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2013-08-18 01:03 8295858 Anonymous (4zLxMdi[1].png 1772x924 192kB)
So, who's going off to UK university next year? Where are you going? What course are you doing? Any societies you're thinking of joining? Organise awkward robot meetups etc.

14 min later 8295939 Anonymous
redoing my A-levels because I'm a lazy idiot

15 min later 8295943 Anonymous
I will be off to Hartpury, part of UWE, with my horse, to study Equine business management. I'll be eventing throughout the year as a member of BE, would love to join some societies.

29 min later 8296039 Anonymous
>>8295943 What's BE? Equine business management seems like a pretty niche field, I guess it's to do with horse racing?

36 min later 8296073 Anonymous
I'll be going to Coventry university doing economics. I really think I was pretty lucky to get accepted - they were asking for BBB. I got in with CC. You read that right, 2 Cs. If anyone's going to Coventry apart from me, we should totally meet up. I'll be staying in Callice Court for accommodation (its right next to the economics rooms, fuck yeah). As for societies, I have a friend who's going to be starting his second year who wants me to join the anime society but they all have shit taste. . I would like to get my /tg/ on and look into societies that play D&D and stuff.

38 min later 8296084 ParanoidHyperMusicPolice
>tfw going into third year >that horrid, scary real world looming over you

47 min later 8296124 Anonymous
>>8296073 I'm not from england, but does that mean you did only two subjects for your A levels? or did you fail one or something so it doesn't count?

47 min later 8296127 Anonymous
i'm going to Birmingham in october to start my Foundation Chemical Engineering course. I felt really lucky to get it cause there are only like 10 places and I wasn't sure if I was going to get the grade requirements BBB. but I ended up getting ABB

47 min later 8296128 Anonymous
Managed to swing a place at Durham for Natural Sciences after being rejected first off because I'm a jammy bastard. I'm planning on joining some music and art societies to have some contrast to the constant science. Any other future Durham robots?

48 min later 8296130 Anonymous
>>8296073 what subjects did you get the two C's in? I'm guessing economics is one? anyway you're hella lucky to have got onto the course with those grades!

48 min later 8296133 Anonymous
>>8296084 I know this feel. Any robots going to Northampton? I'd like to know there are more robots in that shithole with me.

59 min later 8296213 Anonymous
I'm doing Law at York and if anyone else is going there, please respond and we can talk on skype :3

1 hours later 8296228 Anonymous
>>8296073 I'm going into my second year at cov, the anime society is shit as you say go for something like a sport cause no other societies really try to do anything. At least the sports are social

3 hours later 8297425 Anonymous
got AAB going southampton anyone else going southampton uni that wants to meet up? /r9k/ freshers party WOOP WOOP

3 hours later 8297467 KingHarold
>>8295858 >Where are you going? University of Nottingham >What course are you doing? Politics and German >Any societies you're thinking of joining? Debating society (I've won a few competitions), Public Speaking society (won a few competitions), CAMRA society (I like ale),Politics society,Liberal Democrat society and perhaps some sort of /tg/esque society since I've always wanted to try it. I'm not sure what else. I'll see what else I might be interested in when I'm accosted by 2nd year students who want me to join their societies.

3 hours later 8297482 Anonymous
>>8295858 Why the fuck would you still go to uni. it's 9000 quid seriously, and it's free fro everyone else except English people and the welsh. Thankfully i got in on the last year when it was 3000

3 hours later 8297490 Anonymous
Anyone here going to swansea?

3 hours later 8297513 Anonymous
>>8295858 Southampton University, Accounting and finance and im making a kendo club if there isnt already one. want to have an awkward /r9k/ meet up

3 hours later 8297518 Anonymous
My friend is going to Imperial College London. Is this a great achievement? He is a genius and all but everyone is very amazed at him going there.

3 hours later 8297520 Anonymous
>>8296228 >first year >MY LIFE BEGINS NOW >pay for sports membership, running society, rowing, kayaking and the society for my subject >go to running, people keep staring at my tone less hairy legs >never go again >too self conscious of body to go to the kayaking swim trial >never went to rowing >never collected my sports membership card >end the year as anxiety ridden, paranoid and unhealthy as I started u-university, woo

3 hours later 8297559 Anonymous
>>8297520 Try again this year man, same happened to me, although the first half of the year was good but the second half, oh God, the second half...

3 hours later 8297598 Anonymous
>>8297520 >joining three sports No. Join ONE and be diligent with it, and force yourself to socialize with it. As for your subject, course societies are a mixed bag with some good ones and some shit ones, and from what I observe tend to be rather cliquey.

3 hours later 8297607 Anonymous
>>8297520 try not being a faggot in 2nd year. nobody gives a shit about your hairy legs

3 hours later 8297624 Anonymous
>>8296133 I am. You living in halls?

3 hours later 8297650 Anonymous
Any robots from SWEDEN beginning university this fall?

