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As in the title, how many people are off to university this year, and if so what u studying?
Personally, after the fiasco of six months at UCL studying Electronic Engineering, and then actually having to work after leaving, I am off on my way to a course that wont suck.
Im going to Brunel University to study Product design (BSc Baby!)
AND I CANT WAIT.
Next week I start my third year in Bsc (Hons) Computing and Information at RGU, Aberdeen. Can't wait :(
will be my third year of uni, my third year of uni at bath, and my second year of studying 'computers, electronics and communications' after having to complete a very large pile of coursework over the summer which for one reason or the other (laziness) didn't get handed in when it was suppose to over the course of the year. my semester starts on the 6th october so a few more weeks of holiday left yet! :)
of course i've vowed to actually do my coursework on time this year, but having learned from experience, the chances of this happening are very slim, especially as Sky+ is going to be installed as soon as i get back! :)
Off to Staffordshire hopefully next year to study computer games design and development.
Or if i change my mind, it will be probably specialising in networking.
i start in march mwhahahahah w1nn0r!! but i am going to a australian uni :D
Nice! How'd you pull that one off? And how's it work over there for funding etc?
BSc Media Technology and Internet Computing at Kingston
Starting monday....Had to go enrol today.
Turned Down Staffodshire and Lincoln to live at home ..... i must be nuts.
I graduated in summer with a degree in physics. Now I'm going back to do an MSc. in digital image processing.
Hehe, kingston boy. Been to Mcluskys since Oceana opened? Dead as - and rightly so, there is really no contest. Mcluskys smells of vomit, and oceana doesnt.
Mccluskys sucked well before Oceana opened mate. Though now i'm very bored of oceana, as it is the same damn thing every student night :/
I live in kingston + moving to durham in 2 weeks for BSc Comp Sci :[
starting next year
either manchester, sheff, or somewhere near brum, like warwick etc
Aye Mcluskys always sucked, tho it was cheap as hell, as the beer ran out of date on the day after. I have enjoyed myself there, but that had nothing to do with the surroundings.
As for oceana, Im pretty sick of it, and sick of the bouncers. Complete C***s.
Man!! Look at you guys... You're all so young!! :( I graduated from my undergrad degree (BSc) back in 1992 and my MBA in 1995... :(
Try and have a great time when you've the chance! I don't want to sound old fashioned and patronizing, but this is your last piece of freedom... Ask anyone in my age. ;)
Havent checked out the venues yet, too lazy atm. will do so in good time.
I'm off to Keele uni on Friday to settle in, then I begin studying Music Technology and Information Systems on Monday :D The freshers week is gonna rock (literally!), The Darkness are playing at the actual uni! There's also a LAN party, and the other antics of a freshers week ;)
On sat I'm starting at Edinburgh Uni to do Computing Science and Management Science :)
I'm going to Reading University to study Typography and Graphic Communication.
off to durham in a fortnight to read mathematics. no i-net in my room though, sadly :(
Byatt which college you at?
And how do you know theres no net
Off to Luton to do a taught "conversion course" MSc in Computer Science to turn my Maths degree from Oxford into something useful :)
castle...and I know because you have to apply for it, and I applied a little too late...Quote:
Originally posted by bertie
Byatt which college you at?
And how do you know theres no net
Will have to see if I can start a wireless revolution when I get there :D
Gonna start my third and final year tomorrow at Nottingham Trent in Computer Science, though most of my friends have left me loner after going on placement for the year!
I don't start uni till 5th October, doing computer science
Hey, your signature is confusing me... it's driving my eyes insane..... :pQuote:
Originally posted by Zathras
Off to Luton to do a taught "conversion course" MSc in Computer Science to turn my Maths degree from Oxford into something useful :)
No offense, but isn't going from Oxford to Luton quite a... step down? If u know what I mean.Quote:
Originally posted by Zathras
Off to Luton to do a taught "conversion course" MSc in Computer Science to turn my Maths degree from Oxford into something useful :)
hehe - another 1992 graduate here! - where'd u go mate?Quote:
Originally posted by spikegifted
Man!! Look at you guys... You're all so young!! :( I graduated from my undergrad degree (BSc) back in 1992 and my MBA in 1995... :(
Try and have a great time when you've the chance! I don't want to sound old fashioned and patronizing, but this is your last piece of freedom... Ask anyone in my age. ;)
Doing a BSc Multimedia and Website Development at Bolton, over here.
Hopefully will be hearing on Monday about my status to do an MSc Computing Science at Birkbeck - nervewracking!
None taken :) I've got a good first degree from Oxford, but I want to work in IT/computing and whilst I can program in a number of languages and can strip/rebuild computers in my sleep I have no 'paper' qualifications and with the state of the jobplace at the moment I've found it very difficult to get a job at a 'good' city-type software company that offers full graduate training. Most other places want first degrees in computer science or relevant job-based experience, both of which I lack. It's a means to an end really, and Luton offered a good course and a bit of money too. I did look at the DipCompSci at Cambridge but just missed out on a place there, and given I didn't want to live at home and wanted to be close to my girlfriend in London I thought I'd give Luton a whirl.Quote:
Originally posted by th3 mol3
No offense, but isn't going from Oxford to Luton quite a... step down? If u know what I mean.
