/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.7185312]

Where do you/did you go to university? I'm at Royal Holloway.
>tfw shitting in this building right now

[Anonymous No.7185331]

My school used "the smallest university in canada" as a selling point

[Anonymous No.7185339]

Royal holloway is a bad university.

I'd be unhappy entrusting my care to a doctor who was educated at Royal Holloway unless it was something unimportant, and I'm sure the rest of their students are less intelligent than their medics.

[Twiggy !zf/ZW7mGp6 No.7185343]

[Anonymous No.7185346]

>>7185312

>not oxford
>not cambridge
>not durham
>not warwick
>not imperial
>not st andrews
>not edinburgh
>not glasgow
>not bristol
>not UCL

le why do you even le leave le trash?

[Anonymous No.7185351]

I'm at Oxford (Somerville college) studying Classics. I seem to spend more time reading English literature though than classical.

[Anonymous No.7185367]

>>7185346
>implying that any of those are worth anything, with the exception of KCL/UCL and Oxbridge

[Anonymous No.7185372]

>>7185351

can you speak ancient greek and latin yet?

did you (or many of the people you're with) know those languages going in to the degree? How does the course deal with this

how do you keep a straight face while wanking over the greeks and romans because they're old and treating everything written before 300 AD as wisdom and truth on par with shakespeare mixed with general relativity and fermat's last theorem while knowing fuck all about anything related to modern times (based on the course)? I would feel like a fraud tbh.

[Anonymous No.7185388]

>>7185312
>my university is the 198th in the best European Universities
>mfw people are actually bragging about being in the top 200

[Anonymous No.7185398]

>>7185372

we don't 'speak' latin and greek but i can read and write them. i'd done latin and greek at school for about 4 years but most people have only done latin because the UK don't teach greek at many schools anymore.

err, i wouldn't say i treat greek and roman literature as 'wisdom and truth' but it can definitely be admired in terms of literary merit. we also spend a lot of time studying history and early philosophy which is pretty interesting, the course is split quite evenly between literature, history and philosophy so it's nice and broad.

i do try and keep up to date with more modern stuff too, i read a lot of modern literature and have always been pretty interested in physics and maths so i've got quite a broad knowledge. if you like literature and history, classics is probably the best course you can do. we even get to do a whole module on 20th century english poetry and how it was influenced by the ancients which is pretty interesting.

[Anonymous No.7185409]

>>7185351
Are you reading much continental genderqueer post-structuralist Afro-centrist historical materialist literary theory?

[Anonymous No.7185414]

>>7185409

Why wouldn't you want to read such theory?

Sounds fascinating

[Anonymous No.7185416]

>>7185346
>omitting LSE yet including Glasgow
lmao

[Anonymous No.7185420]

>>7185409
> mfw I study modern history at Oxford
> mfw half the papers on Historical Theory are about emotional history, queer history or post-colonial analysis

[Anonymous No.7185427]

>>7185420
>mfw I study Medieval History and cuck shit is at a minimum if you avoid the women

[Anonymous No.7185435]

>>7185312
UT Dallas.

[Anonymous No.7185437]

Good to see fellow Oxonians on /lit/.
Dominus Illuminatio Mea etc etc

[Anonymous No.7185443]

>tfw too dumb for uni

[Anonymous No.7185455]

>>7185437
> mfw classes don't start until next week
> mfw I have a introduction event today, and didn't even go

Where my Linacre college at?

[Anonymous No.7185458]

>>7185388

this tbh. I got to melbourne uni which is supposedly 33rd best in the world and the best in the country, honestly leaves a lot to be desired.

[Anonymous No.7185461]

>it's another school thread on /lit/

[Anonymous No.7185477]

>>7185351
>>7185420
>>7185437
>>7185455
Any Oxbros in Open Oxford or been following the No Offence controversy?

[Anonymous No.7185494]

>>7185312
Royal Holloway? Did you go to Strodes as well mate?

I live near Egham but I study in Canterbury. On a gap year at the moment though so I'm back. Wanna meet up and fugg?? :DDD

[Anonymous No.7185495]

>>7185477

Haven't heard anything about it, nor did I hear anybody talk about it.

[Anonymous No.7185506]

>>7185331
kek

[Anonymous No.7185512]

[Anonymous No.7185530]

University of Vienna, studying philosophy and theology.

[Anonymous No.7185569]

>>7185494
Didn't go to Strodes but the fugging sounds sick m8

[Anonymous No.7186319]

>tfw University of Florida
Is it pleb?

[Anonymous No.7186325]

>>7186319

Isn't Florida mainly a party university?

[Anonymous No.7186348]

>>7186325
There's definitely a lot of partying, and too much football worship. Certain programs are well regarded, at least by public school standards.

[Anonymous No.7186355]

STEMfag pleb reporting in

[Anonymous No.7186357]

>>7185420
holy fuck the west is actually fucking dying before our eyes

[Anonymous No.7186366]

junior transfer from CC, starting in spring

[Anonymous No.7186374]

>>7186355
>>7186355
I went to school nearby and have way too much respect for MIT kids. You're the only engineering program with hope for being patrician.

PS Your SK girls suck and your Kappa Alpha Theta girls fuel my yellow fever something fierce.

[Anonymous No.7186375]

>>7186357

The worst part is that this implies that most of my essays/papers will have to be about these subjects. Plus, it also diverts attention of other theoretical approaches. The compounding effects of educating a whole generation of historians with these mindsets will be devastating in the long run.

[Anonymous No.7186385]

>>7185312
hue

[Anonymous No.7186392]

>>7186375
I think the worst part of this is that, to the best of my knowledge, Oxford is literally the best place in the world to study history.

That these approaches are dominant at Oxford implies, at least to me, that they're ubiquitous in academia. There's no escape, and—contrary to the entire purpose of history—nothing has been preserved.

