THIS is why I hate college

[D-B-J]

I am going to a small university, and it's wonderful. No stress, easy to stand out, I know all my professors by name and they know me. Work outside of class with most of them. It's great. I'm assuming you go to a large school? It's a lot tougher to make it all work at places like that, I feel. But even here, many of my friends have issues with classes offered every other spring/fall, etc. It can be tough to finish your degree on time. They just wanna squeeze as much money out of you as they can. But hey, since you can't do much about it, take a fun elective and just roll with it!

Jakd


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lol I wouldn't mind it if it hadn't happened almost every semester. My first semester, I took a duplicate poli. sci. course that I took in HS because my adviser didn't read my transcripts right that I had to make up in the summer, then I had to take another extra course because another adviser didn't use the right catalog year.

Even with scholarships, which by the way don't just magically make college easier, I've had to sink so much of my own money into classes that didn't even go toward my degree.

I bet, sounds like your advisor sucks. I feel lucky, in that my advisor has been my professor 4 times(soon to be 5), my boss for a summer, and I really see him as a colleague/friend. Wish you the best of luck! What's your major? Looking into grad school? I lied about the stress thing, haha. Trying to find a grad school is a consistent bit of stress, and has been for about the last month.

Jake


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[TheFantasticG]

Surely, being in college and all, you know of the meme I'm referring to.... I'd post one but that'd be a violation of the ToS.

Yeah I know, but memes have transcended the lulz and have now become things that people use to give their serious opinion.

Sounds like a serious opinion you got there on the meme... I don't take life so seriously so I still find them funny. Also why I didn't post a serious opinion on your OP because your whining is silly and doesn't warrant a serious response.

As Steven said, you have scholarships. Stop your whining, man up, and do what you have to do. You certainly have it MUCH easier than I did when I went to "college."

 

[amolitor]

I loved college, so I cannot commiserate much

I can recommend spending some time with the course catalog and looking for whatever looks like the most crazy random fun stuff you can find to fill up those hours that you gotta fill. There might be some surprising things. Is there a for credit swimming class? Skeet shooting? Ballroom dance? Mad science?

The most fun I had in college was when I was free to fill slots up with almost random 100-level crap in the last year. It was easy, it was fun, it was different.

Sounds like your advisors have been horrendous, sorry to hear about that.

 

[rexbobcat]

I am going to a small university, and it's wonderful. No stress, easy to stand out, I know all my professors by name and they know me. Work outside of class with most of them. It's great. I'm assuming you go to a large school? It's a lot tougher to make it all work at places like that, I feel. But even here, many of my friends have issues with classes offered every other spring/fall, etc. It can be tough to finish your degree on time. They just wanna squeeze as much money out of you as they can. But hey, since you can't do much about it, take a fun elective and just roll with it!

Jakd


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lol I wouldn't mind it if it hadn't happened almost every semester. My first semester, I took a duplicate poli. sci. course that I took in HS because my adviser didn't read my transcripts right that I had to make up in the summer, then I had to take another extra course because another adviser didn't use the right catalog year.

Even with scholarships, which by the way don't just magically make college easier, I've had to sink so much of my own money into classes that didn't even go toward my degree.

I bet, sounds like your advisor sucks. I feel lucky, in that my advisor has been my professor 4 times(soon to be 5), my boss for a summer, and I really see him as a colleague/friend. Wish you the best of luck! What's your major? Looking into grad school? I lied about the stress thing, haha. Trying to find a grad school is a consistent bit of stress, and has been for about the last month.

Jake


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It's been multiple advisers, which is terrifying lol. Unfortunately at this university, because it's so large, the advisers are their own entity, so it's kind of impersonal. My major is, and it embarrasses me to say this (sort of), but it's University Studies. It's super vague and kinda useless in terms of actual application, but it basically let me create my own curriculum. So mainly I've focused on communications/journalism/photography. Somebody is probably going to reply further down about how I shouldn't complain because I'm in a major that's not even "that hard" and pretty pathetic when it comes to getting a job, but I came to college to learn different perspective and how to think. As pretentious as it sounds, I'm not paying out the ass to follow a rigid, yet confusing and sometimes nonsensical curriculum and earn an empty degree. If I wanted to learn how to work at a job, I would have gone to a trade school.

