What is/was the hardest part of college/university to YOU?

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26 Dec 2007, 5:21 am

For me, it's making friends/finding relationships. Not only do I have AS, but I am a few years older than traditional college students (I just turned 28), so I also have the age issue to contend with. Also, my interests and beliefs are in conflict with the prevalent beliefs in the town in which I attend school.

Academically, I am doing an excellent job (I have a 3.37 GPA right now).

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26 Dec 2007, 12:03 pm

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Maybe Economics classes due to the department is privatized and they will weed out the weak in the first course of their degree program.

The economics classes are probably so hard because that is such a good economics school. GMU has had some Nobel Laureates teach at their school, including aspie Vernon Smith, and they have a strong presence on the blogosphere and a reasonable number of noted public intellectuals, and the entering grad students to their program average a 3.6 gpa whereas places such as Harvard and such tend to average 3.7 or 3.8. Any good program is likely to try to weed people out of it.

The hardest part for me is not getting too distracted on things I shouldn't get distracted with, and not being sloppy.

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26 Dec 2007, 11:08 pm

Dealing with narcissistic, insecure professors whose primary interests are getting their egos stroked, and having everything delivered to them pre-chewed so they don't need to put any effort into grading. Vindictive little jerks; if they sense any hubris in your soul, they will beat you down by any means they can muster.

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27 Dec 2007, 1:57 am

The classes I'm taking aren't easy (hoorah for taking upper division chemistry and biology in sophomore year!), so I'd say the most difficult part for me is eating enough and getting enough sleep when I'm at school. Social life isn't too bad because I'm involved in the karate club and the science/pre-med club, both of which are fun. I also work in the chemistry lab, where I am a lot more outgoing than I am anywhere else on campus.

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30 Dec 2007, 7:50 pm

I have problems with meeting people/tolerating their presence and way of doing things, since I live in the dorms. A lot of the time I'll walk into the bathroom and someone's left their stuff in the wrong place, and it throws me completely.

But the worst for me? Definitely open-ended, completely unexplained essay assignments. I once had an essay assignment which read: "Discuss some general trends of Medeival European History. 10 pages, double spaced, include citations." I just about had a complete breakdown over that assignment, and my professor was useless not because he didn't want to help but because he didn't understand my problem and I couldn't explain to him why I was having so much trouble.

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30 Dec 2007, 10:13 pm

I have a hard time dealing with idiots. Myself included.

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31 Dec 2007, 1:12 am

Hmmm.. thinking that the NTs are having more fun, and I am missing out on all of it. The loneliness of it all sucks too, to be around so many girls and to have never had a date in college. Oh well, I have at least 2 years left so maybe that will change?

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31 Dec 2007, 3:08 am

The Math and sciences.

I hate them.

Thankfully I'm done with Math, and I will be done with the Sciences at the end of term.

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31 Dec 2007, 10:04 am

BainAduial wrote:

I tend to like those open-ended assignments because they allow me to go out on a limb with interesting observations and hypotheses.

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31 Dec 2007, 10:07 am

twoshots wrote:

Ah, I know that feeling.

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31 Dec 2007, 10:10 am

I hate hate HATE group assignments. Partly because of my AS and partly from "control" issues I have because of my OCD, I get stressed out if I don't have complete control over a project. :hmph:

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31 Dec 2007, 10:14 am

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twoshots wrote:

Ah, I know that feeling.

Tim

Is that a large university thing? I go to an smaller liberal arts university and most of my professors have been quite good. Another good thing about smaller universities is that you actually get taught by the professor in the lower level classes, not taught by TAs. Most of my university's TAs are lab instructors.

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31 Dec 2007, 10:19 am

No, I go to a small college (6000 students).

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01 Jan 2008, 10:54 pm

Tim_Tex wrote:

If I was in college, I would be your friend.

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02 Jan 2008, 10:01 am

Tim_Tex wrote:

No, I go to a small college (6000 students).

Tim

I must just be lucky, then!

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02 Jan 2008, 3:38 pm

Hardest thing about college for me right now has to be the fact that my room-mates throw a party every couple of weeks or so.

I don't mind much, but it gets quite a bit noisy, so I end up having to lock myself in my room, and drown out the music with my 360...

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