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Ok, so you've spent the last 2 months doing sod all, the results are now in, you know which university you'l be going to. You now have about a month to sort out EVERYTHING, from seting up student bank accounts, to deciding what to pack.
The fateful day is drawing nearer and nearer, there doesn't seem to be enough time to sort it out. Before you know it, you'll be going out for one last drink with your mates before you all move to different parts of the country.
It's very daunting. How do I know all this? Because I did exactly the same thing 2 years ago, and I have piece of advice:
DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT!!!
University is fantastic. Well, it can be fantastic, it's what you make of it you see. If you go, and sit in your room all day, and not make an effort to meet people and do things, I imagine it could be quite boring. But it IS worth the effort.
Don't worry if you are normally quite shy, remember, no one will know anyone else either. You're all in the same boat.
As soon as your parents have dropped you off, get talking to everyone. Knock on everyone's door, and speak to as many people as you can, all go down the pub, people talk more when they've had a few drinks!
As for the lectures, well, I wouldn't like to say how many hours week you'll have, it depends on the course. I'm doing elecronic engineering, and I had 16 hours per week. I knew someone doing business, and they had about 7 hours a week. One of my mates did chemistry and he ad 27 hours per week, so it all varies.
One thing I would say though, is try and put some effort in during the first term. It will be difficult, going out clubbin and getting to bed a 4 am, then going to a lecture at 9 is hard to do, but worthwhile. Universiy is a great place, and you don't really want to throw it all away by getting crap grades as you're out drinking all the time.
But you will do a lot of drinking. We went out every night for the first 2 months when I was ay uni. Which gets expensive, so it is handy to have a part time job, if you had one during your A-levels with a supermarket (like I did) they normally transfer you if they have a branch near by. It's worth asking, or try and get your parents to help out with some cash.
All in all, university is a great time of your life. Everyone is there because they want to be, so you lose all the dropouts who think they're hard, they go and work for McDonalds or something, and you're left with people who want to study (and drink).
You'll meet a lot of new people, possibly even a future partner, so just go with an open mind, have fun and don't worry about it. Bit, most importantly:
DON'T FORGET THE HEADACHE TABLETS!!
The fateful day is drawing nearer and nearer, there doesn't seem to be enough time to sort it out. Before you know it, you'll be going out for one last drink with your mates before you all move to different parts of the country.
It's very daunting. How do I know all this? Because I did exactly the same thing 2 years ago, and I have piece of advice:
DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT!!!
University is fantastic. Well, it can be fantastic, it's what you make of it you see. If you go, and sit in your room all day, and not make an effort to meet people and do things, I imagine it could be quite boring. But it IS worth the effort.
Don't worry if you are normally quite shy, remember, no one will know anyone else either. You're all in the same boat.
As soon as your parents have dropped you off, get talking to everyone. Knock on everyone's door, and speak to as many people as you can, all go down the pub, people talk more when they've had a few drinks!
As for the lectures, well, I wouldn't like to say how many hours week you'll have, it depends on the course. I'm doing elecronic engineering, and I had 16 hours per week. I knew someone doing business, and they had about 7 hours a week. One of my mates did chemistry and he ad 27 hours per week, so it all varies.
One thing I would say though, is try and put some effort in during the first term. It will be difficult, going out clubbin and getting to bed a 4 am, then going to a lecture at 9 is hard to do, but worthwhile. Universiy is a great place, and you don't really want to throw it all away by getting crap grades as you're out drinking all the time.
But you will do a lot of drinking. We went out every night for the first 2 months when I was ay uni. Which gets expensive, so it is handy to have a part time job, if you had one during your A-levels with a supermarket (like I did) they normally transfer you if they have a branch near by. It's worth asking, or try and get your parents to help out with some cash.
All in all, university is a great time of your life. Everyone is there because they want to be, so you lose all the dropouts who think they're hard, they go and work for McDonalds or something, and you're left with people who want to study (and drink).
You'll meet a lot of new people, possibly even a future partner, so just go with an open mind, have fun and don't worry about it. Bit, most importantly:
DON'T FORGET THE HEADACHE TABLETS!!
