How many

[Ardiles]

I went to university.

[Lash_sumthin]

graduated from the university of nottingham (finance, accounting & management) still studying now though

[RobertT]

Never went to Uni, did a HND here in Swindon in Business and Finance and had a part time job in the evenings.  I don't for one minute regret not going either - I visited mates at uni a fair bit and it just never appealed to me.  Now working in a job where a degree means very little anyway.

The one thing that always makes me laugh is the sheer lack of common sense shown by any of the Grads who come through our building in their first year, no matter how smart they may or may not be.  I remember school and college and both of them seem to provide little or no grounding for life outside of them, so I'm assuming Uni's just extend that.  That's not being disingenous to all of you at or graduated from Uni, just a comment on how the system seems set-up with the wrong end result in mind.  I've yet to find the skill of answering exam questions or writing lengthy essays discussing the merits of the statement "The camera never lies" to be of much use in the past 15 years.  I'm sure the process works for some "Professions", but most people don't end up in one of those.

I recently went in to help at Kingsdown for a day and it was startling to see just how poor the levels were, but I'm sure my class when I was a kid was the same.  I think schools, colleges and Uni's should all be much more closely linked to businesses.

[chalkies_shorts]

Never been to Uni but I've got 5/12ths of a degree from the OU - will finish it one day but too busy working stupid hours trying to avoid being made redundant by some complete fuckwit corporate useless clone retard who is about 3 grades higher than me. And all because I told him he was a wanker and proceeded during the next 20 minutes to tell him exactly why and then went back for 2nds a coupel of weeks later.  

[Batch]

I went to Uni (BSc Computer Science). Reading for a BSc means I had to go to lectures and everything. Unlike those part time BA gits that I shared a house with.

Can we break down proper Universities from the johnny come lately jumped up Polytechnics, playschools, agricultural colleges, and so forth please. De Montfort, we all know you're Leicester Poly in disguise. Need I go on..



edit: damn it, the Poly thing has already come up I see. And rightly so.

[Bogus Dave]

Haha yeah, all you university wannabes

[santasdead]

I went to Uni (BSc Computer Science). Reading for a BSc means I had to go to lectures and everything. Unlike those part time BA gits that I shared a house with.

This.

But it seems i don't go to university - oh well.

[wiggy]

I went to the Polytechnic of Wales and am old enough to have graduated before it morphed into the University of Glamorgan. Managed to come out of it debt free by dint of working my knackers off all the way through, I had simultaneous jobs in the Mothers Pride bread factory, a pub and a corner shop.

All undergraduates should be forced to work on a factory production line with a couple of hundred people who hate students. Now that really gives you a realistic insight into the real world.

[adje]

Loughborough

[Saxondale]

I went to Uni (BSc Computer Science). Reading for a BSc means I had to go to lectures and everything. Unlike those part time BA gits that I shared a house with.

Can we break down proper Universities from the johnny come lately jumped up Polytechnics, playschools, agricultural colleges, and so forth please. De Montfort, we all know you're Leicester Poly in disguise. Need I go on..



edit: damn it, the Poly thing has already come up I see. And rightly so.

Demontfort Uni.  Preparation for life.  2.1 in English thanks you very much.  Has helped me not one jot!  Spent my life in the student union working.

[Rich Pullen]

I went to the Polytechnic of Wales and am old enough to have graduated before it morphed into the University of Glamorgan. Managed to come out of it debt free by dint of working my knackers off all the way through, I had simultaneous jobs in the Mothers Pride bread factory, a pub and a corner shop.

All undergraduates should be forced to work on a factory production line with a couple of hundred people who hate students. Now that really gives you a realistic insight into the real world.

I'm a modern university student: I worked throughout my time as an undergraduate and I work full-time during my Masters.

Oh and I worked part-time at the Hygrade factory in Chippenham when I was at college.

So there...

[Bogus Dave]

The way i see it, i've got the rest of my life to hang around doing tedious jobs which i don't enjoy, just for the money. Thats at least 20 years.

This is the last chance i'm going to get to live with such little responsibility, untill i'm an incontinent senile old fool. And i'm prepared to make the very most of it whilst i can

[wiggy]

I'm a modern university student: I worked throughout my time as an undergraduate and I work full-time during my Masters.

Oh and I worked part-time at the Hygrade factory in Chippenham when I was at college.

So there...

I wasn't having a pop at the current vintage of undergraduate, or making out my generation had it harder. I know I was lucky to go when you still got a bit of a grant from the council which at least part covered your rent.

I guess what I was trying to say is that if you work to pay your way through uni you learn some of that "workplace common sense" that others have alluded to.

[LucienSanchez]

I've had 7 years full time work in IT, got made redundant, and now it looks like I could be heading off to do a History degree, should things work out... Strange way of doing things I guess.

[Bogus Dave]

i'd have quite liked to have done a history degree.

There seems to be far much emphasis on individual working though, which i'd be rubbish at. Good luck mr sanchez