University

[Dai the Socket]

I'm confused. I know it's not time for me to go to Uni yet but I like knowing what i'm doing!

What are your opinions on the whole Uni thing. It'll cost my parents £12,000 to put me through University if I live away, and much less if I don't.

I don't want to not make friends and know many people If i live at home. Or is it alright when you're in the course or what?

I'm uber confused :-

Nick

[cant_ride]

If you can afford to live away and the course in that particular uni is genuinely better than at home then go... will be an unforgettable experience.

anyway remember it'll be you 12,000 in debt not yur rents

oli

[Dai the Socket]

If you can afford to live away and the course in that particular uni is genuinely better than at home then go... will be an unforgettable experience.

anyway remember it'll be you 12,000 in debt not yur rents

oli

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My parents said they would pay me through it. So all I'd need a student loan for is living. They would pay student housing and uni fees.

I don't want to miss out on the whole University experience thing. That's my point :-

[munkee]

Heres some options:

if you really want to you can pick a uni close to home, i recommend atleast living in halls however for the first year. This will atleast give you a ground base of people you know to go out with during your other years.

If you cant even stretch this far.. live in a rented house with a few other people they dont have to be from your course or anything but you really do need to get away from your 'home school friends' type people and learn about different types of lifestyles etc that other people have.

you do get to know people on your course... but usually they are people you have met in your halls or have met in a previous foundation year. Civil engineering is full of group based coursework..so got to know quite a few pople like that but at the start everyone is a little warey and your unlikley to like go out drinking and stuff.. i can see it happening in my next years though.

i dont know how to explain it really.. you have different groups of friends for everything you do... which may be hard if your living form home.

I didnt want to live at home at all ( hard anyway living on the isle fo wight, but there are uni's like portsmouth that are only about a hour journey away) simply because of dealing with your parents shit. You dont really realise unless you make the big step and go off to a uni somewhere well out of distance that only a phone call is all they have to get at you. The amount of worrying and living in their pockets that you dont have to deal with lets you live your own life and become dependent on your self. My parents pay for pretty much everything.. ( read as yes everything ) the only way im gonna get some self dependence is to do what i want.. and the only way i saw it was to move 170 miles away. Which has worked a charm!

Anyway enough of my bullshit heres a quick sum up:

Ideal world live far far far away form parents with them paying for everything. Forget about the debt the experience is far more important. beleive it or not you can still get good grades without being under the watchful eye of your mommy and daddy. If i was you id live in halls definitely... i liked it so much im living in again next year (2nd time). I just dont really see people growing up if they live with their parents... but thats in my eyes only i guesse

edit: oh yea forgot .. there will always be the hardcore uni people that think your not dependent till you've worked yourself out of debt... blah blah... but... im gonna be working for the next 40 years of my life... why do it now? for the experience? uhhhhhh right your parents have offered to give you an education.. a better life than what they had for a reason.

Edited July 22, 2005 by Spacemunkee