I mean, think of the legions of historians that have come before you. Think of their sacrifices. And it's all thrown away in a generation, just for the sake of some abstract sense of guilt.

[Anonymous No.7186404]

>>7186392

[Anonymous No.7186413]

>>7185312
>pic related

[Anonymous No.7186421]

>>7186392
>I mean, think of the legions of historians that have come before you.

Funny part is, that I'm specialized in the history of historiography. But now, my supervisor at Oxford is pushing me to wrote my dissertation about emotional history. I'm literally watching my historic world burn, and there's nothing I can do about it.

[Anonymous No.7186433]

>>7186421

[Anonymous No.7186440]

>>7186421
what do you thing about the micro-history bullshit?

[Anonymous No.7186444]

>>7186440
think*
god, I'm sorry,'m typing on my phone.

[Anonymous No.7186453]

>>7186421
>emotional history

wat, explain pls

[Anonymous No.7186464]

>>7186440

Oh god, that reminds me, there are also 5 papers just on micro-history by Ginzburg. Theoretically? Trying to capture macro-history by looking a case-study and applying a micro-history perspective seems promising. But in practice? It mostly ends up in an irrelevant case-study about a very particular and local context, without any in-depth value. It's probably the worst consequence of the declared end of big stories by the poststructuralist/postmodernist wave of historians.

[Anonymous No.7186478]

>>7186453

Emotional history is a new trend in historiography, pushed by gender historians at major institutions like Oxford. The basic premise is all previous historians neglected to fully contextualize the emotions and the emotional context of their historical sources. They intend on deconstructing the 'true' emotions expressed by the authors in the written sources.

The biggest flaw is obviously that these historians presume that the authors are conscious about their feelings, that they can express them eloquently (else you can't analyse it properly), that they're sincere, and that it's even plausible to feel what they must have felt.

[Anonymous No.7186479]

>>7186421
>emotional history
Stem major here, please explain

[Anonymous No.7186487]

>>7186478

Also cont: THese historians work on topics like the 'the history of love', 'the history of pain', etc. They intend on analyzing how previous societies expressed and dealt with their emotions. Alternatively, they write 'normal' historical papers about regular topics, but from this emotional interpretation of the sources.

[Anonymous No.7186495]

>>7186487
There have been papers about these things for hundreds of years though. What makes this movement different?

[Anonymous No.7186508]

>>7186495

The first real reference in modern historiography is by Febvre during the interbellum, but it was never applied the way it is now. It applies a poststructuralist textual deconstruction to analyse the emotions of the historical actors/authors. This kind of history hasn't been written before, ever.

[Anonymous No.7186510]

>>7186478
>2015
>not applying death of the author to historical texts

[Anonymous No.7186518]

>>7186478
I can't see what's so bad about this. Are white guys really this terrified of talking about their emotions? Why does everything have to be REASON AND LOGIC all the time?

[Anonymous No.7186526]

>>7186518
No one said it was bad in and of itself you mongoloid

[Anonymous No.7186527]

>>7185346
>>not glasgow
I'm Hungarian and began learning English 4 years ago. I'm in Glasgow, explaining words like 'pulchritude, incarnardine, quotidian' and others to geordies and glasgwegians all day. It even went as far as me having to explain what presriptivism and descriptivism is to a girl that was re-sitting the year. People don't know what a iambic pentameter is here.
I'm dead. This is hell.

[Anonymous No.7186528]

>>7186518

Haven't you read the second part? If you actually read these historiographies (I'll link you some references if you like), it mostly ends in vague conjecture without any real conclusions because it isn't really based on historical evidence. It's just an emotional reading of the sources by a gender historian.

[Anonymous No.7186552]

>>7186528
>It's just an emotional reading of the sources by a gender historian.

Yep women are so irrational. your perfectly objective white male intellect is terribly oppressed by the orwellian feminazi establishment. thats right. 100% right tbh.

[Anonymous No.7186566]

>>7186552
>tumblr gifs
>strawmanning

If you think that such childs play can still b8 me, you are wrong

[Anonymous No.7186569]

>>7186552
>that gif
Too obvious anon

[Anonymous No.7186572]

>>7186552

First of all, who said anything about being irrational. Not having solid, evidence-based conclusions does not mean being irrational. Secondly, who's making this in a misogynist/anti-feminist issue? I never mentioned ANYTHING about women. Gender historians doesn't mean female historians...

You probably should check your own biases, because your turning this into something of your own imagination.

[Anonymous No.7186573]

UBC (vancouver)
currently in my American Literature lecture, reading DFW, Pynchon, Delillo, the list goes on

[Anonymous No.7186582]

>>7186573
>DFW
Disgusting

[Anonymous No.7186596]

>>7186572
REKT

b8 appropriately done and dealt with.

[Anonymous No.7186606]

>>7185312
I start very soon at Oxford, and I'll be studying Physics.

[Anonymous No.7186620]

>>7185339
How could a bad university look like that? I thought the bad universities were the red brick ones.

[Anonymous No.7186625]

Joining my Doxbridge homies :^)

[Anonymous No.7186633]

>>7186355
Greatest STEM school in the history of STEM schools. Lucky.

[Anonymous No.7186700]

>>7186572
>implying you are completely objective
>implying your social position perspective doesn't affect your reasoning unless you work to counter it.
> Implying that the study of history, particularly in your country, hasn't and isn't defined by a legacy of racism, imperialism and marginalisation of anyone who isn't a white upper class male.

[Anonymous No.7186713]

Maastricht, as an international student.

Just got to 88th in the world, 35th in Europe and 6th in the under 50 years old rankings done by The Times this week.

Bretty good, hoping to go somewhere better for my Masters.

