I wish people wouldn't use unusual abbreviations without explaining them - what on earth is a UNI?
Unusual? I would have said it was a common abbreviation myself.
I went to Keele and studied Music and English and then did a PCGE at what was then Kingston Poly (that's Polytechnic for the abbreviationally challenged).
My advice to anyone thinking of going to uni to study non vocational subjects is just go to your local tech and do an NVQ in business admin because you'll probably end up as an office junior at 25 with a general degree anyway.
My friends and I all went to uni and at nearly 30 most of them still work in bars and shops. Pointless from a qualification aspect though good if you want to spend 3 years getting drunk midweek.
My advice to anyone thinking of going to uni to study non vocational subjects is just go to your local tech and do an NVQ in business admin because you'll probably end up as an office junior at 25 with a general degree anyway.
My friends and I all went to uni and at nearly 30 most of them still work in bars and shops. Pointless from a qualification aspect though good if you want to spend 3 years getting drunk midweek.
If you go to uni, it's actually better to do the pure subjects (maths etc.) or vocational ones like medicine and engineering but not business or accounting. You can get professional qualifications for those during your career.
I do think a lot depends on which uni you go to as well. Always try to pick a uni based on its academic standing and not just because you like the town it's based in. If you get a degree from a top uni, it's unlikely you will end up in a non-professional job.
It's for the same reason that people refer to Central Processing Unit as a CPU, Random Access Memory as RAM, Hard Drive as HD, personal computer as PC, in computer parlance.
Everybody (or so I thought) would know what Uni means.
It's for the same reason that people refer to Central Processing Unit as a CPU, Random Access Memory as RAM, Hard Drive as HD, personal computer as PC, in computer parlance.
Everybody (or so I thought) would know what Uni means.
Yeah. But. to be fair "UNI" could be anything. It's probably those pesky upper cases that got the poster perplexed.
I went to St Andrews and did biology.
Now doing an MSc in Oceanography at Southampton University... and wondering why the hell I decided to come back to uni haha!
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Unusual? I would have said it was a common abbreviation myself.
I went to Keele and studied Music and English and then did a PCGE at what was then Kingston Poly (that's Polytechnic for the abbreviationally challenged).
My friends and I all went to uni and at nearly 30 most of them still work in bars and shops. Pointless from a qualification aspect though good if you want to spend 3 years getting drunk midweek.
If you go to uni, it's actually better to do the pure subjects (maths etc.) or vocational ones like medicine and engineering but not business or accounting. You can get professional qualifications for those during your career.
I do think a lot depends on which uni you go to as well. Always try to pick a uni based on its academic standing and not just because you like the town it's based in. If you get a degree from a top uni, it's unlikely you will end up in a non-professional job.
Diploma from the school of hard knocks
And three gold stars from the kindergarten of getting the shit kicked out of me.
It's for the same reason that people refer to Central Processing Unit as a CPU, Random Access Memory as RAM, Hard Drive as HD, personal computer as PC, in computer parlance.
Everybody (or so I thought) would know what Uni means.
Yeah. But. to be fair "UNI" could be anything. It's probably those pesky upper cases that got the poster perplexed.
final year
Yep - I assumed it was an acronym. Like the examples given earlier.
I did all that and went to two real universities as well.:)
What subject?
I went to St Andrews and did biology.
Now doing an MSc in Oceanography at Southampton University... and wondering why the hell I decided to come back to uni haha!