University?

[pdhq64]

So I left, and now I'm back. I've only been speaking to the IRC lot, which isn't a lot of you to be honest. :P (Get on IRC!)

So, for those that are heading to Uni this year:

1. Where are you going?
2. What course are you doing?
3. When do you leave?
4. Living at home? Or in halls?


Me? I'm going to Staffordshire University on Sunday. O_O (Along with ModoX and g9icy from IRC :D) My course? Forensic Computing (http://www.staffs.ac.uk/courses/undergrad/computingandit/tcm11017064.php). I'll be living in Halls, where g9icy has already reported download speeds of 800kb/s - that's 1.9GB in 20 minutes. \o/

Edit: Oh, by the way. Register at NewStudent.org (http://www.newstudent.org). Once you've selected your University, you'll be able to use the forums and find out who will be living next door to you for the next year (provided they use the site too). I've already found out I'll be living next to a girl called Emily for my first year...we've been talking on MSN.

[bob]

I leave to go to Warwick University on the 24th where i shall be doing General Engineering. I still don't know exactly where i will be living, as they havent yet told me, but it will be in one of the halls i applied to.

[Harper]

Im off to Swansea University on the 24th to do Electrical And Electronic Engineering. And im staying in the student village, where all the action is :happy:

[elniro]

going university of hertfordshire on 24/25th
doin computer science
living in halls for first year

[Hellfire]

I'm going to IST, Lisbon, Portugal doing computer engineering. Still don't where I'm going to live, but I'll try to stay away from under the bridge.

[Grebe]

Me? I'm going to Staffordshire University on Sunday. O_O (Along with ModoX and g9icy from IRC :D)

You can have a c-e (or should i say r-e?) fraternity :bow:

[Chris the great]

Im off to huddersfeild to do psychology on sunday. I don't know any one else who's going there so its a bit of a bummer, and on top of that, im in block A flat 1, which sounds like a groud floor to me. 2 problems presented by that.
1. girls tend to to be given ground floor appartments for safty/comfort reasonds
2. i have slight dissablities (dyspraxia if your interested) so i may have been up in a dissabled hall. now my dissabilities are nothing serious, but i dont want to be surronded by people who are mostly all fairly seriously dissabled, i mean, dont get me wrong, ive got nothing against people for matteres outside of there controle, its just, if every one else is like, more severly disdsabled then me, im thinking along the same levels as this guy who i did a level ict with who had cerrible pausy, its going to be hard to like, go clubbing or anything with them because of accessablity, and what have you, id be fine to be seen walking round and being friends with them, i understand that people with dissabilites are just as intelegent and funny and friendly as people with out, in most cases more so, but im not hugely out going, i dont want to have to try so much harder then most people to have to make friends, i mean, you ormaly make friends with people on your floor for the first few weeks, and go out with them. i dont want to have to go to cluns by my self. i guess its just part of life though.

[Noodleman]

Im back at Norwich for my final year of my degree (Computer Science btw), Its scary how fast its gone but its all been good fun and a laugh.

[Shmotz]

So I left, and now I'm back. I've only been speaking to the IRC lot, which isn't a lot of you to be honest. :P (Get on IRC!)

So, for those that are heading to Uni this year:

1. Where are you going?
2. What course are you doing?
3. When do you leave?
4. Living at home? Or in halls?


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I'm off to Newcastle on the 24th, to do History. I'm going to be in a flat with 5 other guys, this could be incredible as long as they are...you know...allright heh. I'm sure they will be, its Uni now! (i.e. they won't be chavs :P)

[EEVILMURRAY]

Damn you. Stealing my University topic.

De Montfort
Media Studies
24th September
Halls.

[mario114]

I am ganna take a year out next year, then the year after, i'm hopefully going to uea to study environmental science.

[Fuzpoy]

I'll be going to Hertfordshire to do computer and network tech and i'll be in halls but f**king out of the way. I'll be leaving the 24th i'll try and keep posting if i can.

[Mr_Odwin]

I'm off to Newcastle on the 24th, to do History. I'm going to be in a flat with 5 other guys, this could be incredible as long as they are...you know...allright heh. I'm sure they will be, its Uni now! (i.e. they won't be chavs :P)

Well, since you're off to Newcastle you should get used to the local lingo. It's charvers not chavs. Newcastle Uni is awesome, it's so close to the High Street and there's just a nice atmosphere. Which halls are you in?