[Anonymous No.7186763]

>>7185312

Im studying at Dartmouth College

[Anonymous No.7186778]

UCSC

[Anonymous No.7186807]

>>7186366
>he was a spring admit

[Anonymous No.7186962]

>>7185455
i'm not at linacre but just signed up for your college gym online if that means anything

[Anonymous No.7186971]

>>7185409
ha maybe the historians read shit like that but classicists are stuck in the past in terms of content and academic approach. we only have one optional module on 'women in the classical world' and it isn't even very popular. everything other module has stayed pretty constant since like 1600AD, we just study the standard canonical classical authors

[Anonymous No.7187346]

>>7186620
Spoiler: all universities are bad ones

[Anonymous No.7187359]

>>7186573
UBC here too, where do I meet people who like books on campus

[Anonymous No.7187412]

Helsinki, did BA in English Philology (basically linguistics and lit) and Semiotics. Thinking about UK for masters, perhaps Edinburgh or Belfast

[Anonymous No.7187430]

>>7186962
> not being at my college
> still using my gym

You devious motherfucker. I might actually see (I always go at 8am)

[Anonymous No.7187443]

my uni was comfy as fuck

[Anonymous No.7187485]

>>7185312
University of California San Diego
Joint major in math and economics

[Anonymous No.7187502]

>>7185346
>Glasgow
>Bristol
>Edinburgh
>UCL

Try Surrey, Lancaster, Exeter and LSE and you actually have the best 10 in the UK, you cum plum.

>going to an 11-20

¡Ay, caramba!

Reading Chemistry at Imperial.

[Anonymous No.7187507]

The general campus of the university is a piece of shit, but the Law faculty is pretty noice.

[Anonymous No.7187612]

>>7185312
Im literally posting from kingswood.

[Anonymous No.7187624]

>>7187485
How do you like it? Is the area nice? I was looking at UCSD as a possible choice to apply for a PhD in philosophy

I ask about the surrounding since the only time I've been to San Diego was for comic-con so the whole city was a fucking disaster it seemed. Is it like that all the time? I never went by the UC but I think I was near SDSU iirc.

[Anonymous No.7187634]

>>7185312
Any other Loyolabros or Baltimorebros here??

[Anonymous No.7187645]

>>7186366
just transferred this semester
be prepared for much more work than at CC

anyway, grats!

[Anonymous No.7187659]

>>7186807
It's like a half-hearted blowjob. It's still a blowjob.

[Anonymous No.7187660]

>>7187645
Congratulations! How much more work is it? I mean how many pages do you have to read a week? Also, what's your major?

[Anonymous No.7187666]

>>7185331
MSVU?

[Anonymous No.7187667]

>>7187666

[Anonymous No.7187671]

>>7186385
>UNAM
My nigga. What career?

[Anonymous No.7187680]

>>7186357
>modern history at Oxford

hasn't been an important part of the west in about a century. When STEManon >>7186355
in MIT starts getting asked to do "emotional design" we'll be fucked. Until then you can rest safely.

>>7186392
You're thinking in labels way too much. Oxford including this shit doesn't mean most others uni do. The most prestigious universities are also the most exposed (and sensitive to) the troubles of following trends.
>>7186421
Why would a student in historiography not want to write about a significant shift in methodology ? Isn't that wpretty much what you guys do ? If your world is burning and you're working with the firemen, the least you can do is report the fire.

[Anonymous No.7187684]

>>7187660
It's hard to say how much exactly. The material tends to go more in depth and there's little to no hand-holding. They'll give you the basics of what you should know in lecture and you kinda have make sure to fill in the gaps.

I've been reading about 50-60 pages a week, not too bad, but my math class is light on reading.

I'm studying Cognitive Science.

What are you majoring in?

[Anonymous No.7187691]

"A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education."
- Theodore Roosevelt

That comes from someone who graduated from Harvard

If you don't have a thorough knowledge of the Bible by now, you're doing it wrong.

[Anonymous No.7187693]

I go to the University of Read Le Fucking Sticky

[Anonymous No.7187700]

:^)

[Anonymous No.7187704]

History of emotions sounds pretty interesting tbh. Why do we read fiction if not to feel what other people felt 100s of years ago in places we'll never go to. Historicizing the emotional context of those works seems like a very interesting endeavour.
What are some primers on it?

[Anonymous No.7187727]

>>7187680
>If your world is burning and you're working with the firemen, the least you can do is report the fire.

Being able to report/reflect on it, doesn't make the thing you're reporting on a good thing.

[Anonymous No.7187734]

>>7187704
>.

I'm the person who posted on emotional history. Some of the most prominent authors on the subject are William Reddy, Barbara Rosenwein and Peter Stearns.

Or you can read the introduction to Emotional history by Jan Plamper.

Here's an interview of the 3 authors I mentioned (conducted by Plamper) about what emotional history entails:

http://rm.univr.it/biblioteca/scaffale/Download/Autori_P/RM-Plamper-Interview.pdf

[Anonymous No.7187738]

>>7187727
Why don't you not be a whiny fucking shit and just write about you want to write. Better yet, right an actually reasoned argument against it. If you can't do that then fuck off with this personal problem bullshit.

[Anonymous No.7187770]

>>7187684
I don't know. I got in for english, but I'm not really that interested in it, tbh

That's actually less reading than I'd expect!

But I imagine it's easily 3-4x that in the humanities.

[Anonymous No.7187936]

Second tier state school. Fml.

[Anonymous No.7187958]

Pynchon had a short scene set here in Mason & Dixon, and I think that's more or less its only /lit/ claim to fame.

[Anonymous No.7188014]

>>7187700
Nice. For some reason I chose to go here. I got accepted to UT and everything.
I enjoy my classes but have concluded that most people here are retards.
>STEMfag reporting in

[Anonymous No.7188348]

Stephen Dedalus visits it in 'A Portrait...'

