University Experience Thread

What's your experience with university?
I hate it.
I started out majoring in accounting, hated every second of it. My parents initially wanted me to become a business major, and threatened me to stay in the program.
I failed after 3 years, took a year off as a machining apprentice, then after I was laid off I returned to university as a philosophy major.

I went for 1.5 years, then my last semester went awful, the professor for my only 400 level course didn't help me with my research essays, and I ended up failing the course.
He also failed the other class I had with him.
I'm taking the year off, trying to figure out what to do with my life. I really hate spending so much money and time on what amounts to as barely a chance to escape a shitty job.

universities are places of encapsulation, look what they did to marxism

Hanging out with libertarians because the 'leftists' are more bourgeois.
What a state the left is in.

I liked it, real jobs fucking suck and we need to automate that shit as soon as possible. I'm probably going to go back to academia next year.

I feel you OP.

At the urging of my family, friends, and counselors I was a business major with dreams of operating an indie film studio(don't go to film school it's a waste of time according to a friend's brother who did that). I got class conscious after quite a way in, and am barely going to be able to pull off a double major in Economics after having wasted time learning mysticism and how to suck porky's cock responsibly. I feel like a fucking fool and have a deep rage at those who pushed me down this path, myself included. I don't give a shit about most of my fellow students and other than fucking, or trying to and getting blue balls, a girl I get matched with I have little contact with them. Oh yeah, and I took a year off after abusing a lot of drugs and getting fat, and another one just after going back because my mom got cancer and I had to take care of the bitch.

I want to start a co-op so I can direct films sucking slightly less porky cock and work with people I like instead of want to shit on.

I fucking hate university, I'm finishing my first year of Comp Sci and it fucking sucks.

I like coding but I give literally 0 fucks about the theory. I'm such a brainlet I cannot not myself to even open my book.

I took a CNC machining course in high school and I'd rather go to college (what you burgers call community college) and study that instead. Sure the pay is much less but it is something that I enjoy.

CS is just pure cuckery, I don't want to spend the rest of my life making apps and coding ads into web banners. I want to make physical things and be a tradesman. CS is going to be a shit industry because the libertarian idiots don't want to unionize in the next 5 years.

The culture in university is fucking cancer too. Everyone is a liberal/libertarian, so many bourgeois kids who don't appreciate anything in life and are super wasteful, it annoys the shit out of me (Yes I know how edgy that sounds fuck you you can't control me).


I want to take a year off too. Funny, I never imagined that I would be another one of those guys that goes into university and then decides all of the sudden they've changed their minds.

COINTELPRO

congrats on not knowing what bourgeois is duder

My college experience has been shit. I left high school a liberal that wanted to go into law and "change the world." Started out as a history major with the intention of going to law school. Got hit by a car my freshman year while walking to campus and fell into a hole of depression and anxiety shortly afterward that disillusioned me to a lot of things in my life. Got disillusioned with going into law and with the influence of friends and people online, I switched my major to Comp Sci. Like I hated every single moment of it. Quickly realized that if I continued down this path I would want to kill myself if I ever got a code monkey job. Relapsed hard on my depression and anxiety, could not leave my apartment for months. Parents got concerned after not hearing from me for so long and rightly thought I was suicidal. Forced me to drop out and move home.

Got back into college locally after discovering an interest in languages and literature. Now I'm on my path to be an English teacher and plan on getting certification and training to teach English as a second language.

Now that I actually know what I want to do and am a few years older, I am actually enjoying school.

I have had a rather decent time with universities. It actually weirds a lot of people I know out that i actually graduated and am now in graduate school.

I am a mathematics major btw.

Congrats on living the year 1976 and not knowing how exclusively liberal self identified 'socialists' are at uni

The experience of being a ghost at university makes me miss the bulling of early high-school.
It's absolutely maddening to have people be perfectly civil to your face, only to completely forget you exist otherwise, and to never approach you (while never telling you to fuck off if you approach them.) or recognize you exist.
Fuck it, fuck all of it. I thought I feared hostility, that so long as people were nice it'd all be great. No. This is worse than hostility. At least with hostility I knew where I stood in relation to other people.

And it's only going to get worse. Fuck socializing, fuck further education, fuck getting out of bed.

Someone kill me.

You have it pretty good faggot. I can't get anything using my IT degree other than retail. I might just waste more of my life and go back to school again. I do not have the time for this shit.