Ant wrote:
Anyway, this has been an
> interesting topic-I've been thinking about if for the past few days
> now. Cheers YH.
No worries mate.
IF you want to get your stories published, write a few of different styles, and send them to all of the telly magazines, and things like women's magazines. They all have short stories in them, so they may pick one of yours.
I'm tempted to do the same, but mine seem to long for a magazine, and too short for a full blown book.
Damn!
:-(
Anyway, this has been an
> interesting topic-I've been thinking about if for the past few days
> now. Cheers YH.
No worries mate.
IF you want to get your stories published, write a few of different styles, and send them to all of the telly magazines, and things like women's magazines. They all have short stories in them, so they may pick one of yours.
I'm tempted to do the same, but mine seem to long for a magazine, and too short for a full blown book.
Damn!
:-(
FantasyMeister wrote:
> Michael Crichton said, in the introduction to one of his early
> novels that was recently reissued:
"In 1967, I was a
> second-year medical student at Harvard Medical school, paying the
> cost of my education by writing paperback thrillers under a
> pseudonym. My method was to accumulate debts until my next
> vacation. Then I would sit down, push my textbooks aside, and write
> furiously eighteen hours a day. I usually produced twenty-five
> pages of typescript each day. By the end of the vacation, I sent
> the finished manuscript to my publisher in New York - hoping they
> would buy it at once, without asking for revisions. In fact, it was
> essential that they buy it immediately, because my term bills were
> always due; and it was essential that they accept it without
> revision, because the next day I would be back in classes, and have
> no time to make any changes.
It was a frantic, rather desperate
> way to work. But in retrospect, I have always been glad that my
> career began this way, for I was freed from all the burdens that new
> writers usually bear.
I didn't agonize over whether I was
> expressing myself; I didn't worry about art; I was writing under a
> pseudonym, at very high speed. And the usual concerns about the
> quality or originality of one's output were irrelevant since my
> explicit goal was to be entirely unoriginal - to write something so
> perfectly suited to the paperback market that my publishers would
> buy my work without hesitation. I was engaged in a high-pressure
> exercise where the goal was absolute unoriginality..."
So if
> he can do it, you can do it too.
Heh, thanks for that FM. A bit of inspiration for me. I think I might look stuff up on the Internet about how to become an author...perhaps send my 'short' stories to someone...not sure who though.
Anyway, this has been an interesting topic-I've been thinking about if for the past few days now. Cheers YH.
> Michael Crichton said, in the introduction to one of his early
> novels that was recently reissued:
"In 1967, I was a
> second-year medical student at Harvard Medical school, paying the
> cost of my education by writing paperback thrillers under a
> pseudonym. My method was to accumulate debts until my next
> vacation. Then I would sit down, push my textbooks aside, and write
> furiously eighteen hours a day. I usually produced twenty-five
> pages of typescript each day. By the end of the vacation, I sent
> the finished manuscript to my publisher in New York - hoping they
> would buy it at once, without asking for revisions. In fact, it was
> essential that they buy it immediately, because my term bills were
> always due; and it was essential that they accept it without
> revision, because the next day I would be back in classes, and have
> no time to make any changes.
It was a frantic, rather desperate
> way to work. But in retrospect, I have always been glad that my
> career began this way, for I was freed from all the burdens that new
> writers usually bear.
I didn't agonize over whether I was
> expressing myself; I didn't worry about art; I was writing under a
> pseudonym, at very high speed. And the usual concerns about the
> quality or originality of one's output were irrelevant since my
> explicit goal was to be entirely unoriginal - to write something so
> perfectly suited to the paperback market that my publishers would
> buy my work without hesitation. I was engaged in a high-pressure
> exercise where the goal was absolute unoriginality..."
So if
> he can do it, you can do it too.
Heh, thanks for that FM. A bit of inspiration for me. I think I might look stuff up on the Internet about how to become an author...perhaps send my 'short' stories to someone...not sure who though.
Anyway, this has been an interesting topic-I've been thinking about if for the past few days now. Cheers YH.
