your username suits you well... :)

uh no, no it isn't. And yes, i spent four years at "uni" spending roughly 10 hours a day doing assigments/class etc and worked 32 hours a week. People who've never been in the real world (i.e. you) don't have any clue what it means to work. Mentally exhausting? yea sure, but don't try to compare it to a real job in the real world, something you seem to know little about.

You're not really comparing "8 hours" lounging in a classroom as exhausting as ohh say 8 actual hours as a triage nurse in the ER or 8 actual hours as laying pipe and wiring a commercial building or roto-hammering through 18" of concrete or an actual 8 hours as a school teacher or even working an actual 8 hour shift at McD's serving derelict punks like you are you? You aren't actually comparing school to working are you? #GetAJob

#82 is dead on. If you can't relate, enjoy your cake job and STFU.

Wow, way to make assumptions based on a couple of sentences. I have plenty of experience in the real world. No one has helped me pay for anything related to my education. I pay for my own tuition, rent, food, etc. I know exactly what its like to work for a living. As someone who's worked for McDonalds I can definitely say an 8 hour shift there is much easier than 8 hours straight of various chemistry and biology courses, but maybe that's just me. OP doesn't say what he does, maybe he gets to 'lounge' at work too. If he goes to work with the flu I seriously doubt his job involves a lot of manual labor.

As some one who has worked full time, been a student full time with a job, and just a student full time, I can honestly say being a student is harder. If you work a manual labor job then that's your life choice, but don't act like getting a higher education isn't as hard, because it is. Because I can also tell you that my brothers both work in manual labor, one works over 60 hours a week, and that to him is easier to accomplish than being a full time student, considering he had to drop out of university because it was too demanding.

Why can't you compare school to working? It's not like when you finally come home from your exhausting day of ER nursing, pipe laying, teaching, etc. you have to keep working. But as a student, attending class is about 25% of the job. Now add any reading, research, writing, problem-solving, exam studying that has to be done on your own time outside of class (in which you could be in an easy class not paying attention or in a 3 hour grueling note-taking marathon, depending on the class) and tell me again why #getting a job is so much harder than getting an education? And if you're considering telling me I need to get a job myself, I worked part time during college and did simultaneous (unpaid) internships during grad school, and now work a full time "real job," and it is SO nice to leave work at the office instead of coming home to even more.