can do it for free outside of uni). For example, making friends/meeting new people, reading and learning off a freaking textbook, buying overpriced food, using shitty ass computers… god dammit, i dont need to go to uni to do these things. ARGHH I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU! Lies.. it was all lies… Hffffhfh. Tomorrow I will talk to someone in my lectures and spread my hatred. I no longer care what comes out of my mouth – it doesnt mean anything to anyone anyway.
Yes, I thought this Nate. The only thing that made me think paying over
i fuckin hate uni! and me, like a dumb ass… i decide to go for a double degree! i finisihed physio and this is my last year of ergonomics… let me tell u this was honsetly the dumbest decision of my LIFE! i am working 4 days a week doin physio, and 1 fucked up day of uni, and i still get depressed! it doesnt matter about how many contact hours, or what course your doing… its the fact that u have to do assignments. its the fact that u have to study for fucked up exams. its the fact that you are paying a shitload out of ur ass and u get a big FUCK YOU in return, especially when u start working and realise uni taught u jack!
My 4 years of hell ends next thursday, three exams to get through before then, but it’s okay this time because the end is in sight.I just wanted to say good luck to everyone and thanks for sharing here, this thread has been a godsend to me since my 2nd year. Keep it going for the sanity of future students!
yes. FUCK UNIVERSITY. i feel the same way. i’m getting good grades but have no life. last week i was recovering from insomnia and loss of appetite due to the stress of handing in 3 consecutive fucking major assignments. i can’t even sleep properly anymore because i keep having nightmares about uni. i like my new friends but we never have the time to get close seeing as i see them only in my classes. i have lots of my old school buddies from high school and we’re still v. v. close but i don’t have time to see them because of fucking uni. people judge me on my course too coz i’m doing arts even tho i got a very high ENTER score. it’s coz i thought i’d really like arts. but i HATE it and sometimes i can’t even blame everyone for all the “arts students are dumb” jokes (which i’m so fucking sick of too) because in a way it’s true…i mean how am i going to make money after i graduate. i have no idea, but i don’t think i’m good at anything else either. while i hate the whole fucking course… i cant change coz i think i’d hate everything else more. i have this subject called behavioural studies which is totally fucked up and makes me feel very depressed about the world. it pretty much tells us that we’re bad people destroying the world with all our consumer powers and there’s no way to fix it. what’s the point of teaching us this fucked up crap when they could be figuring a way to try and fix the problem? my other courses are also dry uninteresting crap, i have to read booklets of shit that don’t make sense and won’t help me find a job in 2 and a half years time when i graduate. i find myself getting more and more depressed and hating life and constantly feeling guilty even when i relax…and i’m becoming a loner. the only guy i was interested in and semily friends with has been taken away by some whorebag while i skipped 2 lectures to finish assignments on time. to top this all off i am paying a shitload of money to make myself more unhappy. and when you think about it uni won’t even gurantee that we’ll get jobs. it just notches your chances slightly. FUCKING UNIVERSITY. sorry for all the swearing guys ^^;; i’m usually a very quiet, polite person. i’m just so angry and passionately supportive of you guys and ur uni hatred. don’t give up tho. we have to keep trying. it’s just one period of our lives and then we can move out from this hell like “relived” (message above mine)…anyway thanks for starting this thread and letting me vent alongside you guys i feel better now after a particularly bad day at uni
bye good luck guys..hope you have it better than me atm
I quit Uni today and it FEELS SO GOOD! Its aload of crap and i was sick of being miserable every day. Life is for living so if your not happy leave + do something worthwhile. You only get one life, dont waste it xXx
You all sound like 13 year old kids disillusioned with the world. Have none of you grown up at all. All you need to learn is that life is hard. You all sound lazy to me, you cant even be arsed to hand in reports.
I agree with Brian….university is not meant to be a stroll in the park. If it didn’t challenge you then it wouldn’t prepare you for the real world. Anyone who says that uni isn’t fun at the same time as being challenging must have a social deficiet disorder. Get out there join a society, make some friends, get laid (you dont need to have alcohol to have a good time) stop wollowing in your own self pity and get off these blogs!!!!
You don’t know us. Stop pretending you do. I’m glad you’ve had an easy life through uni – you’re lucky. This is for people who HATE university and have had rough times. Go away.
Shh. You’ve had a great time at uni. Good for you. We haven’t. Leave us to rant it makes us feel better.
I love how these people like brian and JJ4EVA have actually bothered to come onto this page and comment, when to get here you have to search for something along the lines of “I hate university”. You’re just as miserable as us, but to make yourselves feel better you’d rather try to make us feel worse. Oh, and I personally have no problems getting laid, I just fucking hate university. Why do you assume the two correlate?
University can go FUCK itself up its FUCKING ass.
I too googled I hate uni! Im in my final week of assignments and afterwards I am free of this regime of university! I cannot wait to leave uni and I too feel like all of you who have posted here. I had dreams and aspirations of uni, meeting new people, enjoying my course. Instead I meet fake arrogant people, have a shit course and count the hours until I can sit in my room eating or fucking about on the internet. One thing uni has taught me is to open my eyes…bigger. I cant drop out either, or my parents would kill me. Im taking a film course and all I’ve been doing is writing essays on ” It could be this…or it could be that” we can’t form our own opinions, we have to follow stupid lecturers who are fucking bias and I spend half of time helping others do work!??!! Sure I might be naive, I used to help people do there work and when Id ask for help back I get sweet fuck all. Ive become so cynical now that all people do in life is fuck people over so they can get higher than you. What really pisses me off is when you work your arse off doing work and get a shitty grade while someone does it hours before hand in and get a better mark!? Wheres the justice in that??!?!! three more days and then Im free of this shit. I just hope I can graduate so I never have to go back again. Good luck to those who are in their first or 2nd years…try and find the simple things in life that make you happy…uni is NOT one of them
Right on! Earlier this semester university was really getting to me again, I was coming home worn out and spent, I was always tired and feeling really depressed. I would get irritated at silly little things and I was going nowhere. It was doing me no good so I thought long and hard and at first it seemed outlandish, but then and there while studying I decided to take this semester off. It has been one of the best decisions I have ever made in the last 3 years since being there, everything felt so much better. I could breathe again, the stress eased, I really felt like I was 21 and not some lethargic, hopeless drone. Since then I even lost weight, I was never overweight to begin with but now that I was feeling so much better, I was eating better, sleeping better and exercising regularly. It feels like colour has returned to my life. Well of course I got negative feedback from my
Matthew – This is exactly what has happened to me, I mean *exactly*! Except I have gone back to uni after my break expecting things to be better now that I have “colour” back in me: Only takes a few weeks and BAM! Back where I started. I can guarantee you will see no improvement or won’t see it in a different light when you return. Good luck man, and keep us posted.
Have you ever considered that if you spent less time bitching in chat rooms that you would have a better time at university. I would like to agree with Brian and JJ4VR and say that i love university and would like to carry on to post grad. There is a correlation between getting laid and having fun. YOUR ALLL COCKS I AM GREAT.
How dare you, you peice of shit. Fuck off you smelly derranged cunt. You are just like the students depicted by everyone on here – arrogant, self-centred, obnoxious fuck-holes. Go play with yourself infront of your lecturers if you like uni that much. Enjoy post-grad
Well said ^^^^Yeh.., Another shithead who claims to love uni, yet typed in “I hate uni” to get here. Fucking imbecile. Doubt you’re even capable of post-grad studies you stupid fuckwit.
In response to haha, i’m on-line for a first in anatomical science from Bristol. So fuck you.
So, you’ll know where your anus is located so you can shove your fat head through it. Enjoy post-grad.
FINISHED your a legend. a first in antomical science is amazing. Thanks for backing me in thinking the guys on here are just a waste of space. They cant even hack university, so how are they gonna hack the real world???????????
Calling it first – ‘Finished’ and ‘Brian’ are the same person. What an utter cunt, you have to resort to making another persona up to praise yourself on a message board. “Finished your a legend” (it’s spelled “you’re” by the way idiot). Some life you’ve got there, why aren’t you out getting laid, Brian? Too busy checking on the ‘I hate uni’ message boards when you supposedly love uni. You fucking waste of oxygen.
I’m fucking around on this forum because Uni is utter shit and have nothing better to do. If you’re living up life so much Brian and FINISHED (if you are indeed separate people) what’s your excuse? This blog is designed for people with serious FUCKED UP problems with Uni that you will never understand. It doesn’t mean we’re not going to cope with the real world. Uni is not the real world. There are loads of people on here who’ve left Uni and made great progress – turned out Uni was holding them back. Don’t post comments on here when you haven’t spent the time reading what people have to say or understanding how people feel. So I say this: Never reply on here again and we’ll respect you in thinking you have some form of life and let us live ours on here. That goes for duplicates. Yes, just because we hate Uni doesn’t mean we’re stupid. Now fuck the fucking fuck off, fuckers. Have a great day
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Hey I am so glad I found this I hate uni so much all I do is study or work and feel like getting knewhere. Having a problrm with motivation doesnt help I find uni hard and sometimes it makes me feel like im useless. Repeating my second year well 2 modules and its still hard but i am trying I shouldnt worry what ppl think I knoW just glad 2 see im not alone
I too suffer the same university driven issues that the vast majority of this forum share (excluding of course our friend Brian/Finished). Whilst I am of the opinion that university is greatly beneficial, it is also a very wide world out there full of opportunity for education and advancement! (Incidentally, I happen to be in my final year at the highest ranked university in New Zealand). I sometimes (frequently) have to remind myself that just making it to a university is a fantastic achievement, and that I AM a success in what I choose to do. And so are you! Yet there is much to be said for alternatives to ‘the beast’ of tertiary education – electricians, plumbers/gasfitters, builders, the list goes on and on… However they never told us that at school, oh no, its all “go to university and you will be a success” and “you’ll be fine” (I HATE that saying, its not comforting at all!!) Dont turn your nose up at the idea of trade apprenticeships, for example currently NEWLY qualified builders in NZ can very easily earn a yearly wage of $60,000 – $100,000 for a 40-60 hour week! (and not taking your work home with you to). When you take into account that they do not have the dreaded student loan, dont live in shitty flats because they can afford not to, and actually have a life outside of their work (several of my friends are apprentices in a variety of trades), it all starts to really stack against that humdrum pit of stupid ass kids and useless lecturers. So to all that are in the ‘beast’ which threatens to drain your soul, we are all in the same damm leaky boat; some take the plunge off to try their luck elsewhere, a select few climb the mast to better only themselves, and the rest of us row the best we can to keep the whole thing afloat! And if you are thinking about what to do, both before coming and after leaving university, consider a trade, its much much better than working in the likely insurance call-centre!!! And to the fuckwit playing the very loud, same-song-again-16-bloody-times, I’m getting the taser out…. die mutha!
I have just finished my last exam. I am free. I am finally free after 5 years of hell. I was expecting myself to be really excited and happy. Actualy I’m so tired from Uni that I don’t have the strength right now. I hope I do though once the idea that I never have to take another lecture or exam ever again comes to me. Good luck everyone, it’s going to be tough, agonising and to the point of shear mental pain. But when it’s over, it’s OVER!
Only 2 weeks left for me
I can’t wait. Perhaps the most stressful 3 years of my life.
i chose to add a fourth year to my degree and write a thesis, a decision which has haunted me since feb and i can’t wait til it’s all over in 4 months. i have had little support from my supervisor who decided half way through the year that I was going to research a different topic and regularly misses meetings that she schedules. the first 3 years of my degree were ok, good even, but this year has left me very pissed off and bitter about the whole process. Fuck you, UTAS
Uni is fuckin bent. People tell you that you have to go to uni otherwise you won’t get a good job. So pressure makes you go to university. You pay out shit loads of money and kill yourself trying to do well and there is no guarantee you will even succeed. I worked my ass off for these end of year exams and luck wasn’t on my side. I was either just not feeling in the right mood to do an exam or the questions didnt turn out right for me. And because of this i must retake the year and pay out another truck load of money. Fuck you uni, you can suck my dick. Is it really worth all this hassle? Can’t leave because i won’t get paid as much, can’t stay because i mite kill myself. You only get one life, make sure you enjoy every minute of it. Fuck the system
hell yeah!!! you guys are great!!! I love computers, i love programming and stuff, and i have a great job, where i can be creative and love what i do. At the same time, im stuck at university, and it feels like shit. No creativity AT ALL. I mean the whole concept is this: “sit down, and learn the book, after that tell me whats in the book”. Is this really the definition of intelligence? FUCK YOU!!!
Uni is full of pretentious frat boys and up tight shallow bitches. Sometimes you just wish someone would drop a depleted uranium tipped GBU onto the campus, that would teach them all a lesson.
Uni is full of pretentious frat boys and up tight shallow bitches. Sometimes you just wish someone would drop a depleted uranium tipped GBU onto the campus, that would teach them all a lesson.
I hate uni, so today, I quit! I’ve been studying Nursing for one and a half years, and they have been the worst years of my life. Society tells us that we need to attend uni to suceed in life, so from the age of 15, I had to make the decisions of courses in high school that would allow me to continue into uni. At 15, how can anyone know what they want to do? I just did it for lack of anything better, but now I’m miserable. I dont like the person I have turned into because of uni, I cant see it getting better in the remainder of the course, and I cannot even see it becoming a career in any shape or form! My parents have been, generally, great, say they will support me etc, but are dissapointed that I dont know what I want to do instead. I’m still only 19, and to be honest, I would rather be a ‘drop out’ and be happy, than in uni and desperately miserable. Wish me luck!!!
I thought I was the only one, well this makes me a little happier. I hate uni so much
the people are pretentious horrible snobs who look down their nose at anyone that wasn’t privately educated. “Your dad’s really a POSTMAN” – yes he is, so what? FUCK OFF! I am tired of being miserable all the time. I feel utterly trapped and powerless. Everyday I wake up hoping that the uni has exploded or flooded or burned down (any would be good lol) Anyone got any advice for me on what to do with this rubbish life I now lead??
I got a 2:1, not the best mark but yay anyway! It was worth the hell, stick with it everyone, you will feel very satisfied when you pass
I’m so glad I found this forum. I don’t know if any of you have this problem, but I come from a very academic family. My dad was a professor (retired). My sister is about to enter medical school at Columbia. Both have resumes a mile long. It’s like, if you opt not to go to Uni, you’re somehow less rounded of a person. If you hate Uni, something is fundamentally wrong with you. How many of you have parents and siblings like mine?
i have finally finished uni for good, thank god!! they were the worst years of my life, ive been so down and depressed the whole time but now im free to get on with my life! i got a 2:2 which im pleased with, considering the little effort i put in! at least i got something for the massive debt i’m now in!
Fuck Uni, now I want to join the Army because being surrounded by pretentious frat boys and superficial bitches for the last 3 years has removed all the moral boundaries I had with the idea of killing. I don’t care anymore, I am sick of being depressed and wearing out because I just can’t fit in with all those inebriated douche bags, why would I want to anyway? I just hate the idea that I would be defending those idiots if I was in the military. I want to go out into the wild and learn all the stuff they teach you in the Army, I want that physical intimacy with nature. As for the killing part, who gives a fuck? FUCK UNI, FUCK UNI, FUCK UNI. Universities are just not what they used to be, I am sure once upon a time they were nice places to be where people would be united with a common appreciation for knowledge and the beauty of free thinking but maybe I am just being naive. I hope most of them end up with their degrees and I hope that leads them to a boring job with boring wives, huge debts, traffic jams, prozac by the kilograms, ungrateful spoiled, indifferent, ‘individual’ children, boring lives where football is the highlight, no time for hobbies, yes I can see it now it’s happening so fast and it could just as easily happen to me but god damn it I hope not. Fuck them all, Fuck them very much And also, last but not least: FUCK the pop culture like Sex and the City, OC, Lagoona Beach, MTV, 21, and all that other shit that promotes those fucking decadent values that is fucking everyone up and turning them into artificial, materialistic, indifferent, anti social scum while saying a huge ‘FUCK YOU’ to the sacred institution of the Family. FUCK THEM TO HELL.
Uni is about as much fun as having sex with a broken glass bottle.
Yes like most other people who have previously posted I typed in “I hate University” onto Google and indeed I do hate this soul and wealth draining institution with a blood thirsty passion. I have just finished my first year of a Chemistry degree and it has been a truly horrible experience. 60 to 70% of the people who attend my course are shallow assholes who belong to the stereotypical exclusive cliques. Luckily I live quite close to my university which means I can walk there, albeit after an hours walk. Though from the horror stories I have heard about student accommodation that hours walk is definitely worth it. My lecturers are about as inspiring as watching paint dry for 6 hours on a Sunday afternoon. The reason for this is obvious. Their main job is not teaching it is conducting research at our expense which they would rather do than pass the torch to the next generation of degree holders. The one friend true friend I did make at this university and probably the best friend I ever made decided to leave the course because she could not stand it so off to another country she went. I have tried to make other friends but people usually look at me as if I just farted when I try to speak to them
After reading all these posts I have come to the conclusion that people like us are collectively a voice unheard. This my friends needs to change. Most university lectures have Email addresses and what I prose is that from dummy email accounts (after which would be deleted) we email the influential lecturers and authority figures at our respective institutions with a link to this page so they can hear what we have to say and what we have to think but are unable to do so face to face with these people due to the stigma that no doubt would be associated with it. I would love to hear what others have to say on my proposed idea? Thank you all for listening
I studied at Oxford University between 1992 and 1996. Even today there’s no words which sum up my hatred of the damn place. I
I finished a month ago with a 2.1, my god i’ve fucking hated the past two yrs, yr1 was okay but it was when u moved out of halls. There are so many backstabbing bastards, i live at home now looking for a job. i’m so pleased i stayed really good friends with my mates at home, what a bunch of pretentious wankers ive had to live with. lol, maybe we should all go out for a drink and share our sorrows
Has anyone actually left their course? I hear a lot of people ranting about uni but being hypocritical and continuing with it, despite their sheer unhappiness.
I was sitting there going stir crazy and decided to voice my frustration at my assignment by typing i hate uni in the search engine and boy am i glad to have found you all. I dont think i have ever had so much in common with so many people. I am in my third year of a Bachelor of Arts Degree…its has been the biggest load of shit i have ever experienced. I was going to go onto my masters of teaching…the last three years have been completely irrelevant!!!! But to answer the question above as to has anyone left..after 2 and half years i have dropped from 4 subjects to 2, close to quitting but do i really want to have wasted the last few years and hard earned dollars to give that place the satisfaction of me quitting??? mmm not yet anyway. I have so many similar experiences to you all, again 3 year still no friends, i cant even talk in tutorials i blush and have like anxiety attacks (which im seeking counselling for now) the assessments are just a bunch of bullshit, the staff are not helpful…honestly its the worst place. Its a status thing, oh i go to uni, or my daughter goes to uni. I went straight from school, and im starting to realise there is so much more to life. Driving to the dreaded institution i was stopped at lights and i was watching this guy on the side of the road collecting rubbish. I thought i wonder how happy he is? Why am i so unhappy? So much more to life. This venting has been unreal, not sure if anyone can see my email but feel free to contact me for a chat with someone that understands. thanks all
Hi UWS, I’d really like to chat to you about Uni Hell! but can’t see your email address?
Hey Guys, let’s start a facebook group! My email is clawz_n_jawz@hotmail.com, I have posted here under the names of ‘Fuck that Shit’, ‘Matthew’and ‘Morning Crack’, if you can relate to me then add me and we’ll start a group.
Heya Sio, sorry just realised it didnt appear, my email is ultimate_chaos59@hotmail.com drop me an email whenever you need a chat. Hey Matt, Facebook group is an awsome idea,my email is up to, id be happy to help start something aswell. Thanks guys, you have no idea how much better i felt after i found you all yesterday!
Hey UWS. Thanks for your email, I will email you soon
Facebook group sounds great! Let’s bring those uni’s down! hehe.
The only thing that has kept me going at university is the 1 society I joined that has proved to be of any interest at all. And frankly, I don’t mind the uni, I hate the fucking course. http://www.smmp.salford.ac.uk/about/staff/profile.php?id=uali I hate this guy most of all. Some head of course, won’t even take calls in his office, actively avoids speaking to me… grah…
Fuck, this is soo boring my lecturer is such a loser This is her http://www.deakin.edu.au/buslaw/infosys/members/profile.php?userid=lubat
I typed ‘I hate University’ and got this page back in 2006! Wow it’s grown. Okay, here’s my shit: Year 1 05/06 – Started in 2005. What a fucking joke – the good natured, popular guy I had once been was reduced to a pseudo-alcoholic recluse. Stuck it and did my exams. Year 2 06/07 – ‘Deferred a year’. Went traveling on my own, none of this pre-booked tour bullshit. Amazing, very very at ease with my own company, which I wasn’t before. Year 3 – Joined back to continue Uni. Live with some great guys, tho’ all on different levels (quite reserved types). Yet, my CHARACTER STILL HASN’T RECOVERED from my first year of depressive bullshit. I’m more content, but BEFORE I Joined I was – Happy, thought I could add something to the world. Spoke my mind. Since: – Lack of enthusiasm, find myself conforming (what the fuck?!) and I’ve got SHYER WITH AGE. Anyone else? Meh, because of travelling I now have the ability to go to a pub on my own, due to lack of true mates. Infact, i’d say I only ever had 2, 1 has since graduated compared to home. Rant over. Main focus: Uni is a fucking money-making institution which doesn’t promote diversity at all, it’s a breeding ground for the arrogant (not all though). So, suck my fat dick Uni. No doubt you’ll be having the last laugh when i’m diagnosed with liver and lung disease as a result of self-medication – you destroyed my dreams.
I think there’s a definite relationship with our anger and our expectations of University. Perhaps we were just all to enthusiastic? I’ve learn that I can be happier just by living in the city, I spend as little time there as I feel no association with the majority of people there. Yes i’ve been let down, I imagine this will have a huge knock-on effect for the rest of my life, but I suppose it’s just life.
I used to go to massey in New Zealand. It’s a shithole full of stuck up sluts and their shitless rugbyhead boyfriends. The lecturers are arrogant bastards and I hated it.
Hey all, I just like to reply to your comment Ritchie. I was reading over my high school reports, you know what they all say that i always contribute to class discussion. In my three years at uni i havent said boo. So i agree i to have got shyer with age. What shits me more than anything is im to scared to express my opinion. Everytime i bring myself to say something i stop myself because of what everyone else will think. I blush right..i had a teacher for a whole semester pay out on my personal insecurity. Tutorial discussion is apart of my assessment mark right, this is what she would say “everyone look away or close your eyes you will make her blush but today she needs to introduce the reading” Bitch who is she to do that!!!! Anyway i agree with you Ritchie!!! Take Care all.
To UWS Hater – Exactly the same here! Back in high school I was a confident guy who always spoke up, about my own opinion or in defense of others. Hell even got elected class representative. Now I don’t. What’s worse is that the habit of keeping my thoughts in is affecting every other aspect of my life. I.e Sometimes around my frickin friends I don’t say what I feel. I’m beginning to become more concious and it’s irritating. Infact I rarely ever say my opinion these days, it feels like it’s wrong for some reason. I’d love to know why this is? Your tutor sounds like an arse, it’s pathetic that a grown educated adult should act that way. I have a similar thing with one of my old course leaders. For some reason, I always tell myself I’ll go into the next seminar with a “i don’t give a fuck attitude” but never do. It’s always, “next time”. Thanks for the reply!
I’m a week into a Canadian university and I hate it. My classes are full of idiots, apparently don’t exist, and this morning I got locked out of the one class I enjoy. To top it off: I can’t find anyone in Administration to help me and the “dining hall” never has any food when I go to eat. Fuck you. I’m going back West where there aren’t any fucking preps (who’ll succeed in life because of their parents connections regardless) railing against the “uneducated”. Take your pseudo-intellectualism and shove it up your ass you worthless shits. This was my life goal and its all over now. Fuck it.
i have to go back for my second year tomorrow. kill me. kill me now.
agh UWS hater I feel exactly the same way. I was always a little bit shy but I could cover it up and at school no one even noticed but now that I’m at uni I have virtually no confidence socially and academically. I sit in tut’s, which are marked and compulsory, and I barely say a word unless I’m asked. I’m in my second sem of first year and managed to get trhough first sem with good grades and feeling ok about myself but now I can’t stand it. I’ve missed out on so many tut’s and classes because I see no reason for being there. I really wanted to drop out at the beginning of this semester but my family told me to “just get trough it” but why do I have to get trhough it? Why can’t I do something I enjoy instead of wasting time and money feeling absolutely crap about myself. I thought I was so alone in feeling this so finally I can rant to people who feel the same. It just seems that everyone else is enjoying it and doing fine and I just freak out. I have a massive essay due tommorow and I’ve almost finished but I know it’s not my best. I used to be so passionate about doing my work at high school and put in alot of effort but now I just wanna get it done and pass it. I wdon’t even keep in contact with people from high school or elsewhere much anymore because I’ve lost all my confidence. I know it’s no ones fault but mine but I just don’t fit in. I hate it, I worked so hard to get here and now I can’t see the point!!
Hi ppl, I have just finished filling in my withdrawal form and I honestly, eventhough I hated uni I had mixed emotions. I feel like a weight has been lifted from my shoulders. I did feel a little dissapointed i myself but then i remembered how much i hate uni! I have found a training acadamy near my home. It has cost me two grand to get the course i wanted. I know this sounds like alot but its nothing compared to uni fees. Im going to be training for around 4-6 weeks to become a fully qualified domestic electrician.Then I will work to get the money together to become a fully qualified electrician earning uround 45 grand a year working for someone! I always wanted to be a spark n not got 2 crappy uni but if i didnt i wouldnt have meet my girlfriend and mates; and wouldnt have the great memories. I know it is hard for ppl to make friends especially if their not into the drinking and clubbing scene. My advice would be to try to go to the student bar in the day time with someone you know from your course. This way you could try and make friends with ppl they know. If you really want to leave just do it. I thought my dad was going to kill me but he said he would support me in anyway he can just so long as i was happy. and said get a trade cos your earn more than most and will always have a job. Im glad ive got out cos a bit of paper saying your good enough cant get you ready for the real world. Peace
I don’t know if my university experience is different from you guys because of your univercity, your course or culture but I have found people at university quite supportive. I am doing a bacofsci in mining at curtin uni in western australia and people are just so friendly and helpful here. I join this course in its second year (got exsemption) and even though I started off being an outsider I was quickly inclued by being friendly but not weak or submissive because people take advantage of that. As for the work it is shit and I do thing at the last minute and i cram but those thing work for me i am passing everything (though i will never be an honours student). And remember alcohol is social lubricant so buy a round.
I AM into drinking and clubbing. It’s just that I have very little in common with the people i’ve met at University. I’ve always been the leader so I’m not adept in changing my interests to suit others. For example, I’m meeting 21 year olds that still act immature/shelltered i.e being worried about what parents think, (dad won’t let me get a job etc etc). I’m simply not middle-class in my ethic. For the first time I’m having to force myself to PRETEND TO LIKE something, instead of naturally enjoying it. I’m going to complete the course, but I can’t help feeling that I have near enough wasted 3 precious years of my youth on a piece of paper I could create in a day on Adobe Photoshop! *sigh* I’m not even young…22 now and i’m in the same boat as I was when I was 18! Wears me down it really does….what a pitiful joke to rope people into getting into debt. A big “Fuck you” middle class institution is all I can say! However I DO LOVE living in a city – which is it’s saving grace.
I recently started university in Wales. I am from London and have lived there all my life. I though I would be able to cope without my family, friends, and my wonderful city. As soon as I spend my first few days in my halls I knew it wasn’t the place for me, the people were small kids who drunk every night. Don’t get me wrong I love going out but not every single night, also after going to a few of the local clubs i found they were not what im used to in London. Anyway I decided after just my first month to drop out and go home. My parents weren’t happy but I just couldn’t stand being away from my home any longer. At the moment I am applying to go to uni next year through UCAS, but this time I will staying at home and going to a uni in London, back with my friends and family, and where I feel I belong. I am also applying for a different course this time around as I made a mistake last time. Like many people here I was so unhappy and the day my parents picked me up to go home was one of the best days of my life. Im currently looking for a job in what has now become my unscheduled “gap year”. I would like to say to anyone thats not happy at uni that just because you give up does not make you a failure. Just keep in your minds that we only live once, and we should all be happy and not struggle through uni if we hate it. You can be whatever you want to be regardless of a degree or not. God bless you all and good luck for the future. Knowing that im not the only one nice to know. Peace.
Ive only been in uni for 2 years now, and its fuckin hell!….sometimes i think university might get u a degree but for me its about money,what the point of a degree if it makes u earn jack shit….. i am a taxi driver and i earn a good
Im 22 and jst started university in Manchester. When I finished my A levels I went to work for a few year but I always look at university as an exciting, social and great thing to do. However now im here I absolutely hate it!!!!! Its not as exciting or friendly as I thought. In fact ,my freshers weeks was really shit and I hated it. It seems everyone has so much fun but me. But dont get me wrong….. I still feel university is a good thing to do. Im just feeling that I made a poor choice of university and have been unlucky enough to be stuck in a bad flatt with no life. Because im a bit older than everyone else though I feel I would be a failure and a loser to drp out as I dont have the time to waste like the rest of the 1st years. Im sooo confused.
Oh shit. I just started uni in London and think it’s a fucking pointless venture. Boring lectures, boring people. But i’m all working class and stuff so my family will probably die if i ever dropped out. Does it get better or is it bollocks from beginning to end?
Its so the goverment can say they have improved schools as more people go into higher education than before. Its so colleges can make lots of money and its so loan company’s can make a profit. Its all a massive con.
mmm i HATE IT.. i JUST CANT STAND ANYTHING.. i mean the teachers.. the people.. the boring lectures.. for gods sake i am in design.!!!! we should be creating things.. not sitting in stupid classes listening to pointless discussions.. and it scares the hell out of me, bc i feel i am wasting my life.. I am 21!!! and i JUST FEEL sooo unhappy!!!! they only time that i feel good about my life, is when i AM AT HOME.. I already went to community college.. and finished my diploma.. and I LOVED IT.. everything the people, the course, the teachers.. amazing… but for some stupid reason I decided to go to uni and get my degree in design.. why.. bc I believed all the b.s about uni.. .
I’m so bored and lonely at the moment. Can’t find anyone on my coridoor that I can relate to. They all seem to have done 10 years worth of bonding in no time, already reminiscing about the fond memories they’ve had together. They don’t appear to have a sense of humour that extends beyond creative use of curse words, so if I crack a joke I just get blank stares. Freshers’ week sucked, all clubbing with strangers which is absolutely pointless because you can’t meet friends this way. Seems like a product of unimaginative planning and a money making scheme by the uni. I’ve joined clubs and societies as well but can’t seem to connect with anyone there either. I do the activities set out by the societies but I didn’t need to come to uni to do that. Also starting to have doubts about my course as to whether it will really make a difference to my career path after 3 years, if not I don’t enjoy it enough for it to be worthwhile. I hope it get better, but if I am still in this position by Christmas I can’t see how it would improve or how I could cope with 3 years of the same. Really disappointed in uni so far.
before i start this, dont get me wrong, i have ALWAYS been a sociable person with more friends than time. and there have been very few times in my life where ive felt low or sad for longer than a day. but then i came to uni…. i think the problem starts with my flatmates. i have been put in the party flat. dont get me wrong, i do like going out, but maybe once a week? these guys go out every night and come in at 3 and slam the doors and talk and wake me up…so now im so tired so i still havent a good nights sleep since ive been here.. so taht doesnt help! i also have boyfriend back home that i miss like hell. he is the love of my life weve been togther for nearly 3 years and its been harder than ever imagined. i thought id be able to dea with it, even consider ending it if it wasnt working but all that i learnt from being away from him is tht hes the one for me. so im jsut focusing on the weekend next week i can go home, which so isnt healthy. people keep telling me ill meet people on ym course and omg i hope i do! i also hope my housemates run out of money so they cannot go clubbing every day of the week. im sticking with til christmas but if i still feel like this by then, its bye bye uni…
the work load has started, i’ve been ill the past week and i am dreading catching up and attempting to begin all these essays :S ugh i haaaate this
At this precise moment in time i am trying to decide whether to go to a uni lecture (6pm til 9pm-WHAT THE F*CK!?!) or to go to a meeting at work.. Not very hard though..i love work and passionatly hate uni! The only thing thats tempting me to go uni is getting a Subway on the way! It just pisses me off that if i leave i will be considered socially retarded! If someone offered me a decent full time post at my current job i wouldn’t thin twice about uni. It is full of dickheads! The lecturers and students! I’m still living at home thank god..or i think i would hate it even more! I totally agree with you all..uni is a waste of time & money! It stops my social life,me making money cus of the shit hours they give you for lectures! I think i might just go on the dole, after all i can’t afford the dentist or doctors at the moment becuz students have to pay..as if paying
I hate uni so much that it’s destroying me. The lecturers just expect so much. I study literature and for each course I have to read approximatly one and a half novels a week. I’m doing two classes now so that’s 3 novels per week as well as essays, presentations, exams- impossible unless you live with your mum, have your washing and cooking done for you and you have no friends or job. I just don’t understand why they expect so much. Surely they’re aware that virtually no one can read that much as well as complete essays and presentations and live. It’s as if the lecturers are trying to hurt us, leave us damaged, by setting virtually impossible tasks. It’s just so pointless. I want to leave so much but I doubt I’ll ever get a job I can live with without a degree. When will it end. I feel so trapped and powerless.I feel like I’m being crushed.
Wow! Amazing place. Even more comments than the ‘University sucks’ blog on Warwick which has now closed comments i think. Well i dropped out of uni in 2007. I dedicated the free time to researching government conspiracies etc and learnt more in that free year than i ever did at any point in my life. But incessant nagging from my family and extended family has forced me back to university to complete my degree. The very first day back and the aura was disgusting. I wanted to drop out again the very next day. I have decided that i will just continue to do my own things and if i fail the year, then fine, ill drop out again, leave home and find my own way somehow. Important thing i learnt when i returned to university was: It wasnt me who was not focused or happy, the system really is a bitch. I advice NOBODY to go to university. At least prostitutes get money to sell their bodies. In uni we sell our soul and lose our money also
Hey well if uni is so bad then i’m glad im not going lol(well i might be soon but only if education hasn’t eaten me alive).Lets face it once we leave school everything is shit and when i mean everything i mean ‘education’.I’m at college and nothing ever exciting happens and i have to put up with 2 hour lunch breaks where i have nothing to do and nowhere to go.I hate education right now its shit
Wow this really is an amazing forum! All this time I thought I was the only lonely fucker out there banging his damn head against the wall at the very thought of university. For me university was always something that just had to be done, not because I wanted to, but unfortunately we now live in a society where it is considered odd if one does not attend university. Despite all my efforts (arranging to meet with people in prominent positions in business) I decided that I would have to go, if I ever wanted to get a job worth more than 30k a year that is. I am at university now and I hate it! I am not stupid; I got good A-level results and now attend a respectable University. What I hate is the way in this country (UK) as soon as you tell anybody that
I feel the same about University. You have to go through this bullshit just to be accepted by society. The society has made everybody think that University has become a necessity in life. Thats when they start taking advantages of us. IN ADDITION the lectures don’t even teach properly. Why the fuck should i pay 3 grand just to tech myself LOLL. This is to all the others out there that feels the same way. Don’t let the University break you. Have the strenght to carry on. WISH ALL OF YOU THE BEST. peace out
University is just a shallow pool of mediocrity in this day and age. It’s all about quantity, never quality despite the institution’s eager, rhetorical bullshit to the contrary. Somehow as a society we’ve gotten it in your heads that if you attend a university for 3 or 4 years, waste your time, learn absolutely nothing, appreciate nothing deep, just get drunk and obnoxiously narcissistic then somehow when you’re done and get some magic piece of paper you have completed some sacred rite of passage that makes you a fulfilled and complete human being. If not, then you are worse than scum. It’s this attitude which universities embrace and preach at every opportunity (that’s when they’re not too caught up bragging about themselves). What is the point though? Just for some piece of paper, because we naively think that it’s exclusively the result that matters, not the procedure, not the path of learning and thinking? Just a very expensive piece of paper with Bachelor of Bullshits (Passing degree) written on it. Universities are inundated with people who really don’t want to be there, and why should they? Unfortunately people are forced to be there, it’s social pressure, it’s wasting the young years of our lives. There are so many fulfilling, fun, challenging, thrills out there that don’t require a university education (e.g. Navy SEALs), but I don’t have the guts to diverge from the herd, doing meaningful and fun things with my body and life is just a distant fantasy. Keep active, eat well, feel well, go above and beyond and finish that bitch off!
I hate university and the douchebag profs. IF I could, I would give university such a punch in the dick it wouldn’t know what hit it.
Listen Guy’s. By the time you enter uni your at least 18 years of age, so you have the right to leave. If your parents do not support you, then they only care about the way people look at them. I left uni and have never regretted it. YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO END IT ALL!
I’m a freshman and I really think I’ve made the wrong decision in going to university. I can’t motivate myself to do any work. I’m failing classes and I don’t even care. I can’t even be arsed to leave my room some days. Four more years of this, just to end up in a boring and unfulfilling job? No fucking thank you. I really, really want to drop out, but I’m only 17. My parents would hate me going back home, and I have no money. What would I do?
My mental health has dropped to below zero since starting uni this year, fresh from working my arse off in my final year of high school. I know for a fact that there is a direct correlation between the two. Don’t go to university if you have a long-term and underlying social anxiety/depression problem. It WILL be hell. You will NOT know what to do. Get some help first. I’m not exaggerating when I tell you that my social anxiety, which I’ve had pretty severely for a few years and am only seeking help for now, SKYROCKETED since going to uni. I don’t know if it’s uni’s fault, but most people’s core personalities there don’t seem to help with the problem. Lesson number one of university: people don’t give a shit. I was soo disappointed after my first semester, when I went to all my classes, did the work, tried to talk to people and make friends, joined some clubs. I trusted my instincts and just tried to be myself, which obviously doesn’t gel with the strategic way most people go about their lives, including making friends and being honest about themselves. Lesson number two of university: you’re never good enough. Fast forward one semester later, and I can’t even keep up with what day it is. I’m skipping more than half of my classes (there’s two weeks left, then exams, then summer, thank FUCK). I just don’t care anymore. I don’t want to sound melodramatic, but it’s just been a very lonely, frustrating year. I went in with the best intentions, knew that it wouldn’t be easy to meet people at first, but I’ve just come out disillusioned and seriously pissed off. I have no idea what step to take next.
Been here a month. Can’t stand it and want to drop out for a year and then come back. Any one out there done this and did it make a difference? Were you a changed person?
I’m back! and I’m struggling to be honest. Everyone here is so clique. I was very lucky to be educated at a private school but now I’m here all the people from similar schools have taken gap years, seem older and already know one another. Long hair, tracksuits and flipflops all the time. All they care about is getting completely off their face. I’m feeling the most depressed and the most insecure I have ever felt.
