The student lifestyle/culture

**Megas Methuselah** · 10-31-2010, 03:54

Hermit.

**Beskar** · 10-31-2010, 04:38

2 hours-a-week?

Are you even at University?

I had 15-30 per week regularly.

**Louis VI the Fat** · 10-31-2010, 04:43

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.

Even back then I knew it couldn't last, but oh my...I miss it so! I was simply born to be a student. In my entire life, I have not excelled in anything as much as in being a student. You know...parties would start when I entered - if I hadn't organised them outright, I would be the last one to leave too, and I combined that with irritating the boring geek crowd by still getting better grades than them.

Why oh why is there not a profession of 'student'? I mean, grown up men, long after the age of eight, get paid millions to wear shorts and kick a football around. If being a student were a sport I would be Xavi or Iniesta.

**Ibrahim** · 10-31-2010, 06:38

currently ~15 hrs

next semester will be 18. all geology.

I live alone, in a dorm room, though I plan on leaving, since there are cheaper ways to live. unlike most of my neighbors, there ain't much drinking*, girls, or partying in my life here. Just studying, work, studying, and well...more of the above. my entertainment, as such, is watching the SpoonyOne, playing strategy games, and walking or hiking. my social life is completely restricted to my floor, the gas station across the street, and the Warner College of Natural resources-particularly geology students. unsurprisingly, I'm not very popular, and most people think I'm either psychopathic (I like to talk about Mortal Kombat fatalities in excrutiating detail; I particularly like to talk about Quan Chi's neck stretcher), overly blunt (don't know what the heck they're talking about), or overly strict with how I behave.

I tend to multitask: as I write this, I am also writing a paper, listening to the SpoonyOne (swirly blue thing FTW!), and enjoying a quiet night.

classes are hard, and I lack basic equipment: magnets, streak plates, and hand lenses aren't always available to me, since money is scarce. Mineralogy and optical mineralogy takes up most of my time studywise, being a hard as heck class. the professor there has famously high standards, and has made it his mission to weed out all the fake students who don't have what it takes to be geologists. its a common enough joke of mine to refer to his questions as "Jerries", after the professor's first name. (no, he's not German). but the professor there has a good sense of humor, is knowledgeable, and is a great teacher.

Sedimentology is fun, low intensity, but well taught. the professor there is quite a pistol: he's German, but his first name is-get this-Sven. He speaks good english, but the simplest words sometimes escape him (he once forgot the anatomical term "Anus", and used the first thing that came to his mind: ***hole; it unsurprisingly drew laughter. I had to remind him that its called "Anus"). He is an early bird, but is always attending lectures tired and stressed (I attribute this to the recent delivery of his child). He's just now had his first child, and he's 42, so I plan on partying-for once-in honor of the event. He's widely traveled, good sense of humor, and as before, is a great teacher.

Statistics is not too hard, but its exceptionally annoying: it gets in the way of all my other classes, and the teacher, while good, seems to have a habit of telling lame jokes at the beginning of class; its demoralizing and most fly over my head. and the funny part is: she KNOWS the jokes are lame. she also has the unique skill of making all her exams/homework due in the most inconvenient times-by accident of course.

last class, Logarithmic and exponential functions, is boring, stupid, poorly taught, and it's math. being an online class, I've pretty much ignored it: I'm somehow averaging ~90%.

*actually, there is absolutely no drinking.

**Husar** · 10-31-2010, 07:47

Study something decent instead of an arts degree?

**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!

**Strike For The South** · 11-01-2010, 16:46

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.

Even back then I knew it couldn't last, but oh my...I miss it so! I was simply born to be a student. In my entire life, I have not excelled in anything as much as in being a student. You know...parties would start when I entered - if I hadn't organised them outright, I would be the last one to leave too, and I combined that with irritating the boring geek crowd by still getting better grades than them.

Why oh why is there not a profession of 'student'? I mean, grown up men, long after the age of eight, get paid millions to wear shorts and kick a football around. If being a student were a sport I would be Xavi or Iniesta.

If you're Iniesta I'm bloody Pele

College combines 3 of my favorite things

Drugs
Wimmen
The ability to wow people with pseudo intllectual drivel that your 60 yr old baby boom professor has drilled into you. Make sure your laugh after some non college educated fool gives his opinon before you give yours.