I am growing to hate college...

[DrFuNk328]

Mechanical Engineer major here too. Just, I feel the same way!!!!

Gah, I had to LAME professors who screwed me too. I have gotten straight A's through college thus far and these two prick of professors ended my perfect career with giving me a C and C+ when in my other 3 classes I made A's. They were so arrogant, felt like the people in my class were all retarded, and just felt like the material was easy to them and thus, it should be easy to the class and proceeded to make everything exponentially hard.

The dumb thing is, that I make A's in my engineering classes and these other classes end up screwing my GPA.

I don't understand it at all. Why do they have to be douchebags? No idea. But I guess it all happens for a reason. I just figured that maybe they were trying to show how things don't always go your way and you have to find ways to get through the tough parts of life without breaking down. You got to just always keep pushing on and finding ways to get through it, because you know at the end of the tunnel, life will be better. If this is the toughest thing that I have to face, then so be it, that will be great. These thoughts have helped me get over it. Plus, it gives me a lot of motivation to freaking dominate my next semester!!! Show those professors whats up.

I understand your frustration, but I have moved on. Hey at the end of the day, its just 2 grades, just like you. Let's both take these classes as life lessons and show the world we belong. Keep in touch man. I'm glad to know another mechanical engineer here.

 

[spacejamz]

what was that saying about greener grass? definitely applies here...

 

[DrFuNk328]

Definitely. I totally agree. Couldn't say it any better.

 

[Martin]

Originally posted by: Deeko
I've been out of college for almost two years now, and I can assure you, the real world is much better. Don't listen to jaded old people that tell you you will miss it. They either A) forget how much school sucks or B) were rich and spoiled and didn't support themselves through college.

Are there things I miss about college? Sure - but as a whole, its MUCH betetr once you're out.

Spot on, especially for engineers like the OP. I did CompEng and graduated a year ago. Compared to school, I now make decent money, I work less and worry/stress about stuff far far less.

The much derided "real world" is quite a pleasant and easy place.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: Tiamat

Originally posted by: dighn
engineer eh? good luck with 8 hours...
though I must say I'm not missing the finals at all. having a large portion of your performance decided in a couple of hours is bullshit.

fixed

Take-home finals aren't always great either. One of my take-home finals took around 10 hours. The other was......phew, I don't know. 20? Maybe more.

I guess it can be a toss-up: Spend a long time before the test preparing and making sure you know everything really well, or else spend a long time doing the test with your book and notes right there in front of you.

Originally posted by: RedSquirrel

Originally posted by: venkman
Everyone says this in College

Everyone wants to go back after spending 10 minutes in the real world

Untrue, I'm ~1.5 years in real world and enjoying it so far.

It's not perfect, sometimes customers or in office situations piss me off, but it sure beats the crap out of college. I can go home without worrying about any of it, and it's almost stress free. There's maybe 1% as much stress as college had.

But it really depends on what job/profession you get. I suppose being a doctor is WAY more stressful then being a level 1/2 IT guy.

Before going back to college, I worked retail. At Walmart. Stocking shelves and working in the back room doing inventory management stuff.

There have been many times during my time at college that I missed that. It's sad when you look back on your days working for Walmart and think, "Damn, it was nice to have so much money." Plus with that place, work didn't follow me home. Once I clock out, the work is done for the day. Weekends were mine. College just kept wanting more, more, more. And good god it's expensive - and that's at a public university. Tuition has more than doubled in the past 10 years.
Though now I'm looking at (hopefully) getting a job that pays 250%-300% of what Walmart paid, so that should make me feel better.


It's funny though, right after high school I went to a community college, but I couldn't finish my Associate's Degree because I needed a networking/Cisco internship. That was right around the time that the NASDAQ shit itself and shot off both its feet. Companies were firing people by the hundreds or thousands, so internships just weren't available.

Now I've got just one class left, which is my senior project, and most of the rest of the economy has decided to down a few quarts of Draino in an attempt to off itself. If I ever try to graduate from a Master's or doctoral program, I'd expect nothing less than a doomsday asteroid impact.

 

[ja1484]

Originally posted by: slsmnaz
sounds like you have a firm grasp on what a real job will be like :laugh:

Exactly what I was going to say...

 

[Imdmn04]

Wait until you work for a real job.

Your ability to eat depends on the performance, instead of just grades.

Lots of engineering job are project oriented, meaning if a milestone in the project is due on Friday, you better make sure it is done by Thursday night. Sometimes that means working 16 hrs a day, no OT (most white collar jobs are salaried), how does that sound like real life for you?

