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

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For me,it is meeting people/starting conversations with strangers.

ALSO,I am taking speech my sophomore year. THAT will be HORRIBLE!! !


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Well, the hardest part of college for me, was when I discovered that the people in my group, that I was supposed to be working with on a project, had been meeting without me at each other's homes without telling me. It would have been hard enough if they had included me, (because I would have been very uncomfortable hanging out at someone else's house,) but it brought everyone's grade down, since I didn't know what was going on. And this was a recurring theme the whole time I attended college. The name of the theme was, "NTs turning everything into an opportunity to play at Social Games, at the expense of a Grade."

I find it hard since I'm a film/video major to trust people to help me with my projects. My school has kinda a laziness to it not to mention theres no real incentive for them to do it and I can't afford to give them money. So alot of times I'll get someone who backs out at the last minute leaving me in the dirt kind of. I think it has to do with my perceived lack of enthuisam I think alot of people just sell their stories I tell them what it is and when and I guess because they view me as having a lack of excitement about the project that its no big deal. I end up forming alot of scanarios with my mother and use her because I can't depend on people at my school.

Having to go in and out of places so frequently just to go to lectures, tutorials, or extra help sessions. I would have preferred to stay at home instead.

French.

All the people and noise.

And group assignments. It pisses me off to get a crap mark because some other moron isn't dedicated to doing the work to an acceptable standard.

Sharing a room/the loud noise at night/difficulty going to bed at a reasonable time/having to interact often with strangers and even being drained by constant contact with friends/living with people which forces me into having to deal with issues like breakups/drunkenness

I am not "PROFESSIONAL" or "BUSINESS-LIKE". I'm thinking, "Crap! Who would want to be? If you're implying that this is leading to THAT, BLECCCHHH! Here we go again! Next major, please." I'm now surpassing the teachers in age and I'm still sending them bits of Monty Python skits as obscure commentary on scholastic proceedings. My favorite teacher this semester chastised me severely for an aside on an assignment, saying that in the business world, I would be emailing my superiors ( and betters ) and should keep communication devoid of emotion and/or judgement. (WTF?)Then, he Disappointed PATERFAMILIAS'D me because I'd stopped doing the homework/busywork due to their sheer time-consuming pointlessness and made me do them all "because I'm capable of A work, but carrying a C for those deficiencies."I would have happily taken my honest C, but I admired his skill with Disappointed DAD and did them all. Then he failed to give me credit for one and I made a B. I called his attention to this and he corrected it with a stiff little homily about not cutting it so close next time, due diligence etc etc. I COULDN'T HELP MYSELF:I returned with, I'm just pining for the fjords, A.Parrot, happy-in-all-regards.I have a bad feeling he will NOT be amused. Cracked me up...

If this is the problem then:

A) Don't do group work with other people. Ask the teacher to do the project by yourself and if that is not possible then find people who are competent of doing the work to get a good grade and sit next to them the first day of class.

B) Tell the teacher that you AS and you would rather work alone.

I dunno Hartz major but I know in mine I need people tto film and most of my projects are narrative that I want to have actors from my school do.

sharing a room sucks, but it took me a full semester to really settle in with a small group of friends. and not to mention the girls at this state school are painfully uninteresting, and since its a tech school also, they are few and far between.

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

Are you an Economics Major?

I would say on regular Economics is a moderately/medium difficult major but at the school I go to now(It's the 4th College I've gone too) likes to make students fail Econ 101.

I'm majoring in Economics and Accounting. I also want to take Finance classes in grad school.

It can get challenging provided the school wants to make it challenging. For me the problem is never the Math/problem solving though it is remembering how to prepare for the "Easier questions" in the test which I always seem to get wrong.

I'm a social science for education major and econ at mason starts at 103 micro and 104 macro.

That particular project was assigned by the Professor, and working in a group was part of the assignment. We were supposed to put together a presentation as a GROUP and these people thought it was a popularity contest. The total grade depended upon a certain percentage of input from ALL of us, but they just didn't get it. As a whole, we got a poor grade, because by excluding me from the group, they hadn't my input to add to theirs. It wasn't something I could do alone. And I didn't know that I had Asperger's at the time, either. So glad to have graduated and put all that behind me!

Oh gosh, the hardest part of college?

Making friends was particularly difficult for me my freshman/sophomore years. I started college a year early, so I couldn't (nor would I want to) go out to bars or pubs with my classmates for study groups or projects. As with a lot of other schools, mine likes people to fail the Econ intro class but after I made an A in the class there was some resentment that this 'little kid' had done that well. It doesn't help that I come off as arrogant because I'm a tad bit socially impaired.

Girls were another major stumbling block for me. As my current NT girlfriend tells me, I am attractive and look like an NT because I don't have any motor or reflex problems. That's true with a good many Aspies I think. But girls would ask me out to a bar or a party but I would turn them down. Some of them were very nice, but I simply cannot handle all the noise and interaction. It exhausts me to the point of sleeping for 24 hours strait. After a while, girls just stopped trying.

Dealing with professors was also difficult. A lot of people here are skeptical about AS and don't really believe it exists, so I've dealt with professors that think I'm simply lazy, rude, overly serious and have psychological issues because I hate public speaking and group work with a passion.

One professor gave our class a project in which we had to go to an international festival and do some activities, then write about them. I was there for ten minutes and I had a massive headache develop so I simply went home. I tried explaining my AS, but I ended up getting an F for the project. It was entirely too many people and my head was killing me. Later on I had classmates that would take notes for me on those kind of events, and let me write a paper off of their notes so I didn't have to go. That was very fortunate for me.