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Original post by thegeek888
No other university can compare to Oxford University and it has over a 100 libraries as well as gaining access to copies of every book published here in the UK!!! 🙂
London and Cambridge also have copyright libraries.
Blackadder: Remember you mentioned a clever boyfriend?
Nurse Mary: Yes.
Blackadder: I leapt on the opportunity to test you. I asked if he'd been to one of the great universities: Oxford, Cambridge, Hull.
Nurse Mary: Well?
Blackadder: You failed to spot that only two of those are great universities!
Nurse Mary: You swine!
Melchett: That's right! Oxford's a complete dump!
Blackadder: [looks startled] Well, quite.
This was an improvised joke cracked by Stephen Fry (Melchett), who was at Cambridge. Rowan Atkinson (Blackadder) was at Oxford.
Original post by thegeek888
If I am rejected from Oxford and LSE then I will re-apply and also include Durham, Warwick and Bristol. 😉
I am also considering applying to study Spanish at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, Dartmouth, Georgetown, Pomona, Amherst, and Bowdoin as they're all modeled on Oxford University!!! 😉 lol
I don't behave like I do online normally and am a gentle and very kind, caring and polite chap. 😉
I am also considering applying to study Spanish at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, Dartmouth, Georgetown, Pomona, Amherst, and Bowdoin as they're all modeled on Oxford University!!! 😉 lol
I don't behave like I do online normally and am a gentle and very kind, caring and polite chap. 😉
Right… good luck with that then.
Initially, I was going to give you the benefit of the doubt, but you’ve gone from wanting to take god knows how many A levels and studying law at the likes of Oxford, LSE and UCL to wanting to study Spanish at various US colleges. I wonder how many years you can keep this trolling act going before you eventually give up
Original post by Anonymous
Right… good luck with that then.
Initially, I was going to give you the benefit of the doubt, but you’ve gone from wanting to take god knows how many A levels and studying law at the likes of Oxford, LSE and UCL to wanting to study Spanish at various US colleges. I wonder how many years you can keep this trolling act going before you eventually give up
Initially, I was going to give you the benefit of the doubt, but you’ve gone from wanting to take god knows how many A levels and studying law at the likes of Oxford, LSE and UCL to wanting to study Spanish at various US colleges. I wonder how many years you can keep this trolling act going before you eventually give up
Original post by Stiffy Byng
Wadham's library isn't empty all that often. After all, it's a great place to catch up on sleep. I think that the photo of the library posted a page or two above was taken early in fresher's week, when everybody was in the pub.
The University of Exeter would be a good choice for any aspirant lawyer/finance bro/billionaire. Having said that, Exeter hasn't anything like Radcliffe Square.
The Radcliffe Camera is another library that is rarely empty. For a quieter sleep, you can go to the All Souls Library (visible on the right of the picture). It's not called the Codrington any more, because of the source of Christopher Codrington's endowment.
PS: Well done, thegeek888, for posting yet another list of things you have seen on the internet!
The University of Exeter would be a good choice for any aspirant lawyer/finance bro/billionaire. Having said that, Exeter hasn't anything like Radcliffe Square.
The Radcliffe Camera is another library that is rarely empty. For a quieter sleep, you can go to the All Souls Library (visible on the right of the picture). It's not called the Codrington any more, because of the source of Christopher Codrington's endowment.
PS: Well done, thegeek888, for posting yet another list of things you have seen on the internet!
I believe that Exeter's campus is just as beautiful than anything in Oxford and it has no horrors like the St Anne's halls. When did you last visit?
Original post by thegeek888
No other university can compare to Oxford University and it has over a 100 libraries as well as gaining access to copies of every book published here in the UK!!! 🙂
No point in having 1000 libraries if people go there to sleep.
Original post by Muttley79
I believe that Exeter's campus is just as beautiful than anything in Oxford and it has no horrors like the St Anne's halls. When did you last visit?
Original post by Muttley79
No point in having 1000 libraries if people go there to sleep.
Original post by thegeek888
At the UCAS Careers Fair for Sixth Form many years ago, I was amazed by the beauty of the Exeter Ladies. 😀 Because it was love at first sight!!! 🙂 lol I won't forget how pretty all 3 Ladies were and I would make Exeter one of my choices but it is 6 hours away from London and so is Durham.