[Anonymous No.7188383]

[Anonymous No.7188386]

>>7185312
Hiro stop creating this thread to gather more information about us

[Anonymous No.7188394]

>>7188348

Why are British unis so comfy? I did my undergrad at Balliol in Oxofrd, and it looks like a fairy-tale castle

[Anonymous No.7188402]

>>7186421
Do global history if you want grand narratives. Global historians laugh at the grand narratives of the past for not being grand enough.

Or study the types of history that you hate and point out why they're wrong.

[Anonymous No.7188403]

>>7187738
this tbh

[Anonymous No.7188404]

>>7188402
>Global historians

This is actually what I wanted to study, because I enjoy authors like Crosby (Columbian exchange), and Diamond (GGS). But there wasn't a spot available.

[Anonymous No.7188461]

>>7185312

Ivy Master Race reporting in.

[Anonymous No.7188480]

>>7186478

Oh god man, what the fuck?

I thought gender studies was a contained cancer at universities, not that it was metastasising to serious studies.

I'm genuinely sorry man.

[Anonymous No.7188485]

>>7188480

>serious studies

the dipshit surfaces

[Anonymous No.7188488]

>>7186528

>gender historian.

That's got the same sound to it as "retard professor" or "midget athlete".

[Anonymous No.7188496]

>>7188485

Elaborate, STEM-sounding friend.

History is serious. It is the cornerstone of any patrician education.

[Anonymous No.7188502]

>>7188496

>uses the term 'patrician' to endear himself to himself
>thinks history is 'serious' but laughs at an inquiry into gender

why are you even studying

[Anonymous No.7188503]

>>7188502

Oh that's where the trouble is.

Gender studies is a joke, regardless of your feelings.

[Anonymous No.7188505]

>>7188480

it became pretty dominant

[Anonymous No.7188510]

>>7188503

Again, why are you pretending to educate yourself?

[Anonymous No.7188513]

>>7188510

I'm really not.

I'm sorry I hurt your feelings so bad. Gender studies is still a joke.

[Anonymous No.7188516]

>>7188513

Enjoy your daddy's binaries

I'm sure it'll land you plenty of happiness in your further 'education'

[Anonymous No.7188517]

>>7188502
> gender research serious and history not

Get the fuck out

[Anonymous No.7188521]

>>7188517

>thinks he can establish a legitimate hierarchy either way
>pretends to be on the correct 'side' of two barely-contradictory nodes

don't bother posting anymore

[Anonymous No.7188536]

>>7188516

Okay, a thought I had about the entire non-binary lulziness.

If we accept that people can have ill-defined genders that don't fit into the binary, but can identify as whatever they come up with, wouldn't we be forced to extend the same respect to cat-kin, goofy-kin and dragon-kin? The former is respected, the latter widely viewed as ridiculous.

Also, the notion that you can't have an education or "happiness" without knowledge of gender studies is preposterous. Just look at history.

[Anonymous No.7188539]

>>7188536

Look up the word 'gender'

have you ever read a book on gender studies? Do you know what the word means?

[Anonymous No.7188543]

>>7188521

>History can grant us unprecedented insight into current and future affairs by knowing how similar affairs played out in the past

>Gender studies can grant us unprecedented insight into how scared millennials who are just now realizing that they are really insignificant can reattain special snowflake status in a world where they don't matter.

Agreed, those are basically worth the same.

[Anonymous No.7188549]

>>7188539

Aw man (is that offensive?), for a person so hell-bent on real™ education, you sure are insufferable and not willing to teach.

I haven't read your bible, no. I'm doing my philosophy chronologically, and I'm not at Butler yet.

[Anonymous No.7188550]

>>7188543

I wouldn't even know how to teach you how to think about your own thoughts

our universities are fucked

[Anonymous No.7188554]

>>7188549

I'm not your teacher and I'm not very personally invested in your biases

I wish your teachers would have been, though

[Anonymous No.7188571]

Any QUBfags on here?

It's kinda shitty

[Anonymous No.7188572]

>>7186527
>>7186527
The fact is our universities are full of undereducated Chads and indie kids. Free tuition and ridiculously low entry requirements remove responsibility for making it worthwhile because you arent even paying for it.

Also uni is painted solely as a way to make yourself employable in stead of... You know, educating yourself.

[Anonymous No.7188592]

>>7186527
Hello Masir, stil not gotten any better? Where are you meeting bloody Geordies? I have never seen a single Newcastler in Glasgow..

[Anonymous No.7188596]

>>7186700
Name a great civilization with no basis at all in xenophobia and I will explain why you are wrong.

[Anonymous No.7188599]

>>7188554

>Act smug
>Don't follow up

Never change /lit/

[Anonymous No.7188600]

>>7185398
I study Classics at Glasgow and I envy you deeply, we seem to do the lightest reading with the least possible analysis or intertextuality. Maybe it will get better at honours ;_;

[Anonymous No.7188602]

>>7188550

Could you tell me of one significant insight that gender studies gives us, and how it pertains to knowledge of the real world at least?

You're doing a lot of posturing and little thought.

[Anonymous No.7188605]

>>7187691
Worth a lot? Certainly. More than most decent degrees? Maybe in early 19th ct America or medieval Europe.

[Anonymous No.7188609]

Best liberal arts college in the country

[Anonymous No.7188611]

>>7188550
If you are truly equal-minded why do you need a degree to explain a concept as simple as gender?

[Anonymous No.7188612]

>>7188609
How many colleges do Netherfags even have? Like 3?

[Anonymous No.7188616]

>>7188612

liberal arts colleges I believe around 6-7. Regular universities a lot, man. Just not so many good ones. TU Delft / UvA / Wageningen / Nyenroode / Erasmus are noticeable.

[Anonymous No.7188618]

>>7188600
Well I was considering this exact course but if it is a joke I may have to rethink my future. What is the department like? I dont believe there is another in Scotland.

[Anonymous No.7188626]

Where should I go for my masters? Preferably to specialise in Renaissance Literature.

