Tell me about your uni days

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I spoke to someone who graduated in 2020. I felt ancient. I qualified in 2000, I had moved from Glasgow to Manchester and it was a shock Initially. I lived in nurses accommodation, all girls, it was wild, lots of drinking, random lads and that freedom of being away from home.

Times when we all fell out and it was really bitchy. Only in contact with 2 of them now.

Uni in the late 90's was the best

I went to drama school in London and graduated in 1999. I agree it was a great time...if I'm honest, the best of my life. I had a wonderful 3 years. Parties, learning to act, sing and dance...performances, clothes, makeup, showing off around Camden. Wonderful times!

Graduated in 2012. I had an amazing time living in London. Second and third year I lived in Brixton and we'd spend hours stretching out cups of tea in Brixton Village. London was an amazing uni experience as you could get so many discount tickets for plays, shows and exhibitions. I did plenty of partying too!

I bet London would have amazing but the price!!

I graduated in 1983. Both my DDs have now graduated too. I am obviously ancient! I loved the social aspect of uni but hated actually doing any academic work so left with a rubbish degree but gained a lovely husband. I have since done another degree and got a good classification and am currently retired and studying for my third degree. I now love doing academic work!

Graduated in 2002. Law from a London uni. Was really hard work and London was not set up for anything I'd recognise as student life. Didn't live on same halls campus as people on my course, no idea why or how that happened. No student scene (£1 a pint and decent live music? Nope...). The course was demanding and I just worked really hard. Made one lifelong friend, not in touch with anyone else.
Then i went to law school (also in London) and it was AMAZING, made a group of lifelong friends, plenty of nights out and fun. The course wasn't too hard or time consuming and we had time to hang out and formed amazing friendships which have lasted through thick and thin

Graduated in 2010. Loved uni, they were some of my best years. Had loads of great friends but only regularly in touch with two now, mostly my fault as I've travelled around quite a bit since then.

I have no idea how I had the time and energy to do all the stuff I did. I did an intense course with classes most of the day, every day, plus 'homework,' yet managed to work 3 shifts a week in a bar, partied 2-3 nights a week and was involved in a couple of clubs. Came out with with first by some miracle too. Now I just about manage to get through my Monday-Friday job and I'm shattered!

I graduated in 1997. No mobile phones, we had to queue to use the phone box in the corner
In my first year essays were hand written by my second year we had to book time in the library to use the computers as they had to be typed up. I remember only being able to get the late slot and typing my work at lightening speed before the Library shut at 11pm.
There were not the Landlord tennant regulations there are now and our cooker was condemned by British Gas when the landlord refused to fix it. He was furious we had called them as we could smell gas!!
We had so much fun and I enjoyed my uni days , I am reliving them through my DDs now

God yeah sharing the phone!

@ApolloandDaphne, may I ask what your degrees are in?

I too now love studying after getting a crap first degree.

Graduated 1994 from Cardiff. Drank loads, played rugby and had the absolute time of my life. Still only feels like a few years ago.

Still have several good friends from uni. Unfortunately we are all attending the funeral of one of our number next week after a horrible accident. We've been asked to wear our rugby shirts 🙂 It's most definitely what she would have wanted.

I also graduated in 1997. My friend had a mobile but I used the phone box. We had a lift in halls with a manual door. We taped paper to our bedroom door for notes. We had punch parties before going out. I was on work experience living in Liverpool when we hosted the Euros 96 - bars and nightclubs got an extension to open late.
We used to go to clubs for 'all nighters' - Cream, Hacienda, Mega Dog etc Robbie left take that. The bomb went off in Manchester- my friends window was sucked in. Labour won the general election and most importantly Katrina and the Waves won the Eurovosion.

We ate meals made with Campbells condensed soup and Tuna pasta.

Snake bite and black was cheap at Uni...although I didn't drink it.

Most people had to share a room in halls unless you were a third year. Our sheets were washed every two weeks and the cleaner would hoover our room if it was clean. We had fridges in our room. Yes it feels like yesterday.

@devildeepbluesea so sorry for your loss. That must be very upsetting.

I was at DMU in Leicester 96/97. Catered halls first then a shared house in the city centre. Got in through clearing. Dropped out because I couldn't get a placement and the jobs in the field weren't great anyway (textiles) the course wasn't as creative as I'd hoped.