[CompSci]

1. Where are you going = Aston Uni
2. What course are you doing? = Computer Science naturally
3. When do you leave? = well i start on the 26th
4. Living at home? Or in halls? = home :-(

[pdhq64]

Im off to huddersfeild to do psychology on sunday. I don't know any one else who's going there so its a bit of a bummer, and on top of that, im in block A flat 1, which sounds like a groud floor to me. 2 problems presented by that.
1. girls tend to to be given ground floor appartments for safty/comfort reasonds
2. i have slight dissablities (dyspraxia if your interested) so i may have been up in a dissabled hall. now my dissabilities are nothing serious, but i dont want to be surronded by people who are mostly all fairly seriously dissabled, i mean, dont get me wrong, ive got nothing against people for matteres outside of there controle, its just, if every one else is like, more severly disdsabled then me, im thinking along the same levels as this guy who i did a level ict with who had cerrible pausy, its going to be hard to like, go clubbing or anything with them because of accessablity, and what have you, id be fine to be seen walking round and being friends with them, i understand that people with dissabilites are just as intelegent and funny and friendly as people with out, in most cases more so, but im not hugely out going, i dont want to have to try so much harder then most people to have to make friends, i mean, you ormaly make friends with people on your floor for the first few weeks, and go out with them. i dont want to have to go to cluns by my self. i guess its just part of life though.

I can't imagine they would do that. Lumping all of the disabled people together is probably seen as 'treating them differently'. Nobody wants to be seen to be discriminating, so chances are you're in a block with everybody else.

I went to Hudd. a while back to have a look around (it was going to be my second choice, until I saw the Uni :P). I'm assuming you're staying in the Student Village, right? You'll have a hell of a trek to get anywhere decent at night. :P (3 miles to the town!)

Chances are, you just got your application for accomodation in first, and thats why you've been put there. I bet you find you'll be put in the same block as all of the girls - my thinking is that they tend to be more worried about it, so get their form in as soon as possible. You could be onto a winner there. ;)

Just create an account over at NewStudent.org, and see if anyone else is living in the same block as you...

EEVIL: Sorry, didn't realise I stole your topic. :P It's just something constantly in my mind right now. I'm just taking a break from getting stuff together now. Keep your eyes out for a few of my friends at DMU - I have quite a few going there... :)

[Chris the great]

I'm off to Newcastle
you and practicaly all my friends, newcastle is a decent place, its got few chavas, and the town is nice, and has the best night life in the uk.

theres a nice lil games shop there called anouther level, like a small geeky one.





and in response to pdhq

i think that they may have dissabled students together for like accessability. and yeah im in the student village, ok its 3 miles to town but theres the student union there and a bus stop right outside. and a curry house across the road!
the uni looks pretty shambles, i admoit, but there psychology facilites are top notch.
i do hope i get a normal mixed floor, chances are i will, im just worrying to much :p

[Shmotz]

Well, since you're off to newcastle you should get used to the local lingo. It's charvers not chavs. Newcastle Uni is awesome, it's so close to the High Street and there's just a nice atmosphere. Which halls are you in?

Ok, charvers. Sounds silly :P

Anyway, I'm in some flats on Richardson Road which is about 2 minutes from the Uni, which is handy.

you and practicaly all my friends, newcastle is a decent place, its got few chavas, and the town is nice, and has the best night life in the uk.

theres a nice lil games shop there called anouther level, like a small geeky one.

Hooray! Sounds like I should have a good time...

[Mr_Odwin]

Ok, charvers. Sounds silly :P

Anyway, I'm in some flats on Richardson Road which is about 2 minutes from the Uni, which is handy.


My wife stayed in Ricky Road (as you must henceforth call it) and had a nice enough time. It is very close to campus and a hospital too, which is convenient.
It is by far the most active set of halls at the uni with stuff just going off all the time.
(I miss Newcastle University, I had a lot of good memories there.)
My flatmate did history and he had on average 6 hours of lectures a week. A history student has an easy life apart from essays and reading.

[pdhq64]

and a curry house across the road!

Heh. We have the county's Police HQ across the road. I'm liking yours more. :p

Although the Hospital is a 2 minute walk, and the Fire Station is literally just behind the halls too....

[Shmotz]

My wife stayed in Ricky Road (as you must henceforth call it) and had a nice enough time. It is very close to campus and a hospital too, which is convenient.
It is by far the most active set of halls at the uni with stuff just going off all the time.
(I miss Newcastle University, I had a lot of good memories there.)
My flatmate did history and he had on average 6 hours of lectures a week. A history student has an easy life apart from essays and reading.

Yep I've been told to expect around 6 hours a week of lectures, but there is a lot of stuff to be done by yourself - lots of reading and essay writing etc.

