That about sums it up.

was not going to uni. I live a traditional uni lifestyle without actually having to do any of the work or deal with the stress or live in halls etc

Every day I got up and the only thing I would do that day was expand my mind and have brilliant people make me laugh.

Yeah I look back and there's some many things I'm like "Oh I should've done that" and "Why didn't I speak to them earlier?" but fuck it, that's just life

is full of shit as far as I'm concerned. I had a good time but don't feel like it did me a lot of favours, and I didn't really feel like myself until I left

I will comment later. The whole of DiS is hanging on my every word I'm sure.

TOTAL WASTE OF MONEY

smokey smokey droppy outty.

and about halfway through, met a whole load of new people, drifted away from friends I didn't have much in common with anymore and started doing lots of interesting stuff.

Don't miss it though

that went to hours of studying. Projects. Lectures and no money amounted to:
- Never using anything I learned in the job I have
- Being told I could have all the degrees in the world but without 2yrs experience I will find it hard to find a job.
- No money

had a brilliant time, made loads of friends, probably didn't learn as much as i should have due to too much fun, but did enjoy a lot of my course.

by worrying I wouldn't be good enough for certain jobs, and I wasn't the most outgoing guy in 1st year, but I made several really good friends, I managed to do some work I was proud of, and even though I've been out of my chosen work for a year I feel I'd be ready to go into it now. There's always regret but that's just proof of growth, I could'nt imagine anything worse than thinking I was totally right 4 years ago, I wouldn't have learnt anything.

it's been a lot of fun, i've met lots of good people and the work side of things is going reasonably - the only thing i sometimes question is how much time i should really be spending sat around in front of a computer/ out drinking etc vs. time which could be spent actually doing things for the societies i joined at the beginning of the year... seems to be an inevitable fact that laziness wins to some extent

though I probably didn't realise how much at the time. I didn't exactly work as hard as I might have done - at least not until the last semester - but I had a decent circle of good mates and I was never stuck for things to do. I don't know what I would have done had I not gone, probably just worked some shitty office jobs like this one I suppose.

The hardest thing has been adapting to post-uni life, which hasn't gone as well as I'd hoped to be honest. But to answer your question, uni was definitely a positive experience. I'd been mollycoddled up to that point, and I learned a lot during those three years.

but the most uncomplicated, consistent level of happiness. Since then its like woooooooooo! boooooooooo! much more a rollercoaster....

in answer to question BSC in Nottingham before the place went to shit, was loads of fun, course was pretty good, people were a bit cliched student types thou, so had to find outside uni friends too.

2nd time round BA, expericne was amazinging, australia, surf sun sea, recording studios, only english person on course :).. course Middlesex uni, DOG POO.

there u go :)

The key to being a student is to find pleasure in little things that highlight ur freedom. going to read book in middle of park on a sunny day, staying up all night cos there no consequence etc.

I had VERY high hopes when I came here.

I am very happy with my course. I've had to do some extra stuff this year (for extra credits) that was fairly boring but pretty much every module I've chosen for next year looks amazing.

However... The social aspect of my first year has frankly been exhausting, and not in the good way. I've ended up in the most unsociable halls, and the people in my seminars are pretty much the same. But I'll be living with people I like next year so again, next year is looking better.

next!

Getting into so much debt was, on reflection, fucking horrendous and something I've not managed to shift after 4 years of solid work. I'm still suffering.

But I met some fantastic people, experienced so much I'd never experience otherwise, learnt so much about life and basically changed my entire outlook instead of staying at home in my shitty hometown working in admin for the rest of my life. I remember thinking about halfway through that it wasn't all I thought it'd be, but it's the power of hindsight to realise it's actually a hell of a lot better than you think it is at the time. And I wish I could afford to go back, to be honest...

Uni. Made best friends. Drunk obscene about of booze and had some absolutely amazing times.