My course isn’t actually that bad (yet) but I just haven’t adapted to uni life. I feel that I have nothing to offer to anyone and even though I met some down to earth and friendly people who I hang out with, I’m sure I’m going to blow it and soon they’ll see me as that really annoying person. I’ve always been shy and lacking in confidence but this is just damaging. My room is sooooooo depressing. I hate it and I hate being in it. Perhaps I should join some societies and sports teams but then again if I leave then it will have been money wasted. Everyone told me to take a year out and I didn’t and now I want to go everyone is saying stick it out longer so that you can really be sure but if I wait too long then my year out won’t be charecter changing and so I still won’t fit in. AAAARRRRGGGGGHHHHH!
Dave, seriously what is the deal with the flip flops? I have never seen guys walking around an urban environment with flip flops on before, but everyone at uni does it, WHY? Other than that, been here a month now and still haven’t met anyone that I get along with well. I honestly believe that you do not need to come to uni to gain knowledge. It is all there in the course textbooks, which can be bought from Amazon or other book shops. Tutorials are relatively useless and lectures just give a less detailed version of the textbook material. However if you went for a job with vast knowledge on a subject from independent research, and someone else went for the same job with a 2:2 Bachelors in the subject from Generic University, I think you know who would get the job. Open University seems quite appealing.
uni is shit. use to be straight A student in high-school and always pressured to “achieve the best” uni isn’t the best i been going on and off to uni for four years i don’t know any other way out i wish i did
hi all, i really know how u all feel, i often feel the same way when it comes to the work load and the “help” that lecturers give u. one of my friends nearly died in an accident last year, i had coursework due in that week so i applied for an extension and was given 3 days. all i could think was “yea 3 days will help me get that finished when i dont know if my friend is going to live or die!” but even though there have been many bad and lonely experiences there have also been some great ones. i waslucky enough to go into a degree that i still enjoy (i’m in my 4th year doing psychology) and i have met lots of genuine and lovely people. for the people who havn’t made any friends yet, maybe u should try joining a club or society? one of the sports teams i am friends with are all very close (and are far from ur “normal” jocks) and we still see people who have finished their degrees and left uni. There’s usually a club or society for everyones tastes, and if there isn’t, u could try making your own? just remember that there is always someone out there in the same situation as u! and yes, for the most part, uni really does suck ass.
I found this webpage by typing in Google, ‘I hate uni.’ I just had to post something
I hate uni too.
i hate uni.. its a total shit hole man.. im living with a bunch of people who keep me out of what they do. i try to talk to them and they will talk to me but as soon as someone else calls them they go there and never come back and its like im being left out…and another thing that pisses me off is that im the only coloured person in my group. the rest are all white… im not rascist but imgaine urself in my sitauation its like going to a boarding school. so you know what im doing dropping the fuck out… FUCKKKKKKKKK UNIIIIIIIIIII ITS A LOAD OF SHIT.. I HOPE ALL UNIS GET BURNT DOWN… GOING TO UNI DONT MEAN ULL HAVE A GOOD JOB U STILL MAYBE WORKING AT SOME SHIT RETAIL PLACE OR TELESALES ALL YOUR LIFE.. WHAT GOOD AHS THE DEGREE DONE THANN>> WASTE OF MONEY IF U ASK ME.. IF UR NOT DOING MEDICINE THAN SCRAP UNI …. CUZ UR NOT GUARANTEED A JOB
Hi dave.. i dropped out last year and didnt like it and i have come back now and still dont like it so im dropping out and strating a course in january… it maybe that u dont like the location ur studying at.. im studying away from hoem and to be honest its a whole load of bullshit… spending money and money on what.,.. partying … and bullshit,.. nah id rather be at home.. so jus stick with what u think is best but before u make a rapid decision make sure u have something secured like a job because sitting at home for a week will get u bored and youll wish u were at uni so THINK…. FUCK UNIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
oh my gosh, ive been here over a month now an i hate it now as much as i did when i started. it doesnt get better!!! i have never met so many arrogant, pretentious people all in one place in all my life. the girls look down on you if you’re dressed head to toe in fuckin designer or river island or top shop clothes carryin ridiculously huge bags. my friends think im insane for hatin uni because they love it, but i just dont get it!! i took a gap year before comin, an i know what fun is an this isnt it!! the lack of actual teachin is shocking. basically im payin over 3 grand a year for them to give you a reading list of over priced book an assignments that you get zero help on. and if i wasnt stuck in a tenency agreement i’d get out of this hell hole as soon as i could
I hate uni too, my parents have always told me its a fast track to getting a good job. Im an only child and without meaning to they have put a lot of pressure on me by paying for me to go to a private school when they couldn’t afford it; and even 2 years on they are still in debt over it. Im really grateful to them, but there is no way im guna send my kids to private school, its too much pressure to do well and go to uni. Now im at uni i have little interest in learning and would like nothing better than to work as Cabin Crew for Virgin or BA. there really isn’t anything in particular that i hate about uni, i just feel that had i been givin the choice like most people are, then i wouldn’t have gone. Now im wasting my money, time and general happiness simply because i feel controlled. my boyfriend keeps saying if it makes you that unhappy then just leave, but he doesn’t understand how much my parents want me to do this. To be honest, before i started uni i used to think that drop outs where a waste of space in society, but now iv experienced what its like, theres no one i respect more for making their own firm decision about leaving…. coz im telling you, i haven’t got the fuckin guts!
Guys, I feel sorry for you all. Uni was frickin awesome! Yeah, lectures and work sucks, but the social aspect kicked ass. Peace out to you all though, I hope you guys find it within yourselves to be happy elsewhere in life.
i hate university. fuckin bullshit. i have been here for 5 weeks and it is shit. i havent made friends coz most people in there cosy little groups are just a bunch of wankers. the lecturers are shit. there is shit all to do. i hate being on my own considering i hate lots of mates before uni. a waste of money if you ask me. quitting not an option coz i wont know what to do in life and my parents would be so dissappointed. fucking uni i hate it.
my Life plan (as i jsut started my 1st semester at Uni, and its already killing me.. im 19): – Go to Uni (finance bac) and finish it asap (30 classes/3yrs) to please my fkn parents. (obviously im not the one paying, i would have fukd uni a long time a go) – So by 22 i should have gotten my diplomae – Make my clothing brand and work at some random bank just to use my diploma for some reason – wait until im 23-24 to get my real estate certificate thing – by 25, live my life (work hard at selling houses, earning good money, going to the gym, meeting poeples… etc.. things i cant do as a student fkn bulshyt) – what makes wanna drop out? – as someone said earlier: Mycreativity is dying. I used to think i was different, special, had great things to offer the world… now i can see i am worth nothing, as all those things have been killed + 2012 (i would feel like a cunt if i study hard 3 yrs, and the yr i graduate, somethings fuks up the world and i realise i never really enjoyd it.. cuz of fkn uni) yeh i typed i hate univeristy as well ahahha feels great im not the only one What Uni Are you guys going? Im going to Concordia Uni. Montreal.. i live like an hour from my school, at home. I dont really chill out with the peeps i talk to during my calsses or breaks.. the only peeps i chill out with are My friends from high school
i typed “hate university” into google to get here too. i came to uni straight out of high school, changed from B of I.T to B of Multimedia Maj. internet Computing (Web programming basically). took a gap year to make up my gpa + work for a bit. so i’ve now been here for 4 years, making it 16 years of constant education. my university is the fucking dodgiest of all universities that i know of, but somehow, we have the best multimedia degree? if that’s the case, all other uni’s here must be FUCKED. unlike the guy above me, i know i’m still different and i still have my creativity, but i can’t apply it to my degree at all. i find more satisfaction in playing with my fiance’s car. swapping engines, modifying it and just generally making it run harder/better/faster have gives me the most satisfying results. i think this is mostly because i have never turned a spanner on a car before i started a month or so ago. i’ve learned so much and have had so much fun doing it. hopefully tomorrow i will have ironed out the final 2 niggling problems, then it’s time for its maiden voyage
i know that i would hate to do it for a living, though, but i know it would have delieverd me more satisfaction if i didn’t have the looming thought of “if you keep doing this, you’re going to fall behind with uni” – which i did. then i got screwed by work and a month later, am still trying to get paid for my labour. i was taking time from uni to do that job and now it’s just screwed me totally. so now i have had to cut my losses, quit my job plus try and pick up the pieces of uni for the last couple of weeks. i’ve failed 1 subject for certain and now have an exam tomorrow for a subject that i hate (project management), the lecturer is a total fucktard who thinks she’s a “real world graduate”. i (and everyone else) can tell that she’s the “real world office dullard” you encounter in every office situation. i haven’t studied for it because i just plainly do not give a shit. once that’s over i have an exam for a 0 credit point subject (that’s not a type, it’s a zero credit point subject) two days after and have an assignment for another subject due this friday (today is monday). then for this year, this bullshit is finally over. i’ve just gotta finish my final year next year, including doing the subjects that i’ve failed (1 last semester, 1 this semester, hopefully i’ll pass the other 2). it’s going to be a fucking full-on year. failure is not an option beacuse my fiance and i are planning on moving back to her hometown (23 hrs drive away) as she hates it here. i’m all for it, but the added pressure on me to pass uni etc is fucking ridiculous. we’re getting married in this coming february. saving for that wedding is nearly a non-existant process on my behalf. at the moment i cannot afford the time to work and study. hopefully i can scrape enough cash together between the end of this week and then, to pay for my share. i love that girl so much and can’t bare the thought of letting her down. so yeah, cross your fingers for me. i’ll do the same for you guys 
oh and good news, australia is getting an uastralia-wide standard for modifications. so i’ll be able to modify a supra when we move to adelaide 
uni is so shit. it would just be averagely shit but students make it unbearable. they are a higgledy piggledy rag-tag bunch of misfit cunts who all think that their false opinions are of any sort of interest to somebody because they are doing some shit course in latin american studies or something. all they do is go out and get pissed up and think that they are enjoying themselves when actually they just want to fit in because they are not ready to join the real world and think that being a proper dick is some kind of achievement. its gonna be so funny when they get out of uni and realise that they cannot walk into a job just because they might have been a representative or something and they are able to talk shit to dickheads who validate them by pretending that the shit they are coming out with is in someway insightful or interesting. they will end up in shitty middle management 30k a yr jobs with 99% of the other cunts. when i am an employer i will laugh these dickheads out of my office and employ people with some kind of social aptitude or genuine intelectual quality not some fake little middle class prick who thinks he’s gonna change the world by paying 20p for the guardian instead of 80p. wankers. 8 months to go, then i wont have to be surrounded by this bunch of idiots any longer.
what other things do YOU hate about students??
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4PjOgf2w0xs <—- STUDENTS lol, pricks
That video is painful to watch, fucking idiots. I hate all the people at uni who view socialising as a game where they have to collect as many friends as possible. Also people who have no real personality so they just slag off anything and anyone to make themselves look better by comparison, bitches. There’s always the standard “she’s well fit, so is she, oooooo so is she” dialogue that outstayed it’s welcome before it arrived. University is just a myth of social nirvana, which the majority force themselves to buy into, just so they can say what a fucking amazing time they had at uni.
I just started uni a few months ago and was really excited from hearing all these great storied off people who have been. But not that I’m hear I hate it. All my lectures are just repeating the stuff I learned in college and I have no friends. All anyone’s interested in is how much you drink, how good looking you are or where you’ve gone back packing. I feel like I should just quite now
WOW WOW WOW EVERYTHING PEOPLE HERE ARE SAYING IS SO FUCKING TRUE!! I too haven’t made too many friends yet. I mean sure, I’ve talked to people – but many of them strike me as a bit manupilative and ready to screw you oveer and smile as they do it. I don’t know, just something about SOME people there cannot and should not be trusted. The good thing is, it’s obvious to spot. I agree that the work there is absolute shit. Most people don’t admit it when I ask them – that’s when you know you’ve stumbled on a manipulator or a liar. If someone says a class is “easy” when you are a honor roll student doing the same shit as them, no, it’s not easy – they aren’t being honest. They’re being guarded and making it like they know what the fuck is going on. Truth is – FEW PEOPLE ACTUALLY DO!! The most fucked up thing is the profs. I have a lady you barely speaks english and she teaches us math. It’s like learning math and Chinese at the same time. It’s wayyy too hard and people either get it or they fail. Right now I’m failing it and I’ve talked to 2 people who are doing the stupid class again. It’s fucked up, it shouldn’t be like that. I don’t want to lose my friends (which I think I am) and I don’t want to lose my sanity or drain my parents by compaining any longer. It does turn you into an emo. But I think you just have to trust yourself, remember the old you and just grit your teeth and tell those profs exactly what they want to hear. Once you’re out of there then you can follow exactly what you want and how you want it. Fuck it, use univesrity the same way it’s using you for money. Use it for a degree, fight your way into a good job with some ass kissing and then take it from there and do it by your own morals. It’s fucked up to think of it that way, but that’s life. It’s competitive as hell and everyone is kind of out for themselves. Thankfully my university isn’t WAY competitive but there are a few assholes who you can spot from miles away. Fuck sometimes it feels good just to rant and let it all out. But honestly, guys if I knew you in real life I would be friends with every single one of you. There’s NOTHING WRONG WITH YOU. I’m pretty shy sometimes but hell, I’m a fun person who likes to go work out, shop, dress up and go do something when I want. Just because I don’t have someone to hang out with 24/7 on campus doesn’t mean that I’m weird. Don’t think that way about yourselves either guys, honestly!!!!
I am kobe i didnt go to university but i got to fuck vanessa (altho i dont think she is pretty) erm thats it
I just got evicted from my residence for having a fucking half decent party and now I’m sleeping in the library because that’s the only fucking place I have. I’ve sent in an appeal to the heartless bastards who thought eviction was the best decision to make concerning a party that ended with nobody getting hurt and no damage being done. Yeah, people smoked in the hallways. Universities are clever in making you feel empowered and then when shit hits the fan you realize you have absolutely no god damn rights and they fuck you with a 6 foot pole made of tree bark. I had to evict my place in 24 hours, it took me 3 days to move in and its been a week and still no word on my appeal. Universities are no more than greedy corporate fucks that make millions of dollars from impoverished students that think they are getting a life. Like many of you have said, its sucking the life out of me. I feel I am a pretty bright guy but this institution constantly makes you feel like an idiot that’s never good enough and your self worth is measured by how many hours you slave away memorizing idioms or writing essays. I am so close to throwing in the towel and burning down this whole fucking place. I feel frustrated, stuck, and castrated. I thought university would be a saving grace. All it has done is choke my creativity and intellectual capacity and desire to truly think outside the box to make this world a better place. I feel like graduating from university will just make me an advanced robot of society. I wish I was born 10000 years ago so i could just hunt and be a normal human. Fuck this shit.
wow. i am so happy to find out that im not alone:D in my country higher education is free, at least i dont have that problem. but everything else that has already been said – it was like reading my own thoughts. first and foremost, it should be illegal to go to uni right after high school! (99% of those who go, dont have ANY idea why they are going. they dont care what they are studying, they have no plan, they get eaten by the system or slave themselves through it thanks to fear and end up with a heart stroke:))seriously, higher education gets worse and worse with every year, there is NO quality (at least here) and there wont be any quality until universities are full of students who study just to get grades. (and teachers who teach just to get money). who to blame? the parents!(i know that they only want good, but they should remember that the road to hell is also paved with good intentions) “you will get nowhere without a diploma, graduate and then go see the world, blablabla…you are no one without higher education. blabla”BLABLABLA. i am so mad at this point in my life – mad at myself. i will NEVER ever again in my entire life let someone make a decision for me. but the worst part is that i dont have the guts to end it… i hate what im studying, i will never work in that field, but i feel like my mom would shoot me and herself if i`d drop out. stay strong everybody.
Hey everyone! I found this site via Google and boy am I glad! I can relate to what all of you have said. I’m actually in grad school now but I hated university from day 1. That’s more than 5 years of torture really… University is so meaningless that it truly amazes me that I actually survived it. So basically life from about age 5 is all about studying and then working? Remember the quote from fightclub ” We work jobs we hate to buy shit we dont need” All I can say to all of you is life is very short so dont stay at university just because other people expect it of you. You are not your grades, your cars, your bank account. Don’t stay in university just to please your parents either-I know my parents spent most of their savings on my education but university sucked the life out of me. I’d rather quit something I hate and be happy than be a miserable educated fool. No wonder so many people are depressed-I’m amazed thereare people who can go to university and actually maintain their sanity. Go with your heart-however hard that maybe. Don’t waste your life doing what you hate. Try and find a job that you can enjoy a bit, that doesnt stress you out and that can give you some free time-even if that means taking a lower paying job. I’d rather go live on some tropical island and be a baker or something than do this university thing again. This is YOUR life. Live your life according to your own values. And if something doesnt make you happy give it up already.
Hi all! I must say everything I’ve read so far is quite true. I’m in my last year of uni and actually finish in about 6 months but it’s never been harder to get up every day and drag myself to uni. I don’t know what it’s like in other countries but German universties just suck! They don’t teach you anything but expect from you that you already know everything. On top of that many students I’ve ancountered act like they’re sooo superior and regard you as a little piece of dirt. Let’s not start talking about profs either, most of them really don’t give a shite about you and are happy to make you feel like ignorant little idiots! After all those years of studiying I really feel like I haven’t learned a thing, besides I could have looked up most of the things at home and teach myself there but a bloody uni certificate seems to be the one holy paper that gets you through life. I’m glad when it’s all over and am happy about every day I survive in this place of hell! However, I really don’t see an alternative… with all the economy crap going on and people losing their jobs the ones without “qualifications” will end up under a bridge or something. But let me just say one more thing: if you make it through uni it’ll turn you into a much stronger person and after all you can be proued to having mastered this challenge. All the best to my fellow sufferers!
I hate University. I hate all the people who have so many fucking friends and hang out with people every night. If I wasn’t at University it wouldn’t matter that I don’t have many mates but a few close ones, and stay in most nights. But cos I’m at uni, i’m a freak. Crap housemates who go out all the time when I’d love housemates who would want to stay in and hang out in the evenings. I’m crap at writing essays so i’ve pretty much no chance at getting a 2:1 even though I really need one to be able to become a teacher. Plus, my seminar leaders mark essays a lot harsher than people I know’s seminar leaders do. The whole thing just sucks and i’m stuggling and no one will help me write a better essay and I don’t have a huge group of mates like every single other person ever seems to, and i’m not stupid and i’m not boring. It just sucks!!!!
commented back in october and tbh things had got a bit better since then. I found some guys to hang out with and things were going well. we’ve been on nights out, eaten meals together, played sport. just found out that amongst themselves they’re all sorted in terms of living arrangements next year. I’m not. I’m in trouble here, i would say there’s only 3 other people i’d really consider living with and i know that 2 of them are sorted as well. that leaves me one person but i’m scared to ask cos if he’s sorted then i’ll feel really, really low. i have no idea what happens if i genuinely have nowhere to live. the problem is everyone else is getting sorted too so even if i go on to meet some nice people later it’ll be too late. i’m screwed and i’m starting to feel that lonliness and despair that i originally felt when i came. at least it’s almost the holidays, but i don’t think that’ll be much fun if i don’t know where i’m living.
Fuck uni! I’m getting so sick of it. I would rather just do the reading at home, because lectures and tutorials are fucking useless. Far too many pricks here as well, I’m sure you really did find yourself on your gap year, were you up your arse by any chance? If you don’t like sport, Scrubs, being a bitch or drinking until you shit your kidneys out, then uni is gonna suck unless you love your chosen subject.
LIFE IS A MAKE MONEY SITUATION AND THERE IS MORE THAN ONE WAY OF DOING IT. UNIVERSITY INDIVIDUALS ARE LOST THATS WHY THEY ARE THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE. THEYRE A BUNCH OF LOOSERS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i’m generally a laid back happy person but since university has started, i’ve been nothing but a ball of emotions. Crying one day, Pissed off the next…why even now, i’ve been so depressed i can’t even get out of bed. Why do we put ourselves through university? Its nothing but a bunch of pretentious, snobby bastards all out to get each other and compete. I’ve made like 5 friends in the 3 years i’ve suffered and in the end, just doesn’t feel worth it. way too sad and i fel hopeless. Fuck.
Found this site via google like a lot of people seem to. I’m a third year student and have been massively disappointed with the whole university experience. I know I was too enthusiastic before I came here but based on what I’ve heard from my friends (none of them went to the same university as me) they all seem to have had a much better time than I have. I always thought your best memories were supposed to come from you time at uni but all the things i think back on that make me laugh are either from school or from my second year where i went to north america. I’m from south london and don’t seem to meet people i have anything in common with here. People here tend to be ‘rahs’ or country bumpkins who went here so they could avoid going anywhere near a big city. I met plenty of people in my first year but never really felt i bonded with them. This seemed to be confirmed last year when none of them spoke to me while I was gone, but I wasn’t pissed off about it. I realised i wasn’t bothered about speaking to them either; i could quite easily have never come back to this place and not missed it. People i met declared that i was ‘weird’ because my family didn’t all eat dinner together every night, and because i didn’t like watching disney films because i think theyre mostly for children. Last year i had a much better time. I was in a city about 10 times the size of where i am now (about 100,000 people here, about 1,000,000 there), i felt i had more in common with the other exchange students than i did with my fellow students back in england, and it was awesome being a novelty to the canadians i met. It’s not as if last year was perfect, and there were times i wanted to come home. But whenever i felt like that i never wanted to come home and not go back; i felt like i wanted a weekend in my own bed and to see my friends from school, but i would want to be back in canada on monday. Right now I would quite happily pack my stuff up and drive home tomorrow. I’m living with a couple of people I knew from the first year and a couple of their friends now (just to make things even better I’ve ended up in a room thats roughly the same size as a prison sell, and to make up for it each of my housemates is paying me 46 pounds for the year. less than 200 hundred quid to spend a year in a cupboard while they all have a decent sized space and a double bed)I constantly look forward to going home for Christmas and the only thing that puts me off is the embarassment of speaking to my friends and admitting how much of a crap time i’m having. Even worse, one of my friends now tells me she wants to come here to do the same subject as me. She’s saying she want’s to come and stay next term and I would be genuinely embarassed to show any of my friends around down here. I came back after my year abroad with the intention of being more positive and enthusiastic, and i have tried to get some practical stuff done (joining societies, etc) but find that pretty much all the people in my year have made their good friends by now (they have been with each other for 2 years after all!). I’ve pretty much lost interest in my course. I do english lit, which i loved at school, but now constantly feel that I’m reading books that no-one outside of a university would ever read, not to mention the secondary sources (critical analysis etc). I try to read them but realise i don’t give a shit. I thought studying english would give me an insight into how to write, but all it seems to tell you is how to waste your time thinking about totally trivial ‘deep’ topics. I’m going to graduate in less than 5 months and don’t feel like I’ve learnt anything relevant in my entire time here. I know now that i picked the wrong university. I might well have got sick of studying the same way somewhere else, but at least i might have enjoyed myself. If i hated my course but i was living with good friends who made me laugh i think it would probably be ok. As it is i feel like I’ve had one good year out of three (which is more than some people get i suppose)and I’ve managed to waste thousands of pounds of both my own money and my parents. I’m going to come out with a degree that doesn’t get you into any well paid jobs and having had a crap time for 2 years out of the three. I don’t feel like i can drop out now, having completed 2 years and being on course for a 2:1 but it’s hard to resign yourself to being pretty miserable for 5 months. comments, ideas, suggestions, questions all welcome. cheers
ive only been in uni for half a term and its killing me, i thought uni would be the place where i actaully learn new stuff that intrests me. stuff that i wudve never learnt in high school. but i have to take these crap courses that do nothing (i.e. electives and irrelavant core courses). and as ppl say that ur frnds in uni are the best frnds, no that bullshit, the frnds i made here are so lifeless (probably suffer from the same situation as us) and boring, and its not becoz i didnt noe them better becoz in high school i made good fun frnds in just a week, ppl i enjoy hanging out with, not a bunch of boring dipshits who judge you becoz of ur marks or the amount of hours u fukin spent studying. fuck this… i have to say after i wrote all that i do feel slightly better =P
Well, I feel better now. After typing ‘I hate Uni’ into google this thread came up; its incredible how I can identify with so many of you. I’m doing an arts course, have made one friend who is dropping out very soon, and feel as though I am surrounded by pretentious people. I thought university would be about breaking out of categories but whatever you were classed as at school you carry it with you. The only thing keeping me is my own pride and the fear that I will later in life regret it. But currently I wish I was working in a supermarket or something! There must come a point for the tutors that they have worked for so long that they lose all will to give meaning to people. As you all have said; Fuck You Uni!
I’m really good at pissing people off. I’m mean I’m good when I don’t mean to, but I’m REALLY good when I want to get under someone’s skin. Why is this the only thing I find easy!?! Baisically I’ve been here for just over 2 months and I’ve pretty much pissed off everyone I hang out with. Shit. I just don’t know what to do. If I don’t have anyone to live with by the summer I’m out of here. So what if I’m a so called ‘rah’ – (I went to private school but trust me I’m not one of those cnuts!) I’m just not interested, but I’ve done one term now so I may as well stick out the year, so at least if I DO pull out I’ve made some progress. I hate my life at the mo, to be totally honest, but I’ll stick with it, because I’m part fighter and part pussy. happy days.
ok why did that come out 4 times? lol.
hmmm only twice now. trust me i haven’t been getting pissed to drown my sorrows. haha. oh and by the way i reckon everyone found this site via google-i certainly did! ha.
“Don’t go to university if you have a long-term and underlying social anxiety/depression problem. It WILL be hell. You will NOT know what to do.” Oh christ I wish I knew that before I came. I was hoping I’d have gotten off the whole suicidal ideation thing when I came here, but its just gotten worse and worse.
I’m going back home on the 18th thank god. Also this place really needs a forum…
i agree the people at uni are fucked up bore bags, eitherr that or smack head toss pots!!!!! thank fook this is my last year!
I am so happy that i’m not the only one around that really doesn’t like university. I came here because it was the ‘natural’ and ‘normal’ thing to do. My whole life i was brought up with “go top uni, get a good job”, mainly because both my parents and all my family are workers and worked their asses off for a bum paycheck. But the thing is, i don’t see what big a deal uni is. Its boring. That fucking simple. Just a boring four years of poverty, lack of sex (unless you are willing to shag the wasted girls at the end of a night for four years in a row). The friendship is crap. everyone sticks together because there is nothing better to do. i’m a first year student in glasgow and glasgow is a beautiful city but so dull. All you get is bars and DnB. i like both but after a couple of months u start missin the shitty clubs where people would go to just for the laugh and not just for the fucking music. I miss the pubs. i miss not only hanging around with students. In fact fuck students. everyone is so fake and actually believe they’re gonna get out of uni with a degree that will really help them out in life. But half of the british population goes to uni anyway so a degree really isn’t that special anymore. U wanna get up in life u have to get a masters. And why the fuck do that in the first place when no one wants to study, regardless of how much of a geek they are. But then again I worked full time for a summer and even though the money and experience was good, theres no way i wanna be a waiter the rest of my life. So what do I do? Stick and have four years of shit that will only result with a piece of paper that ‘demonstrates’ i’m more intelligent than the average person? Drop out and be looked down upon by most of my family and be really fucking pissed off if people I know at uni finish and end up earnin double what I get? What the fuck do I do? i stay, i leave. Both have a huge downfall to them. The only real happiness I’ve had lately is actually finding you guys that hate uni too. Thought i was the odd one out in the whole of fuckin britain
I’m so glad to know other people hate uni. I started two months ago and it was great at first but then I realised i hate my course and i’ve basically just made a really bad start. I dont know what i want to do after uni but i dont want to be in debt for the next ten years of my life so im seriously considering dropping out at the end of this term. Has anyone out there done the same thing?
I am very glad to see people with the same thoughts as mine. University is absolute horse shit. Unless your going to completely change who you are to fit in you will be unhappy. The Universities in Canada for the most part are just full of drunk fucking retards. Is anyone here attending the University of Waterloo?
Everyone tells you that the point of uni is to become a “well rounded” person—socially and academically and is not about learning things but “how to learn”…this is the biggest crock of shit I’ve ever heard. No one, I REPEAT, no one goes to uni to become well rounded or to LEARN HOW TO LEARN! Here are the real reasons why I think people go, regardless of what common sense dictates… 1) People are there b/c everyone says it’s the only way to be happy/earn money. 2) Don’t know wtf else to do and just follow everyone else. 3) Pressured from parents/peers and are afraid they’re going to be labeled failures for not going/dropping out. 4) Before getting into uni they have this image in their heads of how wonderful uni life is…fuck, are they ever in for a shitty surprise (I was one of them) And so us students go on feeling miserable, putting ourselves through hell and back, all so we can earn this shiny piece of paper that basically says “if I can put up with uni/college, I can certainly put up with your bullshit.” WOW education sucks.
Wow, everyone on this forum is a whiner. Whine whine whine. If you don’t like university, then drop out and be a failure for the rest of your miserable life. The reason why so many of you put up with uni, even though you hate it, is because you know deep down this is the only way to get any job worth jack shit once you’re out. I can hear it now, “plenty of people didn’t go to university or college and they’re successful.” Sure, if you’re a somebody like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs…but I’m willing to bet that the majority of the people who write on here are nothing like these two men. Unless you’ve got the greatest idea since google, I suggest you shut your mouth and just do your work. You know, work, something YOU HAVE TO DO once you get into a uni/college. If you look at uni as part of a bigger picture, it’s really just one last hurdle to jump over…when you die, do you want to be remembered as the person who buckled down and did what had to be done, or the person who let everyone down (including himself/herself) and quit at the last stretch of the race because it got “too hard.” If you have any brains at all, you’ll choose the latter. If you don’t well I guess I’ll see you at the Golden Arches–”would you like some fries with that.” HAHAHAHA, wow I’m awesome.
fuck you REAL. we’re just sharing our opinions and expressing how we feel about about the university.
Thank GOD I found this site. Before I got to University I was such a cheerful, easy going person. In high school I was practically friends with everybody and was on the principles honor role for all 4 years. I had a great passion for learning, particularly literature and poetry. Everything in high school was awesome; the parties, teachers, my social life, EVERYTHING. But everything changed once I got to university. Before I spent my first week at university, I had this vision of what it was like: awesome classes, supportive professors, great friendships that would form, then afterward I would be out in the “real world” doing what I loved to do. After just one month, practically everyday I was saying to myself “What did I get myself into? This is nothing like I expected it to be.” I considered myself to be an intelligent, decent person before I came. But now my marks are continually dropping, I have no social life, and for some reason I always feel out of place and surrounded by self centered animals stuck in the same boat I am. It got so bad that I would cry just from all the stress that would build up and pretty soon I was seriously contemplating suicide. I was a wreck (maybe I’m just crazy?). At one point, I was actually preying to God if he could kill me. I can’t bear to tell my parents that I want to drop out. It would break their hearts, especially my mom. But everyday I stay here, a little piece of my old self is stripped away from me and replaced with something totally different, an idea I am not comfortable with. Everyday I have to wake up and drag myself out of bed, I feel sick to my stomach that I have to experience the same thing over and over again. I feel myself breaking down and I don’t know how much more bullshit I can take. I can’t see what was once my bright and optimistic future. It’s like voluntarily going to prison, serving for a crime you didn’t commit. May we all get through this somehow-there’s gotta be a way, there just has to be.
“this is the only way to get any job worth jack shit once you’re out. ” BA’s are dime a fucking dozen (BSC’s = lab tech work). If you don’t have the connections (ie, “like omg my like dad is like gonna get me a job at like the UN”*) or you didn’t major in engineering, you’re still fucked job outlook wise. More so now that its recession time, hooray! Also JJ I was at the one across the street…thought you guys would have had it different haha. *overheard @ Laval University this summer. I can’t make this shit up.
Yet another lonely soul wanders over to this site after typing “I hate university” into Google… I’m over in Canada finishing up my degree, and despite having just one semester yet, am not even sure I can do it. My family’s currently downstairs, and I’m sitting up here all alone as if I were a social outcast. It’s not the workload, or the reading, or what not. That actually hasn’t been so bad (not that’s it been easy, but it can definitely be done). It’s the soul-sucking atmosphere of university. That’s what has gotten to me. The redundant classes, the fact that it cost thousands to be there and yet the information being handed to me could probably all be found on Wikipedia… The loneliness, oh, the loneliness. We just show up to class, do what we gotta do, then walk out. The conversations I’ve had with acquaintances have been mainly class related. It’s been almost four years, and I haven’t made one actual friend there. Not ONE. Acquaintances, sure, but then lose touch with them once the school year’s done. Part of that’s my fault, I’ll accept it. I’ve always been shy and somewhat withdrawn, but NEVER to this extent. University is the crusher of soul and mind. I am mush, a shadow of what I once was. I could have dropped out… but then were would I have gone? What will I do once I graduate? I came to university for answers, for knowledge, and I leave with even more questions and feeling a lot more ignorant…
I graduated in the 1980’s which makes me old enough to be your mother! Your comments move me to tears. It is so sad to think of you all sitting in your halls or dingy little rooms (they haven’t changed – still damp, eh?) and feeling like this. I got a 2:1 degree. There are many ways you can look at this. Getting that damn degree must be like reaching the summit of a mountain, whether you use it in life or not. You damn well did it – and not to do it, not to finish it, may prey on your minds way into your future. If you are the sort of person who regrets things and holds onto that regret, then you must carry on BUT you MUST make your life as pleasant as possible – by rewarding yourself in any way that helps. That can be a trip home, it can even be a new cd or a takeaway so you dont have to cook. If I could survive like this, there isnt one of you that won’t feel a bit better. If you aren’t the sort of person who carries regret and guilt around, then seriously consider dropping out. You are not defeatists, you are brave, you are so brave to do it. You have to respect yourself. It takes a big person to stop and say, I’ve made a wrong choice and I’m going back to that crossroads and I’m going to go a different way. If your parents are anything like good parents, they will have their 10 minutes of ranting, then they will HELP you. Give yourself a couple of weeks to relax and recover and then get thinking. You are all very intelligent people. I was reading about the girl who wanted to be a hairdresser but her parents didnt want her to do that. As an example, that is a fantastic choice of career! Everyone needs their hair cutting so the market is huge. Once an intelligent girl finds her feet, she will realise that she can specialise. There are cancer sufferers/baldies etc., for example, who will use the services of people who can weave new hair into their existing hair to thicken/replace etc. You can start your own business/chain of shops! You can develop products etc. Becoming a hairdresser and braving the numpties as colleagues for a while, would be a fantastic career! It is one of the things that will get you into Australia – they are crying out for hairdressers! You could begin a new life (post-university) by volunteering for a few months and seeing where that leads. You could work in any area (pubs, walking dogs!) and build up money to travel and that can throw up all sorts of things. One thing is certain, university is not the only option for all you intelligent, fantastic young people – even if you have incurred debt and feel you ought to press on (you can save MORE debt by dropping out!). The government cannot get it out of you until you are earning over
So i attend this well known school…uva. I hate it! there is no diversity, no life, no culture. its cold and boring. one of my roommates is almost obsessive over the stupid university- she cried over the fact that fall semester is over…and now i’m crying over the fact that spring semester is starting… i have 53 credits out of the 120 that is needed to graduate- life is going to be real shitty untill my last semester here…i hate this farm county/”public ivy leuage”/pompous elite lifestyle…help
Some of my friends across the world at different unis all say uni sucks. So it is a global phenomenon. And my friends were high fliers in school. I think it is the nasty atmosphere in uni that gets people emotionally down. One of my mates has his dissertation coming up. He is instead playing computer games 24/7 cos he says he hates uni so much. He has asked the uni permission to hand in his dissertation like 1-2 months past the deadline. And this same guy got straight As for his A-level and O-levels and was a sports champion in school also. AS for getting jobs with a degree? Depends on what profession you want to follow. If it is the mainstream stuff a degree is worthless. It is only valid for would-be scientists/doctors/lawyers and such. I know enough people with degrees who are depressed as the have been unsuccessfully job hunting for months. I also know those with degrees who only got jobs due to proving they had work experience.
Hi guys you might like this site here http://advice.notgoingtouni.co.uk/2008/11/top-reasons-people-dont-go-to-uni/ it’s all about how uni isn’t the be all and end all of life. I hated university all the way through the three worthless years I spent there. Everyone told me that I HAD to go or I’d never get a proper job and ANY degree opens doors and that EVERYONE loves it. When I hated it everyone told me that any day now I would suddenly start loving it and would wake up every day and sing songs of worship to the wonderful place and rah rah rah. I gritted through it and slugged away at a course I found boring, pointless and easy (english) and graduated with a 2:1. I wish I could tell you that it all paid off but it just didn’t. Graduates are ten a penny nowadays and employers want relevant experience and SOMETIMES relevant qualifications not random and irrelevant courses. People wouldn’t look at my application form because english is pointless and has a deserved reputation for being a snotty lazy brats degree. I spent three awful years listening to brain dead conversations and praying for death and now I’m going to spend the rest of my life regretting it. I found university a disgusting place. I hated the nasty bullying attitudes, the brainless conversations, the non-stop boozing and the obsession with fashion and designer clubs. In my experience when people say they loved university they then start telling you stories about how great it was living out of home for the first time and having nothing to do. If you’re more grown up than that and you’re not bone idle then the uni life hasn’t got much to offer. If Uni is hurting you and you don’t definitely NEED the course then seriously think about leaving. Leaving could safeguard your mental health, protect your finances and actually help you get work.
Real your an idiot. There’s obviously something wrong with the system of education. University all revolves around making profit and it sucks your creativity away. I could easily learn everything on my own instead of spending my time listening to some proff. who is not enthusiastic about what he’s teaching and doesn’t wanna be there. But ya I’m going to stick with it because: 1. Dropping out would be a big no for my parents (and I mean BIG) and 2. It’s the only safe bet I’ve got *sigh* Everything’s fucked up now-a-days
I think you need a forum.
Fuck you “DD” & “same here” & everyone else who thinks I’m not telling the truth or can’t handle what I’m saying. Quit bitchin and man up you pussies. “Dropping out would be a big no for my parents” – there’s your first fucking problem you dipshit. Don’t go to school for your parents; do it for yourself. Otherwise what’s the point? “It’s the only safe bet I’ve got” – Jesus kid wtf is wrong with you? This also doesn’t qualify for a good enough reason to go to school. Dropping out is never the answer for most people-try and take a semester or a year off if you have to but DO NOT QUIT. “BA’s are dime a fucking dozen” (Clayton). While I agree with this statement, Clayton is obviously to big of an idiot to realize that since the number of BA degrees holders are only increasing with time, it is only logical to want to get one as well, since this would level the playing field between yourself and other people, education wise. Think about it. If everyone you knew had a BA, what does that say about the people who don’t possess one? Sure it might only make you part of “the crowd”, but at least there are opportunities after undergraduate study in order for you to rise above the crowd later on. Wake up and smell the coffee, nobody said university or Life, for that matter would be easy
oi allow da beef cuz!
oi allow da beef cuz!