I've not firmly accepted the place yet, so anyone with job offers around the 20k+ mark in London/SE PM me :D
I started at Nottingham Trent last Monday :) Has been cool so far, living at home which is just 'boring' but hey! Studying 4 years BA Business Information Systems
i was sposed to do that last year and join all the mates i left when i moved back over here, but i decided just to stay in glasgow due to lack of information on funding since i'm an australian citizen AND a british citizen, no where could tell me how it would work, so it didnt happen :(Quote:
Originally posted by Gristy
i start in march mwhahahahah w1nn0r!! but i am going to a australian uni :D
so, alas, this year i'm heading back for my second year of chemistry with medicinal chemistry (Bsc) at Glasgow uni! woo can't wait! loved 1st year and 2nd year is gunna be 10x more interesting cos i CHOSE the courses i'm doing :D
i like chemistry, i like girls
i might go on elmos course :D
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Originally posted by petrefax
hehe - another 1992 graduate here! - where'd u go mate?
KCL... Chemistry (main concentration - organic) with Management options.Quote:
Originally posted by Swafeman
i like chemistry, i like girls
Looks like we got a forum full of computer scientists. and iv seen quite a few mathmatitians here too u cleva buGGers :)
Were starting to take our hobbies seriously
i dont do chemistry as a hobby :p it's getting the best out of something not that great.... blowing things up/getting experiments wrong is fun :D
You want to know something about things going wrong in the chemistry lab? Try this...
I was trying to reduce an sugar-based acid back to the sugar and it required heat with lithium aluminum hydride in a ether solution. I setup the equipment and left. When I came back, the fume cupboard has been racked!! :eek: The water pipe feeding the condenser was loose and after the ether was boiled dry, the LiAlH4 exploded... I was told it was a 'bang' of sort... One of the stoppers on the tripple neck round bottom flask got blown off - it hit the side of the fume cupboard which usually has bullet-proof glass! You can see the point of impact! :eek:
If you think that's not too spectacular, the one that happened a year after I left was truly awful... The kid was doing a different reaction, but lost his left hand (he was holding the flask) and his thumb and first two fingers on his right hand (he was adding something into the flask when it went)!! :eek:
oh dear god! and i complained cos i used something-or-another carbonate instead of carbonite and it was wrong! - hence i got a B :/ but we didnt get a second chance at the experiment, eventhough it was the fooking demonstrators fault for putting the wrong thing in the wrong place and i got some sort of yellow precipitate instead of a colourless solution heh... oh well!
You get to run your own projects and experiments when you get to the 3rd years... The senior project is one of the most demanding things, especially if you do it on of the heavy-duty experiemental projects. :)
Anyway, no-one have better time fighting than chemist!! We used to have dry ice fights! Why? You can hit people and it will hurt, but you don't have to clean up!! :D
They wont let me play with dangerous liquids :(
I'm missing uni now...
I'm out on placement, working :( I miss uni so much.
All my mates graduate this year... so i'll go back and it'll just be me and my man. :)
Why a fiasco ?? Im doing my A2's right now and have to put my application in for uni next year, in a couple of months, think im gonna apply to Bristol for Electronic Engineering ??? It aint that bad is it ?? :(Quote:
Originally posted by BoB_DoG
As in the title, how many people are off to university this year, and if so what u studying?
Personally, after the fiasco of six months at UCL studying Electronic Engineering, and then actually having to work after leaving, I am off on my way to a course that wont suck.
Im going to Brunel University to study Product design (BSc Baby!)
AND I CANT WAIT.
Maybe Electronic Eng with computer systems Eng, still havn't made my mind up as to the specific course. Did you just not like it ? or what ...
All i know is HATE chemistry, after being baffled by somehow getting an A in my GCSE chemistry I was some how convinced to take AS level chemistry, big mistake lol. On results day i come out with, Maths A, Physics A, Computing A, Chemistry D :D
I ended up with an unclasified with one of them, only managed the D because i got a B in one module, just scraped a D by 2% :)
I blame it on the chem teacher who encouraged questions and then liked to call you an imbecile for not knowing the answer ;) lol
Electronic Engineering wasnt too bad, but where I was it was a really intensive course, and also full of foreign students, most of whom had trouble speaking fluent english. The course was all maths based, and whilst that might tent some peoples trousers, it wasnt really what I expected it to be.
In the end, I really wanted more from my 4 years at uni than just a degree, and a lot of hard work.
im off to uni,
cant do with the early starts anymore :(
all messed up times,
9-10am lecture
free all day
and 4-5pm lecture
this is cruel / torture!
as you might have seen from my 'woohoo!' thred i finished (very drunkenly) an MSc yesterday which I am very happy about.
now thinking 'what next' or maybe PhD..
i fancy being a doctor if only for the reason that I can stand up and shout 'YES' what someone calls out 'is there a doctor in the house'
despite having zip to do with medicine :)
i noticed you said you were at UCL first then changed.Quote:
Originally posted by BoB_DoG
Electronic Engineering wasnt too bad, but where I was it was a really intensive course, and also full of foreign students, most of whom had trouble speaking fluent english. The course was all maths based, and whilst that might tent some peoples trousers, it wasnt really what I expected it to be.
well done. I was there for my first degree, and i know lots of people who joined up and then left cause [to put it simply] it wasn't what they expected. i really could have gone straight up into the 2nd year because almost everything we did in the first year i did for a-levels. so i spent one needless year there to start with and didn't really enjoy it after that.
i think KCL is far far better where I did an MSc. so much nicer. lots of people at UCL are up there own backsides its just not true. oh and grumpy lots, hate helping students...kind of weird since they work in the university...oh well.
p.s. I'm a Physiologist, not comp.sci or chemist etc...
Funny, for me, it was a choice between UCL and KCL and guess what - I chose Kings... ;)
I've been accepted just now.... and am now writing my letter of resignation... then going out for lunch with the Board! ;)
Birkbeck here I come!