Current UCL students' chat thread!

Malcolm Grant with a 400k or whatever remuneration, and soon to be nine grand per head going to college, is still going to charge the students forty grand to clear up.
"Look, we'll raise the fees especially for you!"

Makes me want to take a wrecking ball to his office to be honest.

Chalk? You guys are pissed at some chalk? It washes right off, it's not like it's spray paint

And "wah wah wah, war memorial, wah wah wah" oh SHUT THE **** UP. MY GOD, A) IT'S AN INANIMATE OBJECT, B) MOST PEOPLE ASSOCIATED WITH THAT ARE DEAD. WHO THE SOD CARES? PEOPLE WITH TOO MUCH TIME ON THEIR HAND CLEARLY.

It's a memorial. If you need some cement and bricks to remember some dead people then take some bloody ginko tablets.

Disrespectful? THEY ARE DEAD. END OF. They are too busy being dead to care and their relatives clearly have far too much time on their hands if they care.

"People gave their lives etc" Yes and does that make it right?. If I gave my life so you could paint your toenails pink would that mean you were obliged to do so?

Oh and then there is the fact that many were pressured into joining the army against their will. I mean do you REALLY want to get into the whole topic of people being pressured into joining the army? Because with the whole movement of the white feather I'm pretty sure I have you beat. Why the hell are we romanticizing the second world war? .

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I hate the chalk as it makes the pretty UCL look disgusting. Everytime i enter the quad on my way to lecture etc my eyes meet those vile, childish comments that piss me off. Whatever did the buildings do to them?! -___-

The class of honours degree shall be determined by the relevant Board of Examiners on the basis of the results obtained in 11.5 course units, to be selected as follows:
a) The best 3.0 course units from Year 1;
b) The best 3.5 course units from Year 2;
c) The 1.0 Year-Abroad unit (from either two 0.5 units or 1.0 whole unit, as appropriate);
d) The 4.0 course units taken in Year 4.
Classification will be based in the first instance on a consideration of the mean of the 11.5 units of assessment, averaged for each year and to be weighted 1 : 3 : 5: 5 , as follows:
e) Year 1: 1
f) Year 2: 3
g) Year 3: 5
h) Year 4: 5
The Year-Abroad unit (or two half units, as appropriate) will be given a weighting of 5.

I'm quite disgusted at the people in this thread who say that the war memorial doesn't matter if it's desecrated. Because the dead people are dead and you don't agree with their war?

There are so many things wrong with that sentence, let alone starting on the implications of the entire disrespect for memorials. Yeah, it's bricks and morter. Paddy said (it was Paddy?) in his drunkness that if you need bricks to remember something you're a **** - well, tbh, I'd rather have the memorials than not, so kids will ask their parents what it's for. My cousin, granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor, knows **** all about the Holocaust. That's a problem. It's a massive problem when kids don't know. They won't listen in school (for the majority of kids, they just won't) and they won't learn about it at home if the parents don't know and won't tell them. Consider the fact that a lot of people in Britain today ARE uneducated past secondary school and aren't interested in history. They WON'T educate their children about this stuff - but they'll see poppy wreaths and see the memorial on TV and they'll see stuff like the Portico.

It'd be like Poland demolishing its Holocaust memorials.

Just no. There is so much wrong with that argument, that if you need to see something to remember it it's stupid - it's just such CRAP to say that. It's really offensive to anyone that has an ounce of respect for PEACE. Yeah, PEACE. If people forget the horrors of war, they'll not be bothered about having another one. ****'s sake, people.

Anyway, I'm dropping out.

Yeah, why does the quad always smell like someones thrown up there?

Some country donated a tree to UCL that bears fruit which releases a chemical often found in vomit

what? which tree is this?

I've never noticed it.

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I hate the chalk as it makes the pretty UCL look disgusting. Everytime i enter the quad on my way to lecture etc my eyes meet those vile, childish comments that piss me off. Whatever did the buildings do to them?! -___-