Granno Posted 4 December 2007 Posted 4 December 2007 Has anybody applied for 2008 Entry to University, I have had all of my replies now. Computer Science BSc 2008 Coventry - Conditional - 240 Points Birmingham - Conditional - BBC Nottingham - Conditional - BBC inc B in Mathematics Leicester - Conditional - BBC Warwick - Unsuccessful
Hitesh Posted 4 December 2007 Posted 4 December 2007 Has anybody applied for 2008 Entry to University, I have had all of my replies now.Computer Science BSc 2008 Coventry - Conditional - 240 Points Birmingham - Conditional - BBC Nottingham - Conditional - BBC inc B in Mathematics Leicester - Conditional - BBC Warwick - Unsuccessful Which Uni's are you gonna choose? Im currently doing Comp Science at Aston and I have spoken to people who are doing it at Brum and they said its good. I would also recommend Birmingham because its a good city!! Great Student life! Also..i would def recommend doing a placement year! (Avoid Cov too!) But at the end of the day, its your choice and you should go where you feel more comfortable. You should go to all of them and go twice if you can!
Granno Posted 4 December 2007 Author Posted 4 December 2007 Which Uni's are you gonna choose? Im currently doing Comp Science at Aston and I have spoken to people who are doing it at Brum and they said its good. I would also recommend Birmingham because its a good city!! Great Student life! Also..i would def recommend doing a placement year! (Avoid Cov too!) But at the end of the day, its your choice and you should go where you feel more comfortable. You should go to all of them and go twice if you can! I was thinking of choosing Nottingham as firm choice and then either Cov/Leicester as insurance. I've been to all of them except Leicester, so I am going to an open day there next week. It's a toughie, but I have plenty of time to make the right choice.
EmLeee Posted 4 December 2007 Posted 4 December 2007 I'm not the only Ashby person to get an unsuccessful! Sheffield didn't want me! Got conditional places as Huddersfield, Hull and Kingston to study music - audition at Huddersfield on Dec 20th - can't wait! Love it there! Also got an audition for Wolves Wolverhampton on Friday which I'm quite scared about
cisono Posted 4 December 2007 Posted 4 December 2007 Has anybody applied for 2008 Entry to University, I have had all of my replies now. I haven't received any replies yet, mostly because I haven't applied yet. In fact, I am thinking of applying later on. I like doing things lastminute.com.
danny. Posted 4 December 2007 Posted 4 December 2007 i did a bsc computer science at leicester. I wouldnt recommend, the lecturers were clueless idiots and 60-70% spoke such bad "english" noone had a clue what they were saying.
cisono Posted 5 December 2007 Posted 5 December 2007 i did a bsc computer science at leicester. I wouldnt recommend, the lecturers were clueless idiots and 60-70% spoke such bad "english" noone had a clue what they were saying. When was that?
danny. Posted 5 December 2007 Posted 5 December 2007 erm, about 5-6 years ago - so some of the lecturers might have moved on, but while I was there for 3 years the quality actually got worse with any staff changes
cisono Posted 5 December 2007 Posted 5 December 2007 erm, about 5-6 years ago - so some of the lecturers might have moved on, but while I was there for 3 years the quality actually got worse with any staff changes Hmm ok. I hear that a few years earlier they were rather good. But then some of them moved on, which may explain your bad experience there (transition time?).
danny. Posted 5 December 2007 Posted 5 December 2007 a couple (literally) were geniuses and really knew their stuff. The rest were pretty useless. One guy (french, filled in his gaps in the english language with "etc etc blah blah blah eheheh" in a broad accent) taught java and had no idea what he was doing, he frequently got compilation errors in his examples and people had to go down and help him sort it out. Had the same with another guy (chinese, could hardly speak english) for c++, it was quite worrying. Also, even more disturbingly, all the lecturerd had torrid love affairs for linux and carried their linux laptops everywhere with their hideous gnome buttons, multiple terminal windows and penguin pornography littered across the screen.
Daggers Posted 5 December 2007 Posted 5 December 2007 the lecturers were clueless idiots and 60-70% spoke such bad "english" noone had a clue what they were saying. As bad as your written English? a couple (literally) were geniuses and really knew their stuff. The rest were pretty useless. You are describing almost every CS department in the country - as foreign staff are cheaper and old staff are impossible to get rid of.
Daggers Posted 5 December 2007 Posted 5 December 2007 Far worse! There was a lecturer at Aston last year that could not read his own overheads. Frightening.
andyh1884 Posted 5 December 2007 Posted 5 December 2007 There was a lecturer at Aston last year that could not read his own overheads.Frightening. There was a business studies lecturer at Aston who looked like the BFG, very nice chap, really friendly...
The People's Hero Posted 5 December 2007 Posted 5 December 2007 University makes mornings painful. Mornings ARE painful.
Finnegan Posted 5 December 2007 Posted 5 December 2007 University makes mornings painful. Alex[ikokopops] makes mornings painful.
The People's Hero Posted 5 December 2007 Posted 5 December 2007 Alex[ikokopops] makes mornings painful. Just heard Jamie Oliver on the radio moaning about the quality of School Finners. Personally I like a bit of Finners. This post has no purpose at all. Wow... 1 o'clock - here you are! The exact half way point in the working week. Praise be.
Finnegan Posted 5 December 2007 Posted 5 December 2007 Sigh. I need to truck up the Walkers for a ticket for Sat'dee. Can I no be fooked.
The People's Hero Posted 5 December 2007 Posted 5 December 2007 Sigh. I need to truck up the Walkers for a ticket for Sat'dee. Can I no be fooked. Or truck yourself down for Maidstone. Party season starting soon. GO!
Finnegan Posted 5 December 2007 Posted 5 December 2007 Or truck yourself down for Maidstone. Party season starting soon.GO! ... I think I'll stick to the walkers.
cisono Posted 5 December 2007 Posted 5 December 2007 a couple (literally) were geniuses and really knew their stuff. The rest were pretty useless.One guy (french, filled in his gaps in the english language with "etc etc blah blah blah eheheh" in a broad accent) taught java and had no idea what he was doing, he frequently got compilation errors in his examples and people had to go down and help him sort it out. Had the same with another guy (chinese, could hardly speak english) for c++, it was quite worrying. Ah, I remember now... some time ago, they started using teaching assistants: people in (low) paid (part-time) employment tasked to teach several subjects that no self-respecting member of staff would waste his/her valuable research time teaching. I saw the job going and thought to myself "no way!" (too much work, too little pay) So, I would guess that many of them were PhD students in other (related) areas, java and C++ NOT being their main specialty. So, for instance, someone working on a project where C++ (or perl under unix) would be used may have been teaching java under Windows. Bound to get lots of compilation (and other) errors! Also, this dept is really a Maths and CS dept, so the emphasis would be on the abstract (algorithms etc), not the somewhat "less important" technicalities of the syntax.
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