What are you doing at uni?

Tommy B · 19 Jun 2006 at 17:59

CDj-Rossi said:
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.

And do you think you'd be able to cope if you hadn't done it at A level?

What uni are you at? This has nothing to do with the 44:1 part of your answer

gord · 19 Jun 2006 at 18:01

Im not, im at home again

.. free food!

ninja economist · 19 Jun 2006 at 18:01

Tommy B said:
And do you think you'd be able to cope if you hadn't done it at A level?

What uni are you at? This has nothing to do with the 44:1 part of your answer

Almost all degrees start at the beginning. Not everyone has the ability to do psychology at school (or Economics, or Law etc.) so it's not really a problem to pick up, as long as you do the work.

reflex · 19 Jun 2006 at 18:02

Tommy B said:
What exactly do you learn in Psychology. Would you recommend it as a subject?

You learn about Ethics, Vadility, Statistics, Human & Animal Behaviour and it also has some small bits of biology, I find it really intresting and have naturally always been intrested in human behaviour i was researching Psychology when i should have been revising for my GCSE's! So i took it as and A Level and i recommend it if you have been intrested in psychologists/biologists before, but i have no idea what it would be like at uni.

R.O.S.S.I · 19 Jun 2006 at 18:03

Not really, you shoudl be able to easily do it, because they just re-teach it all, but still you only get a sloght advantage as you know what the lecturer is referring to but it isnt hard to pick up.
I can see it onoly getting more and more interesting through next year. I chose to do sports psychology as a module and health ethics i think.

I'm at Salford University btw.

[TW]Fox · 19 Jun 2006 at 18:03

Blackstar said:
I start a four year Masters in Archaeology at Edinburgh in September

I always thought it was post-graduate Masters that were worth doing and that doing undergraduate masters, ie, going straight into a 'Masters' without a regular degree first, was seen as less prestigious by employers?

If Masters are now available as an alternative to regular undergraduate study then... where is the incentive to complete a regular degree? Surely there must be a catch with being allowed to go straight from school/college to doing a Masters without prioer University education, what is it?

Tommy B · 19 Jun 2006 at 18:03

Another attractive thing about Philosophy is there are loads of combined courses.

R.O.S.S.I · 19 Jun 2006 at 18:06

[TW]Fox said:
I always thought it was post-graduate Masters that were worth doing and that doing undergraduate masters, ie, going straight into a 'Masters' without a regular degree first, was seen as less prestigious by employers?

If Masters are now available as an alternative to regular undergraduate study then... where is the incentive to complete a regular degree? Surely there must be a catch with being allowed to go straight from school/college to doing a Masters without prioer University education, what is it?

I always thought that that sort of masters, was justur normal degree then they stick u on the 1yr masters at the end?

Tommy B · 19 Jun 2006 at 18:06

reflex said:
You learn about Ethics, Vadility, Statistics, Human & Animal Behaviour and it also has some small bits of biology, I find it really intresting and have naturally always been intrested in human behaviour i was researching Psychology when i should have been revising for my GCSE's! So i took it as and A Level and i recommend it if you have been intrested in psychologists/biologists before, but i have no idea what it would be like at uni.

It's the same with me. My school didn't offer it at GCSE and they don't do it for A-levels either, but I have always had a fascination with the human mind and how people behave. Never had a problem with biology.

I just can't see myself doing maths or physics at uni.

ninja economist · 19 Jun 2006 at 18:07

Tommy B said:
Another attractive thing about Philosophy is there are loads of combined courses.

Good luck getting a job outside Lecturing if you do philosophy.

R.O.S.S.I · 19 Jun 2006 at 18:08

Its allright, some good things to specialise in at the end, im particularly interesting in doing Sports Psychology or Clinical Psychology. but theres others like Forensic Psychology, Occupational Psychology, Educational Psychology etc etc. www.bps.org.uk for mroe info.

50/50 · 19 Jun 2006 at 18:12

MEng Mechanical engineering at loughborough uni.. just finished year 2 with a 2.1 (64%) w00t

goldilocks · 19 Jun 2006 at 18:12

CDj-Rossi said:
I always thought that that sort of masters, was justur normal degree then they stick u on the 1yr masters at the end?

eurgh
a 4 year masters is just a batchellors (sp?) with an extra year tacked on the end
you can stop after the 'normal' 3yrs and still get a BSc or BA or whatever
if you aren't doing well on a 'masters' they can ask you stop at 3yrs, or if you're doing well at a BSc/A they can ask you to stay on

Blackstar · 19 Jun 2006 at 18:15

[TW]Fox said:
I always thought it was post-graduate Masters that were worth doing and that doing undergraduate masters, ie, going straight into a 'Masters' without a regular degree first, was seen as less prestigious by employers?

If Masters are now available as an alternative to regular undergraduate study then... where is the incentive to complete a regular degree? Surely there must be a catch with being allowed to go straight from school/college to doing a Masters without prioer University education, what is it?

Thats the way it is in Scotland.
http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/undergraduate/edinburgh/ourdegrees.html

50/50 · 19 Jun 2006 at 18:21

What do you plan to do with archaeology?

Seems like a rather pointless degree to me

Tommy B · 19 Jun 2006 at 18:22

ninja economist said:
Good luck getting a job outside Lecturing if you do philosophy.

I meant psychology lol

Blackstar · 19 Jun 2006 at 18:24

50/50 said:
What do you plan to do with archaeology?

Seems like a rather pointless degree to me

Digging big holes :rolleyes:

thats not a very nice thing to say to be honest. It's what i want to do, i'm not picking at your degree choice most graduates go on to do something unrelated (with the exception of specific degrees).

http://www.arcl.ed.ac.uk/Archaeology_UG_Careers.html
Stick that in your pipe and smoke it.

ElRazur · 19 Jun 2006 at 18:26

CDj-Rossi said:
I'm doing a Psychology degree.

No disrespect, i do appreciate what you are studying but People from third world contries tend to shun courses like that as NO ONE will employ you when you go back home.

Due to the fact that their isnt a market for it back home unlike Medicine, Engineering etc...

Tommy B · 19 Jun 2006 at 18:30

ElRazur said:
No disrespect, i do appreciate what you are studying but People from third world contries tend to shun courses like that as NO ONE will employ you when you go back home.

Due to the fact that their isnt a market for it back home unlike Medicine, Engineering etc...

Yeah but here in GB many jobs don't really care what you do. When I went for my work experience at a huge advertising firm, some of them did some really strange courses at uni.

Ste · 19 Jun 2006 at 18:33

Hi,

I did the exact same A-lvls as you

Currently at lboro uni doing straight Economics. Theres a good deal of maths and heavy stats in the second/final years, so the maths A level gave me a pretty big advantage over those that hadn't done it. There are some pretty interesting modules to choose - aside from the usual business/finance stuff there's also criminology, energy and the environment, developing countries, etc. all looked at from a purely economic point of view, which is pretty interesting. Overall I enjoy the course though the work load is getting fairly high now (just finished the second year)

When I was choosing I also had the problem of liking computers but not really being into them enough to do a whole uni course about them! Ended up being between physics, electronics/engineering type courses and economics. In the end I just went for Economics, no real reason though the level of maths and a hatred of trig put me off the first two

I think if you find A level Economics interesting it might be worth looking into - we do plenty of stuff with spreadsheets and regression packages which kind of bring the computer aspect into it a bit too