Are you happy with your university education?

[KrazyHorse]

I know. I'm just pointing out that "college" is, due to its historic roots, an ambiguous term.

[C0ckney]

simply the best three years of my life. loved the city, loved the atmosphere, loved the beer, the drugs and the girls. met some top class people who i'll remember and hopefully keep in touch with for the rest of my life.

i even got a good degree out of it too! although i would say that i certainly found the life more interesting than the learning side of things, but overall i'm happy with the education i got.

[C0ckney]

btw this thread has motivated me to have a look at some of my photos from uni

[Kuciwalker]

Only three years? Silly English people

[C0ckney]

i should of done a masters, so i could of stayed another year, but just couldn't be arsed to organise it all at the time

[Starchild]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
Only three years? Silly English people

So we do better degrees in less time and pay substantially less for them as well.

Silly Americans.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Starchild


So we do better degrees in less time and pay substantially less for them as well.

Silly Americans.

pay substantially less for them and get paid substantially less in your jobs.

Not sure if that's worth it, especially if you're good enough to get loaded with scholarships.

[Dinner]

Where as the rest of us just got loaded. :beer:

[Asher]

Scholarships mean more money for beer.

[Dinner]

I knew I should have applied for some.

[Neutrino]

Yes and yes

I graduated from the University of Texas with 2 degrees (BSc computer science, BSc biology).

Some of the classes had too many people so corresponding w/ the prof was sometimes difficult, but the school provided so many academic resources.

I'm currently doing some research on ischemia at a medical school and preparing to apply for a bioinformatics graduate program.

[CrONoS]

@Neutrino

Subscribed since 2002, you have 3 post!!!

Wow, what a lurker you are...

[C0ckney]

i think the term is 'dl'

[Dinner]

Thinking back some more to my college days I can remember some of the following. The professor who taught me freshmen chemistry later got a Nobel prize for chemistry, my plate tectonics yracher (a vital part of geology which was only originally thought up in the 1960's) was not the person who originated the theory but she was a grad student under the person who thought up the theory while he was doing his work plus she did most of the work on the geophysics behind what drove plate tectonics, the professor who taught my advanced physics class also later won a Nobel prize, and as a geologist I was powerfully impressed by the number of highly published geologists they had in the department. As an upper classman our classes were just 15-20 students per class and we were studying with some of the industry legends. It was a great school to study at.

I truly believe the University of California is a one of a kind institution.

[Drogue]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
at british universities colleges are associations of students within the university. My friend attended Oxford to get his Math PhD and he was in "St. John's College", IIRC

That's just an Oxbridge/Durham/London thing. In the UK, college has two main meanings:

1) Part of a collegiate university, ie. Oxford, Cambridge, Durham and London, all have many colleges that make up the university. Lectures are done university wide, but teaching is organised by the colleges (somewhat).

2) An institution between school and university. In the UK, we finish compulsory schooling at 16, and then have two years of post-16 or sixth form for those wanting to. You can either do this at a school or a sixth form college. Colleges also often offer adult education programmes, night school and the like.