Carl
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Loads of people drop out at uni. My course started off with about 80 people on, about 20 of us ended up passing.
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Ally
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Registered: 2nd Jul 03
Location: Pontypool Drives: a Skoda
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Jamie yeah - i said he would do this a few months ago 
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phil_sutton
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Registered: 8th Sep 07
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I dont understand people that go to uni an have no idea of what they want or to do. Ive always know what I was good at an enjoyed since i first started school. Its seems 90% of people at uni have no idea why they are there.
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Paul_J
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Originally posted by phil_sutton
I dont understand people that go to uni an have no idea of what they want or to do. Ive always know what I was good at an enjoyed since i first started school. Its seems 90% of people at uni have no idea why they are there.
yeh I'm surrounded by people like that. doing geography, history or sports science etc... Dossing essentially... No idea what they want to do after, but meanwhile they have about 2 hours of lectures a week and only 1 or 2 assignments a term...
if that's not good enough when it comes to exams they only have 3 or 4 and they're fucking easy. 
cunts.
I just hope the joke is on them when they try to get a job.
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Haimsey
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Registered: 8th May 05
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i have friends that tbh dont even know why they are at uni 
I mean, IMO there are a number of reasons, but they can usually be put into 2 categories -
1) They go for a laugh to get pissed, fuck around and skip uni 24/7
2) Know where they want to go and what they need to get (aswell as having fun - im not doubting that)
But i have a friend or two that dont fit into either of them categories They are literally at uni effectively paying to sit and sleep, eat, watch tv and not go out or go to uni doing a course that most others could piss over in their sleep because it takes no effort at all to do the course
Crazyness if you ask me 
[Edited on 29-11-2007 by Haimsey]
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Haimsey
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Registered: 8th May 05
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Originally posted by Mase
You can get a tuition fee loan as well as your maintenance loan now. I have for the previous 2 years, but I'm on the lower tuition rate as I got in a year before the new one's came in. My loans on about £9.5k over the last 3 years, cos I got a statement the other day.
I get the maintenance loan 
But Derby LA have refused to give me tuition fee loans and the uni refuse to give me a bursary.
Oh, and i also get refused the grant
My friend who the above post was based on gets all of that
EDIT - and he doesnt work  never had a job in his life, not even a paper round i could rant on for ages.
[Edited on 29-11-2007 by Haimsey]
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deano87
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Haimsey, why won't they give you a Tuition Fee Loan? EVERYONE is entitled to it, I'm sure.
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ed
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Registered: 10th Sep 03
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quote:
Originally posted by Paul_J
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Originally posted by phil_sutton
I dont understand people that go to uni an have no idea of what they want or to do. Ive always know what I was good at an enjoyed since i first started school. Its seems 90% of people at uni have no idea why they are there.
yeh I'm surrounded by people like that. doing geography, history or sports science etc... Dossing essentially... No idea what they want to do after, but meanwhile they have about 2 hours of lectures a week and only 1 or 2 assignments a term...
if that's not good enough when it comes to exams they only have 3 or 4 and they're fucking easy.
cunts.
I just hope the joke is on them when they try to get a job.
Sounds like my degree  The funny thing is for me, the joke is on all the people who piss around doing business. I can earn far more than them on my first job than they will, and it will take them a long time to catch up.
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Haimsey
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Registered: 8th May 05
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Originally posted by deano87
Haimsey, why won't they give you a Tuition Fee Loan? EVERYONE is entitled to it, I'm sure.
Thats what my mum and dad, myself and my brother all thought.
So for the LA to turn around and say they arnt paying the tuition fees was a bit of a shock
Needless to say my mum went off on one
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Carl
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I went to uni not knowing what i wanted to do.
Think of it like this though; stuck in a dead end job with no idea what to do, or studying a degree while not knowing what to do, at least you are showing that you can study to a certain level, it might not be worth much, but to me i'd rather have done that than another 3 years in a dead end job. If only for the friends i've made and the good times ive had, which at the end of the day is what life is about. Not everything is black and white. And yes, i did a sports degree, like i said, didn't know what to do, so why pick something that you have no interest in? I can't say that my course was extremely hard, but people have misconceptions about sports degrees, physiology, biology, psychology, sociology, research methods, nutrition, scientific lab tests, statistics etc, its not that simple.
I haven't got a job at the end of it, but thats mainly my fault, as i still don't know what to do. But at the end of the day, i wouldn't change the last 3 years for the world.
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