Weird place though Keele, met numerous people from there who'd never left the campus. Had mates who stayed in that suicide block, could see why it was called that an'all.
I went Manchester doing Social Work after a year at Leeds doing Music Tec. Looking back I wish I'd have done Politics, but I've fired myself off in that many different directions, I'd have probably wanted to do something different anyway.
As far as "the experience" I don't think I was any different than if I'd have been working. Did a lot of my growing up and experimenting shit when I was younger, so couldn't really gel with most students who were "finding themselves".
And just to add.... I know about 4 lads with degrees on the dole at the minute. Pieces of paper!
Quote by kuriousoranjWeird place though Keele, met numerous people from there who'd never left the campus. Had mates who stayed in that suicide block, could see why it was called that an'all.
I went Manchester doing Social Work after a year at Leeds doing Music Tec. Looking back I wish I'd have done Politics, but I've fired myself off in that many different directions, I'd have probably wanted to do something different anyway.
As far as "the experience" I don't think I was any different than if I'd have been working. Did a lot of my growing up and experimenting shit when I was younger, so couldn't really gel with most students who were "finding themselves".
And just to add.... I know about 4 lads with degrees on the dole at the minute. Pieces of paper!
Very true at the minute^^^
completely agree there keele is a very odd place and you wouldn't get the most out of your uni years. If you are going to go to uni pick a decent city to go to.
I am 3rd yr criminology student at Huddersfield at 33. I laff at those students who go out most nights dont turn up for letcures then complain about the work load and marks. I have to go home pick kids up do tea for the family, clean washing shopping etc etc. However, if i'd have gone straight from school and then that would be me; ending up with a call centre job. At the minuet i'v a 10,000 research project to do not to mention the other 8 essays before i graduate, so its a busy stressfull time. It will be worth it and i enjoy it that much i'v just applied to do a masters.
Finished my part-time degree in Quantity Surveying at Hallam earlier this year. Already had a BA from Urban and Regional Geography which I did full time. Wouldn't change a thing about my first degree. Had a great time and really enjoyed the course. Studying part-time was a different world though. Very tough.
Quote by Garreth I laff at those students who go out most nights dont turn up for letcures then complain about the work load and marks.
It's even worse when they turn up and talk at full volume throughout lectures. Pesky kids. Was a lot of older students doing part-time like me so there was often heated confrontations, which normally ended in some beanie-hat-wearing 19 year old running out of the lecture theatre.
Once a mechanism whereby smart people could raise themselves above humble beginnings and obtain a worthwhile qualification indicating a high probability of being employable. Now a complete con to get kids with high hopes into insurmountable amounts of debt before they even think about buying a house.. then they discover that the job they trained for was entirely fictitious, and they'll have to take any job they can get. At this point, they realise they should have gone into benefit fraud and drug dealing like all their "stupid" friends, who now have houses, cars and big screen TVs.
It's even worse when they turn up and talk at full volume throughout lectures. Pesky kids. Was a lot of older students doing part-time like me so there was often heated confrontations, which normally ended in some beanie-hat-wearing 19 year old running out of the lecture theatre.
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Had that yesterday, ipod was on full volume whilst we were trying to watch and analyse Fight Club (was a decent lecture that) mature masculinities sorted it out
Quote by Donny.Im at Sheffield Hallam, had to do a prep year for Engineering to improve my Maths & Physics as my GCSE Grades weren't good enough to let me do them at A-Level. Now into my 2nd year of 4 year degree doing BEng (Batchelor Engineering) Electrical & Electronic Engineering.
Can be stressful at times but I always get through it, commute 60 mile round trip a day because I enjoy what I do. Plus it stops me going on 13 day alcohol benders *cough*SAFCBeaufort*cough*
IMO a level maths is harder than the maths you do on some engineering degrees. Great social life as astudent but I think you are a bit niave at 19 to appreciate it fully. When I see students out now I cringe at how they behave but I was probably the same.
BEng here a good while ago now.
Its a different game now with 9k a year to pay back. I think getting a job and a company who are prepared to get you through a degree could be the way to go.
Course A-Level maths will be harder, most of the people in there will want to do it at University. I do find it challenging, but unlike a lot of students, I spend my loan on books and not on the piss all the time. Just going over stuff like 2nd ODE's & Matrices, although Fourier Analysis was a new topic for me this year. I'm 21 and do appreciate my degree a lot, on placement next year, already got a good CV, covering letter and other bits for SAF's (Standard App.Form) ready within the first month of getting here. Hopefully work my nut off next year, get sponsorship and get into an Engineering based job. Don't want to blow my own trumpet but I've got my head screwed on and I think im Uni-directional at the moment, upwards!
I went and stopped attending lectures on the 3rd day, decided to have a year on it instead and ended up working one or two nights in the Union playing records. Obviously kicked out after year 1.
My mistake was to choose my college on the basis of where mates from home were going (Belfast) when I was offered 2-3 different places around Ireland and the UK. Had I chosen elsewhere I would still have had all my mates from home but would have met other people and experience more of life which is 50% of the whole university thing.
Quote by Mersons BookieFinished my part-time degree in Quantity Surveying at Hallam earlier this year. Already had a BA from Urban and Regional Geography which I did full time. Wouldn't change a thing about my first degree. Had a great time and really enjoyed the course. Studying part-time was a different world though. Very tough.
