Yeah, they basically think they are the government. It's annoying. My parents live near a university, and the strange bubble between the town and it are weird. The locals and students don't meet together or even go to the same bar. Also, the local deer population knows how to cross the street better than the students.
But it was also very much a working class port town (things in Australia don’t always work the way they do in the US, remember).
So imagine that, but on steroids…
10% of the population (including me, briefly, before reality kicked me in the teeth) largely looking down on the other nearly 90%…
We hardly interacted with “the locals”, while living on campus. I’m sure it was probably different for the girls, but on a night out, I hung out with the other students, and my friends were nearly all other students/staff/had something to do with the Uni…
Not sustainable, and not good. As I have repeatedly mentioned, I lost it all…
This is why socialism makes sense to them. Their entire world is that bubble and they can't see the garbageman or any worker. So they're perfect world is kept in a bubble that is supported by people they can't see. The world they live in has central control and everything is provided. Why doesn't anyone else want this?
To be fair, some of the staff that work in those places are entitled as heck, too…
Particularly “student staff” (i.e. they both work and study there)…
The amount of times I’ve seen cleaners throw away people’s shit, say, in a library or computer lab, when they nipped out to the bathroom or something - too many to count, lol…
Which… Teaches you some harsh life lessons, sure. But fucking hell are they overzealous…
It’s especially frustrating when you see that it’s something important to someone, like, say, a necklace, and then the Uni student-staff just throw it away, instead of keeping it for safekeeping, because to them, it “has no value”…
Mao Zhe Dong supposedly worked at a university library. The librarians in China are very much like that. If it has no meaning to them, and brings no glory, then it won't happen. A friend speaks and writes in Chinese, but wasn't allowed inside the university library because he was white. His assistant had to look up the books, and write down quotes for him to use.
Dated a girl in college who worked at the uni. She ended up filing a false abuse charge and then stalking me for months. Ended up having to wage a PR war, including articles in the uni and local papers about her.
Yeah. For me, it meant that when things went wrong, I had nothing to fall back on…
My job was internal. My accommodation was internal. My sports teams were internal. My friends were (initially, largely) internal. I spent more time (again, disastrously) hanging out in the major city one hour away than I did in my city of residence, outside of the Uni…
I tried to change this (particularly in first year, before shit hit the fan, and in third year, coming back to try, and fail, again), and to spend more time in and around the city itself, but it did not work out for me…
I was dumb, naïve and immature. So were most other people, but they coped better/I guess were more mentally “capable”…
Unfortunately a caveat to my own failure in that environment is that “closed bubbles”, like you say, mean that real psychos can have massively undue influence…
I met and dealt with a couple of those.
Again, this never comes down to one single thing, but if I had just… Not had to live with those psychos, when I did, or if students weren’t, in general, such selfish fucking arseholes, then maybe I would not be the fucking mess I am today…
So I agree that university life in many places looks like socialism. I don't understand why anybody would be confused about life based on that when you can see the inputs and outputs
Yeah, they basically think they are the government. It's annoying. My parents live near a university, and the strange bubble between the town and it are weird. The locals and students don't meet together or even go to the same bar. Also, the local deer population knows how to cross the street better than the students.
I lived in a “University town”, too, for a while…
But it was also very much a working class port town (things in Australia don’t always work the way they do in the US, remember).
So imagine that, but on steroids…
10% of the population (including me, briefly, before reality kicked me in the teeth) largely looking down on the other nearly 90%…
We hardly interacted with “the locals”, while living on campus. I’m sure it was probably different for the girls, but on a night out, I hung out with the other students, and my friends were nearly all other students/staff/had something to do with the Uni…
Not sustainable, and not good. As I have repeatedly mentioned, I lost it all…
So yeah, I get that. I really do.
This is why socialism makes sense to them. Their entire world is that bubble and they can't see the garbageman or any worker. So they're perfect world is kept in a bubble that is supported by people they can't see. The world they live in has central control and everything is provided. Why doesn't anyone else want this?
To be fair, some of the staff that work in those places are entitled as heck, too…
Particularly “student staff” (i.e. they both work and study there)…
The amount of times I’ve seen cleaners throw away people’s shit, say, in a library or computer lab, when they nipped out to the bathroom or something - too many to count, lol…
Which… Teaches you some harsh life lessons, sure. But fucking hell are they overzealous…
It’s especially frustrating when you see that it’s something important to someone, like, say, a necklace, and then the Uni student-staff just throw it away, instead of keeping it for safekeeping, because to them, it “has no value”…
I’ve seen some shit, dude. 😑
Mao Zhe Dong supposedly worked at a university library. The librarians in China are very much like that. If it has no meaning to them, and brings no glory, then it won't happen. A friend speaks and writes in Chinese, but wasn't allowed inside the university library because he was white. His assistant had to look up the books, and write down quotes for him to use.
Dated a girl in college who worked at the uni. She ended up filing a false abuse charge and then stalking me for months. Ended up having to wage a PR war, including articles in the uni and local papers about her.
Yeah. For me, it meant that when things went wrong, I had nothing to fall back on…
My job was internal. My accommodation was internal. My sports teams were internal. My friends were (initially, largely) internal. I spent more time (again, disastrously) hanging out in the major city one hour away than I did in my city of residence, outside of the Uni…
I tried to change this (particularly in first year, before shit hit the fan, and in third year, coming back to try, and fail, again), and to spend more time in and around the city itself, but it did not work out for me…
I was dumb, naïve and immature. So were most other people, but they coped better/I guess were more mentally “capable”…
Unfortunately a caveat to my own failure in that environment is that “closed bubbles”, like you say, mean that real psychos can have massively undue influence…
I met and dealt with a couple of those.
Again, this never comes down to one single thing, but if I had just… Not had to live with those psychos, when I did, or if students weren’t, in general, such selfish fucking arseholes, then maybe I would not be the fucking mess I am today…
Maybe.
You should just tell us what happened.
I think they just went along with it and you didn't. You started to recognize the bubble but couldn't get the realities to meet.
So I agree that university life in many places looks like socialism. I don't understand why anybody would be confused about life based on that when you can see the inputs and outputs
The outputs are hidden. They always recommend academic life and then say the real world is too easy.