It’s Wednesday. Hence, the “it’s hump day” caption! For those of you that are unfamiliar with the phrase it just means we are getting over the middle of the week, and are halfway to it being over.
This week has not been a great one. College is basically being a royal pain in the ass right now. My classes right now are pretty dull, and I had a hard time getting anything good for next year. I feel like with my current selection of courses, I am just going through the motions. Like a mindless troll just going to college so I have a degree. I don’t feel like anything I am doing is helping me out. Something just doesn’t feel right.
Aside from the fact that I am in a rut with the academic stuff, I am hating the social life here. I got a good group of friends and all that, but there is nothing to do at this college! Downtown is an economically depressed dump that has nothing but decent eateries and bars. At nighttime, lets just say you wouldn’t want to be caught downtown. I am 3 hours away from NYC, so my concert going has also been stripped from me. It’s safe to say that I am not cool with seeing absolutely no shows!!!! Basically here you either drink, or sit in your dorm. There is not much to do here, and it sucks.
I also hate my living conditions right now. I did get a brand new building which I thought would be cool. Well, it hasn’t. The little accommodations for the new building have pretty much all failed. I got over that quick enough, whatever. However, dealing with the people here is not something that I can deal with. It’s all fraternity brothers and sorority sisters (This isn’t speaking against any of you that are in frats/sororities) In my college/dorm they are basically douchebags who are re-living their high school glory. The sorority girls are basically girls who belong in the OC or Miami but are stuck in upstate NY. If you are not a frat brother, they literally ignore you. Who the fuck wants to live with these people?
You could say my friends and I are a bit disheartened by this. When I thought about getting a nice new building, I guess I didn’t think about what would be living in it lol! I lived in the older version of this building last year and loved it. I had a hall full of great dudes who made college great. This year it’s all abercrombie & fitch, backwards fitted caps, ugg boots, and black northfaces. It’s not just in my dorm either, people just seem lame here. I always had hopes that college people would be cooler, but I guess up here that doesn’t apply! It isn’t just me either, I have come across at least 20-30 people who all feel the same way as me.
I should be moving off campus next year, which should be exciting…if I am still here. I am contimplating the idea of transferring as a junior. I am going into this idea blindly at the moment though, so don’t take my word on that one. I am going to discuss this idea more with my parents when I go home for Turkey Day.
I am hoping to push through the rest of this pretty lame semester, and just get home for the time being. Here are some songs I have been chilling with as of late:
[mp3] : Vampire Weekend – The Kids Don’t Stand A Chance (Miike Snow Remix)
[mp3] : Devendra Banhart – Baby
[mp3] : Kanye West – Wouldn’t You Like To Ride
[mp3] : Florence + The Machine – You’ve Got The Love (XX remix)
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Hey man, hold in there. Being a Sophomore in college sucks, but I can only say that because I’m in the same situation. I’m at a private school where everybody seems pretty cool because they have on their Urban Outfitter disguises, but there all bros under it all. For example, about a week ago I suggested that my choir director arrange a Grizzly Bear song, and he asked if they were popular, and I said yes. When he asked the choir, literally not one other person had heard of them. So I played Two Weeks on the piano, and they still didn’t recognize it.
What I’m trying to say is, college sucks.
Sucks bro! Hopefully next year is better
Oh and wheres that Kanye song from? Quite enjoying it
It’s just as bad from the other end, too. I’m a professor of photography in Alabama and I’m getting burnt out as well. It’s art, so you think it would be fun and the students would be eager to get away from boring term papers and want to fuss with photoshop and making prints in a darkroom. WRONG!!! I got excited about The Hood Internet this year since I’m a white girl from WNY teaching at a historically black school and I’d thought hey, this is music we can all listen to and be somewhat happy with. I tried giving an assignment in my digital class to montage a hip hop artist with one of the “weird ass” bands I listen to and you would have thought I wanted them to write a 20 page research paper on the particle composition of a piece of dust.
Best of luck to you figuring out if you’re going to transfer. A large part of the education on gets at school isn’t actually found in the classroom but the social settings. Make sure you’re on the right career path: if you don’t love what you’re doing, don’t waste your time because once you’re in that career guess what you’re going to be doing for a minimum of 40 hours a week for the rest of your life?
PS. Thanks for all the great music you post. Keeps me a little in touch what’s going on in the real world. You think you don’t ever get to see any shows? Try living in Alabama!
you got this will. you’ll figure it out.
Try some weed.
Everything you’re saying is happening to me at UCLA. Everyone here is thinks they’re so great and they’re the complete opposite of what I wish I could be surrounded with. I thought UCLA would have great minds all trying to help one another, but everyone here is all about iphones, drinking and saying “bro” every other second. I hate it here right now, but I just gotta tough it out. It’s hard to make good friends here and it sucks because all my friends live far away and they can rarely visit. I’m thinking about transferring to UCSD or a private school.
My quarter is almost over and what i’m hoping will happen is for better classes next quarter and to meet a girl that can make my days better. Hopefully your next semester goes better.
Haha your school sounds scarily familiar. Do you happen to go to Binghamton?! Bec then I’d agree and know from experience that it totally sucks. Wherever you are, good luck figuring things out, and hope the rest of your year goes better! Oh and thanks for the music lol.
@Corinne, yes I do actually. Thats creepy!!!
and thanks to everyone for the wishes. I’m going to look at a house today with my friends, so hopefully that changes the entire dynamic of my college life here!
Ha..do you think that your experience is any dissimilar from any private school on the east coast( Haverford, Lehigh, Goucher, Villanova, Dickinson, Gettysburg, Georgetown, George Washington, F&M, Lafayette, and Hobart being my experiences over four years of getting tired of my campus and leaving for weekends trying to find something different) ? “This year it’s all abercrombie & fitch, backwards fitted caps, ugg boots [leggings], and black northfaces” I would add “Lax bros” and Vineyard Vines apparel to that …Your reasoning is fairly sound, thats why I think something like 70% of my school (included) goes abroad their junior year. They go have an easy ass time abroad for a semester/year and have an amazing time traveling, then come back senior year solely because they want to see friends again…get used to it
Why not do a year of exchange? Probably some great courses here in Amsterdam!
is that would you like to track by kanye? im sure its someone featuring kanye? really want to get the album i remember its a red cover with a face on it che guevara style
dude, i linked here from hype machine and just came to snag the miike snow/vw remix, but the frat/sorority talk caught my eye. i went through the same thing my fresh/soph year at oswego and it does kinda blow. but i promise that it completely flip-flops junior and senior year. greek kids become so absorbed in their organizations, drugs, and stds and the non-greeks finally come out of their shells.
its going to get much, much better. for real.
thanks for the jams!