[Chris the great]

Heh. We have the county's Police HQ across the road. I'm liking yours more. :p

Although the Hospital is a 2 minute walk, and the Fire Station is literally just behind the halls too....


the rozza's arnt going to like me, im gonna take a wild sling. a waterbomb caterpult with unimagineable destructive power. it can fire a water bomb through a sheet of chip board at close range
the same range me and my cousins used to shoot it at cows.

[SWatsi]

I start at Uni this coming week, it's gonna be interesting.
Going to the University of Huddersfield, although i'm staying at the folks for the time being as I've got a steady job and social\sporting activities close to home.
Hoping to meet new people v. soon as i know no-one in the area.

SWi!

[Jack]

I'm going back to Sunderland tomorrow. I'm doing Journalism.

Shmotz, if you're after a good night out in Newcastle, you can't do much better than Legends on Grey Street.

[Chris the great]

I start at Uni this coming week, it's gonna be interesting.
Going to the University of Huddersfield, although i'm staying at the folks for the time being as I've got a steady job and social\sporting activities close to home.
Hoping to meet new people v. soon as i know no-one in the area.

SWi!
dude what ya doing? we might have to have a meet a roony, get some brewskies and play some gameskis



and jack, look out for my friend lee, he's doing journalism at sunderland. hes got bleached blond hair and rectangular glasses. hes a cool guy, good fun to be around.

[Fierce_LiNk]

I'm off to teh Brighton. A lil bit nervous about going. The thing that's worrying me the most is how to use a washing machine. :red:
Course: English and Education UPLS (upper primary lower secondary). Yeah! you heard. I'm moving up in the world. I've finished laying the smackdown on you all, and now going to own schools across the U.K.
I'm leaving on the 24th, same day as my good man Harper here. :heh:
Living in halls. Hopefully, should have some excellent people living near me.

[Blackfox]

Well, although im not going to university yet, ive had a pretty big set back, i.e. my personal statement is shite compared to other kids, and i have hardly any experience or work in a voluntary placement. So i will probably be rejected. Which is gay.

So any advice to you wippersnappers reading this thread is to plan out early, and try get some decent career advice.

[masaki86]

University of Birmingham; 2nd Year; Ancient History; Living at home(a lot cheaper-only pay £175 a month to my mom)

Blackfox; I had no volunteer experience/non-curricular achievments and I still got in, maybe it's something else, were you grades up to scratch?

[Chris the great]

a good personal statment sets you appart from the rest so i recomend it, but i had no work experience and i still got into huddersfeild, 1 grade lower then the the offer they gave me.

[Blackfox]

University of Birmingham; 2nd Year; Ancient History; Living at home(a lot cheaper-only pay £175 a month to my mom)

Blackfox; I had no volunteer experience/non-curricular achievments and I still got in, maybe it's something else, were you grades up to scratch?

But im applying for medicine. Which you need experience. There's like 10 applicants for one place.

[Chris the great]

But im applying for medicine. Which you need experience. There's like 10 applicants for one place.
ah, my friend got onto that, but shes really clever. if your not a A/B student, id forget about it. i know trhat sounds defeatist but its just being realistic.

[Blackfox]

ah, my friend got onto that, but shes really clever. if your not a A/B student, id forget about it. i know trhat sounds defeatist but its just being realistic.

I got AABB at AS level, so im on target, its just the extra curricular stuff i haven't done. (they are very big on voluntary placements and hospital experience). Kinda' becuase i procrastinate, kinda' because i decided for definate later on and kinda' becuase all the career advice i was given was awful/incomplete.

I was planning on taking a gap year anyways, so i guess that will give me time on strengthening my application..

[Chris the great]

yeah, take a gap year, and do volentere work in a hospital. should shizzle all that dizzle.

[Mr_Odwin]

Come live in my house and serve me with hot chocolate and curry. The wife says it's a great life.

[Chris the great]

better yet, join my super hero team, the infinity squad.

[Jack]

and jack, look out for my friend lee, he's doing journalism at sunderland. hes got bleached blond hair and rectangular glasses. hes a cool guy, good fun to be around.
Get in touch with him and tell him to join the Film Society - I'm the Vice President.

[Chris the great]

Get in touch with him and tell him to join the Film Society - I'm the Vice President.


i'll do that. im sure he would any way.

[Hellfire]

I'm In!! Wooohoo! :d

[cheets]

I want to join the army wooo

[#1cubeplayer]

I'm glad to see that so many of you here are extending your education. As for me, I'm a mere 15 years old, but I am and have been working my ass off to keep perfect grades.

