College vs. post-college

[Syringer]

To any college graduates, how does your life compare to life when you were in college?

 

[spidey07]

It doesn't get any better than college.

 

[Martin]

I've posted this before, and I'll post it again: If you don't enjoy the "real life" more, you either
-have a crappy job
-did not go to engineering or any other serious program.

and in either case, a re-evaluation of your life is needed.

 

[TheGizmo]

Originally posted by: spidey07
It doesn't get any better than college.

"now theres a time and a place..." justifies anything you do in college it really can't get better.. real life sorta kills the partying.. its not nearly as fun. boo

 

[SacrosanctFiend]

Graduated college, still in school.

 

[IronWing]

Think about how much of your academic life is spent stroking the egos of middle-aged men. In the real world, you'll get paid for that.

 

[Syringer]

Originally posted by: Martin
I've posted this before, and I'll post it again: If you don't enjoy the "real life" more, you either
-have a crappy job
-did not go to engineering or any other serious program.

and in either case, a re-evaluation of your life is needed.

Or, had a life in college outside of the library and got laid on occasion perhaps.

 

[bradruth]

Originally posted by: ironwing
Think about how much of your academic life is spent stroking the egos of middle-aged men. In the real world, you'll get paid for that.

Those aren't egos.

 

[gotsmack]

I loved grad school, the people are 10X cooler and the super important profs actually give you the time of day. Undergrad sucked, I hated taking required courses like history, and undergrads are pricks. If you're an undergrad, you're a prick, you just don't know it yet.

 

[BrokenVisage]

Same SPIDER, different day.

 

[johnjbruin]

College was much better than the real world

Work sucks - bigtime

 

College was cool.
But going to parties and getting wasted gets old quickly.

 

[Gunslinger08]

I'm getting ready to graduate in December, and I can already see that it's going to be no where near as much fun. I'm a CS major, and I have an average of about 10-12 hours a day to hang out with my roommates, play videogames, watch TV, etc. Working 8-5, five days a week, I'm going to have maybe 10-12 hours a week to do those things. Getting married in a few years, I'll be lucky to have 10-12 hours a month to do those things. Life is all downhill from college, in terms of fun and freedom.

 

[Tylanner]

well a drop out is no fun!

 

[JohnCU]

Originally posted by: SampSon
College was cool.
But going to parties and getting wasted gets old quickly.

are you crazy?

 

[erub]

Originally posted by: joshsquall
I'm getting ready to graduate in December, and I can already see that it's going to be no where near as much fun. I'm a CS major, and I have an average of about 10-12 hours a day to hang out with my roommates, play videogames, watch TV, etc. Working 8-5, five days a week, I'm going to have maybe 10-12 hours a week to do those things. Getting married in a few years, I'll be lucky to have 10-12 hours a month to do those things. Life is all downhill from college, in terms of fun and freedom.

10-12 hours a day?? Say you sleep 6, that means you only do 6 hours of class, homework, and studying per day? I'm lucky if I'm not spending 6 hours a day in CLASS or lab, not to mention the work done outside...

 

Originally posted by: JohnCU

Originally posted by: SampSon
College was cool.
But going to parties and getting wasted gets old quickly.

are you crazy?

Nope, just a professional drunk.

 

[Gunslinger08]

Originally posted by: erub

Originally posted by: joshsquall
I'm getting ready to graduate in December, and I can already see that it's going to be no where near as much fun. I'm a CS major, and I have an average of about 10-12 hours a day to hang out with my roommates, play videogames, watch TV, etc. Working 8-5, five days a week, I'm going to have maybe 10-12 hours a week to do those things. Getting married in a few years, I'll be lucky to have 10-12 hours a month to do those things. Life is all downhill from college, in terms of fun and freedom.

10-12 hours a day?? Say you sleep 6, that means you only do 6 hours of class, homework, and studying per day? I'm lucky if I'm not spending 6 hours a day in CLASS or lab, not to mention the work done outside...

I sleep about 8. So that's 18-20. 4-6 hours of class, studying, and girlfriend.

 

[Reckoner]

Seeing as how I haven't found a job outside of college, and the fact a college degree means jack sh!t nowadays, I'd have to say my days in college were better.

