I envy Oxford students so much!

Evidently, one goes to university to study, not to party.

(Of course the social life is important, but what ****er applies only so he or she can just party all through 3 years without doing any work?)

Wow this comment got 10 negs.

Some people have some pretty ****ed up priorities when it comes to uni then. Do you really pay £3000 a year tuition fees primarily for your social life and secondarily for your education? REALLY??

Just no. Your lack of intelligence amuses me, as well as the fact that you will probably never have a serious relationship.

Is it a wonder I intend to go to Oxbridge? The interview system keeps the uneducated, all-partying riff-raff out.

This is why I was considering applying next year to Oxford; I hate the idea of university being a 'partying/drunk atmosphere'. They don't do straight Psychology though, so it's not the best for me.

This is why I was considering applying next year to Oxford; I hate the idea of university being a 'partying/drunk atmosphere'. They don't do straight Psychology though, so it's not the best for me.

Experimental Psychology?

http://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/undergrad/ugexppsy

what do you think oxford and cambridge are like? people sitting on their hands and refusing to look up from a book?

it's a university with thousands of students aged mainly 18 - mids 20s (what do you think happens!?) - and given the proliferation of it's drinking socs - drinking is as big as anywhere else.

Is it accredited by the BPS? It probably doesn't matter if it isn't as I'll need to do a Masters and PHD anyway. If I hit my predicted grades I might consider that!

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This is why I was considering applying next year to Oxford; I hate the idea of university being a 'partying/drunk atmosphere'. They don't do straight Psychology though, so it's not the best for me.

Obviously, there are bops and college bars.

But partying being the SOLE reason why someone is at university? That's just pathetic.

Haha, Oxford has as much of that atmosphere as other universities, if not more.

Lol nerds. You need to go to Oxford to validate your self worth and to be 'elite' lol.

Sorry, but I do. Maybe I wasn't clever enough to get in. Or maybe I just didn't work hard enough. However I would love to have gone to Oxford rather than to some mediocre institution. Yes, I know by mediocre I'm referring to a university that 80-90% of people aren't able to go to, but so what? It isn't the best. Oxford is for the elite and I wasn't there.

It's hard-wired into British culture - particularly amongst the middle classes - that only Oxbridge matters - other Universities are nothing special. That's not really an intellectual point (the British aren't that keen on brains) it's more about the beauty, history and cultivation that Oxford is supposed to possess. It's also about our perfectionism, we are quite hard on ourselves. Anything less than the best(?) is a bit pointless.

I reckon I would have been happy at Oxford, although the workload and some intimidatingly bright peers might have tested me to the limit. I'm easily infuriated by the very cerebral. Still at the time I wanted to go to some big city and have a crazy party for three years. A bit embarrassing now I think about it and a waste of three years. But you live and learn I guess.

Such as?

Not getting into Oxford could be for some people the equivalent of your perfect husband marrying another girl, or being fired from the job you always loved or having a miscarriage when you really wanted a child.

People take different things seriously.

Lol socialites. You need to go to a club to validate your self worth and to be seen as "superior" to those who do know. Seemingly, being "social" is being at the end of the human spectrum.

why's it matter how old someone else is?
argumentum ad hominem is poor form.