University Choices

[di marco]

Well, do you want to escape the grips of your parents is possibly the best question to ask! Plymouth is farr, whilst Bangor is fairly close!

Doesn't matter how far I'm going, my mum is never going to let go. She's doing my head in at the moment, can't wait for next Saturday afternoon when she leaves me. Freedom for several months!! Think I'm going to have to block her on hotmail, she's sending me at least five (pointless) emails a day and I'm only at my sister's

my mums like that, it does my head in sometimes! she will phone in the evening and ask how my day was! or if she phones and im out so dont answer the next day she will be like i was worried about you cos you didnt answer your phone! and when i say i was out she was like you didnt tell me you were going out! why would i tell her?!

Another thing to consider, if you don't drive, is public transport. How are you going to get to and from university? Also, do you want to be in a city or a more rural area?

yeh thats a good point, even for the first year as some unis accomodation isnt on campus. a lot of unis though do have buses that go between uni and town and cheap bus tickets etc

[DaVeyWaVey]

I sent off my UCAS application today to my referee so all I need to do is wait now... I am just glad to have got it all out the way! I've applied to:

Aberwystwyth - English Literature and Creative Writing
Bangor - English and Creative Writing
Cardiff - English and Creative Writing
Glamorgan - English
Southampton Solent - English and Professional Writing

... I don't know what my first choice or insurance choice will be yet.. have to get the offers... or rejections ... first

[Perdita]

I sent off my UCAS application today to my referee so all I need to do is wait now... I am just glad to have got it all out the way! I've applied to:

Aberwystwyth - English Literature and Creative Writing
Bangor - English and Creative Writing
Cardiff - English and Creative Writing
Glamorgan - English
Southampton Solent - English and Professional Writing

... I don't know what my first choice or insurance choice will be yet.. have to get the offers... or rejections ... first

Good luck with your application, I am sure you will get the offers rather than rejections.

[Abbie]

I need to go to some open days desperately! I have to say I thought my college did things early but all of you on here seem earlier than me

[di marco]

I sent off my UCAS application today to my referee so all I need to do is wait now... I am just glad to have got it all out the way! I've applied to:

Aberwystwyth - English Literature and Creative Writing
Bangor - English and Creative Writing
Cardiff - English and Creative Writing
Glamorgan - English
Southampton Solent - English and Professional Writing

... I don't know what my first choice or insurance choice will be yet.. have to get the offers... or rejections ... first

good luck do you know if any of your unis require you to go for an interview?

[DaVeyWaVey]

I sent off my UCAS application today to my referee so all I need to do is wait now... I am just glad to have got it all out the way! I've applied to:

Aberwystwyth - English Literature and Creative Writing
Bangor - English and Creative Writing
Cardiff - English and Creative Writing
Glamorgan - English
Southampton Solent - English and Professional Writing

... I don't know what my first choice or insurance choice will be yet.. have to get the offers... or rejections ... first

good luck do you know if any of your unis require you to go for an interview?

When I looked at the courses I applied for, they didn't say anything about going for an interview, but I suppose I might have to go to one if they are undecided on whether to accept me. I may be required to send off some of my writing though if unis get back to me, so I will send off some newspaper articles and probably some writing I've done on here.

[Trinity]

I hope that my son wants to go to a Uni far, far from here. You guys talk about escape the clutches of parents - how do you think we feel? I am at the end of my teather with my eldest who has morphed into a lazy, cheeky disrespectful wee s&*^!.


There is a sign up in the orthodontists that my boys go to:


Teenagers - if your parents are moaney, nagging and boring - leave home quickly and pay your own way while you still know everything!


This isn't aimed at anyone on the boards - I have had a really bad day and I am venting. Please bear with me - normal service will be resumed shortly.

[Katy]

aww, i think i did that to my parents, its also good going away as you realise how difficult it is living on your own and i have gotten a much better relationship with my parents since leaving.

They sound like good choices Dave. Good luck with the application.

[DaVeyWaVey]

See my mum and dad are the opposite. They don't want me to go far away, they want me to stay close to home.. I'd like to go far away to uni, but not too far..

[Abbie]

I dont know what my parents think, I do want to go away though
Even if I go to Liverpool where I could get the train, it would cost too much and its easier just to visit at weekends.

Im sick of my dad asking me stuff like what will your degree lead to, like which job will you get. I know I have to think of that but it can lead to a varity of stuff so I just want to take it step by step!!