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Well, your post got deleted too. You were probably warned for either its offensive nature or because you used text speak.

Reply 81

kevster

yes the latter, what is text speak?

Reply 82

that_diesel

kevster

lol, yea i was reading, i got a warning there, for what, ill never know. I cant stand people quoting me onm this thing saying my spelling is awful, im not writing a dissertation r neting, i just like taking shortcuts

Phear our leet forum skills! We got warnings - like ASBOS!!!

Reply 83

Jimny

that_diesel

I don't know, buddy. It's been 4 pages of misery for me.

That's why you shouldn't lie.

Reply 84

that_diesel

Jimny

That's why you shouldn't lie.

For pete's sake - I didn't lie!! I just recounted a story that happened.

Reply 85

Jimny

that_diesel

For pete's sake - I didn't lie!! I just recounted a story that happened.

I just find it insulting that you think you can get a place at Oxford by simply quoting the most commonly used philosophical statement in history, as your personal statement, after I spent weeks on mine followed by weeks of preparation for interview.

The rumours you are spreading are, not only damaging to your credit on the forums, but are also damaging future applicants chances, by giving them a false impression of the application system.

[pgi]

Reply 86

Good bloke

Not only widely-quoted but parodied as, for example, in one of my favourite Monty Python sketches:

'Immanuel Kant was a real piss-ant who was very rarely stable.
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar who could think you under the table.
David Hume could out-consume Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel.
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine who was just as sloshed as Schlegel.
There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach about the raising of the wrist.
Socrates himself was permanently pissed.
John Stewart Mill, of his own free will, after half a pint of shandy was particularly ill.
Plato, they say, could stick it away, half a crate of whisky every day!
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle,
And Hobbes was fond of his dram.
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart:
"I drink, therefore I am."
Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed;
A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed'.

Reply 87

that_diesel

Jimny

The rumours you are spreading are, not only damaging to your credit on the forums, but are also damaging future applicants chances, by giving them a false impression of the application system.

[pgi]

If future applicants don't have the ability to research for themselves and believe everything they hear, then they are surely not the calibre that Oxford anf Cambridge are looking for.

Reply 88

hobnob

that_diesel

If future applicants don't have the ability to research for themselves and believe everything they hear, then they are surely not the calibre that Oxford anf Cambridge are looking for.

You're not a future applicant yourself, are you?

Reply 89

kevster

ok people lets stop fighting over a few words especially on such a pougnant day, well for me (munich for all you non-footbal fans)

Reply 90

t kay13

I think that this is nonsense, good day to you all, toodles!

Toodles, what a word

Reply 91

sophisticated

kevster

what grades did u get if u dnt mind me askin?i was delighted with my personal statement, i think the problem lay with my course choice, i was always going to apply to oxford, by hook or crook but unfortunately they dont offer staright politics, u must do history with it and of course i didnt choose history at Alevel, fool I know. Also the HAT went terrible, but i belive HAT or no HAT with the A level hist i wuda got an interview. shuda went for SPS at cam, oh well.

So you applied for history and politics at oxford, without an A level in history, and you wonder why they rejected you?
Hmmmmmm :rolleyes:

Reply 92

that_diesel

hobnob

You're not a future applicant yourself, are you?

No way. I thought about it but then decided to go to a university that would allow me a fuller social life.

Reply 93

that_diesel

kevster

ok people lets stop fighting over a few words especially on such a pougnant day, well for me (munich for all you non-footbal fans)

It is a poignant day for football fans but that doesn't mean we shouldn't engage in healthy discussions here.

good god

sophisticated

So you applied for history and politics at oxford, without an A level in history, and you wonder why they rejected you?
Hmmmmmm :rolleyes:

Lol thats what I was thinking, surprised no-one's really picked up on that so far.

As well as that, if you're the guy who's applied to do European Studies at KCL as well, you may have had quite a weak P.S as you have applied to do quite different subjects.

Reply 96

kevster

i dont know how u want 2 define a 'healthy discussion' discussing 1 line personal statements isnt that intriguing 2bh. yes i did not do history , I applied optimistically if u hada read what i said, bcuz it was the nly course i cudve applied for at ox and i wasnt not going to apply. i had 2 c if i was ox material. plus, history at Alevel is not an essential subject, its desirable but the website cleaely states its not needed at all costs unlike maths degrees and A level maths. good god?

Reply 97

kevster

Abbbey, yes I am that guy, and thanks for that rash assumption about my p.s. ill email it 2 you if you like and you can determine how weak it was. if u went to the kings website ud see they are looking for people hu had a keen interest in languages, hist and pol. that is what i based my persoanl statement on. obv wasnt that weak seeing as i got an offer.

Reply 98

t.w.

that_diesel

They were impressed by his willingness to take a risk and not just trot out the same tedious stuff that everyone else does e.g. "I am passionate and committed to my subject and was the team leader on my school's mission to save the porcupines of Zanzibar blah blah blah"

Original thinking FTW.

The most clichéd line in the history of pilosophy (it even popped up in Malcolm in the Middle, of all places) = original thinking? Are you sure?! That line is infinitely more tedious than 'I am passionate and commited blah blah blah'.

Reply 99

x.fiore.x

No I didn't mean that. It was probably ideal for KCL, but if you'd focussed too heavily on the language side of the degree, then maybe it wasn't suitable for Oxford? I wasn't being mean about it :smile:

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