I made one myself once.
I wanted to go out, but my father insisted I fill in my university application before I did. In my haste I applied for a different degree from the one I intended to.

I was accepted, so I did the course anyway. But I did call to complain and looked like a premium knob-end as a result.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 10:42, 5 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

so you did a university course by mistake?
cool, did it work out better in the end?
( zulu eh?, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 10:45, Reply)

Neither better nor worse, really...

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 11:01, Reply)

What course did you intend to do?
A girl a few years applied to "Oxford" and was overjoyed when she was accepted without interview.

Turns out she'd applied to Oxford Brookes by mistake.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 10:45, Reply)

ha ha
bet her mum still told everyone she was at oxford though...
( zulu eh?, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 10:48, Reply)

easily done
I applied for two of the wrong degrees, and got accepted on both!
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 10:46, Reply)

which ones?

( zulu eh?, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 10:54, Reply)

Hahahaha!

( girlinthehole, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 10:46, Reply)

How different was the degree?
Would you be working at CERN or NASA now if you had paid more attention to that form?
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 10:46, Reply)

It was only my second choice of course, not a total error.
I thought I'd applied for Classical Civilisation with Philosophy, but instead asked for Classical Civilisation with South Asian Studies.

It was fine. I wasn't that bothered.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 10:50, Reply)

South Asian studies is much more useful
especially for a career in specialist ping-pong clubs.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 10:53, Reply)

Sounds really really useful.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 10:53, Reply)

I had no thought for use or career, simply whether or not I was interested in it.
In those days they were still claiming that if you had ANY degree you'd be fine. Plus if I am honest, I didn't give a toss about that sort of thing. I've always been a 'head in the clouds' kind of chap, Jeff.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 10:57, Reply)

I'm still a head in the clouds kind of chap Monty.
It explains 35 years of failures.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 10:59, Reply)

*shakes hand*
I knew you were a stand-up fellow.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 11:02, Reply)

My ability to underachieve
Is the stuff of legend.

My lack of ambition is even better.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 11:07, Reply)

Join the club.
Try 45 years of underachieving.
( girlinthehole, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 11:11, Reply)

I'll probably need some advice on keeping this up for another 10 years
Will I ask?

Nah, can't be arsed.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 11:20, Reply)

That's the approach I'm taking.
:/
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 11:01, Reply)

I've done OK. Ish.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 11:03, Reply)

o tempora! o mores!

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 11:04, Reply)

man that is one pretentious degree.

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 11:01, Reply)

I considered Classics and Scandi Studies at Edinburgh
but that would have involved about 5 languages.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 11:02, Reply)

My ideal course
would have been Celtic Studies but that would have meant a lot more language-based stuff (which I am weak at), and also moving to fucking CARDIFF. No thank you.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 11:04, Reply)

I did consider Anglo Saxon Norse and Celtic, but that's traditionally the degree you do just to get into Cambridge
plus I didn't want to go to Cambridge.

Doing Beowulf next year yesyesyesyes I'm a little excited about that.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 11:06, Reply)

My father used to read it to me when I was a boy, I adore it.
What did you make of the Seamus Heaney translation? I prefer the old Penguin Classics one, I think.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 11:08, Reply)

I have to say I've only dipped into my SH copy
(though it's a parallel translation... eee) I need to go to the library soon enough, so I'll pick up the PC version.
I'm very very poorly read. I know a lot about these sort of things... though I remember reading an extract when I was about 9, about Grendel picking his way through the hall full of sleeping men... Scary stuff.

I keep meaning to read the Prose/Verse Edda too.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 11:12, Reply)

I have the Marillion version on a bootleg tape somewhere

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 11:59, Reply)

Why?
What should I have studied?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 11:02, Reply)

I don't know, what career could classical civilisation with philosophy have led to?
I suppose I shouldn't really throw stones, living in my glass house of retardedness, especially doing such an airy fairy bollocks degree myself.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 11:06, Reply)

MASSIVE DRUGS.

( girlinthehole, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 11:07, Reply)

This ^

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 11:07, Reply)

haha yeah if he'd studied chemistry or botanics he'd be a millionaire
and probably dead.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 11:08, Reply)

probably
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 11:09, Reply)

The reason my grandfather became a horticulturist
rather than a doctor was because his mother told him that because Israel was so arid, they needed more horticulturists than more Jewish doctors. So thus he became a horticulturist and discovered something to do with the seeds of a pepper.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 11:13, Reply)

Chemistry.
Or Liberal Studies.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 11:07, Reply)