Have I made the correct choice?

[seb]

I really shouldn't confess to this! However, I am coming to St Andrews this autumn to read Economics, Modern History and (undecided but probably English, Geography or International Relations - I really dont care).

However, I have little interest in learning or the educational rollercoaster of academic absorption of unstimulating texts.

I will pass university... I have to! It may just take a little more time than is conventional.

However, will St Andrews cater for my extravagent lifestyle? I need nightlife - most nights but does St Andrews, despite being 'rural', offer this?

I now ponder on whether I may have made a bit of a blunder in selecting St Andrews? Perhaps I should have gone to Edinburgh or Durham or Bristol or Glasgow or LSE?

I need reassurance.

[McK]

Go elsewhere. Yes, you have made a poor choice if that's your attitude.

[Deej]

...............Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiind up

[McK]

[s]Deej wrote on 02:21, 11th Aug 2003:
...............Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiind up



Indeed... should've seen it coming from a mile off but I haven't slept for a while

[Pussycat]

Why oh why did I read that? Groan.

[mossop]

Does anybody bother to read the prospectus before they decide where to come these days? In my day......zzzzz

[Mad_About_Miffy]

Well...what kind of lifestyle do you like exactly? As you may know there are no clubs in St Andrews, so it could possibly turn out to be a disastrous decision for you to come here, personally I'm not into clubbing but I love to socialise and St Andrews being the great social place that it is has been ideal for me, however there isn't always enough party action!

[hmmm]

[s]Unregisted User seb wrote on 23:39, 10th Aug 2003:
However, I have little interest in learning or the educational rollercoaster of academic absorption of unstimulating texts.

So you're coming to University because...? Oh I see, to help overpopulate universities even more and thus give those that are here to learn an even rougher deal.

Some of happen to live in the real world and need to get a job to actually survive. Most at Uni are here because they need a degree to get a job in a specific field of work they enjoy and/or pays well.

Perhaps you should consider what a university is. Yes, it's a place to socialise but only alongside the fact that it is an instsitute of learning.

So why not consider not fudging up the system, hmmm?

[Pussycat]

[s]Unregisted User seb wrote on 23:39, 10th Aug 2003:
Have I made the correct choice?

In coming to University at all? No.

[highway_to_hell1982]

[s]Unregisted User seb wrote on 23:39, 10th Aug 2003:
I really shouldn't confess to this! However, I am coming to St Andrews this autumn to read Economics, Modern History and (undecided but probably English, Geography or International Relations - I really dont care).

However, I have little interest in learning or the educational rollercoaster of academic absorption of unstimulating texts.

I will pass university... I have to! It may just take a little more time than is conventional.

However, will St Andrews cater for my extravagent lifestyle? I need nightlife - most nights but does St Andrews, despite being 'rural', offer this?

I now ponder on whether I may have made a bit of a blunder in selecting St Andrews? Perhaps I should have gone to Edinburgh or Durham or Bristol or Glasgow or LSE?

I need reassurance.




you definately should have gone to LSE. i believe thats one of the top 5 colleges/unis in the UK and stands well above st andrews in the economics feild. but getting a place in there is the biggest challenge because they tend to be an international college with an international focus of competition

[Miss Maryland]

on a sidetrack (i understand that the person who started this thread probably isn't american), am i the only american who decided to come this year that actually researched and visited st andrews before deciding to come here?

[LeopardSkinQueen]

[s]Miss Maryland wrote on 21:42, 15th Aug 2003:
on a sidetrack (i understand that the person who started this thread probably isn't american), am i the only american who decided to come this year that actually researched and visited st andrews before deciding to come here?


There's maybe about 5 others. But you're probably in the minority, not just of Americans, but of all newcomers to the uni. Sadly.

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[s]It was where they kept the, um, erotic books. Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken.

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[Guest]

Yeah Highway is right. St Andrews is right for me because it's good in the field I'm studying. But to choose it to study economics over LSE isbonkers, especially considering you said you weren't interested in the studying, just the night life. St Andrews over London?

[personcoming]

[s]LeopardSkinQueen wrote on 21:45, 15th Aug 2003:
[s]Miss Maryland wrote on 21:42, 15th Aug 2003:[i]
on a sidetrack (i understand that the person who started this thread probably isn't american), am i the only american who decided to come this year that actually researched and visited st andrews before deciding to come here?


There's maybe about 5 others. But you're probably in the minority, not just of Americans, but of all newcomers to the uni. Sadly.

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[s]It was where they kept the, um, erotic books. Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken.

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[/i]
i did do some research and decided st andrews was the uni i least didnt want to go to but i keep hearing these off putting stories about stuck up people/

[onemoreyankee]

Im american and I came and visited. I loved it. Also, contrary to popular opinion (both here and abroad)Americans decide to attend st andrews for a variety of reasons...if you catch my drift...we dont all suck

[Deej]

I didn't have enough money to come for a visit, so I made friends coming over do my dirty work for me! (Kidding--but I did have a couple of friends who want to go to St. Andrews scope out my area while they were at it for themselves)

Anyway, I've done a bunch of "research"--or at least, I've been lurking here for more than six months--and checking out as much stuff as I could find about the uni. Certainly, this illustrious group has sealed my wish to do my postgrad work at St. A's. (Well done, sinners)

[Miss Maryland]

i know you've been lurking around just like me deej- cheers to oli for the guest accounts!

[hr]"America started out trying to be like Greece, but it ended up more like Rome."

-Gore Vidal


http://www.angelfire.com/poetry/colescott

[emmalina]

I'm American, and I did a ridiculous amount of research on every teeny tiny minute detail of the British education system. I did even more homework on the unis to which I applied. With a decision as important as what uni you go to, it's just in one's own best interest to study up on a place! Honestly, I wouldn't have been able to keep my sanity through the whole process if I hadn't learned so much about about the unis before hand.

[Deej]

It's worth it to do the early work so you are happy in the end with the result. Hasn't it been fun to lurk, Miss Maryland?! And yes, cheers to Oli. Way to go!

I just got my notice that St. Andrews has received my app for fall of '04, and has sent it on to my prospective department. Fingers are crossed....Checkbook is out....is there anything else I need?!

[mossop]

[s]Deej wrote on 00:32, 18th Aug 2003:
Checkbook is out....is there anything else I need?!


Not at this uni dear!

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Mmmm Beer, the cause of and solution to all of life's problems....