Be stalking this thread for a bit, and all I can is this: everyone's experience is different. I went to Uni as a scared 19 year old living away from home for the first time and counting down the days until I could go home again. Now, two years later, I count down the days when I don't have to go home and can actually have the weekend to myself. I don't go out and socialise, and that's fine by me. I'm at University for two reason: get a degree, and learn how to be an independent young adult. I'm well on my way to achieving both. So I may not have blacked out and woken up somewhere strange, or joined a club or society. You know what? That's fine. Because I have plenty of other things to do to keep me happy. For reference, my Uni town is a shitty place with little to do, and I still go out and find something to do. I find it hard to believe that Denver, of all places, doesn't have anything to do. As for this "higher experience" bullshit, fuck that. You live and experience things for you yourself to enjoy, not to have "better experiences than anybody else". I've had some bad experiences in life, but I'm glad I experienced them because they have shaped me into who I am, and it gives me pleasure to prove people who push me down wrong.
tl;dr stop whining and start living
This has been Tools' 5:41am insomnia induced rant. Thank you and goodnight.
It is not utter blandness, but I do wish to live somewhere at times where I could believe I was experiencing the height of human experience, and surrounded by people who also feel that way. But that place could well be right here!
well, you seem to have a bizarre version of the height of human experience that you associate with but i have at best yet to see in los angeles so
honestly i have the same problems with being a bit of a recluse so i'm a hypocrite to comment but i guess there's a reason why the majority of the times you mention denver i crack a joke about chipotle or whatever
I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
Denver is a veritable hotbed of fast casual chains. It's not just Chipotle. There's also Qdoba, and Noodles & Company, and Smashburger, and Pizzeria Locale...
Here, no rain for a few days is enough to make people start panicking. A week without rain makes people crazy. As much as we bitch about the rain, we go mental when it's not there.
it's really obnoxious because i'm not expecting it and so when it happens my umbrella is elsewhere. i didn't even bring the umbrella i had in north carolina.
It's been unseasonably warm right now... Not sure if it's my Northern blood, but it's not been very... Winterish. I went outside yesterday in just jeans, converse and my oversized hoodie, and I was melting by the time I got to University. Weird...
i am fairly sure there is no city or state on earth where you can expect to be "surrounded by people who believe themselves to be living the height of human experience", just by dint of living in a particular city or state
for that you need to, like, become a born-again Christian or something like that
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Sweetie, I used to fall into the trap of thinking that living in a different city would give me "the height of the human experience." Remember when I would cry because I felt New Yorkers experienced life on a level I could never hope to attain?
But the thing is, it's not going to be a magic fix for you, and neither is going to a four year school. You have to want to go out and get experience on your own...from what I can tell, you do an absolute minimum of your school time as is and don't ever stick around to mingle with your fellow students. And while I admit I'm kinda the same way...I dunno, I feel like you shut yourself up more.
I mean I guess I'm not saying anything the others haven't already said, but hopefully it'll get through to you if it's coming from me.
Case in point: My relatively short stint in college was at Virginia Tech, a pretty big school, and even there I had maybe a half-dozen people (that weren't faculty or staff) I talked to on a regular basis. I didn't really speak to anyone from high school then because the Web was still in its infancy.
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tl;dr stop whining and start living
This has been Tools' 5:41am insomnia induced rant. Thank you and goodnight.
Here, no rain for a few days is enough to make people start panicking. A week without rain makes people crazy. As much as we bitch about the rain, we go mental when it's not there.
Here we have the opposite problem. Rains for a full month.
for that you need to, like, become a born-again Christian or something like that
probably not even then
But the thing is, it's not going to be a magic fix for you, and neither is going to a four year school. You have to want to go out and get experience on your own...from what I can tell, you do an absolute minimum of your school time as is and don't ever stick around to mingle with your fellow students. And while I admit I'm kinda the same way...I dunno, I feel like you shut yourself up more.
I mean I guess I'm not saying anything the others haven't already said, but hopefully it'll get through to you if it's coming from me.