“Real” your making it sould like the people in this forum doesn’t do anything but whine about University. i’m sure some people if not, most people are doing their work but at the same time hating it. Universities are all about making profits and draining away the creativity inside you as “same here” mentioned. You also told us to shut up and do our work. If we all did that then this forum wouldn’t exist and people wouldn’t have the opportunity they have now in this forum to express themselves. I’m here at university not because of anyone but myself and i too find the system and the atmosphere fucked up. so stop trying to make it look like you know better then us and with your attitude you shouldn’t even be in this forum.
Oh Real, coming from someone who is too timid to use their real name in an argument, I
Real, You are acting like a conceited jerk. It takes alot of courage for people to openly admit that university is bullshit for most people. I was praised by all my friends across the world when i dropped out. They say they dont have the guts to do what i did.
It is good to know that other people are thinking the same things. I am in the second year of an accounting and finance degree, and took it in the first place to get a well paid job at the end of it. Big mistake. I think I ended up going to uni because all of my friends did, and I regret the fact now that I wasn’t confident enough to say no to it. I am a musician, and since starting the course I haven’t felt in the least bit creative. All the people on my course are like drones who live to crunch numbers and they are all incredibly competitive. Not that I am adverse to a little competition but there is no warmth there or friendliness. I have made some very good friends at university but in my first year I felt very lonely and isolated. It has gotten a little better in the second year but the course has become worse and I feel really out of my depth. It really did take time to adjust to it and I am still incredibly unhappy now. Both with my course and everything else. University is not all it is cracked up to be, that is unless you are into binge drinking and club music, which I am not. If you are loud and brash and confident, you will thrive at uni, but if not then you might not enjoy it as much. I know I am a sensitive guy and I am really into sports, whereas everyone at uni seems to want to go out on “the lash” all the time. The year before I came to the uni a guy who I went to primary school with died from binge drinking when he choked on his own vomit in freshers week. Life is worth more than a piece of paper with your name on it. If you are not living life doing something which makes you happy, there is no point in living it at all. Granted a degree is useful, but I am beginning to think that I should get out as soon as I can because I feel like a caged animal. I wish I knew what I really wanted to do with my life but I honestly don’t. I feel totally empty at the moment, but something is telling me I should try and stick it out to the end, even though they will be the worst 18 months of my life. They honestly feel like a prison sentence. Part of me is worried I will be the loser who dropped out and I will be wasting a lot of money if I do. I really don’t know what to do…
Hi, this is Real. I want to apologise for the comments I made before. They were unreasonable and may have caused upset and anger to some people, but I have a reason for leaving those sorts of comments, so please let me explain. I
Hey spurty bum-bum, tragic story! Not! I knew you were a loser, spending all your time leaving dumb comments in websites.
Hahahaha this shit is too funny! Its also amusing to see that no one can actually refute what I’m saying. Instead you guys choose to resort to childish tactics (hijacking my handle), and reiterate the same bullshit over and over again. Whatever, I’m graduating soon and to those willing to listen to me remember this: if you quit now, you’ll never forgive yourself and this could turn into a habit-quitting every time something challenges you. “Obstacles are those scary things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.” – Henry Ford.
Real, I understand what you are saying and you make some very good points. Sometimes I think I just need to snap out of it, but sometimes it isn’t that easy to do. Some people need somewhere to vent and feel like there are not alone in feeling this way so to belittle people because they haven’t had the same experiences as you is deplorable. You don’t know peoples’ individual situations! Please just give everyone some space and stop being antagonistic. Good luck with your course by the way.
This seems to be exactly the sort of website I’m looking for (not sure about the last few comments tho -wtf). Anyway i started uni back in september and i thought i hated it cos i found it really hard to adjust to and i was really unsure about the course and the teaching. Anyway, i got so upset i dropped out, but i’ve deferred my place til next year so i have the option of going back this septeber. Now i have the chnace to actually make some money (not waste it on a course i’m not sure about), and i have the time to decide whether or not i want/ need to go back. Lots of people here seem to want to leave but are too scared, but i did it and its really not the worst thing in the world, so if you’re really unhappy, why not defer for a year, then you might be more prepared in a year’s time. I felt really sad and ashamed for a couple of weeks after i left, but now i realise it was the most sensible decision for me. I agree with what a lot of people say about needing a degree whether you like uni or not, but if you’re really unhappy, its not worth it and there are other alternatives. Good luck, everyone
Real, you’re very strange. Why do you keep coming back and posting comments on a website you clearly don’t like. People come here for support and to share their experiences with people in the same boat. First off, you leave rude comments, then come up with insane excuses for leaving them, then you make it sound like you like university, so why are you on this website????
Wow, I’m so relieved to have found people who are going through the same thing as me. I couldn’t wait to start university: to be independant, make loads of new friends and better my career prospects. After only a few weeks however, my optimism turned to sheer misery. I can honestly say that I haven’t learned anything that I didn’t already know at A-level. On top of this, I was put in the shittiest halls with a shitty bunch of people. They’ve formed their own cliques and seem hellbent on excluding me and this other girl from everything just because we’re not as extrovert as them. It’s not as if I haven’t made any effort to include myself. They’re loud,immature and inconsiderate. They come in at all hours of the morning screaming and laughing their heads off at the top of their voices. They also bang on the security door because they won’t bother their lazy asses to open it with their keys.I’ve been tempted so many times to drop out but my parents will go insane if I do. My friends at other universities are having the time of their lives and I barely see them anymore, my relationship with my boyfriend has suffered, and my work ethic has gone out the window as I can’t be bothered to turn up to half my lectures anymore. All this shit at the cost of 10 grand. Fuck university.
I want to do a job that I have always wanted to do, and that I’m pretty sure that I’ll love, so I think it would be stupid to drop out. I hated my A-Levels as I struggled so much, so in a way it’s a relief to be learning a degree that is mildly interesting in places. I hate the Uni I am in, which I had to go to through clearing as I fell considerably short of my predicted grades. I absoloutely hate the people here. Everyone already has their own group of friends and I don’t have any, and the majority of people are shallow, backstabbing assholes anyway. I have people I despise, but nobody that I’m close to. I’m not used to this, I have two best friends who I don’t get to see anymore and I feel like everyone is moving on without me. I’m sick of trying to make friends and making myself vulnerable by thinking we’re actually really getting along and then getting stabbed in the back ( this has happened repeatedly). I have never met anyone like these people in my life and suddenly they’re everywhere. I don’t understand; one thing I can actually say about myself is that I am very accepting, but that’s a completely useless trait if nobody likes you at all. I might just join my boyfriends uni and stick with him; I wouldn’t have to spend so much money on trains.
‘I’m sick of trying to make friends and making myself vulnerable by thinking we’re actually really getting along and then getting stabbed in the back ‘. Edwina, I know how you feel. I’m so depressed and lonely nowadays and feel like breaking down and telling everyone how much I dislike them. I miss the days of being in sixth form where people actually acknowledged my existence. I’m desperate to transfer next year but what if I end up in the exact same shitty situation, or even worse??No one deserves to have to deal with this sort of shit.
I HATE UNIVERSITY! ITS TOO HARD! AND PEOPLE ARE MEAN!
University is a persistent mess I just can
Name: Irrelevant; Age: 18; Major: Business. The truth is, I am Undecided. Business seemed to be a good choice given that I am a very social person — a business degree can help anywhere! That was my line of thought until I met the weird people, the horrible teachers, and the dull useless work. What’s more, I tend to obsess over things and I also have a tendency to run away from my problems = Not a good combination. Unfortunately, at a time when my happiness was in decline (UNI), I discovered WoW. Then came the nights of staying awake, sleeping through the day (and missing class).. I did not even register fopr courses for semester 2! I don’t know what to do, if I should go back or not… -sigh- I wish I had taken time off. And I wish my mum and dad did not have to talk 24/7 about the university. Will they be crushed when I tell them how I skipped my finals, and have selected no courses!
I used to be an Honour Roll, Advanced Placement Student in high school btw. If I could see myself now, then… LOL 
This whole university experience is making me value the life I had before it. There are so any fake, immature dicks who need to get their big heads out of their asses. I spend my days waiting for nightfall to come so that I can tick another shitty day off the calender. All the initial enthusiasm I started university with has been sucked out of me. One of the questions on my exam last week asked me to label a verb from a piece of text. I’m paying 3 grand a year to label a fucking verb!! For the first time in my life I give credit to all my a-level teachers who actually gave me something challenging to learn. All I’ve ever really wanted as a career is to become a primary teacher and I have to endure the hell of university for another 3.5 pointless years to achieve it.
High school wasn’t a very pleasant experience for me and I honestly didn’t expect university to be much better. Actually, it’s been far worse than I could have ever imagined. 3.5 years toiling away with my head down in a program I hate and which I know won’t get me a job (I was kicked out of my original program) has left me incredibly bitter and jaded. It doesn’t matter how much I study. They put shit on the tests I’ve never seen before, so I usually end up barely passing. As a result, I’ve been on the brink of suicide many times, telling myself that if I fail this or that course, I’m going to down a bottle of pills. If all that wasn’t depressing enough, I couldn’t get pussy to save my life, despite living in a co-ed dorm. Where’s all this alleged sex I was promised by mainstream movies like American Pie and The Rules of Attraction? I think I shall visit a hooker soon to rid me of some angst and hopefully make life a little more bearable. I only have 7 months of this shit left, but I’m finding it increasingly more difficult to muster up much motivation. I hate being tired and overworked all the time; I want to enjoy my youth. Fuck.
University is a lie sold to kids by adults who want to make themselves feel better about the years of wasted life spent reading largely meaningless texts, writing trivial little essays and listening to boring fucking lecturers giving lectures straight from the bloody textbooks. It’s a farce, a scam, a bloody disgrace and I’m paying for it. What makes it worse is that with the coming depression there won’t be any jobs for people with academic subjects, just the losers with vocational qualifications. Is this my reward for working hard? My god it’s depressing.
Kilo-400 I totally agree with you up UNTIL the part where you say people with vocational qualifications are losers. Sure you might have thought that before you went to Uni, but now that you are admitting what a waste of time and money it is for you, who’s more of a loser, them or you?
I see your point, I guess I’m the loser.
There’s no way out of uni is there? If I stay, I’m miserable. If I go, I’m a failure. I’m sorry but I’m done…goodbye world…I hope my parents understand…
craig, if you’re that miserable at uni, you should leave. It won’t make you a failure – you could always go again in a few years – loads of people do and it will give you a chance to see what other options you have – you might find a job that you really like but you’ll never know if you don’t try. Everyone tells you that uni is worth it but i dropped out because i was seriously depressed, and a degree that i probably wont use wasnt worth that for me. it probably isnt worth it for you either. If you do drop out, you’ll probably feel really bad for a short while, but you’ll get over it and it might be the best decision for you.
I went back to my flat that very night I thought about what he said to me, whilst popping some anti-depressants. The following morning I phoned up the University to say I was taking a week off because of illness.
Craig wtf r u saying?!!!?? Don’t do what I think your thinking of doing…
Real, just shut the fuck up and sit down. I along with many others on this board “refuted” your sorry ass forwards, backwards, upside down and sideways. Keep on gritting your teeth and telling yourself all the delusion you want to hear, you’ll be a flourishing success one day with mind-blowing social skills seeing as university is nothing but sheer bliss and perfection. Ah, to live in a fantasy world.
Hi, I’m doing a Theology Course at Manchester Uni, studying for my exams now, and am just tired of it all. This is my first year, and first semester, i typed in ‘I hate university’ into Google and this forum came up. I have read as many posts as i could and am so comforted to fins other students/graduates who are not having as much fun as expected. Society brainwashes you into believeing that Uni is a compulsary (spelling?) step in life and it is sooo much fun. I have made friends, gone out clubbing…etc. On the other hand, i have gone to every lecture made notes and worked…hard. This isn’t fun, surely if this was what i was meant to be doing i would enjoy, or at least be interested, in my subject. In A-levels i loved Religious Studies, now i’m at Uni I couldn’t hate a subject more. The lecturers seem ignorant. And for those who are being critical of us who hate Uni life, screw you, i see myself as the perfet contradiction to you, i work damn hard and i play hard, i’m still not having a great time, let alone a good time. If anyone else feels the same way i do, and goes to Manchester Uni, feel free to email me.
I’ve been here about one semester now, and I hate it. I’m bored, unispired and have a curious feeling that I’ve been duped a little…I went to a private school in London for six years and worked riduclously hard to come to Scotland and live in a crappy little flat with four noisy, tiresome girls and barely learn anything I didn’t already learn at A Level. This feels like a total waste of time and money just to prove I ‘deserve’ a decent job, I honestly wuold prefer just working in a proper job, evemn if only as a secretary, than this. Another great irony is the fact that we’re suppossed to be ‘growing up’ but University life bears no true resemblance to reality or the ‘real world’, it just feels like some sort of giant histrionic playpen. The fact that most of my friends from home are all having a great time really makes me question what I’ll have left in common with them when we all graduate…especially since I have basically only one real friend here…Anyway, feels comforting to know I’m not entirely alone….
Well this website is great reading for anyone to get psyched up to walk into the program office and drop out. I think thats what i’ll do when next week starts. I don’t think i even really knew what university was when i was a younger teenager. When i finished year 11 i was determined not to go even to sixth form but my lack of motivation that summer at finding a job other than working for my dad meant it was the easiest option. 3 years later i had finished sixth form and my first year of work with a bit of travel (or a gap year). Then i made the insane decision to go to university to be with my girlfriend. I wasn’t into the course from the start and my flatmates didn’t get on with each other let alone me. Now that i’m halfway thru the 2nd year and i’ve been dumped i feel like i’m back to square 1 again. My housemates are ok but we were all just dumped together at the start of september. We aren’t friends in the real world. When i see someone from the house in town, my mind almost turns inside out because my eyes are so unnaccustomed to seeing them outside the kitchen or hall or whatever. I think if anyone is reading this site and hasn’t yet gone to university and has doubts don’t let ANYONE pressure you. If its independance you seek, there are plenty of places you can find that other than education. Personally i’ve reached an all new stage of not even attempting the coursework because it would provide an ultimatum to leave the course. If only i hadn’t chosen to go insane at the start of a recession…
This is a great site for psyching yourself up to go to the program office to drop out. I think i might do that when next week starts. I read a lot of posts other people have done and realise this is the most intelligent forum/wall thing i’ve ever come across on the internet apart from the few posts by people who like university and come here for the novelty of people complaining about it. To them we’re a bunch of unmotivated social outcasts who can’t lighten up and have fun. Its pointless to reason with them. They don’t understand what its like to hate doing something because you’ve been told to do it and how the disparity of expectation and reality can cause people to be pissed off. These are the kind of people who pass their driving test first time then laugh at people who fail cause their mind can’t empathise or realise that failure is possible. Don’t get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with enjoying university. Its great if you do but don’t take the piss out of people who are having a hard time. And especially don’t post comments about other people ranting at your views such as “HAHAHAHAHA!!!! omg this is some funny shit etc..” Anyway, i’m in 2nd year at manchester met and not happy.Some of you who are unhappy seem to have thought wisely about higher education before going and then been dissappointed. But when i was a younger teenager i don’t even think i knew what university was. I just thought it was some place where people like Steven Hawking and Rembrandt probably went. Ya know, the very gifted. Come to think of it, i didn’t even know about 6th form till i was about 2or 3 years away from it and i only went there because i got good gcse’s and lacked the motivation to find a proper job. Yeah, i know, i can be unmotivated. I only came here coz i wasn’t doing anything that september after my year working/travelling so decided on a whim to go thru clearing to find a course and if i got accepted, hey, i could be with my girlfriend who was also just about to start university. The most i contemplated of getting from university was a few months with my girlfriend. I even probably went with the idea in my head that it would be shit and i would drop out. A year and a few months later i am still here and i no longer have the girlfriend and if i drop out i am stuck paying the tuition till the end of the year. I know i bought it on myself. i wasn’t conditioned to think this way at home and at school in the later years it was all teachers talked about but i ignored it and thought to myself “no fuckin way am i gonna do that to myself and be in debt”. The moral is NEVER DO ANYTHING IMPULSIVE. Anyway i’ve “tried” to drop out a few times but everytime i get to the building my brain suddenly tricks me into thinking its not that bad or “i can overcome my motivational problems”. Everytime i told someone at the university about dropping out they would say that they didn’t deal with that kind of thing and i should go to someother office and when i would get there it would be the same thing until i just thought “fuck it, i’ll just carry on”. A lot of people complain about mmu especially at manchester university. In a way it does feel like i’m one them foreign players who turns up to play for manchester city football team only to find out that it wasn’t the team with all the international glory. It was the other manchester team. But i just think i can’t get my mind to focus on something that i’m not completely into anymore and its got worse and worse. I should have just quit education at 16 when i had lots of A grades instead of going on relunctantly to achieve mediocrity at further and higher education. Sorry if that was a bit long but if you don’t like long posts you can always scroll past it to a shorter one. Good luck everyone
I hate university, its taken so much from me i feel like im barley able to function. My subject (Joint BA:cultural media studies and politics) has left me in a paranoid state about the world, with a load of pretentious words of no real use. In my 3rd year now and cant wait for this shit to be over, even though at best ill probs only manage to get a 2.2. I just cant stand reading anymore of this academic bullshit, the most inspiring thing ive read at university is probably this very website. The lecturers/professurs or whatever the fuck they are almost entirley made up of upthemselves twats who do nothing but criticise the world without providing any solution under the pretense that they want to provide some kind of ‘chalenging disscourse of the elite’ or some shit, yet they are elitist judgmental wankers themselves. Im so glad there are other people like me, who see the sad ass dicks that the majority of students are. Being shoved into halls with bunch of all to desperate to be cool wankers, with nothing but selfish, judgmental and manipulative charectersitics has left me once a quite popular person feeling alone, depressed and incapable of proper social interaction.. even with the few people ive met that ive liked. I now often find myself sitting alone in my room drinking, thankfully i still keep in good contact with most of my friends at home and have managed to make a couple of decent friends here but it still all a pile of wank. All the best to everyone here =)
I hate University like the rest of you. I’m in my last semester of my fourth year taking Mechatronics Engineering, no kidding I can see the end of this torturous excuse for learning but I can’t find the montivation to get there. I hate my classes, I find that the notes I take during class don’t help me one bit, and I end up studying straight from the textbook for exams anyway. But when I don’t drag my ass to school the other guys in my class think I’m some fucking lazy bastard coasting his way through. The shit I’m learning is boring as hell and I’m not interested in at all. I can’t fucking drop out because it has cost me to much fucking time and MONEY, and my dad would never let it go. I have absolutly no life what so ever out side of school, I keep hearing about how it’ll be better once you graduate and get that job of your dreams, Bullshit that job just got taken by the smartass stuck-up kid in the front row. I can keep ranting but I have to study for the three tests I have this Thursday and Friday. Thanks for the forum.
Thats awesome advice!
dudes & dudettes, after much inner conflict and contemplation I’ve decided to drop out. I’m not gonna lie to you, alotta ppl are gonna look down and ridicule/scorn you for it but ALWAYS REMEMBER its YOUR life…you gotta do what you gotta do. If on the day you die you ask yourself: did I live my life according to what I wanted to do, dictated by what MY goals were, or did I spend my life doing what others expected/wanted me to do? I hope everyone of us can choose the former…good luck to the rest of you guys and I hope you keep this thread going so that others like us might find it and read our stories/experiences and maybe find some wisdom and comfort within our words…
I dropped out after failing my first year at TCD; I didn’t get on with anyone on my course and was embarrassed to talk about my academic problems with the few friends I had so I mostly stayed in bed drinking bottles of vodka with paracetamol. Fast-forward 2 years and I’ve got a
I dropped out after failing my first year at TCD; I didn’t get on with anyone on my course and was embarrassed to talk about my academic problems with the few friends I had so I mostly stayed in bed drinking bottles of vodka with paracetamol. Fast-forward 2 years and I’ve got a
I HATE LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY WITH PASSION. I hate the people. how: ignorant, stupid, obnoxious, loud, fake, constantly drunk, talks about getting drunk or about their drunk experiences, and they have absolutely no life. People here have made me want to move away from the UK. I hate it.
man i hate uni with a burning passion which could only be quenched with the blood a thousand newborns. seriously tho, it’s not like it is in the movies. fuckin douche bags partying, getting laid, that type of shit. it’s more like never ending studying, pretending to like people in the hopes that you’ll forge some type of a relationship with something other than your hand
, and putting up with useless fcking lectures/lecturers when your time could be better spent making shelters for the homeless…I hope one day, someday, any day in the future, uni/colleges everywhere will be abolished and recognized as backwards and morally wrong. thats right MORALLY WRONG. forcing everyone (yes, i said forcing, as society today only gives the illusion of “choice” – that is, other things besides uni – while steadily upholding the notion that “if you dont go to uni/college, you’re a loser” and, as such, not leveling the playing field for those who might be qualified for a job, against those who aren’t, but possess a degree)to attend college or uni is like trying to force everyone to fit through a children’s hoolahoop; sure a lot of people are going to be able to fit but not everyone is going to be able to for various reasons…and for those who cant but try anyway, well, its going to be pretty damn hard…Anywho, I hope anyone reading this can take away something from my words- good or bad- and ultimately help someone with landing on a decision they’ll be able to be happy with. remember, once you’re out you can never go back…jk, thats what they want you to believe…
I hate this place, I have no friends. I think I might work for a year and see what that’s like instead, I want to try things on my own because I have no more will to do this shit. I hate jumping through all these hoops and having some prick TA deduct marks for stupid shit like accidentally forgetting to underline crap. I sit in my room every night doing nothing trying to find a way out of this rat race. I’ve been in school for a total of 16 (since 4) years and guess what…I still fucking hate homework.
A lot of you seem very angry and depressed within weeks of going to University. But not sure it is the fault of the University. Living away from home can be an adventure or it can be a nightmare if you are not really ready to leave the safety of Mum and Dad. It is really important to go and look at the university place you are applying for, especially if it is through ‘clearing’, and talk to the teachers before deciding. It is hard if you are keen to discuss things and socialise in the way you did in a small sixth form class and find others are not, but unlike school you are not restricted to those in your class or halls. Lots of you say you are not into the early drinking stuff, which is really intended to losen inhibitions and celebrate leaving home, but the point is that very few of the friends you will have at the end of the course will be the ones you met at the begining. You are more likely to meet someone at an interesting club – even a club you start yourself, even if it seems a geeky thing to do – and they may well be older students, or lonely and interesting foreign students, even mature students. Noisy halls are not for everyone even in their first year, but you do have to plan not to live at home eventually so think what might suit you – small university, or big one, flatting or a family ‘lodging’, an academic ’stretch’ or something a bit easier – try to get your parents to let go of their ambitions for you and do what feels will be good for your skills and interests. Nothing wrong with dropping out in the first year and doing something different next year, but don’t do it because you miss your mum – she will be much happier if you can show you are mature enough to fend for yourself. Use the counselling, yes, please, most universities are good at this. If you have researched your course and met the teachers, don’t end up disrespecting their learning because they are telling you to go and do the reading and write your own essays – university is really for ‘independent’ learning, and you are paying for huge library and online access,theatres and sports facilities, subsidised food, and the opportunity to go to lots of events and lectures outside your own subject and what ever else is on in your university town – with student discounts. Halls is a careful step on the ladder of moving from home to coping entirely with the budgeting involved in your own flat. You have the chance to do drama, to get involved with politics or music, to do environmental stuff,talk about Manga or poetry, go on trips, to take work experience – ask at your careers office. London students often do good work in the inner city schools that desperately need the help – even if you only do a few hours it helps with self-esteem and depression issues to work with really disadvantaged kids who may never get to where you are. Going to University doesn’t take away those kind of personal problems if they are already there, but it is a chance to alter who you are and do things you might never have tried at home. If you think all the other students are ’stuck up’ and you don’t feel you can ask the right questions in class, then speak to your teachers afterwards – they love keen students, and get just as fed up with the ‘princess and gormless types’ as you do. Every university teacher has had to do a PHD, a very lonely and stressful experience, few of them care about fashionable clothes, and they have busy lives, but they always look for students who have a different view, who can say, ‘look can I write my essay about this bit because it interests me’, or is there something else I should read. If you really think a teacher is incompetent- complain, but check with the rest of the class first! It is hard when you feel too shy to speak to a student at the photocopier even if they looked like they were doing something interesting, but it is worth getting out of your room and into the student’s union or the library or the computer lab in the evenings, and after a few words just say ‘how about a coffee’ – most people will say yes – or join in a conversation already going on in the caff. I know to vent on this forum is probably cartharsis, but lots of people who do drop out realise later on that it was just they were not so prepared to stick it out at the time, and that really they would have been better to have recognised that it is part of becoming an independent character, even if it feels hopeless and taking control of the things that are good for you at university. Things like independence of thought, pushing at capabilities, learning about balanced lifestyles, budgeting, talking to strangers, learning to cope with your own moods and ups and downs, going to the doctor when you need to, and understanding your own and others learning patterns and time management. All the things that employers are really looking for when they say ‘I want a graduate’, and not someone that has to be told what to do all the time, watched to see they are working and motivated with financial commissions or company cars. The technical stuff you learn will go out of date, it is the ability to keep up to date for yourself that is what a university education is really about. If you hate this kind of advice, than you need to realise that your depression about university has made your thinking too extreme and unbalanced about it all as an experience of value. It may still not be for you, but you still need to see what is really possible, dig beneath your first impressions and give it a good try first.
JUST QUIT!!! If you don’t like uni and you’re not in your final year just quit and do something that makes you happy! I wish everyday I could quit but my parents paid for so much of my tution I can’t quit without them losing thousands of pounds
I’ve kinda got around this by taking a year out between each year to “work” and went travelling instead lol! But this year, my final one, is going soooo slowly. Universities are just ways for the government to make money. They leave you in debt and with the realisation that a degree means squat nowadays because so many people have one. So then you’re told “a degree is not enough, you need an MA”, which is of course code for “please give us more money”! Unless you know you’re career route and know for sure that it requires a specified degree, don’t go to uni. It’s not worth it. I’ve learnt the hard way and wasted three of my best years in education. Plus I’ve learnt the most important things, had the most life changing experiences, and meet the most interesting people travelling not alone pouring over books in the library for months on end. My advice; quit while you can!!!
“Clayton is obviously to big of an idiot to realize that since the number of BA degrees holders are only increasing with time, it is only logical to want to get one as well, since this would level the playing field between yourself and other people, education wise.” Oh but I didn’t say it wouldn’t level the playing field did I? It will, between you and the other hundred people vying for the same menial office job. Dunno about you, but I’d rather not be a cubicle dwelling, word processing serf for the rest of my life.
I am in my first year at uni and i hate it. Dont no what to do people will think less of me, my tutor says i am a brilliant student but i hate uni life and i cannot seem to get anywhere with student life i am so scared and cry every night woundering what i am going to do. please somewhere help me
Hey, I’m in my first year and so far my grades have been great. I enjoy most of my classes and find them interesting. My problem is that I have been here for over half a year and have never been so lonely. I have no friends and find it hard to meet people.
And by the way its not just university thats a scam its the whole god damned educational system which requires us to waste away all of your youth sitting in a classroom in a zombie state doing useless shit over and over. We should be rioting on the streets..
i love you all! reading this and many other sites, I realise I’m not alone. It makes you look at things in a different perspective. I’ve been through alot of bullshit last term (this being my first year) and as most went in thinking everyone was nice and lovely, as even in difficult situations I try to find a positive, but have been mostly surrounded with arrogant, pretentious arses who will turn their back on you whenever it suits them. This has only been the one major problem I’ve faced here, both in my previous accomadation (i’m not even gonna get into what happened there) and class. Knowing nearly every face is sometimes not a good thing because as with gossip, rumours quickly spread and people tend to listen to them and not get the facts. But I think to myself now, if they are so quick to judge me and even when speaking to me hold the same judgement then they are not worth my time. right? It still sometimes gets to me how arrogant people can be, I don’t think I’ve had one decent conversation with these people, ok maybe one, there is one sane person here lol. The fact I suffer with panic disorder doesn’t actually help either, as I can’t really turn to any’one’ or ‘friend’ for help. I don’t actually have anythng in common with anyone, it’s like a circus everyone’s putting on an act and it’s so sad. but oh well, what can you do? Hold in there people, there’s no point of throwing away a degree or something you enjoy for the sake of people. Because in the end, that’s all they are people, which you may never see again right? =) Peacex
I cant believe this. There’s loads of people who think the same as me. I think Uni is such a load of crap. So over-rated. I think it had potential to be fun but it went so wrongly for me. I miss my school days. I had lots of friends, knew lots of people, genuinely had fun, sociable, etc etc you know the drill. Here at uni I have never met so many fake, stuck-up, competitive people. I just can’t stand it. I am in my third year of a top ten uni in England, but I don’t see how the money I pay is worth it. All of this for six hours of lectures a week ??? The people are terrible. I think in the three years I’ve been here I have met lots of people and would only consider 2 people to be close friends. The others are so shallow and fake. Before I used to play the game and keep in touch with these acquaintances but now I just don’t bother. The way I see it I am graduating in less than four months so why put in the energy? I can’t get over how fake people are at my uni. My uni is full of rahs who all know each other from school, and get introduced to each other like a little incest circle. I thought I was having fun at uni until I went home for christmas in the first year and realised what fun REALLY meant. I enjoyed being back with my friends from home so much and felt so empty coming back to uni. For the most part I think uni has made me really cynical. People are so rude and unfriendly. I pretty much had a mental breakdown twice over the past two years and was so ready to drop out. I just need to get this off my chest. I feel so frustrated at uni because I feel like a completely different person while I am here. At one point I used to wonder if maybe there was somethign wrong with me, maybe I had no social skills, maybe I was the problem?? Then last summer I did a work placement and the people I met were literally amazing. I instantly bonded with them, we all instantly clicked and I genuinely liked these people. I had such a good time and still think about those people. Even though we only knew each other for 10 weeks I felt I had known them for years and they reminded me so much of my friends from school. To this day I still think about them. I think that experience confirmed to me that it wasn’t a problem with ‘me’. I have just been unlucky with the people I have met at uni. Think about it, some woman sitting in the accommodation office randomly places me with some people in halls, who is to say that we will have anything in common? It is just pure luck. Uni is so overated but now I know there is definitely life after uni and you know what it is so much better than this. I can’t stand the sameness of uni, how you are one of 20000 students, all identical and bland. Really kills me. Just had to rant, today I have been feeling a bit pissed off so this has helped. Especially for the people that had active social lives before they came to uni, uni isnt everything, theres more to life after graduation……Can’t wait till May 2009, after that I have ZERO intentions is keeping in touch with anyone from uni (apart from the 2 people I consider close friends).
Im in my second year of uni and although it is a lot better than my first year, i still think it is an absolute waste of time and money. I came to uni with so many expectations built up by the people around me,and then have all been smashed. The people I have met so far are all on a totally different wavelength to me and god knows how they manage to go out every night pissing away their money and still have money left for food and rent… My course is a joke, im only in 8 hours a week for
Wow. I wish I’d stumbled upon this website before I went to uni. Atleast I wouldn’t have had my hopes up sky-high….only to have them pummel me out as they fell into proper perspective. What makes it ten times worse is that everyone’s all cheers and happy grins all around,as if life is so effing great. So naturally, I would very much like to beat the living shit out of them and yell ‘HAHA’ in their faces. Let’s see them grin after THAT. Idiots. Sigh. I used to be a normal human being who LIKED seeing others happy, but I feel so incredibly lonely. I’m a first year med student, so the work-load alone is unbelievable, the proffesors aren’t worth shit and their lectures are as good as useless so I never bother showing up anymore, and you can’t do with the college books because they are, regrettably, written by said professors. Not that it matters anymore, I’m officially in the ‘care-free’ zone right now and I hate that. I’ve always been an excellent student. Apathy was never in my nature and that just goes to show how incredibly screwed up things are going for me. And I’m studying abroad, which is really my country but I was living elsewhere my whole life so I don’t even get to see much of my family. Not to mention that my people are closed-minded, conservative idiots so i can’t even wear any of the pretty, albeit slightly scandalous, outfits I bought specifically for uni! I know, I know, that that’s not really a catastrophe but dammit, I’m young! I should live out my youth! It’s all work and no play at my stupid uni. No clubs, no sports and no facilities because it’s state-funded but everyone says I should freaking ecstatic because it’s supposedly the best. No one cares that I feel alienated and it completely baffles them that I can’t for the life of me relate to my ‘kind’. And all I’ve got is six more years of this hell to look forward to.
You know, I very much relate to the general frustration and underlying awareness of how fucked up our modern society really is these days. Ever since we were little toddlers, we have been imposed with the idea that we all gotta “be something” – a glider pilot, dentist, programmer, economist – whatever. And to be most of these respected things, you absolutely need a university eduction. At a young age, the entire concept of post-secondary eduction is so glorified, so picture perfect and so “right” that you abandon all forms of rational scrutiny concerning the matter. You let yourself be blindly led upon this linear path where the rest of your life resides. People live their lives with the illusion that they themselves have freedom and choice, yet this is nothing but a lie. People slave their asses studying vast quantities of knowledge only to have these learned skills be exploited by corporations/government later on in their lives. Lets use engineer John as an example. After highschool John went into Engineering because he was good at math and enjoyed problem solving. So he went to his scheduled lectures, studying his ass off for 4 years straight so he could learn the skills needed for one to be deemed an engineer. This process costs John thousands and thousands of dollars, and puts him into debt. John finally graduates and is given a piece of paper stating he has the skills of an Engineer. Eager to make use of this hard work, John then gets hired by a company. This company determines how much money he makes, when he wakes up, how he is supposed to look at work, and what project he is supposed to work on. This company even tells John exactly how many days he can take for vacation, how many days he can be sick, and how many hours he is required to work a week. It doesn’t matter if John would rather start work at noon rather than 9am. It doesn’t matter that John really only needs to work 20 hours a week to make ends meet. It doesn’t matter that John invested 4 years of his life and thousands of his own hard-earned dollars to learn these skills in the first place. John is robbed of his entitlement to provide his skills however he wants and whenever he wants. All John knows is that he is a slave to a corporation of the capitalist world, where everyone is expected to work 9-5, 5 days a week, every week. Where you are always working for the interests of a person higher up. A world where you can’t play ball in the sun with your kid at 2:00 pm on a Thursday because if you do, you’ll be fired and your family’s future jeopardized. It is this world that we are living in today, ladies and gentlemen. And everybody is submitting to it, like loyal slaves serving a greater entity. People need to wake up and rock the fucking boat. The commodification of human beings and their skills by corporations and government alike has to stop. We should have the choice to provide our skills exactly as many hours as we like, whenever we like, to make ends meet. We treat days of the week like they were holy carvings made in fucking stone. It’s disgusting the way we all, me included, submit to this travesty. We all turn a blind eye to it. And the cycle continues with each passing generation. I hope this is not the destiny of mankind, we are better than that.
I’m three classes from graduation and I’m seriosuly considering dropping out as I have zero motivation to finish. Univerity has made me so depressed to the point of wanting to die although I would never do it I’ve thought about it. I wasted 6 years of my life trying to get a degree and i’m at my wits end. Somebody please tell me that I am making the right decision to leave. In the end I just want to be the happy person I use to be.
The only reason im at uni, is to stay in the town where my uni is at, so i can see my girlfriend i am a lesbian and my parents wont understand so i wouldnt see her if i went home and got a job. i want a degree but god uni is shit! im on an art course with aload of stuck up ppl, in a course that ive lost intrest in and prob wont get a job in!
man I hate university so much…sometimes i just so depressed that I either just wanna run away to south america and nvr return, or kill myself…but i’d nvr have the balls to kill myself, just like i dont have the balls to drop out. life sucks donkey dick…
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I’m so frusturated, angry and depressed. Uni sucks, and it’s lonely. Lectures are dry, professors just dead boring, and some of the assignments are absolutely off-the-wall absurd and pointless. The pressure is immense and spirit-crushing. Unfortunatelly there is no “plan B” for me- I have to finish it: I have 6 months to go, and it’s the toughest ever. I need a break NOW!, but I can’t, not till July. I feel trapped.How do others sail through with such ease?
i wrote on here early a week ago but i think my comment got erased or something? anyways, all i wanted to say is yes, nearly everyone goes into thinking that uni is going to be some kind of sanctuary where u meet loads of fun people and go crazy everyday. It’s true to some extent, I have met quite a few people, and yes there have been crazy moments BUT I’ve realised that i’m not compatible with anyone at all. I don’t think there’s a single person who is on my wavelength, you have two extremes: the really quiet hibernating types, and the loud-mouth crazies. I am not having a go at any of them, but most of the extroverts around here are just putting up a front seeing who can out rank each other etc. so I suppose that’s why it’s difficult for me to connect with these people. With others, they’re too quiet and hide in their rooms all day so I never have an opportunity to speak to them properly. I could actually describe my semester as being a roller coaster of every possible emotion you could ever have, to the point I thought I was actually going crazy. I was put on alot of strain due to certain circumstanes ex. accomadtion for starters and all the bullshit that happend there, then realising that everyone wants to be popular and follow the crowd as I got left behind somewhere, and also the fact I suffer from panic disorder didn’t exactly help the situation or my health. It just made me more withdrawn and further out of reach from people. the fact that I came here alone, means I suffer alone because I don’t trust anyone here tell them. but maybe that’s why people are getting the wrong end of the stick? It’s a circus where everyone puts on a show, that’s what I’ve got from my experience here, but in the end they’re only people, so why would you want to throw a degree you like for a bunch of wankers you might not see after this?
I hate university as well. Im a third year design student at LJMU, and i just had an argument with my “Course leader”. He told me that i dont do enough work and said “So you just go to lunch and get pissed then”. The sticking point is this guy is supposed to have found a replacement for himself! He isnt supposed to bea teaching me! The worst thing is that all the tutors offer conflicting advice! One says, get your measurements right, sort the size and do orthographic projection, another says “make a model” another says, “look at the colours” another says “work on the beauty of the shape” so basically im going mad trying to do all this stuff as well as a market report and a whole bunch of other shit! And then i get accused of just pissing off and getting drunk! 3 years of time when i could have had a fucking job and earnt money. Now ive spent so much i NEED to finish this so i have something to show for it! Crap. I wish i had never ever ever gone to university.
i don’t like it. thats how i got to this website. you can go to university for years and years and still be a loser and an idiot. you could never go to university and be one of the most wonderfully gifted poets or sandwich artists of our generation. i dont know, its pretty fucking lame.
College might be a better option for some of you: “Get in, Get out” university is a longer haul and leaves you questioning yourself “WHO AM I” “IS THIS WHAT I REALLY WANT TO DO”
yup I hate uni too!!! its weird to see so many feel the same. maybe we are just too creative to be another brick in the wall.
