I think the problem is you have nothing to live for, go find something worth sticking around for!

Theres a book called “mans search for meaning” by vicktor frankl, about his time in the nazi concentration camps and why some people survived and some didn’t. It turns out the people who had something to live for (kids, some important goal) had the strength to keep going, but people who didn’t eventually just…gave up and died. (I’ve got a copy if you want to borrow it)

You think ‘can I really be bothered to do this?’ about going to lecture one day and the next you’ll haul your ass to another continent and risk arrest without a second thought- how come?

How come? Because that disney fairytale won’t really make you happy, deep down inside you know you’re only doing it because thats what society says will make you happy. Theres no real point. But you’ll go to denver because going to help XXXXX has a point to it. You may not care if you live or die, but you do care if XXXXX does.

Find *something* in live worth striving for and suddenly everything will become magicly easier. Figure out how to put your awesome skills to use helping other people or something.

And I do mean awesome skills, because normal people couldn’t just get on a plane and risk an illegal border crossing, the option wouldn’t even get the chance to cross their minds, instead they’d just sit around and complain about it.

You know how you always quit jobs because you can’t handle it and need to run away?
Do you know what the difference between you and everyone else is?
They want to run away just as bad as you, it just that they don’t have the balls to do it.

If you can figure out some goal you can give a shit about that matches your skills, I guarantee you’ll have a life worth living.

(trust me, a decade ago if I’d been hit by a bus my last thoughts would have been “meh” because it would have been an end to pointless boring suffering, now I’m scared shitless about dying because I finally have a life worth losing)

All Universities, no matter no how big or prestigious they are have issues like a lack of computers in the middle of the day, poor IT support, the most popular books are always checked out and you have this general sense you’re -just- a student.

I’ve heard the same criticism drawn towards ex-polytechnics, tiny universities, big universities, expensive universities, cheap universities, prestigious ones and bottom-of-the-barrel ones. Many people feel that way, I’m not lying.

The idea behind going to university is not the score you get – at the end of the day, nobody really cares about the grade. What you are doing at university is proving to the world that no matter what crap happens and no matter how hard the work gets, you stuck with it. You proved to everybody that you had the patience and inclination to work at something and get the job done.

When I was a student, I struggled all the way through. There were several times that I felt like I was drowning in the work, a few times I thought to myself ‘what’s the point? I should just quit’. Many times I felt like I was the only one who was suffering, and too times I was up late into the night trying to get something complete. I almost failed 2 years of one course. I didn’t have a single friend on my course to talk to. People around me were telling me that I should give up. BUT I DIDN’T. I looked at all my options, decided that to hell with other people, I’m going to get this degree to prove to the world I can do it!

I talked to the university advice people, talked to my former and current tutors, and got myself back up again. I left university with a 2-1, and by god I was proud of it! I struggled and pushed and I damn well thought I deserved my degree!

Seth, I think you’re great and so do all the guys in TermiSoc. I know you’ve had a hard lot over the years, but this is your moment to shine. JEven if the work is boring and uninteresting and your lecturers are all prats and your university is a pain, you should say to yourself ‘I don’t care, I’m doing this for ME!’.

I vaguely recall something about the eduroam login being slightly different when you’re not at your home university, the username changes to something specific (possibly something along the lines of username@institution, possibly with something else odd in there too)