3 hours later 8297657 Anonymous (1373226525519.jpg 995x768 62kB)
>>8297467 > university of nottingham > mfw i live in nottingham

4 hours later 8297757 Anonymous
I'm headed off to Aston uni (Birmingham) in September. Weirdly enough, I've managed to find one of my flatmates and he went to the same 6th form college as me (in Leicester), but I never met him (because there are like 2000 students). Crazy

8 hours later 8300764 Anonymous
Anyone going to Manchester? Pretty anxious about leaving my bedroom and socialising

8 hours later 8300815 Anonymous
Any Lancaster sik bros here?

9 hours later 8301140 Anonymous
Doing economics in London. Probably poker, economics and investment societies. >tfw see everyone else already planning fresher raves

10 hours later 8302378 Anonymous
>>8300764 University of Manchester? Yes. I feel your pain brobot; in my case socialising will be even worse because I'm 23 . Knowing my fuck I'll end up stuck with a bunch of obnoxious kids.

10 hours later 8302503 Anonymous
>>8295858 >where are you going? Middlesex because i'm retarded >what course are you doing Psychology, told you, retarded. >societies Not sure

10 hours later 8302521 Anonymous
>>8300764 I'm going to Manchester Met next month. Kinda nervous, but glad to be doing something.

10 hours later 8302579 Anonymous
>>8297467 >Debating society Do you UKfags have forensics or has the masterrace not spread to you yet?

10 hours later 8302673 KingHarold
>>8302579 Yes. But, from what I understand we just don't differentiate in language between forensics and debating.

10 hours later 8302709 Anonymous
>>8301140 London is massive, what uni exactly? As I said I'm going to middlesex which is in Hendon so if you're close...

11 hours later 8302835 Anonymous
Managed to get some-what okay grades by doing shit all so I'm off to university in London to do psychology. Going to join the debating society and the rugby club. Maybe the Law society instead of rugby if it takes up too much time. Or tennis club, haven't decided yet because I haven't got my schedule obviously.

11 hours later 8302836 Anonymous
>>8302673 In the US, forensics is both debate and speech. For some reason they group the disgusting speechplebs with us. Do you guys have PF, LD, CD and CX like us?

11 hours later 8302871 Anonymous
I'm going to Reading to do Philosophy and English Literature. I'm thinking of joining the anime society but I think they'll have shit taste. I was very lucky to get in because the grade requirements were ABB and I got BCD.

11 hours later 8302882 Anonymous
>>8297482 Because that's not much money? And the way you pay it back is better now? Or the fact that for some people Uni is better than going straight into work?

11 hours later 8302932 Anonymous
No other robots at university of Westminster :(

11 hours later 8302983 Anonymous
Anyone going to Greenwich?

11 hours later 8302998 Anonymous
>>8297467 Nottingham here as well, but for English. Apparently in October there's something at the castle with beer and jousting and it sounds great.

11 hours later 8303075 Anonymous
Anybody got a link to the surveys from the past threads?

11 hours later 8303139 KingHarold
>>8302836 We separate between public speaking and debating. It feels right. The people who get involved in Public Speaking tend to be more timid and trying to learn. It's a nice to learn random tit bits. I've done them all except for a candidate debates and legal debates. I haven't done legal debates because I don't do law or anything like that. I've never done a candidate debate although I'm sure they must be done in the UK. >TFW in one of my first competitions we beat a private school team. >TFW in the same competition our team was beaten by a team that contained 15 year olds. >>8302998 Where are you from? Have you been on the Nottingham Freshers things on Facebook? Check out the 'What music do you like?' post for plebs. I jest, but some of them had some.

11 hours later 8303140 Anonymous
>>8302871 I'm in my 2nd year for English Lit at Reading. Enjoy the classes of babes

11 hours later 8303196 Anonymous
>>8303075 What surveys do you want?

11 hours later 8303213 Anonymous
>>8303139 South West. Hoping no one picks up on my farmer accent whilst there. You? And nah, not yet. How bad is it?

11 hours later 8303255 Anonymous
>>8303075 >>8303196 Well here's a poll made on results days about how people did http://strawpoll.me/335370/ I don't have much time

11 hours later 8303292 Anonymous
>>8303139 Holy fuck do you feel the need to boast about your shitty debate team in every post you make? Were you at that UK EU youth parliament final last year?

11 hours later 8303306 Anonymous
>Final Year >Grad job secure >Flat secure >GF cripplingly insecure

11 hours later 8303379 Anonymous
>>8295943 I want to believe that you'll be sharing your room with a horse.

11 hours later 8303383 Anonymous
Physiology with Pharmacology at Leicester, bringing on the biology boogie, bois. Probably carry on playing hockey for my sport.

11 hours later 8303442 Anonymous (11006.png 480x575 41kB)
>tfw fucked up my a levels and didn't get into uni >tfw that was 2 years ago >tfw been NEET ever since

11 hours later 8303478 KingHarold
>>8303292 >Holy fuck do you feel the need to boast about your shitty debate team in every post you make? I don't boast about it. I only talk about when it relates to the topic. I don't even boast about it. I mostly talk about how I've failed more than anything else. >Were you at that UK EU youth parliament final last year? I'm afraid I wasn't. >>8303213 >South West. Hoping no one picks up on my farmer accent whilst there. I wouldn't worry about it. There's going to be people with every sort of accent going. >You? And nah, not yet. How bad is it? It's not that bad. A mix of Dad rock and modern indie. There's quite a lot of mention of Skrillex. There were some people who listed Neutral Milk Hotel as well. That felt pretty good.

