It's 2:30am, and I'm trying to make a decision that...

Corazon wrote:No. I gracefully wander through life not caring about how the decisions I make will affect me in later life. I worry about nothing.

o/

Hell yes Bruh, The way the application system works here is you get three applications for $60, I applied to two universities for Histroy, and then didn't know what the hell to do with the third. My dad suggested I take a look at a geography course for the third one so I thought what the hell and put it down there.

A few months later, I was turned down by both of the original universities for history, but I didn't care as I had learned so much about that geography course I realized I would enjoy that a lot more, so that's where I am now, and I couldn't be happier about it.

Igor. MY wife is a Biomedical Scientist at Northampton General Hospital. If this is the direction you want to take then the best way of doing so is to choose a degree that has a summer placement in a lab which u get paid for of course.

What kind of work is the placement in Japan?

LewisD wrote: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

I said I was sorry!

Return_of_the_STAR wrote:Igor. MY wife is a Biomedical Scientist at Northampton General Hospital. If this is the direction you want to take then the best way of doing so is to choose a degree that has a summer placement in a lab which u get paid for of course.

What kind of work is the placement in Japan?

Fo' serious? I'm trying to arrange a visit to Pathology department (or something similar) at Northants General. You couldn't ask her whether they do that sort of thing, and what I'd have to do to get it, could you?

The Japanese placement (not just Japan. China, Italy, Portugal, France etc) is just a research project in a foreign hospital. You must display language proficiency though, so I don't know if I can be bothered to learn Japanese (or Chinese etc) in the next two years. I definitely want an industry placement for a year though.

Pick the one with the highest girl to boy ratio. Problem solved and more chance for sex, two birds killed with one stone bitches.

I've got to be honest and say that I always find these topics a little narcissistic, unless they have a dilemma that can be solved by general opinion. I wouldn't consider this topic to qualify.

For what it's worth, I'd say choose Manchester as your first choice and back it up with Manchester Met. They both sound like excellent courses, but Manchester is the far better Uni. Please though, never tell any girl you meet in Manchester that you were seriously considering using the Female-Male ratio to decide where to go to Uni. You will find it will work against any positive traits you possess.

Anung Un Rama wrote:Yeah, everyone has to make this tough choice, but basing it off how much women are about is just tarded.

Worked for me sunshine.

Phatman wrote:I've got to be honest and say that I always find these topics a little narcissistic, unless they have a dilemma that can be solved by general opinion. I wouldn't consider this topic to qualify.

Igor wrote: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.

I get what you're saying though. I posted the topic on a whim, after realising that I am yet again mapping my life out, and thinking about all the different avenues it can take based on apparent inconsequential decisions. It wasn't about my university choice (though I welcome the advice), or how much sex I'll get.

Phatman wrote:For what it's worth, I'd say choose Manchester as your first choice and back it up with Manchester Met. They both sound like excellent courses, but Manchester is the far better Uni. Please though, never tell any girl you meet in Manchester that you were seriously considering using the Female-Male ratio to decide where to go to Uni. You will find it will work against any positive traits you possess.

Sounds like a good combo. I'd obviously prefer Manchester, but I'd rather go to Man Met, than somewhere higher in the league tables that I may not like. But again, I was just using the women as an example of a variable that I tend to spend all night thinking about. One possible future could involve me meeting the girl I spend the rest of my life with at university. That is less likely at a Uni, or a town with 30:70 F:M, than 30:70 M:F.

It isn't really a deciding factor in where I go.

EDIT: Though if JNR says it should be, then it is.

In all seriousness Igor, just because you go to Uni doesn't mean it changes everything in your life. One hell of a lot of the girls at my uni were spoilt silly bitches from down South who cared more about what car their dad drove than how he drove it. I had some classic stupid bint girlfriends at Uni, one of them had a mum who spent over £500 every month on 'alternative therapy' for bloody nothing and made her daughter drink all these mad potions for her digestion or some bollocks. She tried to get me to take it!



Loads will ask what your parents do for a living within the first 5 minutes of meeting you, and what sort of house you live in. The worst though, the very, very worst, are the gap year travellers. They are the worst type of student, BY FAR. The reason is, you see, that backpacking around Thailand on the same routes every other silly spoilt bint does was a mind blowing experience for them, changed their life and they met some of the BEST people in the world, like, EVER! So they will want to tell everyone all about it. Normally within 3 minutes of meeting you. Sometimes it will be the conversation opener.

Put it this way, I sifted through the women at uni, picked a great one, but she ended up owning a starbucks card and a blackberry months after she graduated, and started going for drinks in stupid pretentious bars with her unbearable recruitment consultant mates after work where the round was £35 for 5 drinks and so on, so had to go. Now I'm going out with an air stewardess, went out with a girl who worked in a designer clothes shop before that, went out with a lab assistant before that, none went to uni.

THERE IS LIFE AFTER UNIVERSITY.

