What are you doing at uni?

Phil99 said:
If you're not sure on what you want to take at University don't be pressured to go for the sake of it.

If you can't find something you 100% want to do, don't do it. University costs an awful lot of money and it'd be pointless to do something you're really not enthusiastic about.

Take a gap year and decide what you want to do over the course of the year if needed.
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The university shouldn't be an issue as I'm hoping for quite good grades. Not going for Oxford or Cambridge though. I've spoken to too many people who said the prestige influenced their decision and they would have enjoyed themselves more elsewhere.

Obviously I need to know what I'm doing before I pick the uni!
 
Blackstar said:
I start a four year Masters in Archaeology at Edinburgh in September :D
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I have a mate starting the course same time as you in edinburgh.
I'm just about to go into my honours year for computing for the internet and multimedia, it's ok just wish i did something else like engineering now.
 
Phil99 said:
If you're not sure on what you want to take at University don't be pressured to go for the sake of it.
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This is true. There's too many people going to university for the reason of being enrolled, living the student life etc. The clearing system offers proof of this as people will accept any course that is declaring vacancies simply to be at university.

You do economics at A? Have you thought about taking it further?
 
Tommy B said:
Obviously I need to know what I'm doing before I pick the uni!
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Of course, I was talking about the course, the actual University you go to is important, but definitely decide what you want to do first.

One tip I'd give is to go to as many open days as possible though.
 
I'm doing Chemical Engineering at the university of Bath. Most people don't have a clue what it is, so here's a link from Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_engineering

It's interesting, well paid and has good job prospects, but it does involve a fair bit of maths. Chemistry isn't a requirement for every chem eng course, but obviously it is a fairly important part of the degree so if you dislike chemistry it's probably not for you. If you've got any Q's just ask :)
 
Tommy B said:
Obviously I need to know what I'm doing before I pick the uni!
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Bristol. [/choice]

I did Maths Biology and Geography and study Biology at Bristol. Bristol as a place is just amazing, look into it.
 
I study business at University. I find it very interesting, enjoyable, and hopefully it gives me a broad base once I've finished.
 
Scott Salisbury said:
Just finished my first year of Computer Systems/Software Engineering.

The programming side of it is about the only real enjoyable part of it, as well as the random lectures about psychology in computing etc. Which can be quite interesting.

The worst part of it must be machine code programming and computer architecture. It sounded really interesting at first, learning about motherboards etc. But damn is it ******* dull as hell.

Problem is, they teach us off powerpoints based on information from the mid 90s. I remember one slide titled "State of the art hardware, how 2GB hard drives work".

I mean come on, update your slides. I know the way hard drives work are pretty much the same, but I'm sure the inside of a 120GB hard drive would be much more interesting.

I remember another slide showing a comparison between different types of memory modules, the biggest being 64Mb :(

Learning about dual channel highly overclockable corsair might keep me from falling asleep. Lecturer replies "What is corsair?"

Sigh.
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This sounds exactly like my computer science course I'm on. Was really into the architecture and machine code at the start of the year. Now I'd rate it as my worst module for the same reasons.
 
I've just finished my degree in Media Studies.
I recommend it to no one and if I could go back 3 years and do something else, I would do so :)
 
Scott Salisbury said:
as well as the random lectures about psychology in computing etc.
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What the hell you actaully enjoyed that 166 stuff? :)
I thought it was only put in so the course could be accredited by the bcs hehe.

I am also doing Computer Science at Newcastle.
 
I just finished at uni (degree) studied Biomedical Sciences. Awaiting result so as to proceed to training or go for Masters instead. :)
 
IMO the first year was basically a lot of what id done at A level, but towards the end, we learnt a lot about the stats side which you need to know, but next year sounds a lot more interesting. But yes i am enjoying the degree. Also a very very good ratio of girls:boys - 44:1.
 
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