A Question...

[athersgeo]

I'm doing some revising on one of my novels and I've hit a little bit of a wall in terms of what students actually DO in their spare time. Yes, I know I went to university for two years and therefore, ought to know (or at least have some clue!), but to be perfectly honest, I really don't remember WHAT I did with my spare time, beyond hammering away on my laptop/scribbling in note books/reading (and no, there's no alcohol involved in that amnesia - oddly enough, I *DO* remember the times when I went out and got bladdered; largely because they were so infrequent!).

So, with that in mind, I thought I'd turn to you guys and see what your experiences were. And hence...

When you were in university/college, what did you do on an average Saturday night?

Comments

[tptigger.livejournal.com]

Hung out in the basement of SciFi house and watched SF TV. :)

Friday nights were more varied: campus had plays, movies, a flooded quad in the winter, and lots of people to play Uno and Once Upon a Time with. Then Chelsea 11:17 at, you guessed it, 11:17-- three ingredients or a theme would be given out the week before, and then there'd be that time to write a play. On Friday night at about 11, if you wrote, you showed up with enough copies for each part (plus the narrator), and the "Chelsea Elves" would hand out parts by asking for volunteers. The plays would then be performed.
It was really quite fun. :)
That help?

[athersgeo.livejournal.com]

Definitely; thank you :)

[strandedinaber.livejournal.com]

Going out to the Students Union with friends/going in town, chilling out in front of the TV with a bottle of wine and friends, playing drinking games at home with housemates, talking on MSN/playing on the internet/playing computer games. Either that or watching DVDs/TV or, in the case of deadlines/exams, working.

You can be fairly safe to assume that the typical student Saturday night involves drinking in some form...

[athersgeo.livejournal.com]

*snickers* Good point.

Thank you :)

[donna-k.livejournal.com]

I'm probably not your typical student given I lived at home, but my Saturday nights were mostly spent in front of the tv or with a book. Occasionally I'd go out, but Thursday night was student night here and I was much more likely to be out then. There might have been cinema visits, but again it was much more likely I'd do that in the week. Then I rediscovered the theatre and spent a lot of weekends away. :)

[athersgeo.livejournal.com]

Gotcha - and good point about student nights not being on Saturdays. I'd forgotten that - though HOW I'd managed to forget the horror that was the two hours before everyone else sodded off on a Tuesday or a Thursday evening (Manchester area was greedy and had two student nights!) is beyond me...

Thank you :)

[katie__pillar.livejournal.com]

Went to drinking in the Union. Saturday night was the club (I use the term loosely) night there.

[athersgeo.livejournal.com]

*laughs* Ah yes. I can imagine. I think I got dragged to one of those once...

Thanks :)

[xanantha.livejournal.com]

Worked, probably. But that is because, for us, The Week Began On Thursday. And one did not go out in town at the weekend, because it was full of townies.

Might spend some time in the College bar, or sit in the JCR watching TV or go to a friend's room for a bit. Wild times, yes...

[athersgeo.livejournal.com]

*grins* That actually sounds rather nice - and a good deal more fun than anything I remember doing (or not doing).

Thanks :)

[xanantha.livejournal.com]

It was nice, actually. There were some people who used to go out and get drunk etc, but there was no SU bar or similar (SU only had office space) so that was Not A Thing. People were more likely, mostly, to go to a concert or to the ADC to see a play or something. Ah, civilised students: not an oxymoron after all...

[athersgeo.livejournal.com]

Sounds like my kind of university - the whole drinking and getting drunk thing was very much not my scene. *sighs in generally wistful fashion*

[xanantha.livejournal.com]

It was lovely. Would have been nice if there'd been less work. Or more time to do it in. Or, er, something. But the non-work side was awesome. *nods* I miss it...

[tiphanism.livejournal.com]

We used to gather round in people's rooms and talk nonsense (very easy when you live in college) and watch films etc, and do communal cooking. With non-college people we'd go to pubs and talk nonsense, or sit around in people's houses or in college gardens etc and talk nonsense... are you spotting a theme? Most people did extra-curricular stuff though, sports and music and volunteering and sitting on college or department committees, so not that much free time.

[athersgeo.livejournal.com]

Sounds like fun - and good point about the extra-curricular stuff. That's definitely something I need to factor in.

Thanks :)

[pim2005.livejournal.com]

Either out to the pub/SU. Or in front of the televisual viewing box, generally with alochol of some descrip.

[athersgeo.livejournal.com]

The origins of Pim's Law?

Thanks :)