 

[CrazyDe1]

It's way better..I still hangout with a lot of people I did during college. Only now there's no stress of school and I have money to do things...

 

[LethalWolfe]

I think it really depends on the person and what they want to accomplish in life. I had a lot of fun in college, made a lot of friends, and got to spend a semester overseas.

"Real life" is harder work than college, but it's much more rewarding. I'm in a field I love. There are long hours, lots of of competion and lots of stress but I wouldn't change it for anything (nothing worthwhile is easy, IMO). They pay can be very good and I'm planning on going overseas again a few more times.

But if I ended up in some rat race, corporate cublical job I probably would have killed myself by now.

If you have the brains and the balls to do what you want to do and be successful at it post-college life just gets better and better, IMO. If you don't and you spend 40 or 50 hours a week slaving away at a job you hate then life just gets worse and worse.


Lethal

 

[Reckoner]

Originally posted by: LethalWolfe
I think it really depends on the person and what they want to accomplish in life. I had a lot of fun in college, made a lot of friends, and got to spend a semester overseas.

"Real life" is harder work than college, but it's much more rewarding. I'm in a field I love. There are long hours, lots of of competion and lots of stress but I wouldn't change it for anything (nothing worthwhile is easy, IMO). They pay can be very good and I'm planning on going overseas again a few more times.

But if I ended up in some rat race, corporate cublical job I probably would have killed myself by now.

If you have the brains and the balls to do what you want to do and be successful at it post-college life just gets better and better, IMO. If you don't and you spend 40 or 50 hours a week slaving away at a job you hate then life just gets worse and worse.


Lethal

Easier said then done

 

[igowerf]

I just graduated in July and now I'm working full time at my dream job. Luckily, I managed to land a job at a media design firm in Santa Monica making websites and DVD content for TV/film studios in LA so I actually look forward to going to work every day. Right now, I'm maintaining and updating the Yahoo website for the Apprentice.

College was a lot of fun and I definitely miss it, but my work is great too. My coworkers are really cool and very social, but outside of work, I don't have much of a social life anymore. Most of my friends are working too so we don't have much time to do anything anymore.

 

[Dissipate]

To me my college experience depends almost entirely on my professors and what classes I am taking. If I am in a class because I have to take it (i.e. it is some GE requirement) I am going to be hating it. If I have any choice at all as to what class I can take, I can usually find something that I somewhat like, however. Fortunately, almost all of my GEs are out of the way.

Then there is the professor. If the professor really sucks, it doesn't matter what the class is, I am going to be quite miserable (this happened to me in a math class last quarter). I've heard people say: "Oh, try to make the best of it." yadda yadda... But I doubt they would be 'making the best of it' when the professor lectures on topics that have absolutely nothing to do with our homework problems or any of the topics in the book, gives us exams that have problems that are just about barely even remotely related to what we have seen in the textbook, and to top it off, the textbook really sucks. Oh wait, to really top it off, the professor can barely speak English.

You would think that the TA might care and even grade a little less harsh in this situation. But nope, not at all. When I get a class like that, I start to hate college.

Fortunately, this quarter has been much better.

P.S. Researchers should be BANNED entirely from teaching undergrad classes.

 

[Gunslinger08]

Originally posted by: Dissipate
To me my college experience depends almost entirely on my professors and what classes I am taking. If I am in a class because I have to take it (i.e. it is some GE requirement) I am going to be hating it. If I have any choice at all as to what class I can take, I can usually find something that I somewhat like, however. Fortunately, almost all of my GEs are out of the way.

Then there is the professor. If the professor really sucks, it doesn't matter what the class is, I am going to be quite miserable (this happened to me in a math class last quarter). I've heard people say: "Oh, try to make the best of it." yadda yadda... But I doubt they would be 'making the best of it' when the professor lectures on topics that have absolutely nothing to do with our homework problems or any of the topics in the book, gives us exams that have problems that are just about barely even remotely related to what we have seen in the textbook, and to top it off, the textbook really sucks. Oh wait, to really top it off, the professor can barely speak English.

You would think that the TA might care and even grade a little less harsh in this situation. But nope, not at all. When I get a class like that, I start to hate college.

Fortunately, this quarter has been much better.

P.S. Researchers should be BANNED entirely from teaching undergrad classes.

The fun of college is not about the classes.