[apotoftea]

(Original post by IlexAquifolium)
I love Harvard as a marker as it allows me to instantly see how much reading they've done.

But surely noting number of footnotes is the same? Albeit smaller to spot...

[Feefifofum]

(Original post by The Lyceum)
Awesome. I'm going up North soon btw. Bursaried and everything (to Durham), maybe I'll find something cool there?

LAst extravagant conference meal, I swear...after that I'll set to losing the Oxford weight in time for next Fencing season.

What's the conference? The Conflict and Concensus one?

[IlexAquifolium]

(Original post by apotoftea)
But surely noting number of footnotes is the same? Albeit smaller to spot...

Takes longer, more effort (since you have to count multiple citations of the same text). Effort = bad.

[The Lyceum]

(Original post by Feefifofum)
What's the conference? The Conflict and Concensus one?

Yeah, going?

[Feefifofum]

(Original post by The Lyceum)
Yeah, going?

Nope, but I know others who are. It's miles away from subject area

[The Lyceum]

(Original post by Feefifofum)
Nope, but I know others who are. It's miles away from subject area

Yeah I figured as such, just thought I'd check just in case you wanted to change dubjects and jump back circa 700 years. It could happen....

[apotoftea]

(Original post by IlexAquifolium)
Takes longer, more effort (since you have to count multiple citations of the same text). Effort = bad.

PRSOM

[ktr]

(Original post by sj27)
Omg. Just got an SMS from our housesitter - the cat is back!!! After all this time. Thin as a rake, drinking milk but not eating. And now we are thousands of miles away and won't be home for another week. I don't actually know quite what to do.

prsom.

what great (but frustrating) news. hopefully your family will all get to bond with him again when you all get back from the trip.

[hobnob]

(Original post by sj27)
Omg. Just got an SMS from our housesitter - the cat is back!!! After all this time. Thin as a rake, drinking milk but not eating. And now we are thousands of miles away and won't be home for another week. I don't actually know quite what to do.

Wasn't there a song about an indestructible cat, with a refrain that went something like this?
But the cat came back the very next day.
The cat came back - they said it was a goner, but it wouldn't stay away...
Seems to have been written with your cat in mind!

Seriously, though, I hope he holds out (and stays put) until you get back.

[Craghyrax]

I've only ever used Harvard, and I've very rarely read anything in my field which didn't use Harvard. So I guess that kind of decides it for me. I do need to learn how to use footnotes at some point though

(Original post by Jake22)
Ha. You sound like one of the poor saps who joins the army because they want to travel around the world skiing and rock climbing but can't face the discipline and hard work. It is a package that works for many people. Of course it isn't going to be tailored to your precise whims. There are plenty who are happy with it how it is.

Erm, no. I had an awesome time at Cambridge, and love it to bits. Other people I know didn't have an awesome experience, through no fault of their own and not through lack of intelligence. But they couldn't have known that before they got there, and its not exactly straightforward to switch University when Student Finance only allows you four years of funding maximum, and there's also a lot of pressure (e.g. parental) regarding not dropping out. And there were a lot of things that the college did which made it a lot worse than it could have been.
This whole thing of 'choice' is a very overly simplified viewpoint, which is very easy to say if you don't know the situation.

[Socrates]

(Original post by IlexAquifolium)
I love Harvard as a marker as it allows me to instantly see how much reading they've done.

I was going to say "Am I the only one who liked Harvard?"

One of my lecturers wanted at undergrad so got used to it and actually got liking it over the four years (apart from one lecturer who insisted on footnotes). I quite like the fact that I didn't have to keep going to footnotes to see who said what.

Seems I'm in the minority though

[Aeschylus]

I'm pretty sloshed.

But I think both Craggy and Jake have merit. Ive never been to Oxbridge, but I've witnessed first-hand the effects of it on my brother. He's always stressed about work and suffers from a massive inferiority complex from what sound like some pretty retrograde teachers.

However, from my experience of Oxbridge friends, a lot of them seem quite hard-wired to this sort of tendency. So I'd say that it might be innate in certain cases but the environment of the university can actively bring it out. Am I making sense?

[Nynyflower]

(Original post by IlexAquifolium)
I love Harvard as a marker as it allows me to instantly see how much reading they've done.

(Original post by Socrates)
I was going to say "Am I the only one who liked Harvard?"

One of my lecturers wanted at undergrad so got used to it and actually got liking it over the four years (apart from one lecturer who insisted on footnotes). I quite like the fact that I didn't have to keep going to footnotes to see who said what.

Seems I'm in the minority though

Yeah I like Harvard, it's just so much easier to pop a citation in brackets rather than fiddling about with footnotes. All the literature I've read seems to use Harvard too.

[Aeschylus]

Also, MLA all the way. Made my essays roughly 10000)% easier than Chicago

[kka25]

(Original post by IlexAquifolium)
I love Harvard as a marker as it allows me to instantly see how much reading they've done.

Regarding the amount of number of reading, how many do you think is respectable? Or impressive even?

[River85]

(Original post by sj27)
Omg. Just got an SMS from our housesitter - the cat is back!!! After all this time. Thin as a rake, drinking milk but not eating. And now we are thousands of miles away and won't be home for another week. I don't actually know quite what to do.

A few years ago one of my cats went missing when my parents were on holiday (I was living at my parents at the time). I was bereft. He eventually came back. I was woken in the early hours by his distressed crying and I came downstairs to find him under the dining room table. He was noticeably thinner and wouldn't eat anything initially but he certainly drank plenty. I think it was just perhaps due to shock and distress. He began to get his appetite back. Try not to worry (easy for me to say, I know).

(Original post by Feefifofum)
Mead You need to visit Lindisfarne sometime

Everyone needs to visit Lindisfarne!

(Original post by hobnob)
So what exactly are the advantages of Harvard, then? I mean, it looks ugly, and unless you already know the bibliography by heart, you'll have to keep leafing back to it to figure out what the hell is being cited. Is it just to avoid footnotes at any cost, or what?

I find it's more word count efficient, which is a big plus. I prefer footnotes and stubbornly resisted Harvard as I thought it looked ugly and just broke up the essay. This continued for about five years but soon gave in.

[Becca]

(Original post by hobnob)
My Lovely Horse

PRSOM.

[sj27]

(Original post by River85)
A few years ago one of my cats went missing when my parents were on holiday (I was living at my parents at the time). I was bereft. He eventually came back. I was woken in the early hours by his distressed crying and I came downstairs to find him under the dining room table. He was noticeably thinner and wouldn't eat anything initially but he certainly drank plenty. I think it was just perhaps due to shock and distress. He began to get his appetite back. Try not to worry (easy for me to say, I know).

Thanks - this cat though is terminally ill and the not eating is partly due to loss of sense of smell (apparently they will not eat what they cannot smell). I'm amazed he is alive still as he was really ill when he disappeared..

Edit to ask: does your location reflect your musical preferences?

[hobnob]

(Original post by River85)
I find it's more word count efficient, which is a big plus. I prefer footnotes and stubbornly resisted Harvard as I thought it looked ugly and just broke up the essay. This continued for about five years but soon gave in.

Not that soon, if it took you five years!

[Socrates]

Interesting article:

http://www.economist.com/node/215577...iousbrilliance

*runs from all the northerners and adorno*