University advice

InKursion said:
Scholarships do exist, just they are very rare and for the Pitchfork's of this world.

Are you doing Medicine? An MSc in Medicine sounds strange. Otherwise that department's niche strength seems pretty irrelevant. Your degree isn't considered better to employers by (non-)relation :p
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Nope not doing medicine, it was just an example i used.

Im doing Automation and Control for my MSc, funny enough it contains a large amount of matlab work, which uses a lot of fortran, a language i used on my industrial placement, funny how things work out :p
 
G-MAN2004 said:
I have four female flatmates to meet. This could either be great or awful!
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A surprising thing I learned at university was that girls/young women are actually much messier to live with than guys. Every time I shared a house with a girl / girls, the mess was just incredible. Not necessarily dirty in the same way that a boy's household will become... but messy, cluttered, never in a state of tidiness :p
 
InKursion said:
A surprising thing I learned at university was that girls/young women are actually much messier to live with than guys. Every time I shared a house with a girl / girls, the mess was just incredible. Not necessarily dirty in the same way that a boy's household will become... but messy, cluttered, never in a state of tidiness :p
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True 'dat!
Although I now live with a clean freak who can't cook so us boys cook, she cleans. Sorted.
 
quickshot89 said:
Depends on the field wouldnt you say? eg: Medicine, its in the top 10

The only reason i chose Newcastle was 1) its another local uni for me, 2) i have a part time job supporting myself 3) the only other course i wanted to do post grad was in reading which is too expensive for me to move to currently, as post grad UK students get bugger all in terms of scholarships :confused:

edit: To go back to the point at hand, yes I agree, some degrees are a joke and shouldnt be considered brag worthy
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Medicine is a totally different ball-game though, since all the content is regulated (and pretty much the same) across all Universities. Much like there was Edexcel/OCR/AQA at GCSE/A-Level, since ALL doctors graduating need to be of the same calibre; hence, there's no such thing as a league table for Universities when it comes to Medicine. Besides, league tables are nonsense for most other subjects as well. For other subjects there's a much wider variation in workload and difficulty. I know that at Oxford and Cambridge you cover in the first year what some other Universities take 2 years to cover, for mathematics.
 
Nitefly said:
My commiserations for having to live in that awful city :p

Punting is awesome though.
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Haha, I don't actually live in the city (or in college obviously) but just north of Oxford. When I was at interview the city did seem amazing, and I fell in love, but when you go there every day the novelty very quickly runs out and it becomes tiresome. Do you live in Oxford, or are you a student as well?
 
Oxford is my hometown and I lived there for 18 years straight, then have lived there intermittently over the last 6 years.

Amusingly I think what upsets me so much is the lack of decent shopping. It is just god damn awful in Oxford - debenhams is about as trendy as you can get. Also if you don't live somewhere central you are going to punished by the absolutely insane parking that plagues the city and the buses are shockingly expensive. It's like they don't actually want you to go there.

To be fair, cowley road has gone up massively in my book.
 
Nitefly said:
Oxford is my hometown and I lived there for 18 years straight, then have lived there intermittently over the last 6 years.

Amusingly I think what upsets me so much is the lack of decent shopping. It is just god damn awful in Oxford - debenhams is about as trendy as you can get. Also if you don't live somewhere central you are going to punished by the absolutely insane parking that plagues the city and the buses are shockingly expensive. It's like they don't actually want you to go there.

To be fair, cowley road has gone up massively in my book.
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I do drive into Oxford usually for tutorials (not a fan of public transport) and the parking fees are ridiculous, I usually park on Savile Road/Mansfield Road and it costs me about £4 for a couple of hours.
 
quickshot89 said:
I love how some people think an ex-poly means its a crap uni :p

I just got into my MSc at Newcastle Uni after graduating from Northumbria (an ex-poly) with a first. It took less than 24 hours from me sending them my transcript to being accepted into the course. So yeah, university name means nothing IMO, your modules and marks mean more in the real world
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I agree with you for the most part. I graduated Hertfordshire with a first and just finished a MSc at Royal Holloway. Didn't have any trouble getting accepted.
 
What is the difference like between studying a Bachelor's and a Master's Degree?

I was considering applying to study Engineering at Bristol, but the only engineering degree which seems to have a year in industry was this one.

Unless I'm missing something but I always thought you had to finish a BEng before you could start a MEng degree. :confused:
 
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