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ExigeEvan
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Coming to the end of my time at Uni and while my original plan was to do a Masters straight after, but I've decided I need some time out.
Long days sat in front of a computer screen coding, writing 8 sides of greek in 45 minutes and far less hands-on than I initially imagined (I'm currently looking at manufacturing process stuff in one module I covered at A-level 4 years ago) and still not getting great grades has kicked the fight out of me.
But it's been fun, I can cook, I can talk to anyone, I realise I hate student politicians, and I know my way around household bills. Life lessons learnt.
Long days sat in front of a computer screen coding, writing 8 sides of greek in 45 minutes and far less hands-on than I initially imagined (I'm currently looking at manufacturing process stuff in one module I covered at A-level 4 years ago) and still not getting great grades has kicked the fight out of me.
But it's been fun, I can cook, I can talk to anyone, I realise I hate student politicians, and I know my way around household bills. Life lessons learnt.
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In 8 days time I'll be finished with university too! What a long and time consuming period of my life.
Highly likely to be doing a MSc/MA next year.
I've been given offers from Leeds, Leeds Met, Huddersfield, Chester (where I am now), Portsmouth and London Met.
Highly likely to be doing a MSc/MA next year.
I've been given offers from Leeds, Leeds Met, Huddersfield, Chester (where I am now), Portsmouth and London Met.
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Incidentally in 8 days time, my exams will be finished and so will school.
I have just accepted my offer for Sports Science at Napier (best place in Scotland for it, facilities are amazing). I need to get 3 Bs this year to get in.
Glad school is over tbh, half my year are dicks.
I guess at uni these people are far more avoidable...
I have just accepted my offer for Sports Science at Napier (best place in Scotland for it, facilities are amazing). I need to get 3 Bs this year to get in.
Glad school is over tbh, half my year are dicks.
I guess at uni these people are far more avoidable...
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I'm just cleaning up year 2 this week for me here in Bangor, finally getting into a house next year as opposed to halls also so I look forward to another fun (and work :sad
filled year to come. My only problem is I have no real plan for the year after, really I just want to go straight into a job and hopefully get any more training or qualifications I need on the job rather than spending more time in full time education. That being said I may come back for a masters later on it's time to get a taste of the real world I think.
I have nothing but praise for my university experience so far though, I can see why it's not for all but for me it's been a fulfilling and challenging experience both socially and academically.
filled year to come. My only problem is I have no real plan for the year after, really I just want to go straight into a job and hopefully get any more training or qualifications I need on the job rather than spending more time in full time education. That being said I may come back for a masters later on it's time to get a taste of the real world I think.I have nothing but praise for my university experience so far though, I can see why it's not for all but for me it's been a fulfilling and challenging experience both socially and academically.
ExigeEvan
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Your sports science lectures will be full of themIncidentally in 8 days time, my exams will be finished and so will school.
I have just accepted my offer for Sports Science at Napier (best place in Scotland for it, facilities are amazing). I need to get 3 Bs this year to get in.
Glad school is over tbh, half my year are dicks.
I guess at uni these people are far more avoidable...
I've lived with a couple SS lads and they're great fun, and their mates are as well. But there's alot of egos bouncing round them lectures. And since SS has joined the College of Engineering at my school you can smell the gym bags in the computer rooms as soon as you walk through the door!
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Your sports science lectures will be full of them
I've lived with a couple SS lads and they're great fun, and their mates are as well. But there's alot of egos bouncing round them lectures. And since SS has joined the College of Engineering at my school you can smell the gym bags in the computer rooms as soon as you walk through the door!
QFT, all the sports teams here are filled with egotistical jerks, even the 'ultimate frisbee' team is mostly full of them! I attended ultimate for the first couple of weeks for a laugh with my mate and it's a fairly enjoyable sport but you wouldn't expect it to be full of big egos and such, apparently that was a wrong assumption as my friend who stayed on longer found out.
Everywhere else all is well, though my course (and entire business school) is jammed with chinese (and other asians) to an insane degree which I have no issue at all other then how little a grasp most of them seem to have on the language, spoken at least.
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Your sports science lectures will be full of them
I've lived with a couple SS lads and they're great fun, and their mates are as well. But there's alot of egos bouncing round them lectures. And since SS has joined the College of Engineering at my school you can smell the gym bags in the computer rooms as soon as you walk through the door!
I got a tour round with the head of the department and the guys on the course seemed like decent lads.
