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Anatheme
Not so far from Madagascar, lol, in the western part of the Indian ocean (I'm glad I've spent so muuuch time drawing and colouring maps, XD)




Ahhh geography.... i lost all respect for that subject the day my teach excitedly told us that "today we're going to do some colouring in!!!!!" then warned us to be careful because the pencils were sharp.
Chemistry Research, Durham University
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Durham
Loool !
Actually I spend so much time learning my map about "Inequalities in the word : South and North" or "Organisation of world" that I can only have respect for it. It is just so difficult not to mix Estonia-Latvia-Lithuania capitals or to remember that now Montenegro is a country and it's capital is Podgorica or to remember each region of Italy and Germany, trading flows between the USA, Europe and Japan or else ...
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melyne
I believe it's really tough to memorize all these capitals of the Baltic States and other minute countries. I'm from Lithuania btw :biggrin: But at least you are learning such things, cause when I needed to post a letter in Italy, the assistant asked me whether LT was in Africa or in South America :frown:
I'm sorry, I can't remember the capital of Lithuania XD (Vilnius ?).
But actually, I like geography, because it helps to understand where are conflicts, why, etc. And your culture improves ^^
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Aphrodite007
I applied to Wadham. I was a bit annoyed as well, but onr eflection, I probably didn't deserve it. I applied for History + Politics, so would have got the politics bit anyway. :biggrin:

Nope, just got interviewed at Wadham (which is how I knew I wasn't getting in), but I had a great time, they asked me to stay for 5 days just for two 15 minutes interviews. :biggrin: Was like a holiday camp!

Same! 5 days, two 15 (or 30?) mins interviews for History and Politics. Once I got to Durham and had to start writing 'proper' essays I realised how weak the essay I sent in was.
Split should be the capital of Croatia! :mad:
NDGAARONDI
Split should be the capital of Croatia! :mad:


what do you hope to do with a degree in Criminology?
kevster
what do you hope to do with a degree in Criminology?


Depends how well I do. If in the most unlikely scenario I'll achieve a first, then I will look for an MPhil degree programme, then look to see what's available in the justice system, police, civil service, Department for Justice etc.

I used to want to be a lawyer but I didn't think it was worth the hassle.
kevster
what do you hope to do with a degree in Criminology?


What about yourself? :cool:
meh, don't have a baldies mate, im veering in to law possible, but like yourself, hassle is the big issue. One might say im extrmemely lazy.
Some people condemn taking a non-law degree and then converting, as I have read on the law forum, but all the people who say this are at a university on a law degree so they'd say that. At the end of the day, I felt the 'competition' for law wasn't worth it. With the rsing cost in tuition, and all the hard work I did during college, I wanted to find the best deal. Take a top 15 university and study a less comeptitive course that you still enjoy and will be just as good at, or take a middle tier university and study law instead. When I saw that City University ask for AAB for law I decided that was it. Plus if I do well in criminology, and even took an MPhil, I'd still be financially better off than taking the CPE and the BVC.
de.novo
Collingwood asked the same thing of me. Send it to the college admissions. Are you going to mail the originals? I wasn't comfortable with that and they told me I can send them a certified true copy instead and just submit the originals when I register officially in October.


Well I didn't know whether to trust posting in my certificates, but signed for delivery post and a hard backed envelope have always been faithful in the past.. Though there's the issue of what happens at their end - my old Maths teacher had her degree and other certs folded in half and mailed back to her when she applied for the job, despite her written request for this not to happen!

When you say certified true copy do you mean getting this from the exam board itself or photocopy signed by your old school etc..? If the former I'd not bother but yes - I shall give the college admissions a call anon.
i am still interested in seeing some application statistics if anyone knows where i could find some.
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Reblet
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*giggles at the initials m.o.f. and leaves*
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de.novo
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Gymnosopher
Well I didn't know whether to trust posting in my certificates, but signed for delivery post and a hard backed envelope have always been faithful in the past.. Though there's the issue of what happens at their end - my old Maths teacher had her degree and other certs folded in half and mailed back to her when she applied for the job, despite her written request for this not to happen!

When you say certified true copy do you mean getting this from the exam board itself or photocopy signed by your old school etc..? If the former I'd not bother but yes - I shall give the college admissions a call anon.

The latter. Basically a photocopy with my Sixth Form Head's signature and the school seal on it.

And I never thought of the certificates being folded in half. Well another reason not to send them over the mail.
first scorn and now ridicule. :mad:

if durham would just give me a proper reply...
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made_of_fail
i am still interested in seeing some application statistics if anyone knows where i could find some.

I second this. But only because I am terribly nosy and bored. :smile:
made_of_fail
first scorn and now ridicule. :mad:

if durham would just give me a proper reply...

What happened?
I was never asked to send any certificates but was asked to bring them in for proof when I arrive, which is not a problem. Have put them in a third record of achievement, this time a black one, so I know to take it. Wish my GCSE certificates didn't get ruined from the rain though.
Reblet
*giggles at the initials m.o.f. and leaves*


Oh Reblet, need you act so so childish.:biggrin: :biggrin:

You haven't read Robert Fisk's more recent book?:smile:

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