College isn't as hard as everyone claims, amirite?

No but paying the tuition is.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

This. To live alone, to work fulltime and to pay for college tuition on your own is a completely absurd level of hell.

by Good-Performer 1 week ago

Public education up to high school diploma/ or until ur 18 is quite literally required.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

You know universities charge international students much higher amounts then domestic students right? Also in a lot of countries international student visas don't give you the right to work, that means you're relying on savings.

by flatleyyoshiko 1 week ago

If only it was so simple. I am an American who earned my Bachelors in the U.K. There are variables of course but international students pay far more than student from the country of origin.

by Odell22 1 week ago

Huh. Unless you're already a citizen...never mind this is just saying "just be born somewhere else, it's that simple!"

by herzogshirley 1 week ago

Just get a student loan. Pays for everything including room and board. If you get a profitable degree it will pay for itself. And if you do public service, it gets forgiven in 10 years

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Ya, OP does not seem smart at all. Definitely brain dead if they did science and don't have the critical thinking skills to see why university can be hard

by Anonymous 1 week ago

That or OP is so smart he he/she actually can't comprehend university can be hard. And we are just stupid morons who comically struggle with very easy concepts. I studied math and once you understand a concept you just can't understand how someone else can't understand it, including yourself in the past. I literally facepalm at my past self for not immediately and intuitively getting certain concepts that I now easily understand.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I get that. Like how it can be hard to explain concepts to people who don't understand when it's so intuitive. But the smartest people are really those that can see a situation from many different perspectives. OP only has one perspective. And you probably look back and understand that even though it's not hard now it was once hard and why it was. OP lacks the critical thinking skills to do so

by Anonymous 1 week ago

It depends on the person. Like you're saying OP should be able to look back to when it was hard for them, but for some people it's just never hard. For some people, learning things just kind of clicks, and it can be really hard to empathize with those who don't have that.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Right. When I tried college I was working full time at the busiest Starbucks in town making like 100+ drinks an hour being rushed and stressing out, then driving 30 minutes to class and being there for hours, and then having to do homework, largely with professors that didn't even teach shut and nuts threw complex Java tasks at us in a beginner coding class. Also liked having a dating and social life. Just dropped it and taught myself, I'd I didn't have to work for bills I'd totally be in school trying to get into med or dental school.

by Either_Demand7788 1 week ago

It depends on your major. I was a STEM major too and I didn't sleep for like 4 days during my last final season and thats with a goof off elective.

by joaquinskiles 1 week ago

Electrical Engineering nearly killed me and literally did kill one of my classmates who jumped from the building junior year.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Had a basic electronics course and I wanted to keep myself safe very badly, can't imagine how bad it gets with more advanced stuff

by Commercial-Basis-217 1 week ago

I also had this happen. Its shockingly common and its gut wrenching to see because odds are food theres a better way too teach than one that kills a good portion of students.

by joaquinskiles 1 week ago

Yeah, but then there'd be "too many" engineering majors, which the department doesn't want for... some reason?

by Anonymous 1 week ago

that's crazy. Doing computer programming and its not that bad at all so far

by Anonymous 1 week ago

If you are cramming for a final, then you didn't work hard throughout the semester. I had what is considered a difficult major and I only had 1 quarter in which I felt like I was extremely busy, and that was when I took like 18 or 20 units. I only crammed late night once for a final, and even then I called it a night around 3am in order to get some sleep for the test.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

It really depends on circumstances other than just the classes. If you're trying to also work a full-time job or if you have crappy roommates that don't let you sleep college gets a lot harder.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I mean different majors will obviously be way different difficulty wise. Saying STEM is not very specific.

by Foreign_Glove1090 1 week ago

I'm in college right now and honestly, it is hard. But what makes or breaks me comes down to the teacher, especially the ones who make it to where I can pass unless I pass all the exams. Current class has 3 exams total for 80% of my grade.

