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academic differences between people
do you think it matters in a relationship if you and your bf/gf did different subjectS? i know this sounds like a stupid question but how much bearing do you think it has on the 2 of you? same with friendships - do you find you tend to get on better with arts or science students? feedback please! 
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Lirael Abhorsen
do you think it matters in a relationship if you and your bf/gf did different subjectS? i know this sounds like a stupid question but how much bearing do you think it has on the 2 of you? same with friendships - do you find you tend to get on better with arts or science students? feedback please!
I think intelligence matters a great deal - I'm not particularly clever but I could never go out with someone really unintelligent. On the other hand the subject that someone does really doens't make any difference to me. I have a few friends who do languages, some who do sciences and some who do humanities and I get on wit them all equally well
i am not bothered what people do weather they are cleaver or can;t read or if they are brain surgents if i like the person i will be mates with them.
totally the same as if someone if in 3rd class and i am mates with them and also best friends with someone in first class, i don't care i am not a snob and i dont judge people by their education and class!!
totally the same as if someone if in 3rd class and i am mates with them and also best friends with someone in first class, i don't care i am not a snob and i dont judge people by their education and class!!
most science people seem to be very nerdy (i like to think im an exception) lol!!
futureaussiecto
most science people seem to be very nerdy (i like to think im an exception) lol!!
And yet you're applying to be a Compsci...
Most of my friends are science students, I'm not entirely sure why but it's just worked out that way. Partly because they all know each other through practicals and lectures for two years and partly because our work styles are much more similar than arts students - we have a few historian friends but that's about it.
As for general intelligence, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to go out with someone who wasn't on a reasonably comparable level with me, because I'm passionate about what I do and want to talk about it, if I had to explain everything it just wouldn't be fun and I wouldn't be stimulated at all.
I'm an engineer but about 80% of my friends are arts students - I live in a house full of them (and their irritating lack of lectures, grumble grumble). That said, my best friends do the same course.
Elles
same thing going on here - quite a medic-chemist gaggle of us..
& obviously i have arty subject friends, but they're say people i lived with in my 1st year, or play sports with, or have met through other extracurriculars - where we have specific common ground.
& generally, couples here tend to stick within the same broad subject type - which i imagine might be a combination of reflecting inherent personality/cognitive types & practicalities like compatible timetables!
& obviously i have arty subject friends, but they're say people i lived with in my 1st year, or play sports with, or have met through other extracurriculars - where we have specific common ground.
& generally, couples here tend to stick within the same broad subject type - which i imagine might be a combination of reflecting inherent personality/cognitive types & practicalities like compatible timetables!
Mine's a Physicist - though I'm trying (unsuccessfully) to convert him to Chemistry. He doesn't really have a clue what I do and vice versa, but he tries to understand and he does pick stuff up quickly.
The Arts students I do know are either through societies, or people I lived with in first year - last year my staircase contained 6 Natscis, 2 medics and an engineer!
I can;t imagin myself getting with someone who is thicker than me, they have to be in certain wavelenth and be able to carry an intellegent conversation. That's why i always like smart guys 
me - computer sci. + maths
girlfriend - musical theatre
You'd think we were almost completely opposite when you think of the stereotypical person for each course, but we get along great.
girlfriend - musical theatre
You'd think we were almost completely opposite when you think of the stereotypical person for each course, but we get along great.
does nobody think that is snobbish by only having mates and stuff who have good educations or study the same as you??
i think its one of the stupidist things ive heard i have mates who didn;t even bother with school most of the time and mates in uni it doesn;t matter to me im not going to be compairing results with them!!!
i couldn;t really honestly give a stuff about my education either really and im not any different from anyone of my mates!!!
its just snobbery if you think you are better then others as you are in uni or whatever there are so many people better then me out there and i am accepting that im not really bothered about that i am me thats what people love not my background education, thats just like saying oh yer i don't want to talk to you because you wear a hoodie or you talk like this and stuff like that really i think!!!
i think its one of the stupidist things ive heard i have mates who didn;t even bother with school most of the time and mates in uni it doesn;t matter to me im not going to be compairing results with them!!!
i couldn;t really honestly give a stuff about my education either really and im not any different from anyone of my mates!!!
its just snobbery if you think you are better then others as you are in uni or whatever there are so many people better then me out there and i am accepting that im not really bothered about that i am me thats what people love not my background education, thats just like saying oh yer i don't want to talk to you because you wear a hoodie or you talk like this and stuff like that really i think!!!