[Anonymous No.7188637]

>>7188618
I think it's a problem that comes from the disconnected modules in the first two years, so they tailor the first year for people who don't give a shit, the second year seems a bit better (but it's only just starting). I have been told it gets a lot better at honours and I could imagine it as the lecturers certainly seem competent. That first year doe, it makes you weep, I sat through a lot of lectures that where just summaries of the books we were meant to have read, and the seminars were horrifying (at one point one of my classmates turned to the other and asked 'Was Augustus before or after Caesar', the reply 'I don't really know', this was on a module for 200-44bc). The language teaching is OK, but they fuck you up with Latin1 starting at 9 4 days a week.
The university also overcharges attrociously on accomodation, except in a couple of halls, just a heads up.

[Anonymous No.7188656]

>>7185312
Italianfag reporting

[Anonymous No.7188662]

>>7185367
> KCL
> not ICL

bewildered_pepe.jpg

[Anonymous No.7188693]

>>7188662
KCL/UCL/ICL/LSE they're all the same, and they're all good. London is probably the city with the best universities.

[Anonymous No.7189128]

anyone go to Georgetown? i'm 21, been working for for years and i'm planning on doing two years at community college and transferring to the liberal arts program

[Anonymous No.7189157]

>>7185367
ameritard spotted

[Anonymous No.7189175]

>>7189157
> mfw I study at Oxford

Stay mad. You're probably at Manchester or lower

[Anonymous No.7189179]

I do philosophy and english literature at sussex university. Starting to wish I'd picked something a bit more practical now, feeling very depressed anyway. Haven't met anyone on my course that I like, or even consider intelligent, so I feel quite alone

[Anonymous No.7189189]

canadian subordinate race reporting in, eh

stephen marche says our generation is defined by franzen as either consciously ivy league -diploma'd or consciously lacking an ivy league diploma

i'm just studyin my debits and credits and DFdubs, so i wouldn't know myself

[Anonymous No.7189209]

>>7188571
Why's it bad?

[Anonymous No.7189241]

Columbia

lots of mixed feelings about the guilt/responsibility of going to a leading institution of the world

I'm dual majoring in neuroscience (bio + psych here) and an undeclared Jewish studies major I haven't picked but I'm fulfilling reqs for it

[Anonymous No.7189248]

Who /terribleeducation/ here?

[Anonymous No.7189265]

I went to university of aberdeen and it was shit.

[Anonymous No.7189296]

>>7189265

Hey, at least it was free/cheap

[Anonymous No.7189371]

>>7189241
>goes to Columbia
>Jewish studies major
How redundant.

>>7189189
>defined by Franzen
Why would anyone say this? Either way it's silly. There are around 30 private universities in the states that are worth going to and only 8 of those are Ivies. This is not to mention the elite universities of the rest of the world. "Ivy League" isn't a thing in the real world because the alums are really only nepotistic to the alums of their own university. A Harvard grad isn't gonna give preferential treatment to a Yale man.

[Anonymous No.7189408]

>>7189179

Are you a fresher?

Just finished my degree there. I also found few people who I liked on my course, but then I did find some cool people through societies. You just need yo avoid the sperg ones obviously (dr who and so on)

[Anonymous No.7189421]

>>7189296

When I hear people with english accents I am so thankful that their no doubt hedonistic and enjoyable time at university is so expensive. Also they must be dumb as shit to be here.

[Anonymous No.7189465]

>>7189408
2nd year, what societies did you join? I've tried a fair few

[Anonymous No.7189517]

Who /unt/ here?

[Anonymous No.7189525]

>>7187624
San Diego is fucking great. What about it was a disaster?

I really liked UCSD and the la jolla area. It's a little more reserved but if you want to party just live in Pacific Beach.

SDSU is a fucking shit hole. Surrounding area is truly terrible.

I'm from Chula Vista though so i'm biased.

[Anonymous No.7189537]

>>7186385
> poor & pleb detected

[Anonymous No.7189630]

It's alright I guess

[Anonymous No.7189660]

>>7186620
It's upper-mid tier for humanities and the arts. Go elsewhere for STEM.
I mean upper-mid tier by normal standards, not /lit/ standards, obviously.

[Anonymous No.7189702]

>>7187734
>univr
ma non ti vergogni?

[Anonymous No.7189719]

>>7189175
>>7188394
>>7185420
>>7185351
I'm applying to Balliol this year for English and I'm scared as fuck... How did you guys make it? Was it worth the stress?

[Anonymous No.7189730]

>>7189525

Del Mar fag here. San Diego's a shithole imo. UCSD in particular is overflowing with STEM autists and SJWs. Not to mention the ugly architecture, bloated campus, and nonexistant feeling of community. The Ché is probably the only interesting place on the entire campus.

[Anonymous No.7189732]

Galileo Galilei taught in my uni
probably before your country was even invented

[Anonymous No.7189752]

>>7189732
i fucked ur mom befor u were invented, nerd

[Anonymous No.7189767]

>>7187412

You're considering paying money to study in fucking Belfast? When you could do it for free at home? Don't confuse Belfast for Dublin. It's quite a horrid little city with nothing going for it.

[Anonymous No.7189776]

>>7185443
literally me fam

[Anonymous No.7189794]

>>7189730
They shut down the che.

I really like the campus and have/had a lively group of friends. It's not santa barbara but honestly there's tons of shit to do, and you have to be retarded not to make friends.

STEM is also cool and no one ever SJW'd me. In short, I disagree entirely.

[Anonymous No.7189809]

>>7185351
Did you read crime and punishment over the summer? I might know you bud :^)

[Anonymous No.7189831]

>>7188394
would you rec Balliol? Trinity and Christchurch are gorgeous but I'm not rich and my family isnt aristocratic so I don't know if I have a chance of getting in.

