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Reply 1
I would love to as it really is one of my passions linked with etymology/philology and philosophy, but I think there are other subjects at oxbridge which represent those interests more accurately.
Also a growing fear of mine is the lack of employment opportunites for post-graduates with degrees in less definate subjects. However of course, this may not be the case.
Also a growing fear of mine is the lack of employment opportunites for post-graduates with degrees in less definate subjects. However of course, this may not be the case.
Reply 2
WillSen
I would love to as it really is one of my passions linked with etymology/philology and philosophy, but I think there are other subjects at oxbridge which represent those interests more accurately.
Also a growing fear of mine is the lack of employment opportunites for post-graduates with degrees in less definate subjects. However of course, this may not be the case.
Also a growing fear of mine is the lack of employment opportunites for post-graduates with degrees in less definate subjects. However of course, this may not be the case.
Umm, you like philology and philosophy, and you love classics? I really do not think there is any other subject at Oxford (or elsehwere really) which would be better suited to what you're interested in! Go for it for heaven's sake, you HAVE to apply for the subject you love most otherwise you will not enjoy Oxford and not get as much out of it. If you have a passion for a subject it is definitely worth an application (especially to Oxford for classics). Trust me, you will get so much out of it, and so many 'transferable skills'.
As for career opportunities afterwards with classics, this idea that it's a useless degree is like the damn Hydra! Keeps cropping up everywhere, and the number of times I've had to try and persuade people that it's not the case! (As you'll see, I'm quite vocal about this, it really annoys me when people dismiss classics as useless - not saying you are!)
Just some random facts and so on here:
Classics graduates have one of the highest and possibly overall the highest, rates of employment (at Oxford it's Oriental Studies, another one which ahs people saying it's pointless and you won't get a job.)
Someone- possibly on TSR - posted a list of their friends' degrees (incl university, subject and class of degree) and current jobs and salaries. The classics graduate, who had got a 2.1 from UCL, I think - certainly not the top first or anythign, there were others with higher, and he wasn't Oxbridge so it wasn't anything to do with possible 'favouritism" had a salary of £80 000 a year, £30 000 above the next friend who'd done law, and about 3 times as much as all the others who'd done English, politics et al
Employers like classics - transferable skills! They especially like classics from Oxford because it's a very demanding course. I've never thought about going into investment banking - not my thing, thought I wouldn't hawv the skills, but my mum was talking to an investment banker at some reunion thing, and this topic came up; the investment banker apparently said that if someone with an Oxford classics degree came in for interview they'd snap them up providing they didn't do anything abysmally stupid in the interview.
NB this isn't Oxbridge favouritism, it wasn't the university so much as the particular course at the university that's favoured, (though there are reasons that employers like Oxbridge grads too) and I don't mean to sound arrogant saying that I could easily get into investment banking - this person didn't know me or anything, it was just that they clearly value the classics degree very highly and think that the skills you learn doign it are very useful and applicable to investment banking (and other things).
Ad I don't mean to sound full of myself going on about how great my degree is, I'm not just trying to justify my choice and say that everyone else's degree is useless or anything weird like that!
OK, I hope some of this made sense and I'm not just rambling! (it's the end of term..) Please feel free to PM me or somethign if you want to ask any questions!
WillSen
I would love to as it really is one of my passions linked with etymology/philology and philosophy, but I think there are other subjects at oxbridge which represent those interests more accurately.
Also a growing fear of mine is the lack of employment opportunites for post-graduates with degrees in less definate subjects. However of course, this may not be the case.
Also a growing fear of mine is the lack of employment opportunites for post-graduates with degrees in less definate subjects. However of course, this may not be the case.
isn't philology predicting the future by feeling the bumps on peoples heads or something bizarre like that? (might be phrenology - sorry, its the hangover talking...)
The employment prospects are very good for people with classics degrees - and, also, you are more likely to get a better degree if you enjoy the subject, so its a simple choice really!
Reply 4
Philology is linguistics, basically.
bikerx23
isn't philology predicting the future by feeling the bumps on peoples heads or something bizarre like that? (might be phrenology - sorry, its the hangover talking...)
phrenology!
& it's personality characteristics/traits from bumps on head - now utterly dismissed... but 'neo-phrenology' is emerging.. 
Elles
phrenology! & it's personality characteristics/traits from bumps on head - now utterly dismissed... but 'neo-phrenology' is emerging..
& it's personality characteristics/traits from bumps on head - now utterly dismissed... but 'neo-phrenology' is emerging.. hehe - that would be the one
sounds great fun but completely useless, especially since quite a few of the bumps on my head are self inflicted (rugby, mountain biking, rock climbing - basically just dont ask ) so that wouldn't really work....
Reply 9
hehe, our influence is spreading. We've got a geologist and a medic arguing about weird heads and behaviours in a classics thread.
Reply 11
It's not classically influenced at all (apart from possible links with classicists having strange heads) but it is happening in a classics thread - we got you in here, mwahaha!!
Anyway, I don't think I'm making much sense either, it's 8th week!
Anyway, I don't think I'm making much sense either, it's 8th week!
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