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Post by Clare on Aug 14, 2007 18:13:56 GMT
It'll be easier for you - as a foreign student, you pay three or four times what home students do! It's a beautiful school, though, and I hope to see you there!
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Post by tombland on Aug 14, 2007 18:15:40 GMT
I'll be off to uni next september, I'm waiting for my A.S results at the moment. I want to study English, and am looking at Trinity College Dublin, UCL, Leeds, Nottingham and Cambridge. It all depends on my A.S grades really... English is super-competitive. I might be able to do a joint honours in English with History of Art at Trinity College Dublin and Leeds, so I'm looking into that too. Im doing English at the moment at Kings, it is quite competetive, and its ALOT of reading and research, luckily ive broken it up a bit by combining it with Film, and now that im going into my third year i get a much larger selection on the modules i can study, so no more damn Medieval units... A friend of mine is doing your course in the year below you.
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Post by shiznat on Aug 14, 2007 18:28:31 GMT
hmm. my first year was a waste, basically. my fault for deciding that i was tired of city life and choosing a school in a suburb, with nothing to do. some of the kids were nice, but it was essentially life in a fishbowl for 9 months.
my classes start a week from monday. i've transferred to a big, BIG university after realizing that going from a small grammar school, to an even smaller high school, then to a small university was not cutting it. the downside is that i'll be living at home again until i can bank up money for some sort of apartment, but the huge plus is that i'll be thrown back into an urban setting. i'm kind of excited for the classes that i chose, too. still have to buy my books.
is anyone thinking about doing study abroad??
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Post by indiequeen on Aug 14, 2007 18:41:17 GMT
im off to uni next september am im really agitated because the info we got on unis was kinda thrown at us in the form of a 12 page guide, and about a million lectures on it. im the forst in my siblings to go to uni, so we have no idea about it.
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Post by hark on Aug 14, 2007 18:49:22 GMT
Oh dear, you've all made me really scared now. I plan to go to university next year, hopefully, to study art. Now, I have two options, really. Glasgow School of Art or Central St. Martin's, in London. Going to London is my dream, but I really don't know if I could afford it. Tuition fees are £4000 / year, and I would have to pay that back if my loan application was accepted. I would be given a loan of a further £4000 / year, and a three year course means my debt would be about £24, 000. Hell, that's... A lot of money. Compared to if I go to Glasgow. My loan would be £800 / year, and my tuition fees would be paid for me. The possibility of being able to live with Boy would mean that I would have no rent to pay, since his family own his flat. It's perfectly possible to live quick life in Glasgow. But I fell in love with London, and I fell in love with a boy from London... And when you're young, throwing your life away to go to the other end of the country and getting into tonnes of debt... Well, that's following your dreams, isn't it? When you're old, it's just being an idiot. I don't know any time when I can do this apart from when I'm young. No one tells you when you're growing up that following your dreams means forking out a lot of cash, do they? :-\ I don't even know if I'll be able to study at university at all, it's all so expensive. I try to look at it like this: There is plenty of time for London! My parents always taught me to avoid debt (financially, hah) wherever possible and they're completely right - £24k for 3-5 years isn't worth it. Glasgow is a great place to go to uni in, anyway, and London will still be there after you graduate. Or you know, do what you want. Just know I will always hate you forever and ever!!!
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Post by Clare on Aug 14, 2007 19:09:30 GMT
But I loooooooooooove you, Lauraaaaaaaa.
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Post by Schadenfreude on Aug 14, 2007 19:46:35 GMT
I need to start applying for uni soon, Glasgow closing date is not far off....
Open days next month, it's all coming rather quickly...
Although I can't wait to get to live in Glasgow! That's assuming I get in, but its not really a worry
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Post by Clare on Aug 14, 2007 19:52:57 GMT
What do you want to study?
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Post by fabbit on Aug 14, 2007 20:13:48 GMT
is anyone thinking about doing study abroad?? eek! yes! in germany or england. that's one reason i love boston university. it's a good abroad program.
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Post by alice in wonderland on Aug 14, 2007 20:19:40 GMT
actually, I think it might be thursday.. shows how much they matter to me its thursday - i'll be joining you with that one.. good luck! xx
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Post by Rebekah on Aug 14, 2007 20:33:31 GMT
is anyone thinking about doing study abroad?? I wish I had the money for it. And this next summer is the last opportunity I will have. Le sigh.
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Post by mimicry on Aug 14, 2007 20:47:36 GMT
Hopefully I will be studying abroad in Italy next year. My college has a lovely system where if you choose to go abroad in a place where they already have a program, you pay the same amount of tuition. I'm taking the Italian courses now, in preparation.