[Anonymous No.7189851]

>>7189719

It's definitely worth the stress. The only advice I can give is:
-prepare yourself for the interview. And I mean really prepare. Don't stutter, know your shit but be humble about it, show that you're eager to learn and improve, and expect to answer bullshit questions that still require an intelligent response (e.g. they asked me what I would study about a banana as a historian (I'll post my answer as example if you want)
- write an excellent letter of purpose stating why you want to study, what you've accomplished, and what drives you/what you wish to accomplish with your degree. Relate all these things to your choice to study at Oxford
-Show you accomplishments/activities/good grades. Especially your grades are crucial.

[Anonymous No.7189872]

>>7189851
do you know if grades still matter for americans?

[Anonymous No.7189892]

>>7185346
>went to Paris-IV
>they want to go to Oxbridge
>I paid 450$
>they paid 10000$

Can't stop laughing at this list of must-be colleges.

[Anonymous No.7189916]

>>7186319
I also attend UF.
What year/major?

[Anonymous No.7189923]

>>7189831

To be honest, I wouldn't apply to either of them if your grades/application isn't god-tier. The competition at the undergrad level is brutal, and so is the application evaluation. The other colleges are still brutal, but not as much. The costs are about the same for all, and it really depends on your personal spending habits. Yes, there are a lot of rich cunts, but you're not forced to spend as much as they do.

>>7189872
They still do. As a European I needed a GPA of at least 3.71 (graduate studies though), but I've heard it's a bit more for Americans because they inflate their grades more.

[Anonymous No.7189926]

>>7187700
Hey, how's your campus feeling after that loss?
But in all seriousness the German program there is p high quality, sadly not as good here (but still good)

>>7187936
holy fuck I never fucking thought I'd see another oklahoman on here let alone someone else in the 405 shit

(btw i'm actually from the 918)

[Anonymous No.7189945]

>>7189794

They sure they shut it down? My friend went there last week. Also:

>watching your professor on a screen in the other room.

[Anonymous No.7189951]

Reported for not literature. Fuck off to /soc/.

[Anonymous No.7189984]

>>7187359
tbh I haven't made like any friends in the 3 years i've been here, and I'm graduating here, it's kind of sad. I've been trying to join this one club but I'm torn between late classes that day and work that night every week :/. If I didn't have friends outside of school that'd probably suck. No book friends though, writing is a solitary activity, get used to it I guess

[Anonymous No.7190188]

>>7189809
I did read C&P but highly doubt you know me, go ahead and prove me wrong though.

[Anonymous No.7190190]

>>7186606
Cool man, I'm a second year physicist. Labs are gonna be shit, but you will get through them. Also Andre Lukas is a shit lecturer for linear algebra, use based neville's notes instead.

[Anonymous No.7190216]

>>7186319
me too
I don't fucking care about football why do so many people ask me if I'm going to the game

[Anonymous No.7190231]

>>7190188
are you involved in a summer course thing? I remember a guy who was reading classics and reading C&P. I think his name was Tom. You might know him even if you aren't him

[Anonymous No.7190237]

>>7190231
Nah that's not me but pretty weird that there's another somerville classicist who read C&P over Summer, I'll look out for a Tom but he definitely isn't in 3rd year with me.

[Anonymous No.7190256]

>>7186625
My niggah, what college?

[Anonymous No.7190283]

I go to U of T, Nuit Blanche is tonight so I'm gonna get smashed and go try to explain various pieces of street art to my equally drunk friends.

[Anonymous No.7190294]

>>7189926
Do GCSE's count for much?

Just curious as I didn't bother applying for Oxford because of mediocre GCSE's despite having more than capable A levels.
Applyed to Cambridge instead but fucked up the interview.

[Anonymous No.7190297]

>>7190294
Wrong person

Meant to reply to >>7189923

[Anonymous No.7190301]

>>7190283
>U of T
Mah nigga.

>Nuit Blance
Mah double nigga

[Anonymous No.7190313]

>>7187667
i thought they advertise 10 to 1 girls to guys

[Anonymous No.7190407]

>>7189945
According to wikipedia yes.

> the che has been under 24/7 student-led trespassing and illegal swuatting since [march 2015]

[Anonymous No.7190900]

>>7185346

> durham
>warwick
> imperial
> st andrews
> bristol

Ain't gonna be a writer if you bore people to tears

[Anonymous No.7190907]

>>7185312
Pajeet, take the poo to the loo.

[Anonymous No.7190913]

>>7186478

Honestly this doesn't seem like a bad idea. I mean sure I can see some pitfalls there, but, you know, it is a new thing and the traditional approaches have obviously been done to death.

Am I a pleb?

[Anonymous No.7190958]

>>7190907
>>>/fit/

[Anonymous No.7191243]

I'm getting a measly technical (=intermediate) degree tbh

just three years, ez curricula, field completely unrelated to literature

who else /not smart enough for university/ here

[Anonymous No.7191273]

>>7190913

It has a lot of potential, it's just difficult to do it right.

[Anonymous No.7191275]

>>7191243
haha fagger

[Anonymous No.7191279]

>>7190294

A good score will help, but just having a good score certainly isn't enough. And to be honest, Oxford and Cambridge's application systems are very similar, so unless your fuck-up at the interview was a one time thing, chances are you won't get accepted

[Anonymous No.7191316]

>>7191275
absolutely rude and unnecesary

[Anonymous No.7191377]

>>7185346

>no queens university belfast

trashed

[Anonymous No.7191396]

>>7186527
I like Hungary.

[Anonymous No.7191915]

KTH. Never had the means or the social skills to chance an education in the arts.

[Anonymous No.7191937]

>>7185312
University of Warsaw, I was too lazy to go abroad for BA, I'll try and get somewhere better later.

[Anonymous No.7191953]

>>7191279
Too l8 m8, interview nerves got to me, I forgot a few things about books I had read(that were on my PS) and I'm at Durham now.

