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 poda_t wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:

 SilverMK2 wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:
Nah. I didn't take liberal arts. I took basket weaving.

Ah, the rocket scientist of the hunter gatherer society prevalent at the time you went to university

I took engeering.

Year One: Rocks
Year Two: Sticks
Year Three: (keystone course) Tying Rocks to Sticks

this killed me. excpet I can see that there's the extra stage of "strings" in there somewhere for me.

That's in the Masters course.

 A Town Called Malus wrote:
That's in the Masters course.

You should have seen their research PhD's in Throwing Rocks Really Far With A Bit Of Leather.

Obviously marketing had not yet rebranded the resulting discovery as the "sling".

Thought the master coursewas how to "Gut a Antelope"?....why a antelope...well Frazz from TX

 poda_t wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:

 SilverMK2 wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:
Nah. I didn't take liberal arts. I took basket weaving.

Ah, the rocket scientist of the hunter gatherer society prevalent at the time you went to university

I took engeering.

Year One: Rocks
Year Two: Sticks
Year Three: (keystone course) Tying Rocks to Sticks

this killed me. excpet I can see that there's the extra stage of "strings" in there somewhere for me.

Strings is a postgraduate degree.


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 Jihadin wrote:
Thought the master coursewas how to "Gut a Antelope"?....why a antelope...well Frazz from TX

You gut an antelope. Jackalopes gut you.

 Frazzled wrote:
You gut an antelope. Jackalopes gut you.

And thus the circle of life is complete.

Also, on a kind of related note - as a student it is really important to eat well. Don't spend what money you have just on beer

Tesco (and probably other stores) sell reasonable frozen meals (like the Tesco light choices) for about £1 each... add in a handful of frozen veg and you have a reasonably healthy meal for under £1.50. Plus you can "cook" it all in the microwave

Everyone knows college food is ramein

PB and J!

I think Tesco Light is the UK equivalent to our Ramein Noodles.

Oh Hell....so who's the heretic on that...

Dunno. I ate cafeteria food since I lived on campus and a meal card was part of my room fee.

Money didn't carry over from quarter to quarter (use it or lose it), so if I had money left, I tended to eat a lot of steak during the last week.

More often than not though, I was skint broke!

Just graduated from Salford university with a 1st (in music, if anyone's interested). I work there now, on an archiving project.

 Goliath wrote:
So yeah, I'm off to Sheffield on Sunday to study Mechanical engineering, and am starting to get nervous

Interesting, if I wasn't leaving Sheffield to go and study at Oxford (Brookes) I would have asked if you wanted a game.

I wouldn't say there are very few gaming stores in Sheffield at all. The GW in town is really friendly, there's an independant store within 100 yards of it and then a few hundred miles further up is a premium store which offers 20% discount on new GW stuff and I believe 15% off privateer press. There's also a club called Steel City Wargaming. I'm a regular there when not out of town. Would definately recommend checking them out.

So yeah, I've lived and gamed there for 11 and 9 years respectively, so if you want to know anything that isn't about the University I'd be more than happy to help. I say not the university because all I know about it is that it's very good for engineering, which you clearly already know.

I'm about to start my third year at Canterbury Christ Church, doing Film, Radio & Television studies.

 kronk wrote:
I think Tesco Light is the UK equivalent to our Ramein Noodles.

Quite a bit better than noodles. The 7/8/9p noodles (not sure how much they are now I have a job and enough money to actually buy food ) are certainly there for those who are in need of something to fill the stomach

But even worse than that, I know someone who wasted all their money and ended up having to "live" for a couple of months at the end of term by making their own "bread" using just flour and water, and then frying it in oil

- Unless you have a private shower, get flip flops for the shower, or prepare so spend $$$ on foot fungus cream.

- Shower each morning before class. Don't be that guy that covers himself in cologne instead of showering.

- Don't sit in your dorm room all of the time, studying. Join some intramural sports or something.

- Empty mouthwash bottle + vodka + food coloring = something, something...

Enjoy it, man!

I'm off to Plymouth University on Sunday to study Physical Geography. Good luck to all those in the same boat as me

Royal Military College of Canada, degree in Military and Strategic Studies. Think West Point, but with maple leaves, and a lot more drinking.

I'd probably know anybody who went to the college, but I'm curious if anyone has a similar degree.

 kronk wrote:
- Unless you have a private shower, get flip flops for the shower, or prepare so spend $$$ on foot fungus cream.

I never understood this. I never wore sandals when I had a public shower, and the vast majority of my public showers were taken in a football locker room with a bunch of sweaty dudes that were also barefoot.

I've never once had foot fungus.

That's cool. You have an excellent immunity system or were lucky.

I wouldn't walk around barefoot in a public locker room or shower, though.

Yeah, I walk around barefoot in public showers all the time and I'm fine too. My feet are pristine and beautiful.

 LoneLictor wrote:
Yeah, I walk around barefoot in public showers all the time and I'm fine too. My feet are pristine and beautiful.

Being one quarter gator I can't go to public showers. I'll transform and wait for unwary prey to approach the water hole. Ooyea time for the death roll!!!*



*True story.

Maybe it has something to do with rarely wearing shoes? Because I only wear shoes when running or in a public venue (restaurant, class, Adepticon, etc.), and even when I go running I don't wear socks.

 dogma wrote:
Maybe it has something to do with rarely wearing shoes?

Dogma's real name is Dances with Bare Feet.

 Frazzled wrote:

 dogma wrote:
Maybe it has something to do with rarely wearing shoes?

Dogma's real name is Dances with Bare Feet.

Or maybe Dances with Bear Feet.

Might explain why he doesn't wear shoes. Must be hard to get them in the right size...

if the public showers are in such a bad state of hygiene, pee on the floor. I'm serious. the ammonia in your urine will should kill anything breeding on the shower floor ground. It's a given though that you should be wearing slippers once you step out of the shower area, but strictly speaking, if the shower area itself is a hazard.... peeing on the floor is a solution to killing the germs when the janitors fail to show up on a regular basis to sterilize it.

The good ol' University of Michigan......Dearborn hah

Remember to all the freshman....spend all your money on beer...food is for the weak

 Huffy wrote:
The good ol' University of Michigan......Dearborn hah

Remember to all the freshman....spend all your money on beer...food is for the weak

In Dearborn that's true.

Soon to be starting second year of Architectural Studies at Newcastle University.

 rodgers37 wrote:
I'm about to start my third year at Canterbury Christ Church, doing Film, Radio & Television studies.

Really ? Hmm.. we'll have to have a beer some time then.

.. you should have popped into, at the very least, some of the events we held up at the real university

 A Town Called Malus wrote:
I'm off to University of Kent in Canterbury to do Physics (Foundation year then on to Astonomy, Space Science and Astrophysics).

It's a great university, both city and county are lovely.

I went to Reading.

I now work there.

I have a sad life.