 

[AccruedExpenditure]

lol at OP. The real world will chew you up and spit you out.
-AE

 

[KillerCharlie]

I was the same way in college. All I did was study and great straight As in my engineering courses.

Now I work 8 hrs a day at a well paying job. I can work overtime if I feel like it but don't have to. It's amazing how much free time I have.

 

[Wheezer]

I am growing to hate college... Bring on the real world

careful what you wish for there young one.

 

[MichaelD]

"Just college?" "Just work?"

Wait until:

You are married
Have a house payment
Cedit card payment
Child support payment
Have to see your kid from another marriage without neglecting your current kids/pissing off wife
Parents are getting old
Parents are DYING
Your hair is falling out/graying
You start having health probs you can't explain
6 hours of sleep is totally pointless b/c you need 8 hours just to be functional
Music from 20 years ago is "current" for you

Oh yeah. Just you wait, college boy. It only gets better from here. The fondest memories I have are from when I was in high school, working a PT job. I'd pick up the GF on a Friday night, take her to the movies, then the diner, then to the field to park next to all the other cars to have monkey sex in the back seat. I'd drop her off at home then go home myself.

Lather/rinse/repeat until graduation. 25 years later I'm not as happy as I was then. Why? B/C life got in the way, that's why.

 

[CRXican]

Originally posted by: venkman
Everyone says this in College

Everyone wants to go back after spending 10 minutes in the real world

pretty much

working everyday sucks

 

[Clair de Lune]

Originally posted by: MichaelD
"Just college?" "Just work?"

Wait until:

You are married
Have a house payment
Cedit card payment
Child support payment
Have to see your kid from another marriage without neglecting your current kids/pissing off wife
Parents are getting old
Parents are DYING
Your hair is falling out/graying
You start having health probs you can't explain
6 hours of sleep is totally pointless b/c you need 8 hours just to be functional
Music from 20 years ago is "current" for you

Oh yeah. Just you wait, college boy. It only gets better from here. The fondest memories I have are from when I was in high school, working a PT job. I'd pick up the GF on a Friday night, take her to the movies, then the diner, then to the field to park next to all the other cars to have monkey sex in the back seat. I'd drop her off at home then go home myself.

Lather/rinse/repeat until graduation. 25 years later I'm not as happy as I was then. Why? B/C life got in the way, that's why.

I don't know, I believe in enjoying every stage of you life... sure parenthood must be much harder and demands selfless responsibility, but I don't like I'll end up having such a bleak outlook on life like you do when I hit your age (I'm 27).

While I'm only dating and loving the work life (way more so than college), I also cannot wait til I have kids...

 

[Clair de Lune]

Originally posted by: CRXican

Originally posted by: venkman
Everyone says this in College

Everyone wants to go back after spending 10 minutes in the real world

pretty much

working everyday sucks

Ehhh depends...

I love working more than college.

Working:
*You are 100% an adult with your own responsibilities and freedom.
*Fucking no studying or slitting my wrist over exams. Good god no.
*No longer fucking broke as a hobo.
*Renting my own kickass place that's clean, sleek and spacious. I don't miss the dorms at all.

College:
*I do miss a bit of wildness/carelessness. But I was also too broke to do anything.
*I do miss meeting people easily. It's bit tougher now. I find myself hibernating with GF often.


Working wins by far.

 

[RU482]

I want to graduate, and only have to worry about the eight hour work day.

ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

that was a good one

 

[Deeko]

Originally posted by: DefDC

Originally posted by: Deeko
I've been out of college for almost two years now, and I can assure you, the real world is much better. Don't listen to jaded old people that tell you you will miss it. They either A) forget how much school sucks or B) were rich and spoiled and didn't support themselves through college.

Are there things I miss about college? Sure - but as a whole, its MUCH betetr once you're out.

Hmmm... Being single and having an AMAZING amount of spare time with an almost limitless supply of single partners and parties around every corner.

or

Real world money, work, bills, and family obligations.


There is a lot of bullshit to put up with in college. The BS in the real world knows no bounds.

-Amazing amount of spare time? You must be one of those spoiled ones that didn't have to work their way through college. On top of a 20 credit CS class load, I worked 30+ hours a week. I was also president of the volleyball team & on the exec council of my fraternity. My typical day went from 8am-10pm - BEFORE I got to my homework. I have so much more free time now. side note...don't think I was some workaholic. Due to how busy I kept myself, something had to give....and it wasn't my social life. It was sleep and homework. Through all that I still went out 3-4 nights a week, its my grades that suffered.