I stayed on a village campus at first and it was like a holiday camp. Everyone got on. I remember the phone thing. Also food parcels. If you weren't going home for the weekend you got a little bag of tuck. It had Dairylea, Ritz biscuits, a pot noodle, a tin of ravioli and a packet of pink wafers! I have no idea how I was my lowest weight ever then!

2nd year we had a house in the city centre. I had 2 jobs and burnt out. It's a different place now. Village campus now a Tesco, all our old haunts gone if I went to Leicester now I wouldn't see one single face I recognise. I had great friendships. Better than I've ever had. I'm in touch with a few on FB occasionally but lost touch with loads and I miss them all.

I graduated in 2010 - lots of drinking, boys, friendships I thought would last forever. I loved it and it was genuinely the most carefree time I’ve had even with the pressure of exams and dissertations; having said all that I was ready to leave at the end of it and to move to the next stage of life

Graduated 88.
We had notepads hanging outside our rooms so people could leave messages.
Massive rolling blackboards for lectures.
Final degree result based entirely on four 3 hour exams held over 2 days.
Degree results for this specific subject by tradition read out loud to all students together in large hall, by classification.

Graduated in 1981. No computers, all essays handwritten. No online resources, only books and journals, so in demand texts in the library could only be borrowed on 'short loan' for a few hours. The overnight slot gave you the most time, as long as you didn't fall asleep.

Graduated in 2003. I didn't really enjoy uni. I felt very lonely and homesick and struggled socially. I feel like it was one of the hardest times of my life so far in terms of mental health.

Graduated 1997.
Stayed at home but had lots of placements all ove rthe country. Was v badly organised and I would be told on a Fri I needed to be 500 miles away for a month starting the Monday. Accommodation on placements was organised by the uni and was mostly hospital accommodation so some old fashioned nurses homes but in London they put us up in a place which was some sort of religious " cult"
It was a v full on degree with a week off. At Xmas and 2 in the summer.
I worked 2 part time jobs as well.
I got into socialing in my third year and loved it.
Still in touch with loads of my contemporaries.

I graduated in 2002.

I enjoyed some aspects but on the whole I didn’t really enjoy my university years. I think the pressure for them to be the best days of my life actually turned them the other way as I couldn’t understand why I wasn’t enjoying myself!

I am in touch with a handful of people but not really close to anybody.

Graduated 1988. Difficult course ( medicine). I worked hard as I felt out of my depth academically and socially. I came from very working class background and everyone else had functional families and gone to private schools! By the last year I had found my stride and was more confident.
I remember going to a lecture in 3rd year about families - they talked about the characteristics dysfunctional families and the penny dropped for me.
I spent an awful lot of hours in the library but in my 5th year I discovered rum and coke - life improved after that 😆
Always have a bond with others “in my year”. We have had several reunions we laugh and drink and talk for hours. Apart from 2 of the orthopaedic surgeons (😂😂) we are all good people, doing our best and trying to contribute.

I did five years 2004-2009.

I am so pleased it was before you could upload your photos during a night out because we did so much stupid stuff.
I also met my husband at the beginning of my second year, at aged 19. We didn't get together properly until the next year though.

Just graduated (2nd time) 2021. Spent the year in my bedroom. May graduate in the Lounge for a change of scenery!

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Graduated 88. We had notepads hanging outside our rooms so people could leave messages. Massive rolling blackboards for lectures. Final degree result based entirely on four 3 hour exams held over 2 days. Degree results for this specific subject by tradition read out loud to all students together in large hall, by classification.

This still happened when I graduated in 2011 (but we already knew the results which were posted online first)!

We had mobile phones, Facebook, took and posted pictures on nights out etc and it still feels like a less complicated time than now. I loved uni and still have a large and close friendship group from then but I couldn’t do it again - exams were very very stressful.

No personal computers and word processors just appearing. The faculty had a terminal that was the size of a large sitting room.

Grants. We had grants you could live on and didn’t build up debt. I even got travel expenses at end of term.

A great big bathroom with cubicles divided by plywood. People used to throw things over the top at you. Shared baths flooding the floor and going through the ceiling. Peeing in our sinks and the maintenance chap complicate sinks had never been fixed properly to the walls.

Lecturers droning on whilst we slept. They seemed quite happy to talk to the one or two who remained conscious.

A curfew and security checking visitors had left the premises at 11:30pm. The foyer full of visitors crawling on their bellies to avoid signing in.

Rag week on the tube. CND marches. Snakebite.

Drunk and disorderly