The University Thread

IceBus said:
What's your first year like? Ours seems to be mainly Globalisation, EU, Political Ideas in Revolution and Conflict.
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It's pretty wide open, there seems to be loads of stuff to choose from. IIRC there are a couple of mandatory topics and the rest is up to you, but I've not looked at it for a while.

IceBus said:
BTW Politics is one of the biggest feeder courses for the media.
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Which is where I want to go :)

Damn you for getting in to Nottingham, they were my initial second choice :( I really, really regret doing no work in year twelve now, I should be going to a much better uni than Lancaster :(
 
jcb33 said:
Im going to Lincoln Uni, *Hopefully* If anyone else off here is going I shall be shocked, I dont think I have seen anyone from Lincs Here Before.... Bar Me :eek:
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At lincoln already so if you need help, i can err...help i suppose
 
robmiller said:
Damn you for getting in to Nottingham, they were my initial second choice :( I really, really regret doing no work in year twelve now, I should be going to a much better uni than Lancaster :(
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Don't be at all. Lancaster is one of the nicest places in the UK I've been to Uni-wise. Everyone there was really friendly when I was staying in a student house there and there are a lot of cool parks etc. to go to/play footie in.

My choice of Nottingham was a mixture of the amount of options on the course, the fact it's a campus but right next to a relatively big city, is good for gigs and really central in England as I have friends in Manchester, Glasgow and London that I'll want to be visiting a fair bit.

Journalism is definitely the field I'm looking at, although I'm not sure what avenue to go for yet (i.e. TV/radio/newspaper). The BBC graduate program looks interesting.
 
IceBus said:
Don't be at all. Lancaster is one of the nicest places in the UK I've been to Uni-wise. Everyone there was really friendly when I was staying in a student house there and there are a lot of cool parks etc. to go to/play footie in.

My choice of Nottingham was a mixture of the amount of options on the course, the fact it's a campus but right next to a relatively big city, is good for gigs and really central in England as I have friends in Manchester, Glasgow and London that I'll want to be visiting a fair bit.

Journalism is definitely the field I'm looking at, although I'm not sure what avenue to go for yet (i.e. TV/radio/newspaper). The BBC graduate program looks interesting.
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Plus Nottingham is crime captial of England :p
 
IceBus said:
Don't be at all. Lancaster is one of the nicest places in the UK I've been to Uni-wise. Everyone there was really friendly when I was staying in a student house there and there are a lot of cool parks etc. to go to/play footie in.
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I love the place, I'm just a little concerned about whether its reputation--not that it's bad, it's just not as good as others--might hamper my career. Ah well.

IceBus said:
Journalism is definitely the field I'm looking at, although I'm not sure what avenue to go for yet (i.e. TV/radio/newspaper). The BBC graduate program looks interesting.
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Same here, but I'm definitely going for print journalism. Interests me more than TV and radio, for some reason.
 
Raymond Lin said:
Plus Nottingham is crime captial of England :p
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How dare you. It's the gun crime capital of England. Apparently it's down 72% this year, so we might lose our title to some other pretenders :(
 
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Why don't you just quote the list and add to it. :)

Gaygle - Biomedical Sciences - Kent University
Stevechapman - De Montfort University, Leicester
Chris1712 - Computer systems engineering - UWE
Zefan - Computer systems engineering - UWE
Welshy - Software Engineering - Staffordshire University
JCB33 - Lincoln University
Icebus - Politics BA - Nottingham University
Blackstar - Archaeology - Edinburgh University
Mattus - History and German BA - Oxford University (oooh)
Locrian - Games Technology - Coventry
Semi-pro-waster - Law - Abertay, Dundee
Robmiller - Politics - Lancaster University OR being a bum
Triggerthat - Information Systems - Kingston University
 
robmiller said:
I love the place, I'm just a little concerned about whether its reputation--not that it's bad, it's just not as good as others--might hamper my career. Ah well.

Same here, but I'm definitely going for print journalism. Interests me more than TV and radio, for some reason.
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I wouldn't worry too much about uni reputation. It should hopefully be quality of writing that separates the wheat from the chaff. :D

I like the idea of print too, as it has more gravitas these days - but then you're potentially reaching less people. Saying that, Channel 4 News is about the only channel I actually respect any more.
 
IceBus said:
I wouldn't worry too much about uni reputation. It should hopefully be quality of writing that separates the wheat from the chaff. :D
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That's what I'm hoping :o I'm trying to build up a portfolio of published stuff (like the stuff I write for this) and hopefully that will sell me better than my degree will.

IceBus said:
I like the idea of print too, as it has more gravitas these days - but then you're potentially reaching less people. Saying that, Channel 4 News is about the only channel I actually respect any more.
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I'm not really too bothered about reach, really, I just love writing and if I get paid for it then it's a big bonus :)
 
Welshy said:
Can i post in this thread? :p

I'm soon to start my second year of Software Engineering at Staffordshire university
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no you cant you smelly man... thanks for lending me diablo while we were in halls tho ;)

I'm gonna be starting my 2nd year of Internet Technology at Staffordshire university...

if your going there, please post and let me know when freshers week is so i can pick up the goodies. kthxbye

add saberu onto the list for staffs uni as well btw.. 2nd year again tho
 
robmiller said:
That's what I'm hoping :o I'm trying to build up a portfolio of published stuff (like the stuff I write for this) and hopefully that will sell me better than my degree will.

I'm not really too bothered about reach, really, I just love writing and if I get paid for it then it's a big bonus :)
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As for reach, fair enough - loving writing is more important than pay as long as you're not going hungry imo :). I've just written for some stuff before with limited circulation, and after a while you kind of wonder 'Is what I'm writing actually having any effect on anyone?'. That in itself can be a bit demoralising.

I really want to branch out in my writing, all my past experience is in music journalism (a web fanzine, DrownedinSound.com, a local magazine called Alternative Ulster etc.) so I'm hoping to get more experience in different fields at uni - get onto the uni paper/magazine etc.
 
jcb33 said:
Im going to Lincoln Uni, *Hopefully* If anyone else off here is going I shall be shocked, I dont think I have seen anyone from Lincs Here Before.... Bar Me :eek:
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Already there. What you looking to study?
 
IceBus said:
As for reach, fair enough - loving writing is more important than pay as long as you're not going hungry imo :). I've just written for some stuff before with limited circulation, and after a while you kind of wonder 'Is what I'm writing actually having any effect on anyone?'. That in itself can be a bit demoralising.
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Hmm, I guess. Still, I think that a national newspaper would have more than enough reach to encourage me, heh.
 
I'm off to Sheffield University in September to study Chemical Engineering. Got my results over a month ago (did the IB) and I've got an unconditional offer now :)
 
Well I've done a year of Computer Systems Engineering at bristol but it's a crap course so I'm doing year 1 computer science this year.
 
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