Michael Crichton said, in the introduction to one of his early novels that was recently reissued:
"In 1967, I was a second-year medical student at Harvard Medical school, paying the cost of my education by writing paperback thrillers under a pseudonym. My method was to accumulate debts until my next vacation. Then I would sit down, push my textbooks aside, and write furiously eighteen hours a day. I usually produced twenty-five pages of typescript each day. By the end of the vacation, I sent the finished manuscript to my publisher in New York - hoping they would buy it at once, without asking for revisions. In fact, it was essential that they buy it immediately, because my term bills were always due; and it was essential that they accept it without revision, because the next day I would be back in classes, and have no time to make any changes.
It was a frantic, rather desperate way to work. But in retrospect, I have always been glad that my career began this way, for I was freed from all the burdens that new writers usually bear.
I didn't agonize over whether I was expressing myself; I didn't worry about art; I was writing under a pseudonym, at very high speed. And the usual concerns about the quality or originality of one's output were irrelevant since my explicit goal was to be entirely unoriginal - to write something so perfectly suited to the paperback market that my publishers would buy my work without hesitation. I was engaged in a high-pressure exercise where the goal was absolute unoriginality..."
So if he can do it, you can do it too.
"In 1967, I was a second-year medical student at Harvard Medical school, paying the cost of my education by writing paperback thrillers under a pseudonym. My method was to accumulate debts until my next vacation. Then I would sit down, push my textbooks aside, and write furiously eighteen hours a day. I usually produced twenty-five pages of typescript each day. By the end of the vacation, I sent the finished manuscript to my publisher in New York - hoping they would buy it at once, without asking for revisions. In fact, it was essential that they buy it immediately, because my term bills were always due; and it was essential that they accept it without revision, because the next day I would be back in classes, and have no time to make any changes.
It was a frantic, rather desperate way to work. But in retrospect, I have always been glad that my career began this way, for I was freed from all the burdens that new writers usually bear.
I didn't agonize over whether I was expressing myself; I didn't worry about art; I was writing under a pseudonym, at very high speed. And the usual concerns about the quality or originality of one's output were irrelevant since my explicit goal was to be entirely unoriginal - to write something so perfectly suited to the paperback market that my publishers would buy my work without hesitation. I was engaged in a high-pressure exercise where the goal was absolute unoriginality..."
So if he can do it, you can do it too.
Blimey...just reading that made me nervous, and I'm only going into year 10!
Anyway, I hope to go to University, and like you said, you loose all the 'hard-nuts.' Perhaps I'll go to the same one as one of you guys, you never know.
I'm still not sure what to study though. I was interested in journalism, however, after hearing more about it, I don't want to do that anymore.
I would LOVE to be an author. But I have no idea how to become a successful one...I'm sure I have the talent (I hope I do,) it's just making it there that'll be difficult.
Anyway, I hope to go to University, and like you said, you loose all the 'hard-nuts.' Perhaps I'll go to the same one as one of you guys, you never know.
I'm still not sure what to study though. I was interested in journalism, however, after hearing more about it, I don't want to do that anymore.
I would LOVE to be an author. But I have no idea how to become a successful one...I'm sure I have the talent (I hope I do,) it's just making it there that'll be difficult.
All I can add is that for anyone returning to school or college or university next term is:
"Haaaaaaaaaa hah hahahahahhahaha hahahhahah ha ha!!!!"
I left 19 years ago and never looked back. Would you like fries with that?
"Haaaaaaaaaa hah hahahahahhahaha hahahhahah ha ha!!!!"
I left 19 years ago and never looked back. Would you like fries with that?
POP to the top for everyone to read.
I'm at DeMontFort, in Leicester.
Leicester is a wicked place, it's really student orientated.
If anyone is going there this year, I recommned going to a place called Mosquito Coast on a Friday. If it's still the same, it's a bar until 10pm, but for some reason no one is there and I don't know why as It's really cheap.
A B52 and bottle of Calsberg for £1.50? Fantastic!
Leicester is a wicked place, it's really student orientated.
If anyone is going there this year, I recommned going to a place called Mosquito Coast on a Friday. If it's still the same, it's a bar until 10pm, but for some reason no one is there and I don't know why as It's really cheap.
