You just jolly well leave our Doc alone you nasty pair of Buggers!
He's got enough problems what with his prolapsed woggle and that rather distressing mystery ailment he don't like to talk about.
How is the problem these days then Doc. Have they still got you shoving them foot long enemas up your arse every morning before you can sit down to brekkie?
I just hope that that rather Odd Smell has disapated since I last saw you. The looks from the people in that bar...............Corrr they didn't half give you some funny looks Oppo.
I've accepted the place at Buckinghamshire. A lot of things not mentioned on the board helped me make up my mind. But top of those was my familiarity with the area surrounding the University as well as friends currently living or studying nearby.
So in september i'll be studying here:
Nice isn't it?
Sonne
Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds - Homer
I was down in the area for a wedding yesterday. It's very easy to get back to my regular digs in Harrow from there plus it's near a river and there are a number of watersports facilities in the area. So i might use my free time to start canoeing again.
Sonne
Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds - Homer
hi Sonne!
Well dont know as of yet if my opinion will be appreciated, but oh well,. . .
I think that going to university will be of benefit, firstly because anytype of knowledge is always a plus, and if its's something practical, the better.
You'll probably will have more time for training and extra facilities too ( i suppose for free ). . . i went to uni, i'm studying something that doesn't really interest me, but that's what i've been admitted for (french language-litterature and applied linguistics), but here in this balkanian state, your first degree is free, and if i choose to switch, well, i should pay. . .so hopefully finishing this, training hard, and will be where i wanna be
(as still i'm starting hopefully at the nat.defense uni in september...waiting ...and more waiting).
I like think of this as of the athletes for the Olympics...4 years of working hard, but then it's worth it...
---only a subjectif opinion of somebody far-far away ---
Sonne wrote:I've accepted the place at Buckinghamshire. A lot of things not mentioned on the board helped me make up my mind. But top of those was my familiarity with the area surrounding the University as well as friends currently living or studying nearby.
So in september i'll be studying here:
Nice isn't it?
Sonne
Sonne
Looks like Sandhurst to me Go on do the decent thing and join us Pongos!!
We'll see mfat_man. I'm going ot apply for B Coy London Regt TA in Edgeware while at uni. (it really is the easiest reserve unit to get to and it's over 20 miles!) So we'll see what life as a part-time pongo is like. Doubt it'll change my mind though.
Sonne
Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds - Homer
Sonne wrote:We'll see mfat_man. I'm going ot apply for B Coy London Regt TA in Edgeware while at uni. (it really is the easiest reserve unit to get to and it's over 20 miles!) So we'll see what life as a part-time pongo is like. Doubt it'll change my mind though.
My advice is to find a course you WANT to do at Uni, and not one for the sake of it.
I'm doing a course im not particularly interested in, and it's an absolute nightmare. When it comes to exams, and you have absolutely no motivation/care to pass them, then how do you study?
Don't get me wrong, the student life is great, but it'd be 10x better if i actually believed in what I was doing there. It shouldn't be too late for you to get a course you want (if you havn't already).
If i was leaving school again, i personally wouldn't go to uni at all - it's not the be all and end all. You study for 4 years (when really it could be done in about 2) and get a rolled up pice of paper saying well done at the end. If the course you're doing is specific and you can get a good job out of it (after the forces) then give it both barrels, if not think twice about where you're aiming - it might be your only clear shot.
Hello there, just adding my thropney bits to proceedings... Just finished uni, and I did what was seen as a 'soft' degree, philosophy, and i'll tell you its not gonna seem soft once i've sold it to the ACA(O) lol. In terms of military aspirations I seriously doubt what you do will effect it, no matter how soft it is as long as you can sell the benefits of your course to whom you need to sell it to, it seems you've already done alot of thinking in that direction.
My philosophy degree in reality, in the world of work, is going to do piddly poo squat for me going for anything specific. But the reason I did it, is because I knew I would enjoy it, I just got my final marks back today confirming that I just about scraped my 2:1 (no thanks to lecturer strikes and a 2nd marker on my dissertation who doesn't understand Emmanuel Kant properly... *grumble*) but I'll tell you something for nothing, I wouldn't of even got a 3rd if I hadn't of chosen something I thoroughly enjoyed.
I went in with great expectations of myself, 'i'll get my head down, knuckle down, have few friends, get a first, maybe become a lecturer but boring, it'll be fine'. Did I do any of that? Did I sock! I spent the first year doing any drug I could get my hands on, second year drinking till my eyes bled, and the 3rd year toning down everything in the 1st and 2nd years. I had a great time, made some lifelong friends, grew up a hell of alot, the confidence and application of myself has grown exponentially, especially in the last year and a bit. Before going I was an antisocial, imbalanced wreck, (to be fair the 1st year hallway mates nearly sent me mad... literally). It was a big test of character, and an experience that I reccomend everyone go through, I didn't go in for the degree itself (though it gave me lots and lots of options, don't forget, you can have a degree but it doesn't mean you have to go in as a 'drink-yer-tea-with-the-pinky-finger-sticking-out' officer if you don't want to, but its worth having a degree for the options it will open up to you.
Sorry for the long story, (heh seems its a new habit of mine on these forums), to cut a long story short, there is NO POINT doing a degree you are not interested in and you wont enjoy, you'll spend the 3-4 years enjoying yourself with all your new found friends (its impossible not to make friends at uni, even if you're antisocial like I used to be), but you'll have no motivation to write that essay at 3am before it needs to be handed in with a hangover and a comedown. I may have been as much of a rogue as the next man when I was at uni, but I only ever missed 3 hours of lectures in 3 years (1 through illness, 1 self-inflicted hangover that I almost died from, and 1 that I simply got the times mixed up), BECAUSE I ENJOYED THE SUBJECT.
Don't worry if what you choose is not going to be directly applicable to whatever you decided you want to do in the future, military or otherwise, anything you need to know you can be trained in later. But trust me on this, you will very likely fail your degree due to not turning up or falling asleep in lectures if you don't enjoy the subject.
Go on do the decent thing and join us Pongos!! 