Kind of wish I didn't go into school at all in the first place and trained to be a plumber or something.

I can't even get a job at a grocery store myself.

Get out normie


this. university is a meme.

Try talking to these liberal 'socialists' and you'll see SocDems at best. They're full off shit, don't read theory, repeat the same 'I'm a socialist but Stalin killed 400 million, Bernie and Trotsky 4 life' and become liberals again in 5 years because they are spooked to shit from having rich families.


I work grocery. My store at least is almost always hiring. If you can work unusual hours (most stores are staffed by students) you're guaranteed at least a part time job. Full time is really hard to come by and the wage is shit.

Meanwhile I studied theatre at a not-great college and got a job in a related field with decent pay two months after graduation

so… like, either crush capitalism now or learn a trade that can't be automated or shipped overseas.

I'll be running mixers and installing speaker-stacks till my back gives out at 40, and my nest egg will let me retire to the nicest cardboard shack under the 405-110 cloverleaf

ps: also learned basic woodworking and welding from building sets

god bless my faggoty liberal arts degree

I sent out applications to pretty much every store that was hiring in my area last summer for part time work, I plan to do it again (this time sooner), but god damn is it draining.

I was raised Catholic and as a result am spooked at a deep psychological level. Have pity on me.

That sucks mate. Sadly the way the system works is basically nepotism, employees recommending friends and so on. Even for minimum wage jobs you need connections now.


Small tip: write availability on the resume, and give it to the department manager directly.


POPE FRANCIS
IS NAZBOL

I hate it

They nickel and dime the shit out of me, I've made no friends, the most left-wing group is the fucking College Democrats, it's hell, please kill me

I love it. Then again I'm in the north european socdem bubble where everyone studies what they want and only the businessfags care about the amount of money they make after graduation.

Y'all bitter niggas

Lectures are a shit way to learn. Students are either pretentious as hell, normie as hell, or don't do anything but drink. I came from a fairly colourful group of friends, the level dull bland people at university was a shock. The work wasn't as big a step up as I expected which was good in some ways and bad in others. Didn't have to work much but didn't feel as if I was learning much. There is no way in hell those courses actually cost what they charge. Probably 1 or 2 hours of contact time a week. The societies are invariably run the SJW who doesn't actually give a fuck about the issue and is just building her super progressive CV with guardian bait sounding titles. You are uprooted and then expected to be friends with a bunch of people you just met and the only thing you have in common is that a computer system but you together. Uni sucks tbh

It was much better when I realised its basically a way to test whether you've learned something, and you've got to learn it yourself.

The university is just there to do research and to accredit people who know their shit.

t. stemlord

Did a four year double major in Philosophy and Econ got mediocre grades, but good ones in the final year. Wrote 170 lsat and am now going to law school.

Overall university is pretty terrible mainly because of how many professors dgaf. This problem was much worse in Econ than philosophy. I would say around 1/3rd of econ professors are just pompous assholes whose classes would be difficult because of pure laziness on their part.

Overall the whole experience really disillusioned me with economics as a profession. Many in the discipline are not trying to develop creative solutions or new models but just using math in a closed system to prove why people should starve.

Majored in mechanical engineering now working for a startup helping automate fast food processes for mid-high end restaurants. My experience in Uni was okay. My course was very hard so I didn't really have much of a life. My time off was spend working to pay my bills and chilling with my gf.

I earn very good money but I feel bad that a lot of people will lose their jobs because of me. We're not automating fast food mind you that part of the industry is finished. We're working on automating the more high end stuff.

I can really relate to this I felt like no one at my university had any sort of passion, beliefs, or hobbies. A lot of nice and somewhat intelligent bland people. I would have endless arguments and discussions about politics with a libertarian friend because most people just didn't seem to care.

I'm in EE, and I remain ambivalent to it since it's better than nothing. I'm gonna wait and see if I can get a job in this industry or in coding or whatever other stupid shit I can find that can pay a comfortable salary, else I might just go into trades or teaching.

My programming teacher showed us a video on AI, and how it was totally going to change the world and make it a better place, and I couldn't help, but laugh in my head at how cancerous technological fetishism is in our society.

