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Post by Andrew* on Sept 20, 2003 6:57:52 GMT -5
Im really struggling in what i want to do. I need to make a decision fast...but i dont know how i can, as i dont even know what i want to study let alone what sort of career i want to do.
I was thinking of maybe: Maths & English
Or should i stay clear of a combined course if i want a good degree... i basically dont know much about uni, so any help would be greatly received.
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Post by angelesque on Sept 20, 2003 7:05:06 GMT -5
You won't be able to do combined Maths and English. You could combine either with social sciences, but not maths with English. Do English. It's better, the boys are prettier, and I did it. Seriously, English is the best way to meet gay guys...
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Post by Forgive Me Jenny Elly Moondial on Sept 20, 2003 7:16:27 GMT -5
Do English. It's better, the boys are prettier, and I did it. Seriously, English is the best way to meet gay guys... Oh bloody hell I did English. The more time I spend on this board the more I'm convinced I'm actually gay in every way except the whole fancying men bit.
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Post by Andrew* on Sept 20, 2003 7:20:26 GMT -5
You won't be able to do combined Maths and English. You could combine either with social sciences, but not maths with English. Do English. It's better, the boys are prettier, and I did it. Seriously, English is the best way to meet gay guys... You can do Maths and English at the University of Manchester
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Post by Nick on Sept 20, 2003 7:25:36 GMT -5
English degrees are good, except for all the shit you have to do in order to get to the bits you actually want to do.
Some people tell me they're incredibly useful. Some people tell me they're incredibly useless. I'm undecided so far.
It's probably about two-thirds - three-quarters female on my course. And a lot of lads seem quite bent. And that's not even taking into account the ones that don't seem bent, but are (like me).
English students are also possibly the most pretentious. Apart from drama students, but they need to be to get a good degree.
And most of my tutors / lecturers have had breakdowns at some point in the past, just to let you know what you'd be getting yourself into. Not that this is necessarily a bad thing.
I have a friend who did a maths degree, but that was at Oxford, and she spent most of her time on the violin. So I can't really comment on that. Except to say that she'd got a well-paid job months before she graduated.
Do you want money / job satisfaction / neither / both?
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Post by Andrew* on Sept 20, 2003 7:29:36 GMT -5
English degrees are good, except for all the shit you have to do in order to get to the bits you actually want to do. Some people tell me they're incredibly useful. Some people tell me they're incredibly useless. I'm undecided so far. It's probably about two-thirds - three-quarters female on my course. And a lot of lads seem quite bent. And that's not even taking into account the ones that don't seem bent, but are (like me). English students are also possibly the most pretentious. Apart from drama students, but they need to be to get a good degree. And most of my tutors / lecturers have had breakdowns at some point in the past, just to let you know what you'd be getting yourself into. Not that this is necessarily a bad thing. I have a friend who did a maths degree, but that was at Oxford, and she spent most of her time on the violin. So I can't really comment on that. Except to say that she'd got a well-paid job months before she graduated. Do you want money / job satisfaction / neither / both? Thank you Nick Both I guess. But then i guess most people want that. I am looking at Maths combined with another subject English, Management perhaps. I just wondered how useful a combined Course (preferably 'and' not 'with') is.
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Post by Forgive Me Jenny Elly Moondial on Sept 20, 2003 7:31:26 GMT -5
English degrees are good, except for all the shit you have to do in order to get to the bits you actually want to do. The first year was crap because you don't get a choice in what you do though second and third year topics are much more interesting. Depends what career you want. Mine's not been too useful yet since I graduated last year. Ours were about 4/5 female though the male ones that were gay hid it well. The majority of people on this course were American, this may not be true in all colleges though. YES ABSOLUTELY AGREE. They bored the hell out of me and all they did was sit there recycling stuff they'd read in books and shooting down other people's original opinions by quoting someone which, because they were by an "academic" must have been true. They also appear to have season tickets for every theatre production going and have been going to Shakespeare and stuff since they were five. At one point I assumed one girl was homeless and squatting in a theatre.
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Post by spinme evans-strickland on Sept 20, 2003 8:33:59 GMT -5
whilst we're on the subject: what in the name of samantha jones are key skills? they're one of the requirements for the course i want to do, but i haven't the foggiest what they are...
are key skills just general studies with a different name?
cheerio!
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Post by Pony who Lunches. on Sept 20, 2003 9:12:34 GMT -5
Modern Languages are actually the gayest courses - it's effectively an English degree with the added difficulty of it being in foreign.
If you want to do a creative job do an arts degree, if you want to do hard sums and find it interesting to learn about pretty things numbers do which will never have any use then do maths. Of the two I'd do English. If you're really undure about what you want to do you could combine it with something a little more vocational like Sociology or Floristry.
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Post by jamie on Sept 20, 2003 9:17:50 GMT -5
Modern Languages are actually the gayest courses - it's effectively an English degree with the added difficulty of it being in foreign. I'm almost certain i want to do italian and chinese at uni.
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Post by Jonny on Sept 20, 2003 9:26:15 GMT -5
I'm almost certain i want to do italian and chinese at uni. Good luck to you in your career translating Chineese into Italian and vice versa
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Post by Pony who Lunches. on Sept 20, 2003 9:54:34 GMT -5
I think most places make you do Chinese on it own cos it pushed every other language out of your head. I agree with Italian though. Lovely language, if pretty useless on the global scale. A-level is all the Italian you'll even need. I can't speak more than the odd word.
However, I dropped Russian in favour of Medieval Icelandic and Dutch. Let that be a lesson to us all...
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Post by spinny on Sept 20, 2003 10:00:18 GMT -5
Andrew -
Why don't you do maths and economics? also what do you want to do with your life post uni? A foreign language can never be wasted, but Maths/economics in a good uni will put you in good stead for the future.
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Post by jamie on Sept 20, 2003 11:08:56 GMT -5
I think most places make you do Chinese on it own cos it pushed every other language out of your head. I agree with Italian though. Lovely language, if pretty useless on the global scale. A-level is all the Italian you'll even need. I can't speak more than the odd word. However, I dropped Russian in favour of Medieval Icelandic and Dutch. Let that be a lesson to us all... I heard(from people on my chinese course) that you can do chinese and another language. a girl was going somewhere to do italian and chinese. Why useless? Italy is quite a big economic power in Europe and all the big fashion companies need people who speak italian and english. And even if i can't use italian, the fact i've got a degree in it might make a company employ me then teach me another language.
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