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Post by fabbit on Aug 14, 2007 20:47:49 GMT
is anyone thinking about doing study abroad?? I wish I had the money for it. And this next summer is the last opportunity I will have. Le sigh. do it! everyone that i know that has done it has /loved/ it. it's worth a little debt, isn't it? i'm not a good financial advisor.
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Post by milindris on Aug 14, 2007 21:02:10 GMT
well, I'll start my second year at college (I think the whole sentence is wrong... ). And I'm bored just to think it. I mean. I was moving to London for a year or something, but finally I'll do the next year... and now thinking to start again is just... boring. But I like so much that I'm studying (fine arts), and I'm sure I will be so happy when I go to class again. Anyway. My first day/week at college was good. But Spanish college is totally different to american's, I think. I had not to leave my home, and the campus are not like yours. I don't know...
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Post by Rebekah on Aug 14, 2007 21:09:10 GMT
do it! everyone that i know that has done it has /loved/ it. it's worth a little debt, isn't it? i'm not a good financial advisor. I would if I was capable of getting a loan. But I am not. My parents are in sort of dire financial straits themselves... I can't use them to cosign for loans anymore. Which means they have to pay for my rent/tuition/food which sort of drains what little money they have, and perpetuates the whole vicious cycle. If I could get a job, things would be much easier. BUT, my college's campus is in the middle of NOWHERE, and I'd need a car, which I don't have, unless my parents want to share one between them. :-\ Not to mention Michigan really sucks by way of getting jobs right now.
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Post by fabbit on Aug 14, 2007 21:43:00 GMT
oh no! that is problematic. very. there aren't ANY stores in your area that have job openings? i dunno, but i always thought small towns always needed more workings and always had openings. it's impossible to get a job here, as well.
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Post by Petra on Aug 14, 2007 23:05:15 GMT
University of Amsterdam here.
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Post by youhippy on Aug 14, 2007 23:23:03 GMT
i've just been on the phone to my friend for over an hour while she was telling me about how much she hated the people she found a house with for her last year. fights over rooms and plain bitchyness sounds horrible
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Post by Rebekah on Aug 14, 2007 23:49:58 GMT
:-\ After housing screwed me and a few of my friends over for sophomore year, we decided to go off campus. One girl was my best friend (and still my roommate) but the other two were girls I had just met that year. We got along alright. But then.. living in a place with each other, it was kind of horrible. We got along at first, but after that, it was just, wowww. And we stayed away from each other, split into our two little groups. I feel bad, though. They were really nice, just not the sort of people you want to live with.
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Post by bluearrangements on Aug 15, 2007 9:07:27 GMT
I wish I had the money for it. And this next summer is the last opportunity I will have. Le sigh. do it! everyone that i know that has done it has /loved/ it. it's worth a little debt, isn't it? i'm not a good financial advisor. Haha The Spanish university I went to was so badly organised I didn't get registered as a student until the day before my exams started, which meant no use of the library, no online classes (therefore I automatically failed one module) and no bus pass. Despite DAILY phone calls in piss poor Spanish, and thrice weekly angry visits to the gimps in the office. The native students were unwelcoming. In fact the only people who were welcoming were a bit TOO welcoming. I stayed in my room for four months. Then I met some lovely french people and the last month was fantastic. My experience volunteering in France however, was AMAZING. I am now fluent in french, I've got loads of contacts in France in all walks of life, and I learned loads of other useful things. Like how to build walls, carve wood, grow vegetables, play drums, be a hippie. It was fucking amazing. (even if ended all rather badly with me going insane and running away. It was the alcoholics fault) Most foreign students form cliques, you rarely get to live the culture. At least that's what I experienced. (And what all my friend's doing the same thing in other countries have also said- although most did enjoy it more.) Therefore I would say yes! Go abroad! Just do something else! Build a bread oven so small children can have pizza parties in the countryside! WOO! My uni in the UK is fab. I go to Bath. The city is stunning and I have lots of great friends. Some really close girly friends who I adore, and a lot of musiciany friends, who keep me entertained. I don't like my degree all that much. But I knew that before I started. My lecturers are great for the most part, but I'm sick of studying. I have no drive because I know it won't be useful to me. Especially now that I speak French well. I sort of feel like I'm done already. Having said that, I can't wait to get back. I love my campus. My library is heaven. mmm squishy sofas in the plug bar. Yay battle of the bands. Hurrah picnics by the lake in between lectures. And I miss the polish bus driver who sings songs over the tannoy. Uni life is bloody fantastic.
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