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did/do you go to university? where?

me? university of leeds

― gareth, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bristol. A fantastic place in every way. When I was there it was a very good place to go out, especially as there were a number of clubs/venues which were on boats moored in the harbour. My second favourite city after Oxford, where I live now. One rather odd thing about Bristol is the way it has a reputation, along with Durham, of being an Oxbridge reject university. It was, however, my first choice!

― MarkH, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I went to the University of Manchester. I loathed every moment.

― Nick, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

University of Amsterdam. Loved it for the most part.

― Omar, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

University of Glasgow. I loved it so much I stayed for 5 years as opposed to the standard 4!

― Jonnie, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

SFU for a year and a bit
then u of a

― anthony, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bournemouth University, I applied to the Dorset Institute, got accepted at Bournemouth Poly and graduated from Bournemouth Uni, hmmm.

Shit university, great beaches, great mates (well a few anyway)

― cabbage, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nick, I've never been to Manchester, and I'd be interested to know why you loathed it, not least because a few people I met in Oxford have moved there recently and I expect I shall be visiting in the near future. So was your laothing as a result of the course/the people/your accommodation/the weather/the fact you were there during the Madchester scene/the fact you weren't there during the Madchester scene/the Hacienda/meeting Mark E. Smith/not meeting Mark E. Smith, or some other factors I haven't thought of.....

― MarkH, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Cabbage: applied 1989, accepted 1990, graduated 92/93, I take it?

Have never gone to university myself, and might never now. But even if I did go (and I suspect I'd enjoy it) I'd be wary of flashing my degree about as though it conferred some great unrivalled intellectual vitality. The effect of the mass expansion of higher education (which I welcome *in principle* but not if it accelerates the continued government-encouraged demise of dialect words and local distinctiveness generally) has been to devalue simply having a degree. You have to call on your other individual strengths these days, which makes it easier that pure brains on sticks will be found out for what they are.

― Robin Carmody, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Reading 1980-83. King's College, Univ. Of London 1985-88. Had a wonderful time, especially at the latter. Both very different though - Reading a redbrick campus, and King's more like commuting to work.

― Dr. C, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

very close Robin, applied 90, accepted 91 graduated 95.

A degree from Bournemouth confers not a lot, and certainly nothing to do with brains, especially with some of the dunderheads who went there. Such as Paul from Big Brother......

― cabbage, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oxford. It is a constant source of amazement to everyone I meet (especially men) that I went to the uni not the poly (or rather the old uni not the new one). I have hidden intellectual depths.

― Emma, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Arizona State University.

― Ally, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Emma, it shouldn't surprise anyone you went to Oxford!

I went to Sarah Lawrence College, which is a tiny art college just outside NYC full of art freaks and debutantes. It's expensive (priciest in the US) if you have rich parents but I don't and got a free ride. However if I had spent more time studying than doing cruddy NYC jobs for much-needed cash I would have gotten so much more out of it. Which is why I despair for the way the Brit system seems to be heading!

― suzy, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)

― scott p., Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Manchester as well but my feelings are the opposite of Nick's - for me, it couldn't have been better. The second two years at university were the best of my life. I love learning and regret that my brain has slipped since I left. I don't get half enough reading time these days and my grasp of French, especially, is ebbing away.

― Madchen, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It mainly surprises people who buy into all that Oxbridge crap, i.e. people my parents' / bosses' ages as well as certain public school types who have to buy into it as is a part of that whole crap too. If these people met Pete they would not be so impressed or keep saying 'Oxford? So why are you not RUNNING THE COUNTRY?'

― Emma, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"pure brains on stick" = my goal as a gurl

― mark s, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"pure brains in bowl" = The Mekon.

I went to Oxford, same college as Pete and Emma you will be amazed to learn. But a different year. I did Ancient and Modern History. I enjoyed it though I wish I'd been a bit less arsey and cliquey now.

― Tom, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Who wants to be pure brains on a stick? It is much better to be sex on a stick.

― Emma, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

qut - drama, 1994, 3 days; qut (sorry, queensland uni of tech, bris) - film, 1995, 3 weeks. Uni of Qld - 1995-2000 BA in Spanish and English, focussing on post-sexual identity studies; 2001 - Uni of New South Wales, Sydney, Honours in English/Creative Writing - part creative porject, part thesis on creation of identities/communities online.

― Geoff, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

So Geoff, did ILE feature in your thesis? No one talk to Geoff. He's just studying your habits.

― Sam, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

University of Michigan, currently at Wayne State. Though not for much longer, fortunately.

― Nicole, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Is my pure brain slithering down my stick, or did Geoff just admit that he was D**mintroll?

― mark s, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Northwestern University, which is in Evanston, IL, not the Pacific Northwest. It's called Northwestern because it *was* in the northwest part of the country when it was founded. And it's not Northeastern, or "Northwestern Illinois" or, god forbid, "Northeastern Illinois". It's an elite institution, dammit, and I didn't bust my butt so that prospective employers could think I went to some [cough] other school. Jeez.