Hey I go to York University.. I transferred there from Humber College, the dyamics are totally diffrent… College really helped me grow, my social life was great I was actually learning and I was motivated. Since I have been in University I feel like I know less.. My husband who finished High School responds faster and more accurtly than I do.. Whereas I’m standing there and thinknig about it you know… I hate it.. No one talks to me and I have tried confronting people and talking to them on numerous occassions but if your not the top 5 smartest student in the class no one wants to talk to you and the proffessors forget like they give a shit about you.. If you missed a paper because your pregnanat and your having a hard time with the nasuea and vomiting and are unable to sit down and write a ridiciolus paper on social theroies well sorrryyyyyyyyyyyyy Some compassion would be nice. There has even been the occasion where i tried to talk to my prof and he shooed me away…. send me an email… what is this shit????? Honestly they stand there and recite from a text…. they dont even mark papers they just give it to a TA If you have trouble learning something rather than actively trying to help you… you are put on academic suspension and than expelled… Is this what we really pay thousands of dollars to attend… Is this really a good quality education, where the struggling student is thrown off the wagon rather than being given help… Its all a farce, its a lie. There can be no education without some creativity otherwise how would we ever be able to innovate and create new things new systems In university if you are creative or sruge what the proffessor is trying to say… Rather than ur ideas being considered… (in papers) they state…. Shows a confused understanding of the course material… Not able to explain concepts clearly… Or… Unrealted to the subject matter… Its all poppy cock!!!!! It was my goal and my dream to call myself a university student… I thought that it was an institution of learning in which we could socalize and help each other… Its dog eat dog.. It fucking sucks… I HATE UNIVERSITY
I agree with Craig! I hate it but I can’t leave! I hated it last year, didn’t go, failed most of my exams & then didn’t get a job in the summer so couldn’t afford to sit re-sits, failed first year & am currently doing the whole bloody year again! If I leave I wont get funding to go to uni again & I dont know what i would do because you cant get into fashion design without a degree! I don’t even know if I’m going to pass this year because I dred going in every day so much I just don’t bother! Does anyone have any good advice?x
Hell yes. ATM i’m in the 2nd yr of a 3 yr course and i’m really begginning to hate it. First of all, i like to learn. I’m an able guy, know a lot about the world etc. But at uni, you have to learn everything according to a set way if that makes sense. You can’t just learn, you have to learn to please the markers. Plus, you can’t just concentrate on one thing, you go to one lecture and they tell you to read 8 books, and then you go to your other lectures in other units and they expect you to read 8 books for each of those as well. ATM i’ve got 4 portfolios to do, 1 essay, and exam to study for and 2 presentations to prepare for. I’m supposed to be putting the same amount of effort into all of these assignments, which is impossible unless i get up at 6am and study until 12am, which is retarded. Another major gripe i have about uni is that you can’t have your own opinion, everything has to be referenced from a book. EVERYTHING. I know that the Birmingham Six misacarriage of justice case was caused by the police brutality and false confessions they signed, but i have to dig up some stupid stale book from the 1970s and find a quote that backs me up. How does that expand your mind and knowledge? Last semester i used a Bob Dylan quote in my essay to back up a point and was told it was not an academic source. WTF does it mater that its not ‘academic’? I get marked down because i missed out a comma in my shitty referencing system (Harvard APA), i mean, what the hell does it matter? Did i come up with a good point? Yes. Did i not reference it properly by accident? Yes. So they mark me down. Plus i have to start thinking about my dissertation. Which would be fine if i didn’t have to think about the 700 other things i’ve got to be getting one with. And then once its time to do the dissertation next year and research like a bastard on everything to do with my chosen subject (which i will enjoy because its something i will be interested in), i will have to be doing 3 other units alongside it and will have to do at least 6 hours reading per week for each one. So then at least one of them is going to be shittier than the others because its freakin’ impossible to do this amount of shitting work for something that will apparently make me ‘cleverer’ than the rest of society.
It doesn’t get more complicated than this! Up until college, I could work at the last minute and get great results but ever since I took the dive to university, I just can’t hack it. I’m in the third year some how, but my level of effort is atrocious. I have no one to blame but myself for my academic shortcomings, however, the only thing I can look back and smile at are the experiences I’ve had outside of classes. I have not been inspired by one teacher in my time here, I think they’re all crap. Intelligent, but crap and unengaging. I’m a dirty linguist, but there is nothing I hate more than textbooks and meaningless lessons. I have met some weird, unusual, unique, great, amazing, fantastic…you name it, kind of people in my time here, and had some amazing and horrible experiences. I don’t think I’d be the same person without it. I would probably be horribly bored if I hadn’t come here to be honest. Though I’m glad for the experience I get outside of the classroom, and the stuff I’ve learned from anyone but teachers, I somehow believe that one day I will look back and regret not having made more effort academically. I have one more year to redeem myself, warranting I can progress from this year of bad punctuality, and lethargy. There is no doubt in my mind that I would have not come across all of these people if I had stayed at home, that’s just a fact. So for that reason, I am glad for this all. And just thinking about it now, you know what? Who gives a shit what classification you get at the end of it all? (Well unless you do Engineering, Medicine or Law that is.) So I can turn around to some snob and say “oh look at me, I got a first.” I do sometimes wonder where the logic is in spending all this money for a piece of paper, about 14 hours of lessons a week, and uninspiring teachers. It could well be I, who doesn’t really know what he wants. All I knew is that I wanted to come to university since I enjoyed school work up until college. Here, it has just killed any desire that I had to work. Maybe I can get you a better job, but when you see the amount of people here who are clearly going to do better than you because mummy and daddy pay for EVERYTHING that they do- they don’t have to worry about jobs and rent- and know that they will have money regardless of what happens after this, it does make me wonder if this was at all worth it. For the sake of not being bored, hell yes, it has been worth it. For the sake of academic progress, well, I’m 6 hours away from making or breaking a module, and I have one more year to redeem myself. Ah well, no turning back now, I’m three quarters of the way to the finishing line. Well, sorry for this little nonsensical rant of mine. I often seek ways to avoid doing work, whatever the hour. I’ll this: For the life experience- if you’re willing to step out and meet people- this has been definitely worth it. But academically wise? Probably not a wise pursuit if dedication is an issue. I wish there was some sort of happy medium! Anyway, students of the world, soldier on, and maybe just maybe things might turn around for us. Maybe, just maybe, we’ll reach that happy state where we can be a swot for a few hours then learn to enjoy the rest of the experience. If you do feel you need to drop out, screw what other people think of you. I’m pretty certain that they will have things that they screwed up in their lives, so who are they to judge? We are only human. Right, well enough of my anonymous rant in the virtual world. Good luck to you all in life, no matter what you chose to do. Just make sure that you find a moment of happiness.
University does sound familiar… Almost everyone is narrow minded, fake or pretentious. A bit like society in general, but just a claustrophobic and even more anally retentive one. Thank Christ I’m not going to university this summer. I’m in my final year of 6th form and while every other pompous prick in my year is making their way to university I’ll be training as a teaching assistant, and earning money. Some of you poor sods sound like you’re having a miserable time. It’s not that I don’t want to do a degree, in fact I’m already looking at Open University courses, it’s just that university somehow seems even worse than school, partially because you’re living there. I’m not a hopeless case academically – I managed A B B at AS level in Music, English Lit, and Classics. I don’t want to waste my life in an educational institute. I am now certain that I’ve made the right choice to shun university thus far. Thank you, oh fellow allies.
a lot of the things that i have read on this site are identical to what i am feeling. Since i was around 12-13 years old i knew that i wanted to go to university and knew exactly what i wanted to do, over my school and college years i was able to incorporate having a brilliant social life and getting good grades, i was the top male in school and was the highest achieving male on my college course in its history of being ran, along with doing what the hell i wanted, when i wanted to. So i left college and in the summer i started to become a bit apprehensive about going to university, but nonetheless i decided that it would be the best thing for, along with pressure from my parents and not wanting to let anybody down. Since i have been to university i have never felt so shit before in my life, dont get me wrong i still go out and socialise, still concentrate on my football all the things that i want to do, but i have always been told that with a piece of work, the more you do the better your grade will be, so i sit there and work my balls off doing an assignment and getting it to a good standard, yet i find myself with lower marks than people who do fuck all during the week and complete the work either the day before, or actually on the day it should be handed in, because they are always out drinking or generally doing nothing, now that pisses me off, but also i feel there is a lot of favouritism at uni, the people who are good a licking arse are always the ones with the best marks, and always the ones that are prioritised with the lecturers. I also agree a lot with people when they say that people at uni are fake and are fresh from college, born into wealthy families and are just at university to please their parents, which is not a culture i would want to be associated with. Another thing that annoys me is that the lecturers deliver presentations that are just copied and pasted from the internet, and i go to a university in the uk, so why do i find myself sitting in a lecture with the lecturer talking to themselves at the front or asking themselves why there is american spelling in the presentation or saying that they do not know why that bit of information is in there, i also find lecturers to be very pig headed and love to talk about themselves, at least 5 times a lecture do i find the teacher talking about what they have done, what they have seen, who they know etc, i dont care about that to be honest i just want to learn, but when poor lectures are being delivered and the information seems pointless i cant seem to stay motivated or have the desire the want to do the work most of the time, and this has never been the case before and i do not like it. another thing that i dislike is that i feel like there is too much pressure, as countless numbers of assignments have been handed in, with three more to hand in before the end of the year, already had countless numbers of tests, along with lab classes and tutorials etc so i find myself not being able to go through one day without thinking about the next piece of coursework or the next test. Now i could go on for much longer but i just cant be bothered, i just think that i am in a catch 22 now, i am in my first year and i have basically finished i only have to go back for 3 exams and then its the summer, this year has though flown by, but when i think back the only time i can feel positive or happy about uni is when i think of anything that has happened during a lunch break etc, at christmas i said to my parents i would leave it to the end of the year to evaluate what i want to do, but i told them i do want to go to uni but maybe not on that course, but now i am even starting to change my mind about that as i just dont think its for me and i am learning far less. does anybody think that leaving and getting a job coming home to a loving girlfriend, family and great friends and not having to worry about tests, assignments or anything would be worthwhile, without fear of being seen as a dropout? any response is good, thanks for listening, well reading my rant lol
Posted on here a while back in Sept ‘07. I left university shortly after that and took a year out working. I’m now at a university closer to home, to friends and family, and feel a hell of a lot better. Good luck to anybody struggling out there and finding at least some comfort in this webpage, I know I did. “Have the courage to fail big and stick around. Make them wonder why you’re still smiling.” “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” “Think of a car driving through the night. The headlights only go 100 or 200 feet forward, and you can make it all the way from California to New York driving through the dark, because all you have to see is the next 200 feet. And that’s how life tends to unfold before us. If we just trust that the next 200 feet will unfold after that, and the next 200 feet will unfold after that, your life will keep unfolding. And it will eventually get you to the destination of whatever it is you truly want, because you want it. “
You guys are right on the money Uni is fucked up. I currently have this fucked up lecturer who for god know why wont put any notes on what he talks about on class website, if you miss it in hte lecutre your fucked. I work full time and he expects people to just drop everything in their life for his stupid 30min presentation that at the end of the day really teach you jack shit except for how he wants you to present your pissy assignment. For me Uni hasnt really taught me anything about my field of work, my degree to me feels like a jack of all trades where they taught me a load of crap that really doesnt advance me in my field, they dont go in depth on any topics but I think thats because the lecturers dont really know what their talking about aswel. For me the only good thing that Uni has brought to me is my job, they are paying for most of the degree, but the funny part is that nothing in the degree relates to my job. Uni should be no more then 50% study and should be 50% practical working in industry, thats the real way you learn how your field works, not by some tight ass lecturer who has never worked in the real world.
OMFG i cant believe i have found so many other people that feel just like me. UNIVERSITY CAN LICK MY BALLS. im in my first year and just finished the first 6 weeks of my course. ive been sitting here staring at a fucking word document with a heading for the last 2 hours trying to write a fucking 2500 word essay on descarte and how he fukin thought i mind was different to our bodies..I MEAN WTF HOW IS THIS RELEVENT TO GETTING ME A JOB!?!? b4 uni i thought itl be the best, i took a year off, chilled, and got reddi for uni, getting my parents off my back. OMG i wanna kill myself, every week there is a new essay or assignment to do which has nuthn to do with anythn ffs. FUCK THIS im dropping out and getting a trade like th rest of my mates…who have house deposits and own their own fucking car at the AGE OF 19. FUCK!
i hate university because i’m not getting taught, i’m teaching myself. what the hell am i paying for? i spend endless hours pouring over books trying to absorb minute details about a topic that i really couldn’t give a shit about, just to pass a class. this isn’t what university should be about. people don’t learn by listening to boring lectures, they learn by questioning things, playing around, being creative and discussing issues. unfortunately you can’t be creative at uni. there’s no room for flexibility, there’s just too much to learn in such a short time that that you have to sacrifice genuine learning for rote memorization, and be content with it. it just sucks so much. at the end of it you leave with a piece of paper that may or may not help you get anywhere, and the sinking feeling that you might have blown years of your life on a degree that you really know nothing about. it’s a fucking joke. fuck university and the insipid soul sucking system it’s become.
This website is so awesome! The first time I visited was when I was taking organic chemistry, and bloody hell, I just wanted to die. I love school, I love learning, and I love biology. I didn’t go there to make friends (I know it’s harsh, but true). Honestly, I’ve got some solid friends from other areas of my life and I don’t need these university idiots. I find that a lot of biology students are arrogant jerks, who think because they can memorize pathways and mechanims are brilliant. Ask them the freakin capital city or where a country is, or what happened in Rwanda, and none of these freaks can answer. I had a brutal time my first two years and am finally figuring out the system. My grades are up and I’ve actually met some teachers who like their job and treat you like humans. However, most of this crap is still shit. I hate being forced to take classes I will never ever use (ie. Freakin calculus and physics…I want to be a microbiologist/immunologist) and deal with stupid idiots, whose moms wash their laundry. Most of these people have no real life experience or responsibilty, and say “oh it’s so easy” cuz your dad’s paying your tuition and your moms making dinner and washing your bloody clothes. I am a 22 and married and am in my 4th year for getting my B.Sc. It’s gonna take me a little longer to get that bc I actually have to get my groceries myself and cook. It pisses me off when I see these idiots getting wasted and then bitch about how they did so bad on that exam and how they don’t have money(or worse yet, do better than me, even though I spend two weeks studying for the freakin test). Do what makes you happy people! Find your passion and ignore all the idiots who are in your way. As for the people who are saying ” Oh I used to love this subject before and uni has killed it” well, high school was only a taste of what the subject truly is. University is the real picture and if you don’t like it, GET OUT NOW. You will be unhappy forever, because the subject will never change. Don’t waste your life doing things you dont want to do. There’s too many of those people already: our profs, those dick doctors, evil lawyers. And let me tell you something else. The people we are in school with now are worse than they were before. School shootings and girls getting raped at parties? WTF is wrong with this system? EVERYTHING. It’s because people are forced to (or think they are) do something they don’t want to. Do yourself and everyone else a favor and find your passion! Good luck everyone
I hate it too. i’m in first year. All the 4th years in Education said it would get so much easier after 4 weeks. i hate it so much, I ahve an assignment every week for Biology and it’s my fucking elective. I’d rather eat shit. I just want to give up, I don’t care but everytime someone says “it’ll be fine” it just makes it worse. how can everyone just be so fucking ignorant? it won’t. and that’s ebing relaistic, not negative. i wanted to major/magor in english. i just give up on spellign and grammar right now. oh and typing.
I feel so much for Sophie, I couldn’t agree more though. I have spent the last 5 years going through college and Access Courses to get into uni, all I’ve ever wanted to do is/was teach, however, now, because of the system, I don’t even know if I want to do that any more. I study art, I used to be good, I used to be able to sell my work, then I went to uni and it has single handedly managed to kill my passion, I can’t come up with ideas, I have no inspiration, everything I do isn’t modern enough or not conceptual enough, why can you no longer appreciate aesthetics with equal importance? I started uni at the age of 23, now I didn’t think I was old but I moved out of home when I was 16 and I have a home and a job so I didn’t move into halls which I think was a major mistake because it is SOOOOO much harder to make friends!!! I’ve done the clubbing thing, I don’t wanna drink till I throw up and I have a boyfriend so I don’t want to go out on the pull, i just don’t fit in. I know I am there to learn but a friendly face and someone to have coffee with would make things so much better, I’m so alone and miserable, I’ve given up my career, my nice house and so much more to come to this place and now I feel that I’ve lost everything, I would never ever advise anyone to go to university, it’s just not worth it.
The thing i hate most, are the rubish lecturers. I pay all this money to be taught by someone who gives me nothing (if not less) than a book or internet alone offers – and their contemptuous attitude towards non-accedemics (i.e. students). Good inspiring ‘teachers’! are very few and far between. I have 1 in 6!
We are in a con dudes university is the biggest load of shit ever. Tons of cash pumped in to control our minds and thoughts, useless cramming of useless academic bullshit… The whole system sucks and is founded on elitism. I am so glad I too like many others stumbled across this god send of a sight typing i hate uni into google. Its a big fat cat business! Fuck Uni
Guys, if you don’t enjoy uni there is no point being there. you will have no motivation, therefore not put in enough effort, not get good grades and waste 3/4 years of your life. if you want to be a doctor, vet, nurse etc you have to go to uni but seriously, spend your time working and making contacts and get a job that way. experience can be worth just as much as education.
Yay! People I can relate too! I got into Law School at an prestigious Australian university, have a 6.0 Grade Point Average, have been receiving 7s all Semester long, and absolutely hate my life. I have no idea why I’m doing Law. I’m also doing Arts majoring in Political Science, which is a little more tolerable, but still stiffling in it’s own manner. I just want to drop out and take acting classes, study make-up or make pots. Just something where I can have a little room to breath. Maybe I’m just crazy or egotistical, because all my friends love university. They seem to enjoy the exclusitivty of it. But I feel like there are better things in me. More creative things that I can contribute to the world. I want to tell my parents that I’m taking a gap year or something. But they would never be happy with that. It seems like the more I achieve academically, the harder they push. I’m joing the chorus here, and saying FUCK UNIVERSITY. People say that it represents freedom, knowledge, friendships, but all uni provides is the freedom to get a highly-paid desk job, the knowledge that everybody else has in highly-paid desk jobs has, and friendships based on arrogance and superiority. Shit. Where is my life going?
I hate university, you spend half your time worrying about uni fees,and how to pay for them (no loan for me) And then you get all this ticky box dictator crap. If I wanted to spend me youth like this it would have been cheaper to be behind bars! Because thats how you feel (like your in jail) and the only thing you look forward to is finishing the sentance.
I am just finishing my 2nd year in Computer Science and i have to say its the most boring course in the world! i think that the teaching is shocking, unorganised and people are arrogant twats! i have friends on the course and they feel the same way too! i cannot wait until my course is over and the only reason I’m still on it is because i want to be a teacher and hopefully let kids know that uni isn’t what its cracked up to be and only do it if you need to not just for the uni life. Most of the friends i have that have already graduated work in call centres because their degree’s are worthless… i think its just a very expensive waste of time and think that the government should make more ways easily accessible to people to gain further education!
im a first year and uni sucks. im gonna drop out. though i have friends and shit i cant imagine studying for the next fukin 5 years waste of my brain space. icant look at another book it makes me puke.
I hate southbank, period!
I don’t know what everyone is complaining about. I just love getting up at 6 in the morning every single day, dragging my arse to uni for some boring-ass lecture on semiotics, falling asleep half way through, waking up in an empty lecture theatre an hour later, going ot the computer pools to type up my 900th assignment, staring at a computer screen all day, travelling to another campus for another lecture in the afternoon, working in a supermarket for five hours after that before heading back to uni to complete an assignment due that week, studying until four in the morning, going home for a couple hours sleep, up at seven, back to uni, hand up my assignments online, computer crashes, USB breaks, technical malfunction means my work, which took me 400 hours to do, sacrificing any and all social life, does not get submitted on time, fail assignment, re-submit,lose 50% of marks, go home, eat two minute noodles, friend rings, can’t hang out got work to do, girlfriend rings, can’t see her today, work to do, hand in more assignments, all assignments are done, great relief, except another four are due that week, doh! No sleep for 5 days straight, exams come up, study arse off, nothing I studied is in exam, fail exam, go to work at supermarket, never go out, never have fun, stare at computer all day, sit down to do work, get distracted by site where people post comments complaining about uni. I love it! NOT!!!!
i just spent about 24000 going to college for three years, and now i’m about to splash out tens of thousands more for the next fucking three years, just so i can get a whatever job and pay off ridiculous asshole student debt into my thirties. i’m not even sure exactly what job i want when i’m all done. ridiculous. sweden or whatever has it right … why does this cost so much fucking money if it’s the only way we can move forward or do anything in this country? you used to be able to get away without it if you had talent in something..not the case anymore. im not looking forward to crawling back into the black hole of student life. fuckkkkkk thissssssss.
Needless to say, in the time since Real’s butthurt posting, I’ve been able to find a career field (power engineering) that basically has guaranteed good paying work right off the bat (by that; I mean like a semester). tl;dr I’ll have a job while Real sucks management cock for a shitty white collar cubical-slave job. hth
love uni, love the course, made loads of friends, in 2nd year with two more years left, wicked.
Hateit I agree with you. I didn’t give a shit in high school, it all just seemed so pointless. I had friends alright, but the work just bored the shit outta me so I just didn’t care. Therefore logically I never got the grades I would have liked. I just got into uni and into engineering and thought hey this will be interesting I’ll learn, I’ll grow. What a fucking lie, that place is so goddamn dull. Engineering, calculus, and computer science have to be 3 of the most dull, difficult mindfuck subjects I have ever done. Think I’ll either talk to the counselors about extending the course out or repeating the semester. Guess what, this is my first semester, god I’m a retard. Can’t exactly drop out though, I’m the all singing all dancing golden boy, my family expected me to do be here, to pass, to succeed. The way I see it I have a few options. I can draw this whole fucking process out an extra year to see how I go. I can off myself like I’ve considered, and blame the university(I’m a nihilist, I don’t really hold my life to be that sacred) I can burn the fucking university to the ground and they can carry me away laughing. Can’t believe I wrote that that but I really mean it. I god damn hate university, only here for the cash at the end. Should really just go to polytech.
Uni in a sentence “Pay us $12000 grand and in 4 years we will give you a certificate that might help you get a job”. Hrm not a scam at all.
Im from South Africa and studying in one of da “best” unis, Stellenbosch. Im only starting my 2nd sem tmrw and i feel like im losing myself,evry1 around me looks perfectly happy,makes me sick its as if ill never reach my goals, which iv already 4gotten bout now. Anyway remember lifes more than degrees an paper Just screw societies “ideals” and laugh bout it
I didn’t really enjoy uni either or make friends for life. In fact, I wanted to leave the whole time but felt an immense pressure to stay because I felt I should be able to make friends and should not think my tutors were on a permanent ego trip. After I left I could clearly see it wasn’t right for me. People on my course for the whole three years were cliquey and standoffish. I got so sick of putting myself out there because if I was ncie people acted like I was weird and if I was cold they acted the same. I have never had problems fitting in anywhere before! Because I could never afford to go again I stuck with it, took a year out in the middle and went back. I felt so satisfied to have completed the course with a good mark when I hated it so much. It felt like giving the lot of them the finger somehow. I won’t look back on it as the best years of my life at all though!!
normally i dont post on websites but after reading most of these posts i agree with close to 100% of it all. i went to uni for a year, it was anticlimax but i cracked on until 2nd year wen i had to take on 3 jobs, then evenyually go full time in a nightclub. wasnt the best time, esp wen the housem8s i had werent exactly poor. anyway the point is iv dropped out after 2 years, have a full time job 9-5 and love it. im gona do open uni eventually but for now im working solidly and earning cash, aswell as learning things i will ACTUALLY NEED in life (im working for a bank now…) just a word to anyone who reads this; you arent alone, dont be afraid to go your own way despite what anyone thinks, i dropped out and never looked back. fuck uni, fuck students and fuck lecturers
University is managed by its shareholders demanding year on year profits. The tuition is so sparse that binge drinking has permeated student life even at the supposedly prestigious university’s such as Oxbridge. An ever increasing debt for a meaningless piece of paper awaits you after 3 years of what can only be described as a soul destroying experience, with the lecturers being paid a ridiculous salary to offer minimal advice and dire tuition consisting of short lectures in which the contents of a book is read to the students culminating in a reading list being thrust in the students hands to be read for the following weeks 2 hours of tuition.
Oh, i’m so glad i found this site. There seems to be an assumption in society that university is the time of your life and you meet all your great friends there. But, that’s just not true. The problem is that you feel like you’re strange when that doesn’t happen, like you’re the only one not having the time of your life.
I’m at a prestigious UK university doing a History course and i’m about to go into my second year. Last year, i did make friends on my course and in the clubs that i joined. But, i don’t feel close to them. They’re very nice and i like having lunch,going to lectures, going the pub with them, but, after a year of effort i still feel no emotional or intellectual connection with them. Which leaves me feeling lonely. Luckily, i’m still close with my friends from sixth form, so that’s a treat when i’m at home on holiday.
Then, there was my flat mates. Who are vile. All they seem to care about is getting drunk. They would always sit around and watch the Hills (yes, really) in the kitchen, despite not liking the programme i used to sit with them trying to make friends. But, that never worked. Then, one day i brought a dvd for us all to watch, but i was told to “fuck off” so i stopped trying after that. It was a very cliquey hall, and if you weren’t in the clique you were treated poorly.
The worse of it is the education provided. I only get 8 hours a week, only two of which do i get actual contact with a tutor. Yet, i’m still paying the same ridiculious fee that those who have 20+ hours are. The professors are terribly self centered and lazy. For example, once when i was writing my coursework, i didn’t fully understand something i read in a book, so, i went to my tutor for help and was told he was too busy doing research for his book and i’d have to sort myself out. I’m paying an extortionate amount of money to recieve preety much no help. I’m teaching myself, not being taught by so called ‘experts’. I could teach myself what i learnt this year for the price of a pass to the local libary .
The grind of having one assigment after another, one exam after another is getting to me too. I feel like i only know how to pass an exam and have no real skills to bring to a job. This all really gets to me sometimes.
So, i can’t say i’m looking forward to next year, nor will i look back on uni as the time of my life. I’m only going now to please my parents.
Why do we have to blindly follow what others want us to do? I’m so sick of everyone’s expectations of what I need to study! Why are most people so centered on money? Yes, it’s important to have a job to support family but no one says you have to make millions even if other people are getting scammed. My mom is so stubborn, she just doesn’t see it. She always thinks “money, money, money”. I don’t want to be a lawyer, it’s just not my thing. So what that you can make lots of money. Not everyoen does. Only the few fortunate ones that enjoy ripping people off. Why can’t do what I love? Nurses make good money too. So what that I won’t be wearing business suits? I hate it anyway. I just want to live my life. Is it so damn hard to let it be and let me do what I want? Why doesn’t she drop everything and study law if she’s so obsessed with it. I’m on really bad terms with the university now because of my marks. I just can’t make myself study something I hate. They don’t know I’m debarred for two years. I don’t know what to do, my life is in turmoil now. I feel like jumping off a cliff right now. Somebody help me get back on track =(
Fuck i hate this place.
i started with computers before i was a teenager, started programming when i was 13 and never stopped. half of the shit i’ve “learned” at university, i already knew and the other half i taught myself anyway… so what’s the purpose of paying for it? i know, so my stupid fucking parents can say that i got a degree. great. meanwhile i’m heading into a jobless future due to over saturation of the market and the lingering effects of a recession that barely happened here (BUT THE MEDIA SAID IT WAS FUCKING DISASTEROUS! news corp dropping 11% in a quarter is not a market indicator, everyone else did pretty good, packer’s just a dickhead without [technological] vision, but i digress).
on top of that i have the pressure of my wife and her family on top of me. she hates it here and we’re moving to her home town at the end of my degree, so obviously it’s “PASS PASS PASS!” so we can get out of here a.s.a.p. there’ll be a few friends that i’ll miss, but i like where she comes from. her mother is a bit of a pain in the arse, but they all are. at least she likes me.
on top of this, my university is fucking awful. i’ve met one good lecturer while i’ve been there. he actually gives a shit about the quality of your learning. unfortuantely i’ve had him for one semester and that’s it, i won’t have him for the rest of my degree. the rest of the I.T teaching staff are conceited fuckheads. they have no interest in teaching students, only in furthering their own academic careers. it is very rare that any of the i.t academics ever come up with anything innovative, so why do they even fucking bother?
in short, i struggle through each day. i love the field that i’m going into (web programming), but i never get to fucking do any! i’ve had 2 subjects on PHP throughout the entire 3 years! i’m actually pretty sure i’ve spent more time on HTML than PHP… if you can’t get HTML the first time, there’s no hope for you.
another exam tomorrow. i haven’t studied for it, i can’t be fucked. it’s another piss poor multiple choice exam, 30 questions, worth 10 or 15% or something. will no doubt take the asian lectuere (who can’t speak proper english) 7 weeks to get me a result. i’m still waiting for a result from last semester. it’s been 8 weeks now. i’ve just made a resolution that i’m going to go in there tomorrow and go fucking ape at the bitch. i’m sick of the “softly softly” approach. it doesn’t get you anywhere in this place.
I get average marks. Simply because I don’t care any more. I just want to get the fuck out of here. My only motivation is that if I fail, I have to repeat the course. Labouring was much easier than university.
I totally agree university sucks, it is definitely a place of business more than a place of learning where people try to be more open minded, it’s garbage. Tuition is so high while the gains are uncertain and a load of people don’t even know what they are doing and which major they are going into. It’s hard to be motivated under such conditions. With that being said, I do believe there are DEFINITELY people who are part of the university system that genuinely care, perhaps I’m simply lucky to meet certain profs and organisation or people who work within the University that do care. The majority doesn’t, unfortunately. Sometimes I can’t tell which people are on my side or they are just there to promote their own program so more funding can go into that field for research. I’m going into second year university. I still have some hope, I just fear it might be completely crushed by the end of the terms. My university has some anti ‘I’m-going-crazy’ support systems (partly where the tuition is dedicated to).
I just think, if other people have gone through university and successfully obtain there degree AND are happy with their life (with struggles of course) and make a decent amount of money…no matter how hard it seems at the moment, it will be worth it and will get better.
I think another reason why people feel a burning hatred for University ,though understandbly so….has less to do with University than it has to do with feeling pressured to make a lot of money. A lot people trade passion for money. Happiness for prestige and great reputations. It’s vanity and the way we’ve always been conditioned to think. I am no exception, but I think if society didn’t put this much pressure on us, we would be loads happier and healthier and possibly less materialistic. Goodness, what we do and risk for money.
Perhaps the luckiest and tactful people are the ones who are passionate about a field that rakes in a good amount of money with high job security. Their passion helps them make money.
Hey guys I typed up Fuck University and came across here… I am an engineer (well atleast I was an computer engineering student until I failed) the course was so fucking hard the profs sucked so much balls it pissed me off.. plus on top of all that honestly I’m really good at math. FUCK PHYSICS!! My parents want me to go back. Honestly I feel so low. I’m 19 but.. I feel so lost .. But sooner or later I’ll have to go back (you know father son pride thing + JOB) but honestly not to be pessimistic but eng jobs dont seem ez to get (not with the fucked up economy worldwide) shit I should havde been a doctor.. (NAH.. fuck that bullshit too much money wasted).
Anyways just a tip for anyone who wants to succeed: Do what you love, b/c that way when you get up in the morning you dont have to say “Fuck… I hate [enter majoring subject] lectures”. Oh and by the way Waterloo isnt all big as they say.. its actually very shitty ( I got in the most competitive program and its not all that great) FUCK THEM! and profs (not all)!!
i hate university so much…
i never usually post comments on sites like this but i felt as if i just had to let my voice be heard for all of us out there who feel the same.
i am 19 years old and am just about to start my second year of studying medicine. before i went to university i loved my life: i felt i had a purpose on this planet and had hopes & dreams for the future. i had a few fantastic, close friends and had a level-headed, optimistic outlook on life. i worked SO hard to get AAAA at a-level and on my UKCAT and personal statement and all that rubbish. i was so sure that university would be “best years of my life” and could not wait to start. within two months my life was going downhill: i stuggled to make friends, i hated being away from home, i began binge-eating (and still have some concerns over my health) and everyday was a huge struggle.
(unfortuatley)i passed my end of year exams and i have to go back to uni in a few months because my parents will not allow me to give up on this “fabulous career”. i am dreading another 5 years of this hell and don’t even want to be a doctor. i tried very hard to make the first year go well, but it did not. i feel so trapped and have nowhere to turn. hopefully this year will be better but the thought of walking back into that university makes me feel sick.
TO ALL THOSE WHO WANT TO STUDY MEDICINE AT UNI IN THE FUTURE: be absolutely sure that this is what you want to do. medicine is a hard course and is not to be taken lightly. i thought that i was the perfect candidate for undergraduate medicine, but now i fear that i am a canged person – for the worse. i think i am becoming clinically depressed and my life is spiralling away from me.
if i had my time again i would deliberately fail my a-levels.
I think the most frustrating thing about university is that professors all seek your undivided attention for class work and lectures. When you have 5 classes, all telling you to read hundreds of pages from overly academic texts, SIMULTANEOUSLY, then it gets really fucking insane. Did you know that in order to do “well” in a class, you have to put in at least 2-3 hours of studying each day per class! I don’t know about you but unless you snorting cocaine everyday, you’re gonna be pretty fucked up once friday rolls around. What really pisses me off though is that all professors tell you that if you can’t manage this ridiculous, vomit inducing schedule, they tell you that you need to work on your time management skills. No wonder so many of us are developing tell tale signs of CLINICAL DEPRESSION. And trust me, that’s the last thing any of us needs while at uni.
To any of you who are seriously depressed (I was), you REALLY HAVE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT B/C IT’S NOT GONNA GO AWAY ON ITS OWN–TRUST ME ON THIS ONE B/C I WAS LITERALLY PRAYING TO GOD TO KILL ME AT ONE POINT (consequently, I lost faith in God b/c i didn’t see how he/she/whatever could see someone in such a bad state, such as the one that I was in, that he couldn’t even lend a hand).
i didnt realise that these sentiments were shared so widespread. I hate uni, its shit. im starting my 2nd yr of dentistry, and its shit. The course is shit, the ppl on the course are shit, fake and gay.
clubbing is the only past time of these ppl, its like the goverment has provided one outlet for young ppl, and has thus neutered young ppls ability to think politically.
oh god the course, its awful, im taught the most random bullshit; random anatomy, 2 many behavioral techniques, and how to lie to ur patients.
all for a piece of paper, just a piece of paper. i agree with the above comments saying uni is just a method of maintaining a social order. let the poor ppl become footballers/brick layers/electricians and the better off become lawyers/doctors/architects.
from films and general bullshit bout uni in the past, it seemed like a hotbed for debate on political and sociological matters, but that was just a lie. a big fat one.
we are the children of no great war, depression, or disaster, as a result we feel like we have no purpose, specific meaning or goal. that is if ur not suckered by the paper dreams of university
I hate life. That has got to me and my mind. I started university 3 days ago. And I already hate it. Honestly i want to cry out loud and tell my parents that uni is just weird. Just like many of you i have almost 2 hour ride to uni, by the time i get there, im too tired. sometimes i wake up 5:30 to get to class at 8. its all bs. Does anyone have any tips on avoiding depression. im trying to be happy and think happy but i can’t think of anything but school and all the bs they are throwing at me. High school was so easy and fun. Im not saying Uni should be easy but the least they could do it is make it a little fun. The profs could smile once a while or even other students, they all look at each other with a mean attitude. I think, they are thinking that they are competing against us. I wanna cry. I feel much better(i know i shouldn’t) knowing that there are hundreds of you just like me. thanks and good luck to all.
Ouch my cerebral innards HURT. Yesterday i had an exam. Today, two assignments and an exam. Tomorrow, exam prep for the exam after tomorrow. My brain is too full of information, when i speak, i do so with essay-style language. It is so imbecelic, because after the exam you never need to use that information again…Tis the epitomy of pointless i declare! I wish i had a dumbledore-style pensieve to dump all my thoughts away in…
I love hearing that i’m not the only soul on this planet that hates their uni course.
I’m in second year doing a B Sc. and I’ve just passed the half way mark of my course. I have hated it since the second day of uni.
I made an effort to meet people and that failed miserably. I hang out with one person AT uni and have a few acquaintances – that’s it on the social scene. On top of that, I absolutely HATE my course. It is the biggest load of boring bullshit I’ve ever come across. The thing is I thought many times of changing courses but stopped when I realised I haven’t got a clue what I really want to do. So now i might as well finish it… arrrgh. I’m sick of feeling so negative all the time about uni and the way it’s affecting me as a person and turning me into a cynical bitch.
I feel a kinship with so many of you.
The stories of depression are something i only know too well.
I dropped out of Uni. My family is pressuring me to go back.
From my experience, the work world sucks as much as uni but in a different way.
So the world sucks overall.
Sad but this is the reality. Maybe the Buddhist path on meditation and detachment may be the only saviour for us all.
Hi, I want everyone in here to know, that we are not alone in this, feeling disconnected and depressed, not caring less about what we learn, dreading to go to yet another day of uni, this is a feeling that us and I’m sure a million more people share but haven’t faced the truth. I think we need a revolution in the way university works, I think society’s got to change so that there is less of a stress on career, so that people care about more important things, autonomy, being happy and helping others.
I’m a student in my last year of a BA Film degree and I go to a prestigious university that just happens to completely SUCK at arts/communication. My older sister had a wonderful experience at uni that she boasted about, so I had all these dreams about it. THe university I picked was supposedly the place to be for recognition and social life, but within a year all the glamour faded and I was depressed more than ever. The staff at my university (with the exception of about 3 inspiring mentors) are a bunch of people who never made it in the industry and I’m learning from them. I don’t learn anything practical and I don’t get proper direction from my teachers to do what I want. I’m still passionate about film but my experience at university makes me feel…what’s the word…impotent. Now with the fucking recession I don’t even have a part time job, and my degree seems fucking useless in helping me find one. I have zero confidence but a 100% anxiety, I even find it hard to look people in the face at uni and talk, and when I see people I DO know I’m not in the mood to talk to them and I avoid them completely. I took time off to travel (which rocked my socks) but then I was back at uni and the few friends I had graduated. So I know almost no one in my course now, and even if I do make an effort to socialise, as I’m in an arts degree which is flexible, you never see the same people in all your classes. The whole thing is a fucking waste of time. On top of that my uni is so far away from home, I travel 2 hours, in 2 buses and a train, because my car was just wrecked in an accident and I can’t afford to live by myself closer to the uni because I don’t have a fucking job and every fucking day in the train I see people cold and lifeless dressed in suits, carrying suitcases representing everything banal just going to work creating a mass climate of fucked up bullshit alienating, capitalist bullshit of a mental depression.
I know there are many of you feel this or something worse, but would anyone be interested in perhaps signing a mass petition or something and send it to leaders and institutions around the world and demand they improve uni life, INVEST IN EDUCATION, make it less stressful, cheaper for students and more applicable to real life. Why can’t university make you happy and want to learn more? Many decades ago universities around the world were actually free? can you believe it?
Is anyone else interested in this? Organising some sort of fucking resistance to this system? Not just for us but for the next generation of kids entering university so that their dreams of a uni life are not shattered. How about starting a PETITION where we can email or write to world leaders, university heads etc demanding some change? WHAT DO YOU THINK?