BlackFox, now that you bring up community service and hospital experience, you reinforce my habit of going to the hospital once or twice a week and volunteering in the Critical Care Unit. :)

[Blackfox]

BlackFox, now that you bring up community service and hospital experience, you reinforce my habit of going to the hospital once or twice a week and volunteering in the Critical Care Unit. :)

Good on 'ya. Are you applying to do medicine aswell, or do you just do it? Its looks great on your application if you are.

[Bowser57]

Re: Working in medicine, one of my buddies is training to be a heart technician. (I'm pretty sure that's the job title).

He got pretty good A-Level results, dropped out of uni after two years of studying advanced Physics or something like that and is now one year into his new job which involves four days working in the hospital and one day a week in college/uni.

He likes his job a lot, saw his first autopsy after only a month or so there (almost got hit by a flying splinter of rib) and just last week had a very friendly old lady grab his crotch.

So don't give up Foxy! All that and more could be yours.

[Conor_NE]

I'm heading to Queens University in Belfast, to do English with modules in Film Studies and Politics.

Heading down during the week (well, if I can get a substitute PC sorted by then - don't wanna leave RE in the lurch!), and lectures start next Monday. Looking forward to it - although I've only met like two people who are staying in my halls. They were dead on, though, so hopefully I'll be alright.

If anyone's heading to Elms Village at Queens give me a shout! :)

[Blackfox]

Hehe, Im not going to give up, im just being a grouchy buggar and complaining about it :P

[SWatsi]

dude what ya doing? we might have to have a meet a roony, get some brewskies and play some gameskis


I'm doing Business Computing\Multimedia btw..

Aye, would be good. Don't know anyone one there really, only people i've been chatting casually to. Still - it feels more natural than college for some reason (??). That felt like hell for me, a little out-of-place, and a proper loner to start with :P .


SWi!

[Mr_Odwin]

Does nobody want to live in my house?

[Sabre]

Returning to Southampton University, History, 2nd year.
Staying at home this time, though....

[Grebe]

Im hoping to study English Language or Literature possibly with joint politics/sports/something else degree. Hoping to become a journalist. Good luck everyone.

[Blackfox]

Does nobody want to live in my house?

I personally wouldn't mind, but i think my mother would kick up a fuss :P

[Shenlong]

Ah dear i should have been at bournemouth this year but i chose to, rather foolishly, pursue foundation art at central saint martins....i should have gone and done 3D animation at Bournemouth damnit. Alas a year of art, if i choose not to drop out....god damn it better be worth it....least its free though.

[CVD]

I'm at Strathclyde (in Glasgow) just staying at home - no way I could afford to stay in the halls, even with a student loan. I'm doing Economics, Business Law, Finance and Human Resource Management.

Growing up sucks.

[Colin]

Ah dear i should have been at bournemouth this year but i chose to, rather foolishly, pursue foundation art at central saint martins....i should have gone and done 3D animation at Bournemouth damnit. Alas a year of art, if i choose not to drop out....god damn it better be worth it....least its free though.

Get the Foundation Art done, as it'll help you a hell of alot later on once you finish your degree at Bournemouth.

I did kind of plan to go to Bournemouth and do that exact same course as you listed above, but the entry requirements are 300 UCAs points plus at least a B in GCSE Maths; the maths will be needed because the course is more technically focused, requiring you to program plug-ins, etc.

I missed out on a B in my maths during GCSE, and the most UCAs points I'll probably achieve once I finish my BTEC diploma this year is 200 from a Merit/Merit/Pass, and then add another 30 onto that from a previous AS level a few years back which puts Bournemouth just out of my reach.


The Uni's that I'm interested in going to (in order) are Lincoln, Huddersfield, and Staffordshire..................I just hope my last year at college goes better than I'm expecting.

[Charlie]

I'm starting 5th year at Secondary school and have no idea at all what I want to do afterwards... woot!

[EEVILMURRAY]

I'm off to uni this saturday. Moving all my shizzle in. Then it's Independant EEVIL for me, has anyone got any advice for a lone ranger like myself?

[Grebe]

I'm starting 5th year at Secondary school and have no idea at all what I want to do afterwards... woot!

ha thats easy. Go to college. Dont not go to college because itl be likely youl regret it later. Also pick the college carefully. My mate chose the wrong one, and dropped out. He could have done well.

Or an apprentiship. I hear some of those are good.

