College Life is a general term to describe the day-to-day lifestyle of the years when a person attends an institution of higher learning. Generally there is an implication that the person is in a state between adolescence and adulthood, or rather a “young adult”. With this comes the assumption that College Life involves newfound responsibilities and independence, but also an abundance of irresponsible behavior, such as alcohol and drug use, skirting of coursework, and other questionable behaviors.
College Life is of course associated with actually attending college. As a result of attending college, you will be awarded a degree which grants you proof of knowledge or expertise in a specific field. This can be an undisputed advantage in many facets of the professional world, where a degree is required to simply get a foot in the door. Additionally, College Life is the time where one can “grow up”, and learn how to be an independent person.
Experiencing College Life, I found it was interesting, often times exhilarating (and difficult) experience. During college you should not think of your time as just another thing to waste, but rather a precious thing you are paying for every minute and will be for very long time (depending on your accumulation of loans), and should value to its fullest. Experienced fully, college can be a place where you learn, grow, and become the person you want to be.
This RichardStep Marketing survey was designed to get a better understanding of what really gets under the skin of those folks out there dealing with college life. Read over the awesome answers below and see how you can tailor your business to address the frustrations of the people most relevant to your business niche market. Want more? Read the 125 other topics in the ‘Frustrations’ survey category by clicking here.
The following list are uncut and raw responses of the things this group found most frustrating in their daily lives.
College Life
- Going to University because I have to wake up early and the train trip is long and tedious.
- Convince a University IT group that their IT security controls are insufficient for protecting patient information. Getting them to understand the privacy aspects of the data and the relevant regulations surrounding use/disclosure when they just don’t get it is frustrating.
- Sort out my university degree. Frustrating as should be the responsibility of university professor
- Having to do university work. It’s frustrating because I simply don’t really want to do it.
- Writing an essay for my university class which is basically fine but just too boring to get into… so I am constantly checking out different things just to avoid finishing the essay
- Write a final thesis for my university studies, I prefer talking, feel that I can never write things as I can say them
- Whilst trying to complete two university modules for the same deadline.
- Realize that I’m in the wrong university program because I am not at all interested.
- Having to Attend bad courses at the university. This is absolutly frustrating because you have to attend even though you perfectly know it will be useless, such a waste of time !
- By sitting free with my girlfriend in university and very less things to talk with her and realy want to back to home but cant go is really frustrating for me .
- Write an essay for applying to a program at the university of florida
- I am currently study in one of the united states university and i learn business admin but unfortunately is some of the courses are iirelevant like history When i need to do something that i do not like or relevant to my goal .
- Have to go home when scheduled to take a skills test at university. This was frustrating because I had to organise childcare and pay for travel to get to university.
- I had to take over leadership of managing the important day at university.
- I’ve been applying to jobs for the summer, as I’m a student in university, and I’ve only got one interview scheduled after twenty applications. I feel that I’m a good candidate, and I’m very frustrated that I can’t seem to land any good offers right now.
- Most frustrating experince recently has been trying to overcome my laziness. My position in life as a university student is privliged and comfortable, but keeps me in limbo. Previously i’ve vigourously pursued many life goals, but becuase i’m unable to do so much I have begun to stagnate.
- I am not easily frustrated and in the past few days nothing really frustrated me. I’ve been going to my university and coming back home physically exhausted and needing to sleep badly
- I have some problems with prepairing me for the tests of math and toefl tests especially for math and I get angry everytime when i cannot solve the problem. I want to enter to university but I afraid not to be admitted this year.
- 1)I made an unforgivable mistake last semester. This was in my Basic Math subject. Actually, I’m not interested in sciencetific subjects such as Math or Physic. So from the beginning of Basic Math, I lost my inspiration and neglected this subject. I just came to class for listening to teacher’s presentation, then went home without reviewing. And as a famous byword “no pain no gain,” I failed in the semester’s final exam. This summer, I must register a new Basic Math class. 2)In this semester, I also face to principle of accountancy , microeconomic and principle of business statistic. I know that they aren’t my forte,but I’ve learned from the last experience in Basic Math so I decide to find inspiration and motivation myself. I come to class and listen to teachers carefully, take note if those details aren’t in their presentation, then go home and do more excercises and check the answers with my friends. 3)My key learning points for this time is never give up, make efforts in every work , where there is motivation and inspiration, you can’t go wrong
- Having to miss class because I work and don’t have much time for myself to relax. It’s frustrating because it’s a vicious circle. If I take the time to relax, I’ll be better at my work, and college, but to take the time to relax I need to work less or go to class less which means I’ll have some catching up to do, and will have to work harder thus negating the relaxing.
