2017 Oxford Prospective Students

Original post by fablereader

Here's another person doing Classics. My Greek isn't as good as my Latin, but I'm OK at it.

Same as me. I was at the Greek summer school at Bryanston and I came back from that with better Greek than Latin but it's switched round again. 😅

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loool my latin is better than my greek but I am not applying for classics so :tongue:

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Original post by Izzie1234567

Same as me. I was at the Greek summer school at Bryanston and I came back from that with better Greek than Latin but it's switched round again. 😅

Ooh, a summer school! I've never been to one. How was it?

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Original post by fablereader

Ooh, a summer school! I've never been to one. How was it?

I had a really great time. It was a lot of work but I improved so quickly and there was loads to do. It was also really nice not to be in the minority because lots of people took Latin and Greek :biggrin:

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Original post by Izzie1234567

I had a really great time. It was a lot of work but I improved so quickly and there was loads to do. It was also really nice not to be in the minority because lots of people took Latin and Greek :biggrin:

Much of the summer was boring for me, nothing to do. I considered going to one this year, but either I couldn't go to them or they didn't interest me enough. I can't get why more people aren't interested in Classics.

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Original post by Izzie1234567

Oh wow I found another person applying for classics! I'm not doing Greek from scratch but I only have the As so I think I'll be somewhere in the middle.

Original post by fablereader

Here's another person doing Classics. My Greek isn't as good as my Latin, but I'm OK at it.

Whoop for classicists! Which colleges are you applying to? Bryanston Summer school sounds like fun, I'm gutted I never got to go there ^^

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Original post by mazzaion

Whoop for classicists! Which colleges are you applying to? Bryanston Summer school sounds like fun, I'm gutted I never got to go there ^^

Haha this is great. I'm applying for Oriel.

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Original post by wolfmoon88

loool my latin is better than my greek but I am not applying for classics so :tongue:

What are you applying for?

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Original post by Izzie1234567

What are you applying for?

Human Sciences :tongue:

Bad memories in classics class... :shudder: translating Lucretius at 7am in the morning :tongue:

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Original post by mazzaion

Whoop for classicists! Which colleges are you applying to? Bryanston Summer school sounds like fun, I'm gutted I never got to go there ^^

Merton college. It just feels right for me.

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Original post by wolfmoon88

Human Sciences :tongue:

Bad memories in classics class... :shudder: translating Lucretius at 7am in the morning :tongue:

*blink* That's a bad memory? (Although, translating philosophy first thing in the morning maybe isn't great.)

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Original post by fablereader

*blink* That's a bad memory? (Although, translating philosophy first thing in the morning maybe isn't great.)

as a none hardcore classics student... you have no idea :tongue:

*shudder*

translating philosophy in the morning is never great in any language

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Original post by wolfmoon88

as a none hardcore classics student... you have no idea :tongue:

*shudder*

translating philosophy in the morning is never great in any language

True on both counts. I'm translating Plato's Phaedo as a set text and I prefer to do it when I'm fully awake.

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Original post by fablereader

True on both counts. I'm translating Plato's Phaedo as a set text and I prefer to do it when I'm fully awake.

I had to translate Lucretius and Seneca as set texts..... the Seneca was ok... the Lucretius was really annoying

But my teacher's favourite was Lucretius and therefore we were all forced to read it :tongue:

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Original post by wolfmoon88

I had to translate Lucretius and Seneca as set texts..... the Seneca was ok... the Lucretius was really annoying

But my teacher's favourite was Lucretius and therefore we were all forced to read it :tongue:

*wince* I myself would not prefer to translate philosophy (especially a small part of it; what's the rest of the argument?!) but it's probably best I get some experience with it.

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Original post by fablereader

*wince* I myself would not prefer to translate philosophy (especially a small part of it; what's the rest of the argument?!) but it's probably best I get some experience with it.

Yeah translating epics and stories are much better or some pseudo-academic texts like Strabo's Geographica... yeah as a prospective Classics student you will probs have to translate philosophy a lot. I am glad I am past that stage of my life :tongue:

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Original post by wolfmoon88

Yeah translating epics and stories are much better or some pseudo-academic texts like Strabo's Geographica... yeah as a prospective Classics student you will probs have to translate philosophy a lot. I am glad I am past that stage of my life :tongue:

I probably will. Still, for me, the good far outweighs the bad.

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