― Kerry, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

BA from Rutgers University-New Brunswick. JD from Rutgers-Newark.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Leeds, where I fatally made the acquaintance of Tim Hopkins. It's all been downhill since. Oooh, and I did an MA at Goldsmiths.

― Mark Morris, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I went to SUNY Geneseo

― Mike Hanle y, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh I see, so I'm the thicko poster boy am I Emma? Fair cop, I much prefer people assuming I am thick. That means they are not disappointed when they eventually find out that I am thick.

Ditto then: The Queen's College, Oxford, and I graduated first (1994 - as opposed to Tom's 95 and Emma's babylike 1997).

― Pete, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well I did a 4 year course unlike you skiving 3 year course muppets. And no, lazing around on the beach in Marbella does not count as skiving.

― Emma, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't get this Morris - Hopkins thing. Are they going to have a fight? Will it be televised?

― the pinefox, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

University of Strathclyde, 1996 (hence email address) - 2000. I did three years, got chucked out for a year, came back and passed an exam then got chucked out for good. I did Mathematical Sciences, found it mostly dull except certain aspects, and gradually spent less and less time in lectures and more and more time looking round book and record shops.

― Ally C, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Harvard (duh, like it's not in my email address), graduated in '95 thinking I'd be a homeless loser. College/university was great in many ways, but it was BRUTAL on my self-esteem.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

University of Strathclyde, 1996 (hence email address)
Sheesh, there must be loads of people at Uni of Strathclyde then.
Two years of university. Dropped out after I had enough of Freud. Filty bugger. Now I take random courses, pretending I am smrat.

― nathalie (nathalie), Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, I'm gonna represent the fourth divison!...Thames Valley University (it's not that bad, honestly!), went to Kent originally for 3 weeks, hated it so much...now at North London. Will do a PHd one day, don't know where.

― jel, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm writing a thesis on virtual community and identity too...but I'm not writing about this place, though it's useful.

― jel, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nicole, Wayne State! My brother went there to become an undertaker, they have quite a mortuary science program.

― Steven James, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Never been, never will, don't care really.

― DG, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Here's a site for all you Clinton bashers. Post yer hatred of all things Bill over there till yer hearts are content.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Whoops! Wrong thread ... that one should have gone in the Clinton photo thread. Although I suppose any Clinton haters herein will thank me (tho' most Repugnican Clinton-hatin' types ain't college edumicated).

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pinefox: we're in negociations with Murdoch at this very moment. The problem is that Tim's people are holding out for a WWF-style event, while I, being a gentleman, would rather have sabres at dawn.

― Mark Morris, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Iowa State University (it's in the middle for all y'all foreigners) for my first three degrees, and now the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities) for a ph.d. in philosophy.

― Josh, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My shining path thru academe - tried 3 times - once way back when I was the normal age for such stuff, 'cause it was what Mum & Dad wtd me to do - wasn't even interested really, never went to lectures, played in a band, did all that kind of stuff, stayed enrolled for appearances (for M. & D's benefit I mean) - end of year, gave up. Once a few years later 'cause a couple of my rock'n'roll bro's were doing music 101 & they convinced me to do the same, it would help us to, you know, "take the music to the next level" kind of thing - found out I was only person in class couldn't read music (they all had at least School Cert level [o-lev. in UK terms] music, I had self- taught percussion skillz & that was about it) - gave up. This year - decided doing a philosophy paper would help me keep up w/ my brainy then-girlfriend (you know, that lazy ho) but I went to 1 lecture & thought, this is easy & pointless & boring - gave up AGAIN. Yay me.

― duane, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(Hey Maryann are you doing work or are you on this bitch too - the latter I bet - you lazy ho)

― duane, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Université de Montréal - it was pretty dull and I don't remember much about it - mostly just went to classes then went home.

― Patrick, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I demand a fucking apaoplogy - doom patrol? as if i've got the time/inclination to be that much of a fuckface?! And no, I haven't even started writing the beotch yet, so you can rest easy for a few more months.

― Geoff, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Princeton University, in New Jersey, now-2003 (unless I choose to quit or fuck up beyond all repair). Having a pretty good time, but I think once I'm done I'll get all hugely nostalgic.

― Dave M., Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

does graeme downes teach music 101 in dunedin? two others from university of michigan. i was gently forced to attend because it was free, but i suppose it was alright even if ann arbor is dull dull dull. hillary clinton gave one of the worst speeches ever at my commencement.

― keith, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I always imagined Ann Arbor as a pleasent and liberal place.

― anthony, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yeah graeme d. teaches music here, maryann's in 1 of his classes. when i started doing it tho' was in christchurch, years ago.

― duane, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was so bummed when Princeton rejected me as an undergrad -- more dejected than when NYU Law rejected me, in fact, 'cause I was such a good little grade-grubbing nerd in high school while my undergrad record was, well, not quite perfect (good LSAT score notwithstanding).

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Currently completing my second year in Arts/Law at Monash University (in Vic, Australia, y'all). On the arts side I'm majoring in Comparative Literature.

― Tim, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

WWF-style event? That's exactly the kind of misinformation from the Morris camp which is making this bout so hard to arrange. It looks increasingly likely it will be at Crystal Palace Bowl. But I'm holding out for ciders at dawn.