11 hours later 8303509 Anonymous
Got into Bristol university with A*AA >Tfw friend got into Cambridge with A*A*A*A >forever second

11 hours later 8303523 Anonymous
>>8303478 I've been up there a few times to visit people I know there and so far I've yet to come across another west country accent. Shitload of essex though. And fair enough. Everyone I've met so far who goes there seemed to be into hiphop or, weirdly, deep house. NMH I can deal with though.

11 hours later 8303532 Anonymous
>>8303139 You did CX. Harold-kun that's disgusting. CX is borderline speech faggotry. You should do PF for lyfe. Everyone knows it's the masterrace.

11 hours later 8303598 Anonymous
Got BBC, feels fucking bad man :(

11 hours later 8303622 Anonymous
>>8303598 wow #rekt

11 hours later 8303674 Anonymous
>>8303622 Yup, no prospects for me.

11 hours later 8303688 Anonymous
>>8303674 I got CCC and my uni wanted BBC ;_;

12 hours later 8303700 KingHarold
>>8303532 I like policy debates because you get a nice mix of improvisation and written argument. Also, I like writing speeches. It feels nice to write them because you get to just break loose and fit a lot of rhetoric into your arguments. It sucks I'm not very good at writing them. >Not glorious parliamentary debate system All dem points of information, dem speeches and dat slamming the desk. I haven't done any debating or public speaking in months. >>8303523 >I've been up there a few times to visit people I know there and so far I've yet to come across another west country accent How strong is your accent? Also, the Liverpudlians have a funnier accent. >Everyone I've met so far who goes there seemed to be into hiphop or, weirdly, deep house. NMH I can deal with though. I can 'deal' with all of them. I find NMH being on there rather funny.

12 hours later 8303713 Anonymous
>>8303674 don't worry mang. I know a guy who didn't even get to do a levels because his GCSEs spelt FUDGE. And another guy I know got XDC in his a levels because he didn't even bother turning up to one's exams.

12 hours later 8303731 Anonymous
>>8303713 There's a G grade?

12 hours later 8303770 Anonymous
>>8303700 >How strong is your accent? To me, not very at all. Even apparently to other people who live here it's pretty weak. Problem is I have a load of family oof norf, and whenever I visit them I get a barrage of farmer comments so who knows. I'm just paranoid really. And haha, well with NMH being on there there's hopes of finding a few /mu/tants I guess.

12 hours later 8303783 Anonymous
>>8303770 should say >oop norf

12 hours later 8304131 Anonymous
>>8302378 >tfw I'm an obnoxious kid Don't worry though, you can be slaying all the fresh 18 pussy. Everyone knows uni is where posh birds go to set their gash free

12 hours later 8304366 Anonymous
>>8303509 I know your pain. I got into Bristol with A*AAA, while a dude in my year is going to Oxford with A*A*AA. And to think I could so easily have A*A*A*A myself if I hadn't been retarded right up until June.

12 hours later 8304393 Anonymous
>>8303688 Dude, I got a D in the subject I applied to study and still got in.

12 hours later 8304512 Anonymous
>>8304366 Hell that's my thinking, if I had actually studied and had done my coursework properly I would have got at least AAA instead of BBB

12 hours later 8304595 Anonymous
Just graduated from Loughborough Uni, scraping a 2:1 by half a percent. I didn't touch one academic book the whole 3 years. Feel free to ask me misc questions, motherfuckers.

12 hours later 8304642 Anonymous
>>8295858 going to Anglia Ruskin. Psychology-criminology. I'm not all that keen on joining any clubs or whatever.

12 hours later 8304683 KingHarold
>>8303770 >>8303783 In the words of The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu, it's grim up north. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfS CrCpyUJ8 I wouldn't worry about your West country accent. Although, I will try keep an ear out for someone with that accent when I'm at Nottingham. >And haha, well with NMH being on there there's hopes of finding a few /mu/tants I guess. Yes, although I'm unsure as to whether I'd like to befriend a /mu/tant. I have a fear they'd constantly be calling me a pleb in their head. >I wish I was at home listening to vinyl records >My feet hurt >Pleb music in the background etc etc

13 hours later 8304966 Anonymous
>>8304683 Haha, they're not wrong. It is pretty grim. And fair enough, I'll keep my eye out for someone with an arrow in his eye. And I could handle /mu/tants, I'll just hand them my ipod preloaded with Have A Nice Life as a gesture of common interest.

13 hours later 8305167 Anonymous
>>8303713 dhilan? >>8302503 Mdx is decent.

13 hours later 8305382 Anonymous
>>8303700 We don't have your kind of Parliamentary Debate in the US. We follow Robert's Rules of Order so it's pretty tame shit. Also I don't know how you britbongs do Policy, but here in the US it's just spread as fast as possible. Even the Crossfires make me want to throw up all over them. Public Forum is that perfect mix of evidence and rhetoric.

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