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Do u like it?

Lets vote

Like what exactly?

Like what..like the word 'it', the character 'IT' out of the Adams Family..what exactly?
Like ecksor..me confused! Or maybe that is that point of the thread..good one..if it is..kinda a rhetorical q.

Reply 3

DaveManUK

10

im guessing;' do you like reading?'

Reply 4

TheLameMonkey

No

As predictable as always :wink:

The only thing that makes it bearable is travelling to Imperial every fortnight, I'm seriously considering making a move to there to do a masters once I finish here..

London TEH ROCKSOR!

Reply 5

Kew

16

I loved it while I was there, last year. But what with the closure of the Music Department and the Halls Review, I'm glad I'm not there any more.

Reply 6

Beekeeper

13

umm i really would have selected Reading as my insurance choice, HOWEVER... for some reason they gave me the highest requirements which was annoying, THEN my fellow friends in Reading made it very clear what a poor reputation it has in the town itself (to be honest, i hadn't even heard of Reading uni until about 4 months ago) and FINALLY... Reading were lovely and kind and sent me a cd rom so that i could see what it was 'really like to be a Reading student' =NOT impressed, who the hell made that video?! FIRST, something the cd pays close attention to is the HUGE 60's council blocks. I couldn't help but notice the UNBEARABLY huge chav population either!... otherwise, the business school looks nice... :smile:

Reply 7

Agrippina

15

Dero

No

As predictable as always :wink:

The only thing that makes it bearable is travelling to Imperial every fortnight, I'm seriously considering making a move to there to do a masters once I finish here..

London TEH ROCKSOR!

Why don't you like Reading? I've selected it as my firm, please tell me what's wrong! :eek:

See pros and cons.

Eeyore

Why don't you like Reading? I've selected it as my firm, please tell me what's wrong! :eek:

Well, I like it so maybe you will too :smile:

I listed a lot more pros than cons in that other thread as you can probably see, but then I spent a huge amount of time making sure that everything from the course to the campus was what I wanted so I guess it's not a massive surprise. I should really be able to think of more cons though, I will add them to the list as I think of them.

Lots of people on here and the livejournal link that Dero supplied really don't like Reading (but then people on LJ tend to moan a lot :tongue:

) but in general I find that most people either like it or don't mind it. However, like a lot of Universities it's not so much a case of it being good or bad but being good or bad for you, so it's best to figure out what you find important and see how Reading fares in that regard. Perhaps if you told us why you chose Reading then we could comment further.

Reply 10

TheLameMonkey

ecksor

(but then people on LJ tend to moan a lot :tongue:

)

Agreed :P

Its my own fault I'm lumbered in reading, I didn't do my research properly and landed off worse because of it.

I should have bothered doing my a-levels properly and gone to durham instead :smile:

Reply 11

Agrippina

15

ecksor

Perhaps if you told us why you chose Reading then we could comment further.

I chose it primarily because I like the course better than those at the other universities I got offers from, and also because it's just the right distance from home and close to my bf!

Reply 12

ecksor

1

Unless the course is maths I can't offer any help to you there ...

Reply 13

Evil Muffin

1

kew96158

I loved it while I was there, last year. But what with the closure of the Music Department and the Halls Review, I'm glad I'm not there any more.

Reading was my insurance and I remember at the open day, the woman said music was dying. Tis sad - happened here in Exeter too!

Reply 14

Kew

16

Evil Muffin

Reading was my insurance and I remember at the open day, the woman said music was dying. Tis sad - happened here in Exeter too!

Yeah, it was (is?) a crying shame. Aside from the fact that it honestly didn't deserve to close (which I'm sure is the case for Exeter too), I think it is such a tragedy that it was Music that was deliberately underfunded, then closed, rather than any other departments - just because the university was running a bit low on cash, and had the philistine view that Music doesn't count as much as subjects like Meteorology, Agriculture or Land Management.

Out of interest, what was Exeter's excuse for closing down their Music Department? Was that down to lack of money too?

Reply 15

Evil Muffin

1

Yep, it was lack of money: they wanted to put money into other departments, as music's research rating was too low. Its a pity: music may not be 'useful' to society in the way that say physics is, but its a pretty fundamental subject in academia, and having that gap in a university's subject repetoire is never a good thing.

Reply 16

MattG

1

Evil Muffin

Yep, it was lack of money: they wanted to put money into other departments, as music's research rating was too low. Its a pity: music may not be 'useful' to society in the way that say physics is, but its a pretty fundamental subject in academia, and having that gap in a university's subject repetoire is never a good thing.

a real shame, now the agriculture department is getting millions of pounds thrown at them because it is already highly renowned and could become world class, i think its a case of putting all their eggs in a few baskets and make excellent departments, seems that universities dont have the budgets to have such wide range of courses these days