Oh, uh, Leeds, just like Marky Morris and Gareth, followed a few years later by a masters at Lancaster. Oh, the North.

― Tim, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

MIT: Graduated with a B.S. in Chemistry in 2000. Got a job doing IT stuff - funny that. You wouldn't believe the amount of people who think MIT is just a version of ITT, or a 'Technical' school. To quote one of my high school teachers: "Marianna, you're so bright, why are you going to a Technical school"

So why do I hate Ivy league schools so much anyway?

I have to admit, I think it'd be a good to have done Automotive Engineering and been a grease monkey for a year or so.

― marianna, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

tim - what lit are you comparing?

― Geoff, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Physics at Cambridge 93-97. It was grate in the first year, better in the second, shit in the third and bloody marvellous in the fourth. That last year being so good had a lot to do with me doing a masters in Computation at Oxford 99-00, which was good academically (probably should have done compsci in the first place) but a bit weird otherwise.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Geoff - it's a bogus and foolishly-named interdepartmental faculty somewhere between English and Cultural Studies. Currently doing Post-Marxist Critical Theory, so I'm currently comparing Adorno and Benjamin.

― Tim, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bogus, hmph. I'll be happy to take some of the Comp Lit classes at UM. It's the only place I can get Adorno and Benjamin. ;)

― Josh, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This year, I'll be a freshman at Hampshire College in western Mass. Hampshire's the wankiest school in the world. Top 5 priciest in the country, no grades, three "divisions" rather than fresh-soph-etc, classrooms with roundtables, blah blah blah.

― Otis Wheeler, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

wtf are adorno and benjamin?

― Geoff, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Adorno = man who thought he was smarter than everyone, and for the most part was. Benjamin = smart man who was less stuck-up & wrote some brilliant pieces on allsortsa pop-cult, as well as history, architecture, theatre, literature, you name it. If the term gadfly didn't exist, he would have invented it.

― Sterling Clover, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Applied Physics at Liverpool Poly, when it was in the midst of becoming THE Liverpool Polytechnic, but long before it blossomed into Liverpool John Moores University. 1986-90. A failed Maths 'A'-level sent me there. Two years working hard, two years drinking and socialising but - doh! - the wrong way round.

Then a disastrous MSc at Loughborough, 1990-91.

― Michael Jones, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Otis, I hope you don't have to actually PAY for Hampshire. Whatever you do, if on a 'need'-based scholarship, don't declare HS graduation gift cash or else the bastards will expect you to earn the equivalent next summer. I knew a ton of people who had to stop going to pricey college because the bloody bursar expected them to replicate pre-freshie windfall conditions every single year!

― suzy, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Otis, did you know that there was a student at Hampshire College whose Senior Thesis was on frisbees? Not giving you any ideas, mind you ...

(This brings back bad memories, because Amherst College was another school that shit-canned me undergrad.)

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Josh: the faculty itself isn't bogus - far away the best, most rigorous and most enjoyable subjects in my combined degree. What's bogus is the faculty's existence at my university, as it's just a hollow name that allows students to do cultural studies subjects and english subjects at once without administrative difficulties.

― Tim, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

HS graduation gift cash! I knew there was a reason I should've bothered to graduate high school!

Tadeusz, Hampshire has a list of what the previous year's graduates' Division III projects were on (Div. III = Hampshire equivalent to Senior Thesis, takes two years), it's all either things like "Analyzing the After-Effects of Adorno on Pre-Post-Punk Greek Literature from a Pygmy's Perspective" or "History of Hacky-Sack". I doubt I could've gotten into Amherst College, what with the lack of a high school diploma and all, but the Five College system is allowing me to take Russian there. I'm hoping that by my second semester, I can avoid taking classes at Hampshire entirely.

― Otis Wheeler, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

thirteen years pass...

I am currently overhearing a university canteen its hellish

― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 17:32 (eleven years ago)

what have they been talking about

― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 17:42 (eleven years ago)

ppl that haven't been to university, previous generations and this

― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 17:46 (eleven years ago)

the quality or qualities that these ppl therefore lack

― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 17:46 (eleven years ago)

the shame of it all, now they are saying the shame of it all and its as in the phrase the shame of it all, shake head Morgan freeman hat off shame, but what it really is is just good old shame, the other one, rhymes with blame

― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 17:48 (eleven years ago)

tbf most of the surrounding are just talking like they are ppl or could become ppl given the chance and a few knocks, the ppl discussing shame are american and dubliners that sound american but again tbf there's other americans that seem like grand folks here too I think, here, is just a case of ive sat too close to a cunt or two and there's not rly a fair inference to draw besides

― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 17:50 (eleven years ago)

theres a geriatric in a fisherman's cap over there I'll maybe move

― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 17:51 (eleven years ago)

probably better than the time i tried to do some reading in an otherwise deserted corner of a restaurant, before people from some university LARPing society decided to have a coffee meeting at an adjoining table

― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 17:53 (eleven years ago)

fagvo better, sure

― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 17:54 (eleven years ago)

some days I'd kinda maybe welcome that if I was in perverse form

― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 17:55 (eleven years ago)

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