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First month of Uni: hows it going?

Not bad, working my arse off for the rock society earlier on and now settling into getting my first essays in before the deadlines and all the reading done :cool:

New missis as well :) She's a third year, we met after (both inebriated) she confided she's been after me for a year. I explained that I don't have a flirt radar :( We went to hers :)
 
what are your sport team initiations like?

my mate just started at manchester- he's lost 4 hours of his life for hockey
bloody whinger
my rugby initiation took a weekend of my life away from me :p ;)

as long as you're all having fun!
 
maestrocloud said:
I've made some friends but not 'your my bessie bessie mate eva' style - don't really bother with the student social life beyond having lunch & maybe a pint & chat after lectures with people - I don't feel like the whole puking/shagging/bonding thing right now.

I agree! I tend to steer well clear of people who go "oh my god I'm at uni and mummy and daddy aren't here, you're all my best mates ever and we'll be in touch forever!" :D

And it can't just be me who decided years ago that getting really pissed was one of the least pleasant ways to spend an evening!?!
 
All the sports teams had their initiation in one night, the blokes had to get waxed on stage and the girls had to come in fancy dress. Raised money for cancer research as well :)

The rugby team are fucking scary though, wednesday afternoon they can be found in the bar playing drinking games and the bar staff have already put out a bucket for them to puke in :eek: they threw someone's drink into the crowd (plastic cup) because it didnt have alcohol in it.
 
chio said:
And it can't just be me who decided years ago that getting really pissed was one of the least pleasant ways to spend an evening!?!

I've learnt through my experences of freshers' :)
 
I'm damn glad I don't do any sports; I witnessed the rugby team's pub crawl iniation... There were about 20 huge guys wearing only white y-fronts, downing pints of guiness and eating raw eggs, before vomiting into one of the five small wheely bins provided especially for the experience.

It offends mine eyes..
 
The hockey team here have to drink 3 pints of milk before going on their pub crawl :eek:

And the football team have to streak down the highstreet, they get the choice of wearing either shoes or pants :D :eek:
 
chio said:
And it can't just be me who decided years ago that getting really pissed was one of the least pleasant ways to spend an evening!?!

couldn't disagree more, drinking is fabulous :D
 
maestrocloud said:
I've made some friends but not 'your my bessie bessie mate eva' style - don't really bother with the student social life beyond having lunch & maybe a pint & chat after lectures with people - I don't feel like the whole puking/shagging/bonding thing right now.

Thats pretty much how mines going at the moment and i prefer it that way for the time being.

i avoided freshers in exchange for getting my house sorted, which im glad i did because i spent all the money on making sure i had a comfy room to come home too :)

all was going well till we had our house robbed 2 weeks ago, which shit us up a bit, but things are returning back to normal.

my course is getting really deep and ive got a big assignment due next week, which i havent started yet, but i'll get there.

chio mate cheer up will ya, your in danger of becoming one of those people who sit in the corner of the student union turning their noses up at everyone who walks in the door. Not everyone at uni is a ra ra henry type whos in the pub to get pissed till they puke. Give um a chance, you'll find there are some really sound people about.
 
Eh? Not being funny here, but there's a difference between not wanting to spend every night in a fuzzy cloud of pissedness and "turning my nose up at everyone". I don't enjoy being pissed, I'm not a wild sort of person but I'm getting involved in stuff I do want to do! :)
 
then im well pleased for you.

Its just not good to see an old mate being so negative about everything.

let us in on the good things once in a while aye bruv
:)
 
Walking past the sports bar on the way to the shops just now the entire rugby team were lined up naked against the front wall (except two who were hiding around the back of the pub)

On the way back from the shops there was rustling in the bushes and the entire women's rugby team were dancing around wearing sheets (not just sheets) and singing songs about taking it up the arse.
 
i decided not to go to uni because im TOO FUCKING COOL :cool:

so i work in a bank instead :rolleyes:

actually ive got a place for next year and just didnt go because i couldnt be arsed to do the work just now

and thankme exleper - go on you know you want too. What uni would you be at without me? :p
 
Well I'm at Leeds and it's going pretty good so far.

Had a run in with a lecturer on the second day of induction week. I told him I had a job and he pretty much told me I'm gonna fail my course because of this. Utter utter cunt.

