Homeless in August... hopefully a short story.

scumble on 29/6/2006 at 08:11

Quote Posted by Ulukai

University/College is all about drunken parties, new experiences and taking advantage of your raging hormones.

In other words, extended childhood! It's a bit of a luxury really, and expensive. To be honest I'd rather have just got a job and earned some money rather than accumulate debt and impoverish my parents. Perhaps I'd have a more positive view of it if I'd done computer science, which would have been a lot more use to me than Physics. You can tell I didn't have enough fun (or any) at Uni, can't you...

Rogue Keeper on 29/6/2006 at 09:21

Right, living in campus usually goes with regular, full-time study on a college, usually far away from your home. But for some it's luxury and some others study on their local college, so they don't need to live in campus. Both -lucks- happened to me. My mother retired when I was hitting 20, so somebody had to work for a living and I couldn't afford to study full time, and I also studied in the capital where I live. So I never had the chance to experience a proper careless, beautiful student life in a campus... :( But I was lucky enough to live completely alone from 16 to 19 and all highschool mates envied me :D (it was after my grandpa died while I was living in my highschool town with him, actually it wasn't funny...).

Stitch on 29/6/2006 at 15:06

Quote Posted by scumble

In other words, extended childhood!

Considering my childhood revolved around robot cartoons and drawing dinosaurs, no.

scumble on 30/6/2006 at 09:39

Perhaps to make things clearer, for some people it does extend the period of relative lack of responsibility in earlier life - a way to avoid getting a job and joining the dull "real" world. This is probably the wrong reason to go. Most people are of course trying to get something useful out of the experience, I just find it interesting that the learning aspect is often underemphasised.

Naartjie on 30/6/2006 at 10:29

For me university has also had a healthy dose of realworldiness though...living in a house whose bills, rent and upkeep I'm responsible for, balancing part time work with studying and social life, plus next year I'm spending the year abroad as an exchange student so that will magnify all the above with the fun and games of working in another language. Life is pretty good atm :)

Rogue Keeper on 30/6/2006 at 11:03

Quote Posted by Naartjie

Life is pretty good atm :)

Enjoy it while it lasts, it won't be too long. :cheeky:

littlek on 30/6/2006 at 11:20

I lived off campus myself and have to admit that it does limit the 'partiness' of campus life. But I was a regular at the campus bars at 16 so the pub partying was no big deal when I enrolled at a university.

Still, underage drinking is a pain. Hubby son #2 has had 2 underage drinking arrests and it is not fun....one he was driving and hit 3 cars the other he was a passenger in a car. It still involves jail, fines, lawyer, court, more $$$$$$$$$$, massive community service, and a tainted record. :wot: