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University, has anyone got any advice foe unis within the UK? |
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Before you enter, bring fire arms and friends with trench coats. |
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lol, just what I was thinking. Do I have to do it matrix stylee? |
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Yes, human. Do it "matrix" style. I wouldn't have it any other way. By the way... you have a booger on your nose. |
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I have failed my exams. But, alas! I will be a world-famous electronic musician. I will do bigger shows then mr.Jean Michel Jarre, with bigger lazers too. So fuck you, education system! |
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Thats just a bit of lemon peel. |
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school sucks. bunch of dumb monkeys with ears talking and whatnot. I almost was able to melt desks and classmates telekinetically. I WISH I could have. That would have been the best videogame ever. |
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i'm going to stafford university in september |
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What did you get in your A levels? Hopefully music making, drugs, and strange electronic music didn't distract you too much from your work. ;-) |
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I can't be arsed to get into music making, but sometimes wish I could. I don't do drugs thankfully. Strange electronic music came dangerously close to spoiling it all for me. I am on target for a B and two C's at A2 and already have a C at AS. |
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a B and 2 C's in which subjects? |
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Sorry man, I was basing my unfounded statements on my own experiences. :) Your grades are similar to mine, although at the start I was on target for two As. Then it all went to shit. Oh well, happy Autechre listening.... |
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i am going to uni either in plymouth or wales to study marine biology in september. |
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I go to a great school and have all As. you all suck. I am awesome. yell at me, I am bored. |
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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is it like in america, with campuses and lots of drinking ? |
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Don't got to a university based on the reputation of the university as a whole, look at individual schools or courses that excel. I went to an ex-polytechnic, which happens to be one of the best universities for computing (as well as a couple of other courses), despite the university overall not being rated highly, and am very glad I did. Friends who went to 'better' universities with worse computing schools are doing a lot worse job-wise than me. The only ones I'd really ignore this advice for are the oxbridge colleges, even though they're only 'better than average' in some fields, the name carries so much clout, it's worth it alone (although none of my mates who went seem to enjoy the social life/people, etc. aspect of it there) |
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collective nouns are stupid. fuck people. |
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Yea Ceri JC has a point, apparently Aberystwyth is the place to go for international relations course. |
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Go to fucking china. People work hard there. That shit will beat you into shape. |
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Don't go to school for any reason other than landing a job because it is pure life-wasting bullshit and certainly has learning as the lowest priority. *goes back to wasting life playing videogames* |
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Ceri's point is more valid for graduate studies, I feel. If you go to a place with only a pocket of good and lots of suck, you'll feel like shit and not get as much out of the general environment. Being at a school with a pile of badasses rules because the professors like their classes much more, are receptive students, and the rapport with the students is much more valuable in general. Of course you should target a school based on your interests (duh), but I'm saying, don't discount the general shit. |
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how would you know, I heard it has gone capitalist. |
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come to my school, biaaaaaaaaaatch |
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I won't to go to Newcastle. |
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The funny thing about university is all the dogs. you wouldn't have thought there are lots of dogs but there are. |
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dogs as in......? |
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Unattractive females? Ignore the myths of all student birds being sex-crazed ultravixens. For every one of them there are a hundred munters who could easily be 'Millie Tant' from Viz. This is true at most universities I've visited. I agree with W M W, now that the days of student grants are over, don't just go there for a 3 year holiday and piss up, only to come out and get a job pumping gas or stacking shelves. I've got mates who did that and it's a financial mill-stone round their necks now. Don't go just to get a job, enjoy it there, but make sure you will be able to get a job at the end of it. |
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what did you do at uni? |
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I don't want to take a gap year (I believe I will become very unfocused) but considering that I think my actual A levels will be superior to the mocks that are used for entry into university, I may have to. |
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you have a versatile matescircuit :) |
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ceri cj never responds to anything I say. |
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An excellent point. Finally somebody gets to the real meat of this discussion. |
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Fucking bears troll around my school. Leaving steaming shits the size of pyramids. I kicked a camel in the nuts once.. fucking giza is boring. |
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That's because you've been addressing a nonexistent "ceri cj" when, in fact, his name is "ceri jc". |
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Computing was my course, but a lot of the time was spent doing kung fu, drinking, playing Tony Hawk and watching films. I worked hard, but only near deadlines, but that was more than enough. I was also student rep for my course, so spent a fair bit of time attending staff meetings and sorting out the problems of people who were (to be blunt), too stupid to be at university. CS2x. Yep, my mates (with one exception) who did that came back less mature and full of wander-lust. They chopped and changed courses and generally ballsed it all up. They also got into the habit of spunking what little money they had as students on 'travelling' (read, 1-2 month long holidays) during the summer breaks, rather than working and saving the money for term-time. Consequently they were always stoney broke and are now 1-2 years behind compared to their peers. On a more serious note, if you're going to do a longer degree (eg architecture, medicine, or just a normal degree with a placement and/or masters on the end), doing a gap year is a very bad idea IMO. Two mates will now not be graduating till they're 30, by which time, they will have fairly short working lives to pay off the masses of debt they've accrued. |
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I thought that was the cool way to do it. SEEIOUSL, I've seen two people get it correct (me, you, and some nobodies). |
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I know, I think it's living in lots of different places and staying in touch with them all. sneakattack: I think it's because, in a similar way to how W M W does, whilst you make the odd insightful, meaningful post that reveals you are actually quite intelligent, a lot of your posts/threads are nonsense. Like WMW, I expect that, over time, I will come to the opinion that the good outweighs the bad and will interact with you on a more regular basis. |
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Sorry when I say dogs I meant it as in the drug |
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I like harassing you precisely because you are so haughty. |
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excellent use of the word 'haughty' there |
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uhm, I'm currently on my first year in Finland, but I quite nearly (that is, before failing miserably in the entrance exams!) became an overseas Cambridge student. Now, whether I would've enjoyed it there for an extended period of time, I don't know. But I DO know I found the visit charming, and many of the people there were lovely. Now, on the other hand, I have a friend in Edinburgh, and another one in Cambridge: the first one enjoyed the northern breeze, while the one in Cambridge decided to drop off after two months... So, I don't know. Probably the best universities are the mid-sized ones, with something to show off for course-wise. Prestige certainly moists the mouths of CERTAIN people, but do you really want to associate with these CERTAIN people? :) |
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ah ha ha Well I guess I was unique afterall in having lots of *actual* dogs wandering around my school. |
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Ox & Cam are really nice places to go! I have met several people who go there and are without exception charismatic/fit. I am doing English, I think the stereotype applies more to the sciences students as all the English people I've met seem very socially adjusted. The most important thing IMO is to look carefully at the different sylabuses for each uni, I know the English ones were very different from uni to uni when I was doing the prospectus rounds. |
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come do creative music tech at bathspa its GREEEAT |
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I was listening to Morgenstern before work this morning, good job mate. |
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Oh thanks! Preciate it :) |
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I particularly liked the gating in places. The way it was done made it sound like a DJ cutting bits out with a sharpish crossfader. How did you do that, if you don't mind me asking? Whoops, wandeirng off topic... |
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Not at all. If its the effect I think you mean, it was pretty simple, I just automated the master volume of the vst instrument and made some sharpish spikes in the automation track. I think I did the same with the mute track on some of the audio tracks, but it clips a bit when you do that. |
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That's it; Ah so, it was rapid fades rather than on-off muting. It's the way it cuts some instruments, but not others, make it sound like 2 channels playing into a mixer and one is alternately muted/allowed to play, whilst the other plays on. |
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