He said if I was aiming for a 2.2 I'll now get a third. So I told him I wasn't aiming for a 2.2, I was aiming for a first, at which point he sniggered and told me I "definitely won't get a first." Cunt. He also tried to explain some management information system or something with an intelligence arrow/sliding scale. It had works at the bottom (with the least intelligence) and managers at the top (with the most).

Anyway, apart from that, and the other snooty lecturers, it's been great.

My housemates are fine (so far) and my room is huge. And I'm not in Middlesbrough anymore (hooray!). And I'm even enjoying the maths :cool:
 
Fez909 said:
Had a run in with a lecturer on the second day of induction week. I told him I had a job and he pretty much told me I'm gonna fail my course because of this. Utter utter cunt.

Does he not realise that, unless you've got a rich mummy and daddy paying your way for you, you can't survive at university without a job? And does he not realise that a large part of the reason for that is that you're paying his wages, ie. tuition fees?! :mad:
 
Fez909 said:
Well I'm at Leeds and it's going pretty good so far.

Had a run in with a lecturer on the second day of induction week. I told him I had a job and he pretty much told me I'm gonna fail my course because of this. Utter utter cunt.

He said if I was aiming for a 2.2 I'll now get a third. So I told him I wasn't aiming for a 2.2, I was aiming for a first, at which point he sniggered and told me I "definitely won't get a first." Cunt. He also tried to explain some management information system or something with an intelligence arrow/sliding scale. It had works at the bottom (with the least intelligence) and managers at the top (with the most).

Anyway, apart from that, and the other snooty lecturers, it's been great.

My housemates are fine (so far) and my room is huge. And I'm not in Middlesbrough anymore (hooray!). And I'm even enjoying the maths :cool:




What a twat!
 
The university's decided to ignore my every attempt to contact them and sort out a project/dissertation, except to occasionally e-mail and have a go at me for not doing anything.

back in halls, spending most of the time hiding in room clinging to internet for dear life.

have about £150-200 to last till the end of term.

on the plus side there's a new woman person :). but she's at "home" (that being 200 miles away) :(.

am at Reading, btw.

- Jonathan.
 
I am studying at Birkbeck in the evenings so my life is not that different, apart from doing classes in the evening instead of going home to watch Corrie.

One thing I will say though is that I feel like I've been thrown in at the deep end, it's been a while since I studied and uni level is diffent from school anway, so I thought they might have given a bit of guidence on how to study and what not. Rather than straight into lessons. I have my first mid term in three weeks and I haven't the foggiest about the subject yet (quantative methods) The fact that I am doing an inter-disiplienary degree just makes me feel like I have to learn three subjects rather than one.

I feel really snowed under.
 
I'd really love to be able to study in the evenings rather than spend all day hanging around here. The amount of lectures I have could be compressed into a couple of evenings a week, and I'd be able to do other things like work in the day.

:)
 
PacificOcean said:
I am studying at Birkbeck in the evenings so my life is not that different, apart from doing classes in the evening instead of going home to watch Corrie.

One thing I will say though is that I feel like I've been thrown in at the deep end, it's been a while since I studied and uni level is diffent from school anway, so I thought they might have given a bit of guidence on how to study and what not. Rather than straight into lessons. I have my first mid term in three weeks and I haven't the foggiest about the subject yet (quantative methods) The fact that I am doing an inter-disiplienary degree just makes me feel like I have to learn three subjects rather than one.

I feel really snowed under.
Hopefully, it'll get easier as you go on. I found that the library has some decent books on 'study skills', which may sound naff but really helped me. The bits on how to write essays are invaluable.
 
JonnyT said:
The university's decided to ignore my every attempt to contact them and sort out a project/dissertation, except to occasionally e-mail and have a go at me for not doing anything.

back in halls, spending most of the time hiding in room clinging to internet for dear life.

have about £150-200 to last till the end of term.

on the plus side there's a new woman person :). but she's at "home" (that being 200 miles away) :(.

am at Reading, btw.

- Jonathan.

Whereabouts in Reading? Me too
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chio said:
I'd really love to be able to study in the evenings rather than spend all day hanging around here. The amount of lectures I have could be compressed into a couple of evenings a week, and I'd be able to do other things like work in the day.

:)
If you really feel that way then perhaps you could switch to say OU or an evening course? Don't you have work to do outside the lectures? I've got ~14 hours of taught time/week, but then they expect at least 3 hours of reading for every seminar (6) plus essays etc - I would have serious problems holding down a job even if I only had lectures/seminars in the evenings.
 
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