[S4B]

I can't be bothered reading all that but I'm guessing it goes "blah blah blah the youth of today.... blah blah blah we could solve all maths problems in our head blah blah everyone was more intelligent than kids today blah blah".

Balls.

No it doesn't!!!!!

[foot-loose]

to be honest, thats how I read it as well S4.

[MK Chris]

And me.

[S4B]

Well you're not reading it properly, go back and read it again

[foot-loose]

there's too many big words

[kendra k]

this thread gave me a headache. too many big words and stuff. then again, i'm the product of the broken american public school system. how i made it to university is a mystery.

[S4B]

Ah Kendra that's easy you're an intelligent woman!

[Yudster]

S4B, I don't believe your kids "have" to do the 11-plus, thats a voluntary examination. My son took it because he wanted to try to gain a place at a particular school which selects on 11-plus exam criteria (he didn't). My daughter was happy to go to the school she was down for, so she didn't bother.

[cherrydrops]

...Not all teenagers are..TOTAL retards.
I'm 19, and fair enough I DO use text talk and stuff, but thats only coz this is a forum where I go in my spare time. But to be fair, going to uni has been almost the biggest waste of money ever, I might as well have just moved to a different town for a few years. I still have one year left doing media production and I still don't knowthe full workings of a camera.

Oh and my geography is rubbish. Thats a fair point. But I've always been hopeless at geography, dropped it in year nine.

What else... Oh grammer...yea that...depends, sometimes, my spelling is worse than anything, BUT (I'm gunna be giving my self a stupid excuse) I'm chinese and my parents speak chinese to me. (It is no excuse really, I've never lived in China before...but I like it!)

I am a bit of a retard though....

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Not accusing anyone of calling young people retards....thats just my wording.

[Ballbag]

But to be fair, going to uni has been almost the biggest waste of money ever, I might as well have just moved to a different town for a few years. I still have one year left doing media production and I still don't knowthe full workings of a camera.

To be honest, I don't think you can say that generally uni is a waste of money, I think the course choice (and I'm not saying yours, but sometimes) can prove to be the waste of money. Some of the pap you can enrol in today is ridiculous.

[cherrydrops]

But to be fair, going to uni has been almost the biggest waste of money ever, I might as well have just moved to a different town for a few years. I still have one year left doing media production and I still don't knowthe full workings of a camera.

To be honest, I don't think you can say that generally uni is a waste of money, I think the course choice (and I'm not saying yours, but sometimes) can prove to be the waste of money. Some of the pap you can enrol in today is ridiculous.

...pap?

I do have rubbish lecturers, who don't teach, actually, all they seem to do is critisise anything...popular, like Mr Chris Moyles. But they do say how hard he works, so its ok. Oh well, one year to go, then I can naff off and try find myself an actual job. But I'm not a bum, I do work.

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[Ballbag]

May I ask what university you're at?

[cherrydrops]

The University of Winchester.

Sounds posh right.
SO not.

x

[Yudster]

My sister in law went there. Now she really is thick.

[cherrydrops]

hahaa. small world.
It is the rubbish uni unless you study teaching.

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[Yudster]

Oh, and Danny by the way. Yes, I know, I'm a dirty old woman. But he is CUTE.

[cherrydrops]

Oh, and Danny by the way. Yes, I know, I'm a dirty old woman. But he is CUTE.

HAHA Danny? Yea? Because Jon Robyns is pretty cute too!

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[foot-loose]

Oh, and Danny by the way. Yes, I know, I'm a dirty old woman. But he is CUTE.

No - Jon.

Sorry.

[cherrydrops]

Oo... he he, I feel I'm going to end up more confused!

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[kendra k]

To be honest, I don't think you can say that generally uni is a waste of money, I think the course choice (and I'm not saying yours, but sometimes) can prove to be the waste of money. Some of the pap you can enrol in today is ridiculous.

this is so true! i know people who are taking out $60,000-$100,000 worth of loans to study english lit, art, philosophy and such. then they graduate and can't pay their loans because they can't get a job that pays more than $40,000 a year. it's totally stupid. i'm taking $60,000 for two years, but i'll hopefully be making that much when i graduate.

[Ballbag]

Well I wasn't trying to suggest owt, but it's got to be said that you're more likely to recoupe your expendature if you do a vocational degree, rather than just a "subject".

[cherrydrops]

Yea, I do...Media Production. Which is, KIND of can be taken as studying Media, but then its quite specific as well.

Eh, I duno.!
FYP next year.

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[kendra k]

Well I wasn't trying to suggest owt, but it's got to be said that you're more likely to recoupe your expendature if you do a vocational degree, rather than just a "subject".

yeah, i know it's a little different over here, but it's pretty much the same thing. it's not to say an english major can't get a good job after uni. they need to have relevant background and internships though. i guess right now i'm getting a professional degree. i'll only be qualified for one vocation really, and that's all the degree is good for.

[MK Chris]

To be honest, I don't think you can say that generally uni is a waste of money, I think the course choice (and I'm not saying yours, but sometimes) can prove to be the waste of money. Some of the pap you can enrol in today is ridiculous.

It's as if someone read your post and decided to prove you right!

[Yudster]

The university said the course had already attracted interest from students as far afield as Essex.

I absolutely one hundred percent promise it wasn't me.