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Mighty unpopular opinion here.

OP you are there at the Uni to learn to grow and pass the course+exams. If you need to do extracurricular activities, please setup time at home, travel home to do those things.

If home is faraway and you still want to do it, find a reliable off-campus-non-dorm location and do your stuff from there.

Your main objective is to get through Uni without falling behind and managing your time and effort wisely. If you fail Uni because you focused too much on non-essential activities, be a responsible adult and accept the results of your adult decisions.

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CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
As I understand it, people live in the dorms. Trying to focus on schoolwork 24/7 is an excellent way to burn yourself out and not graduate. Having down time for “non -essential activities” is important for mental health.

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- maniii@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Yes but dorms are optional. No one attending Uni is forced to live in the dorms. Uni is not a boarding school at least to my knowledge.
  
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  - Soggy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Lots of schools have a “freshmen must live on campus” policy, at least.
    
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    maniii@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    “schools” ? This is university. Quite surprising to hear that Universities would have a policy “freshmen MUST live on campus”. Must be some kind of extreme private boarding “school”. I feel bad for you if you went to such a Uni.
    
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  - GeekFTW@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    That is not universal. My local university forces you to pay to live on campus in the dorms for the first 2 years of your attendance regardless. You can choose to live elsewhere but you’re still paying the fees and no student is paying for two places to live lmao
    
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    maniii@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    It sucks if the University you chose forced such rules on students and included dorm as part of the tuition expenses. I cant imagine people taking on student debt with such high tuition+boarding. I guess anyone accepting at that local University is forced into this situation.
    
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  - CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Completely irrelevant to your prior point of “you’re at Uni to learn AND NOTHING ELSE!!!”
    
    People live in the dorms, that is what they are for. Part of living is having down time.
    
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tr0n1um@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Life does not stop because he is there. Maybe VR is one of his Hobbies that could evolve in into a career. He should not stop life because of uni. It is also something you have to learn there, to balance work with your private life.

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- maniii@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  University is your life choice. If your life hobbies are impacting your choice to attend your chosen university, you still are a responsible adult.
  
  Have hobbies, but don’t deny your responsibilities for making your own choices in your own life.
  
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mat@linux.community ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
While I see where you’re coming from, I do need to clarify two things:

I use VR mainly for two things: Beat Saber, and sometimes C++ game development (my degree). I can’t develop on-headset because of the limitations Facebook imposes, so I am stuck with streaming. I am taking my own path through these studies, for example I rewrote all the assignments and engines to CMake and then Linux which has allowed me to learn a whole lot more than if I simply followed the classes. I wish to mess with networking as another extension to my studies, as it’s not covered at all and now is the time I have dedicated 100% to learning (vs later in life).

I didn’t really choose this university: I chose to do an exchange program for a semester and this was the one option that matched my interests/degree. And the uni seems awesome so far (we haven’t started courses though). The dorm is a separate entity from the uni, but they do have a deal to provide rooms for half a year for exchange students. So this dorm was my best option to avoid a yearlong contract.
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- maniii@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  So, since this is related to your course and a required part of assignments, get things in writing,
  
  Let the Dorm and ISP know that you need an exception due to coursework.
  
  It might be in your best interest to temporarily invest in your own internet,I think 5G might have low enough latency to manage the connection.
  
  If all this is for one semester until you move back ? Just get a cheap mini-PC install pfSense or any other firewall/router software to isolate all your devices and Wifi router from the rest of the network. I believe some people have mentioned MAC-spoofing and TTL-reset as ways to bypass detection. And if anyone asks, you can show your written communications and your course requirements.
  
  Always be on the safe side when it comes to dealing with academics and private orgs.
  
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CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

I never said that OP shouldn’t do non-Uni activities. Just that time+effort has to be MANAGED between the two

I mean, obviously.

So if your only point is that time+effort needs to be managed between the two, what does that have to do with OP’s question? OP asking what their options are doesn’t mean they are neglecting to manage their time between the two.

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