paul-r-cfc Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 Got a B1 for my history essay too and full marks for seminar participation. Pleased with that - puts me on a decent footing to get another A this semester 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
die hard doonhamer Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 Hopefully I'll be starting at the OU in the autumn, doing their engineering degree. I'm looking forward to studying again, although doing it alongside working full time could be difficult. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottR96 Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 Aye, I'm in 3rd year. The history department is good and so are the teachers. Been pretty easy so far. Good stuff. My condition is relatively easy (just one B at Higher) so barring an absolute disaster, I should make it with relative ease. Looking forward to it. Did you stay in halls in 1st year? My sister said I should definitely do it and that's her biggest regret (she also goes to Stirling). Any other posters got any experience of halls in their 1st year? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 Good stuff. My condition is relatively easy (just one B at Higher) so barring an absolute disaster, I should make it with relative ease. Looking forward to it. Did you stay in halls in 1st year? My sister said I should definitely do it and that's her biggest regret (she also goes to Stirling). Any other posters got any experience of halls in their 1st year? Halls are brilliant, go for it. I stayed in Caley Court for a year and had a great time. Only down side for you (I'm guessing you'll turn 18 in January or February?) will be the few months without ID to get in clubs and what not. If you have ways round that then you'll have a great time. There was some 17 year olds in my halls who seemed a bit immature to be living away from home, but they were all girls so you'll be alright. 17 year old girls are all fucking nutters. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottR96 Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 Halls are brilliant, go for it. I stayed in Caley Court for a year and had a great time. Only down side for you (I'm guessing you'll turn 18 in January or February?) will be the few months without ID to get in clubs and what not. If you have ways round that then you'll have a great time. There was some 17 year olds in my halls who seemed a bit immature to be living away from home, but they were all girls so you'll be alright. 17 year old girls are all fucking nutters. Aye, I turn 18 in the January but I have a fake ID so that shouldn't be a problem although I got rejected buying a carry out last week because it was the only form of ID I had - I would imagine most places would ask for a student card along with the ID? If so then I'll be fucked. Definitely something I'll consider but it seems a bit of an unnecessary expense when I can easily travel to and from Stirling from Cumbernauld. P&B picked the subjects I did for Higher in S5 so it's no big deal if it makes another life choice for me 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 If I wasn't sure whether I wanted to live in halls or not I'd take the year out and then decide again. It's your life but put it this way, you won't have nearly as much fun if you don't go to halls. I don't know what Stirling is like but in my uni our class goes on the piss after exams twice a year, maybe after the last class of the term on top of that. That's it, the rest of the time the people who stay at home and travel in socialise with their own friends back home instead. It doesn't seem like much a change to me, I'd rather be in halls meeting new people and having a brilliant year. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xbl Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 Aye, I turn 18 in the January but I have a fake ID so that shouldn't be a problem although I got rejected buying a carry out last week because it was the only form of ID I had - I would imagine most places would ask for a student card along with the ID? If so then I'll be fucked. Definitely something I'll consider but it seems a bit of an unnecessary expense when I can easily travel to and from Stirling from Cumbernauld. P&B picked the subjects I did for Higher in S5 so it's no big deal if it makes another life choice for me If you do uni while living at home, in my view you're missing out on one of the most important things about uni. Its different for older folk, but for a youngster like you, youll get far more out if uni if you move away! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hazzi Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 I can only echo the above about moving away and halls. It's class(full of terts ). f**k living in a town and getting up at 7.00 to travel into some city, when you can wake up at 8.50 and make a 9 o'clock lecture with time to spare. Its pretty much the only reason I went to uni. Which is probably the reason I went out last night, slept through exam today and haven't went to see the lecturer about it, and done absolutely horribly in another exam later on. My attitude is disgusting. I will(almost certainly) be resitting my programming module in the summer, which is alarming seeing as my course is computer science. So basically don't go to halls if the only reason you are going to uni is to... go to halls. Yeah. