Oxbridge rejects!

Perhaps so, but I would still rather study it than so a vocational degree like you my good man. Tsk, multiple choice exam questions - now that's difficult! Or not.

it sounds as if 'vocational degrees' are crap.

Well you are doing Maths, which is a much more rigorous subject than economics, which involves applying maths to a sociology context. This is like applying statistical mechanics to sports studies.

MCQs? Depends, some are stupid and some are quite difficult. They try to confuse you.... but still, it's better than blagging about social dynamics and the transition from a chaotic system to an orderly one, again in complex sociological systems.

No, my post is clearly taking the piss.

No, he hasn't. He's a first year medic. Still, I still think it's wrong to simply dismiss a subject as 'boring' full stop without having enough of a grasp or knowledge about advanced economics to be able to make any sort of valid judgement. Also, at least economics students get a chance to do some individual and original work, medicine is about rote learning and memorisation - you don't need any intelligence pers se, but simply the need to sit down and memorise. One could complete a medical degree without much comprehension. And then on exam day you will simply regurgitate your knowledge via the odd tick in a box and belive that you have a true and original grasp of the discipline.

Dude, you really need to work on your internet humour. Sarcasm is not well translated over the 'net.

Perhaps the fact that you have no open avenue for original research or thought in a medical degree is because you require labs, patients and so many other things to devise, carry out and test/improve a hypothesis, whilst I need nothing more than a pad and a pencil if I want to try out something new - that was what appealed about mathematics to me. Just wondering, do you have an intercalated BSc at Cambridge like we do on the UCL medical course? I don't know too much about the Cambridge medical course, apart from the fact that you have very little patient contact in the opening years of the course.

But medicine is more than just rote learning. Dont you have practical exams etc.? Someone who just learns his textbook off by heart wont make a very good doctor.

I got rejected by Exeter for Law. I think that I was drawn into the whole prestige and enigma of Oxford and would have chosen to go there purely based on the reputation. From the start UCL was the place that I really wanted to go (location, overall atmosphere, reputation) and my interview merely reinforced the image in my mind that Oxford is stuffy, backwards and cliquey. I'm not bothered at all that I got rejected from there.

hysteresis

Does the set of all sets, that are not members of themselves, contain itself?

It's called Russell's paradox.

Think about it.

If it does contain itself, it's a member of itself, and thus not part of itself.

If it does not contain itself, it's not a member of itself, and thus part of itself.

Kinda like politics. Or TSR-discussions on which subject is the better.