 

[D-B-J]

I completely understand. And isn't that the point of college? You go there to get a degree you WANT. Or at least, that's how it should be.


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[rexbobcat]

Surely, being in college and all, you know of the meme I'm referring to.... I'd post one but that'd be a violation of the ToS.

Yeah I know, but memes have transcended the lulz and have now become things that people use to give their serious opinion.

Sounds like a serious opinion you got there on the meme... I don't take life so seriously so I still find them funny. Also why I didn't post a serious opinion on your OP because your whining is silly and doesn't warrant a serious response.

As Steven said, you have scholarships. Stop your whining, man up, and do what you have to do. You certainly have it MUCH easier than I did when I went to "college."

I'm not going to apologize for having it easier, and that doesn't make my problems any less problematic for ME. I'm surprised this fact is lost on someone who is presumably older, wiser, and college-educateder than me. It's great that you disregard my issues, but that doesn't exactly add anything useful to the thread, because I never asked for advice. Ever. Never ever in this thread did I ask for advice.

So please, tell me about how your college experience was difficult, but don't preach to me like I don't already know what's up.

Oh, and just to get my come back in: Your lack of reading comprehension is silly, but I still gave your response a response (isn't it great when we can get personal with things?) I guess I'm not any better.

 

[amolitor]

Anyone who drags out "First world problems!" isn't allowed to complain about anything, ever again. Unless they're complaining about starving to death because they can't obtain food.

 

[manaheim]

My opinion of college was that it was about 95% training you on how to deal with the worst kind of bull**** imaginable, so that when you get into the workforce there's no real shock to your system with the kind of idiots you have to deal with every day.

Your experience seems to support that theory.

My advice to you is to buck up. It don't get any better when you get out of school.

 

[rexbobcat]

I loved college, so I cannot commiserate much

I can recommend spending some time with the course catalog and looking for whatever looks like the most crazy random fun stuff you can find to fill up those hours that you gotta fill. There might be some surprising things. Is there a for credit swimming class? Skeet shooting? Ballroom dance? Mad science?

The most fun I had in college was when I was free to fill slots up with almost random 100-level crap in the last year. It was easy, it was fun, it was different.

Sounds like your advisors have been horrendous, sorry to hear about that.

I've thought about going the physical ED route, which I want to do, because it is something different and fun, but unfortunately they're all worth 1 credit. I don't even know why they have them unless you're an exercise and sports science major, which they're mandatory for (I think). I've also thought about art classes, but I took a drawing class last spring and the amount of time I had to dedicate to it was brutal and it wasn't even much fun since it's a technical class devoid of creativity. It makes sense but it also makes art classes so lame unless you're super into that sort of thing.

I was REALLY excited because there is a Contemporary Aesthetics philosophy class being offered next spring, but when I tried to register for it I realized that it's only a grad class. So disappointed. It's so hard to find classes that are about applying concepts and not so much about reading the text and regurgitating it on exams. :/

 

[rexbobcat]

My opinion of college was that it was about 95% training you on how to deal with the worst kind of bull**** imaginable, so that when you get into the workforce there's no real shock to your system with the kind of idiots you have to deal with every day.

Your experience seems to support that theory.

My advice to you is to buck up. It don't get any better when you get out of school.

I know it doesn't, but generally in the workplace I am presumably going to get paid to deal with BS. In college, you're paying the university for the privilege to put up with the BS. Maybe it's different than that. I dunno. I haven't been in the workforce long, but the incentive of not starving to death seems much more compelling than getting a kinda useless degree and maybe getting a job when dealing with BS lol.

Why is everyone perceiving my venting as a cry for help? I already know that the solution is to deal with it. Never in my OP did I ask for advice. I just want to know "Oh I totally understand what you're going through" or "I didn't have that experience at all." I mean, I don't want to dictate where the thread goes, but I kind of thought it was obvious what I was asking for in the beginning...

 

[manaheim]

College is WAY more pleasant than working. You're going to earn every dollar with the steady grinding away of your sanity and your soul.

Trust me. The bull****, while MASSIVELY annoying, is nothing compared to what you may be up against in the future.

