I told you (some of) the worse stories I could think of that have happened to me so far. LSE isn't always like that, and plenty of people have better experiences. I could tell you loads of good stories and fun times I've had as well. I've got drunk a few times, some good parties, seen some lesbian action, etc
just hung out with mates messing around, we do joke about how lame we and LSE people are, which might seem bad, but it shows that we're human beings and not just LSE drones. We are at least aware that it's weird here. There is actually a facebook group from older students called “overhead at LSE...” where people volunteer lame quotes they have overhead at LSE apparently. Bit weird, but yeah.
I have a friend in UCL as well who is a pretty normal, easy going person. And from what she tells me, it is very similar over there as well. Overworked, and the common room is always dead, etc. I think it might be a London university thing mostly since all my friends outside of London seem to be enjoying university a lot more.
The majority of my classes?
In MA103, which is the interesting abstract maths module, is too early at 9am on friday, so I manage to get out of bed and turn up to about 50% of them (then going to office hours and awkwardly handing in my homework then). It's exactly going though the solutions in moodle, which anybody could do in their room in solitude anyway. The teacher might ask the class a simple question occasionally, look at people trying desperately to avoid eye contact for en eternity, until either she gives up and chooses somebody at random who immediately gives the correct answer, or she gives up and just talks at us.
MA100, which is the moiré routine maths module, is largely the same. Although I really like and respect Derek Wan a lot more so whenever there is an awkward silence I just volunteer the answer. The guy is so succinct and thorough. He reminds me of Frank Abignale from the film “catch me if you can” because we all thought he was a student until he ushered us in the class and started teaching us
. He sounds kind of similar too in my opinion. Really nice bloke actually. I always learn a new word every lesson because of his amazing vocabulary as well.
I changed economic classes as I was always late (all my classes are on friday). It's the same old jazz. Going through the homework pointlessly since we can check the answers online. The teacher is alright though because he just systematically asks people to answer questions so there's no awkward silences. Still, a very pointless class though. The class does seem a bit more friendly though. I’ve only just changed classes and gone to 2 lessons, but I might even occasionally here conversations or laughter.
ST102 is where the teacher just talks at us, not asking anybody anything, and reads out the solutions. If I turn up I just doodle cartoons on my work. The most pointless class of all time, probably. Once I actually asked the teacher a question about standard deviations, and she tried to answer it on the board, but wasn't answering my question, so a classmate next to me tried to explain to her what my question was, but she nothing came of it. I think it was language barrier rather than the teacher being incompetent. Nevertheless, I still don’t know why we only square root the denominator, despite trying to check online. Who cares anyway? Won't matter for the exam and that's all that matters, obviously :\