How many of you absolutely HATED college!!???

[Chris.B]

I did...

none of my classes were fun.
My days were filled with engineering and math crap but I'm doing better than all those who took the fun courses except the ones who hit the rich family lottery.

 

[No1]

nope

some of the best years of my life

the parties, the bishes, the educated people, learning, growing as a person, networking and much more

Exactly. I'm not going to judge the OP and I think there was good advice given about perspective--especially when you start late. But most of the time, the people who hated college never found their "scene" and so they never balanced out the academic side. College becomes horrible if you don't have a good blend. But I pretty much became who I am in college. If you hated college--a place where there is literally every type of person if you just put yourself out there to meet people--then it's probably on you. Now if you went to a small liberal arts school, then I could see the argument.

 

[The Nigerian]

Be an anti-social, nerd with no friends in college, brehs.

Basically.

 

[Sad Bunny]

Exactly. I'm not going to judge the OP and I think there was good advice given about perspective--especially when you start late. But most of the time, the people who hated college never found their "scene" and so they never balanced out the academic side. College becomes horrible if you don't have a good blend. But I pretty much became who I am in college. If you hated college--a place where there is literally every type of person if you just put yourself out there to meet people--then it's probably on you. Now if you went to a small liberal arts school, then I could see the argument.

exactly...i outgrew the hood at liek 17 and NEEDED to meet others.

i went to an inner city, all black high school in Philly and i just knew that's not who i was.

then college came and i could dress different and find myself

i have so many different friends....i wouldnt change a thing..except my major

 

[hotbeezie]

I did...

none of my classes were fun.
My days were filled with engineering and math crap but I'm doing better than all those who took the fun courses except the ones who hit the rich family lottery.

This. Engineers catch hell through school. I went in medical laboratory science and I'm making bread but that engineering money is

STEM majors stay winning

 

[Bender Rodriguez]

I started college when i was like 25 and community college at that, but it was still dope. I just went to class and went home cause i had work but i just partied it up on the weekends and weekdays like i did before i even registered for school

Now im married and still going to school and still enjoy it more then work. Dont talk to anyone outside of class but be chopping it up with the females and cool dudes in class...Still dont hate it, in the fall ill be going to university and life will still be good.

 

[SamuraiFlamenco]

Im not trying to be mean but u just sound like a anti-social outcast. Making friends in HS and college is not as hard as you are making it. I was never the life of the party in HS or even now in college but ive never had a problem connecting with my peers and finding friends to hang out with. There is a "scene" for everyone, you just have to let yourself be vulnerable and come out of your shell. Im only responding to your posts because I dont want any impressionable high school kids lurking this thread to have this horrible image of college that you are painting.

I'm not though. I wasn't the life of the party in HS either, but in college I just "found my group" and we hung out and partied and shyt. Without that group I would be in OP's situation. I'm not painting it as some horrible thing, I just wanted to give a realistic picture. The same way you found your "scene" in college and I found my "scene" is how you do in high school and college. The scenes available to you depend on the college. A small private liberal arts college will probably have a huge hipster scene, while a small private conservative southern college won't really have hipsters like that.

 

[Ohene]

People talk about this as being your fault, but it really isn't. You can have good social skills, be fun/interesting, but if you don't "fit in" to a group, you'll probably be alone. I knew a lot of people like this. They were on good terms with people, and they 'd have friends in the classroom, but when the weekend came around they were on their own because they just didn't fit into a particular "clique".

College is basically highschool 2.0 in terms of the social scene. Don't let anyone tell you different.

very true

 

[*L*E*G*A*C*Y*]

Be an anti-social, nerd with no friends in college, brehs.

I went to three colleges.

My first one, I had loads of friends...but it was in small town Ohio and had an 80% transfer rate. I had no choice to leave because there was nothing there for me.

I transferred to community college to get my credits and GPA up and eventually just started hanging out with my high school friends again cause I was back home.

I then went to Pitt and just didn't care about parties or the social scene cause I was already 21 and old enough to drink. By that time, that whole social scene was just too young for me and I was too old for it.

Not to mention being a first generation Nigerian/West Indian American in a predominantly white institution didn't help much either.

Most people thought I was on a sports team...when I told them I wasn't they just didn't even bother talking to me anymore because Pitt was and is a dumbass sports related school.

I did kill it academically though. That's what I was proud of...but real talk, at the end of the day my dream was to go to NYU or St. Johns in 2005 and never come back to Pittsburgh.

I hate having to explain myself on here, but it's probably the only way I can make myself understood on here. Most people on the coli just like to leave everything open ended and draw their own conclusions without even asking for a perspective that alludes to why a person is feeling some type of way about something.

Most of y'all would rather just talk sh!t and dump on people as if everyone's supposed to be exactly the same...guess what THEY'RE NOT!

