University of Glasgow blether thread

Did it last year, if there's anything in particular you're wondering about it?

Not thinking about the course itself tbh, just wondering how popular it is with 1st/2nd year (not very seems to be the consensus).

There were 85 people who took it last year - as a student rep we had a meeting about ACMRs a few months ago so had copies of it. 82 previous year and 93 the year before. Either vast drop in numbers or just the people you're talking to...

It'll just be the people I'm talking to in that case I reckon

From what I can remember, it did have quite good feedback, but it was a rather strange one as the american lecturer said he was pleased enough with the fact that several people just didn't turn up for the exam and as a result there were no Es, Fs, Gs or Hs... all other lecturers were rather perturbed as there was just no record of these mysterious absentees as their not-turning-up hadn't been recorded anywhere. Don't know what went on there...

I would have thought CW would have been a worse thing to award. My mate did say he only showed up to the exam because he didn't speak to anyone at the lectures, but I wouldn't have thought anyone would have done the opposite. I'm told it's just SISL on an international level, so I sort of took it for granted that it wouldn't be the most popular course, but I was still getting a bit worried when nobody was saying they had chosen it.

Probably the reasons you're not finding many people who did it are because they're spread out over a few years (ie so its not all 2nd years doing it or something) and also (when I did it anyway), there was a hugely disproportinate number of international people (presumably just here on exchange doing it), pretty definite they outnumbered the Scots doing it. Wouldn't have really said its that much like SISL tbh, found a lot of SISL quite political, whereas PIL was more technical, very much just from a law point of view.

Dissertation done. Woop!

*Likes*.

Now, I should really be getting on with mine...

I thought you were doing a PhD? You have years to go yet! Probably not the best attitude, but never mind.

Well, we start out as M.Phil students, and do a dissertation. If all goes well, it becomes part of (usually a chapter) the Ph.D. If it doesn't, or we get a better funding offer from elsewhere, we're free to get out and use it as a stand-alone Ph.D preparation degree. Never bloody simple...

Pfft, Oxford, like to make everything so much more complicated than anywhere else! I should really start looking in to postgrad stuff, but since I can't get to the library I can't be bothered really.

Who cares, it's Oxford!

I'd even clip the lecturers toenails everyday for a chance to study there.

Most 'intelligent' women these days are feminists. You shouldn't let them stop you from going to Oxford or Cambridge. If you let those feminists restrict you from achieving greatness then you might as well hold up the white flag and say, "Hey, you've won".

I disagree. There is no need for a female to have a feminist slant on everything she produces.

Also, the Cambridge department isn't up to much at all, there are numerous department throughout Britain and abroad I would consider before even thinking about there. Oxford's department, whilst being slightly better, does not suit my interests.

I don't mean to patronise you, but what you need to understand is that the history of humankind as always been very patriarchal. Men could go ahead and live their lives like normal human beings, whereas women were like machines who did the cleaning and the cooking. And like machines they had to be maintained by providing them with a roof above their heads among other things.

I'd imagine that the above paragraph may have offended you, and if it has I would like to say that I'm sorry. But I'm Ramocito and this is how I am, blunt and rude, but I always apologise after the damage has been done.

In our day and age however, women have equal rights in most countries and should theoretically be equal to men. But this just isn't physically possible. Men are bigger, stronger and more intelligent (just joking).

So women being women go green in envy and they let their jealousy get the better of them. They look down on men and fight and fight for something which is physically unattainable.

'Never give a woman too much power' I always say, because they always abuse it like the feminists and Margaret Thatcher.




I'd go abroad if I were you. If you're going to snub Oxford and Cambridge, then England clearly isn't for you.