The student lifestyle/culture

**Cute Wolf** · 10-31-2010, 09:48

Spent almost 5 nights a week watching those damn catalystic reactions at laboratory. Spent 3 days a week writing some reports and papers etc...

Student life is killing me....

**Meneldil** · 10-31-2010, 10:16

It all depends on what you're studying.

Social sciences are usually just like that, though I don't know how it's possible you only have two hours of class each week. You go to class, listen to a prof and to some wannabe intellectuals who've just discovered Marx/Foucault/Kershaw. It lasts around 15 to 25 hours a week and it gives you more than enough free time to get drunk, play games and flirt.

Hard science on the other hand are another matter, as I understood. Much more demanding.

**naut** · 10-31-2010, 11:37

Two hours?! WHAT! How? Seriously, I have 12 (well.... 9, I don't go to two of the lectures as they're useless). I thought I had it easy. You have 2! WHATTHEHELL!

Student life is pretty good, my Uni is pretty anti-social though, but there's two reasons for that, a) no one lives on campus and b) it's specialties are Business, IT, Science, Nursing, Architecture, etc. We do have a pretty good Design and Fashion faculty, maybe if I was part of that there'd be more Uni related fun. Instead, I just go to the other nearby Uni's events as they're less anti-social.... well UNSW is pretty awesome.

**Rhyfelwyr** · 10-31-2010, 21:29

Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat

Back when I was still a student all I saw were empty bottles, books, girls' rooms, and artsy intellectual types dragging me from museum to theatre to obscure arthouse movie. It was bliss.

I don't know how serious the above is, but yeah, that is the stereotype. All I remember from my student years not the student lifestyle, but first of all the benefits lifestyle (I did nothing but buy games consoles with my student loan and play them all day), and now the standard minimum wage employee lifestyle.

Originally Posted by Megas Methuselah

Hermit.

I am at times, but now I spend most of my day surrounded by people, serving customers (the employer said he wanted someone "bubbly" and he picked me lmao). Or with people I know outside of Uni etc... I just do not have the student-like social life.

Originally Posted by Husar

Study something decent instead of an arts degree?

Wut history/politics is I understood to be considered one of the 'real' degrees, it's not like Sports Medicine or something. Used to be the sciences were seen as worthless degrees and unfit for an intellectual like myself. ~:snob:

Originally Posted by Meneldil

You go to class, listen to a prof and to some wannabe intellectuals who've just discovered Marx/Foucault/Kershaw.

Finally, someone who understands!

**Hax** · 10-31-2010, 22:54

*actually, there is absolutely no drinking.

B-but you're a Muslim! And Muslims don't drink!

Well, the Abbasid Caliphs used to. And well then, there were the Shi'ites in Iran. Oh, and let's not forget the emirs of the tawa'if of al-Andalus.

But apart from that, there was no drinking! Hashish, on the other hand, is a cultural tradition! Or something..thank Hasan ibn Sabah!