Approaching the end of college

[jokulhaup]

As most of you already know, I haven't especially enjoyed my time at RIT. I never found any particularly close friends. The classes had a heavy workload, yet somehow I never really learned very much. Every girl I met there that I would have been interested in turned out to either be in a relationship, or turned out to be a lesbian

Comments

[asinpterodactyl]

Well, maybe it's both the weather AND your lousy experience. They make a pretty awful combination. :(

For what it's worth, I feel your pain. SUNY Buffalo has been mediocre at best, and I won't miss it. If I'd known three years ago what I know now, I wouldn't have applied there. (I would have gone into debt so I could attend a real, worthwhile library school.)

Sympathy...

[jokulhaup]

Yeah, I guess I sort of knew about your experience with SUNY Buffalo. I think my memory gets a bit selective when it comes to these things, and it's easy to only think about the people who have had great experiences and ignore anyone else.

Well, we'll just have to have a "yay! we're done with school!" party when the two of us have graduated :)

[al_hawa]

I think college should have good memories attached, yes, but "the best years of one's life" seems a bit of a stretch. I think that's aiming a bit high. I don't know yet if I would classify my experience that way; I'd be more inclined to say my childhood was better. Refrigerator box forts and plastic dinosaurs and Cheerios are really hard to beat. Anyway, I guess all I can offer here is some sympathy, and the sentiment that I pit my own experience against other people's too. If I harshly judge what I've done (or not done), I worry that I haven't gotten all I should have out of college. Just trying to say I know a bit what you're feeling..

[jokulhaup]

Yeah that's true...refrigerator boxes were pretty great, hahaha. I thought "the best years of one's life" might be a stretch too, so I sort of wimped out and qualified it with "some of", but yeah you have a good point. And it's nice to hear I'm not the only one who feels like that about college at times, so thanks.

[la_orquidea]

Hey Nick,
Even though how I've had a great college experience (I know I'm one of the ones you're thinking of), I don't think it was any better than a lot of the rest of my teenagerhood.

Hey, and since you had a sub par college experience, the rest of your life will look so much brighter in comparison!

[la_orquidea]

wow, and Laura was talking at me while I wrote that, aaaand apparently I don't know grammar anymore. :-)

[anonymous]

Nick, My college years were not all that great. I think my life has gotten increasingly better as the years go by and I have gotten older. I feel so much more comfortable with myself than I did when I was younger. Hope the same happens for you.
Love MOm