The smell will be worse at Napier... They have a climate room where they can change the humidity, temperature and O2 levels to recreate climates and altitudes... Humidity + exercise = very sweaty people
It's a great setup though. There's a 3D infra-red camera rig thing, pressure plates in the floors, tonnes of fancy treadmills that can go at world record sprinting speeds and tonnes of other stuff. Oh, and priority access to the fairly awesome gym.
Ultimate frisbee?
Not surprised they were all knobs playing that...
At least they weren't ronery...
ExigeEvan
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Can't impress me with that stuff, when I went to the gym regularly I'd share it with the Welsh and British Lions rugby players, the Celtic Crusaders Rugby team (all idiots), Paralympic gold medalists (David Smith and Eleanor Simmonds) and the Welsh Varisty champions. None of that fancy equipment compares
I got a tour round with the head of the department and the guys on the course seemed like decent lads.
The smell will be worse at Napier... They have a climate room where they can change the humidity, temperature and O2 levels to recreate climates and altitudes... Humidity + exercise = very sweaty people
It's a great setup though. There's a 3D infra-red camera rig thing, pressure plates in the floors, tonnes of fancy treadmills that can go at world record sprinting speeds and tonnes of other stuff. Oh, and priority access to the fairly awesome gym.
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Can't impress me with that stuff, when I went to the gym regularly I'd share it with the Welsh and British Lions rugby players, the Celtic Crusaders Rugby team (all idiots), Paralympic gold medalists (David Smith and Eleanor Simmonds) and the Welsh Varisty champions. None of that fancy equipment compares
Clutching at straws here... The British Downhill Mountain Bike team were just in to use the climate room whilst being filmed by The Adventure show.
Anyways, there's plenty of time for that to happen. It was only built last year. 💡
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Ultimate frisbee?
Not surprised they were all knobs playing that...
At least they weren't ronery...
I know, but we expected shall we say less than athletic guys up for a bit of a laugh (which is why we went, or at the very least decent athletes who weren't overly competitive), not being to serious, and got what can only be described as footballers who are to dim to find the pitch. I mean it's flippin' frisbee how seriously can you take it? Even though it is a fairly decent game and a good workout, reminds me of basketball/netball, you just don't expect big egos when a frisbee is involved.
So I guess we expected fat knobs really, chodes (don't google that kids, seriously) if you will, who had little to be bragging about and would need a personality to compensate, and what we got was just plain old normal ones who thought they were better then they actually were.
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All finished!
Nicely done 👍, I've now finished my second year, hopefully in style if the exams went as well as they felt!. Despite having seemingly the worst exam timetable involving 4 exams spread over 4 days (1 per day, but at this level it's no walk in the park), I managed to come out feeling good and looking forward to another year of mayhem in September.
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Well, I'll hopefully be doing Physics with Medical Physics at the University of Sheffield next year (well starting in september). But that all depends on how my final exam goes on thursday 
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Congratulations Allyn!
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Well done Aldo 👍
Will you be based in town for that? I know Napier have a few campuses dotted about...
Will you be based in town for that? I know Napier have a few campuses dotted about...
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Cheers! 👍
The Sighthill campus is quite close to Edinburgh Park station I believe and I live like 5 mins from the station where I am so I'll probably just train and bike it.
Definitely staying at home though.
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Cheers! 👍
The Sighthill campus is quite close to Edinburgh Park station I believe and I live like 5 mins from the station where I am so I'll probably just train and bike it.
Definitely staying at home though.
When you say you're staying at home, if you mean you'll be living at home with parents I'd have to say that's a bad decision.
Move out, get the full experience.
IMO.
ExigeEvan
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I concur.When you say you're staying at home, if you mean you'll be living at home with parents I'd have to say that's a bad decision.
Move out, get the full experience.
IMO.
Did you uni' in Wales garlic?
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When you say you're staying at home, if you mean you'll be living at home with parents I'd have to say that's a bad decision.
Move out, get the full experience.
IMO.
I used to think along these lines too, but I'm not so sure any more. If the 'full experience' includes needless extra debt and living with a bunch of wasters/stoners (as was my experience atleast some of the time) and/or inconsiderate :censored:s (as was my experience alot of the time), then you can keep it...
There's plenty of time (i.e. one's 20s) to get the kind of 'full experience' that used to be the preserve of one's college/university days. I didn't realise that I would spend 10 years of my life after Uni living in shared houses/flats, so the idea of getting out of home as early as possible isn't necessarily what it used to be. I don't regret moving out of home at 17, but I doubt that my studies (and hence future career) would have been harmed at all by staying at home - if anything, I think I probably would have done even better than I did if I had stayed at home, as I almost did.
