How did you go at Uni?
Published 1 year, 6 months ago in Making News. 
Like most students, The Melburnian’s university years were mis-spent, but we wonder whether students can afford to piss-fart around these days doing non-curriculum things like getting involved in politics, thinking about Big Ideas or - heaven forbid - self-discovery!
How was uni life for you? Did you invest precious time pondering the secrets of the universe, or fall asleep at your study desk?
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I think doing the non-curriculum things got me my first real job out of Uni. (Good marks helped).
I started uni in 89, the first year of HECS. One of the first people I met (okay it was at the pub) had been there for 11 years! He finished that year though!!
I went on the five year plan for my four year course but my early lack of focus in lectures was made up for by many things learnt and people met in that time. Even though it cost me an extra year’s HECS I think it was well worth it - navel gazing, pub chats and lying around on the lawn form some of my fondest memories from that time.
i spend most my time at uni skipping classes to go shopping on brunswick st, not studying so i could go out partying and drinking, and sleeping in and forgetting about morning classes….but i somehow i did pretty well, finished up last year, and coz our uni is slack we graduate at the end of the month (CAN’T WAIT!!!!)
but seriously, uni life was great, i made so many good friends and got so much out of it… best 3 years of my life!
I have just finished paying my uni fees - what a marathon!! More than six years, with a scholarship too. I’m still broke, nothing’s changed and I have a job that anyone could do. So why did I go to uni? To change the world? Has it worked? For some people. Will I escape this miserable existence? If I believe strongly to work towards something special in the future …
First time: Drunk mainly, interspersed with some interesting meetings with the accademic board and a year off to get stoned. That four-year degree still ranks among the best seven years of my life. Made some life-long friends and the love of my life.
Second time: Rediscovered a love of learning, studied like mad, blitz it and made some life-long friends.
I’d go back to uni a second.
Hey I didn’t know you could say piss-fart around on nook. s##t, I’ll be buggered.
I studied. Both times.
Undergrad: worked hard in and out of uni - to survive (lived out of home).
Post-grad, many years later: still studied but t’was less angst ridden (did my naval gazing following the degree, but always after work) and so made more friends the second time.
But, you know, apart frm here on Nook, I don’t think I’ve ever really been asked how I went at Uni… Do the results matter?
Dull, boring place. Too many silly teenagers and listless lecturers who have no industry or life experience.
Imagine the joy of a sports psychology lecturer with no sporting experience. 3 years at Uni, I learnt more chatting with friends after events.