I am yet to fail (UK exams)

MoonlitSunshine · 08-20-2006, 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Merkaba

And it might just be me, but I'm finding first year at Uni dead boring.

It all depends on if you're doingwhat you really want to do. My sister's doing Theoretical physics (Pressure? what pressure?) and she's loved it since she started. It really hard work, but she enjoys it. If you find your niche, and your subject, you're set. That's the way I see it anyway

Sound Devastation · 08-20-2006, 01:30 PM

ive found uni interesting... but its the life & people (and nottingham) that i love rather than the course.

having said that i hated halls.

Mr Sensitive · 08-20-2006, 02:18 PM

I've always wondered what the point was in going to uni just to get drunk and take illicit substances. You can do that without going through all that higher education stuff, and plus you wont be surrounded by goddamn students.

jibber · 08-21-2006, 11:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Mr Sensitive

I've always wondered what the point was in going to uni just to get drunk and take illicit substances. You can do that without going through all that higher education stuff, and plus you wont be surrounded by goddamn students.

very true. when I finally do go back to uni, I'll be there to study something I love doing, not to get drunk every night and party like crazy. I get more than enough of that now. I never understood the people who shelled out thousands of dollars to go to uni, only to piss it all away by partynig and flunking out of their courses.

Sound Devastation · 08-22-2006, 04:43 AM

i dont know how students can afford to get drunk.. i barely have enough money to eat. i hate the year-one culture of drink as much as possible as quickly as possible. plus its noisy, forceful, and annoys the people who dont want to take part (this rather amusing wikipedia article sums up every friday night on campus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campus_14)

but then i also dont understand people working their asses off an not having any fun.. there needs to be a balance. and i think that balance is about quietly enjoying independance. enjoying studying and being there and with new friends, without having to consume large quantities of karni coktail.

Alo · 08-22-2006, 05:46 AM

I have hardly read any posts with ambition. Does anyone here have goals?

Sound Devastation · 08-22-2006, 05:53 AM

my goals change so often.

two years ago i would have said that i wanted to travel the world as a free-lance marine-biologist.

now i just want to run my label, have a job good enough to support a family, buy the house im living in now and live here with my boyfriend.

MoonlitSunshine · 08-22-2006, 06:08 AM

My goal is to live a happy life, and do whatever I want to do at some stage during it. Vague, but Who cares? it's a good goal to have, and it's not constrictingly specific.

DontRunMeOver · 08-22-2006, 06:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Alo

I have hardly read any posts with ambition. Does anyone here have goals?

My main goals are:
1. To get my PhD plus a few published articles in the bag.
2. To learn to converse fluently in Mandarin chinese.

Those are my only two real goals, but they're more challenging than my old ones (getting a first is not hard if you take the right approach to studying). If you have many goals at one time you spread yourself too thin and don't end up achieving anything. And if you make your goals too easy, you end up achieving all of them without a problem and then you end up stuck for anything to do. That happened to me a couple of years ago and I was bored as hell for a while.

How about you Alo, what are your goals?

Barnard17 · 08-22-2006, 07:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Alo

I have hardly read any posts with ambition. Does anyone here have goals?

Goals change. I'm not a fan of setting my sights on something that could become unfeasible or unpalatable within the week.

08-20-2006, 01:30 PM	#42 (permalink)
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08-20-2006, 02:18 PM	#43 (permalink)
Mr Sensitive Hyperkinetic Rabbitything Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: In the Noodle Mines Posts: 811	I've always wondered what the point was in going to uni just to get drunk and take illicit substances. You can do that without going through all that higher education stuff, and plus you wont be surrounded by goddamn students. __________________

08-22-2006, 04:43 AM	#45 (permalink)
Sound Devastation Music Addict Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 728	i dont know how students can afford to get drunk.. i barely have enough money to eat. i hate the year-one culture of drink as much as possible as quickly as possible. plus its noisy, forceful, and annoys the people who dont want to take part (this rather amusing wikipedia article sums up every friday night on campus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campus_14) but then i also dont understand people working their asses off an not having any fun.. there needs to be a balance. and i think that balance is about quietly enjoying independance. enjoying studying and being there and with new friends, without having to consume large quantities of karni coktail. __________________ Out soon... AMENRA - Mass III 2xLP [stunning vinyl release of the belgian sludgecore giants epic 06 album] FALL OF EFRAFA - Owsla & Elil CD&LP [British crust/doom/post-metal band Fall of Efrafa deliver part two (Elil) on their dark conceptual trilogy. Part one (Owsla) will also be re-released for the first time in the UK] *** visit... Sound Devastation Records website**

08-22-2006, 05:46 AM	#46 (permalink)
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08-22-2006, 05:53 AM	#47 (permalink)
Sound Devastation Music Addict Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 728	my goals change so often. two years ago i would have said that i wanted to travel the world as a free-lance marine-biologist. now i just want to run my label, have a job good enough to support a family, buy the house im living in now and live here with my boyfriend. __________________ Out soon... AMENRA - Mass III 2xLP [stunning vinyl release of the belgian sludgecore giants epic 06 album] FALL OF EFRAFA - Owsla & Elil CD&LP [British crust/doom/post-metal band Fall of Efrafa deliver part two (Elil) on their dark conceptual trilogy. Part one (Owsla) will also be re-released for the first time in the UK] *** visit... Sound Devastation Records website**

08-22-2006, 06:08 AM	#48 (permalink)
MoonlitSunshine Dat's Der Bunny! Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Ireland Posts: 1,088	My goal is to live a happy life, and do whatever I want to do at some stage during it. Vague, but Who cares? it's a good goal to have, and it's not constrictingly specific. __________________ "I found it eventually, at the bottom of a locker in a disused laboratory, with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard". Ever thought of going into Advertising?" - Arthur Dent