I was just curious about Oxford and GCSEs, which I had heard they take into consideration more than Cambridge as Cambridge tends to take more people in for interviews than Oxford. So I imagine the competition for Oxford interviews is tougher.

[Anonymous No.7191961]

>drag down and shit on universities that are "better" than mine
>(mfw "there are no universities better than mine")
>bully people from universities that are "worse" than mine
>do not accomplish anything of merit and ride on the coat-tails of my alumni
>make this thread every few days

Welcome to /lit/

[Anonymous No.7191962]

>>7191953
>So I imagine the competition for Oxford interviews is tougher.

The Oxford interview was really fucking brutal. I had to discuss my views on the theoretical and epistemological basis of my field (history). Then answer all the bullshit questions of a panel of 5 seasoned professors. The questions really require some deep thinking to give a sensible answer, and you have to answer on the spot. Try to give a good answer on 'how would a historian study a banana' in 2 seconds.

[Anonymous No.7191968]

>>7191962

sounds fun :3

[Anonymous No.7191971]

where ma duke fam at?

[Anonymous No.7192023]

>>7191962
Maybe i should go to oxford then. i found your question really easy.

[Anonymous No.7192025]

>>7192023

Then give me your answer?

[Anonymous No.7192057]

>>7188693
What about SOAS?

[Anonymous No.7192063]

>tfw studying a shit degree at a shit university

[Anonymous No.7192071]

>>7192057

I would consider it a honorary member of the Oxbridge/London elite cunts club

[Anonymous No.7192192]

>>7191971
>paying 70k/year for sports uni with shit academics
hahahahahah

[Anonymous No.7192205]

>>7190407

Nigga, if you go to UCSD you shouldn't need to use wikipedia. I've been there in recent month and there wasn't any indication of an imminent shutdown.

[Anonymous No.7192236]

>>7185458
ANU is best in the country fuckwit

[Anonymous No.7192250]

>>7192236
>ANU IS BEST
I got bad news for you, son.
>http://www.australianuniversities.com.au/rankings/#erarankings
UniMelb is best on 4/5 lists, which makes it best overall. Enjoy your pleb school.

[Anonymous No.7192255]

>>7192250
http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2015#sorting=rank+region=+country=319+faculty=+stars=false+search=

[Anonymous No.7192267]

National University of Ireland Galway

[Anonymous No.7192334]

>>7192255

Dude the link on that guy's post literally mentions the QS rankings. When he says 4/5 lists, the 1/5 missing is the QS ranking. You have replied to a post saying that QS favours ANU over melbourne, and your reply consists of nothing but a screenshot and a link showing that QS favours ANU over melbourne, yet you somehow decided that your post was contrarian enough to warrant named the screenshot 'fuckoff.png'. Enjoy your shitty canberra weather, cunt

[Anonymous No.7192345]

>>7192334
>>7192255
>>7192250
>>7192236

> Buttmad Aussies arguing about irrelevant unis

[Anonymous No.7192348]

>>7192345
You'd be buttmad too if you had to live in Australia

[Anonymous No.7192351]

>>7192345
This tbh

If it's not an Ivy or Russell, then it's not a real school

[Anonymous No.7192353]

>>7192348

I'd be scared above all

[Anonymous No.7192376]

>>7188637
Can I ask about the uni itself? And the students, for example do they give a shit about anything other than sex and clubs? I spent a year at Heriot-Watt in Edinburgh (enormous waste of time) and it was jarring how everyone there was so concerned with being a wild and free college kid, even in the societies. Got enough of that pretentious shit in high school. Maybe it was just campus mentality.

How intensive is the language learning? Is it Greek and Latin? Do you do anything on dialects? Historical linguistics?

[Anonymous No.7192669]

>>7185443
>>7189776
At least we are literate and can still enjoy books

[Anonymous No.7192686]

>>7192669

There is no shame in not having a (good) degree. But there is if you're not a literati or an autodidact

[Anonymous No.7192688]

QM

[Anonymous No.7192842]

umich, transferred from a community college

[Anonymous No.7192943]

>>7192842

Nice man, you're getting there step by step. Keep upgrading

[Anonymous No.7192955]

friendly reminder that going to Oxford isnt enough to be considered patrician. If you go to a college that is not in the top 5 according to the Norrington table you are wasting your time and money.

[Anonymous No.7192959]

>>7190313
They do.

[Anonymous No.7192962]

>>7192955

All the colleges are performing at a high level, else Oxford wouldn't be a top-5 university. Also, your college only matters for undergrads. If you're a grad student, there is no difference between colleges because they're all combined.

[Anonymous No.7193053]

>>7189926
UCO-fag here, would you like to meet up sometime? I've never met another /lit/erati, and UCO is as pleb as it gets.

[Anonymous No.7193130]

ITT: Plebs who listen to their grandparent's opinions of UK univeristies.

As long as it is Russel Group you are fine, though there is an obvious tier for subjects. Best for /lit/ are UCL and Oxford, obvs.

[Anonymous No.7193168]

>>7187958
How do you like W&M? I'm thinking about going there.

[Anonymous No.7193180]

Bro is going to ISU. Just finished visiting him there.

[Anonymous No.7193202]

LSE for a postgraduate degree.

[Anonymous No.7193400]

>>7188572
How come requirments on the university of Edinburgh for IT are as follows:
85% in advanced subjects like maths, informatics

[Anonymous No.7193472]

>>7193391
Uni thread lads

[Anonymous No.7193628]

>>7193168

Do you think she actually read the whole thing, or skipped to the end for the purpose of the photograph?

[Anonymous No.7194196]

>>7192063

It's okay anon, your university doesn't matter so much. There are smart and nice people almost anywhere, at any place you can find!

[Anonymous No.7194551]

>>7185477
Oh yea, it's seriously entertaining.
>rape swagger
Genius.

