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  • eklynne
    eklynne Posts: 2,396 Forumite
    Oldernotwiser wrote: »
    You also said that she's at a "good" university.;)
    Eh? No, I don't think I did :/
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  • Oldernotwiser
    Oldernotwiser Posts: 37,425 Forumite
    eklynne wrote: »
    Eh? No, I don't think I did :/

    I apologise, you're right. It looks like I misread your post not once but twice!:o

    Sorry.
  • melancholly
    melancholly Posts: 7,457 Forumite
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    Oldernotwiser wrote: »
    You also said that she's at a "good" university.;)
    slightly below the belt ;) spat my tea out!
    :happyhear
  • P3dro
    P3dro Posts: 217 Forumite
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    Oldernotwiser wrote: »
    You also said that she's at a "good" university.;)

    I'm rather offended by that as I go there myself.... It could be UWS....

    But still its the only place that does my course and it has an excellent rep for it.
  • Serenity
    Serenity Posts: 2,814 Forumite
    Oldernotwiser wrote: »
    You also said that she's at a "good" university.;)

    I read it the same way as Oldernotwiser. My immediate thought was "eh, we have plenty of language courses".
    I think some students think it is all party, no lectures. My cousin went to Calley for a week before dropping out. I cannot remember how many classes he had but it was not that much and he claimed it was too much work. Been on JSA since then.
  • Serenity
    Serenity Posts: 2,814 Forumite
    P3dro wrote: »
    I'm rather offended by that as I go there myself.... It could be UWS....

    But still its the only place that does my course and it has an excellent rep for it.

    Yes it has a few unique, good courses but apart from that it is not that great. And it's students :eek: (over generalisation I know)

    This might have been covered as I jumped from page 1 to page 5 - but OP, if you want a degree about languages why did you go to a uni which doesn't do languages?
  • Serenity
    Serenity Posts: 2,814 Forumite
    minerva_windsong wrote: »
    When I was at uni it wasn't unusual for the science students to do 9 til 6 without a break. So you've got to be grateful for small mercies.

    (And re: arts students not having a lot of lectures/contact time, yes that's true but we were still expected to put in 40 hours a week through reading texts - I read everything twice to get critical about it - research, writing essays etc, so we didn't exactly slack off! Or my friends and I didn't anyway...)

    Oh the fun I had in halls trying to study when it was the arts/humanities faculties' "reading week". Yeah right.
  • littlepinkstars44
    littlepinkstars44 Posts: 2,950 Forumite
    Serenity wrote: »
    Yes it has a few unique, good courses but apart from that it is not that great. And it's students :eek: (over generalisation I know)

    This might have been covered as I jumped from page 1 to page 5 - but OP, if you want a degree about languages why did you go to a uni which doesn't do languages?

    Because like i said earlier i didn't intend on going to uni, only went to college for my hnd then ended up going into 3rd year.
  • Indie_Kid
    Indie_Kid Posts: 23,100 Forumite
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    Serenity wrote: »
    Oh the fun I had in halls trying to study when it was the arts/humanities faculties' "reading week". Yeah right.

    During reading week, everyone went home. I didn't get "reading week" - this did mean I could catch up on work.
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  • The_One_Who
    The_One_Who Posts: 2,418 Forumite
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    I never had a reading week in my four years at Glasgow.
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