Choose your University wisely.
I was an ok student at school, like most b3tans I was intelligent but didn't put in the effort required for top marks in all subjects. I was predicted 3 B's and a C at A-Level.

When we heard that we could take time off school if we were going to a Uni open day my mates and I leapt at the chance and promptly organised a jolly to Essex University in Colchester. After a 4 hour journey from Kent we arrived in Colchester town centre, waited for an hour for a bus that never arrived (we were standing in the wrong place), had a brief look around town, grabbed a Maccy D's for lunch and agreed to lie to our parents and say we had a good look round and it was incredibly worthwhile.

Here's my mistake though... for some inexplicable reason I then selected that University as my first choice.

I promptly received an A, 2 B's and a C which would have seen me scrape into Warwick or York at the time.

My CV says I stayed for 18 months and left due to financial constraints, I actually lasted about 6 weeks before I shacked up with the girl next door in the dorms and got a job in The Link.

What was I thinking?
( JebediahSpringfield, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 11:18, 1 reply)

i'm there now funnily enough, it's a good uni for computer courses and other research subjects
(baldpig pee'd in your pool on, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 12:32, closed)