To ask if you went to uni did you regret it ?

[Lardlizard]

Yabu if you don’t regret
Yanbu if you do

No I don’t regret going. I regret getting into a serious relationship while I was a student. I let myself get distracted and didn’t work as hard as I could have.

Loved my time. 4 year course including a year abroad for my language. When I went there were no fees and as my parents were not well off I got a grant (plus I worked in the holidays) , so no debt. I had a very strict upbringing so it was great for me to have some freedom and independence and spread my wings. Great for confidence building and set me up in my professional career.

Definitely not
Although I kind of went because it was expected, and my own children see it as a natural step after school.
I think it's a lot more stressful now for students, and a lot more serious.

I wish I hadn't gone to Oxford for undergrad. I'm at a northern red brick now for post grad and wish I'd come here for my BA. Oxford was full of twats, and too high-pressured.

I couldn’t do my job that I really enjoy without my degrees so no, I do not regret it. I chose a difficult subject (mathematics) and there were times that I regretted that choice as the courses were extremely challenging but overall I don’t regret any of it.

Definitely don't regret it as it was the quickest way out of a rural village, but if I could go back in time I would choose different a levels and degree.

I regret the choice of degree, it's really fucking useless. I want to change career and will be going back to university in the next year or so.

I regretted the university but not my under grad or my masters. I 100% regret my phd

Absolutely not. The day the postie delivered the letter offering me a place at University to our council house was the day on which the course of my life was decided.

I was going to have a proper career, not a dead-end job in a shop or a clothing factory like most of the other girls in my year. This was before loans, fees and the expansion of HE, and I qualified for a full grant. I loved University, it was like being admitted into a completely different world.

Best time of my life, and graduates are overall better paid than non-graduates.

Completely regret it. I had no financial support so ran up debt to go. I am nearly 40 and still don't own my own home

Didn’t at the time but do now as my degree is useless and the course I would love to do now at 43 would cost me £27000 as you can’t have a second student loan.

I don't regret it at all, I even went & did my masters after and had very good career prospects.

I regret not choosing a course that suited me better- I had a bad time because I chose badly and rushed into it. I have friends that have worked for a few years first and discovered what they really want to do and then studied it. I was way too immature at 18 to decide that stuff. I drank my way through it.

Loved it so much I ended up getting a job at one after doing three degrees. It has its bad days like anything else, and the pay isn’t great for someone with three degrees but getting to work with bright enquiring minds that are interested and curious about the same things you’re interested and curious about is a luxury. Being able to use what I’ve learned to support my own kids not just financially but also academically and through ‘knowing how things are done’ has been invaluable. I wish I’d had someone able to do the same for me at their age.

@897654321abcvrufhfgg You can get a part-time loan for a second degree if it is on a list of subjects that includes stem ect.

Yep waste of time. Only did the first year and it cost me 8k. Looking back I picked the wrong course and would have done better at a uni closer to home.

When I jacked it all in I got a job in a bank call centre and within a few years I was managing a girl who graduated at the same time I should have.

We are about the same level in the organisation now.

It was sold during my childhood as education being a must and if you were clever you’ll get a good job and have a great, well paid career.

I now know that it’s about hard work and who you know.

I attended Uni twice, completing undergraduate and post graduate degrees at Russell group institutions. Originating from a WC background, it introduced me to a whole new world where I also met my DH. I have absolutely no regrets.

I don’t regret mine as I wouldn’t have got my job without a degree and it was before student loans.

I’m not sure I’d be encouraging my children to go though unless they’re set on a career that you need a specific degree for as it costs so much now. When I went I just picked a subject I was interested in and didn’t really think about what job I’d do. It all worked out fine as I did a stem degree, but I’ve seen so many others not be able to get a graduate level job or ending up retraining which is just so costly when you’ve got to pay for it.

No.

I have four degrees, all done on scholarships, so none of it cost me anything (apart from the inevitable doctoral nervous breakdown). And my career requires a doctorate. I loved university, I'm now an academic, and I plan to do at least one more degree in retirement in an area unrelated to my current field.

Absolutely not: it opened doors and enabled me to escape some constraints.

Loved it. I went to a “posh” uni full of people who believed they could do anything.
It was an eye opener for me as the working class town I grew up in was always telling folk not to get up themself or too big for their boots and to “know their place”.

It's one of the best things I've done, I got to study a subject I love (Sociology) for three years. I knew I was capable of getting a degree and didn't want to look back and say I could have got one but didnt.

No, I wouldn't be able to do the job I could without it.

How useful it has been... hmmm but it was a means to an end.

Not a very happy time for me, but think I was too young for it in fairness.

A great time, but had a grant and got an extra grant to spend a year in the US. I regret not working a bit harder, but it was a life-changing experience.

However, I think that it is not the same now due to the cost and it is probably not financially worth it unless a really useful subject. But I do think every young person should get the opportunity as it is not just the degree that is valuable but the experience of living in a new city, meeting new people and getting a different perspective on life.