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Igor wrote:
Charles Manson wrote:
teh bork wrote:You've been watching for to much How I Met Your Mother

Seriously though go to Manchester, there's some great opportunities there to do stuff that most people haven't and possibly won't have the chance to do.

Manchester is win. Great place to go for uni!

I'm still gutted that I narrowly missed getting on a course there. Had to settle with Salford instead.

Manchester, or Man Met?

The proper one.

And as for thinking about the future, I don't honestly think that considering the type of person you will or will not end up marrying or living with in 20 years time after you've carried on education for three years is significant.

I started uni knowing that I'd be more decisive about my future once I'd done the course, as I'd have a better idea of what I want to do then. I don't really think of consequences stretching that far, as I prefer to consider what immediately follows.

Uni reputation also matters because it dictates the quality of the tutelage you'll receive. If you go to a gooseberry fool uni, the worth of the degree will be lower because you won't be taught to the same standard.

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Tbh, University seems to matter alot to prospective employers. I went to Lancaster and got fed up of employers looking for graduates from a specific group of Universities. I think there was an article in the Lancaster University paper recently, saying that there is discrimination towards graduates from "lesser" Universities.

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Freak Out Requiem IV wrote:Okay I'm going to be fair to you this time Igor - the choices you make in your life are your own to mull over, and the criteria that affects your decision are yours to outline. Don't take anything that anyone's said so far to heart.

However, personally speaking, I think it's ridiculous to factor the amount of pussy at any particular university into your decision.

And yes, people do think about how their decisions will affect their life further down the line... almost everyone does, I'd imagine. The difference is that they don't post about it on a games forum under the misguided notion that someone there actually cares. Your life, man. If you want to chase girls, go ahead. That's not my jurisdiction. But on the forum, I'll call you stupid, because I can!

By all means. I don't really expect anyone to care about the situation in the first post. Just like no one really cares about the last time anyone did something for first time, or just like no one cares how any of us are feeling today, or that no one really cares that a Muslim cleric just married a pre-pubescent girl.

The purpose of the first post wasn't really to advertise that I'm making my university choices. Like I said, this isn't a soap opera. It wasn't to say that the amount of fanny is the sole deciding factor of my university choice (though it is something I think about).

It was to hopefully spark a discussion about how we think our decisions affect our lives, and how our lives would be different if an important/unimportant point had gone in another direction, something like that. Fate, choice, a butterfly flapping its wings blah blah blah.

A mate of mine forgot his work keys on 07/07/05. This resulted in him being late for the bus.

Not the bus that exploded, but you get what I mean.

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oh dear,
it sounds like you have OCD

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I'm in the same situation as you except i don't have a clue what course i want to take or what Uni i want to go to what so ever. I win. (also i said it much much shorter) :mrgreen:

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I went to Manchester Met. The poor mans university in Manchester. :mrgreen:

It was alright, didn't do me any harm.... bar the fact i'm sat in a dead end job 5 years after graduation and my working day consists of zero of what I did in my degree. :lol:

Anyway stop stressing about things and just have a good time.

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Karlprof

nice use of the word "twat" there. How old are you? :lol:

Those of us who attended Grammar school can confirm that affect is a verb and effect is a noun. Try looking it up on Dictionary.com if you don't believe me.

AFFECT
af⋅fect1 /v. əˈfɛkt; n. ˈæfɛkt/ [v. uh-fekt; n. af-ekt]

–verb (used with object) 1. to act on; produce an effect or change in: Cold weather affected the crops.
2. to impress the mind or move the feelings of: The music affected him deeply.
3. (of pain, disease, etc.) to attack or lay hold of.

EFFECT:
ef⋅fect /[i-fekt]

–noun 1. something that is produced by an agency or cause; result; consequence: Exposure to the sun had the effect of toughening his skin.
2. power to produce results; efficacy; force; validity; influence: His protest had no effect.
3. the state of being effective or operative; operation or execution; accomplishment or fulfillment: to bring a plan into effect.
4. a mental or emotional impression produced, as by a painting or a speech.
5. meaning or sense; purpose or intention: She disapproved of the proposal and wrote to that effect.
6. the making of a desired impression: We had the feeling that the big, expensive car was only for effect.
7. an illusory phenomenon: a three-dimensional effect.
8. a real phenomenon (usually named for its discoverer): the Doppler effect.
9. special effects.

The original poster wrote: Where I go to university could, and most probably will, effect the rest of my life.

Therefore in this context, they were looking for a verb. Effect is primarily a noun. Affect is primarily a verb. So the correct use would be "Where I go to university could, and most probably will, affect the rest of my life". Otherwise, the sentence had no verb! An alternative would be "Where I go to university could, and most probably will, have an effect upon the rest of my life".

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I would also like to share my distaste for Fallowfield. Its fun for about a week in your first year, then you realise how much of a hole it is. The Friendship is a pretty decent pub though, and Trof is fantastic.

Igor, would you be starting your first year next year? If so, if you get an offer from Manchester for Biomedical Sciences you may well be given a tour of the faculty by me!

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Manchester or manchester met.

We'll go on the piss in town!

As long as you're not too badly affected by alcohol.

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Denster wrote:Manchester or manchester met.

We'll go on the piss in town!

As long as you're not too badly affected by alcohol.

you may wanna use a different word denny, or the grammer nazis will be after you!

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But he got it right.

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Freak Out Requiem IV wrote:
JiggerJay wrote:
Denster wrote:Manchester or manchester met.

We'll go on the piss in town!

As long as you're not too badly affected by alcohol.

you may wanna use a different word denny, or the grammer nazis will be after you!

No, because his use of "affect" was correct.

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JK wrote:I would also like to share my distaste for Fallowfield. Its fun for about a week in your first year, then you realise how much of a hole it is. The Friendship is a pretty decent pub though, and Trof is fantastic.

Igor, would you be starting your first year next year? If so, if you get an offer from Manchester for Biomedical Sciences you may well be given a tour of the faculty by me!

Yeah, 2009 entry. You do Microbiology, right?

I'm just waiting for some women call Amanda in Life Science Admissions to get back to me. I need to know if Biology A, Psychology A, Law B and AS Chem A would fulfill the academic criteria, considering I only have a B and a C at AS so far.

UCAS says this:

Grades AAB-BBB. This should include two science subjects, normally Biology and Chemistry (normally to be taken in one sitting).

So I'm not sure.

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Freak Out Requiem IV wrote:I supported you for once and you do this to me. Piss off Dickster. I'm never helping you out again.

You post a ban request thread. It has an effect!

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You can't change the past, and what happens to you happens. You don't know that if you'd gone to Manchester you would have caused a fire and killed people, you don't know that if you'd gone to this other place you would have met the woman of your dreams and lived a perfect life. And you'll never know anything that's going to happen to you until it happens. And you'll never know the alternatives. So there's no point in dwelling on it.

You're just completely over thinking this. As HoC demonstrated, good is pretty much guaranteed to come out of whatever you do. I went to Heriot Watt, left, and now my life is in a much better position. If things do go to gooseberry fool, unless you have your current attitude you'll bounce back into better things.

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Igor wrote:
JK wrote:
Yeah, 2009 entry. You do Microbiology, right?

That's the one. Final year is rock hard.

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KingK wrote:Those of us who attended Grammar school can confirm that affect is a verb and effect is a noun. Try looking it up on Dictionary.com if you don't believe me.

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You know what I was doing at 2:30 this morning?

Getting woken up by Oh Teh strawberry floating Noes..
Seriously.. I wish I was joking :lol:

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Madness wrote:

That's exactly it!

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