My Biggest DisappointmentOften the things we look forward to the most turn out to be a huge let down. As Freddy Woo puts it, "High heels in bed? No fun at all. Porn has a lot to answer for."
Well, Freddy, you are supposed to get someone else to wear them.
What's disappointed you lot?
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chthonic, Thu 26 Jun 2008, 14:15)
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University.I am not one of those people who thinks that university ought to be about qualifications and job-hunting - I don't really care if my degree helped me get my job, since that's not why I did it.
My image of university before I got there was that it would be all about elevating discussion of fascinating subjects with erudite scholars, and lots of sex with interesting people in the evenings to round things off. Not having been all that good with the ladies before university, I'd decided that I could reinvent myself. These would be the best years of my life.
No they weren't.
They were just as dull as all the others. THe scholars' paradise I'd wanted and imagined simply didn't exist - instead of hanging out in the library beign fascinated and having my mind broadened by new things, I had endless exercises from glossy textbooks to complete. I might have been learning things - but this wasn't what I'd expected. As for the sex... nope. All the same people who'd been successful at home were successful here - all the conventionally good-looking, conventionally dressed, conventionally boorish beer-drinking twats got all the girls... and my attempts to reinvent myself failed.
I don't regret university. But it's not what I wanted. I'm left indifferent about it. And so the biggest disappointment in my life was that.
Length? About three years.
(, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 11:13, 3 replies)
"discussion of fascinating subjects with erudite scholars, and lots of sex with interesting people in the evenings"Ah, you see that's Higher Degrees.
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crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 11:24,
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@CHCBReally? My higher degrees were spent (a) worrying about how I'd pay for it, (b) worrying about losing weight and whether eating one apple and one pitta bread a day might be too much and (c) weeping in the corner occasionally.
Sex and erudition was hard to come by. On the other hand, I was living in Birmingham, and that's enough to dampen anyone's spirits.
EDIT: I want a higher doctorate. Is that when the good stuff comes?
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 11:29,
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Higher degrees?Meh. Much too disenchanted.
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