How was your student life?

I don't know if that is only me or it's the time that changes. But as a student I feel like everything is so hard. I am studying abroad. Student life is something really exciting because you are working on future, aspiration but sometimes you are facing some really bad obstacles, life become more difficult and you think that it's endless. The struggle of a student life is really serious.

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Existentior · M

I am happy to read that a student publishes that their life is hard because too many ignorant people bellow out that college is easy and what not - it isn't.

My student life was nothing but continuous, strenuous effort to pass courses and to improve my study method. All of my years spent at university were fully dedicated to studying and I only went out to a party or two in freshman year.. after that it was hardcore dedication - and it paid off.

Like you, I also had many moments of problems that seemed endless.. for example, trying to pass courses that just didn't sit with me (Statistics 101, Accounting,..) but I had to get all the help I could and I finally made it.

It's also safe to say that the majority - if not all of the students who focus on fun and entertainment, parties and what not are the ones that disappear after freshman year. This very problem happened at my university: 65% of students dropped out after the first year.. and it were the same 65% who went to fraternities and boozed themselves all the time.

Keep going, keep going, do your hardest best to make it.. and you'll make it. Take it from someone who - according to the uni statistics board - had a 0.5% chance of graduating, had professors mock him but graduated with honors anyway.

BlueVeins · 22-25

I'm so lonely it hurts.

mellie · 26-30, F

@BlueVeins courage ❤️💪 xoxo

TexChik · F

I worked and went to school. I was on an academic and athletic scholarship. I lived in the dorm 2 years (required for scholarship athletes) . Through AP and testing, I started school 3 hours shy of being a junior.

If your finances aren't in order (student loans or parental funding or scholarships and grants) college is impossible. Its a tough time and I didn't do much more than work, study, work out, play softball and eat. Really I had no time for socializing or spending outside of my rigid budget I set up for my self.

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TexChik · F

@mellie Wow. Before I met my husband he spent 18 mo in France learning to be a chef. Afterwards he accepted his fate and became a petroleum engineer
/ geologist like all the men in his family before him. But he knows the language and I must say his cooking is to die for.

mellie · 26-30, F

@TexChik wow that is so amazing!

TexChik · F

@mellie his cooking is ! His dad let him go” sew his oats” before he came back home to go to work

dale74 · M

When I went to college I work full time 40 to 45 hours a week and went to college full time normally 12 to 15 hours per semester and I paid for it as I went which mean it's it took me five and a half years to graduate but I graduated with no college debt

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dale74 · M

@mellie I was lucky that the place I worked at work around my college schedule I would normally go into work at 6 a.m. then I would go to class at 8 2 noon and then I go back to work around 1 and then Tuesdays and Thursdays whatever my class schedule was they worked around that as well

mellie · 26-30, F

@dale74 wow! And you could have this balance between your student life and your job?
What were you doing when you get too tired?
Have you ever gone overwhelmed?

dale74 · M

@mellie student life was getting my college degree I didn't go to parties I didn't go to special events and all that I work on my education

okaybut · 56-60, M

It is your time to conquer and shine. :)

YukikoAmagi

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