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Reply 40

JamesF06

just...as a word of advice from someone who's been through the uni ringer once...going for oxbridge because the family wants you to isn't necessarily a great idea. And you'll get shot at Nottingham lol. I've got a friend there.

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Reply 41

mmmyummy

this email means nowt - i got it ages ago, and theyve rejected me afew days ago2! its so mean - they pose questions and hope after sayin "we hope 2 c u soon" , then they just snatch that hope away...tut tut exeter-im highly disappointed in u...

Reply 42

JamesF06

Where's that gimp that said we'd all definitely got offers? Grrrr. Still heard nothing though. Am I the only one of the Sports email people left? Maybe it's a poisoned chalice

Reply 43

Lady_Muck

you won't get shot at nottingham...! I know 3 there and they've never even seen a gun.

Ooh, it's like the final countdown :p:

I was in Exeter today, the city has gone very downhill lately anyway so I'm rather glad with the dull shopping!

Reply 44

JamesF06

sour grapes! lol. Never been to Exeter...been through it though and it looked lovely. Anywhere would be better than where I was

Reply 45

Lady_Muck

It's not sour grapes because it's still very nice, just the shops in my town are exactly the same minus dingles!

Reply 46

Holliver!

well a month after the email they've finally given me an offer... PHEW.

Reply 47

JamesF06

Damn insomnia. Congrats on the offer. What's Exeter like anyway? To Lady Muck...whose opinion seems valid. As a place.

Reply 48

leona

Ook...I got an offer aaaages ago, but I never had that email :confused:

Ah well, its not like I do sport. (I do feel kinda left out though! Did they only send it to people that hadnt had offers yet?

Reply 49

Lady_Muck

It's a really nice city, it's small and quaint, really.

Cathedral Green is really pretty and lovely to sit on in the summer. Many a time have friends and I grabbed some fast food (there's a KFC, McDonalds, BurgerKing and Pizza Express around) and sat basking in the sun under the backdrop of a cathedral!
The shops are a bit samey, there isn't anything there that isn't in any other large town to be honest. They have all the major highstreet chains, 2 department stores, tkmaxx, matalan, down Gandy Street there are smaller boutiques but nothing particularly wow, but it's really decent place to shop.

Going out at night it's great (I think it depends on who you're with, to be honest), there's a Chumley's, Wetherspoons (right by the uni), various bars and then there's Arena (big club) and another (Club 20 or 2000 or something!) so you get by. If you like really hardcore clubbing, you'd be stupid to go to Devon tbh! I've never felt unsafe in Exeter, that's shopping...Out...Wherever :smile:

Reply 50

Ciari

I got rejected after recieving the email.

Reply 51

zoea85

Aw sorry thats pretty harsh of them. They shouldn't of sent the email if they were gonna do that cos it was pretty ambigious. Good luck with your other choices x

Reply 52

JamesF06

Ha. They rejected me for English and Classics but offered me an unconditional place for Classics...which is the better and more competitive degree. WHAT?

Reply 53

Lady_Muck

Exeter are really going for the abstract this year, non?

Reply 54

JamesF06

I just don't know anymore. Am considering just not bothering with uni.

Reply 55

Lady_Muck

Depends where you live I guess, if you live in Devon/Cornwall I'd be inclined to say get a degree as the job prospects down here (in terms of wages etc) Are pretty poor.

I don't know either, hence gap year!

Reply 56

JamesF06

Well I'm on one now...effectively and am going round europe for a month then (I think) swanning off to the south of France for a month or so. I guess the world's my oyster and it's a good feeling. I live in Yorkshire and I might be able to get by as a novelist, I'm not sure. But good luck with your gap year, I might be taking a whole one and going to do English with Latin or Classics at the University of Leeds. A break can be a really good thing, it definitely is and has been for me. If you want to go and pick grapes in the South of France with me just let me know lol there's gotta be somewhere that wants the job doing.

Reply 57

Lady_Muck

My friend and I were going to do that this summer, but she's found a job in Monaco so we're not anymore!

When are you going grape picking? (As glamourous as it sounds!)