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Originally posted by Save My Life
Someone please tell me it gets better in University. I'm not being a attention seeking insecure loser saying this but I already know I won't be talking to half of my friends when I go to University. I have nothing in common with them and they're lame and they probably watch Days Of Our Lives in their free time. I just want to meet new people. I'm talking to randoms on Twitter to fill in time  |
It depends what Uni you go to really. From my perspective, it didn't get better. Uni was NOTHING like I was expecting it to be. Probably because we grow up with this "Americanised" perception of University, or "college." You grow up watching movies full of fraternities, sororities, red cup parties, keggers, student activities, etc. so you kind of expect that to be your Uni experience.
I didn't get that. Partly because I went to UTS, which was like a series of buildings in the CBD (just down the road from the financial district) so you couldn't tell who was a student and who was just a regular business person or city worker. There was no campus life for me because there was no actual campus. It all just blurred in to the Sydney CBD.
But I also think a lot of it had to do with the fact that when I started Uni, I had no confidence. I didn't get into the gym until the end of my first year at Uni. And I was freshly out of high school where I had been bullied badly. So I didn't take the initiative to go up to people and be like "Hi i'm Josh" and have a conversation with them. That terrified me. When I went back after deferring, I had way more confidence and better social skills. I found it way easier. But I never really found people I would consider life long friends at Uni.
It's hard too because they say the key ingredient to making friends is repetitive interactions/frequently seeing that person so you can develop a friendship. That's why most friendships are formed at school or work, because you have no choice other than seeing those people every single day. But with Uni, you might only have that one person in a tute for 1 hour a week, and then as soon as it's over, you both just want to get the **** out of there.
It might be different for people here who go to Uni's where there's an obvious campus though. Or the campus is isolated from a major city. My sister went to Charles Sturt and made a lot of friends there because she had no other choice. It's like a college town.
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I ****ing love working like 2 days a week at some easy-as-piss job, and spending the other 5 days waking up at 2pm and spending the whole day on ATRL, watching TV shows, movies, training in my garage, wanking, eating, etc. I don't want to grow up 
The last line sounds like me at the moment. I do NOT want to turn 18 in May and I've been reciting old memories with friends and I'm just like "Where has the time gone?". I'm hoping to do Global Business in University which I really really want to do. I've accepted I will probably have to do a bridging course for my dumbass 
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I got invited to a few parties, until I just didn't anymore. I don't even care. I see my best friend from high school on the bus every so often which is cool tho. 
there were a few good ones I saw regularly but they all moved out of town wtf.