Yeaah most people do know what archaeology is, they think I'm going to be Indianna Jones though! Although, some people are still convinced I'm going to study dinosaurs! it's the anthropology that always baffles people
fair enough though, it's not the most frequent topic of conversation, lol.
Well that's just what I've heard that the sciences have more contact time - labs and stuff. Look in an alternative prospectus i think the OUSU one has 'a day in the life of - A Science/Arts student' or something like that - that's where I got it from. Well, that and my friends in general who are going to do science at uni and look horrified when I mention the concept of four lectures!
Errr yeah, it was mainly talking about artefacts on a big table infront of me. I rambled on about a handaxe for a while, and they asked me why i thought it was symmetrical? Also got asked to define humanity (not easy I'm telling you) Also to define ritual (also pretty tricky) oh and 'what is the point in archaeology? Is it actually useful at all?' Whatever I said to that one seemed to be wrong - my interviewer always had a counter argument, she was so intense!