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Sam-

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Feb 20, 2012
772
How many people on here are students or have been?
Which universities did you go to? Whats your main memory of being a student?

Many people say bad things about students but I think an unhappy student is a very rare thing.
 




hans kraay fan club

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Mar 16, 2005
62,488
Chandlers Ford
Liverpool. 1989 - 1993. Countryside Management BSC (hons) 2:1

Had a brilliant time. Met my (now) wife.

Loved every aspect of it.
 


Southwick_Seagull

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Oct 8, 2008
2,035
Just finished my 3rd year at Winchester. My advice is during freshers week just talk to everybody, everyone there wants to make friends so don't be shy and hide away. Also stay in halls for your first year, you'll get to meet lots of different people and it's awesome when you move into your own place together for years 2 and 3.

Students get a bit of a pasting on here in general but it's a great experience both educationally and socially. You'll learn things, do things and meet people you otherwise would never have done.
 




tinx

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Jul 6, 2003
9,198
Horsham Town
Brighton University - Computing and Information Technology BA(Hons)

Awesome time.

Best memorys were of socialising and meeting a diverse range of people.
 




Barrel of Fun

Abort, retry, fail
Oxford Brookes 1999 - 2003 : BSc(hons) Real Estate Management 2:2
Sussex University 2012 - 2013 : PGCE Primary School

The former was great fun, although I fell out of love with the subject and have decided on a career change. Tough at the time as I lost much of my hearing before and during the first year, so I ended up teaching myself. No regrets though.

The latter is an unknown territory, but excitedly counting down the days until the course starts in September.
 


Sam-

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Feb 20, 2012
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Just finished my 3rd year at Winchester. My advice is during freshers week just talk to everybody, everyone there wants to make friends so don't be shy and hide away. Also stay in halls for your first year, you'll get to meet lots of different people and it's awesome when you move into your own place together for years 2 and 3.

Students get a bit of a pasting on here in general but it's a great experience both educationally and socially. You'll learn things, do things and meet people you otherwise would never have done.

Winchester apparently has a high number of females compared to males I believe?
 


Acker79

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Nov 15, 2008
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Brighton
Sussex Uni, biochem bsc. I lived at home 'cause it was cheaper and regret it. Wished I'd got more involved in the student life, in retrospect. Didn't help that registration was such a mess (first year with fees) that I spent all registration day queuing to register and never got to the fresher fair to check out the clubs and such.
 




Southwick_Seagull

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Oct 8, 2008
2,035
Winchester apparently has a high number of females compared to males I believe?

Yup, the most popular courses are teaching and performing arts so it was something like 5 to 1 female to male ratio when I joined.
 


halbpro

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Jan 25, 2012
2,898
Brighton
Sussex Uni 2006-2009 Computer Science BSc 2:1

Uni life can be fun, it can be stressful and it can be absolutely f***ing horrible at times. I still loved it though. My main thing I wish I'd changed is not treating holidays as holidays quite as much as I did, I would have been much less stressed.
 


Badger

NOT the Honey Badger
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May 8, 2007
13,013
Toronto
York Uni 2002 - 2006

Best 4 years of my life, you MUST move away from home to get the most out of the uni experience.
 




Sam-

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Feb 20, 2012
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I'd currently near the second year at NTU. Studying Accounting an Finance.
Love how cheap stuff is here compared to Hove.
Pint of real ale here is like £2. Went to a pub at home and its more like £3.50
So glad I didn't stay at home, would of missed out on so much.
 


hans kraay fan club

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Mar 16, 2005
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Chandlers Ford
Which Liverpool uni? Heard its pretty good up there. Countryside Management sounds interesting.

John Moores, only it was Liverpool Poly in my day (it changed the year after I left).

The course was basically a grounding in managing a nature reserve, or working in environmental impact assesment, that kind of thing. Very interesting course, with a fantastically low number of weekly lectures. Not used any of it since the day I left, mind.
 


NickBHAFC18

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Feb 24, 2012
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Brighton
My friend has just finished his first year at Manchester MET. He's done Ok, maybe failed a few exams but then most students do the first year. He said even though its putting him in a lot of debt, and even if he came out with nothing at the end of it, he wouldn't change it for the world. So far, it's been the best year of his life. And i've been up quite a few times, had some really messy, but quality nights and if I could go back in time I would have gone.

From having friends at a lot of Uni's, and from visiting a lot, Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield, Bristol and London seem to be the best. Quality night life and quality cities.
 
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Kumquat

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Mar 2, 2009
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Liverpool. 1989 - 1993. Countryside Management BSC (hons) 2:1

Had a brilliant time. Met my (now) wife.

Loved every aspect of it.


We must have crossed streams as it were. I was there 1991-94. History/Politics. Was indeed good times. Great city and an interesting time post Hillsbrough. The nightlife seemed to really take off towards the end of my time with Cream mutating from the annex of the academy/Nation into a full-blown club night. Great city and a memorable night watching Liverpool overturn a 2-0 defeat to Auxerre with a 3-0 win at Anfield. The people there are some of the best I've ever met.
 


Oct 25, 2003
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went to newcastle, started in 2006....dropped out after the 2nd year which i now regret

going to brighton uni this year though to do sports journalism
 


Sam-

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Feb 20, 2012
772
My friend has just finished his first year at Manchester MET. He's done Ok, maybe failed a few exams but then most students do the first year. He said even though its putting him in a lot of debt, and even if he came out with nothing at the end of it, he wouldn't change it for the world. So far, it's been the best year of his life. And i've been up quite a few times, had some really messy, but quality nights and if I could go back in time I would have gone.

Wouldn't take the attitude that if you come out of it with nothing its okay. And failing first year isn't a good sign. You only need 40 percent.
But it is a good laugh.
 


Publius Ovidius

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Jul 5, 2003
46,681
at home
much the same as my ordinary life really.

Open University Classics course. Pass this one A219 and I am up to 240 points. September doing level 3 course Empire A330 and that gives me a degree( 300 points) Year after A300 Greek and Roman Myth gives me another 60 points taking me to 360 and a BA(open) Hons.

Been a bloody long slog, 1 tutorial a month and a day school but well worth it...now revising hard for exam on 12th June..Odyssey, Iliad, Parthenon, Lysistrata, Persians, aristophanes, Aeschylus, Cicero, Pliny Slavery, Funery monuments etc etc.....my head really hurts
 






hans kraay fan club

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Mar 16, 2005
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Chandlers Ford
We must have crossed streams as it were. I was there 1991-94. History/Politics. Was indeed good times. Great city and an interesting time post Hillsbrough. The nightlife seemed to really take off towards the end of my time with Cream mutating from the annex of the academy/Nation into a full-blown club night. Great city and a memorable night watching Liverpool overturn a 2-0 defeat to Auxerre with a 3-0 win at Anfield. The people there are some of the best I've ever met.

Cream was still the '051' club when I started. The most memorable match at Anfield was the Albion's 2-2 draw in the FA cup! Used to go and watch Everton a bit.

The people are great. My advice to anybody who starts out as a student in a new town, is to try to broaden your circle of freinds outside of just other students. One of the first things I did when I started at Liverpool, was to go and join the cricket club round the corner. My team-mates there were brilliant, and within a couple of weeks of arriving I had three circles of friends (course / halls / local cricket mates). I'd recommend that to anyone - go and join a local Sunday football team or something.
 


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