Laursy
does nobody think that is snobbish by only having mates and stuff who have good educations or study the same as you??
i think its one of the stupidist things ive heard i have mates who didn;t even bother with school most of the time and mates in uni it doesn;t matter to me im not going to be compairing results with them!!!
i couldn;t really honestly give a stuff about my education either really and im not any different from anyone of my mates!!!
its just snobbery if you think you are better then others as you are in uni or whatever there are so many people better then me out there and i am accepting that im not really bothered about that i am me thats what people love not my background education, thats just like saying oh yer i don't want to talk to you because you wear a hoodie or you talk like this and stuff like that really i think!!!
i think its one of the stupidist things ive heard i have mates who didn;t even bother with school most of the time and mates in uni it doesn;t matter to me im not going to be compairing results with them!!!
i couldn;t really honestly give a stuff about my education either really and im not any different from anyone of my mates!!!
its just snobbery if you think you are better then others as you are in uni or whatever there are so many people better then me out there and i am accepting that im not really bothered about that i am me thats what people love not my background education, thats just like saying oh yer i don't want to talk to you because you wear a hoodie or you talk like this and stuff like that really i think!!!
Its not snobby. I don't think I'm better than people who aren't as intelligent as me (which isn't that intelligent really, but whatever) but I've found that I can hold a conversation with people of similar intelligence much better than those who are less intelligent.
I used the word 'intelligent' far too many times in that one sentence
Laursy
does nobody think that is snobbish by only having mates and stuff who have good educations or study the same as you??
i think its one of the stupidist things ive heard i have mates who didn;t even bother with school most of the time and mates in uni it doesn;t matter to me im not going to be compairing results with them!!!
i couldn;t really honestly give a stuff about my education either really and im not any different from anyone of my mates!!!
its just snobbery if you think you are better then others as you are in uni or whatever there are so many people better then me out there and i am accepting that im not really bothered about that i am me thats what people love not my background education, thats just like saying oh yer i don't want to talk to you because you wear a hoodie or you talk like this and stuff like that really i think!!!
i think its one of the stupidist things ive heard i have mates who didn;t even bother with school most of the time and mates in uni it doesn;t matter to me im not going to be compairing results with them!!!
i couldn;t really honestly give a stuff about my education either really and im not any different from anyone of my mates!!!
its just snobbery if you think you are better then others as you are in uni or whatever there are so many people better then me out there and i am accepting that im not really bothered about that i am me thats what people love not my background education, thats just like saying oh yer i don't want to talk to you because you wear a hoodie or you talk like this and stuff like that really i think!!!
Well most of my friends are at uni with me. It's not necessarily a conscious judgement, but simply because of the place it is, they are all very intelligent. And I feel like I fit in more there than I ever did at school. Judgements on intelligence can work both ways you know - I was stereotyped as being the "boring clever one," I think people were varyingly annoyed, intimidated or jealous of me. That's just as unfair as not wanting to be friends with someone because they're "thick."
At home I no longer know many people because most of the people at my school are not very local. Of course I don't have a problem with people who are less intelligent, and I had friends (of a sort) at school who weren't amazingly clever. It's only judgemental if you actively reject people because they don't go to uni/didn't get AAA at A-Level, which is something that I'd never do. However, finding it hard to have a conversation with someone because their life and the way they think is so different to my own, is not judgemental, I don't think.
i suppose i can say i can;t hold much conversation with people from universitys as i am the judgemental one maybe as i think oh god they are to cleaver for me and they will laugh at me for not knowing something
i suppose deep down everyone has that fear!
i wouldn;t reject anybody though thats just my opinion i suppose!! everyone has one
i suppose deep down everyone has that fear!
i wouldn;t reject anybody though thats just my opinion i suppose!! everyone has one
Laursy i hope that is not aimed at me 
but i bet it is
If you are talking about making friends, their level of education is not a problem to me, as long as i get on with them and they are cool, everything is fine. I do still have friends who go straight to work after GCSE, and that does not stop me from talking to them.
People dont have to be well educated to carry an intellegent conversartion.
I don’t’ believe levels of education reflect as to whether or not you will have an intellectual conversation. It’s all to do with the mind and what you subject yourselves to. So easy to reiterate from a book and not have your own ideas.
having a degree doesn't automatically qualify you as 'intelligent', when i say 'thats why i liike smart guy' doesnt mean i only like guys who gets top grades and has a degree. The definition of a smart guy to me is be able to carry an intellectual conversation and mature.
Do you understand what i;m saying this time
but i bet it isIf you are talking about making friends, their level of education is not a problem to me, as long as i get on with them and they are cool, everything is fine. I do still have friends who go straight to work after GCSE, and that does not stop me from talking to them.
People dont have to be well educated to carry an intellegent conversartion.
I don’t’ believe levels of education reflect as to whether or not you will have an intellectual conversation. It’s all to do with the mind and what you subject yourselves to. So easy to reiterate from a book and not have your own ideas.
having a degree doesn't automatically qualify you as 'intelligent', when i say 'thats why i liike smart guy' doesnt mean i only like guys who gets top grades and has a degree. The definition of a smart guy to me is be able to carry an intellectual conversation and mature.
Do you understand what i;m saying this time
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