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamboMikey Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 (edited) Yeah, I stayed in halls in first year. It was fucking seriously mental to be honest. Folk going to bed before 5am was a rarity which was alright at the start but I found it to get tiresome after a while. I did live with quite a few bams though, including a couple of guys who were ex pro-youth footballers so that's probably the exception rather than the rule. One of the guys who I'm good mates with now was 17 at the time but since a lot of the bevvying got done in the kitchen he used to just get someone to get him a carry out. There's good intramural football and that as well that you'll be able to join. You'll enjoy yourself I'd imagine. You already seem a fair bit more mature than some of the folk I stayed with as well so I'm sure you'll get on fine The course is seriously so easy in 1st year that its virtually impossible to fail and the grades don't go towards your degree so its basically a year for drinking and fannying about. Edited March 22, 2013 by JamboMikey 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 Stirling's History department is the poor man's Strathclyde IMO. Coincidentally, I've actually been reviewing a conference paper submitted from a Stirling post-grad this evening. A staggeringly boring (though well-researched) investigation into the social lives of hick-town communities in Stirlingshire. Struggled to care less about it tbh. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 (edited) If you do uni while living at home, in my view you're missing out on one of the most important things about uni. Its different for older folk, but for a youngster like you, youll get far more out if uni if you move away! While this is in one sense very true, it really does depend on your financial as well as geographic position. Being the beneficiary of a scholarship and bursaries meant I didn't have to get a job, which means that unlike almost everyone who went to halls, I wasn't also spending several periods a week working as well as studying. Even in fourth year I barely had to go into classes for more than a couple of days a week, so it really wasn't a big expense to travel in, and I could piss around with my mates at home most of the week and travel to away games every week. Plus, the financial bonus of not paying for digs each month allowed me to afford a period of study and travel abroad, and actually attain a credible degree at the end of the four years. Basically, whatever balance of money, location, education and social interaction that prevents you becoming a perma-raging University of Lifer has my endorsement. Edited March 22, 2013 by vikingTON 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 (edited) The course is seriously so easy in 1st year that its virtually impossible to fail and the grades don't go towards your degree so its basically a year for drinking and fannying about. I remember in 1st year a guy I lived with turned up for a test having been up all night on Methadrone. As we waited for five minutes for the previous class to get out he spent that time pacing up and down the corridor, occasionally sitting down for two seconds before realising he couldn't keep still and getting up. I looked up half way through the test and he was staring at me with bloodshot , panicked eyes, desperate for me to somehow help him get out of that room. In the end he jumped out his seat with twenty minutes remaining and literally ran out the room. I shit you not, he passed the test convincingly. Edited March 22, 2013 by Guest 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thisGRAEME Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 If you do uni while living at home, in my view you're missing out on one of the most important things about uni. Its different for older folk, but for a youngster like you, youll get far more out if uni if you move away! For sure. Even if you do start travelling, you'll end up abandoning your car and sleeping on folks' floors in halls on a regular basis. I had mates that lived in halls just marginally further away than mine at Dundee who slept on my living room floor regularly, and that was a ten minute walk. Might as well get yourself a bed and a room. If you're travelling, you'll also miss out on the mass-stupidity that is freshers week. Chances are you'll meet some folk that you'll spend the rest of Uni with at that, you'll also miss out of the (oft-looked down upon by older students) opportunities to do the stupid dressing up nights, drunk clothes shopping when you realise its easier to go to Primark than do washing, trying to shag every lassie on your floor (you'll at least get something off them unless you're a monster, my patter is shite and I still got there) and eating everything your parents sent you to Uni with within two days because you're hungover. I'd fucking love to do Freshers week as a 17 year old again. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForzaDundee Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 A few of the guys on my course who stayed at home slept on the floor of my flat for at least three nights a week during first year. It was fine during first year since nobody did any work or even attended uni but now they've literally all dropped out. