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How many people on DS went to University?
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I unfortunately have not been to university because I had such a bad experience in college. I had a tutor who played the race and religion card to keep her job. She was a bad tutor but my class wasn't having any of it so we protested to the head of the college and got her sacked. It was a long, pain staking process and at the end of it we didn't feel like we had achieved anything because we had all spent so much time trying to get rid of her that we had completely lost track of our education. It was a bad time. The college employed supply tutors to come in and teach us but it was too far in the year to be able to do well and because of this I just went for a pass instead of a distinction. To be fair the work was really easy. I was being lazy but because it was so easy it felt like we were learning primary school things like how to make power points and this was supposed to be the best level of computing before university. It was boring as well.
I would like to go to uni in the future if I ever get the chance to fund my education however I think it's too late for me now. The best thing for me would most likely climb up the rankings at my place of work.
Have you been to uni? What did you study?
I unfortunately have not been to university because I had such a bad experience in college. I had a tutor who played the race and religion card to keep her job. She was a bad tutor but my class wasn't having any of it so we protested to the head of the college and got her sacked. It was a long, pain staking process and at the end of it we didn't feel like we had achieved anything because we had all spent so much time trying to get rid of her that we had completely lost track of our education. It was a bad time. The college employed supply tutors to come in and teach us but it was too far in the year to be able to do well and because of this I just went for a pass instead of a distinction. To be fair the work was really easy. I was being lazy but because it was so easy it felt like we were learning primary school things like how to make power points and this was supposed to be the best level of computing before university. It was boring as well.
I would like to go to uni in the future if I ever get the chance to fund my education however I think it's too late for me now. The best thing for me would most likely climb up the rankings at my place of work.
Have you been to uni? What did you study?
Did you go to University? 215 votes
YES - I liked it
57%
124 votes
YES - I disliked it
9%
21 votes
NO - I didn't/don't want to
23%
51 votes
NO - I would like to go
8%
19 votes
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Went to my local tech after that and did a HND followed by two CCNA courses.
I'm now just gone 26 and working in a completely different area (not teaching related). I love my job now but the reality is i could have gone in at entry level, right after school - no degree was needed (not that I regret it).
Uni is great, but it's not for everyone and sometimes other opportunities arrive
Your profile says you are 20
At 24, I am one of the youngest 'mature' students in my year at University.
It's not the be all and end all and too many people think they must go to Uni when they would be better suited to something else. But going at 18 isn't the only way. Infact, I would have done a really pointless course at 18 I had no idea what I wanted to do.
Also did art and business at college. If that seems like an odd combination; it was because I wanted too start a creative agency, which I did.
I got a 2-1 but was about 5 points away from a 1st which was fecking annoying but hey ho.
I enjoyed uni, its a totally different environment too college; much like college is a totally different environment from school.
(I got a First too..haha)
I still don't know what I want to do lol im in a job but its not really right for me...who knows what is *sigh*
I love literature and language, but analysing and pulling it apart takes something away from the beauty of it. Reading the classics and concerning yourself with the syntax and phonetics etc seems to reduce them to something almost mechanical and dull.
It is something to be proud and to look back with fond memory's as you get older. Even if you don't think it is for you well you never know until you try.
When I decided to drop out of my first masters, the course tutor told me I had wasted the grant I had got and would never get funding at any UK university again. I cried in his office. He told me I should pursue a completely different field. He didn't get that I hated his university and course structure, not the actual subject matter. I took two years out to work, applied for the same masters at a different university, got fully funded with a grant and graduated with a distinction. I now have a successful career in that field with 10 years experience. Many tutors are inspirational, but this one was an idiot.
It's what you make, college, uni or straight into work, you got to do what'll make you happy! Those talking about debt, yes that's an issue, you have to be smart with your choices, I'm lucky in that what I do has paid all my student loans in 2 years! Great value in my opinion, and career security, but not everyone can be so lucky! You have to be careful what you study too, and it's future prospects!
I don't regret starting university. Although my opinion might be different in the third year when I'm in from 9am to 12am like a mate of mine (in my university) is going through now, and has been all year.