Oxford Applicants for 2012 Entry

Dunno if this has already been covered... But which open day is everyone planning to go to?

Dunno if this has already been covered... But which open day is everyone planning to go to?

Dunno if this has already been covered... But which open day is everyone planning to go to?

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None. You?

Aww that's unlucky. Canada is a bit far away though just to come for an Open day. Still a shame though Do you know which college you're applying for?

I'm not sure personally. I'm considering going down in September with one of my parents. Thing is, I don't know if I'd cope with Oxford because it's about 6 hours away from where I live... And I'm pretty bad in terms of homesickness and have always been awful with anxiety.

Aww that's unlucky. Canada is a bit far away though just to come for an Open day. Still a shame though Do you know which college you're applying for?

I'm not sure personally. I'm considering going down in September with one of my parents. Thing is, I don't know if I'd cope with Oxford because it's about 6 hours away from where I live... And I'm pretty bad in terms of homesickness and have always been awful with anxiety.

I can't wait to get away from home

Yeah. Most likely St John's unless I really fall in love with another college during my August visit.

I'm sort of bad with homesickness. I'm 99% certain that I will cry in my bed on my first night of uni. Though maybe I'll be filled with too much illegal (too young for freshers' week) drink to care.

However, I've also travelled alone to family/relatives (i.e. 13-hr flights) 3 times and stayed with them without immediate family for weeks at a time. The last time I did this (last August) I was completely fine after the first two days of moping. I've also stayed at overnight (2 weeks) camps twice. So... I don't know how I'll cope. England is pretty far away from home, especially for a whole uni year... then again it'll be so exciting maybe I'll forget about it. I also have family in Germany/China, which is comparatively close by. *sigh* Who knows...

This, though.

I"m the opposite....I can't wait to get away from home

Yeah. Most likely St John's unless I really fall in love with another college during my August visit.

I'm sort of bad with homesickness. I'm 99% certain that I will cry in my bed on my first night of uni. Though maybe I'll be filled with too much illegal (too young for freshers' week) drink to care.

However, I've also travelled alone to family/relatives (i.e. 13-hr flights) 3 times and stayed with them without immediate family for weeks at a time. The last time I did this (last August) I was completely fine after the first two days of moping. I've also stayed at overnight (2 weeks) camps twice. So... I don't know how I'll cope. England is pretty far away from home, especially for a whole uni year... then again it'll be so exciting maybe I'll forget about it. I also have family in Germany/China, which is comparatively close by. *sigh* Who knows...




This, though.

To continue with the biology anology, I often worry that Gaidhlig is becoming like the panda in the zoo, kept alive by artificial means, with all the funding one could need, yet still not reproducing. Are the goverment merely freezing us as cultural artifacts for tourists to gawp at?

We in Scotland are in a very shaky position. Most Gaidhlig-speaking kids don't speak it in a home or natural environment. For me, I could never abandon my language, but sometimes I wonder if its really some of my mainland dwelling friends' language, or whether its just been forced on them to satisfy their parents cravings for a taste of olde scotland.

In the short term, I'd hate to lose it. In the long term, maybe it'd be better to let it die rather than keep it in a vegetative state, with most speakers not really ever (wanting to) speak it.

Sorry about the length! Language death is often on my mind.

Hebrew is our model - if a language as difficult and obscure could become the language of a nation, then why couldn't celtic languages flourish?

Wow, I went away for a week and this thread grew 25 pages!

Anyone else going to either the Merton or the maths open day on the 7th? I'll be staying the night before at the college, so there's an outside chance I'll bump into Sven or Chiara as they're leaving on the 6th, if they hang around too long. My real name's Jessica.

In the politics discussion, I'm another left-winger. My political compass is in my sig. I'm active in that I lead my school's Amnesty International club, but as I keep reminding people, Amnesty is an apolitical organisation *glares into real world*.

Wow, I went away for a week and this thread grew 25 pages!

Anyone else going to either the Merton or the maths open day on the 7th? I'll be staying the night before at the college, so there's an outside chance I'll bump into Sven or Chiara as they're leaving on the 6th, if they hang around too long. My real name's Jessica.

In the politics discussion, I'm another left-winger. My political compass is in my sig. I'm active in that I lead my school's Amnesty International club, but as I keep reminding people, Amnesty is an apolitical organisation *glares into real world*.



I think that in Edinburgh, which isn't traditionally much of a Gaelic-speaking place, there's probably slightly more Gaelic speaking going on now than fifty years ago, due to the SNP. It's still very marginal, though (except in my Higher music class last year). Incidentally, some colleagues of my parents put their children into the Gaelic stream of Tollcross just because it feeds into our high school, and they leave in a worse catchment. They aren't Scottish at all. And because Gaelic has money and none of the other languages do, our teachers all nick jotters off the Gaelic department. Sorry for the random ramble.



However, you have to remember that almost all Jews could speak a little Hebrew before this, for reading and studying the Torah. Learned men would even be reasonably fluent. So for them it wasn't obscure, just not used for day-to-day purposes. It's a language which all those who identify as Jewish feel somewhat connected to, and they hear and speak it every time they pray. Gaidhlig at least is only like that for a small minority of the population of Scotland, mostly in the Western Isles. The majority of Scots don't feel connected to it, I think.



I'm not sure that any of what I just said makes sense. I'm too tired.

China is miles away!!

Anyone else going to either the Merton or the maths open day on the 7th? I'll be staying the night before at the college, so there's an outside chance I'll bump into Sven or Chiara as they're leaving on the 6th, if they hang around too long. My real name's Jessica.