A B52 and bottle of Calsberg for £1.50? Fantastic!
oh well another year till then. Ucas fun + a2s next year.
what uni are you at
what uni are you at
Ok, so you've spent the last 2 months doing sod all, the results are now in, you know which university you'l be going to. You now have about a month to sort out EVERYTHING, from seting up student bank accounts, to deciding what to pack.
The fateful day is drawing nearer and nearer, there doesn't seem to be enough time to sort it out. Before you know it, you'll be going out for one last drink with your mates before you all move to different parts of the country.
It's very daunting. How do I know all this? Because I did exactly the same thing 2 years ago, and I have piece of advice:
DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT!!!
University is fantastic. Well, it can be fantastic, it's what you make of it you see. If you go, and sit in your room all day, and not make an effort to meet people and do things, I imagine it could be quite boring. But it IS worth the effort.
Don't worry if you are normally quite shy, remember, no one will know anyone else either. You're all in the same boat.
As soon as your parents have dropped you off, get talking to everyone. Knock on everyone's door, and speak to as many people as you can, all go down the pub, people talk more when they've had a few drinks!
As for the lectures, well, I wouldn't like to say how many hours week you'll have, it depends on the course. I'm doing elecronic engineering, and I had 16 hours per week. I knew someone doing business, and they had about 7 hours a week. One of my mates did chemistry and he ad 27 hours per week, so it all varies.
One thing I would say though, is try and put some effort in during the first term. It will be difficult, going out clubbin and getting to bed a 4 am, then going to a lecture at 9 is hard to do, but worthwhile. Universiy is a great place, and you don't really want to throw it all away by getting crap grades as you're out drinking all the time.
But you will do a lot of drinking. We went out every night for the first 2 months when I was ay uni. Which gets expensive, so it is handy to have a part time job, if you had one during your A-levels with a supermarket (like I did) they normally transfer you if they have a branch near by. It's worth asking, or try and get your parents to help out with some cash.
All in all, university is a great time of your life. Everyone is there because they want to be, so you lose all the dropouts who think they're hard, they go and work for McDonalds or something, and you're left with people who want to study (and drink).
You'll meet a lot of new people, possibly even a future partner, so just go with an open mind, have fun and don't worry about it. Bit, most importantly:
DON'T FORGET THE HEADACHE TABLETS!!
The fateful day is drawing nearer and nearer, there doesn't seem to be enough time to sort it out. Before you know it, you'll be going out for one last drink with your mates before you all move to different parts of the country.
It's very daunting. How do I know all this? Because I did exactly the same thing 2 years ago, and I have piece of advice:
DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT!!!
University is fantastic. Well, it can be fantastic, it's what you make of it you see. If you go, and sit in your room all day, and not make an effort to meet people and do things, I imagine it could be quite boring. But it IS worth the effort.
Don't worry if you are normally quite shy, remember, no one will know anyone else either. You're all in the same boat.
As soon as your parents have dropped you off, get talking to everyone. Knock on everyone's door, and speak to as many people as you can, all go down the pub, people talk more when they've had a few drinks!
As for the lectures, well, I wouldn't like to say how many hours week you'll have, it depends on the course. I'm doing elecronic engineering, and I had 16 hours per week. I knew someone doing business, and they had about 7 hours a week. One of my mates did chemistry and he ad 27 hours per week, so it all varies.
One thing I would say though, is try and put some effort in during the first term. It will be difficult, going out clubbin and getting to bed a 4 am, then going to a lecture at 9 is hard to do, but worthwhile. Universiy is a great place, and you don't really want to throw it all away by getting crap grades as you're out drinking all the time.
But you will do a lot of drinking. We went out every night for the first 2 months when I was ay uni. Which gets expensive, so it is handy to have a part time job, if you had one during your A-levels with a supermarket (like I did) they normally transfer you if they have a branch near by. It's worth asking, or try and get your parents to help out with some cash.
All in all, university is a great time of your life. Everyone is there because they want to be, so you lose all the dropouts who think they're hard, they go and work for McDonalds or something, and you're left with people who want to study (and drink).
You'll meet a lot of new people, possibly even a future partner, so just go with an open mind, have fun and don't worry about it. Bit, most importantly:
DON'T FORGET THE HEADACHE TABLETS!!