Mak Posted July 13, 2009 Share Posted July 13, 2009 I think you're pretty So does yer maw. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Accies1 Posted July 13, 2009 Author Share Posted July 13, 2009 So does yer maw. My dad too 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H_B Posted July 13, 2009 Share Posted July 13, 2009 I didn't go and see any universities before I decided to go to Glasgow. I certainly wouldn't have taken my parents with me had I though. I was too independent. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mak Posted July 13, 2009 Share Posted July 13, 2009 My dad too It's you that I really want. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supras Posted July 13, 2009 Share Posted July 13, 2009 Why's that then? Precisely. My dad came to look at all three Universities I was considering going to with me. Apart from anything else I had no other means of actually getting to the place other than him taking me but even if I had where's the problem? Because it never crossed my mind that I should take my parents and as far as I know none of my friends took their parents. I expceted a few to have their parents with them but not nearly everyone that was there. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mak Posted July 13, 2009 Share Posted July 13, 2009 People who take their parents to these things with them are just weird. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted July 13, 2009 Share Posted July 13, 2009 I went around Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Strathclyde on their Engineering open days and never had my parents there. I just got the Citylink to these places and back but if it was somewhere like England where it's the parents forking out a few thousand pounds each year then I could understand the will for them to come along. In Scotland however, if you're big and bad enough to go to uni by yourself for three to four years then you should be able to get there and have a look around by yourself without someone in your ear or you feeling pressured to ask the 'right' questions just because your parents are there. If anything, I'd probably be more likely just to shut up and ask less if mine were there. I thought the same thing when I saw all the parents walking about. Looking back on it, I think my mum rathered I went to Strathclyde rather than Aberdeen (my eventual choice) so that one decision to go by myself could have changed my life path 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Accies1 Posted July 16, 2009 Author Share Posted July 16, 2009 When do the schools get their results through? Just checked UCAS and my Caley offer has changed from a conditional to an unconditional, I presume that means I'm in then. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reina Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 When do the schools get their results through? I think it's the day before you do, but 'normal teachers' are not allowed to see them until you do if you know what I mean? Is it the 15th you get them this year? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ad Lib Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 I think it's the day before you do, but 'normal teachers' are not allowed to see them until you do if you know what I mean? Is it the 15th you get them this year? Normal teachers? Non-Senior Management Staff? 15th sounds quite late. I thought it was the 5th. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supras Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 Normal teachers? Non-Senior Management Staff?15th sounds quite late. I thought it was the 5th. I thought it was the 5th as well for Standard Grades and Highers. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ad Lib Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 I thought it was the 5th as well for Standard Grades and Highers. And AH I'd have thought... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest maxwell5 Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 I went to open days at Stirling, Glasgow and Scumdee, what a total piss take. In particular the Glasgow open day, me and my mates just used it as an excuse to go for a look about the city, didn't actually go anywhere near the campus. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reina Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 Normal teachers? Non-Senior Management Staff? Well done Einstein. 15th sounds quite late. I thought it was the 5th. Yeah, 5th does sound about right, actually. I thought 15th was a bit late, since schools (up here anyway) go back on the 18th or something. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ad Lib Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 Well done Einstein. The reason I was confused is because last year our subject teachers knew the day before our results. Yeah, 5th does sound about right, actually. I thought 15th was a bit late, since schools (up here anyway) go back on the 18th or something. It's usually around the 5th. I checked and it is the 5th. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fraser_smfc Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 (edited) I'm pretty sure it's the 5th they come out Edited July 16, 2009 by fraser_smfc 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ad Lib Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 I'm pretty sure it's the 5th they come out Nice edit. I was about to throw the last line of this SQA Press Release from Tuesday. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mak Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 I went to open days at Stirling, Glasgow and Scumdee, what a total piss take. In particular the Glasgow open day, me and my mates just used it as an excuse to go for a look about the city, didn't actually go anywhere near the campus. Why? You could surely go to Glasgow any time you liked if that's what you really wanted to do. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fraser_smfc Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 Nice edit. I was about to throw the last line of this SQA Press Release from Tuesday. Damn I thought no one noticed. I meant to say the 5th, I just typed away like a madman. I looked back and thought, "Why the hell did I just put the 15th??". I must be tired or something. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pink Freud Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 People who take their parents to these things with them are just weird. I dunno. I didn't take mine, and in some ways it would have been better if I had. For example, they might have had the nouse to work out I was going to spend my first year at Riccarton, and not in the centre of Edinburgh. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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