-Being single with tons of single people and parties? That has nothing to do with being in college (well, maybe the parties). Being single is a factor of, well, being single. Replace parties with an unlimited supply of bars, and there ya go - the real world offers the same opportunities, if that's what you want.

-Again the money thing...I paid my way though college. On top of my 70k in student loans to pay my tuition, I worked to pay my rent and not be broke. I have a lot more money now than I did then. I have more bills, but not many...again, the whole "supporting yourself" thing.

I don't have some cupcake job, either. I work for a very fast-paced software company that requires 1 week of on call time per month - I'm on call right now as I'm typing this. Its still better than college as a whole.

Of course there are things in college I miss - the social situation, for sure. I just moved to a new city, where I don't know many people, and its a LOT harder to meet people in the real world than in college. Being able to get drunk and make a fool of myself with minimal worries of the ramifications - ya, that was nice. However, as I said....in all, I'm happier now than I was in college.

 

[oiprocs]

Originally posted by: njdevilsfan87
Started getting my grades back, and have been fucked over in two classes, maybe a third since I still have yet to receive two.

College is fun, by I seriously cannot wait til May. I want to graduate, and only have to worry about the eight hour work day. I look forward to coming home and just, being able to enjoy the rest of the day, without having to worry about exams/grades.

For the record I am a mechanical engineer and this is why I am going to be extremely pissed off all weekend.

It's okay bro. I feel your pain. I got a D in solid mechanics and a C in numerical computation. At least you don't have to repeat anything.

But I did get a B+ in steel design. I guess as a strucEng major, that holds more value.

 

[Special K]

Originally posted by: MichaelD
"Just college?" "Just work?"

Wait until:

You are married
Have a house payment
Cedit card payment
Child support payment
Have to see your kid from another marriage without neglecting your current kids/pissing off wife

To be fair, the items I quoted here from your list are all conscious decisions that one makes. You don't have to get married, have kids, or buy a house if you think they will make you that miserable.

 

[Gibson486]

life after college sucks. i am sorry....but you just do not know yet. wait for the real world.

 

[njdevilsfan87]

Ok, for anyone who is saying life after college sucks, I have a few questions...

1) What is your degree?
2) When did you realize that life after college sucks?
3) Did you have to relocate for your new job?
4) Does your job give you a sense of purpose?
5) Do you procrastinate?

Thanks.

 

[Gibson486]

Originally posted by: Imdmn04
Wait until you work for a real job.

Your ability to eat depends on the performance, instead of just grades.

Lots of engineering job are project oriented, meaning if a milestone in the project is due on Friday, you better make sure it is done by Thursday night. Sometimes that means working 16 hrs a day, no OT (most white collar jobs are salaried), how does that sound like real life for you?

there you go. I get paid OT too....but if the budget is gone...bye bye OT, hello slave work.

 

[slpaulson]

Originally posted by: Martin

Originally posted by: Deeko
I've been out of college for almost two years now, and I can assure you, the real world is much better. Don't listen to jaded old people that tell you you will miss it. They either A) forget how much school sucks or B) were rich and spoiled and didn't support themselves through college.

Are there things I miss about college? Sure - but as a whole, its MUCH betetr once you're out.

Spot on, especially for engineers like the OP. I did CompEng and graduated a year ago. Compared to school, I now make decent money, I work less and worry/stress about stuff far far less.

The much derided "real world" is quite a pleasant and easy place.

I agree completely. The only parts I miss about college are sleeping in, lots of vacations, and lots of people my own age.

What I don't miss is all the stress from exams, being broke, and not having a car. I have way more free time and am far more relaxed than I was in college.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Originally posted by: Gibson486

Originally posted by: Imdmn04
Wait until you work for a real job.

Your ability to eat depends on the performance, instead of just grades.

Lots of engineering job are project oriented, meaning if a milestone in the project is due on Friday, you better make sure it is done by Thursday night. Sometimes that means working 16 hrs a day, no OT (most white collar jobs are salaried), how does that sound like real life for you?

there you go. I get paid OT too....but if the budget is gone...bye bye OT, hello slave work.

Then then union steps in, and the company gets a pee pee slap.

Hate or love unions, they DO help in the most dire of situations.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

I love these threads. I went to the real world, did that, and now I'm in college.

I can't wait to hear about your job next time summer would have been rolling around.