Whats college REALLY like?

College isn’t all that is cracked up to be honestly. I’m a sophomore now and from this past year I’ll try and answer some questions you might have from my experience:

As someone has said before me: the movies give college a poor example. There aren’t random parties ALL the time. At my school we did have quite a few on the weekends but not all wild and crazy.

When you get there, you might realize there are things you should have learned in high school that they didn’t teach or touch up on. For my math class, it seemed like I had to learn derivatives all over again and some classes i had to find my old school work to remember it.

*College is boring sometimes. That’s pretty much it. There were times where I was bored out of my mind.

*Socially, there are opportunities to meet new people all the time. You just have to be open to meeting all kinds of people who may have very different (sometimes radical) opinions of the world we live in. Some people that I have met seem so bizarre to me, but they’re brilliant.

*Random hookups are just that; random. Many people don’t talk about it outside of their deemed inner circle, but they do happen

*It’s…semi-easy to establish a relationship and friendship in college. Of course it’s easy to meet new people, but actually maintaining that friendship is hard, just like it could have been for you in high school and in the real world. Some of my classmates seemed like they were still in high school, not willing to grow up and face the fact that college isn’t like high school. But I have maintained several friendships with people that I know will last. I became more open-minded in college, as if I wasn’t before.

*Most won’t tell you the extent of the course work that you’ll experience. It can be a hand full. Im not trying to scare you but college is easy only if you actually study hard. You may be able to get by in your intro classes; but even those can be hard.

*Also, people don’t know the REAL cost of going to college. Saying that books are expensive is an understatement. And that goes for tuition and those ‘hidden fees’ as well.

What is college REALLY like? We may not give you the answers you want. You either grow up in college or stay immature. You can learn so much of you’re open to new philosophies and ideas, or you won’t. To me, you can’t prepare for it; you jus have to experience it.

Good Luck!

What Is College Really Like

1. The only socializing you will do is with the people in your sorority/fraternity/dorm/apartment. Other than that, you probably won’t see too many parties during the week.

2. Random hookups don’t happen very often to sober people. Get a few freshman girls at a drinking party and you have some random hookups going on and some unwanted pregnancy, STDs, and statutory rape.

3. It is easy to keep a girlfriend/boyfriend if you both have things in common and have similar goals.

Also, if you are at a party where there is underage drinking, you can get busted EASILY for underage drinking OR supplying alcohol to a minor.

College isn’t for fun, it is for studying, working hard, and reaping the rewards of a sound education.

Social environments vary from university to university, just like they do anywhere else. I go to a huge uni in TX where there´s always something going on in the dorms, frat houses, downtown, etc, whereas in my home city there are colleges that turn into veritable dead towns Fri til Sun because everyone leaves for the weekend out of boredom. I know I would´ve been miserable if I stayed home for college — and I live in Houston!

Random hook-ups happen a lot when alcohol is involved. I haven´t heard of one happening where there WASN´T any involved. It´s not to say that these hook-ups were all decisions later regretted, just that alcohol tends to be in abundance at college, people don´t know their limits, freshman tend to go crazy with lack of parental guidance for the first time ever, etc…

As far as romantic relationships, more than ever I´ve run into guys who don´t want serious relationships. They want to play the field and enjoy their youth — sow their seeds as some might say. Fair enough, college is about experimenting, trying new things, finding more about yourself. Unless you can´t see yourself without someone, there´s no need to have a serious or even exclusive relationship. I did my freshman year, when my bf at the time went to school in CA…I hardly had a social life and I regret it!

Okay, here’s my two cents. Don’t go into it with any expectations or you’re going to be disappointed. College is as far from the movies as possible. It’s nothing like any of the National Lampoon’s movies, or Animal House, or anything like that. It’s actually kinda boring, and it’s really easy to get homesick and sad. You have to keep involved.

I know every school is different, but i’m going to answer your questions based on mine. I go to quite possibly the most redneck college in the United States, located in SD. I must say about 30% of the social events in the dorms are drinking parties. This is where you meet most of your friends, which is kind of a good and bad thing at the same time. You have to weed out the alcoholics from the cool people. There are other ways to have fun. A lot of people in my dorm socialized by going out to eat or shopping or just going exercising or to a school club. Socializing is what you make it. You just have to find the right group.

Okay, random hookups. It’s a lot easier for a girl than a guy. There have been lots of guys after me in the dorms and i’m sure other girls have the same thing happen to them. Observing other girls, it looks like the alcoholic guys go for the alcoholic girls. This is also a question of your character, is a random hookup something you’d like to do morally? If so that’s cool, just get tanked at a party with some girl and then take it from there. It’s relatively easy, but don’t expect the girl to have any self-respect or substance, know what I mean?

As far as relationships go, I haven’t dated yet at college (because I want to be single lol), but when I first went I had a boyfriend back home, and it worked for a while but eventually nah. They say though, that the best relationships are made at college, because you’re living together there and having fun and growing up together. Becoming adults with each other!

Well here’s the general consensus- no expectations ? When I signed up my dorm, I never expected to see the tobacco spit all over the ceiling, projectile vomit on the walls on Friday nights, and a loose baby calf running down the hallway while all the cowboys tried to rope it. I realize your college will hopefully be far from this amount of redneckness, but your dorm will have it’s quirks. All you can do is experience it first!

To your question what’s college really like…it’s whatever you decide it will be. Really that’s the truth.

College is like life. There is a lot of freedom, and you might feel like you can try lots of things, and meet lots of people. Keep your goal in mind… and that’s to maintain good grades and learn. Cause that’s the reason you’re there right?

Don’t come in with all these expectations. You’re bound to get disappointed. Just take it as it comes to you and you will do alright.

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Whats college REALLY like?

I’m not dumb, I know what it is and I know the basic things about it, but what are some things most people don’t know about it until they actually get there?

Like whats the social aspect of it like?

How often do random hookups happen?

How easy/hard is it to establish and maintain a…

I agree that college is nothing like they portray in the movies…

for instance, my floor in res, was total crap- everyone ignored everyone else, i lived on a floor with 80 people i knew 5…. and trust me, i am not the antisocial type. they were all extremely clique-y (clicky? i cant spell that word apprently haha) whatever, they didnt want ot make friends. the same thing happened by second year in res. i dont know what is wrong with my school but apparently people dont want to meet other people…. hmm…. i should move.

I learned an incredible amount in college that after 4 years of taking it, I felt like a completely different person. We all anticipate some sort of knowledge enhancement but that’s only a fraction of it. You grow to be mature, you realize the world around you that is saturated with diversity (especially in west-coast schools) with people of all colors and ethnicities who think very similar to you & yet they are so different, you learn to date in light and serious relationships….

One thing I didn’t expect, but I learned in college, is that there are truly evil people in the world. I think we believe that most people are nice, besides the “crazy” serial killers. But I’m talking about the normal people who are seemingly nice, but are actually vicious backstabbers and blackmailers. You should never give trust easily.

Well College is sort of similar to high school but its a lot bigger and their are more people to meet that live in different cities.