Also Igor, if you're such a "stud" as you claim than what the hell does it matter how many women there are. Surely you'll have to fight them off with a barge pole.

Igor. You only need one woman to obsess over and never get anywhere with. You're bound to meet one wherever you end up.

Denster wrote:Igor. You only need one woman to obsess over and never get anywhere with. You're bound to meet one wherever you end up.

You say that like it's a bad thing, you know how fun it is.

It isn't the going to university in general that I obsess about, it's which one (in this case). Like I said, my choice could effect the friendships I maintain for the rest of my life, the professional links I forge, the career choices I make (what if I have a lecturer who really inspires me to focus on Haematology?), sexual encounters, illness/injury, blah blah blah.

I've been like this all my life (as can be seen with my indecisiveness over that girl). I'll lie awake and ponder the different outcomes of leaving home at 8.30am, or 8.45am. Should I have coffee in the morning? Cornflakes or Weetabix? I over think the outcomes that my insignificant decisions have both on myself, and other people. It means that normal, everday decisions take much longer for me, than they would for others. It's why I'm taking so long deciding on my university choices. Because these choices could have far-reaching effects, and I can't stop thinking about them. My life could potentially be completely different depending on the five choices I put on that UCAS form. Does no one else get scared/anxious when making a decision like that?

I probably should see a therapist.

I'll do some sessions with you when you come here!

I think Igor may have delusions of Grandeur, with what he has for breakfast and when he leaves the house as pressing issues to ponder.

I think you're in real danger of living your life from the outside, with this amount of analysis. Whatever you do, there will be high points and low points in your life, and you'll always think 'this happened because I did this, that and the other - what are the chances?'

This will happen, whatever you choose to do now.

Make your choice by how you feel when you visit these places - you are going to see them, aren't you? Picking based on all these statistics is so cold. Start feeling stuff!

Just get stuck into it, or life will pass you by, with you on the sidelines.

Don't let the statistics effect* you.


(* Look, I know it's affect, I'm just joining in the game).

Lime wrote:I think you're in real danger of living your life from the outside, with this amount of analysis. Whatever you do, there will be high points and low points in your life, and you'll always think 'this happened because I did this, that and the other - what are the chances?'

This will happen, whatever you choose to do now.

Make your choice by how you feel when you visit these places - you are going to see them, aren't you? Picking based on all these statistics is so cold. Start feeling stuff!

Just get stuck into it, or life will pass you by, with you on the sidelines.

Don't let the statistics effect* you.


(* Look, I know it's affect, I'm just joining in the game).

I've visited Manchester and Man Met, and I'll probably end up going to one or the other. Both offer good placement years, and foreign experience, and I like Manchester itself. Manchester Uni will be my first choice.

Sometimes I feel like I am an outside observer, watching me live my life as I try and guess what will happen next. Probably not that normal...

It's more common than you think. I used to do it myself. Paralysis through analysis.

When you conquer it, life is much richer!

JNR wrote:In all seriousness Igor, just because you go to Uni doesn't mean it changes everything in your life. One hell of a lot of the girls at my uni were spoilt silly bitches from down South who cared more about what car their dad drove than how he drove it. I had some classic stupid bint girlfriends at Uni, one of them had a mum who spent over £500 every month on 'alternative therapy' for bloody nothing and made her daughter drink all these mad potions for her digestion or some bollocks. She tried to get me to take it!



Loads will ask what your parents do for a living within the first 5 minutes of meeting you, and what sort of house you live in. The worst though, the very, very worst, are the gap year travellers. They are the worst type of student, BY FAR. The reason is, you see, that backpacking around Thailand on the same routes every other silly spoilt bint does was a mind blowing experience for them, changed their life and they met some of the BEST people in the world, like, EVER! So they will want to tell everyone all about it. Normally within 3 minutes of meeting you. Sometimes it will be the conversation opener.

Put it this way, I sifted through the women at uni, picked a great one, but she ended up owning a starbucks card and a blackberry months after she graduated, and started going for drinks in stupid pretentious bars with her unbearable recruitment consultant mates after work where the round was £35 for 5 drinks and so on, so had to go. Now I'm going out with an air stewardess, went out with a girl who worked in a designer clothes shop before that, went out with a lab assistant before that, none went to uni.

THERE IS LIFE AFTER UNIVERSITY.

this is very true, and people like igor need to understand this, although not all people that take a gap year are like that, his very accurate.

Igor wrote:I've visited Manchester and Man Met, and I'll probably end up going to one or the other. Both offer good placement years, and foreign experience, and I like Manchester itself. Manchester Uni will be my first choice.

I should probably mention that getting a placement from Manchester Uni is incredibly competititive - you need to get at least 65% (or something like it) in your first year to even qualify for the programme. That's easy enough to do though, if you actually do some work instead of going out every night and getting wasted.

*Got a placement abroad whilst at Manchester Uni*
*Failed his first year*

Although my trip abroad was a requirement of my course. Free holiday, I thought.