University of Glasgow blether thread

Original post by rattos

Hi everyone got an unconditional from glasgow and im really looking forward to going there. However something has been bothering me lately, everytime i tell someone im going to glasgow they look at me in a kind of pitying fashion and say something like "isnt it a dangerous city?". Ive been to glasgow about 5 times and it seemed to be a normal city but ive started to worry nonetheless, could someone who actually lives there give their views/feelings/impressions?

thx

I lived in Glasgow from September to June this year and I can't wait to move back. I did not encounter any trouble once. Not once. I walked home at midnight and stuff on my own and I wasn't shanked/robbed/heckled or anything. I went for nights out and the only fight I saw was between a boyfriend and girlfriend.

I feel far more unsafe in London.

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Original post by ArcadiaHouse

Are you allowed to eat in the library? I harbour dreams of bringing in a flask. Or are you only allowed to eat in certain areas?

I remember spilling Diet Coke all over the carpet in Strathclyde Uni library because it fizzed everywhere unexpectedly when I tried to open it. I fled in shame, after an attempt to clean it up with hankies. :facepalm2:

sealable containers like bottles and flasks are OK
the security guards will stop you if they see you coming in with a pizza box or something equally obvious, or if they see you eating something potentially messy in the upper levels, but for the most part it's OK

one of the many reasons I kept to the Boyd Orr and/or Kelvin Building - taking a net break with a Cafe India pizza or Little Italy calzone cannot be bettered during studytime

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Original post by PerigeeApogee

I've never been stopped by the security guards on the way in with a pizza. I ate a few pizzas in there.

You can eat and drink what you like on level 3, so the always just assume that's where you're going with such items.

As for anything above level 3, the rules are that you can't eat and you can only drink out of a sealable container. But they don't mind you sitting munching on sweets, as long as it doesn't stink or isn't crunchy to the point that you're annoying others... had a few like that beside me in my time. Some idiot sitting with a box of pringles... urgh.

I never bothered trying to take a pizza in with me, but I did see a girl getting stopped once on her way in with one, they may have just been saying "go to level 3"
or my memory might be muddled and it might have been on a higher level

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Original post by munn

sealable containers like bottles and flasks are OK
the security guards will stop you if they see you coming in with a pizza box or something equally obvious, or if they see you eating something potentially messy in the upper levels, but for the most part it's OK

one of the many reasons I kept to the Boyd Orr and/or Kelvin Building - taking a net break with a Cafe India pizza or Little Italy calzone cannot be bettered during studytime

Those sound :coma:

amazing. But does the smell not put other people off? :colone:

At Strathclyde we weren't even allowed to eat sarnies in the library which was why we were very discreet about it. No way would they have allowed a pizza! :tongue:

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Original post by ArcadiaHouse

Those sound :coma:

amazing. But does the smell not put other people off? :colone:

At Strathclyde we weren't even allowed to eat sarnies in the library which was why we were very discreet about it. No way would they have allowed a pizza! :tongue:

not really, after 5 o'clock only honours maths students could get into the lab, likewise Physics and Astro honours students in the Kelvin building (of whom I had many friends), so often there'd only be maybe 10 students spread across 60/70 computers.
Plus everyone does it so nobody's gonna be a hypocrite :h:

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Original post by munn

not really, after 5 o'clock only honours maths students could get into the lab, likewise Physics and Astro honours students in the Kelvin building (of whom I had many friends), so often there'd only be maybe 10 students spread across 60/70 computers.
Plus everyone does it so nobody's gonna be a hypocrite :h:

Cool

I can't wait to register. :dance:

Then I'll have to withdraw from Strathclyde. Awkward.

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Original post by PerigeeApogee

Why did you choose to switch?

Didn't like the course at Strathclyde and Glasgow will allow me to study Classics for a year before I do single honours English Lit.

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rather be in glasgow now than london .. its so ****ed down here

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Original post by ArcadiaHouse

One of my friends was at Glasgow uni this year (before she dropped out to work in America but that's by the by) and she said folk get all dressed up for lectures and girls wear dresses and stuff to tutorials.

Can anyone confirm this? :pierre:

Do people make an effort or generally slob it out in hoodies? :tongue:

Also, do lecture halls get particularly cold in the winter? I get cold very easily and did not enjoy putting on layers of clothing like I was preparing to cross Antarctica each morning before lectures last year :colonhash:

There's a total mix tbh - most people seem to go in jeans and t-shirts and hoodies or whatever, but you do get little groups of fashionies around who look like they live in Topshop... Nobody seems to pay much attention either way though :smile:

My chemistry lecture theatre was absolutely freezing all year round, especially in winter though (obviously). But the one I was in for biology and psychology were fine so I suppose it's different in different buildings...

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Original post by Sail Sale

I'm off to Glasgow come September and I cannot WAIT. I hail from a small village in the Highlands so it is going to be an entirely different experience for me to live in a big city like Glasgow. I've been there a few times and just loved the atmosphere, really looking forward to living and studying there.

Me and some friends stayed down there for a week to visit various open days, unfortunately Glasgow Uni did not have an open day during our visit, so I am yet to actually visit the uni.

Hi

I lived just outside Glasgow and didn't make it to an open day before I went either, my mind was just stubbornly set that Glasgow was where I was going :tongue:

I don't regret it for a second though, I love it to bits :biggrin:

What subject are you doing?

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Original post by PerigeeApogee

Aye, well, Glasgow has more interest in your type of subject.

Strathclyde - the place of useful learning.

Why would you still post useless insulting comments in this thread when 1. You don't go to Glasgow anymore and 2. you hate most stuff about it anyway? Go join/make a Strathclyde thread...

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Original post by PerigeeApogee

Aye, well, Glasgow has more interest in your type of subject.

Strathclyde - the place of useful learning.

ah that's a bit harsh don't you think?
I've a friend who got a First in Physics and Classics and is about to embark on a phd in... well I'm not sure exactly but it certainly involves Physics and a particle accelerator somewhere in Virginia (at the Pentagon! they've been super secret about the exact details with him so it all adds up I reckon :biggrin:

).
So whilst it doesn't sound useful apparently it is...

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Original post by PerigeeApogee

I don't reckon the classics part of his degree played much part in his bagging a PhD position...

He did something like 170 credits a year
I think it probably did

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Original post by PerigeeApogee

Would have been more impressive if the extra 50 credits were something useful and relevant.

Why are you even still in this thread? You seem to exist only to tell people Glasgow Uni is crap, and if their interest don't match yours they're pointless :rolleyes:

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PerigeeApogee

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What the hell is your problem? One minute you're providing useful links and info and phone numbers to help me, the next you're taking every opportunity to slag my subjects off. Do you not have better things to do with your degree if it's so "useful"? :rolleyes:

As it happens, I don't give a flying f*** what you or anyone else thinks about my degree, I'd rather do what I love for four years than adhere to your narrow-minded view of what's "useful" and "relevant."

If you feel that superior, go and get a high-flying job to prove it instead of being a dickhead on the internet forum of a university you don't even go to anymore.

And you can't stand by your opinions if you've deleted them. What a loser.

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