In my undergraduate years vs In the undergraduate days

Both phrases are correct, but they are used in slightly different contexts. 'In my undergraduate years' is a common and natural way to refer to one's time spent as an undergraduate student. 'In the undergraduate days' can also be used, but it is a bit more general and less common.

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In my undergraduate years

This phrase is correct and commonly used to refer to the time spent as an undergraduate student.

This phrase is used to talk about the period of time when someone was an undergraduate student, typically in college or university.

Examples:

In my undergraduate years, I studied biology and chemistry.
I learned a lot about myself in my undergraduate years.
During my undergraduate years, I made lifelong friends.
In my undergraduate years, I was involved in several student organizations.
She discovered her passion for art in her undergraduate years.

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Everything was on track in my undergraduate years, and I was lucky enough to get into business school.
In her final undergraduate year, she won the Special Prize for Water Colors.
After studying illustration during her undergraduate years, McCormack returned to the familiar process of crocheting to deal with her grief.
As he approached the end of his remarkable four undergraduate years at MIT he began to think about studying for his doctorate.
Though there is little specific information on Dryden's undergraduate years, he would most certainly have followed the standard curriculum of classics, rhetoric, and mathematics.
In addition to enrolling at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, students sign an apprenticeship contract with a company chosen early in their second year of studies. This contract entitles students to draw a monthly salary (13 months) for three of the four undergraduate years.
Decline and Fall is based, in part, on Waugh's schooldays at Lancing College, undergraduate years at Hertford College, Oxford, and his experience as a teacher at Arnold House in north Wales.
Pickover graduated first in his class from Franklin and Marshall College, after completing the four-year undergraduate program in three years.
CU3DSoc is comprised of over 30 first and second year undergraduates, predominantly engineering students.
It is available to second and third year undergraduate students.
Among them was Hamish St Clair Erskine, the second son of the 5th Earl of Rosslyn, an Oxford undergraduate four years Nancy's junior.
I was in the third year of my seven-year undergraduate degree.
The study abroad level is structured and taught at year two of a three-year undergraduate programme.
Hong Kong University, for example, has extended its undergraduate programs from three years to four.
His undergraduate and graduate years were spent at the University of Pennsylvania where he received his PhD in linguistics in 1955.
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Alternatives:

during my time as an undergraduate
while I was an undergraduate student
in my college years
in my university days
when I was in college

In the undergraduate days

This phrase is correct but may sound less common and formal compared to 'in my undergraduate years'.

This phrase can also be used to refer to the time spent as an undergraduate student, but it may sound a bit less common and formal.