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OMG ugk I totally know what you mean. I was working for the last 2.5 yrs and even though I was earning a respectable salary…I hated sitting in a cubicle and doing the same thing everyday. I felt like a robot. I quit work and went back to school…University…well i hate it….it sucks ass…life does suck..if I hate work and I hate school…???..what do i do in life???
University has all but destroyed me. My little brother went to University and is practically the poster boy for it, but I just don’t fit in at all. If you don’t make friends instantly you are fucked for the rest of your time there. I’m only at University for 8 hours a week, how am I supposed to make life long friends?
Ive been at univeristy for two years and I havent made a single close friend that I feel I can really open up to.
Ive decided this year to commute to University even though it is rather a long way, but just because it gives me something to do and somewhere to be and feel needed, not just a student number or an absence mark. Everyone thinks I’m mad and it’s hard to ignore them and believe that this is the right decision for me, but I have to do something. I wanted to drop out and start again from a University at home but I had not the courage to admit I suck at University, which makes it harder for my family to understand my current decision because I’ve just been hiding my strife. One year to go, one year to go of this expensive mistake.
I can’t believe there are so many people who hate uni aswell!!! I’m about to start my second year and hate it sooooooo much. I am dreading going back. The thing is I like the course but I effing hate every thing else. The fake people, the boring journey, the mindless ’social’ events. Urgh! It has sucked out every atom of positivity I had inside of me! I went in to uni thinking I was going to have the time of my life but I feel that at the end of my degree I’m going to be a soulless being who will just exist and do her work but have nothing else to offer! I need to get away from uni but I haven’t got the courage to do so
anyone go sheffield hallam and want a friend?: i currently have no friends and im a third year
I hate universtity with a passion.I’m currently studying Media and not only do i not have any proper friends in uni, but my current friends who attend different uni’s are drifting away from me, not to mention most of the things i’ve learnt in uni are things ive already learnt in college and im in debt!
I start uni tomorow. For “freshers week.” Which is compulsory , I dont want to dress up as a school girl and go to a “school disco” or a “beach party” I wouldn’t do it at home so why should i do it at university with people i don’t know. I think I hate it already, i just saw the light and don’t see the point in it no more.
Wow, at least im not alone in all this sadness.
Ive spent one night here at uni and have already had enough, I ive been socialised into this and have just had enough of the system.
I am going to try to give me lessons a chance because i think i owe it to my parents, but i really do want to find a way out.
WHY the FUCK do i let social pressures get to me!!!!!
I’ve gone past hating university, I get the work done and to a high standard I have done since I started
Everyone has families of their own now, they all have stable jobs, they all have comfortable lifes.
In uni by 9am finish at 1am thats a 16hour day every day, go home and sleep if I’m lucky, I’m now programmed to be awake 48hours and sleep 10 or work for three weeks with only 2 hours a night when major deadline approach.
I’m a 6th year architecture student.
I’ve gone past hating university.
I just want to live.
I haven’t even started uni yet and I’m not looking forward to it in the slightest.I’m not living on campus so travelling in for 40min lectures is going to be a total pain in the arse and also why is freshers’ week practically compulsory? I’m going to uni to learn, not to ruin my liver. why get myself into more debt through drinking with mindless people who have no purpose in the world and are just at uni because they are so boring they can’t even get a job in an office and then wind up in hospital with someone else’s liver in me. My bloody fiance has moved a million miles away aswell so that’s going to be shit and at the end of the day people only go to uni because they think they should. if you get so much as a c at a level, that’s it-your only option is to go to uni. there was so much pressure on me to go, i would’ve practically been abandoned if I hadn’t gone. If we were back in the old days when only the deserving went to uni I’d be quite happy. Or if we went back even further and I could start a family now without everyone tutting saying I’ve wasted my life. I want a job-I want to be a teacher so uni’s the only way to get that but what a fucking load of shit that’s turned out to be.
I hate university too! I’m in Reading, and I am having the worst time of my life. I hate the course, the people, the “events”. I wish I could leave, but I can’t see any way out of it, without my parents and myself having wasted a ton of money. I’m going into my second year next week, but I have never been so depressed in my life. I wish I could drop out.
Hey,
I’ve been thinking that there shoould be some place where people could exchange e-mails or so to get in touch with other at their Uni who also hate it. I myself got over hating Uni but my 1st year was a sad experience. But now I think that if there’s anyone at my Uni who doesn’t like it than I’d like to be meet you, be a friends. Because from my point of view everyone around me was so damn happy and ecited! What was even more annoying as I knew they would not understand me. So well, think about it:) I’m at University of Sussex.
Thank God I am not the only one who has not taken to uni and hates it within the first week. The freshers week programme is completely fuelled by alcohol and all those around me keep me awake at night. I would’nt go out solely to get drunk before I arrived, I would go out to have a social drink and meet friends. As well, everyone who has arrived at this uni already knows each other and stick in tight-knit groups, so I feel crap and left out in activities. The minute I talk to these people they resort to alcohol and loudmouthing/shouting or blank me. My 4th day at uni and I am despising it. Don’t want to let it on to my parents who would be ashamed of me if I did. The induction lecture, although not the course was dreary and made me sleepy…at 2:30pm! I feel like I am trapped and everyone just says it will get better. Yeah right!
is this it?
is this how i am to spend the best years of my life?
is there something i am doing wrong?
is this the result of all my years of hard work and dedication at school?
is it just me, or does anyone else think that happiness, love, freedom and equality are more important than this?
is there anyone out there studying at any uni in london, UK, that needs someone to talk to?
is there a day when i will not be at university?
there is. i cannot wait untill that day comes
winston churchill once said:
IF YOU ARE GOING THROUGH HELL… KEEP GOING.
Hey there, my second day at university, and it fucking sucks. Whats the point of leaving where i had shitloads of friends a beautifull girlfriend for this hellhole. I have 0 friends, where everyone around me seems so confident. The events are alchohol induced manic places, shitloads of drugs, and people far more confident than i. If it continues, i will drop out, whatever the parents say, get on a plane. If anyone wants to get in touch, do, a friend would be awesome.
Im at Nottingham doing History. Just gimme a shout on here, il give you my email.
yeh i agree with the above sombra …. id sure love to find ppl , people say u can make friends at uni no matter what ur interests are and its a load of bull coz u cant … if u dont like clubbin and the uni events u dnt stand a chance coz thats what alot of students go to uni for, in the first year i was dead fake and joined in till xmas and it dawned on me why! so i stopped and any friends who i did make stopped talkin to me n started gettin bitchy n laughin n it got to the stage i was worried if i went to my room incase they laughed at me sum more, n stupidly lived with them in the second year as well , dunno why! and that was jus as bad and this year im oin my own butmy old flat mates are still on my course so yer …. its aload of shit! O and my new flat on my own its still in halls of residence but its a studio flat n ppl keep tryna kick the door down n bang on it all nite
hate freshers week this best die down, iv cum to far to drop out now … my advice is any first years whp are unsure of uni now, drop out now or get a transfer t sumwere else, honestly u leave it till xmas ull jus stay ther coz the money is a big issue
Read through most of these posts and I agree with basically all of them. I am in my second year and I have come to the same realization as the rest of you. The only reason it took so damn long was cuz of a couple shitty events that happened to me in my first year which distracted me. Feels like university is killing my soul but I don’t know what to do about it. I don’t like clubbing and the few clubs that I have joined have convinced me how utterly stupid such people are. I don’t know if I am overly cynical or what but as far as I can see university life is over-rated and downright pointless. I would escape this shit if I could but there’s nowhere to run to. I wish there were an alternative. The only reason I am attending university is to find out what career I am suited for. After trying most of the courses, I have realized that all the courses available only give you a taste of what a career in academia is like. Everything is taught from a theoretical point of view. Words permeate the very air at university yet there is little substance to back them up. Everything is from books or the internet and I hate it. It’s no fault of the professor because they too are trapped in this system. It would be splendid if we actually spent a day, or even an hour shadowing a psychologist, just to see what we are getting ourselves into. Or perhaps a week volunteering as the assistant of a politician. University just seems so damn detached from reality that it borders on absurdity.
“I start uni tomorow. For “freshers week.” Which is compulsory , I dont want to dress up as a school girl and go to a “school disco” or a “beach party” I wouldn’t do it at home so why should i do it at university with people i don’t know. I think I hate it already, i just saw the light and don’t see the point in it no more.”
I agree ive been at uni for freshers stuff all this week and I don’t even fit In, I’m starting to forget why I liked the subject I’m doing anymore and I havn’t even started it yet.
Its nice to know that E (above) and others feel the same. I haven’t enjoyed freshers week one bit, I like to go out and have fun at home but i havn’t been out all week. I got dressed up last and had to go meet everyone in the flat next door and basically got ignored, so went back to my room, so its not like im not trying. I cant understand why some people are even here, many people i have met seem too imature and are acting like they have just been let of a leash. Oh well, lectures start tuesday maybe things will get better then.
Just reading over all your comments & I’m so pleased I’m not the only one who hates/dislikes uni, I do a Bsc in Digital Development, (Basically computing with a new title put on it). I had the same expectations from all my family and friends who have been before me 2 uni, that it would be soooo great and life changing and that I would meet real good, intelligent friends for life. But the hell started from day one, I was one of the first students to apply for the campus rooms but didn’t get it because they said it was random selection from a database, (Fair enough). Oh but they said don’t worry there are plans in place for students who don’t get rooms. Which is called a house share (OMG what hell this was) So I went on this 2 day event where u PAY 50 quid (for what, I really don’t no) and you are meant to meet other students and find a house to share for the next 12 months …… yup meet people u dnt no or might end up hating or being serial killers lol and share everything with them basically.
So yea I meet 5 other students and we went looking for houses the next day, don’t even remember how many we looked at but over 15 to 20. Finally decided on one and signed a contract with the landlord and letting agency (which got us for every penny, which was to be expected) so rent was 400 quid a month each, not including any bills, admin fees or food etc etc. so every month I was racking up the debt and paying for my car and tuition fees, like all the rest of you guys. After about 2 weeks to a month I then relised I absolutely hated 4 people in the house and only liked one of the girls and got on with her really well (not in that way tho lol), the others basically drove us out the house with the mess and noise and crap, so we both decided we didn’t like living there anymore but had to carry on paying rent coz of the contract, so we slept there Monday to Thursday and I drove home to London and she went back to Dover to meet our old mates and live at home on weekends.
I needed money so got my old job back at Homebase in London on wkends and carried on from there driving down Monday morning or Sunday night and goin home Thursday night. Which worked out alrightish coz I had two lifes really with loads of mates up London and a few select 1s down there. It’s only an hour or so on the motorway. The parties where alright and the clubs were good and meet loads of different people, none of which I really liked, (apart from the girls LOL) every one being very fake and just trying to cling to any1 they could find which was very sad I found. After the freshers week and parties fayed away and a few ppl dropped out everything went to normal, i found one mate in my class I got on with very well, (not the best start to something that’s meant to be 1 of the best times of your life).
So my 2nd yr came along and it was just two days a week, the girl I shared a house with dropped out and went to a different uni nearer home, so lost contact with her. The contract for the house had ended and I didn’t see any of them from the house again thank god, although it took us over a year to get the 500 quid deposit back EACH! My 2nd yr was better, money wise, I moved back home and drove down Tuesday, and Thursday mornings, wasn’t too bad, was saving tones of money, and paid back most of my debt, yup that’s right im a student with NO debt right now. My social life was hell with only one mate, it was very dull and boring, dnt get me wrong I tried to make friends, but you can’t really do that when you hate most ppl in your class lol. I didn’t understand why or how I made so many mates in college and meet my best mate there, and still see each other, and then go to uni and hardly find any, if someone has the answer to this please tell me????? I mean it’s not like i’m a freak or cant talk lol.
Now going in to my 3rd year and only have a few select friends which I haven’t really connected with very much anyway, most people just piss me off at uni with all the stupid “so called” intelligent comments and fake debates about how they will change the world etc etc, blah, blah, blah.
OHHHH yes there’s more, keep reading!
I thought I was going in to my final 3rd year when I got a letter a few weeks ago saying I need to re-sit 3 units over the next year before they would let me into the final year because I missed the pass mark by 2 on each exam, (which pissed me off even more!!!). Which now leaves me with 2 more years so in total 4 years. So it’s dragging out more and more and I really wanted to say to the head of my course fuck off I quit, but didn’t want to disappoint my parents, and waste all the time and effort ive put in. Now that ive got to re-sit 3 units, I most prob wont see the few mates I have down there anymore coz they moved on to the final year and ill be left by myself, (awww poor me I no lol).
So my course is now 1 day a week, fees are lower, and still live at home, again saving tones of money. Sounds perfect but I am seriously getting very depressed socially!
There is no support or feedback at uni, even tho they say there is, I no it’s meant to be “independent learning” adult etc. But some people just don’t learn that way, especially if there dyslexic. The professors just dismiss people that don’t really get it and tell them to go and do more research or read a book, I mean don’t they think we have fucking tried that already!! (and still r) there is a support center but they don’t specialize in specific course support, just math and English. So you are on YOUR OWN.
Uni won’t really get you anywhere anyway unless u get a 1st, it’s all about the experience, dispute what the OLD say. All my mates which went straight from college to industry have now got 2 or 3 years experience, which most employees look for, (so it seems from all the job sites and employment agencies) even if its just as a helpdesk agent or tech support, they’ve got the head start. One of my mates is now a manager of an audit team for AGI. With just his A-Levels!! We still have to go out and start from the bottom; even after all this hard work at uni.
So to sum up uni is crap.
Thanks for reading
I’ve only just finished my first week and thought there must be something wrong with me cause I’ve just hated every minute of it so far! I, like most people here, assumed university would be full of intelligent, like minded people and there would be activities for everyone to join in on but no, FUCK NO! It’s full of the same numb-skulls you see puking their guts up on Saturday nights and the only clubs and events cater for the aforementioned future alcoholics.
Also I would have thought that lecturers at a ‘higher education’ institution would treat you with a little more respect or even as an equal but no, they all seem to talk down to students and that just really pisses me off!
I can only hope the passion I have for my chosen subject and the occasional rants of internet forums is enough to keep me sane for the next three years!
ahh finally people who feel the same as me. uni sucks, i am in my first year of engineering and the lectures are dull and CRAP. So unimaginative i feel as though i am in nursery school or something. cant even leave to do what i want as i still dont have a driving lisence (long story). never wanted to really come but felt that i had to after all the money that my parents pumped into my education, really just want to join the police where u dont need a degree anyway so this course is wasting my life.
i don’t drink but that has never stopped me having mates before, but here it doe’s. all the idiots here want to do is get battered in a cheap bar on cheaper booze and puke up in the street. also the city is a dump with very little to do near to us.
FUCK UNI, it’s a piece of shit and all those adults who say otherwise never even fucking went to uni themselves. And what is the point of FRESHERS FUCKING WEEK purely there for people who want to dress up like a faggot.
I started Uni 2 weeks ago and have hated every second of it. I went to the freshers fair and thought I would get to meet loads of different people and find out information about different activities and societies going on so I could meet people with similar interests but all it was was people handing out flyers/leaflets promoting bars and clubs. Everyone already seems to have made friends and I felt ridiculous being there on my own.
I’ve tried to talk to my flatmate but she’s not a first year and already has her friends so doesn’t really care about making friends with me and is really unfriendly. I tried to meet some people in another flat and they seemed really friendly/invited me to a party and I thought ok, maybe I will make friends after all but when I was there hardly anyone spoke to me no matter how hard I tried. This stupid chav nicked my camera, I know what flat he’s in but if I go round and ask for it back he’ll only deny it. Its my own stupid fault for leaving my bag for a second, you can’t trust anyone here at all.
The people on my course aren’t any friendlier, I went to another flat party last night (guarded my bag with my life) thinking it might be better but whenever I tried to speak to someone they would just ignore me and go and speak to their fabulous new friends. They all reminisce about things like they’ve known each other for years…
Proper lectures start next week and I’m trying to stay positive but after the induction this week I just don’t know. Totally agree with Richard about the lecturers talking down to students :S
Eurghhh, I don’t know if I will survive here!
I completely agree with you. Uni is shit. Its not so much the course its the lifestyle! Uni halls are the worst. Ergh u live in a box, share a kitchen with ppl who are neither interesting or genuine, The place is dirty and u never get a minuite to ureself. Its awful i hate it i hate it i hate it. All n e one ever wants to do is go out and get drunk, it seems everyone has already gone and made best mates with people despite only bein here 2 weeks?!. I was doubting whether i really wanted to go to uni before i came and now im even more certain tht this is nt for me.
Oh god, I remember being on this forum last year and thinking my life was over.
FOR ALL OF YOU WHO ARE FIRST YEARS – GET READY FOR IT TO SUCK BALLS. You won’t know who to be friends with, how normal profs act, what classes to take to get by without any negativity…basically first year is like learning how to walk all over again but then you get used to it. You figure out how to study, you figure out how to talk to people, you figure out that asking questions isn’t scary and no matter what you are never stupid for asking something – what makes you stupid is being AFRAID to ask and admit it. I was really really stupid last year. In year 2 they don’t try to fail you out as hard, trust me I think most people in my year 1 classes have probably dropped out because I haven’t seen so many of them. Basically be yourselves guys (I’m talking to the first years) and know that not everyone is as confident as they might look – everyone would love to make a new friend in classes, it’s not about everyone shunning you. Sometimes you think that someone won’t talk to you but you end up getting along. I felt so helpless during first year but then I learned and nothing is as stressful anymore. I guess you grow as a person and you figure out how everything works, and once you do that everything falls into place and its not a big scary thing anymore…in fact it gets tiny and you start to realize the magnitude of life itself…life beyond highschool or university, it helps you grow no matter how much you cuss through it all. I aint saying it’s easy, it’s like total rape sometimes, but trust me it will work out of you truly try and not put so much pressure on yourself to have it all in a short period of time. Yes sometimes you only get 2 hours of sleep per night, sometimes you get 30% on an exam you worked your ass off to study for, sometimes you feel like your head will explode but after you get through everything TRUST ME YOU WILL FEEL LIKE A ROCK STAR. Uni isn’t about getting you into a boring job, you can do anything you want to. You can always talk to someone, don’t ever ever feel that you’ll be stuck doing nothing for a living and feeling like crap because THAT’S NOT TRUE.
I just started. I’m pretty sure I’ve picked the wrong course/uni, find lectures boring and have little interest in doing this shit for three fucking years. Uni sucks a giant dick.
University: definitely not for everyone. Standards of living were terrible, but above all else I realised that what I want to do doesnt require me to get a physical degree to present to an employer. Sure, the stuff Id learn from teaching material would benefit me in various ways, but thats nothing I couldn’t get outside of uni in the form of books, online etc. (far quicker and much, much cheaper, whilst at the same time building up my real life 3 years earlier than if i’d completed the degree). Fact is, don’t need the degree, hate the lifestyle. Everything else uni could offer me isnt unique and I could get elsewhere *waves at Bristol in wing-mirror*
It’s still freshers week at the University Of Surrey, so I guess I can’t really have a valid opinion yet since I haven’t experienced enough of it – however, I really don’t like it so far.
The place just has a horrible feel to it; a cold, formal and intimidating atmosphere. I’ve read some more details about the work I’m going to have to do, and it sounds horrendous – just reading about it has really put me off.
Fortunately I’m living at home, so I’m not completely isolated from all that I know and love but it does make it difficult to make new friends there, and all my old friends are away at their unis, so this could be a very lonely few years for me.
I was very unsure about this, and was considering getting a job and starting my working life instead as recently as a few weeks ago, but my parents convinced/pressured me to go… I’m starting to wish I hadn’t gone along with it. What have I gotten myself into?
who am i ? what am i doing here ? why am i even alive ? …………. uni is going to kill me
I’m sitting in my dorm crying I hate it so much. Noisy all the time, I never have a moment to de stress. I just want to go home. Students are so inconsiderate. They have party’s at all hours and are so loud. And its 01:10 in the morning.
I just feel on edge everyday and its still only the first week.
I know exactly how you feel…crying, not able to have quiet time, always stress, roommates and the rest of the floor just being inconsiderate…
I’ve got no hope of getting any sleep tonight, theres loads of drunks screaming and shouting outside, i can even hear them throwing up… Am I weird not to think thats a good time?! I know its saturday and if I was at home i would be out with my friends… its just here :S I’m definitely going home next weekend, wish I had done this weekend.
damn i just wrote my whole university experience and then the comp wouldnt let me post. i guess it can be summed up as torture. I wouldn’t wish this experience on my worst enemies because it just opens your mind to how fucked up the social system is.
I had a bad vibe right from the first day when i saw all the valium induced glass half full type on frosh week. I left after ten minutes the first day and never came back to frosh week. im three weeks in and so far ive had two mental breakdowns, one of which involved running around my deck sharpeing penchils with a machete to show the world that you dont need technology ( i had spent all day trying to send in an oline assignemt but it wouldnt work, as usual)
Its my third week right now studying business and living at home with my parents. I feel like two seperat people, when im at and away from university. when im away im social, and have a postive outlook on my future. When im at university its a constant state of depression, and “isnt there anything better attitude”
PLEASE IF YOUR IN HIGH SCHOOL HEED MY WARNING. please for the love of god just go to college or something, or find work. im dead serious. i wish i had found this forum last year when my teachers were all telling me how if i didnt want to live in a box i had to go to university. my frinds at college, smoke weed all day pass their releatively easy courses find work and move into a small but comfortalbe houses in the city, and love their life.
I think im gonna just do my first year here so my parents dont kill me, and then over the summer find a job, and not register for unversity again, and then just go to college or something
Hi guys,
I’m doing computer science. Been at it for 3-4 weeks and I feel so let down. All the expectations of an amazing social life, friends etc and what? No one wants to know. I’ve never been amazing at socialising but people like me when they get to know me. But no one wants to get to know me, I talk to people, we sit down together at lectures and at the end they leave without a word. The courses are okay but … I expected so much more. I’m lonely without friends for the first time. I’m in love with my boyfriend of 2 years and everyone sez uni will fuck us up. I swear if it looks like it’s happening that way I will drop out without thinking twice. He is my life and my reason for getting up in the morning but now I only see him twice a week. I know there are worse situations to be in, but that doesn’t make me feel better. Does anyone here go to university of glasgow? maybe we can be friends lol. Somebody help and tell me what I can do if I decide to drop out – I want a good profession with happy friendly colleagues. I’m doing this for the money but if there is a job I will enjoy that is not so great paid I’d do it.
I’m so glad I found this site- this is my second year at University and I canlt stand it- like many have said, I feel like I’ve been tricked or something- everything I was told about coming ehere seems to have been a lie. My marks are good, but I feel liek I’m learning absolutely nothing new and simply writing pointless essay after essay and not enjoying a second of it. I’ve met one or two decent people but haven’t established any kind of strong friendships, and spend so much time just wishing I could go back home and be ‘myself’ again- here I just feel invisible, bored and perpetually tired after sitting through hours of uninspiring lectures and then going back to an unpleasant room and a hall full of people I honestly want nothing to do with. The worst part is, mine is suppossed to be one of the better Universities, which is shocking because there’s really nothing very good about it- some of the lecturers are just plain awful, the assignments are pointless, the I.T systems are out of date and the accomodation is hideously overpriced and poor.I won’t name my intsitution, other than to say its a Scottish university in teh ‘Top 5′ but that doesn’t seem to matter, I’m sure the experience I’m describing, for many is a completely universal one.
Made it through your first month of Comp. Sci., eh Donna? Have they taught you if-statements yet?
My first software engineering course began by making sure that we all knew what a mouse and keyboard were, and that the monitor is not the computer. IF YOU DON’T KNOW THAT YET YOU SHOULDN’T BE A SOFTWARE FREAKIN’ ENGINEER… EVER!
Whhhyyyyyy do I have to listen to these boring fucking lectures that cater to the slowest, dumbest individuals in the course, and then do uninspired, meaningless assignments? Why can’t I just take the final exam in the first week of class? Why do I have to take five consecutive classes spread out over 3-4 month of agony, instead of one class at a time in just a week or two?
Most of all, why do I have to pay so damned much for a service that is clearly flawed and unsatisfying?
“It’s nothing like highschool” I was told over and over. I’m now going to a University south of the city I live in where everyone is inbred and boring. The courses are vague and the entire affair is rather depressing. I’ve made lots of friends and such, but all the theory bullshit about nothing important is killing me bit by bit.
university can be sucky sometimes, but people should realise something, you have an opportunity to get a degree, there are many people out there hoping to get one, i hate the fucking uni, my parents just left and i feel lonely like hell, i just made 1 friend, thats it, sitting on the fucking computer surfing the fucking nets
but FUCK EVERYONE, i will get the degree for the EPIC LULZ.
I hate university; I really, really do. It took away what I treasured the most – my ability to write, my creativity… not to mention my soul, my time, my energy, money, happiness, the most of self-esteem and identity I had (it was a lot), my motivation, the sleep, my health… and all that other crap soulless tools probably don’t need. It started about four weeks ago, since then I’m just getting worse. Can’t get myself to do anything; just sitting here fantasizing about getting blood on my hands and enjoying the screams…
I visited a psychiatrist today and felt completely let down by her. She was too fake, I just couldn’t believe her when she said she wanted to help, even though I wanted to believe her because that was sort of my last hope… I guess your problems are just unimportant, childish drama as long as there are no dead bodes lying around. I was even too miserable to argue with her about that, just sat there crying and feeling like a complete idiot for thinking somebody could actually want to help me without being an ass and without mocking me for being miserable. The only things she gave me are her e-mail address and yet another fake smile to hate. :/
Nobody to talk to, the students mostly talk about the shit we’re trying to learn there… and the only so-called friend I’ve made is trying to patronize me without really listening when I try to talk about what’s going on with me. I hate that. They look at me like I’m an alien if I say that I can’t stand the place, it probably confuses them that somebody is able to hate the crap. We are given a lot of pointless shit to do but no time to do it – I’m not learning anything.
I think I’m done, yet the screams in my head won’t fade… now I need to drag my tired corpse under the shower and get some coffee, it’s gonna be another sleepless night. At least I can’t dream if I don’t sleep. I want it to end. Dropping out is not an option, this sick society has me where they want me right now – I’ll just hate myself for that decision as I don’t know where to go if I do drop out.
Oh, sorry, I wanted to say “psychologists”, not psychiatrist. I’m just so very tired…
Ok, so i’ve been extremely unhappy at university. Feel too miserable to eat, cry a lot of the time, tired constantly, haven’t met anyone i feel i can particularly bond with, stressed, starting to hate the whole experience.
I’m seriously considering transferring to the university near home and living at home. These past few weeks have been the worst of my life so far.
I’ll let you know what i decide. Thankfully my parents are behind me 100%. Don’t know whether i can say the same about my boyfriend.
Wanted to be a doctor since I was very little. I get to university and it’s a big bore. I did a co-op placement in high school and had the time of my life. I go into a lecture and want to shoot myself. I can’t believe I’m paying 7 grand for a crowded library, boring profs, annoying people, unnecessary information and crowded classes that are late or too early. We are all so doomed when the baby boomers retire in masses because who the hell is going to want to go through this let alone afford it in the future.
I had to do some work at a university in Scotland last year (there’s a test machine there my employer uses from time to time).
The most defining experience there was when I asked for some help from a postgraduate student, who a) didn’t seem to speak English b) didn’t seem to have any work in him and c) despite being repeatedly asked, and despite having a PhD, couldn’t physically pass me a 14mm combination spanner.
After storming out, he went and complained to the head of department about me. I then got a public lecture on my attitude, and was told I was on my own and couldn’t expect any help from the Department.
I just hope the place closes down, and soon, because it’s just a colossal drain on the taxpayer. All I know is that if I’m looking for a potential employee, and someone applies with that place on their CV, it will get filed straight in the bloody bin.
i hate my university soo much i dont knw ow to get over it. i am doing a masters programme and it is torture for me.i hate it ere..i have tried to like it ere but i just cant, its like a horror movie for me. one reason is because i wasnt supposed to her here at all at first
A-i am feeling exactly the same…i would say transfer if you know its not right…no one should tell you what to do, so do whats best for you. Luckily your parents are behind you..my parents are so disappointed in me for even thinking of transferring. I hate my life so much right now…but I know that this feeling cant last..To everyone else-we dont all have to go to uni..i think experience counts for a lot more than a degree in something your not passionate about…go against the grain. Dont follow the crowd. Be brave and different!!! Let me know how you get on A. And i’ll let you know what I do.
F, sorry to hear you’re in the same boat as me, it’s not an experience i would wish on anybody, particularly without the support of parents.
I did it! I went to my course leader and told her it straight and everyone was really nice about it, they even apologised that i hadn’t enjoyed the experience. I packed up everything in my room and now i’m sat at home with it all behind me.
I agonized over this decision for days, exhausting myself with worry so it’s not like i’ve taken it lightly, yet right now (for the moment anyway) i feel at ease. I’ve made my decision and i think it’s important to look to the future instead of going over this past month or so.
I think i was pretending to be someone i’m not. It all comes so fast after high school and i thought “right, i’ll go to this big city and do english and i’ll love it all, i’ll make loads of friends and recreate myself as this fabulous person!”. When in reality, i was being thrown in a flat with four strangers, forced to find my way around a city four times the size of my home town, and ontop of that try and focus on reading books and getting into a course. It’s not who i am, i’m a homebody, i love my family and friends who i’ve gained over many many years of trust and getting to know each other. I love my life here and i’m not ready to give that up quite yet, and why should i have to?! At the end of the day, i’m still getting a degree but at the same time i’m happy and mentally healthy.
I just have to face the people i said goodbye to and it might be hard trying to explain to them when they might be thinking i’m weak and failed to be independent by coming home. I’ve had soooo many people say to me “i think you should give it more time, i had such an amazing time at university, everybody finds it hard at first”. I’ll also miss my boyfriend more now i’m at home because i’m so used to jumping in the car and practically living over at his house, whereas now he’s in a different city at university. Yet i’m still going to see him the same amount as i would if i had stayed at the first university, so i’ll just need to keep myself busy and try to recreate myself a bit of a new life, whilst having some of the old comforts which i love so much
Sorry for the essay here. F- listen to what your heart is telling you. I know it sounds cliche but believe me, i’m one of the biggest worriers and thinkers i often tend to put others opinions and do what might be viewed as the best thing to do first. In this situation though it’s YOUR life and YOUR happiness. No-one elses. There is nothing wrong with knowing yourself so well that you can say “this isn’t for me and that’s fine.” Your parents probably just want the best for you, and hopefully if you transferred they would realise that the decision you’ve made is the right one.
At the end of first year we have to pick a major…by the end of my year they had cancelled the major I had gone there for. Now I’m stuck here doing the least sucky major I could choose from.
2 semesters a year, 4 units a semester, 3 assignments a unit…and then exams as well. I can’t do any more assignments I’ve burnt out. How are we expected to remember any information for future careers, everything is just about what needs to be done for the current assignment and then forgotten.
I end up doing my essays the morning of the day they’re due.I’ve lost any enthusiasm I had.
What’s interesting, Burnout, is that the damn fool I had the shouting match with spoke so little English I can’t see him ever writing an essay or getting through a viva …… yet he’s got a PhD and a research fellowship.
I know the payscales at this uni and RF salaries scales between 26k and 34k a year. That’s much more than any of us get paid.
The whole system stinks.
I have been at uni for 2 weeks now and absolutely hate it. My course said I would be qualified in different forensic jobs when in actual fact as soon as we arrived they did a presentation on all the jobs you weren’t qualified to do! I found out that the fact that they found everyone who has done the course a job afterwards is a lie as the course is only in its 3rd year and the people who left a similar one last year work for the co-op and various other shops full time. Its boring and pointless and I no longer know what to do with my life. I (thankfully) have flu so am missing this week and only live 45 mins away so am commuting but still have a room in halls that I hate. My parents say if its no good for me to leave but I feel like they are just saying that. They say leave and get a job but its like they are giving up on me. I am so stressed and sick of the arguing and feeling like everything is pointless. I always had my life planned out but now am stuck in this horrid situation. To make matters worse my best friend goes to the same uni and is in the room next door and expects me to love the course and spend all my time hanging around with her or waiting around for her to finish lectures. She won’t listen when I try and talk to her and thinks its pathetic I am commuting. So much for being my friend. Any suggestions would be fab.
So I started Uni in September, and honestly? I’ve never felt so shit. I can’t keep up with my coursework, it’s driving me insane, and I loathe it. I used to enjoy my subjects at school, now they’re dominating my life. Hard to enjoy German and Classics when they’re taking a dump on your life and ruining everything you ever enjoyed. I wonder how much a mcdonalds manager makes…
I, honest to god, hate university. I’m in my final year of – supposedly – the best business program/school in Canada and I just can’t wait to leave! Each year I was told it would get better, but in all honesty, it hasn’t – Every year has turned out to be the same complete and utter bullshit…
> Dumbass peers,
> Douchebag profs,
> Useless textbooks (which never seem to stop increasing in price),
> And an overall horrible curriculum where nothing is actually learned.
I often considered dropping out in my previous years, but given society’s expectations nowadays it was never really a viable option. University-designated education is “required” for practically every job – even mundane ones.
But the thing that gets me the most, particularly now being in my final year and seeking employment for after I graduate, is the fact that there is a general notion flowing around labor markets that “it’s not what you know, it’s who you know.” To me, this just seems totally wrong! Why go to university in the first place? Why toil with 4 years of physical, mental and emotional stress if in the end it’s not worth anything? Why does society place this enormous emphasis on attaining a university degree if it doesn’t actually help you attain future employment? More importantly, why do employers continue to require “university” and “good academic standings” if in the end they’re just going to select any dumbass who knows someone within their organization? It all just seems illogical.
(Side Note: Big ups to the person who started this site – nice to know there are others out there who feel the same way + an area to vent!)
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”, I keep saying to myself, while I keep falling deeper into this pit of silent hatred. For I have no tears left to despair and protest, for my voice got silenced by self-destruction and the dictator ego that keeps whispering I shall continue. Where am I actually going? And why? It feels like rotting on the inside, everything is growing cold. It feels like something is dying. Is this worth what I’m going to achieve if I decide to stay? Should I leave? I don’t know. The cold is making me numb. Is this really what I will become: a mindless zombie, simply consuming everything – be it information or simply complete bullshit – they throw at me? I want my soul back. Now.
At least I’m not taking any drugs yet, although the psychologist suggested that I should take something to calm me down. “A pill that makes you numb, a pill that makes you dumb… a pill that makes you – anybody else…” It’s always the individual’s fault when they’re angry about the system, am I right? The individual should adapt itself with mind-altering shit, the individual should accept everything if it (not he or she, for we are not people, but objects, simple slaves) wants to achieve something in this sick fuck society. For the system is oh so perfect and we should respect it. I hate it. Do I really have to kill myself, in one way or another, to get this done? I refuse to please society; I wanted this for myself, to help me live my dreams. Instead, they are being crushed. It feels like choking on what I cannot be.
The fact that I didn’t have time to learn for my tests and can’t concentrate is not helping. The first test is tomorrow. It’s been five weeks, and already I can say almost for sure that I’m going to fail the year. They can’t convince me that I’m dumb, I know that I’m not. Plus, I love what I’m learning… but the whole university stuff makes me wanna bathe in gore with a big grin on my bloody face. The depression is nearly gone, now rage and anger reign over me. Insanity will claim my mind, sooner or later; I can feel its preparations. I hear its march. I just hope that, when that moment comes, when it’s too late for me, I won’t be standing on the edge, ready to jump. Until then, I guess I have to… keep going and growing colder and colder.
I don’t yet know if I hate uni, but I feel for you all. If any of you are in London perhaps we could make our own anti-uni society where we don’t have to get pissed off our heads to have fun, where we can organise protests against the current system, and where everyone is welcomed and no one is excluded for the usual trivial reasons. I’ll check back here to see if anyone’s interested!
University has killed my passion. I’m doing a criminology degree. When I started my course I was so interested in all the injustice in the world. I wanted to learn about it and help change it. Now all I learn is whatever I need to know to get a reasonable mark in the exams. And then forget it after. I don’t care about the world anymore.
Maslow I am doing Criminology too and hate it!!! I had all good ideas about what jobs I want to do at the end of it but I am not sure I even want to study this any more let alone sppend the rest of my life doing it for a career!
I’m tired… i dont want to go back. The first year I went.. it scared me so much i left.. Now everyone is on my back. I hate it.. and im scared.. but everyone is talking shit about me
Flower, I feel exactly the same! I have to start applying for jobs by the middle of next year and I have no idea what to go for. I wish i would just know which job is for me.
Good luck at least you have stuck it out! I am 3 weeks in and am gonna quit next week. It was in the news that a criminology degree is less likely to get you a job in media studies! Worrying!
Sorry I meant you are more likely to get a job with a degree in media studies then criminology lol
I must admit, although nobody here seems to directly communicate with me, returning to this website is somewhat calming. I don’t really want to talk to other people about this anyway, I just need a place to put my mind before it engulfs itself into a bloody mess. Seeing how the experiences of other people make us feel less alone, I decided to post again. Because of that, and because I think I’ve finally got something to say which isn’t filled with so much anger and pain. So… yes, my uni couldn’t suck more. After yet another in the long row of sleepless nights, spent with my head over some books and only coffee keeping my eyes from closing, this morning I (probably) failed at writing a test (the results weren’t published yet, but I did pretty miserably). They expect you to be an expert in something they didn’t leave you time for to explore, understand and go through carefully. Still, I can’t help but feel relieved, for I have come to very enlightening realizations about what is important for me right now.
I have to say something about the uni itself – skip this if you don’t care about the more specific problems with the uni’s system; it really is long and boring, although it doesn’t nearly cover all the bad things. With the Bologna process started (I hope I spelled it right, English is my second foreign language, so I apologize for all my errors) and not being adapted at this uni as it should have been at all, but instead of making the students into “half-finished products”, letting only a small percentage of them continue after they get their Bachelor degree (which can’t get you a job you’d deserve with this kind of torture behind you, because you probably don’t posses enough knowledge for it), what you get in the end just isn’t worth all the suffering. I mean, you are about 20 years old when you get here (I’m 18 right now) and should give up everything you like to dedicate all your “free time” and ambition (there is no actual free time with this) to your field of work. Yes, ALL your time. Plus, we have tests every 4-5 weeks, in which we have to participate and even reach a certain score (number of points) at these tests, different practices, homework etc. in order to not repeat the whole year. All in all, it’s more than a shitload of work to get done in too little time. If we fail at a single subject in one semester, we have to repeat both semesters from that year. That takes away way too much time and no, it doesn’t really make sense. Plus, if we want to go past the Bachelor degree, we have to take a big ass test (15 subjects, if I remember correctly… oh, and of course if they haven’t changed that part… AGAIN!) and then we get ranked into a list; we get points for how short it took us to get through the 3 years (which is nearly impossible to do in 3 years because of the aforementioned you-fail-a-single-subject->you-unnecessarily-repeat-the-whole-year politics), and for our grades (which is also ridiculous because you get the grades based on some Gauss’s system; but I’m too tired to discuss this abomination right now). So only those highest on the list get to work their asses off to get a higher degree and thus most probably a better job.