I like it, at least they kind of leave you alone. I'm going to finish it soon though and just the thought of having to become a wage-slave makes me suicidal like nothing else I can't stand it I'm probably going to end my life before I actually finish uni

I failed out of university twice. Lost contact with what few friends I had in high school,and am now living at home with my mom despite being 23. The only good thing is that it was a state university so I don't have almost any debt and probably will have enough to at least partially pay for a trade school. Seriously NEVER go to a private university unless if you get a full scholarship or its Harvard or something.

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I got a degree in philosophy around five years ago and would have liked to take it to a masters, but I don't know that I liked what that would have entailed, not just in the terms of debt, but in writing and peddling essays to various know-someone-to-get-in-the-door philosophy journals that no one reads but everyone needs to get into if they want to start teaching, which is really the only self-contained end-goal of a philosophy degree. This notion turned me off from academia, because once you get past a certain level it becomes incredibly political. At least that's the sense I got when discussing it with my professors.

University itself though? I had a good time. I liked pretty much all of my professors, and while there was a bit of busy-work involved in the whole affair, I'd say it was a positive experience for me. Maybe not one worth like 50k, but still valuable in its own right. I'd recommend it over enlisting in some military operation.

I notice a lot of other people in this thread talking about their interactions or interpretations of the people around them at university. I can't say that I have many distinct memories of people at my school being excessively annoying. Most people were there to learn, party, or both. The ones that stay longer than a year or so are generally in it to learn something, and that's all I really saw of them. Idk, maybe I just didn't get out enough. Maybe that's why I liked the experience? I guess if the people around you at Uni are indeed irredeemably annoying, maybe you should go find a quiet place to study?

After university I taught myself how to program and I've been doing that for the last several years. That's how I pay the bills nowadays.

Public unis are good where I live and cheap (400€ a year, or almost nothing if you are a poorfag). The government even gave me a bit of money to study for 7 years.
There is always some leftist organizations active on campuses, and even though I never became an activist, I always befriended them and were sympathetic to their actions.

I studied sociology for one year, and even though I failed, learning some stuff about Bourdieu and the protestant vs catholic ethics was an eye-opener, politically speaking.
Then I got a degree in cognitive sciences, and it was simultaneously one of the best and worst thing I did, because while I learned the basics of how the brain works and programming, which is great, I can't fall for the Abrahamic paradise meme anymore, since I know that when the electrical shit happening in my brain will stop, there will be nothing. It can induce some severe anxiety at times.

Finally, I realized I didn't want to do some research in that field, so I enrolled in a master's degree to get a job in programming for people who didn't study CS/CE/EE before.
I got my first year easily compared to most other students, but this year, which was supposed to be the last one, I got really depressed at the thought of """living the dream""" by working in precarious start-ups with their ping-pong tables no one use, fridges full of beers no one drink, their anxiety-inducing open spaces, Agile/Scrum methodologies and their shitty Java or JS code. So I didn't go to classes and just drank, and still do.
I just wanted to work in DSP related to audio or video, but my math level isn't good enough for that. I wish I studied EE.

So I don't know what do to now. I want to live off NEET-bux, occasional seasonal work, and travel, but I'm afraid of the shitty life that awaits me if don't finish my master.
At the same time, the city I moved to for this degree is driving me crazy. I just wanna get out of there, see my old friends and play music with them.

Anyway, Americans, don't fall too hard for the accelerationist meme.
Social welfare isn't socialism, I know, but it beats having to work two jobs to pay your 20k debt at 19.
Remind people who tell you that having cheap universities is impossible, that if us, yuropoors, can do it, you can do it too.

I am a mathematics major
If that's true, surely you can answer this? You apply the following rule to some random positive integer: If it is even, cut in half. If it is odd, multiply by three and then add one. You apply the same rule to the output of that, and again with the result, and so on. Do you always get to one at some point no matter which positive integer you start with?


OK but first make some programs for communism.

2 years ago I graduated in IT at some backwater private college in my third world shithole; my performance was so good that the next year the college hired me as a teacher for the most ""demanding"" courses but I grew tired of playing politics and the nickel and dime tactics so I quit.

Seems to be like everybody who was in wanted to get the degree asap and fuck off even if it meant copypasting and bullshiting their way, basically what is called a degree mill I think. I wonder what do those people think they'll do when they realize they don't know anything of value about their supposed area of expertise. I certainly question myself about that daily.

I also didn't really learn much, it's mostly a farce to get the owners some dividendies.

I'm a NEET currently, prob gonna kms one of these days.

Just a lazy flow of consciousness here, excuse me.