Quote by Garreth I laff at those students who go out most nights dont turn up for letcures then complain about the work load and marks.
It's even worse when they turn up and talk at full volume throughout lectures. Pesky kids. Was a lot of older students doing part-time like me so there was often heated confrontations, which normally ended in some beanie-hat-wearing 19 year old running out of the lecture theatre.
i could never understand people not turning up. i told me dad how many hours a week i did - eight - he replied 'i did double that today!' i loved the lectures and discussions afterwards. i work in a university and they've all just started and i feel a bit jealous of them. thing with the noisy ones is, the first thing a space shuttle leaves behind is the bit that makes all the noise at the beginning. man.
Quote by Garreth It's even worse when they turn up and talk at full volume throughout lectures. Pesky kids. Was a lot of older students doing part-time like me so there was often heated confrontations, which normally ended in some beanie-hat-wearing 19 year old running out of the lecture theatre.
Had that yesterday, ipod was on full volume whilst we were trying to watch and analyse Fight Club (was a decent lecture that) mature masculinities sorted it out [/quote]
you doing film studies? we did aliens, the fullmonty, and my two faves passport to pimlico and the lavender hill mob. christ that was a good course.
Had that yesterday, ipod was on full volume whilst we were trying to watch and analyse Fight Club (was a decent lecture that) mature masculinities sorted it out [/quote]
you doing film studies? we did aliens, the fullmonty, and my two faves passport to pimlico and the lavender hill mob. christ that was a good course. [/quote]
No mate criminology the lecture was around masculinity and crime, anti consumerism and anti capitilism. I'll never watch a film in the same way again.
Dipped out mate......joined the army instead so missed that boat......although now i'm having to back day release which seems to be the way to only have the rough and none of the smooth of uni life...... : (
I'm currently in my first year of a PhD in History at UCL having previously studied History of International Relations at the LSE. The amount of debt I've loaded myself with is pretty worrying but given I don't expect to ever have real job security if I go into academics I'm trying to be philosophical about it. I've never been a big fan of student 'culture' - pub crawls in matching t-shirts and theme nights have never been my bag but despite the stereotypes found that most other students couldn't be bothered with that lark either. Things are a bit better for me now - I've got a pretty generous funding package so don't need to worry too much about rent and I still work a few evenings a week so I can live a bit more comfortably. It is a little bit gutting when you see bods you grew up with moving up in the world - renting places on their own, buying cars, foreign holidays etc - when you're still living in cheap flats with multiple other people but I've always wanted to study History so not going to university didn't seem like an option for me. Had the fees been set at 9K when I started I probably still would have gone to be honest - its a lifestyle choice and while its far from glamorous I genuinely do enjoy spending my time pouring over books.
Quote by Garreth Had that yesterday, ipod was on full volume whilst we were trying to watch and analyse Fight Club (was a decent lecture that) mature masculinities sorted it out
you doing film studies? we did aliens, the fullmonty, and my two faves passport to pimlico and the lavender hill mob. christ that was a good course. [/quote]
No mate criminology the lecture was around masculinity and crime, anti consumerism and anti capitilism. I'll never watch a film in the same way again.[/quote]
sound. we did a module on criminology. really enjoyed it. looked at brinks mat, the dome heist (which was in court at the time), supermax prisons, cctv, ace stuff
sound. we did a module on criminology. really enjoyed it. looked at brinks mat, the dome heist (which was in court at the time), supermax prisons, cctv, ace stuff [/quote]
I always get asked are you joining the police then.............a polite reply would be However, they do a good job.
Currently a third year's bachelor student in International Business Administration. To be honest I'm not interested at all in the field of study, I just feel I owe it to my parents to graduate and I really want the piece of paper saying I did it. After that I'll go and do a study that I actually like, if I find means to pay for it, that is.
Depends if you're ready to leave Leicester mate. I wasn't ready when I just turned 18 to leave home, so I stayed at home and went to the local uni. It didn't bother me not going away as I wouldn't be able to afford it and all my mates were here/ bird etc. I would be prepared to move now to somewhere like Liverpool or Manchester.
Got a BA in History, graduated in 2009. Didn't really go to University for the career prospects, more because I just love modern history and the course I got onto in Glamorgan taught all the things that I nerd out on in my own time. I enjoyed it, the course that is, the lifestyle is whatever, I get pissed with the lads all the time anyway, didn't make many mates, students arent really my type of people... to put it nicely. If its something that interests you though, do it.
Saying that, I have debt from uni yes, but thats debt I only pay back after I earn a certain amount. Took the missus to a university open day in Newport the otherday, loan rises mean its going to cost her about 9 grand. And honestly, fuck that. I have a degree, and im the head of the retail department in a fucking cinema, taking deliveries all day on minimum wage... when money comes into it like that, I really dont think its worth it.
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Had that yesterday, ipod was on full volume whilst we were trying to watch and analyse Fight Club (was a decent lecture that) mature masculinities sorted it out 
the lecture was around masculinity and crime, anti consumerism and anti capitilism. I'll never watch a film in the same way again.
its all about distractions today.
However, they do a good job. 
