Aleatz Hates Uni

Now that Reo's finished high school and started uni, a lot of people ask her “how's uni?” as a casual question. Reo often answers with “alright” or “not bad”. She's lying.

University sucks more than Godfreys vacuum cleaners. It's not the workload that sucks, nor the freedom (which doesn't suck at all). It's all the small inconvenient things that come with it.


University Suckage List

1) Distance: The university Reo happens to go to is 40 minutes away from her house. Fair enough. Not everyone lives this far away from their university. Dom actually lives on campus (I shudder at the thought). But overall there's less universities than schools, and the odds are you're further away from your university than your old school. So then, clearly you're going to be pissed when you start uni and find you have to travel for 40 (or 70, if in peak hour) minutes to get to uni rather than your usual 10.

2) Commuting: Distance wouldn't suck so much, if it weren't for peak hour traffic. Peak hour traffic is God's way of punishing people who drive cars. If you happen to be like Reo, and live 8 minutes away from a bus stop and 30 from a train station, you'd probably agree that peak hour sucks. The city of Sydney was built in such a stupid way that everything is spread out yet the roads are all narrow as hell.

3) Timetable: Anyone want to know Reo's timetable for a Monday? It's 10am till 6pm. NO BREAK. I do not even lie. On the top of Reo's timetable next to 'Monday' I have written 'Good luck eating!'. In response she has written sarcastically 'Ha, ha, HA! FUNNY!'. Since I did, in fact think that it was funny, I replied with 'Isn't it? I call it “Reo No Eat Doom Day!”'. At this point she told me to 'f*** off'.

4) Expenses: Even after you've paid to be in the university, there are still more costs being sent to you. Text books, parking permits, course notes, practical equipment, food... You name it, the university is likely to charge you for it. And don't live with the assumption that you can get away with not paying... no, no... You'll have to buy everything. You might have to improvise and buy your textbooks used from some Asian guy who described it as '99% NEW!' (How can something be 99% new?) on his poster, but in the end you'll still have to buy it.

5) Lack of everything: Even though you've taken out 5 loans to cover your expenses that still doesn't stop the university from finding some other reason to suck. Despite now owning your money, the universities will have done nothing useful with it. There'll be a lack of parking spaces, lack of computers in the library, lack of chairs in the food court... They really are not thinking ahead, are they?

Nothing is more fun than getting a uni assignment and being told you can only have 25% internet resources and a minimum of 4 resources. Do you know why this is? That means you'll have to find at least 3 books for every website you use in order to fulfill the bastard universities requirements for your stupid assignment. 'That's not bad' you say? Try doing an assignment on 'Boundary Layers' and find out that there's only 3 books in the library with anything on it... And they're all out on load. Now... How on earth is someone supposed to do their assignment? You can't use the internet... You can't find any books... What the f*** do these people expect from you?

Nothing is more boourns than university. Don't be fooled... Just because you don't have to wear a uniform anymore doesn't mean it's good!