LJ Idol Week 19 Open Topic - What I Never Knew About College

[lyrical_liessss]

Let's face the facts here. You enter college with a set goal- go to class as little as possible, party every night, make a ton of friends, AND graduate in four years. Lofty goals I had, right? Now that I'm in my third year of college, I have one main goal- graduate on time. It's a great dream to want to live like the movies, but honestly, in

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[mstrobel]

Why did I not read this before I started college? ;-)

LOL, 8am classes. Yeah, right. I once had to pick a lecture stream that had one 8am class, because the other stream had one class that clashed with another of mine. I made it to one and a half of the 8am classes before deciding to join stream 2 for that day. It was all the same subject, all the same lectures, just different times and lecturers so they were at slightly different speed, so there'd be a few things I'd hear twice and some I'd miss altogether, but it was better than getting up at 8am!

[lyrical_liessss]

Haha, right? I wish someone had written this for me before enterning college.

8am classes are harsh. My earliest this year is 11am, and it's still hard for me to get up, lol. You were lucky enough to find another class, but, unfortunately, most classes don't have alternate times with the same teachers which means you're stuck with that 8amer.

[impoetry]

Very cool, informational and still fun. And Ha! I got lost in Brandon last night. :)

[lyrical_liessss]

Hahha. Nice. I'm in Tampa though, wonder why it says Brandon. LJ is weird.

Where are you from?

[marjory]

I too really wish I'd known some of this before I started uni! It's a hard world in some ways. I mean, for me, from the age of 5 we were all being funnelled towards this shining goal but didn't really know what it was going to be like being there nor what would happen afterwards.

It's 3 or 4 years where one truly begins the process of growing up, finding oneself, exploring the options ooh! and there's some academic stuff in there too.

Great post.

[lyrical_liessss]

What?! You mean you don't go to school to party!? What is this "academic stuff" you speak of?

[imafarmgirl]

Nice entry. Right about now I'm feeling lucky that I didn't have some of these experiences in college. Grins.

[lyrical_liessss]

Lol. I could be totally off and some people's college experiences, but this is how it is at USF. Lol. It's kind of funny, because everyone knows all of these things, but doesn't bother to tell the freshman anything. It's like a "well, I had to go through it, might as well let them" kind of mentality.

[lyrical_liessss]

Thanks!

I, unfortunately, don't even have time to party anymore. I occasionally do, but I'm so busy wanting to graduate on time, that I feel it useless to try to do that, everything else I'm doing, and party.