 

[*L*E*G*A*C*Y*]

Exactly. I'm not going to judge the OP and I think there was good advice given about perspective--especially when you start late. But most of the time, the people who hated college never found their "scene" and so they never balanced out the academic side. College becomes horrible if you don't have a good blend. But I pretty much became who I am in college. If you hated college--a place where there is literally every type of person if you just put yourself out there to meet people--then it's probably on you. Now if you went to a small liberal arts school, then I could see the argument.

Yea, it probably was me. A first generation Nigerian/West Indian American dude in a PWI where the only things anybody cared about were sports, drinking, and nothing else. I was already too old for that scene so the people I clicked with at the end of the day were people outside of it.

I was just into different things at the time. I was into fashion, art, making music, DJing, there were absolutely no people at Pitt that I met that were into that.

I had two friends in the school and that was it. And those were my homies from skating at the local skate spot near my apartment (one was my neighbor). I had one girlfriend and that lasted 6 months.

And I'm a pretty friendly and outgoing cat too, I'm very social...that environment just wasn't for me...so I hate it when people are trying to paint me as this "anti-social" retard when you only have text posts to go on and no one has ever met me in real life.

Edit (in reference to the bolded): The first college I attended was a small liberal arts college in Ohio that had 1200 people TOTAL!

 

[*L*E*G*A*C*Y*]

Some of you really must have had it easy when it came to meeting people and "fitting in".

I think people really must think I'm some sort of fringe person who refuses to go out of their way to socialize ...but whatever. Think that all you want, while I know for myself cause no amount of text will probably put my ideas or express the way I felt during those years to you. Real individuals and people who aren't afraid to be themselves are always scorned while people who "get with the program" are always seen as great. I had a hard time navigating through that world and it just really pissed me off and frustrated me, that's why I hated it.

I'm always going to be me and I've never had problem meeting people until I was in that environment, once I was out, I was fine. I had more passions that kept me in tune with everything else.

I had fun, but as far as my collective 10 year experience? I hated it. End of story.

 

[Ohene]

I can relate somewhat....I didn't fukk around in college for 7-8 years....I just didn't start college until I was 21. From 18-21 I stayed home and worked. And at 21, I decided to finally enroll. So now, I'm 25 years old and a fifth year senior graduating this May (don't judge me, transferring colleges shorted me some credits ). I feel like I lost out on a real college experience because eventhough I blend in and look the same age as everyone else, I'm so over the college experience at this point. My freshman year I had the time of my life because at 21, I was still a bit immature. But by last year, my junior year, at 24 years old, I was sitting in class like "what the fukk am I doing here? im tired of this sh*t :arabhuh:


And even though I'm graduating, I still feel loserish at times because my peers from back home are well into their careers, have houses, wives, kids etc. So sometimes I feel like instead of succeeding, I'm merely catching up The silver lining I guess is that in 30 years, it won't matter that I graduated at 26 instead of 22.

breh, i'ma have to shoot you a PM one dayy

 

[Wild self]

I did...

none of my classes were fun.
My days were filled with engineering and math crap but I'm doing better than all those who took the fun courses except the ones who hit the rich family lottery.

College without parties is basically indoctrination to take away your humanity. Especially you studying a major that you don't like.

 

[*L*E*G*A*C*Y*]

College without parties is basically indoctrination to take away your humanity. Especially you studying a major that you don't like.

Oh I partied, dont get me wrong...

My first year when I started Pitt, I actually partied too much...to the point I was on academic probation and had to spend another year at community college to get my credits up and GPA.

I just couldn't relate to the people I was around in college, that's all...and I would of rather spent my time with my other group of friends from high school/college than with Pitt people.

Ofcourse, no one wants to read into what I'm saying anymore...they just want to paint me as an "anti-social nerd" and have fun insulting me when they've never even met me in real life or know anything about me.

I'm done with this thread...I'm sick and tired of explaining myself to people who will never get it.

 

[Wild self]

I can relate somewhat....I didn't fukk around in college for 7-8 years....I just didn't start college until I was 21. From 18-21 I stayed home and worked. And at 21, I decided to finally enroll. So now, I'm 25 years old and a fifth year senior graduating this May (don't judge me, transferring colleges shorted me some credits ). I feel like I lost out on a real college experience because eventhough I blend in and look the same age as everyone else, I'm so over the college experience at this point. My freshman year I had the time of my life because at 21, I was still a bit immature. But by last year, my junior year, at 24 years old, I was sitting in class like "what the fukk am I doing here? im tired of this sh*t :arabhuh:


And even though I'm graduating, I still feel loserish at times because my peers from back home are well into their careers, have houses, wives, kids etc. So sometimes I feel like instead of succeeding, I'm merely catching up The silver lining I guess is that in 30 years, it won't matter that I graduated at 26 instead of 22.

LOL you were in HU when you were that old? How it feel being in their parties being older than anyone else?