Bored at university!!??

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I enjoyed my time at college, shared rooms in the hostel, communal meals, segregated sexes, I didn’t have time to get bored there was a great deal of work to get through, we were a lot more mature than todays students at the same age we had all had 3 yrs working day release.

My GD disliked her university time especially off campus in yrs 2 and 3, social life was not great, she graduated 2.1 but jobs difficult, so not a great success

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I am shocked but not surprised. Those damn phones have taken over everyone's lives. The Universities really should make an effort to get people mixing socially otherwise I fear for the future. These are young people who need to learn social skills and how to communicate in person not just online.

The world has changed .....'social skills' are not what they were....it may not be for the better....but with the advancement in technology, there's no going back

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GCs at Uni are having a great time, so I am surprised.

The student is probably working now.
OP dated Jan 2020.

GCs at Uni are having a great time, so I am surprised.

This is another old thread. The student GD has probably graduated now... and may no longer be bored!

Did my degree and subsequent MA in Edinburgh in the 70s. Looking back I realise how lucky I was, though I took it for granted at the time. The social scene was fantastic! So many good pubs, but so little money. Like many of my contemporaries I had to take part time jobs to make ends meet. It didn’t seem onerous and I have great memories of that time. I was certainly never bored. I had so much energy then and thought nothing of studying into the wee, small hours. These days I’m nodding off at 9:30.

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PS: I went to University in my late 40's and studied Victorian History and managed a good grade - somehow!!

I agree with you BradfordLass72. My GD is working a couple of jobs which involve meeting all sorts of people. She is also writing poetry and books which lead her into all sorts of areas. AND she is earning and saving up. She was a top scholar at school but chose her own route and she's got no regrets which is positive

How about the government make everything online, it saves time and concentration level of students also increases. They don't even have to revise anything. Then with the remaining time they can do meetups and extra activities

Sounds as if you had a whale of a time AreWeThereYet

Dont worry about this being an old thread.
I find it quite enjoyable reading resurrected ones.

When you are in your 40s socialising with 20somethings is not really appealing because I felt like their mother.

I know it's an old thread but this tickled me because I went through the same, as I completed my BSc at 40. Most of the youngsters were really friendly and interested in why we were there at 'our age' . I had children not that much younger than some of my fellow students.

PhD was easier because I worked mainly with older people and some of the lab assistants were older than me too. Thinking about it I may have been older than some of the lecturers

ORIGINAL THREAD FROM 2020.

I suppose some comments could still be relevant.

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DGS, a gregarious character, is enjoying a social life in his first term at university. He has taken up a new sport and has found himself a part-time job to keep the wolf from the door. I'm hoping to see him soon to hear all about it.

I agree with posters upthread about phones having "taken over" and more or less killed the arts of conversation and debate.

My experience of uni was from 1986-95 (undergrad and postgrad). We didnt have mobiles until the 1990s. However as a mature student my life was different and focused on work and study rather than socialising. I knew at a fairly early stage that I wanted to become an academic so I was focused on getting a 1st and then my masters and doctorate.

When you are in your 40s socialising with 20somethings is not really appealing because I felt like their mother. Also I had my own flat and did not live in halls.

You make of "the university experience" what you want it to be. I socialised more with the lecturers than the undergrads.

I went to university back in the early 1960s, before all the drinking culture, not to say plenty of drinking didn't take place, but i never saw anyone so drunk they couldn't stand or any worse.

University then was a hive of societies, hundreds of them. I joined most of them my first term, as most of us did. and after collapsing from exhaustion during the Christmas vacation, slimmed it down to about 5. Through these societies I met students from almost every other faculty and met the engineering student I eventually married.

The experience I got on the committees of these various societies, including invovlvement with the university's international programme, served me in excellent stead when job hunting as I could indicate I had experience running programmes, working with visiting foreign delegations etc etc.

My children went to university in the early 1990s, the drinking culture was in full swing, and this all seemed to be done within their own faculty, where i had university friends who were studing medecine, dentistry, engineering, science, fine art etc etc, their friends studied the same subjeccts as them.

I went back to university in the late 1990s and not much had changed from my children's times. the few societies were relegated to notice boards in a back corridor where no one went and all socialisation was within faculty, which, to be honest, was ather boring.

I think Bradford1 puts her finger on it. Back in the 1960s we got all the experience her grand daughter has got at and through our time at university.

Then, a university education was not just an academic education it was also offered a wider cultural, social and personal education, which you had to choose and develop yourself. Almost all my university friends came out with an academic degree and new interests and experiences that contributed as much as their degree did to their futue lives

It is very sad that our grandchuldren are missing out on one of the main aims of university to widen the mind as well as academically educate.

Worth every penny by the sound of it BlueBelle

Well as this has been opened up 3 years later I ll add a post my granddaughter went to Uni has had a great time made loads of friends joined a ski group been on two skiing holidays been interrailing and up to this year (her last) passed all her exams so far so worked hard played hard and is no longer the shy lass she was also had a number of part time jobs Could never imagine how good it’s been for her confidence however her poor mums purse has suffered

So you be just one on to advertise ummmmm naughty naughty
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