 

[Derrel]

Tough break. Time for the Texas-sized box....e69cacbf8db76222e6227715f73b8971e4df6b66_m.jpg

 

[rexbobcat]

Tough break. Time for the Texas-sized box....e69cacbf8db76222e6227715f73b8971e4df6b66_m.jpg

Thanks, but I prefer the world's largest violin. http://born2dance101.webs.com/photos/Opinion-Worlds-Biggest/351087322eZolfT_ph.jpg

 

[TheFantasticG]

Yeah I know, but memes have transcended the lulz and have now become things that people use to give their serious opinion.

Sounds like a serious opinion you got there on the meme... I don't take life so seriously so I still find them funny. Also why I didn't post a serious opinion on your OP because your whining is silly and doesn't warrant a serious response.

As Steven said, you have scholarships. Stop your whining, man up, and do what you have to do. You certainly have it MUCH easier than I did when I went to "college."

I'm not going to apologize for having it easier, and that doesn't make my problems any less problematic for ME. I'm surprised this fact is lost on someone who is presumably older, wiser, and college-educateder than me. It's great that you disregard my issues, but that doesn't exactly add anything useful to the thread, because I never asked for advice. Ever. Never ever in this thread did I ask for advice.

So please, tell me about how your college experience was difficult, but don't preach to me like I don't already know what's up.

Oh, and just to get my come back in: Your lack of reading comprehension is silly, but I still gave your response a response (isn't it great when we can get personal with things?) I guess I'm not any better.

Assuming will get you in trouble. I went to trade school and worked 2-3 jobs to get me through it. I'm still in my twenties. Thankfully I didn't have to pay for shelter and food, as I would have never slept, just work and school.

You started this thread so don't get all butt hurt when people like myself think it is silly you are complaining about something so silly. My reading abilities are just fine... Infact there is no "issue" here beyond your whining about not being done with college yet.. So don't get mad at me for posting on a thread on an internet forum when you put your personal business out there to be commented on by anyone regardless if you find the input relevant or not.

P.S. Glad I went to trade school instead of university like friends of mine... 90% of them are struggling to find work in their respective fields and the other 10% aren't making 1/2 of what I make and won't come close to what I make for another 10-20 years.

 

[rexbobcat]

Sounds like a serious opinion you got there on the meme... I don't take life so seriously so I still find them funny. Also why I didn't post a serious opinion on your OP because your whining is silly and doesn't warrant a serious response.

As Steven said, you have scholarships. Stop your whining, man up, and do what you have to do. You certainly have it MUCH easier than I did when I went to "college."

I'm not going to apologize for having it easier, and that doesn't make my problems any less problematic for ME. I'm surprised this fact is lost on someone who is presumably older, wiser, and college-educateder than me. It's great that you disregard my issues, but that doesn't exactly add anything useful to the thread, because I never asked for advice. Ever. Never ever in this thread did I ask for advice.

So please, tell me about how your college experience was difficult, but don't preach to me like I don't already know what's up.

Oh, and just to get my come back in: Your lack of reading comprehension is silly, but I still gave your response a response (isn't it great when we can get personal with things?) I guess I'm not any better.

Assuming will get you in trouble. I went to trade school and worked 2-3 jobs to get me through it. I'm still in my twenties. Thankfully I didn't have to pay for shelter and food, as I would have never slept, just work and school.

You started this thread so don't get all butt hurt when people like myself think it is silly you are complaining about something so silly. My reading abilities are just fine... Infact there is no "issue" here beyond your whining about not being done with college yet.. So don't get mad at me for posting on a thread on an internet forum when you put your personal business out there to be commented on by anyone regardless if you find the input relevant or not.

P.S. Glad I went to trade school instead of university like friends of mine... 90% of them are struggling to find work in their respective fields and the other 10% aren't making 1/2 of what I make and won't come close to what I make 10-20 years.

Ah, so you went to a TRADE school and not a UNIVERSITY, so you basically have no credibility concerning the problem that I put forward. But anyways; I never said I would just agree that you have an opinion and that's that. If you put your counter-opinion out there, don't be surprised when someone responds against it.

I wish I was a Texas tough guy like you with your motorcycle and your backwards baseball cap.

Please understand that people have different motives for what they do. You obviously care about money. Some people go to to universities because they were given scholarships and can't not go to college on the grounds that somebody else needs this money more than they do, so they shouldn't squander it. Some go because they have to for their chosen career. It's great that you don't need a college degree to make lots of money, but don't throw the same condescending blanket over every other college-educated person.