“Everyone says these will be the best four years of your life, but they must be forgetting about all the things that college students have to do and go through in order to survive. Here are a few reminders of things we constantly have to worry about and do just to get by.” …
In case you need even more reasons. (The SpongeBob .gif is hilarious.)
https://www.theodysseyonline.com/10-reasons-why-college-sucks
Lol pretty much everything about college sucks. It’s the worse 4-5 years of your life.
^ true. i hate college lololol.
I think any student who is super stressed out about all of these things - enough that they think college sucks because of them - is probably trying way too hard. And #10 is just flat out not true, if you manage your time well.
It’s also untrue that you won’t get a good job without a good GPA. Most employers will never ask you about your GPA.
I loved college! I loved living in a dorm (stayed in the same one all four years). I loved studying. I loved UT football games. I could go on and on. 
LOL. Most adults would go back to the “stresses” of college in a heartbeat.
College was the worst four years of my mother’s life. Broke, stressed, stacking on loans and alone. She was much much happier after graduation when she was working. Some people are like that.
It’s all about mindset. You can think all of these things make college suck, or you can think all of these things are part of the adventure. It is what it is to whoever is beholding it and how they think about what they are beholding.
I loved college! For me high school was pretty miserable, and after that college was a whole new wonderful world. Sure it was challenging but most of the complaints on this list were not issues for me. I loved the dorms, my school had great food, I was more social in college than any other time of my life despite graduating from chemical engineering in eight semesters, met my H there, the list goes on. I even got to regularly see an actor who is now moderately famous and on a current hit TV show. He was there getting his masters at the time and was in all the campus plays and the acting troupe for my theater appreciation class. Good times. By the time I graduated I was ready to move on and start my “real” life, but it was an excellent experience.
College was awesome! I didn’t stress about grades though. “C’s get degrees”
College was hell. Screw up one thing (a test) and it’s on your “permanent record” (GPA) forever.
Screw up something in a job and you find another one- no big deal.
Plus: who in his right mind would spend years sharing a room and otherwise in close quarters with a bunch of other men? When we have disposable income, we don’t do that.
I would never want to go through college again.
I would strongly echo that it is about mindset. If you compare some of these things to post-college, it may suck. What makes some of it cool or at least new and interesting is that college is the transition from kid to adult for many. As far as grades, again, how you approach stress (if you can help it, anxiety/depression/etc is a different story) makes a big difference.
Some of these are also optional to a point - you have some control over your diet, even with a modest budget. While all-nighters can happen to the best of us, habitual ones is a sign something is off, even if socially acceptable in college.
I think a big part of this also comes from how hyped up college is - it’s not all butterflies and rainbows obviously, but people are made to believe that if you aren’t having the time of your life, you’re doing something wrong. That’s just not true.
To be fair, I think this article has its place, and venting about these not so shiny sides of college is important. Still, a good attitude / some easy life problem solving could make a big difference with most of these.
Your college had no housing choices for you besides low quality all-male dorms and fraternity houses?
Regarding that list, yes, #1 is a concern for pre-med, pre-law, and need-high-GPA-to-enter-major-or-renew-scholarship students. #3, #4, #7, #8, #9, #10 depend mostly on time management and whether one has other obligations while in school (e.g. working to earn money to afford school). #2, #5, #6 presumably depend on the college, since some are nicer than others. However, at most colleges, most students live off campus after frosh year anyway.
I loved college. I love it so much that I’ve spent 8 years here and have another 4-5 to go.
Also I liked the dorm. We had community bathrooms so we didn’t have to clean the bathroom. heck yes