After four years definitely. What’s she going to do, never move out of her parents home? Buy a house next door so she can run to Mummy and Daddy as soon as she wakes up?At uni I never knew anyone to be homesick every day. If someone told me that I would be concerned for them, honestly.
it's the exact same for me! I'm pretty introverted and have to force myself to actually go to parties (which I always end up liking and have a good time but the circle continues and I keep having to force myself to go each time lol). And you're right she seems to think parties are just going clubbing or ground crazy and drink a lot. Whereas actually I'd say the majorities of "soirées" I attend are very chill and it's mostly talking and smoking with some music playing loud lol.Yes ! all our biggest parties were always on a thursday, I even had a professor that hated lecturing on friday morning because it smelt like beer in the room! (jeudi CI is actually the motto of one of the student circles)
I'm watching her video rn and I find her view on parties very skewed (unless it's a culture thing, again). I'm introverted myself, and at first I didn't really like parties (because in my first living accommodations, the others were drunk every single night. Litterally. One like to brag that he drank such and such, when he had an appointment with his liver doctor at nine in the morning). But then I met a lot of my current friends, and most of our parties consisted of talking/joking/drinking (a lot but that's not the point, I've also had a lot if fun with them on nights I didn't wanna drink). I feel like the only version of a party that she knows of is going clubbing, which isn't really representative. But she's set her mind on it and doesn't want to change it.
Also, it's normal for her to want her 'me time' but socializing is an important part of uni, and spending all of your time alone isn't good for your ental healt (as I later learned, lol). Forcing myself to go to parties I thought I wouldn't enjoy, and actually enjoying myself, really helped a lot when I struggled, and I feel like she doesn't even want to try.
sorry if this is kind of rambly, but I recognize a lot of my younger self in what she says on parties/socializing, the only difference is I changed my mind pretty quickly, but she seems sets in her ways.
Although I detest her with all my being even Holly Gabriel recognized her intense homesickness as not being normal and once in her life tackled it in the beginning of her studies. Maybe Rubs could copy that aspect of of her idol and not the shitty disordered eating stuff? (But then again Holly's home seems much more toxic and a lot less enabling than Rubs' one.)At uni I never knew anyone to be homesick every day. If someone told me that I would be concerned for them, honestly.
She's certainly not going to get any better by isolating herself either.After four years definitely. What’s she going to do, never move out of her parents home? Buy a house next door so she can run to Mummy and Daddy as soon as she wakes up?
She needs to find some coping mechanisms or she’ll end up never progressing in any aspect.
I'm from Australia (born in the UK) and went on exchange to Bristol Uni. Almost no one went home for the weekend (MAYBE one weekend every month if that) unless they lived very close/within Bristol. It's just too disruptive for most people and *most normal* people wanted to hang out with their friends on the weekend lol. I think she's conflating 'introversion' with anxiety or codependency/lack of independence.Hi, long time lurker here. As soon as I saw the title of the new video I came here ^^.
I just wanted to say that going to university for months at a time without going home is a very uk/us-centric thing. In my country (Belgium, which is admittedly much smaller than uk/us, so you're never more than 3h aways from home), litterally everyone goes back home on the week-end, it's just how it is. Very few students stay on campus during the week-end, and usually only with a reason (parents on holiday, party planned during the week-end, ...) I did it for 5 years (standard undergrad/grad combination time) and when I moved afterwards it wasn't particularly difficult.
I agree that Ruby seems unhealthily homesick, (since it's her fourth year), yet I feel like, for the first years, going away for the first time from your home for at least a few months at a time sounds incredibly hard.
That's so true, she somehow has this very negative and one-sided view of socialising as being clubbing and drinking excessively even though she's never even tried to socialise? When I was on exchange in the UK my flatmates and I would occasionally go out to a pub or something, but mostly we just drank (and...other stuff lmao) and had a great time in the flat. I don't even drink alcohol and I still socialised with everyone literally all the time, people don't really care what you do as long as you're not judgemental to them haha.it's the exact same for me! I'm pretty introverted and have to force myself to actually go to parties (which I always end up liking and have a good time but the circle continues and I keep having to force myself to go each time lol). And you're right she seems to think parties are just going clubbing or ground crazy and drink a lot. Whereas actually I'd say the majorities of "soirées" I attend are very chill and it's mostly talking and smoking with some music playing loud lol.
It's pretty much the same in Italy, unless someone like goes to uni in Milan and their home is in Sicily, in which case you obviously cannot fly home every weekend lolYeah same in France pretty much, at least in my experience. Only differences is that people only do this if their uni is not far from home obviously and also I've noticed it was only during the first two years mostly. At least that was the case in my group of friends, for some reason in our third year we started to go home far less often, probably because we were more matured I don't know. Also it wasn't really an issue socially, cause the biggest parties and social events are always on Thursday nights, and I think this is precisely why theyre not on fridays, because it's very common to go back home on the weekends over here.
I don’t understand why Ruby didn’t join a dance society, as she seems to really enjoy it. It gives you a hobby/interest and an opportunity to meet new friends without having to go out drinking if you don’t want to.I joined a society and we went away to do our Thing about once a month. Of course, we were also the weirdos who sat just outside the bar with our largely non-alcoholic drinks and occasionally our niche interest instruction manuals before going home to watch 24 and eat “a fleet of cakes” but we had a good time. I think Ruby would hate our Thing but our socials sound kind of like they’d suit her fine.
Focusing on "the university experience" and beating yourself up because reality is not what you expected it to be is extremely unhelpful.She claims ”adults” (lol Roobee you’re an adult too, don’t even try it) are ALL saying university is supposed to be the best time of one’s life. Um, no they’re not. YOU’RE the one who’s been going on and on and bloody ON about ”romanticising uni” and ”being so, so grateful” and ”immersing yourself in macadamias”. Older people mainly say things like that because they wish THEY’d taken more advantage of those years and enjoyed uni more than they actually did.
If she can't be the most gifted person in the room and it doesn't generate money for her, she isn't interested in it. (See also: Her book club.)I don’t understand why Ruby didn’t join a dance society, as she seems to really enjoy it. It gives you a hobby/interest and an opportunity to meet new friends without having to go out drinking if you don’t want to.
Ruby seems to have this way of taking everything she’s told at face value and seeing everything in black and white terms. Uni will either be the best time of my life or it will be dreadful and there’s no in-between! I must get firsts for everything or else I have failed! I must party like Martha or not party at all!She claims ”adults” (lol Roobee you’re an adult too, don’t even try it) are ALL saying university is supposed to be the best time of one’s life. Um, no they’re not. YOU’RE the one who’s been going on and on and bloody ON about ”romanticising uni” and ”being so, so grateful” and ”immersing yourself in macadamias”. Older people mainly say things like that because they wish THEY’d taken more advantage of those years and enjoyed uni more than they actually did.
Does anyone who is in the book club have any updates btw? Is she still getting slagged off on the discord?If she can't be the most gifted person in the room and it doesn't generate money for her, she isn't interested in it. (See also: Her book club.)
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