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If you'd been born a generation earlier, would you have gone to uni?

Mainly a question for people who are late teens, early twenties now and going to uni: honestly, if you'd been born into your parents' generation, would uni have even been a possibility for you?

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Probably not.

I don't think it would, no.

(edited 13 years ago)

Reply 3

Arielle

No, I don't think so. I would find out what I loved and pursued it by working as soon as I could. I'm only going to uni now because of the fun it brings now that most people are going (from where I'm from) and because really, it's a necessity with the current state of the job market.

Reply 4

MadameBonheur

Nope, I wouldn't have.

(edited 13 years ago)

No.

Possibly but if i did it would have been to do maths or something

Reply 7

barrze

Yes. My parents met at uni. My grandparents met at uni. Its what our family do!

Reply 8

LemonPi

Both my parents did, so why not?

Reply 9

Fjarskafinn

Yes. My dad did the same thing in the sixties.

Reply 10

Tefhel

Yes, both my parents went...

No chance.

I think so yes, both of my parents went to university.

Probably not. No.

LemonPi

Both my parents did, so why not?

ditto.

Reply 15

Superstar6318

Yes
Education was and still is important to my parents

Reply 16

CuteStar*

I dont want to go now :s-smilie:

Reply 17

Samz

No way.
My parents didn't go, and I wouldn't have been able to afford it by any stretch of the imagination. If I'm honest as well, I wouldn't have been clever enough.

Reply 18

Livilah

CuteStar*

I dont want to go now :s-smilie:

Then don't. There are loads of people who really want to go and can't get places.

I reckon I would still have gone, especially if I had parents who do the same jobs as mine do now.

Reply 19

Manitude

If I was born at the same time as my dad I'd be laughing - he went to university for free with government grants.
Plus he had one of the best music scenes of all time to work with - the early 70s.
And rather than doing physics like I am now, or maths as he did, I'd probably have done something to do with computing and now I'd be much better off that we are now.