Reminisce about your student days with me

[Absentmindedwoman]

Wistfully dreaming of my university days! I loved it. Well, not so much the first course I started but changed to a different uni and just enjoyed it so much.

Am really interested what other people experienced - what are your overriding memories?

My only regret is that sometimes I think it would've been a great opportunity to do a year abroad, which I didn't do - but then I would have missed out on a key year living with friends. I'm so glad I had that time.

What were your university highlights?

Loved it! Loved the friendships, the independence, the midweek drinking! Definitely some of the best years of my life. I'd redo them in a heartbeat! So glad too that it was all pre social media (well, there was MySpace but we don't talk about that..!). We took our disposable cameras on nights out and waited to develop the photos (imagine!?) and I walked around campus with my MP3 player! We had mobiles but it was so expensive to text or call, so you'd wait for your mates to turn up for an hour before chasing them lol! And I loved my course, the first time in my life I did something I really loved and was genuinely enthusiastic about - it's taken me nearly 20 years to find that again, and I forgot how easy it is to do something when you genuinely enjoy it.

So many happy memories of uni! But I think the main one is being surrounded by friends and never being short of things to do. It could be clubbing, going to the pub or cinema, playing sport, playing pool in the bar or even just hanging out together in someone's room but there was always someone around to socialise with.

It seems like such a huge effort now to sort out and actually go on a night out due to kids, work schedules, people's general flakiness etc. I'd love to still have the spontaneity and energy we had back then.

I loved university, my course was very demanding (vet med) but it was my lifelong dream so I couldn't get enough of it. They were just the best years, Edinburgh was the most amazing place to live and study, I met so many people from all over the world, made some incredible friends, dated a bit, met my first real love a couple of years in. I worked hard but had so much fun - halls of residence, student union, nights out clubbing, cheesy music, mooching around the shops on Princes Street, freezing cold days, sunny days at the Meadows, nights of just sitting around talking about anything and everything, the festival, moving into a flat share with friends, endless things to do in and around the city, travelling, climbing competitions and trips with the Climbing Club, just always something going on and always people to do stuff with. It couldn't really have been a better experience.

One of my favourite times. Firstly the independence (came from a strict background). And the friends (30 years on we're still very close and speak weekly and see each other at least once a year). It was so much fun. Living together, parties, pulling all nighters, little holidays together. Beautiful campus where you knew everyone. Like minded people. It was awesome.

@ChocAuVin 99 - 2002. Arena opened in my third year, but I bloody hated it in there, liked my Tuesdays off!

I went to Bournemouth and studied TV and Video Production - hugely practical course so spent a lot of time running around with cameras ‘making movies’ Very small course full of lovely people I’m still friends with (and often work with now as we’re still mostly in telly)

Living in house shares with great mates, out all the time! or staying in and playing cards and backgammon. Watching the holly oaks omnibus on Sunday mornings whilst quietly dying. Eating like a Queen the first two weeks of a month and then on prescription pasta and ketchup for the last two.

The unofficial rule of bunking off on the first sunny day of the year and seeing the entire uni on the beach!

The summer ball and making the survivor photo on the beach at sunrise the next morning!

Lots of snogging

Was great!

Ahhh I was there then! From ‘98

Love we had the same experience.

Arena was rubbish but closer to the kebab shops 😁

Brilliant times - student grant, so no debt. So much freedom. Feeling like an adult, but having no responsibilities.
Shared house had snail trails up the stairs, horrendous mold in the bathrooms which didn't have doors but we had fab times. Late night poker games, shared roasts on a Sunday evening - if friends were there they ate too but had to use saucepan lids for plates as we didn't have spares!
Clubbing endlessly
Only one of 2 girls in the cricket club
The field trips for my course
I even enjoyed the lectures!