It's after that's bitching. History 2.1 degree doesn't help in the "job market", plus complete lack of motivation whilst wishing i could still live the student lifestyle makes it very hard to get a job.

but then we all waste opportunities in life.

i didn't enjoy my third year of my first degree much, but this masters has been good, probably 'cause i've been living in london and enjoying life more

wouldn't do again (i'm getting too old for this shit), but would recommend to a friend

I wish I'd taken a year out before though, I really don't think I was mature enough to study at uni level at 18, I just drank and smoked pot and learnt nothing for the first year, and the next two years weren't much better. My degree hasn't helped me at all, though I did learn some interesting stuff, even if I can't remember most of it. But I did have some amazing times, met my girlfriend, and made some friends that I still want to keep in touch with, so it could have been worse.

My sole purpose was to get a decent degree that would help me get into the career I wanted

I got the degree, and I'm now doing what I want to. I didn't 'expand my mind' or any of that crap

It was an extension to my education and it seems to have worked. Crazy scenes

Lots of fun, really enjoyed my course, made a bunch of friends that I'm still in touch with (ok, maybe not a bunch that I speak to regularly, but you know what I mean. We're facebook friends! :P) and partied lots. My only regret is that I didn't break up with my crap gf until the end of 3rd year, so I didn't get to make it with as many ladies as I would have liked. But thems the breaks.

Overall aceness, and I got a well good degree out of it. That I am not using at all in my current job. And that no-one cares about. And thousands of pounds of debt. But no, stop these thoughts!

It was ace :D

Second year was great; much much better than first. Hopefully third will be even better!
The best thing to do is to make the effort and find 4/5 really good friends. Uni is full of people who want as many 'friends' as possible to say "hi!" to, but fail on every other level. Those people will only waste your time.

and struggle to think of anything bad about it. I didn't go to uni until I was 22 though and I think this helped me in being a bit more relaxed about making friends and I think I knew how to enjoy myself a bit more than when I was 18.

was in the most part, excellent.

I still wish I'd dropped out and re-applied to do a different course after the doubts I had midway through the first year. My degree is in history and to me, it feels pretty useless at the moment and I strongly resent it. I also wish I'd worked harder in some areas.

I'm a bit worried about ending up doing something completely unrelated to my actual degree, or that no one will give a fuck about it. So that would be a waste. At the same time, I'm enjoying my course so much, and I would never have done anything radically different from this, so in that respect it's not a waste at all.

And I wouldn't have a problem moving to another country for a job, so I'm hoping degrees from UK unis are well sought after out there.

postgrad is less fun. :(

thing that ever happenned to me. managed to get through 3 years making no friends. wouldn't go to classes because they scared me too much. never went out because the handful of people I knew never wanted to.
It scarred my life indefinitely ...

I like the relative freedom, but feel like I've payed a lot for very little return. Really haven't worked hard enough and basically I can't wait till third year is over.

Friends-wise I have made about 10 good friends who are keepers, the rest aren't people I'd ever have spoken to.

therefore it gets i/10

I'm looking forward to it though. I'm not going to read this thread because it will probably dent my optimism

but despite all the lovely horror stories from you lot, i'm still hopeful that it'll be a good experience in some way. i have no doubt that my degree will be completely useless when it comes to the real world, but seeing as the whole 'getting-into-massive-debt' thing isn't really applicable for me (I'M A SCOTTISH STUDENT!) i basically have nothing to lose. and it REALLY can't be any worse than school, surely.

I feel like I don't go out as much as I should do though and I feel like I haven't made the most of living in this city. I also feel like I should have made an effort with those people that I don't really see anymore (from first year). I also stress about my work too much and have sacrificed fun for that, yet am stil not getting the grades that I want. And I've got no money, despite living on a strict budget since September.

I'm sure I'll look back on this is a few years and decide it was great, but at the moment it's bloody rubbish.

the first term was pretty bad, i spent most of the time getting dunk on my own and being a miserable cunt, but since then i realised that i really like my degree and i've met some amazingly clever, funny people, although i don't know anyone who likes the same music as me who isn't graduating.
overall, smug/10

Postgrad: prettymuchlikehavingajob/10

i was ready to move on after 4 years (which i think is the perfect amount of time), but i loved being able to spend so much time doing what i wanted, with the folks I liked, and I liked what i studied - sure some of the coursework was a ballache, but overall it ws fine. Made a lot of really good mates there an all.