[CompSci]

I'm starting 5th year at Secondary school and have no idea at all what I want to do afterwards... woot!

oh yeah and do not do computer science, unless your extremely maths minded

[Noodleman]

oh yeah and do not do computer science, unless your extremely maths minded


I havent done any maths since the first year and im not doing any this year :wink:

[Zakatu]

1. Where are you going = University of Bristol
2. What course are you doing? = Civil Engineering
3. When do you leave? = 1st of october is moving in day
4. Living at home? Halls! lets hope its a laugh/

[Lammie]

Is anyone doing any design courses, or are you all just geeks who are going to be laughing at me when you're making truckloads of cash with your IT jobs?

[Daniel]

im going to loughborough to study maths :P im off on the 28th (week today) dont know ehere im living aparently. big confusion about it. Cause it was my insurance choice they could guarentee me a place in halls. aparently the halls are full now and about 200 people are in the same situation as me. they are gonna contact me in the next 24 with information aparently. looks like im gonna be going into the private housing...

[BGS]

I'm doing a Games Design course at the Hull campus of Lincoln Uni (Yeah, I don't understand that either)
Here already and have been for a couple of weeks now and I'm living in halls!
It's great but it's so damn difficult remembering peoples names.

[Colin]

I'm doing a Games Design course at the Hull campus of Lincoln Uni (Yeah, I don't understand that either)
Here already and have been for a couple of weeks now and I'm living in halls!
It's great but it's so damn difficult remembering peoples names.

I may see you next year if all goes well for me, as I'll be starting that course if I get into Lincoln.

If you could let me know how the course pans out aswell it would be a great help to me. :smile:

[BGS]

I may see you next year if all goes well for me, as I'll be starting that course if I get into Lincoln.

If you could let me know how the course pans out aswell it would be a great help to me. :smile:

Way, that's rather groovy. I will do definitely if I remember. I won't actually know for a while anyhoo as the actual games design stuff doesn't start until the second semester :doh:

[Colin]

Way, that's rather groovy. I will do definitely if I remember. I won't actually know for a while anyhoo as the actual games design stuff doesn't start until the second semester :doh:

Well I'll still be on these forums for years to come most likely...........and I doubt you're going anywhere aswell. :wink:

Let me know how it goes, either over msn or by PM's or something............just drop me a random line at somepoint in a few months if you remember.

[CoolFunkMan]

Get the Foundation Art done, as it'll help you a hell of alot later on once you finish your degree at Bournemouth.

I did kind of plan to go to Bournemouth and do that exact same course as you listed above, but the entry requirements are 300 UCAs points plus at least a B in GCSE Maths; the maths will be needed because the course is more technically focused, requiring you to program plug-ins, etc.

I missed out on a B in my maths during GCSE, and the most UCAs points I'll probably achieve once I finish my BTEC diploma this year is 200 from a Merit/Merit/Pass, and then add another 30 onto that from a previous AS level a few years back which puts Bournemouth just out of my reach.


The Uni's that I'm interested in going to (in order) are Lincoln, Huddersfield, and Staffordshire..................I just hope my last year at college goes better than I'm expecting.

Seconded. I took Foundation Art and it was great - deffinatley worth it if you're planning to move on to uni. Wolverhampton uni gave me a conditional offer straight away because of it. I passed my art and will be starting there Monday. I'm doing a BA Hons. in Graphic Communication. W00t, can't wait!! :D

[Lammie]

Yay! At last someone who's doing a Graphic Design degree!

[CoolFunkMan]

Yay! At last someone who's doing a Graphic Design degree!

Yupyup, indeed. ^^

I'm actualy suprised there aren't any other people doing a degree in graphics here - I've been lead to beleive that it's quite a popular course...

[Grebe]

Are you guys staying on campus uni's? Or halls of residence?

im not sure which the best is

[Hellfire]

I don't know if I'm ready to go to uni right now. My city is relatively small, but we have almost everything ad it's safe and calm. I'm moving into Lisbon, which is our capital, so life will be much more stressful. And my health is not so good right now, I have some stomach problems, so I'm kind of nervous. I hope I can adapt to it fast. Growing up sucks indeed.

[Blackfox]

Are you guys staying on campus uni's? Or halls of residence?

im not sure which the best is

I hear all are good, as there are plenty of like minded people about. Just don't live at home :P

[CoolFunkMan]

Are you guys staying on campus uni's? Or halls of residence?

im not sure which the best is

Living at home - that way I got parents that can cook and wash for me. :p

Seriously though I'm thinking more about the cost of living at uni and I don't mind living at home tbh. However, if travel starts to become too much of an issue (it can take a while to get to Wolvo from where I live) I will consider living at uni.

[Daniel]

i got my accommadation sorted today. im living in privately owed flats which were purposly built for students so it will be pretty much the same as halls. i can wait to just move out tbh :P