6 hours from London? You jest .. far less than that even by the slowest train.
Original post by Muttley79
6 hours from London? You jest .. far less than that even by the slowest train.
I am amazed how the accommodation offered by Exeter University is like Oxbridge, Durham and York colleges?! 😧
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Original post by Muttley79
I believe that Exeter's campus is just as beautiful than anything in Oxford and it has no horrors like the St Anne's halls. When did you last visit?
Last summer. Aesthetics are subjective, but I can't see Exeter as architecturally comparable to Oxford or Cambridge.
I think that Exeter is a good university. It was one of the five I applied to zillions of years ago.
A school friend who is an Exeter alumna and in touch with her university tells me that she is concerned by social stratification related to the price differentials applied to the university's accommodation. When she was at Exeter, everyone paid the same for rooms, and there was a lot of social mixing, but now students are separated by the depths of their or their parents' pockets. This might now be an issue at several universities.
Colleges at Oxford and Cambridge tend to chuck everyone in together, posh and not posh, which is better for social mixing. I had only met one person who'd been to a private school when I started at Wadham, which at that time was about 55/45 State/private. My privately educated daughter hasn't met many people from state schools (except me and her other relatives), but she will do so when she starts at St Peter's next month. Some of them will be on the same staircase as her, not in another building on the other side of town.
thegeek888 may be happy to hear that my Exeter alumna friend (who was not posh when she went there to read history but is mega posh now, and engages in philanthropy), made millions in retail. He may be less happy to hear that she did that by working very hard and not by dreaming.
Original post by Muttley79
No point in having 1000 libraries if people go there to sleep.
That was, erm..., a joke, although I suspect that sleeping in libraries is a university thing all across the planet.
Original post by thegeek888
Sorry, it is just 3-4 hours, so much less than Durham or Edinburgh.
I am amazed how the accommodation offered by Exeter University is like Oxbridge, Durham and York colleges?! 😧
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I am amazed how the accommodation offered by Exeter University is like Oxbridge, Durham and York colleges?! 😧
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Quite often, universities that are not Oxford and Cambridge have swankier digs than Oxford and Cambridge, but this may come at a financial price. At Oxford and Cambridge, student rooms vary from college to college, according to age, endowment, and so on, but at many colleges students live in slightly shonky rooms located in old buildings. That is part of the experience. Modernising the rooms is sometimes possible, but sometimes regulatory and physical constraints preclude this. Recent buildings have all mod cons, but most of the colleges have a mix of old and new.
If your bedroom is a bit scruffy, don't feel too glum. You may get to have breakfast, lunch, and dinner under a Jacobean hammer beam roof. You may be taught in attractive rooms, with antique furniture, and lots of books on the walls, as opposed to plain and functional teaching rooms, but this also varies from place to place. For example, the seminar/dining room in the Reader's House at St John's is one of the most beautiful rooms in which I have ever talked nonsense about the sixteenth century, and there's a room at Oriel which is surely the finest room anywhere in which to talk nonsense about the eighteenth century.
The new seminar room at Wadham looks a bit like a meeting room at a business hotel, but some of the Arne Jacobsen rooms at St Catz, complete with Arne Jacobsen furniture look fabulous (Catz is getting fixed up at present, it has that problematic concrete fashionable in the early 60s, used a lot in academic buildings of that era).
Original post by Stiffy Byng
That was, erm..., a joke, although I suspect that sleeping in libraries is a university thing all across the planet.
Original post by Anonymous
Right… good luck with that then.
Initially, I was going to give you the benefit of the doubt, but you’ve gone from wanting to take god knows how many A levels and studying law at the likes of Oxford, LSE and UCL to wanting to study Spanish at various US colleges. I wonder how many years you can keep this trolling act going before you eventually give up
Initially, I was going to give you the benefit of the doubt, but you’ve gone from wanting to take god knows how many A levels and studying law at the likes of Oxford, LSE and UCL to wanting to study Spanish at various US colleges. I wonder how many years you can keep this trolling act going before you eventually give up
My main complaint is that trolling is supposed to be funny. Where are the jokes?
