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

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My tutors hated it when I asked to work alone. Some just think you're being difficult. And it's not always possible, some assignments just need group work.

agreed. i too have 2 years left and am hoping things will change

I think one of the hardest parts of college is finding people to study with because everyone has their own schedule, they have to work, and some of them are procrastinators. Thank god I'm still living at home w/ my parents and getting some help from them.

Making new friends was also another difficulty when I started college right away. After exchange numbers w/ people, some would fail to call me back or just had other important things to do. However, I am now friends w/ a sophomore (an international student from Israel) and we were lab partners together in General Chemistry Lab last Spring.

I failed to adapt.
Once I had managed to pass the insanely difficult entry exam I stopped caring!.


I was actively ostracized because, during the first few days, I managed to provoke some pathological rivalries. On top of that, it slowly turned out I was too much of an artsy type for the majority. Ironically, immediately afterwards I failed to keep up the good work through extreme procrastination. I was obsessed about getting a girlfriend asap and most likely acted like a moron. I was preocupied by a lot of other things while assuming I would just "glide through" as I did in high school with any subject that bored/annoyed me. I had to drop that career entirely.

I feel completely stupid; thinking I should have known it wasn't an extension of highschool.
I also wonder whether I should have been told or given some sort of heads up.

For me, it's the loneliness. I don't have any real friends here yet, and while I feel like I've gotten most basic social skills down-pat, they never seem to be enough.

Apparently I'm in a different place than most of you, as I am a grad student.

My biggest issue right now is money; as in, lack thereof.

I was standing in line the other day and ended up talking to this girl behind me. I was talking about the cost of books or something like that and how money was pretty tight for me and all. She responded with, "Yeah, I ran out of money last semester. I didn't have enough to go clothes shopping for the last week!"

*headdesk*

So I answer with this: "Yeah, well, I lost 8 pounds last semester because I didn't have enough money to keep eating full meals the entire time."

Yeah, my current roommate is from China and we get along really great. There are communication issues, thanks to her speaking a second language, but as an aspie, communication issues are the first rule of business . . .

I highly suggest making friends with international students if you're feeling left out of your group of peers.

Ya I have the same problem. I have a huge problem talking or for that matter looking at strangers. I've been fighting my instincts to hide away and walk looking at the pavement on the ways to class. Even still when I meet people I have trouble carrying a conversation with them, so they find someone else to talk too. And people sometimes even think I'm being a jerk because I don't say much. Some people are nice and say hey but most treat me like I'm strange, even though I look normal and have done nothing wrong or as far as I know weird.

first year of college, was great, no real problems.

2nd year..... sucked. Loud noisy room mates. They partied all the time, drank ( and kept alochol in the dorm room which if they had ever gotten caught woulda ment the whole room would gotten repremanded) Add to that they kept suspending my network access. Was a crappy year.

3rd year. moved back home, changed majors to something i really enjoy (education). yea its a lot of interacting but i like it. part of me wants to dorm again though, i kinda wanta move out but $$$ doesnt like me and avoids me.

honestly the 1st year room mate was awesome. 2nd year were just horrible.

So far it has been my Public Speaking class and Theatre Appreciation. I'm so glad that's over with.

I guess Speech is a universal GE requirement, eh?

You'll get through it fine. I took it during my very first semester, and I won't lie, it wasn't a blast, but you'll soon realize that very few people in the class have speech skills on par with MLK.

Well, I've just begun my second semester, and I'd have to say that the most challenging aspect of uni life is the rigidity of everything. In high school, I could just plaster on a sweet smile and talk my way into or out of anything, because everything was so flexible. I could weasel my way out of anything with friends, parents, bosses, and even cops (won't get into that). Now, everything is so systematic, mostly because everything's done with computers. Obviously you can't charm a computer into letting you slide, can ya?

You missed the early registration online by three minutes? TOO BAD.

You missed the lab quiz and need a make-up? TOUGH SHITTT.

Did the bookstore run out of the textbooks you needed for Calculus? THAT'S LIFE.

Are you the sixth waitlisted student in a class that can accomodate only five more waitlisted students? CRY THEM A RIVER.

I don't understand why some people think that college is an escape from the "real world". If anything, I think it prepares you for it. None of the above scenarios happened to me (knock on wood), but the people who have encountered problems usually ended up deeply screwed. You truly are held accountable for what you do (or don't do), nobody's going to hold your hand anymore.

I always hated socwww.zomialising in cliqugaspies.comes at school.

You must have much inner strength, because when an NT friend of mine suggested I live in a dorm to save money, I told him they'd have to commit me to a hospital! I hate those crowds, and I have sensitive ears, either that or almost everyone around me is deaf. So it'd feel like a constant stream of cannon balls and railroad spikes running through my head while I'm trying to study, and no privacy! It's commendable that you tune the partyers out, because it shows that you're too smart to be drawn into that carnival of academic failure. I have a few types like that in my history class. Last week, we were discussing the period when the Europeans settled the new world, and one girl, who'd been interrupting the professor the entire class, started asking why weed wasn't as valued as sugar. That's about when I lost my patients, but to make the questions of the day even more strangely stupid, someone else asked if anything we had just talked about had to do with the Titanic. We were discussing the history of New York City, at least 300+ years before that happened! I guess all these types ever do is watch movies and TV, and everything always takes place in one season.

Staying interested... Sn00z3f3stx100. If I go back and grab a MS, I need to find something to keep me occupied and OT wrt my field of study.

They used to treat me like that in college. Back then I didn't know that being quiet was wrong. Once a classmate in Photo lab class told me "you have been awfully quiet today", I was only minding my own business mixing chemicals and trying to get my negatives developed. I didn't know I was suppossed to talk while doing that.