Just as soon as we get out of High School, we’re looking for what’s next in the journey to higher and higher up the success food chain. College (or University / Uni as it’s know across the Atlantic) becomes the obvious choice for most folks that can afford it, have the time, and have the motivation.
Therein lies the hardest part of the whole journey – staying motivated enough to make it through all of the tests, new material, and much less forgiving structure can all be tough. It takes some work but you can make it through too as long as you take a few small steps in the direction of your goals.
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 university blues. 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.
University Blues
- To Prepare a leadership handout for University students. The document was not coming together as I had planned and the printer ran out of ink. :)
- Wake up at 06:00AM last Thursday to rehearse for a presentation at University that was scheduled for 08:45AM. This was frustrating because I felt like I hadn’t had sufficient sleep and therefore low energy levels for an important assessment.
- The most frustrating thing I had to do was taking the final exam from the University
- I am undecided about what to do the next year. What study and where. Last week we had got a meeting about University Master and I am so confused.
- When I was a middle student, I read article in English in front of classmates. I stammered it because I am not american. It makes me frustrate. So, I hadn’t studied English until being a University student
- Writing up my university assignment as I am aiming to achieve a high grade.
- Studying in my current university and also the major that am studying.
- Deciding what to study in university. I don’t know what career I want to pursue; I don’t know what would make me happy or feel fulfilled.
- When I am deciding which course to study in university and worrying the consequences.
- The most frustrating thing that i did is left my university in master because of distance between my city and the city of acceptable university ! i couldnt go there because it made me diapointmant
- Filling out numerous self assessments for a recent piece of university work
- Ive had to go to work without my phone, its important to me becuase i depend on it for university homework due today.
- Staying focused at studying for long periods of time and retain that information. I’m a university student.
- Do I have the opportunity to get a master degree? Do my children have the opportunity to get a university degree?
- The most frustrating thing I’ve had to deal with at home is deciding on where I want to go to college. This is frustrating because my choice of university decides my future.
- Do I take this job offer for a really high paying job?, Or do I follow my dream to become an entrepreneur with no money and no plan or idea. I am currently a college student and I am actually taking this test in hopes that I can find an answer to my question. I am attracted to the idea of entrepreneurship for the freedom, money, and self improvement it offers, yet I am afraid because I don’t feel like I have any specific skills, plan, money, or a target business idea in mind, and taking the high paying job is tempting especially in this hard to find job market for recent college graduates.
- I could not get a task done for college in time, because I was confused how to do it. And I avoided thinking about it and ended up getting with short time to do it. It was frustrating because I procrastinated something out of pure fear of complexity. But doing this tasks are what makes me feel more satisfied and actually, they are not painful to do after all.
- I have absolutely no idea what is expected of me. Every time I think I figure it out, my boss tells me I’m wrong. I feel like a failure every single day. I have two college degrees, have had success in every other job I’ve had, so I don’t really know what to do about this. Normally I am a positive person, and can move past negativity easily, but lately I feel as if I’m going to crack at any second.
- I have been frustrated at myself for not managing my free-time well. There are tasks (college) that I know how to complete, but I know they will take a lot of time and effort, and by not having a plan (that I know works), I have failed to complete fairly simple busy work whose educative-value now seems like it’s only going to be about learning how to manage my time well. I guess this is one of the things college has to teach us to prepare for “real” jobs.
- I have been spending one and a half year on this project that I work on; after that I’ll be graduated from college and start looking for a job. I’ve invested so much on the this project but I have no idea whether it will lead me to better future or not.
- I usually try to find the positive side of things and not think of frustrating things as burdens, but rather focus on the rewards I can get from doing them. I can only think of non-stimulating tasks rather than frustrating and the most recent of which was having to complain about a member of staff’s work in university.
- I was in school at university when attempting a professional paper as I had a lot of notes for revision and I had no one to discuss with and I reach at the extent and felt I was going to be hard for me to pass the paper and this was because the rate of passing the paper was very low for the attempts so I was worried but I believed I was different from others , worked hard and I passed it
- I’m on my first college spring break right now, and I thought I would have figured out what I want to major in at my college right now and I haven’t figured it out yet. I know what I want to do once I graduate college, but I just don’t know the best path to take in college to get there. It drives me up a wall because I’d like to have a plan to do something I don’t hate while I’m at college, and I haven’t figured it out yet. I feel lost, confused, hopeless, and frustrated with myself because my break is almost over and I still haven’t figured out what I want to spend my college time doing.
- It’s frustrating to decide on my future, to decide on what I want to take up as my profession, which college to go to and so on. In my vacations, I find it hard to work towards my goals and slack off even though I strongly desire to be successful. But maybe I slack off because of the absence of a clear goal.
- I’ve been in my job for a year and can now transfer outside of the department but I’m so unsure as to which department would best suit me. I just graduated from college in 2012 and got a job at a well known bank in sales but it’s not paying enough and now it’s time to branch out in the company now that I’ve got my foot in the door and am doing excellent. I’m so frustrated with myself because I don’t know exactly what jobs to look at… I just don’t know what I want to do :-/
- I’ve had had a frustrating time with wanted to get my Drivers License’s so I can return to Vermont. Also that I haven’t had time to finish all my Homework, I’m still waiting for my Professor to return my graded paper I’m sending to a college back in Vermont. I’ll be back I hope this summer!
- Just recently, we had a group project to do at college, and one of the group members did not help out. We split up the work so each person would do a portion of the project. She and I wrote down dates to meet and finish the project, but then something came up. I completely understand her excuse, but she did not text or call me back to set up another thime to work on it, so I ended up doing the presentation portion by myself.
- Learning 10 new radiographic positions, projections and techniques. This was frustrating because of the volume and pace of new information to be learned. Also, there was a very narrow window for practicing the new positions, projections, and techniques. There was also a very short amount of time to learn the anatomy and terminology that went with the new positions, projections, and techniques. Overall, there was a lot of information to assimilate prior to a lab evaluation with very little opportunity to prepare.
- My first day in lab for my class Molecular Technique was the most frustrating day I have had this week.It was super frustrating because the instructor told us to pull up the instructions for the lab online and told us to go at it. We got no guidance whatsoever. At some points it was like trying to fit a circle in a square slot.
- My nearly frustrating moment happened 2 days ago, when I was driving my motorbike to my school. It was a rainy day, roads were flooded. I hate driving in rain, so in that day I was upset when I had to go out. Then a guy drove his motorbike with a high speed close to me so that the water and mud on the road was splashed over me. So frustrating!
- Recently, I’ve been stressed on determining which college I should attend and what I should major in. I find this stressful because of the various outcomes that could result from the choice I make. I want to make a decision that would ultimately result in the best outcome for my future which is why this is so stressful.
- The most frustrating thing about my current job is the reality of becoming an adult. I am currently in my junior year of college and the reality of finally finishing it is a scary thought that I will have to go out into the world and start acting more like an adult.