How do Idiots get into university?

S7yl3s said:
Sat behind me today two 'students' laughing like 14 year old boys at the most pathetic things. Dropping your pen isn't funny is it?
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They dropped a pen in the middle of lecture lol they should be able to hold on one without dropping it lol i so get it. What happened next after the pen gag did someone fart quietly and it reaked lol i can imagine it now, oh i wish i was thoes 14 year old friends, i would follow up with a burp :p :p
 
its very easy to get lost and caught up in the whole "I must get good grades" thing... ok these two sound a bit dumb, they'll either drop out or catch on and grow up a bit.

Please whatever you do though dont forget to have fun! Seriosely ,if your not the going out type, use the opportunity to try it, go out, get wasted occasionally (or not if you dont drink) meet a few ladies etc then when it comes to years 2 and more specifically 3, do those things but only after youve finished your work!

It sounds simple but youd be shocked how few people manage it. I think i did fairly well (after a slow self conscious start ;)) and the result was a 1st class honours, no soul destroying stress and a damn good time of it! and lots of friends ill hopefully keep in touch with for a very long time.

You genuinely do only get this sort of opportunity to find yourself socially during this period. Even if you do more study afterwards you simply will not have the time or the inclination (as im finding.)

Dont worry the plebs dissapear after a few months ;)
 
cleanbluesky said:
Been spending time in the hills of North Wales with an Oxbridge girl over the weekend. That and a load of UCL students and some miscellaneous professionals, mountaineering nerds and a few working class lads such as myself.

It got me thinking about the different ways people develop through education, and the different dynamics amongst social classes, including just how such things are defined.
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It is an interesting subject. From the area where I'm from, not a lot of folk go to Oxbridge, so it was a strange experience - I expected it to be full of public school toffs. Luckily the college I went to has a strong emphasis on state school students, so it wasnt like that atr all. Some colleges, however, like Christ Church are postively teeming with the sort of chinless braying idiots that give Oxbridge its reputation - with Daddies that own half the home counties and a guaranteed job in PR/Merchant banking/Tory MP in a safe seat....
 
manic_man said:
its very easy to get lost and caught up in the whole "I must get good grades" thing... ok these two sound a bit dumb, they'll either drop out or catch on and grow up a bit.

Please whatever you do though dont forget to have fun! Seriosely ,if your not the going out type, use the opportunity to try it, go out, get wasted occasionally (or not if you dont drink) meet a few ladies etc then when it comes to years 2 and more specifically 3, do those things but only after youve finished your work!

It sounds simple but youd be shocked how few people manage it. I think i did fairly well (after a slow self conscious start ;)) and the result was a 1st class honours, no soul destroying stress and a damn good time of it! and lots of friends ill hopefully keep in touch with for a very long time.

You genuinely do only get this sort of opportunity to find yourself socially during this period. Even if you do more study afterwards you simply will not have the time or the inclination (as im finding.)

Dont worry the plebs dissapear after a few months ;)
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Mate I plan to have fun. I am the going out type I love going out and having a quality time meeting new people. Nursing my cold better now, so should be back in action come mid-week :D
 
neocon said:
Study hard
Pass your exams
Go to uni
Get a good job

Right, but if everyone did that then....
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We would all be robots. But you can do that and have a real good time without messing about at the wrong time and place.
 
Their colleges want to say 99% of their students went on to university?

Many students aren't ready to go to uni at 18 but colleges and 6th forms push for it to get their stats up. Many people mess it up and drop out and end up going back years later when they are ready to make the most of it.
 
I've just started a new college course, I'm paying for this myself, its part funded, so I only have to pay £700 but that is £700 that I've worked for.
the rest of the class is paying for it aswell and you can realy tell, people are listening, paying attention and working hard.
theres no titting around like there is in most lectures that the students don't pay for themselves.
I think that if kids (and most of these people ARE just kids) realy wanted to go to uni and get a qualification rather than just doing it because they feel its what they should do, and get to have fun aswell etc then they should have to pay for it in some way (not that I want fees going up as it has already priced people out of the system), it just seems that a lot of the time they realy don't want to be there!
 
Deadly Ferret said:
A-levels.
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wrong.... ;)


How do Idiots get into university?
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simple, they pay. anyone that can pay can get into university, theres a myriad of courses out there, some of them utterly laughable, a course for everyone, A-levels or not. and whats even more fun is the fact that they may not even be paying...

if they are eligable for grants then we all pay so they can go :) and universitys being the greedy ineffecient institutions that they are are demanding ever increasing ammounts... perhaps if they didnt pay lecturers £25 for every half hour talk they give and didnt buy up half of the towns they were in they may find themselves a little less needy.

i have nothing against a system of grants provided that those people who access them really do want to go to university and are not just there to dick about.
 
If the lectures were anything like the 1st year of CSN was when I did it you can probably learn more relevant IT stuff from studying the way their pens fell to the ground than from listening to the dude at the front.
 
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