by Diamondruecker 1 week ago

Used to be 2 exams. I'll betyou're only taking 4 classes, too. ??????? Professors and gradasses also don't like to be called teachers. It's beneath their arrogance level.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I would've failed if it wasn't for office hours. Sophomore year was the hardest stint in academia I ever done. STEM major here as well.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

The difficulty of university is very dependent on the resources available to you.

by flatleyyoshiko 1 week ago

I was a straight A student in high school. I'm now a college freshman and I currently have a B, a C, and a D plus two more classes where I'm not sure. It's not that the work is harder. It's other factors that differ between college and high school alongside my own issues. We go through concepts faster with little or no chance in class to practice, we have to use school facilities for some of our homework instead of being able to work from anywhere, other students ask questions over email and so I don't hear the answers, classes are longer, and for certain classes, the work actually is harder (looking at you, Digital Signal Theory). It's also harder to be on time for class and professors don't always remind you about what work is due soon. It's been rough for me with anxiety, executive dysfunction, and no organization system for keeping track of work despite regularly telling myself I need one. I also get restless during long classes, especially boring ones.

by Spiritual-Income 1 week ago

K, freshman.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Mmm copium

by Ykonopelski 1 week ago

Dude some classes I'm just not compatible with. I LOVE math. I LOVE science. If I had to learn history, kill me. I can specialize in my field now but, before, with prerequisites 🤮

by Juliaquitzon 1 week ago

Funny I love History and science but math and I arent compatible. Im WAY good at quick "bartender" math I call it. Can put numbers together quickly. Higher math not so much. Different strokes.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

What stem field was it?

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Did my math/business degree in 3 years. Couldn't stand to waste another year. Math was like doing the daily crossword, sometimes challenging, but usually mundane. Business was interesting but actually just common sense. Now they expect you to take 5 years for a bachelors!???? Insane!

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Depends on you major, mental health, are you working or not working, do have any type of cognitive disability or not. For you it may be easy and that's great! I'm dyslexic school always sucks but I'm doing it

by Head-Voice3884 1 week ago

Its easy when you have family, friends, and money. The vast majority of people however are missing one of those. I personally have none.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Lol what does moving have to do with it? Doing your own laundry doesn't make it harder to pass classes

by Ykonopelski 1 week ago

For me, collage was easier then high school.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

It depends on many factors, including what school you go to. Weedout classes can be pretty brutal, and the grade curves often don't help. There are plenty of classes where the curve is set to a 3.0 and if you get below average at all you're in the 2's. And it's a pretty common situation where people go from being one of the smartest in their high school (small pond) to average or below average in their university, since it's selecting all the best from all over. So students who cruise to 4.0s in high school get humbled big time because to do that in university (particularly those early weedout classes) is an incredibly difficult feat. So it's not that it's hard to pass classes, but it's hard to excel like many are used to, when the people around you are as good or better.

by Vprosacco 1 week ago

You were not an engineer or a doctor then, among a few other things. Because school for those IS hard and that's the entire point.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

It isn‘t college itself so much as life circumstances that happen and interfere.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I actually agree with this after just starting a degree while working full time. The work itself isn't difficult, it's just finding the hours to do it while working 45 hours a week. But I've found the assessments and essays far easier than expected.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Sounds like you never took a microprocessor class

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Really? The point of college is to be easy? And you think you can learn everything from google? You're exactly who doesn't belong in college.

by Pretty_Chipmunk_1610 1 week ago

You can in fact learn everything from Google, if only because Google has basically every college course on it for free.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

How does one get a job without a college degree good sir? Do the companies just hire people off the streets singe they learned from "Google" instead of in college placements?

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Many careers don't require a bachelor's degree, although they're much more useful than people are willing to admit these days.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

This is INCREDIBLY privileged. and silly. for starters, the type of studying people are taught to do only works for like 10% of people. also the 'vast majority' of people aren't just lazy. Some of them are, granted, but a lot more of them are getting jobs or dealing with mental illness or generally just not coasting through life. given the metal health and loneliness epidemics right now it goes double.

by Anonymous 1 week ago