Bugz, you aren't experienced in those things. You haven't done those things, so you aren't experienced in them. You have been educated about those things. There is a difference.
I am more experienced than you re; higher education in terms of employment, degrees etc.
Whatever.
Carry on as you are.
I can't be arsed w/ this waste of time shit talking.
To be honest, because I have had first hand info passed down to me by people who have experienced it first hand, I am more experienced than you re; higher education in terms of employment, degrees etc.
I'll leave it to someone else to decipher the point.
Tbh, a small majority of people here are in any position to talk about this anyway.
So I'll leave it from here on
unless they are taking the piss you are taking what they said and misinterpreting what they have told you, deliberately or otherwise
The ONLY thing a oxbridge education gives you over other good uni's is
a) the prestige, it gives a good advantage to get into further education rather than employment. DO well and you pretty much have the pick of masters and phd courses
b) the contacts you make while you study there, particularly your placement
Thats it
like people have said, go into the real world first, then you can call your self an expert.
Tris, out of curiosity, what university and course are you studying?
heh, I didn't go to Uni and I am as happy as a pig in shit earning far more than most that did go
Not that I believe money equals a happy life, friends, family and memories equal a happy life imo
If you applied to a university of which there are only 2 more which do your course how in sweet fuck can you have ANY IDEA about blue chip companies, university graduates and university choices.
Seriously...
Bugzy said:Try getting into a blue-chip company without any qualifications and a nice friendly smile.
I dare you.
Tris said:who said anything about no qualifications?
academia and working as a shelf stacker is not the real world, its not even scraping the edges of it, no matter what people will have you believe.
This whole fuckin conversation is about blue-chip companies and university graduates!
But we aren't talking about just good universities. People on this thread seem to assume that
Just as a finishing note, the application success rate for an Oxford Economics student is 12%. The success rates for mid-ranked courses are ~50%. Tell me - which is going to have the better candidates?