Original post by Stiffy Byng
Quite often, universities that are not Oxford and Cambridge have swankier digs than Oxford and Cambridge, but this may come at a financial price. At Oxford and Cambridge, student rooms vary from college to college, according to age, endowment, and so on, but at many colleges students live in slightly shonky rooms located in old buildings. That is part of the experience. Modernising the rooms is sometimes possible, but sometimes regulatory and physical constraints preclude this. Recent buildings have all mod cons, but most of the colleges have a mix of old and new.
If your bedroom is a bit scruffy, don't feel too glum. You may get to have breakfast, lunch, and dinner under a Jacobean hammer beam roof. You may be taught in attractive rooms, with antique furniture, and lots of books on the walls, as opposed to plain and functional teaching rooms, but this also varies from place to place. For example, the seminar/dining room in the Reader's House at St John's is one of the most beautiful rooms in which I have ever talked nonsense about the sixteenth century, and there's a room at Oriel which is surely the finest room anywhere in which to talk nonsense about the eighteenth century.
The new seminar room at Wadham looks a bit like a meeting room at a business hotel, but some of the Arne Jacobsen rooms at St Catz, complete with Arne Jacobsen furniture look fabulous (Catz is getting fixed up at present, it has that problematic concrete fashionable in the early 60s, used a lot in academic buildings of that era).
If your bedroom is a bit scruffy, don't feel too glum. You may get to have breakfast, lunch, and dinner under a Jacobean hammer beam roof. You may be taught in attractive rooms, with antique furniture, and lots of books on the walls, as opposed to plain and functional teaching rooms, but this also varies from place to place. For example, the seminar/dining room in the Reader's House at St John's is one of the most beautiful rooms in which I have ever talked nonsense about the sixteenth century, and there's a room at Oriel which is surely the finest room anywhere in which to talk nonsense about the eighteenth century.
The new seminar room at Wadham looks a bit like a meeting room at a business hotel, but some of the Arne Jacobsen rooms at St Catz, complete with Arne Jacobsen furniture look fabulous (Catz is getting fixed up at present, it has that problematic concrete fashionable in the early 60s, used a lot in academic buildings of that era).
Original post by thegeek888
My girlfriends keep asking me when they can have babies and get married?! So, I am not trolling, I am serious about Spanish at US universities if Law at Oxford/LSE/UCL does not go as expected. Also, I need an undergraduate degree to apply for an MBA in the future, so I am very serious.
"My girlfriends"? What, are you doing an Andrew Tate routine now? ISTR that you still live with your parents, in your thirties. Where are you going to park all those McLarens?
Original post by thegeek888
There are 2,500 study spaces in the LSE library!!! I was a member a few years ago but stopped going as it was such a long walk and LSE students kept asking if I was studying at LSE?! 🙂 lol
OK, the trolling is getting a bit funnier.
"I want to go to a swanky university and become a gazillionaire in ten minutes, but I CBA to walk to the library."
Original post by thegeek888
I live in a 5 bedroom house and 3 rooms are empty since all 4 of my brothers moved out and got married. More importantly, London rents are sky high and I only work 3 days a week. ☹️ But I have a lot of Ladies interested in having babies and getting married on social media from New York, Miami and LA, and Moscow as well as Dubai. 🙂
Great! Be sure to give them all your bank account details and login details. Don't worry that they all have .ru email addresses, that's normal! Say hi to Svetlana (or, as his friends call him, Sergei).
Original post by Stiffy Byng
OK, the trolling is getting a bit funnier.
"I want to go to a swanky university and become a gazillionaire in ten minutes, but I CBA to walk to the library."
"I want to go to a swanky university and become a gazillionaire in ten minutes, but I CBA to walk to the library."
Original post by thegeek888
The first ten times I had to ask for directions to the LSE library as it is so confusing to find it. But I made many friends and the Ladies were very beautiful too. However, I would prefer Oxford with a college library at one's doorstep on-site. 🙂
Well, I'm glad to hear that you once met some actual women.
thegeek888: "I am going to get 97 A*s, go to Harvard/Oxford/LSE/Hartlepool College of Colouring In/wherever, break the bank at Montecarlo, marry ten supermodels, and have more money than God's dad."
Also the geek888: "I got lost ten times in a row trying to find a huge library in a well known university slap bang in the middle of London. Yes, the one that has a sign saying "LSE Library" right on it."
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