Welcome to Uni.

In school, you were treated like sheep. The shepherd told you where to go, what grass to eat and how to eat it. Baby lambs were bottle-fed, right up to the age of 21 and beyond. If you stepped out of line, the shepherd's dogs would bark at you and - if you were really bad - snap at your heels, but usually stop short of actually biting you.

In Uni, you are treated like wild dogs. You hunt in a pack, led by the leader (the lecturer). But, at the end of the day, it's each dog for itself. However, you won't survive long or progress unless you cooperate with the leader and with other dogs. You are presumed to be more intelligent than sheep and capable of independent thought and action. The leader only points the way to go; he or she expects you to get up off your behinds by yourselves. As in all packs of wild dogs, there will be some puppies (including elevated-testosterone bitchettes) who will form subpacks, vie with each other for adherents to advance their social prominence, and some may even challenge the pack leader. Some of these challenger puppies will become entrepreneurs or famous politicians, others will end up in prison or die young, killed in battle by a rival gang or secretly poisoned by an ambitious member of their own gang.

Apart from all this, there is one most important thing you need to know:
AWAS! BEWARE OF THE STUDENT SYNDROME - this is NOT a joke!

If you have read this message, please post a reply (only one reply per person, please), telling us what you think of Uni so far....

hello, so far I think Uni is not so bad, except for now everything is not spoonfed,yes. Lecture notes have to be found online and not printed for us and well, we are at our own risk if we do not do exercises and tutorials as we do not need to pass them up to lecturers. still trying to adapt to uni life here..

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what she said.

same here..