The Secret Life of Students on Channel 4
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My thoughts on each of the people in Episode 4:
Brenda - annoying, whiny and bad with money management. why would you go to uni to just not turn up?
Ben- ARROGANT. Also very disorganised. Leaving things til the last minute is never a good idea
Tanya- it was lovely to see how she managed being a single mother and uni/work life. I hope she gets the grades she wants. Definitely a great mother.
Brenda - annoying, whiny and bad with money management. why would you go to uni to just not turn up?
Ben- ARROGANT. Also very disorganised. Leaving things til the last minute is never a good idea
Tanya- it was lovely to see how she managed being a single mother and uni/work life. I hope she gets the grades she wants. Definitely a great mother.
Original post by thechemistress
My thoughts on each of the people in Episode 4:
Brenda - annoying, whiny and bad with money management. why would you go to uni to just not turn up?
Ben- ARROGANT. Also very disorganised. Leaving things til the last minute is never a good idea
Tanya- it was lovely to see how she managed being a single mother and uni/work life. I hope she gets the grades she wants. Definitely a great mother.
Brenda - annoying, whiny and bad with money management. why would you go to uni to just not turn up?
Ben- ARROGANT. Also very disorganised. Leaving things til the last minute is never a good idea
Tanya- it was lovely to see how she managed being a single mother and uni/work life. I hope she gets the grades she wants. Definitely a great mother.
Something tells me that Ben's disorganisation was a little bit scripted
Original post by orange crush
Is there anything more annoying than the "value for money" fascists on twitter. Ugh. Uni is not a product.
Anything you pay for is a product.
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Original post by HarrietROAR
Yeah but you don't pay for uni unless you end up getting a good job out of it. It's basically a win-win situation.
Original post by orange crush
Yeah but you don't pay for uni unless you end up getting a good job out of it. It's basically a win-win situation.
No. You pay for it. Either way. Its irrelivent who pays for it.. it gets paid for.
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Original post by HarrietROAR
No. You pay for it. Either way. Its irrelivent who pays for it.. it gets paid for.
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Yes, but not necessarily by you. Ergo, you don't "pay for it" unless you can afford to.
Original post by orange crush
Yes, but not necessarily by you. Ergo, you don't "pay for it" unless you can afford to.
You still pay for it anyway, who do you think pays the amount you don't pay back? The state. Which is entirely funded by taxpayers. That includes yourself.
Original post by james1211
You still pay for it anyway, who do you think pays the amount you don't pay back? The state. Which is entirely funded by taxpayers. That includes yourself.
Yes but funnily enough your tax contributions will be lower if you fail to meet the £21k threshold. Maybe I'm blinkered because I get my tuition fees paid by the government, but this hole thing about "value for money" seems ridiculous and kinda fascist to me. Students skip the odd lecture, get over it.
Original post by orange crush
Yes but funnily enough your tax contributions will be lower if you fail to meet the £21k threshold. Maybe I'm blinkered because I get my tuition fees paid by the government, but this hole thing about "value for money" seems ridiculous and kinda fascist to me. Students skip the odd lecture, get over it.
What's fascist about it?
Original post by james1211
What's fascist about it?
Not literally Fascism. Think of them as attendance-nazis
Enjoyed the last episode.
Brenda once again managed to annoy me with bunking lectures. One or two is fine but completely ruling them out is silly. Also when she got a job interview then moaned to troy saying she can't do it.....really annoyed me. At least have an ounce of confidence!
Shame about the panic attack, she really overdid it with work/uni.
Ben- typical wannabe medical student. He should have taken a gap year instead of doing a degree straight away. Also applying minutes away from the deadline is idiotic.
Very arrogant too, I can't stand people like him but unfortunately medical students have this a lot. Also it's funny how a lot of the students on his biological science course wants to do medicine
Tanya- impressive she decided to go uni for the benefit of her daughter and herself. A degree isn't necessary for policing but a degree definitely provides a backup plus transferable skills.
No aiden or hasan!!
Overall cool episode, most of it was Brenda which was annoying lol.
Brenda once again managed to annoy me with bunking lectures. One or two is fine but completely ruling them out is silly. Also when she got a job interview then moaned to troy saying she can't do it.....really annoyed me. At least have an ounce of confidence!
Shame about the panic attack, she really overdid it with work/uni.
Ben- typical wannabe medical student. He should have taken a gap year instead of doing a degree straight away. Also applying minutes away from the deadline is idiotic.
Very arrogant too, I can't stand people like him but unfortunately medical students have this a lot. Also it's funny how a lot of the students on his biological science course wants to do medicine
Tanya- impressive she decided to go uni for the benefit of her daughter and herself. A degree isn't necessary for policing but a degree definitely provides a backup plus transferable skills.
No aiden or hasan!!
Overall cool episode, most of it was Brenda which was annoying lol.
Original post by james1211
You still pay for it anyway, who do you think pays the amount you don't pay back? The state. Which is entirely funded by taxpayers. That includes yourself.
Thankyou!
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Original post by mm14
To be honest I don't get why people are calling Ben arrogant, he's quite clearly a clever guy that wants to do well and acknowledges how competitive the medical field is.
His teacher pretty much said he was mediocre, and his general attitude just screamed of arrogance. If he's in university already, he's done UCAS before to get there, he should know how the reference process works and not to leave things so last minute. I don't think he's that clever.
Original post by tnetennba
did anyone else see Ben entering his individual module grades last night, and wonder how the hell he got A*AA overall?!
I did! He had a mixture of A,B,C and D grades even in some of his A2 modules and I was just thinking huh?!?
He probably did some retakes though and those were the grades he got the first time.
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Original post by tnetennba
did anyone else see Ben entering his individual module grades last night, and wonder how the hell he got A*AA overall?!
Most likely his original grades which is why his school didn't predict him AAA.
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