- I am a Junior in college, and I just can’t find the motivation to continue going to school. I have about a year and a half left, and I just dread every moment. It’s frustrating because I know I HAVE to go to school in order to have a decent job and provide for myself, but it’s taking a very long time, and I’m not the best person academically, so it’s extremely difficult.
- I had a paper presentation to be completed which I had to present in the class (iam a college student ) I felt extremely frustrating because I was basically working on a topic which I had very little knowledge and resources was very limited, I had avery bad time preparing it but after I completed my presentation I felt this great relief and I was extremely happy.
- I was frustrated after my 12th grade exams about results and as well as for my admissions in different colleges for my Under Graduation and further academics,this was a week ago.My another situation is that I am not able to take up or face challenges or any opportunity on my own,Sometimes I have depend on others for facing challenges like going and asking them whether do I face it or pass it on to others.That is in short I am not able to make any Decisions faster.Sometimes I get angry if some kind of work given to me by my Parents or any Teachers is not done by me I get frustrated and different kind of feeling just frustrates me that I have not done such work in the given time.I guess the below test should help me find strengths and weaknesses for further which can help me in defending my anger or upsetting.
- The daily struggle to start wortking on my thesis frustrates me. Once I get myself to do a few hours of actual research, I find a lot of excitement in the process and I am happy at the end of the day. But there still is this daily struggle between me and my lazyness to get out of the house and go to the library. I constantly look for excuses not to go and feel bad at the end of the day if I didn’t do anything. I am a classic procrastinator and it annoys me.
- The most frustrating thing for me has been trying to balance my school life with my after school life, along with the fact that, school conflicts with a lot of things I believe in and would rather be doing that will propel me into my ‘future’ since that seems to be so important.
- The most frustrating thing I have had to do recently is decide what I want to do with my life. This was frustrating because I had already had a plan for my life and college when I just woke up one day and realized that it wasn’t what I wanted anymore. So now i’m back at square one.
- The most frustrating thing is why should I go to school and put in so much effort into it? I figured you do well excel in school get accepted to a university then get a good paying job. you get money, buying anything you want, all of the luxury items in life. then all the people around you says how good you are that you are successful and your parents are extremely proud but honestly all of that effort and everything in it the journey and the job that I work so hard for was it worth it since it was high paying job or should I go for a job that I truly love and passionate about but gets frowned upon by everyone around me? if they aren’t happy how will I be happy?
- The most frustrating thing I’ve had in the past few days was not getting accepted to any of the colleges I had applied. It was disappointing, to face rejection. knowing that I’m will not be attending Cal State colleges. However, I will be okay, because I will be attending Orange Cost College or Golden West College. I’m fine, attending junior college. I happy that I’m able to attend college and get me associates degree.
- The most frustrating thing I’ve had to do in the past days was having to change my major in college. I started out as a civil engineer major, but then I realized that I didn’t fit there. So I had to switch. I hated each and every course I had to take, and I guess the frustrating part of it, was realizing that my long childhood dream wasn’t fit for me, and having my parents pay for my failure really hit me hard. But, I guess that’s kind of the point of taking this test, cause I’ve always been good at foreign languages, also comunicating and working with people, so I really need to find my path pronto, cause time’s ticking (which is also frustrating).
- The most frustrating thing I’ve had to do in the past is tutor my peers. It was frustrating because what was simple and straight forward to me wasn’t the case for my peers. I struggled to break down information into simple parts and get my peers to understand the information. I am definitely not suitable to be a teacher.
- The most frustrating thing I’ve had to do is a university assignment. It is frustrating to me because I believe that assignments such as this are not an appropriate method of evaluating a person’s comprehension or understanding of content. I feel it is simply a mechanism used to check the boxes as part of a corporate system in which degrees are being churned out like newspapers on the printing line. This entire system frustrates me as I feel it is antiquated and not compatible with many, however many are dismissed due to the system not being flexible enough as well as being riddled with hypocrisy.