They are very strict with all those rules; they want the students to compete with each other to motivate them into being better. Instead, most of them end up repeating some years 1-2 times, walking around like zombies, arguing about who’s better (elitist-ic bullshit, just makes them into concurrence for each other instead into friends and colleagues), losing their youth to the system and their nerves to unnecessary stress because they hope for a good job in the future. The uni actually succeeds in making them proud to be part of its tyranny over themselves, because all they’re going through makes them think they’re better than other people generally because of this. That’s well known to, for example, other students who have contact with them (including me). I am, of course, talking about the general situation, not every single individual.
With all that happening, I have decided that this simply isn’t how I’d like to live my life. I don’t care how hard some people think life is supposed to be for me if I can make it better for myself. Sounds selfish? Think about it. Your life is what is truly yours – nobody else’s. You should decide what to do with it, you should decide how you want to live it. And with my principles set as they are right now and no wish to change into what I don’t wish to be, I’ve decided to switch to a similar college next year. I wished I could do it earlier, but since my parents paid for me this year on the university, I feel it’s fair from me to try and do my best here this one year; then I can go somewhere else without having to say I gave up. But my best certainly isn’t me killing myself over everything I need to do, being nervous all the time and burning through my nerves at such a young age. So, yeah, I will basically waste a year of my life here without enjoying it because I have no other choice, but I must admit I actually regret nothing. The institute of technology (or polytechnic? I don’t really know all these terms… as I said, English is my 2nd foreign language) I wanna switch to isn’t as organized as this uni, nor is it as famous or elitist. It’s even, what most people say, harder to get a job with it. But those things certainly never meant much to me. It was many other people who thought I should crave for the highest education possible (later the highest position possible at work) because they saw I had most predispositions for it. Well, they were utterly wrong. Those things never mattered to me. I am an artist at heart. I wish to have a little time to express myself, for without being able to write, I am unable to function. It is simply what I need and what I don’t want to lose. Besides, this institute has many courses which its students can go to to get acknowledged certificates for different programming (I’ll do some computer science or whatsoever on my main course, so this programming will sure come in handy). Besides, nobody will just jump at you to offer you a job when you’re done with education. You have to prove yourself. The smartest employers will test your knowledge and skills, not the paper(s) you show them.
first year of uni, cannot stand it for the life of me, ok i understood i had to make new friends but my fucking class have basically came from the same school so they already know each other.
i have a part time job earning £7.50 an hour and to be honest i prefer that..
Can u make it through an art degree turning up twice a week? lol
Im so depressed. It’s my second year of uni, and i’m studying business. i’ve never been so unhappy, ugh the professors suck and i can’t be bothered to study anymore. what’s the point? i hate my major, the students in uni are stuck up rich idiots who look down their noses at you. i can’t wait for this semester to finish, i wanna go on damn holiday and get well away from everything. i’m even having nightmares about assignments and projects im supposed to do. i’ve been paired up with a twat to do a project, i dont no the twat and i dont want to. i’ve only made one close-ish friend and she isnt even in any of my classes. im alone with a bunch of twats and thats what my life has come to. im sooo stressed and no one understands they just say i had it worse than u. life’s a bitch, end of story.
I’m 2 months into my first year at university and I can’t fucking stand it. It’s no worse than high school but takes all my money so really it is. The people are terrible with their parent’s SUVs and macbooks. Meanwhile my running shoes are developing holes and have to be lucky to get on a library computer. That isn’t my problem though. I can’t endure the torture that is class and the assignments i receive there. It’s so fucking pointless. It’s the illusion of learning. It’s a scam for your money. But yet it’s necessary and will continue to be. I don’t understand why every course on my schedule requires an essay every month. Just to keep us busy? yes. some mofos actually think the busier they are more they learn. but not me…
it is 2nd yr here… dull. boring. well, i’m part-time though. lost my job, trying to find another one right now(( so expensive!!!!! mamma mia i’m freaking out!!!! thanks i didn’t take loan or anything (that’d be awful! just imagine: u’ve finished uni and now u have to pay for ur “education”). the thing that makes me nuts it’s that actually u can get that “desirable” BA in college as well(i’m in canada). i wasn’t really considering college in high school, parents wanted me in uni, teachers wanted me in uni. and somehow college thing was viewed as smth “not serious” and “for stupid ppl”. man, i feel myself so down.. i wish i went to college (not that expensive, more time for work, and most importantly more practical!). i wish i knew more about college BA.. anyways wt’s done that’s done. just don’t know what to do now. i can feel that slowly i’m becoming less energized, less excited about life, less patient and kind. i have about 3 more yrs to go… and i don’t know whether to stick to uni or drop out and start working full-time. i think i should understand what i want to do in life first. and only then go to uni or college. or should i go to school 1st and then start thinking about life. err just don’t know what to do. all my thinking revolves around “university is the most important thing!” fk so tired of everything already!!
1st year at University, near 1 month so far and I’m fed up and unhappy! I’m deaf and hard to make friend and difficult to do work! I got some new friends that is good part. But I’m really fed up and have not done some courseworks. One coursework – “7 deadly sins” deadline on this Friday and I haven’t start the coursework yet cos I’m too unhappy and don’t feel like to work hard! Also some time University waste my time! I don’t know what should I do?
And some projects are same to college from last year! College and University are SAME but only different in University are more works and less help! Im fucked up now!
I am in my fourth year at Leicester doing an ancient history and history degree, I am a mature student who a few years ago was a junky living on the streets. I fought so hard toget to university, just for a load of stuck up middle class brats make me feel insecure, and not good enough. And I tell you the mature students are just as bad as them. No one talks to me, just about me. Every time I am in the library this little bastard from my coarse will make some put down remark or give me evil stares. I t makes me feel so paranoid. I sometimes feel like going back to the street lad, and as they say going WMD ON HIS ARSE. Every day I feel more worthless, just sitting in the corner, trying not just to either go out and score a fuckin’ ten bag just to make me feel better, or to take a knife to my wrists, and end it all. I have never done anything to them and still I am looked down upon. Oh by way I have hid my past! If they knew it would be only another stick they would use to knock me down.
Yet another test tomorrow. Yet another depressing day. More and more things needed to get done, less and less ambitions to even try. I don’t even want to think about that my life is going to look like this for a whole year (then I’m switching). I know, some of you are going to have to live a similar torture for more than one year (I feel with you, it’s sad I don’t know how to offer help or advice when I’m miserable myself), but still, I feel like running away or committing suicide. Why? Because I hate all this without a passion – if I hated it with passion, I would rebel against it with success, not failure and self-hatred; it makes me hate myself and feel ashamed, wasted and ready for the grave. I want to rest. Nobody is taking me seriously when I talk about being miserable, so I decided to hide everything too negative, most probably until I just lose it. I wonder what the world is going to look like if I go crazy, I hope it won’t be worse than the current situation.
Human beings are starting to seriously freak me out, too. When I’m in a crowd, I just start thinking something like “humans… they’re fucking everywhere… make them go away!”, or want to scream out loud how much their presence alone disgusts me. I’ve almost started running when I heard some people from my university talk about some test, I just wanted to flee. Or if somebody accidentally touches me in a crowd, I almost jump or freak out on the inside. I’ve been a misanthrope for the last few years, but it was never this intense and strong.
Maybe I’ll see the psychologist tomorrow… or some other day, I don’t care; she wanted to see me again. Although, I doubt I’ll be telling her any of this. I can’t trust her, don’t want to be mocked by her fake smile again. Going to visit her was a giant mistake in the first place. Now I have to fake that I’m better just to shake her off, because I see where this is going and I’m not willing to go for it. No, I’m not desperate enough to accept pathetic attempts at mind-control and anti-depressives as help. I’d rather have madness take me.
If my Internet connection was working, I’d be looking for useful information about switching colleges (maybe I can switch after this one semester? I probably won’t survive the second if I have to stay here!), but no, it died. Again. Or I’d be looking for information about the test I have tomorrow. Anything. Instead, I’m sitting here, writing yet another chaotic rant and trying not to think about hurting myself. Self-mutilation was never an option for me, it’s just not what I do. But now I feel like… hurting someone, most probably myself. I want to see blood. A few weeks ago, I accidentally cut myself while shaving my legs under the shower and noticed all the blood on my heel when I was done. The next 15 minutes I spent silently laughing at it and admiring its pretty flow before I thought about stopping the bleeding and returning to my room. I was feeling happy about it, couldn’t help myself with the euphoria. Since then, I’m always very, very cautious ’cause I can’t allow it to happen again. What if I decide to make myself bleed some more? No, I can’t allow that.
Seeing that the cursed Internet connection is working again, I have to go now. Just hope nobody I know will ever see this, I won’t be able to stand their reactions. I bet they’ll be more upset about me not trusting them enough with my problems than about how I feel while writing this. At least I’ll have some irony right in front of me to laugh at. Heh, maybe I’m losing it already. But it makes no difference. It makes no difference…
Good luck, everyone… don’t kill yourselves, there are other options.
I hate this bullshit too! last year I did engineering, and very bad at that. Now I’m trying to switch into health sciences and everyones telling me to do something else and these FUCKING SECRETARIES who are worth fucking shit are ruining my life. I dont even know why i bother anymore I should just drop out and become a prostitute. I would have more self respect at that then swallowing my pride and trying to get these fuckers to help me out. FUCKERS!
I hate Uni! I have had a few years out trying my luck in the real world, where unfortunatley a piece of paper means everything. So i come to Uni knowing that things wont be easy, get a job pass my first year and still get generally looked down on by everyone! The people on my course have loads of money and no class! They are rude, arrogant and unfriendly to anyone slightly different from them. I hate this!!
this is balls.
everyone is either dull or tories or stupid.
so hating it here. my friends back home are all amazing and noone here is ever going to match up to them. also, they treat you like schoolchildren. seriously this makes no sense.
i’m more intelligent than this place and i need to quit before i lose all faith in humanity.
emocomments ftw.
also i hate the americans in my flat (bar two) they’re so immature and totally unlike the americans i know from before.
I’m so happy I’ve got like minded people here..Unis such a waste but it’s gotta be done..in my 3rd year of a 4 year course and I feel like it’s never gonna end so many fucking assignments and working my ass off 4 wot!!!ARGH!!..For the first time in my life I’ve never met such a bunch of idiots as I have at my uni..honestly, like where are the sane ones gone?!
University…… What a drain on my life. Motivation levels have never been so low. Every day i am thinking suicide might be my answer. The holy grail of a good University education may include a prestigious Institution, high employability chances. In college i was popular, i had loads of passionate friends, i always laughed, now i cannot even maintain a conversation…. without living in the past… I have made up my mind, I am quitting, using my saved funds with the rest of my grant and booking a flight to Australia… clear my head with the sun sea and sand… anyone with me?
i go to mac, i love my classes, but i dont feel connected to this school at all. i hate it, and i feel numb and shitty and like i want to cry all the time when i’m here, and i feel like im trapped for the next however many years, and ill never be able to pay off my school debts. i feel like im in a shitty teen movie where they all go to university and talk about stupid idiot things and im just out of the loop. i miss college.
i’m studying art foundation at uwic, and i absolutely hate it.
i have problems with depression which i overcame this year, but i can feel it coming back.
everybody is an arrogant dickwad. all the girls have long blonde hair, scarves and wear topshop.
the lecturers drone.
it’s so bloody uninspiring and restrictive, i look forward to going to my part time job which i love.
i no longer have a passion for art. just a hatred for the art world now i’ve seen what it’s like.
I can’t do any more assignments, it’s not physically possible. I have just one more to do this year (not including exams) but I just can’t do it. My body seriously won’t move to pick up a book or pen.
Three more weeks till holidays, just three weeks…
FUCK UNIvERSITY. LOl on this thread going since 2004. I moved away from home to meet new people after taking a few years off. Everyone is reminding me of how much i didn’t enjoy high school. I’m seriously considering just leaving after this semester is over, and moving to revelstoke or another mountain in BC. Give me a reason I shouldn’t.
hello im new at university, about two months in and i sure do hate it! All i ever hear is party party party and it gets old real quick, i enjoyed doing random things with my friends we didnt stick to this get smashed routine every weekend routine. Now the work here ahhh i hate the work! so much and im NOT INTERESTED! its such a waste of time i want to be a director and writer i dont care about making a masterpiece like ET i just want to express myself in something i can be proud of and not rotten tomatoes.com i feel like this place is a cage that holds me back! university does not represent intellect or success but rather obediance and plaguing your minds. im fed up with parties and with all the work, wheres the time where i get to be me?
sorry i just wanted to post again im sorry its just i wanted to say im happy to meet people who feel the same way about uni its really refreshing to see these comments everyone i try to reason with here just tries to convince me im foolish and that university is THE ONLY WAY to make it in the world. I want to grow and learn by doing, by simply existing in the world and meeting new people, these lectures and dry black and white classes just depress me to the max! I want to leave but im surrounded by expectations and pressures of my family and society itself, why do i live to please all these people i just want to do what makes me happy. im an artist at heart and i like to create and day dream all the time and ever since i got here my mind has become slightly numbed…as if im losing the will to dream like before, this place just doesnt seem right to me.
My final year thesis is due tomorrow, and it is about 70% finished. I am stuffed. I hate university, especially fourth year, it has been a complete waste of a year of my life. There is nothing that I know now that I didn’t know at the start of the year, except that thesii (I assume that’s the plural) are stupid, and lecturers are all jerks. No matter whether I fail or not, there is no way in hell I am every coming back to this place. Wish me luck.
Nearly finishing my first year. Gosh it’s so damn boring. They talk nonstop for 2 hours a week in the lectures and then at the end of the 15 week semester they expect us to know everything they said and they cram it in a big test.
Has this university crap made me addicted to my own misery? I just can’t seem to stop going to those damn lectures, although I already know that I’m switching next year and shouldn’t be wasting my time on letting them make me depressive and tired. Seriously, I just sit there trying to concentrate, and end up wanting to either hang myself or to run away, grab a book and start learning all that for real (they don’t teach you anything)! But when they’re over, I’m too tired to do any of this. If I don’t go there, the guilt is just too much; it makes me feel like a bad person while turning me into a bitter, lonely misanthrope who’ll scare everybody away without even trying. Not that I care about the last part; humans make me angry and tired most of the time anyways. Especially when they turn into all-knowing, superior beings when giving me some lame advice that nearly makes me feel like an idiot and lets me see how little they know. I wished I could be as well as I pretended to be in front of the psychologist. Now I’m worried that I’ve shaken off the only person actually willing to help me. She said I could come again if I need something, because we parted in a friendly atmosphere, but I won’t.
Maybe I’ll feel less useless when I finally get a lousy student’s job, and quit talking to people about any issues. They don’t listen, don’t care, just want to switch the subject to themselves and how great and special they are. Plus, nearly nobody believes me how miserable I’m doing. They think I’m just a pessimist and shake me off, because they’re used to my good grades from high school. I have to deal with extreme anger whenever I’m dealing with their ignorance and my own helplessness.
I’m even feeling miserable for doing things that usually make me happy. If it wasn’t
* If it wasn’t for my irrational (?) fear of death, I fear I’d be gone already.
Why can’t I stop torturing myself for making the mistake of coming here? Am I not “allowed” to be imperfect? Why can’t I just leave? I know I won’t be on this uni next year… why can’t I just stop wasting my time on it? There are great things to be done, I want to “grow as a person”, do something responsible or irresponsible if I wish to… not just keep rotting away. Why can’t I just yell at everyone and tell them to shut their fucking mouths and leave me be when they start trampling on my self-confidence? Why do I have to silence myself? Why can’t I do something productive, even when I’ve got the plans and the time? Why am I still wasting it on the uni crap? Why… I ask myself often why I just won’t end it. It’s killing me anyways.
I’m currently attending McGill University and i hate it. i hate it more than life. i don’t even know what to do with myself half the time. i can’t concentrate because i’m always thinking about how shitty this school is. For god’s sake it’s rank 1 for rare class discussions and 20 for least accessible teachers. And on the list of best and worst things for this university, the best includes irrelevant stuff like the name of a building, the fact that there are many bars. among the worst are factors that do matter such as profs, dorms, food, people etc… I really do hate this shit ass mother fucking place. the people….oh god all they think about is getting drunk. do they have nothing better to do?! can’t they just enjoy a friday where they don’t get shit faced?! can’t they just simply watch a movie and then after NOT GET DRUNK. these people are unbearable. and their shit ass techno music. i simply don’t get it, were they born without ears?! how can they listen to that crap. and on top of that they feel the need to blast it while others are studying, not giving a care in the world. just everything about this university. the city even. i wish they just spoke fucking english. how the hell am i supposed to know how to read directions in french?!?! I’m truly unhappy here and they say you can find some people who share the same opinion as you. but WHERE ARE THEY?!?! HOW CAN I FIND THEM?!!? god have mercy on my soul, I HATE MCGILL UNIVERSITY.
Silencer, I think you should have a good, long, eanrest talk with someone close to you, anyone….I know the feelings taht you’re experiencing, and its no fun but talking to poeoplem about it- people who really care about you, will make you feel a whole lot better than just venting here. I get it, Uni is horrible, but you have to find the strength wihtin yourself to realsie it for what it is, accept this and keep on going. You can e-mail me if you really need to talk xxxxxxx
OMG! I hate uni so much.
I started off doing primary teaching and arts… and i wanted to jump off a cliff. I started developing intense medical symptoms from stress.
I dropped out last sememster and now I am doing counselling.
I love the degree… but, HATE HATE the universtity system.
I am so over essays.
I haven’t been out in almost 2 months.
It is my birthday next weekend and I am not allowed to celebrate as I have 2 essays fucking due.
IT’S A FUCKING JOKE.
I AM SO ANNOYED.
Im so fucking thankful right now that there are people out there I can relate to – meaning you people.Fuck university, and all its pretentious faggots and bitches. And to my self loving lecturer jason hay; fuck you, your a shitty mathematician, stop trying to act like a teen you fucking old man. Glad I came across this page you are all my comrades. I am a part time bouncer at a shit casino and am considering doing this full time over this fucking pathetic excuse of an institution(uni). I have actually gotten dumber since I started. Is gotten even a word? Im not sure.
My brain’s fried
hey,
i posted a while back – its 3 weeks later and I want to let u guys know that you should hold on. I made a friend (: okay, I dnt like her that much, bt i know she wants to be my friend, and jst knowing that I have someone to talk to if i need to has made my life so much better. There are a couple of thousand people in uni, they can’t ALL be assholes. Think about it. Also, i got a tutor, and im slowly catching up on my work. i can almost imagine not failing this course. almost. but I feel much better. Give it 6 more weeks everyone, before you make a rash decision. Remember why you signed up in the first place. Try to keep happy, wallowing in self pity like i did gets you NOWHERE! I know its hard not to sometimes, but have a good think about what it actually gains you. Write a list of all the benefits of finishing uni, then a list of all the good things in your life. I know from experience that this really works. if you have problems, write down how to go about beating them. Trust me everyone, the best thing you can do about this situation is to force yourself to be happy, not give a shit about anyone else and only think positive. You’re in hell – so get on with it!
Good luck x
@ Mirriam: I think your time and energy would be wiser spent on somebody who won’t shake off all help attempts. I’m better now, I had a serious talk with some people – told them about the problem, but not how I feel. It’s better that way. Besides, you could be one of them, and I’m sorry but I can’t take the risk of letting any of them know… I just don’t trust people, especially not on the Internet. But a sincere “thank you very much” now goes your way for the offer.
Cheers.
Sometimes it takes bigger guts to win a battle against your own ego, society’s expectations and the sweet drug of being praised by other people for doing exactly what they want you to, than to stay in hell and march right through. Guess what, you are most likely a bigger demon to yourself than any outer influence. It’s how you deal with the outer manipulators; if you embrace them, you might be an even bigger demon to yourself. Why not change your life instead of forcing yourself into being a happy part of the tortured crowd? Once in a huge debt, on drugs to keep you functional (not sane, just functional), with this paper in your hands, poorly low self-esteem, enough desperate to take any job offered to pay back the debt… is the slavery really worth it? This is probably one of the worse cases; how likely is it that it’s gonna be you? Sure, I’m not and I’ll probably never be the right person to tell anybody this stuff because I have issues which show that my way ain’t the greatest, but I still feel like at least I won’t lose myself to something I despise. Getting help is good, maybe you can make it through university without losing your mind and all that you like (that’s what I want at this other college, although I’ll sure be working my ass off). Maybe you can’t. If so, it doesn’t make you any less of a person, it doesn’t mean you aren’t capable of anything, it doesn’t mean you aren’t smart. It only proves that uni isn’t for you. That’s not always a bad thing. There are other, more human ways to educate yourself and get a good job. You can ask yourself about what you want with your life, set priorities with things that make your life fulfilled, write “for”s and “against”s about the situation you’re currently in, get informed about all the other options open to you and about the consequences to every one of them, etc. You can think about all this. Do it, then decide what you’re gonna do – you’re a grown up now, it’s your responsibility. Don’t let me, nor anybody, tell you what to do and stop you from living your dreams. It’s your life.
Well, that’s it – I’ve had enough. I didn’t enjoy uni from day one, but I decided to give it a chance and stick with it for a month or so, but it’s clear to me now that it’s just not for me.
I’ve had trouble making friends as, although everyone is really nice, I don’t seem to have a lot in common with them and often feel very out-of-place.
However, my main issue is with the course. It’s not at all like I thought it would be – instead of fun and interesting it’s boring and tedious; much more academic and intellectual as opposed to practical and creative.
That said, I can’t blame the course entirely – I have to take some responsibility myself. I have no motivation to do any work, and I feel completely apathetic about the whole thing – I just don’t care.
What is a degree, anyway? A piece of paper? All it shows is that you’re good at writing essays and sitting exams, neither of which will be particularly useful in a work environment. I just don’t see the point in spending three years doing something I hate and getting into thousands of pounds of debt for it.
So yeah, I’m out.
I have read most comments here and agree that UNI life does suck, I am a 1st year and I absouletly hate going to my classes. I am doing alright but in one of my classes I haven’t handed in almost any of my assignments and I even recieved a e-mail from my professor for it. I just want to know when will I ever use half this garbage in my life?? I mean who cares what some guy did back in the 1800’s (sure it’s intresting but what’s it’s importance to me?) Also I do enjoy it to a certain point, I mean I love having all my friends and partying with them but I can’t focus in my classes and I always leave everything to the last minute. I also think of it like this: I know so many people who have gone to UNI and they work at the same place I do, so how is it that they say you will get a better job by going to UNI if these people are working at the same place that a 18 year old works at?? I feel like dropping out someitmes but I know that my dad woulf never look at me or talk to me again, even though he never went to UNI he belives that it makes a person out of you. Originally I wanted to go to college but he said if I did that he wouldn’t look or talk to me again. Now that I am at UNI he is so proud but what he doesn’t kno is how much I hate it and want to drop out.
i hate uni, i hate my country really i do… i wish i was in u.s
I fucking hate uni too. Im 25 and in my final year studying law and too be honest I fucking hate it. I hate the lecturers, I hate the fact that that most of the time whether you pass or fail is determined by your final exams! Its all unpractical regurgitation 90% of which we will forget and not use! And the lecturers, superiority complex’s much? For fuck sake, your a lecturer not God, get the fuck over yourself! And the people, youd think law = high standards, morally correct people – haha! I havent met a bunch of more boring and inadequete and just plain dodgy bunch of rejects in my life. Please note that I am referring to the majority – of course there are some really nice people and some good lecturere but they are 1 in a million – literally and so many are focused on getting A’s like that is all there is too life! I manage B and B+ and the occasional A, but shit Im happy with B’s, people are always like “oh thats ok” like a b’s bad!!! Sick of uni and sick of uni life – hate being poor, hate the binge drinkers, hate the lecturers, hate how it doesnt prepare you practically for life! I gotta finish it though, im so close…2 papers and I have my degree – still dont know if it was worth it though.
cheers people, needed to vent andput my thoughts forward.
I am going through a huge amount of doubt about University after receiving a 24% on my midterm in Art History.
I can’t sleep, I feel nauseous and I personally hate everything I am forced to read and write.
I am smart, graduated top 5% of my year, and I am in my third year at my school, receiving nothing below 70% in all of my time here, but it all seems so pointless. It makes me sick to think that my parents are paying for Proffesors who are working solely to provide money to fund their exterior projects, and brag about themselves to a class full of students who are over-eager, preppy, and full of themselves.
I don’t fit it.
I’m good at school, but I hate it.
I want to drop out, move to be with my boyfriend, get a real job already, and live my life…
University hasn’t offered me friendships (maybe one or 2), it hasn’t made me appreciate that academics, but it has made me realize that everyone who is here, besides people studying medicine, are doing this because they have to, because they will get a job, and because their parents want them too.
I have a life outside of school, and I don’t want to focus or spend anymore time on stuff I can’t stand.
And I was number 666 —- Eerie
I hate university.
I hate the lecturers.
I hate my personal advisor.
I hate the fact that everyone is so anti-social, unless alcohol is involved.
I hate the shitty accomodation.
I hate having a shower with retards.
I hate racist housemates.
I hate that at university I have seen the most amount of money that I have ever seen in my life, leave my bank account and fall into the hands of the university.
I hate lecturers who don’t speak loudly.
I hate library fines.
I hate the lack of diversity.
I hate my bedroom and the cold tap water.
I hate that I have developed plaque on my teeth because the water is too cold to brush my teeth.
I hate people who drink my milk.
I hate that I achieved excellent grades all throughout my life, then came to university and hated it, despite the fact that I worked all my life to get to that point.
I hate the fact that I am 19 and beautiful and wasting away in this place.
I hate studying law.
I hate being asked ‘deep philosophical’ questions that I have already answered at age 16.
I hate the fact that I am broke and had to steal money from my beautiful mother to pay for things at university.
I hate the fact that if I get a job, I will probably like the part-time job more than university and fail and quit university.
I hate the fact that all my friends love their universities.
I hate the fact that I have to pay for everything, such as printing credits, photocopying etc.
I hate the fact that I can’t draw here because there are no life drawing classes.
I hate the University of York, UK. Particularly the Law department.
The number one thing I hate is the fucking people u meet. im doing maths, i dont mind it coz i dont get much coursework, but there are times when i wanna wanna piss on the lecturers coz they give so much of it. i had to do 6 pieces of coursework all due in next week. i went up to one lecturer for some hints and he said i dont like students coming up to me. i wanted to rip his geeky oily stupid hairstyle off his fucking unhelpful arrogant head. and one mother fucker in my second year told me that the lecterer said we didnt need to know a certain section for the exam. i thought hes was a good friend But SURPRISE that whole section was tested and i usually average 75% and i got 50% just because “my so called stupid cut throat basterd of a friend” lied. How do i know? he got 74% and it was supposed to be the easiest of the 12 modules i do. this is only one of the dumbest mother fuckers iv met. There are so many like these stupid pieces of shits walking around.
People that often enjoy uni are the ones that have fixed routine what they do is drink alcohol as soon as they become sober and they enjoy uni coz they cant fuckin REMEMBER what happened!!!!!!!!!
I’m studying biomedical science, and I am averaging over 70% for all my coursework which includes lab reports and essays… I get loads of them throughout the year and when it comes to the exams we get 20 odd pieces of coursework deadlines all set and expected to be handed in one month…. da deadlines are right up to date of the first exam and after we are give 1 day between all my exams…. wat da fuck???…. are dese fuckin lecturers stupid or retarted….. Probably fuckin both!! So surprise surprise I get 40 to 50% in my exams which I had 1 day 2 revise for!!!!! We get set 150 pages of information…. not just standard info like a BA in History or sum shit like dat… but MEDICAL PHYSIOLOGY, BIOCHEMISTRY AND PATHOBIOLOGY ETCC… HARD SHIT…. n get swamped with coursework right up to my fuckin exams… which I work my ass off for… bt my exams brings my average down to a high 2.2…. Which is looked down upon FUCKING IDIOTS DOING most of which are doing easy ass ARTS degrees who thing getting a 2.2 is easy… FUCK U LOT!!!! My fuckin third is higher dan most of your fuckin 1st class degrees!!! N dats a FACT!!!!!
Not only dat I got “Mates” who want to help people and make da world a better place by applying for postgraduate Medicine and become doctors. shut da fuck up!!! You guys are doing it for da fuckin money!!!!! Dey don’t help you wid work….hide fuckin textbooks in da library so u cnt get a textbook LIKE FUCKIN LOSERS, lie to yr face everyday, I help dem out but wen it comes to helping me out dey chat fuckin shit like “go n read dis or dat up”…..FUCKIN HYPOCRITES!!!! And these people want 2 be da doctors of 2marow!!!! Fuckin dicks!!!!
I hate university so much!
I hate my course, it is making me so depressed, i keep telling everyone i dont want to be there but all they say is..
You cant give up now.
WHY NOT!?
I hate it, im angry, stressed, depressed and getting into debt not to mention i feel like a completly different person because of all this, everytime i think of the place i want to cry!
But I dont no what else i can do? i dont want to have no future and no money for the rest of my life!!
uni sucks!
where do i start with all the crap that comes with it.
firstly the course, im doing law and they give u so much reading that you don’t have time to do anything else LITERALLY!
The people are TOTAL TWATS…everyone on the course are so full of themselves thinking their gonna become big shot barristers even though their getting 3rds! thick retards, keep dreaming!
now on to even more retards-the people who come to lectures so that they can send txt messages the whole time or chat on the phone so you can’t hear a word of what’s being said.
On top of that u can’t hear because the socially disfunctional lecturer at the front whispers the lectures! And they have there heads so far stuck up their asses that it comes out of their mouth!
then the stupid fucked up rich kids who have daddy whose already a solicitor so they can walk into the profession even though they are illiterate pieces of shits!
as for paying for printing (ARE THEY SERIOUSLY KIDDING ME?!) we pay 3,000 a year and they can’t afford to give us free printing,FAGGOTS!
Then theres EVERYONE who absolutely dies for clubbing and havent got bored of it yet even though they’ve dun it since they were 15, seriously GET OVER IT U LOSERS!
the whole system is designed so the government can get regular money from us and charge us interest so they can get back more as well as charging us normal tax on our wages once we start earning properly- in effect they are taking tax from us TWICE!
FUCKED UP!!!!!!!!!
I’m not gonna be a nasty judgmental person aka REAL, but I am gonna be honest. I’m in 2nd year at uni, and yeah sometimes I hate my course and university life just like everyone else. I’ve not got proper friends at uni but have plenty of non-uni friends and a wonderful non-uni boyfriend who I live with, which helps I suppose. I do agree with those that say if you hate it so much it’s making you ill and depressed then just leave; don’t continue dragging it out. On the same token, if you are there and think the ’system’ is a pile of shit, then just leave, nobody is forcing you. Forget about what your parents, your parents parents, your parents best friends and the next door neighbors think – it’s completely irrelevant to your health, happiness and wellbeing, not to mention the course of your life. For me, I suffer from various mental health problems etc, and I do struggle often at uni. But the joy that getting a brilliant grade provides me with and the fact that I actually love the academic side of my course makes up for it when I put it in perspective. Even if I never get a job related to my degree after graduation, I won’t regret doing it. money isn’t my main reason for being their. I love learning and expanding my mind and I think uni is a life lesson. Anyway, I hope you all find some peace of mind and decide to do what is best for you. Cheers.
I try to appease the lecturers and respect them only to find they cannot help.
As students you generally come to realise the lecturers need help themselves; the reason why they are so withdrawn in helping students.
Yet when you attempt to offer this they are the most defensive people I have ever known. They have drawn a line between the teacher-student and they limit themselves to this relationship.
I am not looking forwards to crossing this line, although I will as I need to. I tend to get aggressive (albeit this did work the first and only time I tried), so has anyone else succeeded in changing a tutors attitude towards them to an equal standing and to be treated like ‘one of them,’ like friends? If so how?
It’s 5 a.m. around here. I had planed to do some work tonight, but it seems I’m nearly asleep, watching the time pass by as I cannot longer concentrate on the work that is due today. If I go to sleep, I’m sure I’ll oversleep – an hour just isn’t enough. My head hurts, but I’m still awake, asking myself the same existential questions about the cursed ego, the damn urge to please people’s expectations, the money I’m wasting here etc. The most important one, though, is “What am I going to do now?” I’d like to get the earliest train home and ditch today’s lectures and everything else, but I’m afraid my parents will be disappointed and worried about me. It just makes too little sense even for a person who’s accepted life as pointless without losing interest in its beauty. Because, by everything I deem holy, I am not sure why I keep doing this. Learning for myself is way more joyful than learning to be asked about it and then to forget because of all the stress. Maybe it’s the shame that I feel for “not giving my best”, but I’m not sure if I can admit that to myself – my ideals tell me that there is actually nothing to be ashamed of, but nonetheless I judge myself harder than I judge other people. Now I’ve been doing stuff for myself and will certainly fail at what I’ve got to do today at the uni. I think I just won’t go there, they’ll send me away anyways because I won’t have the preparation finished until noon. I don’t know why I still haven’t accepted the relief and instead keep killing the little amount of nerves I’ve got left these days. The depression is back, but it is not the enemy. The hate leaves me enraged and mad, but helpless and silent. I’m tired of wasting time on the uni because of some stupid ambitions I can’t stand anymore. Some people told me to stop worrying, to enjoy my life more, and they’re right. But the same people kept telling me to do my best. Now I keep struggling between “giving my best” – which tosses me back to the sad zombie state of constant information-sucking, a lot of stress, angst, severe depression and daily thoughts of suicide – and “giving up uni to learn for myself and live” – which leaves me with shame for the disappointment, more money worries, the feeling of being useless and therefore worthless. If I knew what to do, I wouldn’t listen to those people (although I’m sure they just want the best for me, but they keep making paradoxes because they’re more confused than me), but I don’t know what would be the right thing… I’m too tired, too confused, too sick of those decisions.
I hate to see my life like this, but there’s nothing I can really do right now… I think I’ll just go there to waste some more time on nothing. Not that it’ll make me feel better, but at least I won’t feel worse for not going. Heh… the joy of misery and suffering… it really is a cruel drug.
God this place sucks. i hate the lectures, i hate the city, i hate the country. i wish i was in australia. I’m down to do engineering, and if you think that your lectures are boring, we have had some on cement, two hours on cement aarrgghh. I dont drink which means that everyone hates me as drinking is the only past time anyone here seems to enjoy. sports no, tv no , drinking fuck yeah. i fall alseep at like 1 and am then woken up at like 4 by them coming back every night . for fucks sake they have lectures that morning. i even do shit in lectures, was never brilliant at school but was ok, here i just dont have the motivation to bother (slowly stopping going)
i hate the fact that our accommodation means that i cant cook myself a decent meal and have to go out to eat well.
anyone from Australia (or NZ) know if the police are recruiting. fuck this place, 2 months of uni has killed my desire to work here (that and the lisbon treaty).
Man I feel your pain seriously I want to rant to I could go on the whole day and night. I turned to drinking seemed to give me temporary happiness till that put me in hospital now I cant drink or else I gotta get some new friggin organs! Im in my SECOND YEAR!!!! 3 MORE YEARS TO GO!! COMPUTER SCIENCE FRIGGIN GAY !! and if anybody knows how to make minesweeper in c sharp holla coz i cant friggin do it i hate it. I cant say I hate the people there are some nice people they are all very happy but pisses me off as I wonder what are they all so happy about! I JUST WANT TO DRINK DRINK DRINK till my uni life is over!
And to that chick up there talkin about hang in the or just leave its more than past ure parents ure parents want you there becuase it gives you a bigger guarantee of a job with reel prospects bal bla so u cant leave! DEBT makes me wana hijack the uni vault and the lectures make gay jokes all day liek programming is funny! IT AINT A JOKE GET ON WITH IT!
On the flipside you gotta look at the end of the road instead of the path coz ull jus screw up ur life! and for all those moanin wile they r twrds deir last year screw u coz u nearly dun wa r u cryign baout
p.s grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr i wishi i was back in school were i cud laff all day and study da night before and come out with an a or b
urgh i decided to go on exchange for 6 months to the other side of the world. its been hell. uni is not what i expected and i can’t do the work. i have to write a thesis i dont understand, ive been homesick for months and i hate the place i live in. i hate uni so much right now. just 3 weeks to persevere then i’m outa here…for a month before it starts back home again. at least i’ll be at home.
wrote one of these in feb and starting looking at this website again since i got back in september. I’m in my 3rd and last year of an environmental science degree but i’m still thinking of dropping out a lot. I already got the DipHE you get after 2 years and that would have been a good time to quit but because of the recession i thought it would be best to carry on. I realsied within a week of getting here that i was wrong. Yeah, i’ve made friends and there have been some good times but i can’t help but feel it’s too little too late. I don’t have enough keeping me here and i get bored which leads to depression which leads to me going on blogs like this instead of doing coursework which i always leave till the last minute.
Some people have posted comments like, “you should put your energy into doing the work and you’d be happiuer” but its hard to get the mind to focus on something that im not into. I am interested in the environment but i don’t want to read ridiculously specific journal articles that take ages to get thru and then regurgetate them for an essay with references every time. I just don’t see the fun side of university at all. I feel lazy for always putting the coursework off but really i’m just not academically intelligent. I’m not saying manual labour is all i’m good for but i just hate sitting in the room or library all day. I like to daydream and i can’t do that when i’m forced to think about bacteria or whatever all the time.
And silencer, i know how you feel or i think i do. You should do what you can to relieve the pressure. If thsat means dropping out then so be it. Don’t worry about what others think. Like you said, they are more likely to be offended that you don’t want to be like them or go to their institution than actually give a fuck about your wellbeing.
Just when I thought it couldn’t get any worse theres a lecture on factory production line maintenance procedures in the 1940’s…..so over this.
i like ure end bit eddy , me too man i like doing things hands on i hate reading but u gimme a computer w.e da problem is il fix it. but this whole idea of having to write essays about ict legislation is bull crap. I love day dreaming and practical work aced hi skwl but uni seems to b a big no no in my second year doin engineering systems.
dese guys r so desperately tryin to fit in spend 8 hrs putin hair gel in for ONE friggin hour of the day ina flipin lesson so desperate to b noticed! for WHAT only to go out and pretend you are someone who u aint? then go hoem and realise your life is empty past the the beers and the make up! why not just go to a fashion school were u can sit there wid air heads and talk about hair n make up coz fags lyk u r da reason y i hate university and well da fact da universty is dressed up to b da tym ov ur lyf during induction but inda END NO ONE CARE GRRRRRRRRRRRRR I JUST WANT TO GET AWAY I THINK I SHOULD GET A JOB SAVE UP ALL MY MONEY FOR A YEAR AND BUY 20K LOTTO TICKETS ONE OF SHUD BA WINNER AND DISAPPEAR AFTER I PISS ON MY UNIVERSITYS SERVERS1 ps if my tutor reads this ure too sexy for me to hate you so il take you with me lol
we shud jus have our own island were we dont know what the words worry and stress mean
Fucking university is bullshit…I’m doing pretty well but I hate it so much…can’t wait for this semester to end…I don’t want to go back…I’d rather be a bum on Skid Row and smoke crack all day.
i just don’t want to be here. whenever i think maybe life is getting better, it goes ten times worse.my family/mates from home don’t want to hear about it, as they think i’m being a drama queen and just being lazy. I have so much work to do, I used to get drunk every night with randomers from my halls and do stupid things for attention, but they are all just nasty people who now avoid me so i stopped..deciding to focus on studying, but i keep getting crap marks, so what’s the point. i was thinking i missed my life before, but then realised i’ve basically never been happy, so of course i’d fuck uni up.
