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All Souls...

Reply 40

thomasjtl

9

You don't, basically - You'd have to apply for a 'normal' fellowship.

(sorry to quote something you said ages ago btw )

quite alright

Reply 41

probably not

4

alternatively, you can try to wing it - sometimes you can get away with doing something like politics, you'll often be able to answer three questions from a politics fellowship paper with a theology background if you've done the right kind of stuff

(it will be hard)

Reply 42

cpchem

14

I'll try and put a chemical slant on everything. Not that I'll get a first, let alone the top one...

Reply 43

ScholarsInk

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Alan Smithee

Anyone sitting the examinations for a fellowship?

One hopes to be doing so in three years' time. It's become a major goal since learning of it early this year.

Reply 44

Athena

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cpchem

I'll try and put a chemical slant on everything. Not that I'll get a first, let alone the top one...

I could probably get through the history papers, and possibly the economics ones, by answering them as though they were demography questions... but I'm not masochistic enough to try.

Reply 45

cpchem

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Athena

I could probably get through the history papers, and possibly the economics ones, by answering them as though they were demography questions... but I'm not masochistic enough to try.

Pfft. Masochism is the only reason I'm still at Oxford. It's also why I stayed put for half of the summer boiling things up and freezing them down. Well - that and the labcoat fetish.

Reply 46

Queen_A

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ajadedidealist

I've always been curious - not that it's even on the horizon - if you're doing a subject without a subject paper offered (say, Theology), how do you get on?

Philosophy of Religion...?

Reply 47

Athena

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cpchem

Pfft. Masochism is the only reason I'm still at Oxford. It's also why I stayed put for half of the summer boiling things up and freezing them down. Well - that and the labcoat fetish.

OMG labcoats :coma:

One of my housemates has a thing for the sound nitrile gloves make when you snap them on and off...

Reply 48

username138106

ScholarsInk

One hopes to be doing so in three years' time. It's become a major goal since learning of it early this year.

University will change you. Here's hoping.

EDIT: also, it's "I hope", not "one hopes".

Reply 49

pedy1986

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2 5 +

University will change you. Here's hoping.

Comon, before even arriving at University - its not that unreasonable to aim to get an All Souls fellowship. I mean, he knows his academic potential and ability....oh wait..

Reply 50

thomasjtl

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You need to first get used to Oxford before deciding you want an All Souls fellowship. to put it in perspective most people enter their first year feeling reasonably clever and finish if feeling rather stupid (then you spend your summer in a crap job and start to feel a bit better about yourself). Until you get here, you really have no idea how good you'll be just aim for a high 2.1 or first for now.

Reply 51

vapid slut magician

Who was that aimed at? Because I already have a degree from Cambridge.

Reply 52

cpchem

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vapid slut magician

Who was that aimed at? Because I already have a degree from Cambridge.

I imagine it was aimed at ScholarsInk. Well, I hope it was.

Reply 53

ScholarsInk

10

I don't understand why it's so ridiculous. I would like to pursue an academic career, as doing so has always been an interest of mine. I'm not completely unfamiliar with what it entails, being that my father was a professor. The Prize Fellowship is an opportunity to have a try at a good start.

Reply 54

thomasjtl

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To say that you're gonna apply now implies you think you're gonna get one of the best firsts in the university, which could be seen as arrogance.

Reply 55

probably not

4

also you don't know how to use the phrase "being that"

Reply 56

Audrey Hepburn

12

^

Anyway, in defense of ScholarsInk, I'm sure that he didn't mean that he expects to apply for one, more (like me :awesome:

) that he hopes he will be good enough to in a few years time. At least I hope that's what he meant.

Reply 57

Quistis

ScholarsInk

I don't understand why it's so ridiculous. I would like to pursue an academic career, as doing so has always been an interest of mine. I'm not completely unfamiliar with what it entails, being that my father was a professor. The Prize Fellowship is an opportunity to have a try at a good start.

I'm sorry, but your gratuitous mention of your dad's job just makes you sound arrogant. It's nice that your interest in academia is somewhat informed, but I can't help but feel you could have got that fact across in a more modest way.

FWIW, I think it's nice you're aiming to do so well - hopefully aiming for a Prize Fellowship will make you work really hard, so even if you don't get a top first you should do well. Alternatively, you might get nasty Finals papers and still only manage a 2.i, but have missed out on extracurriculars and a social life - try to have a non-academic life, as well?