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 I wish I had went to uni at 17/18 and stayed in the halls. From what I've heard it's an absolute riot, would be some laugh. Go for it, Scott, what have you got to lose? I'm doing a research proposal just now that's bursting my tits. Doing it on the level of staff turnover in call centres. There's loads to write about, but I just cannot be arsed with it, and probably should have started it weeks ago, instead of two days ago. Still, got about 600 words, only another 3400 to go... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SodjesSixteenIncher Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 Aye, I turn 18 in the January but I have a fake ID so that shouldn't be a problem although I got rejected buying a carry out last week because it was the only form of ID I had - I would imagine most places would ask for a student card along with the ID? If so then I'll be fucked. Definitely something I'll consider but it seems a bit of an unnecessary expense when I can easily travel to and from Stirling from Cumbernauld. P&B picked the subjects I did for Higher in S5 so it's no big deal if it makes another life choice for me Another one here who would recommend halls. My experience sounds a bit like Mikey's, had a great time but was glad to get out of their by the end of the year. Was also 17 when I went, which was a slight pain in the arse. Albeit, it was only for a few weeks in my case. Much of that time was spent in Strathy Union anyway, January would've been a bit trickier. I've actually got a fake student card just now Pays for itself after one or two nights out. You should get the full 3.5k I think. I basically applied through the uni for the SAAS funding but it took SAAS ages to get back to me so I phoned SAAS directly, spoke to a guy for 5 minutes and he approved it over the phone pretty much there and then as my course was on the list as well. Then you just show the uni finance department the letter/email you get confirming the award and they should just knock it off the cost. Ta much. Never had the urge to go travelling as a teenager but for some reason I'm desperate to do it now. Choice between going away for a bit or doing the post-grad. Decisions! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Widge Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 Exams are on the 2nd and 9th of May. Happy with that, plenty of time to prepare, found out the second one is an open book exam. So it's all good. Better than last years. Got my three exams on the first three days of the schedule. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GorgieRoad Posted March 23, 2013 Share Posted March 23, 2013 (edited) Aye, I turn 18 in the January but I have a fake ID so that shouldn't be a problem although I got rejected buying a carry out last week because it was the only form of ID I had - I would imagine most places would ask for a student card along with the ID? If so then I'll be fucked. Definitely something I'll consider but it seems a bit of an unnecessary expense when I can easily travel to and from Stirling from Cumbernauld. P&B picked the subjects I did for Higher in S5 so it's no big deal if it makes another life choice for me Definitely go to halls, both for the social life and being nearby classes. Got a few friends that go to Stirling and commute from Glasgow and most of the time they can't be arsed getting the train then the bus, especially for 9am starts. I was 17 until February but it isn't really a problem, if your living in Halls all the pre-drinking is done in people's kitchen's/ living room and 9/10 times it's off to the union where you can be under-18 as long as you're a student (at least that's the case in Dundee). The only thing you'll miss out on in the town's clubs will be discounted entry if you have to show a student card to get it, apart from that I can't see why they'd ask you. Do it, moving out is the best part of uni IMO. Edited March 23, 2013 by GorgieRoad 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottR96 Posted March 23, 2013 Share Posted March 23, 2013 Thanks for the feedback. I think I'll go for it providing my SAAS will cover the fees, I think I'll be fine though. How would I go about applying for accommodation if I won't find out I have a guaranteed place until August? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AsdaLoyal Posted March 23, 2013 Share Posted March 23, 2013 Aye, I turn 18 in the January but I have a fake ID so that shouldn't be a problem although I got rejected buying a carry out last week because it was the only form of ID I had - I would imagine most places would ask for a student card along with the ID? If so then I'll be fucked. Definitely something I'll consider but it seems a bit of an unnecessary expense when I can easily travel to and from Stirling from Cumbernauld. P&B picked the subjects I did for Higher in S5 so it's no big deal if it makes another life choice for me Stayed in halls in Stirling despite living in Alloa just 10 minutes away. Financially it was stupid to waste the money but you'll meet friends for life and it was easily the best year of my life so far. Best memories were every time its sunny everybody just chills round the loch having a drink with disposable BBQs ! At Stirling theres no d.o.b on your student card , just make sure you know your ID well ! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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