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fingerin_sesh

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A weird question and a bit of a sob story but im really not enjoying it! I go to Royal Holloway in Egham and im in my 2nd year. The uni is in the middle of knowhere. Kingston and Windsor are both near but everyone is either too skint or got too much work on :(
I keep saying to myself 'im gonna leave if i do crap in this essay' and then get a high 2:2 or a 2:1 which is good for me (havent got a 1st yet!). One of the only things keeping me here is not the people but the degree. Im doing media arts and Holloway is probably the best uni that I can get into with my grades. I know now that I am definately a city person. I would love to go somewhere like Brighton, Birmingham, Leeds etc... but that would mean getting possibly a better grade degree (dont know if thats true that it would be easier to get a 2:1/1st at a worse uni...)at a worse uni. I just cant help feel like im missing out on something being stuck in Egham.
Holloway is a very upper class uni and to be honest I havent met 'my kind of people'. Made some great mates mind..
There is good points to Holloway... That nice big orange building - Founders. Its nice when you go out and because it is a campus uni, you know everyone, I just get so tired of seeing the same people every single night! lol. Although I would like to go somewhere like Birmingham, I think that in the 1st year when you get put into halls, those are the people that you are stuck with and if you dont like them then your stuck, on the other hand you could have a right result..
I realise that I am much luckier than some people out there and lucky to be able to go to uni but I cant help feel that I could be having a better time somewhere else. I heard a quote... 'The grass is always greener on the other side...you just have to make yours greener'..If only it was as easy as that. Anyway..theres no point to this just felt like telling someone!
Hi to anyone reading this who knows me! :)
 
excellent advice morbyd. you make it sound like an endurance test. if i remember rightly time spent lounging around supping ale and talking about smashing the system man absolutely flew by in the early 70's. (i think it was the early 70's)
 
When your dream of getting away involves the bright lights of Birmingham, the only way is up!:lol: (Hold on, hold on....)

Is there no where else that you can transfer to? London or Manchester perhaps?
 
i hated uni all the students behaved , acted, thought, spoke as if they were 12 or 13 not c. 18. i (wrongly) thought it'd be a continuation of working in ibiza the summer before i started uni - how wrong could i be.:cry:

i knew i was in trouble on the 1st day when most of my new flat mates didn't venture out of their rooms to say hello for about 10 hours.:roll: basically it started badly and got worse.

HOWEVER, i got my 2.1 so job done and as soon as i started a job after uni, i longed for the student lifestyle of wearing my own clothes and doing nothing and having some free time. SO MAKE THE MOST OF IT;)
 
Definately stick it out! I'm a firm believer that if you start something then you should finish it. (Although I also hate using the word 'should' :spank:)
Life is far too short to not give these years of your life the attention they deserve.
Socially you probably are missing out...I grew up in a village with nowt going on and it took me years to finally get to London - where rose coloured spectacles removed, I'm now living the life of riley! 8O :D
You're in your second year and have come this far, leaving for social reasons would be futile unless you have a backup plan (which I'm assuming you don't)...and in London, 30 isn't old. I'm 27 and still feel like a baby here!
I have friends that have started course after course and even moved to Brighton to test the waters but then jumped again! :roll: Consequently all they have is a back catelogue of events where they tried to kick start their life and never gained momentum. Very sad and such a waste.
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But on the other hand, you should know intuitively whether this degree is one worth finishing. You seem to be doing well so on that basis I would say stick it out. 2nd year blues is something everybody talks about. ;)
 
stephen said:
excellent advice morbyd. you make it sound like an endurance test. if i remember rightly time spent lounging around supping ale and talking about smashing the system man absolutely flew by in the early 70's. (i think it was the early 70's)
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:) Afghan coat Stephen??

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good advice everyone, thanks :) yeh, thats true it will all be over soon and then i'll be in the big wide world having to look for a job :? Definately need to make the most of it! Anyway.. must get back to lazing around watching daytime TV!...
 
fingerin_sesh said:
A weird question and a bit of a sob story but im really not enjoying it! I go to Royal Holloway in Egham and im in my 2nd year. The uni is in the middle of knowhere. Kingston and Windsor are both near but everyone is either too skint or got too much work on :(
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i went to did my Degree at The Art College in Farnham. place wasnt the most rocking for nightlife, but Guildford wasnt that bad at the time, and london is only an hour away.

my 1st year was ****e - good job it counted for 0% over my overall grade, 2nd year was tougher, but it all came good in the 3rd year.

stick with it, whatever yr waiting to happen inside will happen.

good luck!
 
fingerin_sesh said:
good advice everyone, thanks :) yeh, thats true it will all be over soon and then i'll be in the big wide world having to look for a job :? Definately need to make the most of it! Anyway.. must get back to lazing around watching daytime TV!...
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The funny thing is, if you're anything like me, 10 years from now when you're steeped in your career and family life, there will be the occasional moment when you'll think back and wish you could turn back the clock and live through it all over again. :spank:

Probably, as you mentioned, a "grass is greener" issue. "Adult" life today is grand in its own way as well.

Also, I didn't really enjoy uni until my last year and a half when I got involved in organizing concerts, student gov't and other random stuff. I think for a lot of people, the first couple of years are adjustment and the last couple are coasting downhill.
 
i'd recommed exchange! i was first 1,5 years in paris and now a year in amsterdam and it's been fantastic + the credits keep pouring in. now i only have a year left of my master's in finland, and after being away so long, i'm really looking forward to going back :D
 
Dr Mick - Media Arts is basically Media Studies. This course does get alot of stick but most of it is actually very interesting. The course at Royal Holloway is 50% Theory and 50% Practical. In the theory course we look at things like how the media portrayed the War in Iraq which I found really interesting (they created such hype that war was inevitable). It looks at how TV affects society and we look at how black people, gay people and women are represented in the media.
On the practical side of things, you can choose a number of options, I do studio performance where we get to work in a full digital studio every week, complete with cameras, a huge switchboard ...the lot! I also chose the sound design course. In this we are basically given a piece, say the opening visual credits for a tennis game on the playstation with just the visuals and have to put sound and music to it. Some of the lecturers have good contacts, recently worked on 60 Minute Makeover with Clare Sweeney :) one of the houses we had to paint was Jade Goody's mum's house! When the researcher went to look at the house before it was filmed, she had pictures of her (mum) having lesbian sex all over the house!!8O Jade was really nice, not like i thought she would be, went round hugging everyone off camera to say thanks..massive boobs too..
 
fingerin_sesh said:
one of the houses we had to paint was Jade Goody's mum's house!
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can you get lower than a Z-list celeb??:lol:

fingerin_sesh said:
When the researcher went to look at the house before it was filmed, she had pictures of her (mum) having lesbian sex all over the house!
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grego said:
can you get lower than a Z-list celeb??:lol:



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lol, no. It was done as a favour. Jade had a show coming up on Living I think, something about her salon. ITV promoted her programme and Living promoted ITV's.
 
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