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:rolleyes: More like won't. I'll interact with anyone, I've never started a fight though I'm too young to be a wine expert
Hooray for moving on to genuine advice :yippe: . Can everyone else do the same please :banghead:
Listen, I can genuinely see where you're coming from on some of your points, not necessarily agreeing. But I do have to state that I find that you're taking the segregation of class way too far.
It just seems too put on, as if you're saying what you say just to get a reaction.
Huge decision - which will change the course of your entire life not matter which one you pick.
Personally I'd advise against being in central London and especially in any city campus where the buildings are here there and everywhere.
My cousin is at Sussex and Uni is like a mini town in itself .. I favour Campus Uni's over ones where you need to get a Bus to get from class to class.
Depends if what is important to you is a good experience for 3 to 4 years or a good name to put on the CV in 3 or 4 years time.
I think at oxbridge you're not allowed to get jobs because of the workload? I know of unis offering an extra grand for straight As. Some offer extra funding for a limited number on certain courses that they want to get more people on like engineering and science.
Campus universities are great; one of my close friends went to a London uni (can't for the life of me remember which one) and her accommodation was a uni-let flat that wasn't in halls and she was miles from any of her lectures because it was so spread out.
York uni is good, if you're looking for a last choice to put on your form
It doesn't make up for the cost of living, London accommodation across the board in both halls and private residences is more expensive, as is going out - it's anything up to about £12 to get into a student night in London whereas outside town it's probably up to about £5, and drinks are considerably more expensive.
Also, depends what sort of paid work you do. For salaried jobs, yes, you do get more money in London but as a student doing temp or bar work there's actually not much in it - i got £6/hr doing bar work in both London and Norwich, and in both cities during the holidays when i was temping i got between £9.50 and £10.50/hr.
I studied at Durham, and I would recommend it to anyone, the city is beautiful and you can do just about anything you want. A lot of it really depends on what you want to do in life. I apologise if you've already said, but what are you wanting to study? What career are you aiming for?
For business Loughborough is one of the best, much as the Oxbridge lot love to scoff, and its quite a nice campus.
Yeah like die of boredom
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I didn't pass my 11+, and opted out of the school system, and went to the same school that both my sisters (who passed) went to; a non selective high school in inner city Manchester, with an excellent reputation, and with people from all walks of life. Incidentaly, I came out of the school with 7 A*s and 3 As.
Jomery, it seems to me that paying £8,000 a year (or a figure similar to that amount I imagine) only resulted in a lack of tolerance, and an ignorant and elitist outlook.
I know how fortunate I am to have gone to a school and college where I mixed with every type of person; white people were in the minority at my school and there were people from all backgrounds. I have an understanding of different people and different cultures, and a tolerance for society, that I just don't think Jomery (and many other people who were privately educated for that matter) possess. I feel this is something far more valuable than a than a place at Cambridge and a couple of As at GCSE (which coincidently I managed to get! Yes, at a STATE SCHOOL!)
I love Durham, though it depends what you like in life. If you like getting pissed in good pubs then Durham's great; if you like spunking your money away in some poncy hell-hole then its not, although the 2.15 train from Newcastle is handy...
But that's truly not the case in todays world with globalisation allowing people of different cultures to interact, as well as the possibility for people to climb the social ladder - even if as some would claim it is only in economical terms (I disagree to an extent).
Some of the major buisnesses today, are they not a product of people with nothing owning massive buisness empires today?
I seriously refuse to believe that none of the people you associate with have any sort of relation to anyone from another culture or another class. Especially not in London.
Whilst I agree to some extent, I wouldn't class the likes of Richard Branson as upper class despite the amount of money and success he has.
However, Jomery, it is also possible for people to pick up the airs and graces and to fit into the upper class society no matter what background they are from. Yes for some this will be harder than others and they will feel uncomfortable doing it, but there will always be some who manage it. Knowing what to wear, learning how to hold the neccessary conversations, etc are all things that can be learnt and whilst if you've been born into that society it is inbred, it is only due to a learning process that you have been through at a young age.
What about your cleaners, restaurant staff, bar staff etc. There's far more "working class" people that you deal with and aren't thinking about, even if it is only in a passing manner. I'd like to also hazzard a guess that your accountants and solicitors aren't in the same social circle that you'd like to think yourself either.
So when you bought your house (I seem to vaguely remember you mentioning you had one) you used a magic circle solicitor? And I'm sorry waiters even in good restaurants are not in the same league as consultants/bankers.
When your cleaner comes round at work to empty ya bin, clean your desk, is it not polite to be curteous and say hello, make small talk and show an interest in someone that helps keep your daily life ticking over?