Quick info: This post is mostly about how the young people (from secondary school), young adults (actual students) and adults (ex-students) think about their student life. I'll also be trying to give some personal thoughts about what I gathered from some of the questions I asked those people.
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Young thoughts
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Ever since we were young we wanted to be free, do whatever we want... even if that meant "ruling the world". Young people tend to have a brighter, more optimistic thought about their future and this is due to the fun-times that happen through their period of life. I've decided to ask someone from secondary school some questions about the life of a student, by thinking herself as a student. I started asking questions speaking to her like she was a student, so the questions and answers were given at the present time.
So indeed this is her life as a student:
~ She studies Journalism but she is thinking of a second plan of studies (like an art school for example, or medicine). She lives in an apartment with one of her closest friends and she has big plans for opening a dance school in the future. During her free time she is going home and she spends time with her loved ones, reading a book or watching a TV series.
So indeed this is her life as a student:
~ She studies Journalism but she is thinking of a second plan of studies (like an art school for example, or medicine). She lives in an apartment with one of her closest friends and she has big plans for opening a dance school in the future. During her free time she is going home and she spends time with her loved ones, reading a book or watching a TV series.
At the "friendship" chapter, I was surprised to hear she has quite a lot of friends but not so many of them are "true" friends. About the teachers she said she likes some of them, but not all of them are perfect and she tries to respect any of them. Her decent grades at the university do help her financially so she is fine at that chapter, but she won't mind finding an "quite easy" job like working at a restaurant. Free travelling is also a thing she fancies a lot because she can spend the money in other personal ways.
As an ending she thought of saying that her life as a student is quite hard because of the parents that are not there anytime, but she finds it easy to be free since she always wanted that.
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Young adult thoughts
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So thinking as a student from a fragile age is quite "unexpected" and "unpredictable", as I like to call it, but it certainly has more subjective ways of seeing the future rather than an actual student.
As I continued to search for the right person, I asked the same questions to one of my friends who is studying the same topic as before (he studies Journalism). You'll be able to notice some differences between the answers which are completely normal:
As I continued to search for the right person, I asked the same questions to one of my friends who is studying the same topic as before (he studies Journalism). You'll be able to notice some differences between the answers which are completely normal:
~ Apart from what he is doing right now (journalism) he is also focusing on participating in other national and international projects that are having an impact for different societies. He lives with a close relative (his aunt) in an apartment. His free time is mostly spent on either reading books about public speaking, playing video games or even creating poems/stories and other kind of creations that conclude literature.
He quite abstained from making too many friends so he only counts on 2-3 close friends. As for the teachers, they seem nice and understanding, the only thing they want is you to be active and interested in what you've chosen to study. The grades are indeed good, so he gets paid for having great results but, he spends his money on little decorative or practical things that do not prove to be so useful as he thought.
Not having any job at the moment but not planning to get one soon enough, due to his ambitions to form his own organization and possibly turn it into a passion and then, profit. Free travelling makes him achieve one of his dreams (exploring the world).
As his ending says - His life as a student is not that easy due to the missing people in his life, being quite a lone wolf and the restricted possibility of face-to-face socializing.
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Adult thoughts (Ex-Student)
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Okay, ending up with the ones that already went through the student life, the ideas and opinions are indeed quite different. The "regrets" and "wishes" are more likely to be seen here, as not many students went and did the right thing or the "best" possible thing for their own good, they tend to say "I wish I've done that more often" or "If only I wasn't so stubborn".
Another friend of mine who studied mechanical engineering answered the same questions but referring to his past. His "story" sounds like this:
~ Studying mechanical engineering wasn't the only thing he wanted to do so he signed up for some management courses. He lived with 3 other students in the same house and they were not that close friends, but good enough friends to trust each other.
The free time meant him taking a walk, calling the loved ones or spending some time thinking of new projects or about his personal life. He used to be quite known at his university due to his great grades that provided him financial support, but not all the time, so he had times when his grades weren't that good and thus, didn't get his hands on a student scholarship.
He had only 3-4 friends he could tell almost everything and not so many friends to hang out with (approx. 4-5 apart from those 3-4). His teachers were great as long as he kept on studying and getting involved in projects and different activities. He didn't get to benefit from the "free travelling" law so he doesn't know how it feels to go anywhere he wants to for free. A job is what he wanted to get from his second year but he gave it up because he wanted to start something on his own which he managed to do, and he is now the owner of a small engineering organization.
For the ending, his student life was not as he wanted to be, just because he was focused only on learning, studying and creating something, right now he says that he would've changed something, for example, he would've traveled more, got out in town more, and maybe created something else, or tried something different.
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Comparisons
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So as you can clearly see, every part of someone wants to be free in their specific way. The life of a student is cool but there is a different kind of "cool" seen by those 3 generations that I chose to ask. Starting with the first question, they all responded differently, meaning that the future is unpredictable as I said before:
The young story: Living with a close friend in an apartment
The young story: Living with a close friend in an apartment
The young adult story: Living with a relative
The adult story: Living with 4 others
About free time, grades and teachers, also quite a few differences between them that can be noticed:
The young story: Reading books, watching TV, spending time with loved ones, annoying teachers good grades
The young adult story: Public speaking books, video games, writing poems/stories, good teachers and good grades as well
The adult story: Taking a walk, calling the loved ones, personal lonely time, great teachers and good but also bad times at studying and getting great grades
Friendship, jobs and "regrets"
The young story: Lots of friends but only few close friends; a job at a restaurant; thinks being far away from family is hard
The young adult story: Few friends and few close friends; no jobs, focusing on something personal; regrets being quiet and not so sociable
The adult story: Well known but quite few friends and also, few close friends; left the job quickly to focus on something personal; wished he got out in town more, having more fun outside rather than concentrating on other plans
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Personal Thoughts
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As an actual student, I felt like sharing some of my personal opinions about the life of a student, with you.
I strongly believe that a student is like a caged bird at the start. It can always see the opportunities behind the bars and the only thing he needs to do is find a large enough opening so it could rise into something beautiful, and fly up in the sky, sharing success with the world. Being a student means welcoming the "free" life that we always wanted with new ideas, challenges and being ready for what's worse, because it is not as easy as it seems to be a student, BUT it can be for your greater good that you do something in order to get the best out of your life as a student.
Enjoy it, don't waste it. Because those years... You'll never get them back!
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