I hate it so much, it keeps me up at night. Literally.
Uni is the best thing that ever happened to me, met my boyfriend here, great housemates, good grades despite a distinct lack of effort… it makes me so sad to see that there are so many people not enjoying it =( however ‘life is what you make it’
I am i my third year of uni and I hate it. I want to drop out SO much but don’t want to disappoint my parents and have wasted 2 years of my life and so much money. To be honest I don’t think I was ready to come straight from school. I came to uni very depressed and unsure of myself, actually quite suicidal. Anyone who is suicidal should NOT go to uni especially if they have a problem with alcohol, which I have!!! Lived in halls in first year and got drunk 4 or 5 times a week on average. Barely went to lectures, they made no sense to me. I and others around me rapidly developed a dangerous relationship with alcohol, so much of the things I have seen and done in uni related to alcohol are just appalling but this is the way of life people think it’s normal. Not much better when I moved into a house in seond year, didn’t get drunk so much but had to do loads of work, going out less realised most of my friends were only there for nights out, made hardly any real friendships and feel so alone. I HATE MY COURSE SO MUCH. I am doing english and it is the most pretentious piece of bullsh**t ever, so different to how it was in school. They way people talk in seminars makes me want to scream and tear my hair out, I can’t bear the endless scrutiny and analysis of the most minor details of every text, everything is always about gender, racism, social staus blablabla I thought I was doin english not politics!!!!??? I always did well in school without really tying got three A’s and thought I would do fairly well in uni but now I am doing so badly, I know it’s my fault as well because I make minimal effort but there is a ridiculous amount of work to do and I can’t stand the stress. I am trying to clean up my act at the moment and just plough on but it’s so hard, i will get a 2.2 at best and dread to think how I am going to get a job. I just want to get drunk and stoned and forget it all. Yeah that’s another thing, I got stoned like ALL the time last year it’s just too easy! Don’t know how do destress without weed or alcohol :c(. Also not great mates with my housemates, one is the most selfish inconsiderate person ever, two are nice but we’re not very close, the other two are my only friends in uni but we get on each others nerves living together all the time. I want to have other friends but it seems like too much effort. People on my course are so arrogant. I hate it. I hate it so much.
I am i my third year of uni and I hate it. I want to drop out SO much but don’t want to disappoint my parents and have wasted 2 years of my life and so much money. To be honest I don’t think I was ready to come straight from school. I came to uni very depressed and unsure of myself, actually quite suicidal. Anyone who is suicidal should NOT go to uni especially if they have a problem with alcohol, which I have!!! Lived in halls in first year and got drunk 4 or 5 times a week on average. Barely went to lectures, they made no sense to me. I and others around me rapidly developed a dangerous relationship with alcohol, so much of the things I have seen and done in uni related to alcohol are just appalling but this is the way of life people think it’s normal. Not much better when I moved into a house in seond year, didn’t get drunk so much but had to do loads of work, going out less realised most of my friends were only there for nights out, made hardly any real friendships and feel so alone. I HATE MY COURSE SO MUCH. I am doing english and it is the most pretentious piece of bullsh**t ever, so different to how it was in school. They way people talk in seminars makes me want to scream and tear my hair out, I can’t bear the endless scrutiny and analysis of the most minor details of every text, everything is always about gender, racism, social staus blablabla I thought I was doin english not politics!!!!??? I always did well in school without really tying got three A’s and thought I would do fairly well in uni but now I am doing so badly, I know it’s my fault as well because I make minimal effort but there is a ridiculous amount of work to do and I can’t stand the stress. I am trying to clean up my act at the moment and just plough on but it’s so hard, i will get a 2.2 at best and dread to think how I am going to get a job. I just want to get drunk and stoned and forget it all. Yeah that’s another thing,
Rachy im not sure you really understand. Life is how you make it, but I went to uni all keen and excited and was severly disapointed. I have tried to be friendly and sociable, only to find that people just don’t want to be friends. They’ll chat in lectures if you make them, but at the end they’ll walk off without a word and blank you the next day. I managed to make friends with sum guys, only they ditched me too because I intend to stay faithful to my boyfriend. I tried to join clubs, but they all meet at around 9pm, and as I live over an hour away thats just too late to get the last bus home after, plus it means that as I finish uni at 5, I have to find something to do for the next four hours. Theres only so much you can do before you feel hopeless. Not everyone is as lucky as you I’m afraid.
Donna: Totally agree. Life is what you make it, but people always forget that luck has a role in it too. You can put in all the effort you like, but if you have bad luck and don’t meet the right people or aren’t in the right situations at the right times, things just get crappy anyway. And in those cases, you can’t really say it’s cos you haven’t tried hard enough to make things happen. It’s more like you tried, but you just end up disappointed. Eventually, after several times of being let down, you just don’t feel like trying anymore.
I was just going to adapt to doing (mostly useful things) what I like, get a little job, learn for myself, ignore the uni to avoid worsening the depression, and almost started writing my stories again… but I guess that was too good to happen for me. Because, no matter that this year already is and still is going to be a wasted one when it’s over, I have to learn, do assignments, go to lectures, write tests etc. Why the hell…? Well, I have to reach enough ects points in order to get a place in a dorm next year. Screw that, I say – I know a lot of people who didn’t get a place although they were doing very well at their universities. But if I don’t work my ass off for that now that I know this, I can go right ahead and kill myself, because the guilt and money worries are going to eat me alive…
How does one learn when he/she is desperate and depressed? I had about 8 hours of sleep last night and feel more tired and worse than the times I got none at all, but can’t sleep now because I’m too nervous. Some students around here were just too drunk, selfish and loud to give anybody enough peace to rest. Hurray! I mean, some of us stayed here for the weekend to learn for fuck’s sake! The people of tomorrow are being a bunch of drunk idiots. I was thinking about it as maybe a good way to relieve stress, but it seems more stupid and self-destructive than cutting yourself… I’m not willing to go for either one of these methods, I’ll try something more productive later.
I’m also sick and tired of people telling me to cheer up (or to try some kind of happy-pills), to give my best for that shit no matter if I fail (alias work my ass off for nothing while I could be doing more useful things… I mean, come on, do I really need more frustration? Gee, thanks, you’re being very supportive…), to just stick through it (too bad it makes me want to kill myself or somebody else, but yeah, I certainly should try just sucking everything up until I finally fucking snap and explode – not that it’s a bad thing, but hey, one has to try, right?), to think about how things could be worse (so, I should cheer up by imagining something depressive?) and so on, and so on… There’s been nearly nothing useful in them thinking to know everything. I should really stop talking to people who are “trying to help”…
Now I fear I’m stuck running away from everything.
You know, it’s kind of ironic that there are so many of us out there who hate uni, but we’ll probably never meet one another. I mean, we all hate uni, so it would probably be cool if we were to all somehow meet – then we could talk about our problems and at least WE would understand each other coz we’re all going through the same shit. Whereas other people don’t get us and just tell us to snap out of it or get over it or be happy. So we’re all stuck in the same boat…but we’re all alone in this because we can’t find each other. Ah well. Life’s like that I guess.
University suks dik! It is full of people who have had bed times and finaly gain freedom at University, drinking, staying up past 10 and having no one to answer too is all new to these individuals they just lose it.
The work set is obscure and pointless!
Does it have any relevance to the working world at all!
Uni is shit but for all those who think about dropping out just soldier through its worth it in the end.
Fuck friends
Fuck happiness
Just sell your soul for 3 years!
694.Evie wrote::
You know, it’s kind of ironic that there are so many of us out there who hate uni, but we’ll probably never meet one another. I mean, we all hate uni, so it would probably be cool if we were to all somehow meet – then we could talk about our problems and at least WE would understand each other coz we’re all going through the same shit.
I completely agree. I guess everyone, in addition to writing about how you hate university, can state which university they go to. This way, if 2 or more people are in the same uni, then they can connect.
Does anyone go to York University in Toronto? If so, email me at seanmccan@hotmail.com
Hope to hear from you!
People, post the university you go to and your email addresses so all the university-hating people can connect with one another!
i type in ‘i hate university’ and find this page.
i blame the dissapointment and depression on the hype you get as a kid about it. and how you’ll go nowhere without it.
i sincerely hope i’m not wasting three years of my life here. Ive plenty of friends and can get ok grades when i try but nothing seems like real life.
i hate myself for not enjoying it like others are and that self-hate makes me tired and depressed and ashamed at myself for worrying about this shit when there are starving children across the globe.
institutional education has created something horrible inside of me which i’l continue to hunt until i die it seems like.
best part is, i’l go and deliver some shitty work to a tutor tomorrow like everybody else on this page. Heck i’ve payed £3000s to.
University of Reading, UK, sucking balls since 1870.
seeya!
Loathing Brunel Uni…with a passion.
So stressed out about work I cried today…can’t believe this bullshits got me worried while I’ve got a dying nan I couldnt visit cos of deadlines. I. Hate. University.
Not gonna go out and get drunk every nite like others,as its utterly pointless.like honestly, get a grip u ppl have no life..
if u join a pointless club or society ur grades suffer. if u do ur work u have no social life. lose lose situation really.
I’m glad I only have to spend another year with these douches. If any of them come up to me at graduation and give me some bullshit about missing me or wishing me luck for the future I’ll stab them in the fucking throat.
In my second year at uni in the north of the UK. I have not met one person here who has inspired me in the slightest. I used to like my group of friends but now I can hardly stand any of them (and I don’t trust the ones I’m ‘closest’ to). Everyone else is a clone. When I go out, I have to be totally wasted or else the point of life disappears behind the vacant, stupid, sweaty faces of the hundreds of drunken idiots that ram themselves into a tiny room to dance to the same music they heard last night, and the night before, and the night before etc etc for the last, say, 3 years?
Uni has unraveled my idea of who I am, has emptied me of my creativity and intellectual curiosity and has taught me how cruel, indifferent, insensitive, narrow-minded and snobby people can be. I hope these are flaws just of the sub-sect that comes to this specific place and not the entire human race- but I’m not too hopeful.
I find it laughable that the students here refer to the town as the ‘bubble’ affectionately… I find it f*cking suffocating.
In five years I hope I don’t know any of these people.
Ive been looking at this site for quite some time now, but never commented myself. there really is a lot of hype about what to expect from university life, but in reality, its a life changing and very difficult, lonely experience. im a ‘mature’ student, apparently, at the age of 23… the other students in my class refer to me as old! as much as i do hate going to university i really do urge people to stick it out. its only three years of ur life and the term time isnt constant throughtout. i personally have worked very hard to get into university and look forward to the respect i will gain from getting my degree. i have worked in horrible, soul destroying jobs that most people on my course would never even dream about, but thats what makes me feel that little bit more proud to be where i am today. Ive had nothing given to me in my life, n i wouldnt change that for the world cuz ive got my head screwed on because of it. Its seems quite obvious to me that most ppl who view this site are failing to connect with ppl on their course and this is whats causing so much anxiety (as is with me!) I try to see the people on my course as naive, and its not their fault… as given the right upbringing, i could quite easily have turned out just the same. anyways, i hope my comments bring a little comfort to some people, and hang on in there as all will turn out fine im sure
thank you for writing this.
Waster. How are students naive?
Jam, most students who go to university are 18 and have only known life at school and not the working world. Inevitably, they are going to be naive as they do not realise whats important in life nor do they know how horrible sme jobs can be without qualifications. Im not trying to preach (I called myself Waster for goodness sake lol) but I just notice that a lot of ppl are irritated by the other students lack of maturity and open-mindedness and are losing heart because of it. If students think by quitting their course they will be any happier then im sorry to say that in my experience… no they wont. Instead of in a couple of years time they have a degree, they will have worked in a crap job and been treated as such by other work mates due to their young age and inexperience.
I hated university. When I was at nottingham trent. But now ive changed to coventry I love it!! if your not happy dont make a website and moan about it. Says a lot about you. Instead of moping do something about it!
I am 2nd year and hate uni so much too. In my first year I will admit to start with I found it great, but as the terms went on, it got worse and worse.
Now, this year, I’m so unhappy and depressed. None of my friends back home really understand as they all are totally enjoying their university life and moving on in the world. The worst bit for me is that I’m now trying to live in the past, remembering my good times during 6th form and knowing that as the years pass, my old friends will become more distant, and my uni “friends” are nothing more than a convience…
I feel so isolated and alone.
I hate uni as well. I’m a part tinme student on a Bsc Hons in Building Surveying. So far I have learnt very little that I can use in my job. I already work in my chosen profession as a building surveyor however I need a paper qualification to back my experience up.
I have found with being part time the lecturers are scared of you because they know your building knowledge is more up to date than theirs. They also are happy to take your money off you £1,000 a year but give you no or very little guidance. The standard of marking is supposed to be the same but they expect a much highe standard from us while excepting full timers work that is shit to put it bluntly and marking it higher than ours.
They are out of touch with the industry when they were in practice you normally had one project on at a time. I’m doing 20 now and working a 45 – 50 hour week and thats with out college work. I also commute a 100 mile round trip to work every day where HQ is and work on sites up and down the country. Then you have smart arsed lecturer getting paid a forture for working a 37 hour week telling you you should be spending a minium of 20 hours a week on your dissertation and thats excluding other coursework.
I’m glad its my last year and I couldn’t even give a fuck if I get a 3rd as long as I have my freedom back at last.
Broiche which University are you at? I ask this because of your last comment- I think I go to the same one (Is it in Scotland) I’m afraid to name it because I’m using school PCs xxxxxxx
O.K, I just double checked and BRIOCHE you do go to the same University- North of England, in Scotland I’m guessing, because the idiots here also refer to it as the bubble- and I agree with you…I have literally only one friend here, and I also find it really suffocating too. (Its St As your’re talkign about right?) if so, write back and I’ll e-mail you, feels so good to knwo I’m not the only person misreable here….the people I’ve met here are really dissappointing. =( I wanted to be happy here and instead I find myself feeling so depressed and hopless….I canl;t wait for it to be over….and LOL about the comment of people in a tiny room dancing to shit music….thats excatly what the ’social life’ here has been all about, bad music, cloney girls all dressed the same and going around in huge packs, and stupid traditions that are meant to be fun, but are actually just humiliating and sad. I want to leave soooooooooooooooooo much, but I have to get a degree somehow, so it just wouldn’t be practical xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
What the heck is Real doing on this forum? Out of all of us posters, he’s the most pretentious (for lack of a better term) one of all.
Note that the forum is called “Why I Hate University Life” not “Suck up it up you wimps and buckle down and do the uni course load.”
My ultimate question for Real (Poster 455) is: What are you doing here on this forum?
Crystal^^ he/she hates it too, trust me- he’s just getting some kind of pathetic satisfaction out of doing that- people who genuinely like University would never know that this place exists, because, as others have noticed, you HAVE to google I hate Uni or words to that effect to get to this site. Real is a fake.
I found this website a few weeks back and I can’t even begin to explain how reassuring it was to know I’m not the only one who feels like this. Everybody else seems to be having the ‘time of their lives’. Anyway, someone posted earlier that if you have problems with social anxiety/depression, you shouldn’t go to University. Well, I’m another example that proves that to be true. I knew this was going to be hell, but nooo, of course not. All my friends and family tell me it will be fine, that it will ‘help me’ and I stupidly listen. Of course I was right. This is the worst environment for me and every day, I feel like another part of my sanity and my will to live dies. So basically, I was already suicidal before coming here, and now I’m even more suicidal than I thought possible. I tried SO hard the first few weeks. I did things WAY out of my confidence level, approaching people to talk first in a way I’d never have imagined I could. But it’s all come to nothing. I dont have a single friend here. I talk to someone in a lecture, I try and be nice, but as soon as it finishes, they walk off without even asking my name. There was one guy, who I approached at this social they had for my course, and for the first week, we sat together at all the induction talks and lectures. Well, the week after, he’s sitting with new people and acting as if I dont even exist. I think that was a total confidence meltdown for me. And now I’m kind of scared to approach people first anymore because I think they’ll reject me.
I have no motivation to do anything anymore. As the weeks pass, I go to less and less lectures. I even missed a few seminars, and I didnt hand in a piece of coursework today because I couldn’t bear the thought of going around this miniscule town where you recognise someone from your course every 2 seconds, asking questionnaires. I sleep for as long as possible as an escape, and it takes so much strengh for me to just leave my house.
I’m so tired of people telling me to ‘just pull through’ or ‘keep going’ when this is litereally killing me. I’ve never wanted to die more in my life. All my friends are off having fun miles away from me, as I hide away in my room night after night.
I’m only here because I have to be. If I want to get a job, I have to be here, as everyone keeps telling me. Even though I don’t enjoy my subject but it’s the only thing I’m any good at. I want to go home so bad and do an open university course but my parents dont want me to. I hate this feeling. Like I’m trapped. If I leave, everyone will be so angry and disappointed. So I have to just stay here, trying to survive every day even though each day feels like a year.
The thought of having to wake up tomorrow and walk to the bloody campus filled with crowds of people makes me feel sick to my stomach. It all feels so hopeless. I wish I could just have normal brains like my friends, be confident, enjoy clubbing and going out and meeting new people. Actually want to live like they do. Maybe then I’d be enjoying myself here. Sorry for the rant and any typos
4 weeks until I get to back home for Christmas. I will honestly cry for joy the whole journey home.
*get to go back home
This is a sign I need to go to bed XD
O the sigh of relieve! O do we ALL weep indeed. School is a bourgeois-lead capitalist hetero-patriachical white supremacist piece of shit! I’m 22 and have failed out of university/college TWICE. This place is a DEATH ZONE. I’m just wonder how many people commit suicide because this place is so BORING as fuck? I’m in my 4 year of nothing. Every thing I learned I wish desperately to UNLEARN. Before school at least I had friends and was SEMI-HAPPY. I have no friends and most of people here I have nothing in common. I always hated school, bunch of rich idiots boasting about how great it is here. It really isn’t, they like us mourn in the dark.
I KNOW college/university is not right for me…after all most of us are not MADE to be CAGED BIRDS. I’m a free spirit, a total libertarian. Why do I sit indoors listening to the DRY voice of an old man? telling about his boring life.
In my opinion, everyone should do what the fuck they want. However here I am, day and night paying CLOSE attention to what some UGLY asshole with a fancy Phd telling ME WHO TO BE. Yet dozens of us sit in this prison system day after day. A professor is nothing more than a PREACHER giving you “THE WORD” (which he/she probably wrote). Since when is it OKAY to have pros write us their text books? BIAS MUCH? LOL! God FORBID YOU CHALLENGE THEM. THE WRATH WILL BE-TH ON YE. Most professors at my universities are LAZY, OVERPAID DUMBASSES. I’ve gone to not one but TWO universities and it is the same mass of unenthusiastic faces. Same people, same course with a different name.
Why are we and our parents paying close to 12 grand a year to “learn” things we could have taught ourselves. I know my piece of paper is GOING to be WORTHLESS. I wonder how people with Phd’s stick it out. (no pun intended). I’m one of the only people in my family who can BARELY finish my degree (for real). I’m doing assignments I don’t care for, going to classes I hate….I’m a black girl so I have 0% chance if I don’t go along with their Eurocentric gibber jabber. They don’t even teach REAL white cultural truths…instead they feed all of us with HIS-STORY. Well I’m NOT BUYING IT.
About the professors, I’ve ONLY met 2 who stand out as really caring and wanted to help me. The rest were self-centered stone cold-asshole elitist motherfuckers. I would have been fine at home listening to my music, writing, and just being me. School is DEPRESSING and OPPRESSIVE.
The whole “individualism” “creativity” is such nicely painted point bullshit, of course they wouldn’t want the students THINKING for themselves. God FORBID! They might FIGURE THE SCAM OUT! YUP YUP, they give us PRE-MADE ideologies to corrupt our minds and fool us to believe that the whole super rich and super poor people INequality is NATURAL. Not to mention they justify us destroying the environment for our their GREED. They even talk about how poor people don’t work hard enough. FUCK YOU ELITES. I’m so sad my mom keeps paying for this SHIT DEGREE. No wonder my sister almost KILLED HERSELF, NO MOTIVATION for this SPIRIT-KILLING HOLE.
The government and the UNeducation system trains us to go to school to “better” ourselves (LOL). As others have lamented BITTERLY on this site. I failed out the first time cause I didn’t give a fuck. Second time same reason. I have a strange feeling I can’t even make it. FOUR YEARS. Boys and Girls. I like the youngsters on this site fantasized that university was this “journey” of exploration in which I would make lots of friends who were REVOLUTIONARIES, VISIONARIES, PEOPLE WHO CARED. I found out that instead they are a bunch of zombies that do as they are told, suck up (litterally) to get that beloved “A”. Everybody who is in engineering and other shit degrees spend those wasted years feeling so great. Coming out empty handed…where is your job now? OH I FORGOT YOU NEED ANOTHER 2 YEARS TO GET THAT MA SO YOU CAN STAND OUT IN A SEE OF MASSES WITH USELESS DEGREES. Take a ticket and get in line with the no-future, no-hope folk.
I told my favorite professor a few days ago I HATE UNIVERSITY. I’m ANTI-INSTITUTION…look what it does to us! World wide. University is overall a DISGRACE. Even medical doctors are not immune to this foolishness. They are just high paid TOOLS to keep us SICK. SAVE LIVES? lol As chris rock said they ain’t cured SHIT. Infact thanks to them and the CORPORATIONS (pharmaceutical companies) they are medicalizing everything…”ADHD” “Restless leg disorder” “social aniexty disorder”. I SEE RIGHT THRU THEM.
University is just another UGLY business in which we GIVE them our money. Almost everything we learn in school is the reason why society is a ugly mess. WHO BENEFITS from UNIVERSITY…well the rich PRICKS who can afford and have parents with CONNECTIONS. Who can go to havard? surely not most black kids born in poverty, surely not the poor whites (who can’t even afford food), not even the recent immigrants, not even the general masses (except you rack up debts that you will NEVER get out of)
Professors are the worst. WHY? white jesus WHY? My classes would be more interesting if HOMELESS PEOPLE came in to INSTRUCT. At least they GO OUTSIDE. They have LIFE EXPERIENCE, which is far more interesting than their DULL, LIFELESS POWER POINT REGURGITATIONS.
I conclude that U-niversity should be changed to THEIR-niversity. Nothing about YOU, all about THEM AND MONEY. THAT IS IT. These fuckers hold MEETINGS just to LAUGH at us I bet.
We are ALL affected by this DISEASE called post-secondary education. Shit I’ve learned MORE outside of school out of CURIOSITY than sitting straight face at a bunch of chalk writing or useless power points.
I conclude by saying to all those reading this…avoid school if you CAN. I feel I’m too creative to be in school anyways. I’d be done my phd in like 2019 LOL if I follow thru however knowing what I know…
I write this as I sit bored in school. I have 0 motivation to finish the lame assignments I have due next week and another live-wasting paper due in 2 weeks. Tomorrow I face the OPPRESSOR–my professor for a hour and 1/2 of reading my notes. Hopefully I passed my midterm. Passing is great, the whole getting good grades never inspired me. How dull.
I’m getting depressed thinking I will have to do it again next semester 4 course. I actually like the title of some of the subjects however I know most of what is told is LIES LIES LIES. If it was the TRUTH most OPPRESSED people would be LIBERATED however because it is the people in power that put their kids in this cage we have no chance.
The biggest CROOKS in the world are the government, the police and of COURSE OUR UNIVERSITIES churning out the bourgeois classiest sexist racist freaks. I want to drop out so bad however I have to finish what I start…even just for the sake of my mom. So I don’t end up a loser.
True To The Game ^ I am with you 100% of the way! I couldn’t have said it ANY better myself and you’ve expressed how I and many others on here feel, I only wish we could all band together some how…University sucks!
Curlygirl. i have social anxiety aswel. Ive suffered with it for as long as i can remember. in my 1st year of uni it was torture trying to approach people because ive never done it before really. i thought moving to uni would force me to deal with it ‘make friends or have no friends’ sort of thing. im in my 2nd year now and things are slowly gettin better. ive hated every second of it i really no wot ur goin through. im very sorry to hear your feeling so down. i got a p/t bar job last year along side uni. this really helped as i got more used to having conversations with people knowing that the small talk was only going to last for the duration of the time it took me to serve them a drink so the unbearable awkwardness wasnt as bad. it also gave me something to do outside of uni apart from sitting alone in my room. people generally tend to stay after work for a drink aswel. something to consider maybe.
i hate university. was popular in high school, now im a total loser….. go home as much as i can… university like sucks.
I really don’t get our societies obsession with education. If we are supposed to progress as a human race, shouldn’t we become more fixed upon a common source of happiness and knowledge?
Has anyone considered that maybe it’s not uni in general that you hate, but the uni YOU’RE at that you don’t like?
Personally I’ve moved to a different country, I see my family, friends and boyfriend for about a fortnight every 3 months and yet I’m doing what I love and having the best time of my life doing it. Coming to uni was the best decision I’ve ever made. And maybe I don’t have as many friends as I did back home, and maybe we’re not as close either: but it’s a different life. A different life, but an amazing one.
Good luck to all you guys who hate it…
#721: convincing fail…
Mirriam– I’m not st As, but I assume my [collegiate, cathedral town uni near newcastle] uni and yours are quite similar. maybe it’s just something about the north, haha. am now applying to do a year abroad, desperately hoping to fling myself to the other side of the planet before I become a raging alcoholic. I know what you mean about finishing. I would never leave bc I know I can stick it out and it would have been such a waste of my time to quit–plus the system has no leeway for people that haven’t followed the herd. so a disgruntled sheep I shall be until I can get away! Cannot wait for the day I can burn my stupid gown.
I’m tired. I hate uni. I hate having to work all the hours god sends. Working in real life is not as hard as this. The pressure is incredible and the deadlines we’ve been set this year are unachievable. And who’s idea was it to give us a group project in our final year. I’m tired. This is lame.
I am so lonely here. Even though I came to university in my home town (BIG mistake) which is something I never intended to do, I feel like I know no-one. I live in these bleak, grey halls of residences in the middle of an industrial estate where hardly a single person comes out of their rooms, except to eat. I tried to join societies and speak to people in my course but nothing materialises. I think I have tried to cover up this empitness by spending money which only means I have now reach the end of my overdraft already and I only started in September, so am completely skint. I constantly compare myself to others around me, who seem to be having so much fun but it just never happens. Completely backpedalling. I hate getting out of bed in the morning and sometimes don’t even bother which means I have fallen behind somewhat and now have a mountain of work and countless essays to do over exam period. It is getting to winter now and I hardly ever see daylight. All I want to do is turn back time and go to a different uni, but who knows if that would even BE different? Maybe they are all like this. The guilt would be too much knowing that a lot of money has been payed for me to stay here, and for me to leave and go somewhere else at risko f it being the same. My whole life I have been told that your university years are the best in your life, and a lot of people who have recently graduated have told me but WHY CAN’T I HAVE THAT? WHAT AM I DOING WRONG? FUCK THIS.
Sorry for such a ramble/ dump but I am really down about this and it was nice to get it off my chest!
Just read ‘curlygirl’s post and that’s EXACTLY how I feel, I am completely gobsmacked! I tried to speak to a girl in my course before a lecture and she literally said ‘yeaaah’ and walked and stood like 2 metres away from me. My confidence just keeps on getting shattered like that. I feel like everyone is walking past me, laughing in groups, not worrying at all about what people think, but it’s ALL I can think about. I feel like I’m doing something wrong al the time, and I’ve been getting homesick which is for the first time in my life. It is such a comfort to read that other people are going through the same thing because it is sooo lonely, and I don’t know who to talk to about it, I don’t want to be annoying or a bore to my friends from school (who have all moved away and are having an amazing time, it seems. This does not help!)
I’ve been crying for the last 3 days. I’m in such great pain. I have assignments I haven’t finished don’t care to. I try, however I end up listening to music for hours. I try to face it but I don’t give a fuck. Even in my favorite class, I struggle to give a DAMN. I come to this site every other day. Rereading my post and the post of others. University and the oppressive nature of the system of white supremacy hetero capitalist patriachy is killing me slowly. I want to fight to live, to help others but I’m being consumed spirit, mind and body in this soul-sucking vacuum. I wish to be liberated from the chains of bondage that we call school from the DIS-connected science fiction fantasy some call the textbooks we are taught in school. Some ask, girl why don’t you just drop out? HAHA! If I drop out not only will this haunt me for the rest of my life (thru my parents dissing me). I’m african (canadian) so I’d be condemned as a ‘rebel’ against “God”. I’ve had to face the oppressor not once but twice. I think it is genetic…my sister almost commited suicide because of the PRESSURE while doing her masters.
I feel it. *sigh*
I’m positive I’m suffering from what the doctors call depression. Depression however is not a personal thing but rather the inward manifestation and realization that most efforts of conformity to the system are futile. We all in the same boat, believing in a system that has ALWAYS failed. When I lie in bed I try to tell myself that I’m not crazy. The only thing that gets me going is music.
No wonder the most “successful” people didn’t go to “liberated” prison (oh I mean school). My university website says “higher education”. I laugh at that. Higher for WHO? of the bourgeois motherfuckers! We are ALL being PLAYED.
It scares me that the THEIR-versity masses continue to attend this MENTAL institution. People are silent, no one talks to me. No one cares, the false sense of individualism crushes my soul. Why are people cold? I hear them laughing their fake laughs, PRETENDING to have fun. Who the fuck are you dipshits kidding? *sigh* No one understands and when they do they live in another GODDAMN country. My only resistance is my writing.
I cry so hard, I’m so sad. I’m a mess. I wake up pretending it isn’t happening but like a bad nightmare it continues for years. However I will not be burnt to ashes. To those struggling like me, keep your head up. That is what I tell myself to get thru the day.
Society just needs to accept and adapt to the fact that learning is not exclusive to attending university. We have so much access to information these days that I’d even argue that attending university fucked up my learning process.
The only reason university is useful for a majority of people is because it adds that tidbit of information on their resume “University of Toronto, Bachelor of Science” as “proof” (emphasis on quotations) that they know what their doing. Well sorry to break it to whoever is reading the resume, but just because one graduates from a university does not imply that they are competent and conversely, not graduating from a university does not imply one’s incompetence.
Don’t even get me started about the piss poor education one received in university.
And all the bullshit that you’re exposed to.
But don’t take this as me whining. I completely realize how much more fucked I could be without a degree. And that my friends is pretty much the only motivation I have left for attending uni. Pretty fucking sad, huh?
I have been reading this for the past hour or so and I am so happy that I’m not the only person to hate uni! I’ve hated it from the start and stuck it out because I did well in school and thought it would be a waste if I didn’t do something with my intelligence. Turns out I’m not all that intelligent and I’m probably one of the ‘dumbest’ on my course and that makes me not even want to go to lessons, because then everyone knows how dumb I am! Also, my course (and the whole uni) is full of private school kids and I come from a council estate so I just feel so out of place. I’m in my third and final year now and I’m really trying hard to hang on it but it’s all become too much. I’m so behind on my work and just couldn’t give a crap anymore if I fail. I hate the fact that you’re just a number at uni, no one wants to help you if you’re having trouble and it’s just one big competition (who can get the best marks for an assignment). Oh well, only half a year or so of this crap and then I’m free! Anyone go to King’s College London (and hate it!)??
Hey myheartisanapple
But glad I could show you’re not alone in what you think. And if you ever want to just talk or rant about how you feel, you could email if you like? Or MSN? Just ask 
Because I totally know how you feel with the whole ‘friends’ thing. All mine are so happy, I hate always having to say ‘No, I’m not fine’ when they call so I usually just sidestep the topic. And then of course I have to see all the photos on facebook of them with their new friends looking happy 
I’m not happy you could relate to my post obviously
Wow I’ve never seen such a mass of comments on one subject spanning so many years. This is an achievement in itself. I’m a third year student. Actually I just suspended my study until next year as I have depression and was unable to continue. In the past I have felt a lot of the things people are saying here. I’ve only really made a couple of friends in the 2 years I’ve been at uni. I know this is largely due to my own personality but the fact is I don’t know how to be any different. Like the saying a leopard can’t change its spots. I’m not saying people can’t change at all as they clearly can. Just you can’t change into a completely different person. I’ve tried self help books, councelling, hypnotherapy but I’m still lost and lonely. I’ve now lost more hope after uni didn’t turn out how I thought it would. But there is 2 separate issues I see here. One is whether you are interested in what you are learning and if it really is preparing you for some career. The other is the social side: making friends and fitting in with peers. I am studying computer science. Its very hard actually and I like to do well at things. I am interested in this and I feel it is preparing me for a career. The social side not so good. I don’t really have a point to this comment. Just stuff comming out my brain directly to the page really. So heres some binary 0010010110100101111011011101101
Uni is shitty and a big waste of time. Too many unnecesary courses have to be taken, a degree that could be finished in 2.5 years gets extended to 4. Piece shit instititution, i hate it… btw second year b.comm
ugh! thought i was getting used to uni, still no real friends, but im in the middle of spending a rare full weekend with my bf and it has made me realise what really is important to me. However, this revelation came at a bad time – 2 weeks before the exams. How the hell do i keep my motivation now?!
See if any of you can relate to how I am feeling at the moment: “I am ridiculously unhappy, it takes a lot for me to smile nowadays. My life is stagnant, I am bored and I have no motivation to drive myself forwards. I have contemplated suicide too many times but I don’t think I would ever have the balls to do it. I could never do that to my family or the people who care about me. I am sometimes surprised that that people do care about me. I feel like an empty shell of a human being. I have no positivity anymore, negative thought patterns have taken me over, I no longer have the capacity for positive thought. I am a master of self deprecation, an accomplished introvert, shy to the point that it is impossible to get to know me. I trust nobody anymore. The things I used to want now seem so far beyond my reach that I have stopped wanting them anymore. I have no self assurance, I feel insecure about absolutely everything, like I have reverted back into being a scared teenager. I have more social phobias than I care to think about. I think people hate me, I am eternally lonely and I think I’m never going to find happiness. What will I do after I leave this place, I hate myself too much to love anybody, I am totally useless. I am spiralling uncontrollably into depression and I feel as though there is nothing I can do about it. I am so unsure of myself that I don’t even know who or what I am. I am a mess, an empty space, a blank canvas. I have nothing interesting to say, and nobody is interested to hear a word which I say.” Oh well, only 6 or so months to go!
I never went to university (just college which I hated)but used to work at one. The lecturers and departmental heads were frankly, as badly behaved, arrogant and more conceited than unruly children. They were also remarkably lazy.
It’s easy for people to complain about ‘bloody students’ but in the time I spent there I saw a lot of bewildered and obviously vulnerable young people who were trying to get through it. I just hope it gets better for you.
I’ve posted this before, but I’ll post this again:
For all the university-hating people out there, when you see this, leave your contact information so that we can all connect! This will help us better understand our problems and ways to solve them.
haha…love the internet. Anyways, I can’t stand anymore of the bullshit I have to learn. Boring beyond belief, I feel like my brain is rotting. I’ve even contemplated going into lectures naked and pissing on the lecturer cos I’m so bored.
lizzy, I’m also at King’s colege. Absolutely hate it. I know how you feel about the private school kids, I find it such an effort to socialise with them that I just avoid them completely.
I actually HATE uni.
I’m going to drop out, or defer a year just to see if I can find something more interesting!! I am at Durham so on one hand I don’t want to leave such a great place but on the other I think; who cares about the uni you went to? YOU HAVE TO BE HAPPY.
I am going to tell my Mum as soon as I can.
I have friends here but I just hate it, I have no interest and I m constantly depressed. I hate myself like this and it isn’t worth it.
FUCK YOU UNI.
BYE!!!
Wow i’ve been reading all of these posts, thank god I googles ‘I hate uni’ because I was close to going insane!!
Im near the end of my first semester in sheffield doing some bullshit p.e course that I have learnt fuck all on. So far I have learned how to do a backwards roll in gymnastics. FUcking gymnastics???? is that gonna help me get a job???? Also my course is 4 years if you want to be a teacher (the only possible outcome of this meaningless degree) but oh no the degree itself is not enough. I have to give up hours and hours a week doing volunteering in a school 20 miles from where I live 3 times a week so I can have something remotely interesting to put on my CV so I can ’stand out’ from the 10,000 other people doing the same course as me all around the country. seriously are there that many jobs for p.e teachers going every year???
I used to love P.E now i hate it with a passion. The lecturers are boring old farts that are laughing at us while we are forced to hand over thousands and thousands of pounds each term. If their degree is soooo great, then why are they lecturers?? surely they should be out there changing the way the country is run making an impact.. instead they are reading off powerpoints copying other peoples work.
The people on my course are so stuck up!! they lick each others arse all day long copying each others choice phrases e.g. ‘bored is NOT the word’ WTF is that all about???? Who says that in real life fucking society?? I have made one friend since i got here and she isn’t in my class. I have to put up with these immature ignorant idiots that follow each other around like sheep. At first I tried to make friends with them but all i get is blank faces and today actually got fucking ignored when I asked a girl a question right in my face. If i wasnt at uni she would have been flat on her back begging me to ring an ambulance. never have i been treated like that before off sum girl who thinks she is better than all of us because she has done a fuckin mountain trek in mexico which she mentions every day. BULLLSHITTT.
Im not living in halls. I was forced in to a shite building above a japanese restaurant with 14 mongs from essex who are up their own arse. I stay in my room all day because i cant be arsed making conversation with these idiots. They act like they are so great when infact they are as interesting as a 5p coin. I live with a girl who screeches for no reason at all and gets excited over things like raisins and an advert on tv. wtf is wrong with some people??? i have cut down on drinking whilst iv been here. I have no interest to go out in an unfamiliar city with a bunch of hyenas, downing watered-down cheap vodka, get a hang over, miss even more lectures, and have no money for essential things like FOOD.
But i am here now and to quit would be a total waste of a ridiculous amount of money that i have to pay back but which i wont be able to because this country is shit and there are no jobs unless you get a piece of paper saying you can do something which you could train a monkey to do.
So thinking about quitting at the end of the year. taking a year out. work for a while get some money behind me (i am totally broke £80 to last me over xmas in to the new year – 4 weeks away)if i find a good job il stick to it.. a good job for me is earning 20k doing anything 9-5 i dont care because i will be earning money moving on with my life!
If i train to be a teacher what will i be doing?? stuck back in the education system with cocky kids givin me the run around all day 40k in debt on a starting salary of 19k and a whole pile of other things. I used to have a passion for teaching but uni has sucked all the life out of the subject and me. The armed forces are the way to go! serving for your country, fighting out there, making a difference, saving lives, great money and something to be PROUD of. become a hero.