[Anonymous No.7194700]

>>7186366
>>7186778
>>7187485
Fellow UCfag reporting in. UC Davis here.

[Anonymous No.7196085]

>>7192351

>tfw university of Melbourne is ranked higher than most Russel and a few ivy league schools

I don't even think Melbourne is a great uni tbh

[Anonymous No.7196724]

>>7192943
a little condescending but i appreciate it anyway, thanks man

[Anonymous No.7196744]

>>7189241
I went there but I graduated 09

are you a joint JTS/CC student?

[Anonymous No.7196898]

Any South Africans on /lit/?

[Anonymous No.7197080]

>>7192205
I graduated like 4 years ago m8

[Anonymous No.7197154]

>>7190216
Because a lot of people go, so it's a really easy conversation starter.

[Anonymous No.7197361]

University of Gijón.
I bet yall aint know shit bout something called "Gijón".

[Anonymous No.7197438]

Any Princeton niggas in here?

[∞ No.7197709]

I will graduate in the campus spaceship.

[Spoiler] my uni looks like a prison [/spoiler]

[Anonymous No.7197934]

English and Philosophy

[Anonymous No.7197965]

>>7185339
I talked to a girl on /soc/ on new years eve circa 2010 who attended royal holloway. She's now a well-known journalist with The Observer, VICE and other UK publications.

[Anonymous No.7198278]

>>7192842
ayo go blue
what year are you?

[Anonymous No.7198315]

[Anonymous No.7198332]

>>7185346
>got into edinburgh and bristol
>went to york instead
bristol is generally overrated and edinburgh's in scotland

[Anonymous No.7198349]

>>7189719
Oxford is all about the interview. So long as they perceive you as an 'oxbridge' type you'll be ok. Interview coaching is pretty important tbh

[Anonymous No.7198355]

>>7198278
yo just saw this but i'm a junior technically, first year here though. you?

[Anonymous No.7198358]

>>7197709
What are you studying? I really like the campus tbf but the town's kind of ded

[Anonymous No.7198360]

>>7198349
what the fuck is interview coaching? just go and be yourself and if you're right for oxford they'll be able to tell. they don't care how fucking autistic you are as long as you care about the subject. i'm at oxford in my 3rd year and i've met enough people with absolutely zero social skills to know that the interview is not about your communication skills or how well you can speak but about how good you are at your subject, that is literally the only thing that matters. no 'interview coach' is going to be able to help you with that.

[Anonymous No.7198365]

>>7198349
>interview coaching
Oxfordfags are THIS much of cucks.

[Anonymous No.7198378]

Edinburgh, this is where most of my classes are, The Old Medical Building (now the School of History, Classics and Archaeology).

[Anonymous No.7198381]

>>7189923
Hey, if you're still around I'd like to know your answer to that question about the banana

[Anonymous No.7198383]

>>7198360
My dad & grandfather studied engineering at Oxford. They both went to private schools which were primarily about coaching them to be oxbridge material. Once he'd done the interview my dad got an offer of 3 E's. I also have several peers my own age who were straight A* students with exceptional PS's who failed to get in on the basis of their interview and Oxford's perception of them. Maybe it was different for you but this is just my experience of the process.
>if you're right for oxford they'll be able to tell
yeh exactly you said it yourself, interview coaching aids you in becoming "right for oxford"

[Anonymous No.7198385]

>>7198378
Oh, daft old me.

[Anonymous No.7198401]

>>7198385
Edinburgh New College, where I had History of Christianity for a semester last year and widely believed to be the inspiration for Hogwarts, along with the student union.

[Anonymous No.7198408]

>>7185443
The frogs arent helping.

[Anonymous No.7198410]

[Anonymous No.7198418]

>>7198401
Courtyard. Statue is of John Knox (students occasionally give him a rosary to hold as a prank), big doors lead to the assembly room for the Church of Scotland.

[∞ No.7198458]

>>7198358
I don't really like clubbing anyway tbh and the town has more than enough Lovely pubs. But yeah if you like good nightlife York is not for you I guess. There's a shit tonne of sport to get involved with though and the rugby socials are class tbf

I'm studying maths and philosophy first year.

[Anonymous No.7198495]

>>7187507
what is this?

[Anonymous No.7198551]

>>7198458
I'm actually a philosophy fresher, lmao. I'm not massively into clubbing either (though I did go a couple of times during freshers week) - I guess when I say 'dead' I mean I'm just no used to being in a relatively small city having moved from London.

[∞ No.7198555]

>>7198551
You're at York? Wow huh. Are you Jonathon?

[Anonymous No.7198569]

mcgill west island

[Anonymous No.7198578]

>>7198555
Nah

[Anonymous No.7198580]

Graduated from UD

[∞ No.7198582]

>>7198578
Well I guess I'll see you at lectures tomorrow. If you see a guy in a green Barbour ask him if he's raf

[Anonymous No.7198584]

>>7198555
At York but not Jonathon

[Anonymous No.7198627]

>>7198578
>>7198584
>>7198582
Double posted for some reason. I'll look out for the green anyway

[Anonymous No.7198867]

>>7198355
freshman, tho I'm 20 - took a year off to travel. what's your uniqname?

[Anonymous No.7198961]

>>7198867
hey i'm 20 as well, my name is really obvious from my uniqname so idk man sorry

[Anonymous No.7199026]

>>7198961
oh word, mine isn't - "amory"
hmu and we can make fun of football culture and talk about books

[Anonymous No.7199116]

>>7199026
i'll keep it in mind!

[Anonymous No.7199191]

>>7199116
>im a beta pussy faggot who is too afraid to make a friend from 4chan

[Anonymous No.7200768]

uc merced
I made some mistakes in high school, obviously
what's even worse is I got my shit together and am at the top of my class at an irrelevant university

[Anonymous No.7200781]

Heidelberg ww@???