I miss my family. I miss my REAL friends. I miss my boyfriend and every day we are apart it makes me want to burst in to tears because i cant get a hug when i am low or have the company of somebody i can really talk to. Seriously uni is not all its cracked up to be!! lonliness, being skint and bored?? and for what a bit of paper.
Advice for people thinking about quitting.. listen to your heart because that is what will make you happy. life is about being HAPPY! i would rather be happy loving life sat in some office inputting data, than being miserable like I am now just so i can earn about 5k extra a year!!!
I’m counting down the days till I can pack my stuff and go home for xmas. 18 days and counting.
What pisses me off the most is the friends i have left behind are having a great time living their lives, one is in cyprus working in the RAF having the time of his life. did they need a diploma? nooo!
Because in this life it’s not WHAT you know, it’s WHO you know.. and how can you be making connections if you are stuck in a grey freezing cold lecture room making notes off powerpoint slides they put on blackboard anyway??
rant over thanks for reading even tho most of it wont make sense lol x
qwert, what are you studying at King’s?
“I’ve even contemplated going into lectures naked and pissing on the lecturer cos I’m so bored”
That is actually the best idea ever!! The lecturers are so up their own arses, they would deserve it!! HAHA!
I’m in my first year at uni studying architecture….and its a total fuckin bitch! I love university life…..living in Glasgow, going into the university everyday, student loans but i fuckin detest some of the work. One of my tutors too…..the most horrible, evil bastard i’ve every come across. Just given up after fucking about making models for hours….so many irrelevant, pointless exercises, so little fucking time.
Lizzy, glad you like my idea
. I’m studying biomedical sciences at Guy’s campus. How bout you?
for all you peeps feeling isolated and lonely: this website really helped me http://www.succeedsocially.com/sociallife check it out
I’m so happy about this site, university is just a neccessary evil,it’ll probably be one of the most challenging part of our lives but it takes strenght and hardwork to persevere, at the end of it you’ll feel alot stronger and better about urself, reading the posts on this site has really giving me a good perspective on things, everyone cant be a university graduate anyway cuz then whoz gonna do the trades work?…I respect everyones work, i even tend to respect trades work more because they actually do something tangible, we could all live without marketters and investment bankers but who could live without farmers and bricklayers (They both provide food and shelter), so all in all it might pay to stay strong and get the degree but if you cant, you can still always be useful in some other constructive ways, goodluck to all
@qwert: I’m studying French and German at Strand campus! I guess the lecturers are arseholes everywhere then, eh?? :p
Exam time so my hatred for uni is being inflated at the moment. I’m finding it really hard to find the motivation to study for these exams, I like my major subject but am taking maths and chemistry on top of that and I really can’t be bothered with them.
As I type this there’s a group of guys outside my window just screaming. I know they’re drunk, but we’ve all been drunk before. There’s nothing about what they are doing that is fun, it’s just all to do with being part of a unit and fitting in. It’s just so fake and immature! The amount of times I hear people talk about ‘banter’ is astounding. Banter being an organic exchange between good friends, where friendly ribbing occurs. However this has been turned into an event at university. Students ‘go out for the banter’, which is just artificially created, generic drivel between strangers, designed to create some false sense of a bond between each other. I don’t know why these guys don’t just chill out and take it easy. It’s like the students here are so desperate to collect as many friends as possible and have university life live up to the hype, that they’ll do anything.
I hope things will be better next year when I’m living with friends who I want to be with rather than the way it is in halls. Really can’t believe how immature some of the people are, it’s like they’ve never been allowed to stay up past 11 before, just get over it and act normal. I can’t take this competitive attitude towards socialising. It is possible to have fun without everyone else having to acknowledge it.
buffy on uni life:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDQz_ZGcOfw&feature=player_embedded
Buffy:
Every single night the same arrangement
I go out and fight the fight.
Still I always feel the strangest strangement
Nothing here is real, nothing here is right.
I’ve been making shows of trading blows
just hoping no one knows
That i’ve been going through the motions
walking through the part.
Nothing seems to penetrate my heart
I was always brave and kind of rightous,
Now I find I’m wavering.
Crawl out of your grave you’ll find this fight,
just doesn’t mean a thing.
Vamp: She ain’t got that swing
Buffy: Thanks for noticing!
Vamps/Demon: She does pretty well with things from hell
but lately we can tell she’s been going through the motions.
Faking it somehow.
She’s not even half the girl she….ow
Buffy: Will I stay this way forever?
Sleep walk through my life’s endeavor.
Hot Guy: How can i repay you…?
Buffy: whatever!
I don’t want to be…
going through the motions,
loosing all my drive
I can’t even see, if this is really me
and i just want to be….
Alive!
Oh God. Talked to my mum on the phone today and she’s definitely not going to let me leave. Another 2 years and a half of this. Not sure I’ll survive it.
I’m in my 3rd and final year, and I am as happy as hell that within a few months time, I can graduate and never EVER fucking return to study again!! University is not any different from school, it is just a bigger building, more corrupt, more inept and those kids you bullied you at school are now those “adults” who will, inevitably, bully you at university. I hate the way, Every-fucking-body pushes you into making friends and get involved because they will last forever (so on and so forth); as mentioned in previous comments “competitive socialising”. I never really enjoyed meeting new people because it’s scary and unpleasant. I have moved out of the country and back again and changed school at least 4 times and it’s always the same story. New peer, new meat for bullying. The point is, if you are not out getting stupidly drunk in clubs and bars every week, and “living it up to the max”, then you are automatically deemed TeH LooSERRR. Not only that, where the bloody hell is “outstanding peer support” when you most need it!? MY academic perfomance has suffered greatly in my second year because I slipped through the cracks and was not given any typ of support to help me thereafter or before. I’d rather not get started on the lecturers and professors because we’ll be here all night.
I’ll finish with a closing statement
FUCK YOU UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER!!! FUCK YOU RIGHT IN THE COCKING ARSE!!
I don’t know why i am at university the people here are so stupid including my professors in computer science. I do a joint degree in Math and computer science i hate every moment of it. they look down on students taking outside interest in the respected fields like i have, i worked in research for 1.5 years and was heavily relied on in the office as sys admin and unix hacker and these are skills my uni dont teach or have any idea about now that i am back at uni they are just as stupid as i left them, the material is so random and pointless and hits so many wrong notes in computer science then in math i like math but jezz its just random topic after the other and really you never touch the shit again ever because they never go into any decent detail and its just stupid plus it is just really hard since they give you no help unless your an ass kisser. If you start designing your own programming language like i have for the last year and correct your professor in language theory they think your wierd and wrong when i know i am right since i answer people’s help on this all the time i know my shit when it comes to computer science but why does this piece of fucking paper saying i was a retarded enough to think university was worth anything. and if anything universities have become businesses simply worrying about funding and no real respect for understanding and learning about new ways of doing things and teaching topic’s fully and correctly. this is what makes queens uni belfast how crap it is i want out but so many different things on at the moment no idea whats the best thing to do. i dont even feel part of a uni when your only in 8 hours at week and about half of that is pointless math lectures that dont help and you need to get work done sometime so i never bother now ahh i could go on but its just so crap and pointless everything in my life has been fucking difficult except working full time i was even offered a funded phd already and i havent even got my degree this is how stupid this shit is…
Our University is the most ridiculous establishment perhaps in the history of the world. The Monster Raving Looney Party, in comparison, look like a group of Greek philosophers. Luckily for us, we’ve landed in the worst department as well. Languages.
We all love languages and linguistics, hence why we began to study this subject, but my, do these people know how to strange the love of anything out of one. Instead of teaching us grammar and building our ability to communicate in the language, our learning rotates instead around our capacity to do various mind-numbing exams that have no practical application whatsoever. It isn’t about how good your language skills are in our laughable alma mater, but how formulaic one’s responses to trite, uneducational subjects are.
We have the least funding in our entire school. Business students have their own building, free drinks, 6 or 7 24/7 access labs and are generally treated like Lords. We don’t even have a computer room that is open for more than the equivalent of 2 days out of 7 each week. When we complain, we are sent to the open access lab which the business schmucks use as their loud room. Our library is a disgrace to the name itself; our fellow students are petulant, faux-aristocratic twats who buy new outfits because their newly-bought Parisian shoes do not match. They are hyperverts who delight in imposing themself on any silence. They are as 3-dimensional as a line on a piece of paper. They have nothing to say, but yet never cease to speak.
Our University is built around, and caters to them exclusively. Heaven forbid that you are introverted even in the slightest; the exams, built around being an extrovert more than being a linguist, will get you down at the first hurdle.
If our University were not bad enough, it makes going to one of their even more crooked foreign colleagues obligatory. The extroverts love this, obviously. Hurrah to no free will. This University turns out to be even less well-managed and completely unorganised, with classes disappearing of moving buildings, and no pastoral help whatsoever. It is several months into our year here, and we are absolutely screwed. It has been impossible to follow the course because we’re living in a gypsy ghetto miles away and we have had swine flu countless times. Our University laughably sends us an email shaped bollocking telling us that we should go to the doctors (well duh, as if we didn’t?) and that we should lug our laundry 8 miles into town. Yes, that’s something that we forgot to mention hitherto – we are living like 19th century peasants. Washing our clothes by hand. Baking our own food because the Spaniards’ is disgusting and one-tone, &c.
WE WANT TO GET OUT OF HERE. FUCK!! Somehow we’ll have to learn six subjects in a matter of weeks – which would be fine, if there were six subjects to choose from. This year is abominably shit; all the while, our extroverted acquaintances are having the time of their lives. Of course they are.
We have been dumped here because our university is too shite to be able to teach languages; and so they throw us into SPAIN (NO CHOICE ABOUT GOING ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE SPANISH-SPEAKING WORLD, OH NO!), expecting us to learn the language by ourselves, by speaking. See the shift in onus? Hey, if I had known that I would not be taught the language and expected to learn it through being a fucking extrovert abroad, we never would have gone to University in the first place!! We’ll go back, linguistically impoverished; the extroverts, of course, will have made thousands of friends and gained the language with ease.
Both Universities are shitter than shit on a stick. We want to go home, and to a different University, if there were one that was less unfathomably terrible than ours. Fuck the Vice-Chancellor.
University is full of two face motherfucking hypocrites and retarded people who have nothing better to do then go clubbing over and over again….get a life you fucking Bitches…
i sooo hate uni.. d’ont even know why i’m doing this stupid degree, as I totally hate it, wish I could just drop out even though first semester is nearly over, got 2 assignment deadlines in a days time havent even started them, d’ont even have the motivation to do them. why the hell did i ever chose to study accounting and finance..
God, I’m so confused about University. Tomorrow, I have an Exam and I haven’t even studied! Although, its English so I’m not terribly worried. But, I’m worried about the fact that I have no motivation to study at all. I read all these messages where people say their stressed about school. Seriously, it feels like my school work is not that hard, but I cant seem to do it. I honestly hate University. Why do we all feel obligated to follow society and earn some piece of paper telling us that were smart. By the time school’s done, were gonna have to get jobs and start paying bills; like my OSAP. When can we really start living? I’m second year- and I just want to drop out and do something else. Shit, I use to be so creative; singing, drawing…now, because I listened to my parents about earning a BA, I’ve lost all my creativity. I’m in total identity crisis. There has to be more to life. I truly envy those people who say fuck you to conformity and live their lives the way they want. If I could do anything, I wish I could ignore all social conformity and DO what I want in life.
A first year writes… I’ve never been as low as I have these past few weeks. I asked to be excused from the coming exams in order to regroup over the holidays. To work out whether it’s the course, the university, the city or just me that’s the cause of my blues. Then maybe work out how I can adapt and put a smile back on my face. The response? ‘Computer says no’. I hate university.
This is possibly the most reassuring site Ive come across!
I really hate uni been here for 3 months and its the worst place ever.
I got into the uni that i wanted to and was so excited when I arrived but just everything about this place is dire.
I was expecting to find really enthusiastic interesting people who I would get on really well with, instead all Ive found are people who are either only interested in getting laid or so rapped up in their careers that they manipulate everyone.
I have to do three subjects in my first year and i feel like im back at 6th form doing subjects i hate which has made me even more demotivated to do the subject i really enjoy. and even then this uni has moved me onto a different course because not enough people are doing the course ive applied to.
I joined societies but the sporting ones take themseleves to seriously and the others are just rapped up in insignificant politics.
This isnt what i wanted to be doing.
ive talked to my parents and my dad went mental at me and now i feel i cant quit otherwise i would be letting him down
i totally feel like the failiure of the family as my cousins have just got into oxford and cambridge and really enjoying themselves
dont feel like i will be ever good enough for them
Ive always wanted to travel and see more of the world and help people, like volunteering abroad with charities and stuff but i dont want to get screwed over by a company that charges me to much and dumps me somewhere.
I think if i had a proper plan then my parents would be happier with me leaving but i just cant decide on what to do
and i havent got the motivation to do any of the work here
:/
so yer this is not really good times
Andyo_09@live.co.uk – Need to talk to somebody about university. Its driving me nuts. I am 19 and dropped out of humanities at Hertfordshire before the course even begun… What kinda life can I expect with a degree like that? McDonalds and a wife that should be on Jeremy Kyle… Im so confused… University claims to broaden the mind.. It only narrows it. **** university. I might just study Archaeology sept 2010 like I should have in the first place.
UNIVERSITY OF YORK ACCOMMODATION OFFICE IS THE SHITTEST IN THE WORLD.
INCOMPETENT BASTARDS.
OMG.
I am so so happy I found this website after searching “I hate university” into google. What joy this forum has brought me!
I thought I was the only one out there that was unhappy. I had such high expectations which is why I think I hate it so much. I thought that people would both work and go out every so often. Not go out every single night and be pricks by coming home loud every night when I actually am here to learn. At the end of the day I want a degree and by going out every night it clearly won’t be achieved. However, none of my flat mates seem to do any work and then I look really boring.
The lecturers seem pretty shit. The notes they give are just pure crap. A monkey could do their job.
I am sooooooo happy its only 11 days till I break up for Christmas- then its going to be 3 weeks of pure happiness for a bit… until I come back!
waste of money and time, dont know where my 3.2 k a year goes, might as well requested a reading list and sat at home teaching myself. FUCK UNI, DONT BOTHER KIDS, YOULL FUCKING REGRET IT AND REALISE ITS NOT FOR YOU WHEN ITS TOO LATE. E.G. THE FINAL YEAR WHEN SUDDENLY YOURE EXPECTED TO KNOW YOUR SHIT EVEN THOUGH THE UNIVERSITY HASNT INCLUDED THE RELEVANT MODULES PREVIOUSLY AND JUST READS AT YOU RATHER THAN TEACHING FUCKING ANYTHING. FULL OF USELESS WANKERS, DIE. only good thing is being able to piss about for a few years instead of working the 9-5, but that soon looses its charm once youve been out several billion times.
I too like some here, had expectations, and just my luck, it didnt quite happen, but i was strong enough to keep going, i still hate it to the point i am no longer attending lectures and the assessments can sometimes make you feel inadequate although i pull through in the end. there are some here who believe we all want a roller coster ride with a silver spoon in our mouths and if we cant hack uni, we wont hack life itself! what a load of shite, when you hate something, you hate something, your disagreement is not gonna change the fact we feel this way, if there is change in circumstances then we will take it with stride, everyones different and we are here on this site to share our similar interest, take yours somewhere else
After reading through several of these responses it appears a lot of people have experienced the mindset I had during my first year. Unfortunately the more you think about your dissatisfaction at University, the worse it gets, so try to lighten up people regardless of the circumstances.
It’s not worth writing my story as its pretty similar to everyone elses here, though I do have friends at Uni. What I will contribute is what I’ve learnt and am pretty sure about.
1. If you have only been at University for a few months and don’t feel you’ve made any good friends, do not worry! Just keep pressing on and trying, soon you’ll realise you have a lot more in common with some people than originally thought.
2. Do not stay in your room!
3. No, really, do not stay in your room!
4. Realise that if your not at university then you’ll most likely be in a monotonous mindless job living with your parents, and so really where you are now is the lesser evil.
5. Just because other people appear to be enjoying themselves, they are NOT wankers, cunts, pricks bla bla, regardless of their background, its easy to feel that when you see other people happy but it’s just not true. A lot of them will be decent people, though I’m sure some will inevetibly be wankers.
Those are just a few things I did to make things more tolerable. I’m currently in second year of a six year course so if you guys think your fucked, at least you aren’t in my shoes!
Anyways to avoid rambling on anymore, ask yourself whether your really giving it 100% to make things better, if so then fair enough, get the fuck out of uni. I know I’m probably only giving 20%! It’s just easy to slip in a cynical state of mind and kid yourself that everything is rubbish, so give it a proper go before you conclude it’s awful.
Despite all this I do have to agree that University has been a huge disappointment but you’ve just gotta make the most of things, get your degree and stop complaining.
P.S For the minority who have posted weird shit like shooting people and blowing buildings up – what the fuck?
York University over here in Canada sucks so bad. It’s just annoying that most of my science professor doesn’t seems to know what they are doing. Instead they are confusing student even more. I have a Philosophy exam am required to write 5 essays within 2hours. What on earth are these professors thinking. They indeed make life miserable for people. A friend of mind just graduated with a Biomedical Science Honour she has been looking for a job like a crazy woman and am like what kind of a thing is this.
I was a first class student in my university year back home in Nigeria where Professor teach instead of reading. Over here, most of our lecturers are just reading slide and not teaching. I hate university over here because you’re all alone, you are required to teach yourself. All lecturers are doing is to read slide to you. Infact its really boring like hell. I don’t want to go back there anymore.
African Professor are the best. They don’t read slide to you as they do over here in Canada, they teach you, they get the information to you and trust me people are doing well
Am going to continue my university education in Nigeria not for anything, I really want to enjoy my University life. I am tired and bored with this boring way of teaching here at York University. It is sooooooooo boring and it’s just a waste of OSAP funding.
Back home, education is affordable, I can’t finish my degree with little as 10,000 dollars and after it I will be off to Coop and from Coop, Youth Service
Education is important guys please don’t give up. Whichever way you want to do it please study.
As for me, I am going back to Nigeria to finish my Medicine and will come and do my Residency in California. York University sciences really sucks
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University makes me want to gouge my eyes out with a spoon… :-s
i feel like there’s two aspects to uni which make me hate it, there’s the academic aspect and there’s the social aspect. The academic aspect makes it shitty for me because the lectures are so boring, just 50 minutes straight of pure monotone talking from the professor and a stupid slideshow and constant note taking, i can barely stomach it let alone stay awake. Then after the shitty lecture your expected to read a ridiculous amount of pages per week of the stuff they shove down your throat at lectures! and to top it all of there’s the extremely lame tutorials which are awkward because they’re filled with folks you dont know and yet AGAIN they shove down your throats the horrors you endured in lecture and in books and then the icing on the cake is there are 5 classes in total so 5 sets of ANNOYING lectures, readings and tutorials, oh yea and throw the assignments you have to do in the mix as well….the academic side of university disturbs me in so many ways it’s so mechanical and soulless, i came with an open mind and i put up with it but i can only tolerate the grey atmospheric lectures for only so long. That set aside, the social aspect is the other half to why i can’t stand this place. When first arriving the people are driven by fear to flock together, just like their old towns they only got by through the buddy system through making their “herds”, oldest trick in the history of man strength in number. Find people, start talking about how much you got hammered and drunk back in your old town then base your false relationships off shallow values and hobbies you share. Everyones trying to show off, everyone addresses eachother in this FAKE persona, screaming at the top of their lungs just to say hey to a guy they JUST met, its like a pack of dogs trying to see who can bark the loudest its pitiful…people are afraid to show weakness, afraid to show any signs of fear that they left home, all that is on their agenda is, get the grade, get laid and then get drunk at the end of the week. I kept an open mind, just as i did for the academics, i didnt put myself into some bubble of negativity, the reality was this place wasn’t a comfortable environment for me to be myself. I’ve heard all the tips before about being strong, having patience bla bla if this isn’t a place where i feel happy because im surrounded by indifferent people fueled by the norms here and academics that are so dry and repetitive then i don’t believe time and patience will change these two aspects the only thing that needs to change is YOU. Here’s the real tip to university enjoyment, CHANGE YOURSELF, put on the false identity of some yappy dog that barks loudly and acts like a wino only obssessed with getting hammered. If you want fun, put on a smile when you enter your lectures and pretend like you actually enjoy this mechanical method of shoving useless information down your throats, pretend like your family meant nothing to you and you can forgot them in mere months and lastly pretend like it will be a jolly good time trying to pay off your student debts when you leave your new paradise which we like to call university.
Its almost 3am.
I have an essay that was due yesterday.
Im still not done.
Never before in my life have I been so worn down, so beaten down, and so hateful towards life. Nothing in this world has ever sucked the life, the soul, the human out of me.
University however, has.
I have friends.
None seem to offer much help.
I complain.
They listen.
It really gets me no where.
Except for maybe becoming annoying to my friends.
My bank account has been sucked dry. and will be sucked dry for many many years to come.
why?
all for university. something that I hate with more passion than I have ever had for anything in my life.
Im over it.
Im a year and a half in and Im over it.
Those who say its the best years of our lives? Clearly have never been to university.
So fuck you University. FUCK YOU
Koni4iwa!No i`m not from Japan.
I HATE MY UNIVERSITY!
FUCK!
Why should i do this FUCKING research ?????? I HATE RESEARCH!!!!!!!
I just want to do what i want to do, to create, to design!
This FUCKING university is only put me off creativity!
NOW I HATE DESIGN! I HATE EVERYTHING!
IM JUST SCREAMING FOR CHANGE!
They FORCE us to do, but i can`t do smth if i dont like it and don`t want it to do!
“This is the end for you my friend”(c)
i have never in my entire life been soo depressed or unhappy . all my life i was made to believe that university life was the best, that it would be the best years of my life, well , in contrast its the worst. I have to wake up every morning to go to uni , and trust me those morning are fulled with anxiety and depression. I now feel that i no longer have a life and that the course is just not that exciting as i thought it would be. I can’t reallt explain to anyone how depressed i am due to uni. I hate the people and the teaching methods and everything else that comes with university. I really need help or i feel that i might have a mental breakdown.
THIS PLACE IS FULL OF BASTARDS! uni has changed me into such a depressing person, i hate it. I never used to be like this. I came to uni with expectations of a new exciting stage in my life; meeting new people, learning new stuff and to grow as a person but all it’s given me is anger and hate over everything around me. I think university treat you like shit. They realise how much stress and strain everyone is under from constant work, bills, loans, moving away from home or whatever troubles yet they dont seem to give a fuck and continue to treat you like a prisioner.
So im not putting up with this life any longer. It’s my life and i dont want to look back on it with regrets that i didnt change my life sooner.
I’m getting a job, maybe do some travelling, live at home for a bit, who knows!
but university is DEFINITELY NOT for everyone and if your not enjoying something, then there is always time to change your life to make yourself happier. Don’t listen to what others say, It’s your life!
University sucks….
….but sex is awesome! (or so I’ve heard)
Hey everyone, I am so glad I found this site. It seems a lot of people decide one day to randomly type “I hate university” into Google!
Anyway, my situation is kind of different from most I have read here. I actually was fine my first and second years at university. I didn’t make a ton of close friends, but I managed to get pretty good grades, a small group of friends, and a girlfriend. Things were pretty good. At the beginning of third year, I got a new girlfriend, and I was looking forward to going on an exchange to Sweden. Things were really good. I went on exchange and it was the best time of my life. Came home and have been depressed ever since. Can’t function normally, cant sleep properly, no energy, cant get motivated….and I think the root of it is that while on exchange, I realized that there is so much more to life than studying accounting, which is my major. I met so many interesting people and did so many great things while on exchange, then I came home and the routine and redundancy of life in Ottawa, going to uni every day, it just wore me down. I am not on anti-depressants, talking to a counselor, and I was doing better until exams came.
All this semester I have been struggling with finding the motivation to get my work done, but slowly it started to fade. I didn’t do my readings, didn’t pull my weight in group work, skipped more and more classes, eventually got exams and assignments deferred because I went to the doctor and told her all this, and she told me I was depressed. I blame university for my depression. I enjoyed it at first because I didn’t really know anything else. Well, I didn’t particularly enjoy it, but it was good. And I had the exchange to look forward to; I had been wanting to go to Sweden since high school. But I think when I was on exchange, my eyes were just opened to something new, something better. When I came back to the monotony of uni life in Ottawa, I couldn’t handle it. I love how you hear all this about the so-called “real world” all throughout your life. I think I had a taste of the real world while on exchange. At least, how I want my real world to be. And now that I am back at school, exchange behind me, I feel like I have nothing to look forward to, and I hate it.
Marks used to be important to me. I am not a straight A student, but I used to always strive for an A- or an A. I got a C+ once, my worst mark, and I was pretty upset. But this year, I just don’t give a damn. I am in fourth year accounting and I absolutely hate it. I have had three exams so far, and I don’t think I have gotten more than 60% on any of them. I really don’t care how to consolidate financial statements – it has no relevance to my life. I have decided that I don’t wish to pursue any kind of accounting designation or a career in accounting, which makes it hard to care about income tax and corporate finance. Fucking such useless shit. Not to mention all the people around me, all doing co-op, about to go on their work terms. I couldn’t help but laugh when I was on exchange in Sweden, traveling and meeting new people, and my friends were going to work in an office. I plan on going tree planting for the first time this summer, I am really determined to do it, and I know its going to be hell, but even waking up in the morning, sore back, sore legs, blisters, tired, rainy….at least I’m not spending my summer wearing a suit and sitting at a desk. I just hate that in high school, you get the idea that going to university will open doors and be a great thing…but its not. They program you to be a certain way, and at least in my accounting program, I find that the way its set up is that so you end up going from Point A to Point B. Once you graduate, you get a job, get your hours, get your designation, and ta-da, you are an accountant. That doesn’t seem like many open doors to me.
Anyway, I don’t know where else to go with this. I am going to finish the degree because I am almost done…just two semester. Even if it is just a stupid little piece of paper, I will at least have something to show for all the time and effort I put in. But then I am gone….going tree planting, see what opportunities arise there. Going to do a college program in something that interests me, something hands on, something PRACTICAL and USEFUL, unlike the bullshit you learn in uni.
I remember in high school always hearing that “university will teach you how to think for yourself.” Anyone else hear that? Maybe I’m the only one. But that statement is so false. University tries to teach you how to think like them. Only if you are smart enough to see through this bullshit and resist it, do you learn how to think for yourself. But the university doesn’t teach you this…YOU do.
So hang in there everyone! If someone actually read this whole post, thank you! I am so glad I found this site. University sucks, and if you can hack it, you can hack it. If you can’t, nothing to be ashamed of. Just go on to try something else. If that isn’t for you, just keep looking until you find it!
And always remember, there are much worse positions you could be in.
That being said, university fucking sucks.
oops, mistake in my post. I wrote “I am not on anti-depressants”…thats a typo. Supposed to say I am NOW on anti-depressants.
Damn, aimi and mogi i’m in sync with you two, I HATE RESEARCH with a passion, you never get to throw out ur own idea, just wrewrite what some other expert said, mogi i’m in gloomy ottawa also, sweden must have been sweet and liberating, a year and a half into studying commerce
Do u know what I hate most about uni? the professors…incompetent, self important assholes who never learned to exist outside of academia. I swear most of the male ones are complete arrogant douche bags who wouldn’t last a day outside of the campus’ they so desperately cling to. Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck!!!! (now I have a headache)
i hate uni, it is a total waste of time. The people are lame, the course is boring, the social life is shit. ARGHH….i should have just got a job after highschool; i don’t think i’ve gained anything positive from uni other than a death to my self confidence, having the displeasure of knowing arrogant stuck up people and worst of all, being taught by people who may be amongst the best in the field but totally retarded when it comes to communicating this information in leymans terms – BASTARDS!
i hate ucl! full of toffs and private school people – they smell funny.
Uni is a pain in my ass… I mean there are some aspects of my life i enjoy but uni isnt one of them. Haven’t met many nice ppl and the rest are all arrogant because they go to a “top uni” but in my opinion is the biggest piece of shit ever
Oh another thing… i ahte how in my uni.. like if you want to speak to someone its only general chatter. With me i like to have a laugh and not talk about uni work all the time so i bring better topics (in my opinion) to chat about but i just get weird looks…. uni is not like the real world… not at all
in my uni people only come to you if they need help. They use you. That is another reason why I hate uni people. Whatever happened to just being friendly and coming for a chat? the douchebags!
I HATE UNI !!!!!!!!!!!
Stop bitching weaklings! Suck it up and get on with it!
kingStoner, f off back to your toff uni; this world needs needs less cocky, stuck up twats like thouself. No run along back to your wine parties or whatever elitest things u do.
I HATE UNI ARRGHHHHHH…what a crap life.
fuck the bourgeosie, uni is mind fuck. Pockets of specialized knowledge are fucking stupid. Students are stupid and boring. uni sucks cock.
Nicely put oli i agree i find the jokes they find funny utterly boring whereas people in my gym ( my local one) even though they are older they are wayy better to talk to just wish they were my age
I also agree with the pockets of knowledge… whats the point ? I think a NVQ is more useful .. well in the real world atleast not if you want to do research…
Oh i was reading other posts by Lizzy and im like the same as her kinda ( just a different university -UCL) Its honestly full of private school people who only know how to socialise by getting wasted which is not kool (in my books anyway). Its just reassuring to know there are loads of other people in the same boat as me!
Im in the 3rd year but on a 4 year course but decided to quit after this year as i cant take it any more. Dont care about any work I do and i see everyone else on the course stressing out and making soo much effort .. makes me feel weird?
I used to think its the fact its UCL that i hate and though its partially true and may have been happier at another uni i can honestly say now… i dont want to find out! Just sick of uni and the type of ppl ive met!!!
But the future looks bright and in the 5 months i have left ill be crying with joy till i finally leave this shit hole!!!!!!!!!!
I am soooo glad i found this website! I am in a top 15 UK uni studying something which is rated as one of the 3 top course providers in its field in the world! I did my A levels in one year (not 2) and got 4 A-Bs in respected subjects with 60% attendence so i must be intelligent to a degree (although i rarely feel it). It is my first year at uni and it took me 2 goes to get my a levels (i became ill the first time and half heartedly did my exams in hospital). I hate studying, i always have but am willed on by coments of ‘he fell at the last hurdel’ ‘no will power’ etc and also the fact i am getting my family to pay my rent as i have a dependent friend who cant get funds to study and is the studying type(my parents are only supporting me as i am at uni). I am sort of stuck untill the end of the year when my friend can get funding. I think i will drop out, this is not for me and i can make it without this! This forum really helped! Thanks everyone : )
man, what a crap holiday…If there were decent people at ucl i’d be out right now, but the people are so lame i’m stuck at home with nought to do. Meh. Can’t wait till uni’s out and i’m in the real world. Might join the RAF or just go travelling. Hopefully i wont have the displeasure of seeing ne more toffs about. Hopefully they’ll all stay in uni and keep out of the way of normal people, woop!
Peace people, go watch Avatar – apparently it’s wicked. Merry x-mas to u all!
im so lonely in university, life rly went downhill 4 me dammm i miss the days when i was a happy young kid, everyday i would wake up with a smile on my face and now everyday i wake up its like arghh. i just hope that one day ill be that happy young kid again. n univeristy aint helping just making shit more boring and more arghhh-like. SUMMER I CANT WAIT FOR U WHERE THE FUCK IS U SUMMER!!!
p.s. canadian university sucks i dunno how it is in other countries but trust me canadian universities are dullllllllll and omg i dun wanna think about it, the nightmares..
r canadian uni’s like american ones? I hear american uni’s rock! I’m at a UK uni and they really suck here!
is it hard to get a 2.1 at uni in business?
Yer i also heard American uni rockss but my uni experience here in the UK has put me off soo much i wouldn’t go anywhere now .. ust wait for it to be over in 5 months and leave
I went to uni in the UK in the late 80’s and have to say, it was no different then – apart from being financially lot easier – it was hateful!! I found 95% of the other students complete stuck up, unpleasant, self-absorbed, pretentious c***s; the work boring and the lecturers disconnected.
Still, the career i have subsequently followed would not have been possible had I not put up with that s**** for 4 years.
well i finally got out and i am pretty dam happy, all i can say is university is overrated and made out to be some spectacular experience but its all a sham so the institution can make some big cash off everyone, its crappy lectures with information you wont remember or barely apply when you get out and theres NOTHING sacred about the education, ANYONE can walk in a lecture hall and sit down and listen in, the only difference after 4 or 8 years of the program is that you get the piece of paper but in the end you can both have the same divine university knowledge that is supposedly worth thousands of dollars, all i gotta say is the world is out to make cash and uni is an example of how they play off our emotions and desires to be successful and put university on a pedestal that everyone tries to reach and therefore wastes hard earned money, its all a joke, a complete joke, follow your heart and you will be whatever you dream.
Well done Johnny!!! I would leave… but i only have 5 months left of this crap!! so ill just leave then
I love how everyone is like nowadays you need a degree to do a good job but its totally false… sure it will help but the jobs ive been applying for as a soon to be graduate are soo boring so its not worth it!
My mum is fine about my situation she sees me everyday upset and says just finish whenever you want (which i will) but other people are like ” NO U NEED TO DO MORE” i mean they are soo trapped in a university/student bubble they need to honestly get a life ( even tho uni has ruined mine i still hate the student life)
Well good luck all …
I’ve hated uni pretty much since the first day, but it’s 2-and-a-bit years later and I’ve only got 5 months left (I go back next week). What does it feel like to finish? Do those last few months go nice and fast or do they drag on?
I wish I quit in my first week when I had the chance, just 5 months left…
I got into my Human Rights/Law program in 2006 and studied my ass off. From then until 2009 I ended up failing most of my classes but getting A+ in four or five of them. How can I be so smart in one respect but completely inept in another within the same subject? If you ask me the best way to kill a passion is to study it.
There are several things that I find completely infuriating about university.
I am in my first year, but I’m in my early 20’s. I thought I’d go back to education and try and make a go of it for myself, and I chose a subject that I assumed would give me career prospects without ‘killing my passion’ for the creative things that I really love doing.
Most of the people on my course are around my age, yet they insist on acting in a completely schoolish manner, forming cliques and intentionally excluding people, such as myself, who are perfectly confident, just don’t feel the need to say EVERYTHING that they are thinking out loud, or prove that they are witty and intelligent.
When in my personal tutorial, my tutor suggested that I had learning difficulties(I blatantly don’t), and this is after speaking to me for five minutes and meeting me once before. I think this is insensitive and unprofessional, particularly as I’d only been at Uni for a month, so there is bound to be an adjustment period.
To top it all off, the teaching is just crap. There’s spelling/grammatical/factual errors on most of my lecture slides and most of the units are completely different to how they were described in the syllabus when I applied, apparantly due to a ‘course re-design’ that they neglected to tell us was going to happen.
Bloody hell.
what should i take from de morgan’s law of logic it suck i haven’t for 2 days just drinking coffees & Smoking about 50 cigarettes & studying this freaking logic & still don’t understand anything i think if the university is sucks the whole education sucks more
Hi you lot, its very encouraging to see so many people think in this way. I, myself attended university for one year, in which I lived a pretty standard student year. I successfully passed the course for year one, but had feeling of such un-fulfillment that I had to get out.
So I got some job at AVIVA working in insurance, and met some great people from all walks of life, not just dumb students. Someone mentioned it earlier that you don’t get anywhere in life with good education, the only real way to break free from societies clutches is to be rich. Therefore after reading “Felix Dennis’: How To Get Rich” I have started my own business. And let me tell you making actual money is sooo much more fulfilling than listening to some mono-tone lecturer with the hope you may get a degree, and that degree may get you a job.
University is just a way to delay your’e adult life. Sure, if you wanna piss around for an extra 3 years go to uni. But from my point of view now as an employer I look down upon people who went to Uni cos its a complete cop-out. Thanks for letting m share my story with like-minded people.
I am a second year student studying Accounting and Finance. I hate it! I live at home and travel to Uni (this is a good thing – I don’t feel like I am missing out on anything by not having the “Uni lifestyle”)
I hate the fact that there is such a gulf in teaching methods employed by the lecturers! For example, my Finance lecturer is great, I look forward to his lectures because they are informative and enjoyable. Whereas other lectures such as Microeconomics and Marketing are made so dull and boring because of the way the professors drone on monotonously. This inevitably effects the marks in the modules. Crap lecturer = crap marks!
I wish I had the bottle to leave and start-up a business of my own. I have a good idea for a business but I don’t want to go against the society norm and be regarded as a drop-out!
Thats why I hate University so much!
Well its my first day back since the Christmas break and i already have a headache and feel very angry and depressed.. this is not good for me but ill stick it out another 5 months get a degree then do some stuff ive finally got the guts to do
With regards for Anto’s post, I dont think its against society to be a drop out .. i just havent yet coz i only have 5 months left if i felt like this before (strong feeling) i would have just left..
I am in my first year and went back to uni yesterday. Im 24 and am finding it hard to listen to people telling me their opinions rather than facts, and then when I do an assignment it has to fulfill their opinions which I dont agree with!!!!
I HATE UNI soo soo much. maybe im not the right sort of person to go to uni, im sure there must be a ’sort’ which im not one of.
I have no problem leaving, try everything once right? only problem is, what the hell do i do otherwise?? grrr uni sucks
This is my second attempt at studying for a degree, and it turns out it’s even more ill-advised than my first. In 2005 I began a languages degree at an institution in the north of England, almost by default. “You’re good at langauges”, they told me in sixth form. “Besides which, everyone goes to uni. You have to. It’s just what people your age do”. I believed them. During my one year there I attended approximately 20% of classes, handed in about the same percentage of assignments and had the organisational skills of a packet of Quavers. I neglected several rent payments and got pissed pretty much every night. Why? Because I knew a lot of people. Acquaintances, not really friends, it should be stressed. And I thought I was enjoying a happy social life. So, knowing full well I wasn’t going back for the second year, I got a menial job in a supermarket to pay off the money I owed them, and three years later enrolled on a course in another northern establishment, thinking I’d grown up and that I could put my mind to any course whatsoever.
Lots of you have described how soul-destroying you find your courses and I have to admit I’m in the same boat but not because I find it pointless or difficult or irrelevant. It’s because the one semester I’ve completed so far has completely repulsed me from the idea of a career in the media. The social side of things here are far worse. There are literally four or five people here I can just about tolerate but even then I have little in common with them. Someone tell me, why does every student on the planet spend 27 hours a day on Facebook, listen to nothing but the Arctic Monkeys and dress identically in tight black jeans and a red/black/white chequered shirt? Why, whenever I enter the Students’ Union, am I met with the same people sitting in the same groups talking about the same shit, feeling unable to permeate the arbitrary social boundaries that seem to exist? Some people gained unauthorised access to our flat the other day, stole the beer from our fridge, racially abused my friend’s boyfriend and trashed our kitchen – tell me now, what the hell are narrow-minded dickheads like these doing at university at all? I had a tutorial at 9:00am this morning, and lying in bed at 4:30am, rather