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As you do on an Open Day. I was going to have a chat with some biologist bloke, and this strange Chinese bloke just walked up to me and said "YOU! YOU!" I smiled uneasily and tried to escape without knocking over furniture/people, and he said something that sounded to me like "Gaz!" which is my name. Might not have been Gaz. I'm pretty sure I don't know any Chinese people. Very strange.
Also, Warwick uni is crap. I'm not going there.
Also, Warwick uni is crap. I'm not going there.
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MoJoJoJo wrote:
> Yes, we need scientists, but if you're doing science and you DON'T
> have the intention of curing some disease, inventing something that
> will make the world a better place, or some other worth while cause,
> then you shouldn't be doing it. Does anyone care about lesser spotted
> monkeys migrating to Russia? No. Does anyone care why toast lands
> butterside down? No. But these morons still get funding to go find
> out, and it's a big waste of time and resources.
Absolutely right. In some ways its the same for loads of subjects - people want to do pointless "ground breaking" research. Reason why its groundbreaking ? Because no one else is that sad or desperate to do something. America, Russia, China, all are responsible for so many modern scientific breakthroughs, but like Mojojojo points out, Britain specialises in the mainly pointless research - and when it is something with potential - like GM crops - we let moron protestors wipe it out.
We suck at science. Maybe not in the past, but we do now. It's got so bad that most of our military equipment is nearly identical to the Americans. Why ? Better stuff, simple as that.
~~Belldandy~~
> Yes, we need scientists, but if you're doing science and you DON'T
> have the intention of curing some disease, inventing something that
> will make the world a better place, or some other worth while cause,
> then you shouldn't be doing it. Does anyone care about lesser spotted
> monkeys migrating to Russia? No. Does anyone care why toast lands
> butterside down? No. But these morons still get funding to go find
> out, and it's a big waste of time and resources.
Absolutely right. In some ways its the same for loads of subjects - people want to do pointless "ground breaking" research. Reason why its groundbreaking ? Because no one else is that sad or desperate to do something. America, Russia, China, all are responsible for so many modern scientific breakthroughs, but like Mojojojo points out, Britain specialises in the mainly pointless research - and when it is something with potential - like GM crops - we let moron protestors wipe it out.
We suck at science. Maybe not in the past, but we do now. It's got so bad that most of our military equipment is nearly identical to the Americans. Why ? Better stuff, simple as that.
~~Belldandy~~
Whoops, wasn't meant to push post!
Anyway,I'm applying for:
Surrey
Leicester
City
UEA
Kent
Loughborough
All to do either Business Management or Business Studies
Anyway,I'm applying for:
Surrey
Leicester
City
UEA
Kent
Loughborough
All to do either Business Management or Business Studies
Warwick has got really high grades to get in!
People, people, you're forgetting the real issue here - ALL science sucks
Be it chemistry, physics, biology, social science or whatever, they're all the height of boredom and all, in fact, lick balls
Yes, we need scientists, but if you're doing science and you DON'T have the intention of curing some disease, inventing something that will make the world a better place, or some other worth while cause, then you shouldn't be doing it. Does anyone care about lesser spotted monkeys migrating to Russia? No. Does anyone care why toast lands butterside down? No. But these morons still get funding to go find out, and it's a big waste of time and resources. Stryke, you'd better be hoping to cure baldness or something, otherwise I'll track you down and destroy your Kevin Smith collection, which in fact, don't lick balls
Be it chemistry, physics, biology, social science or whatever, they're all the height of boredom and all, in fact, lick balls
Yes, we need scientists, but if you're doing science and you DON'T have the intention of curing some disease, inventing something that will make the world a better place, or some other worth while cause, then you shouldn't be doing it. Does anyone care about lesser spotted monkeys migrating to Russia? No. Does anyone care why toast lands butterside down? No. But these morons still get funding to go find out, and it's a big waste of time and resources. Stryke, you'd better be hoping to cure baldness or something, otherwise I'll track you down and destroy your Kevin Smith collection, which in fact, don't lick balls
Beats squinting at insects through thick rimmed glasses anyday...
:D
:D
Bah, thats not proper science. Do you ever boil anything in test-tubes?
That's right. It's poncy essay-writing balls that calls itself "science."
:D
That's right. It's poncy essay-writing balls that calls itself "science."
:D
P.S. Does he not realise that LSE is a specialist university on social SCIENCE? Full name is London School of Economics AND Political SCIENCE.
He's an idiot.
(I wrote science in upper case to add emphasis.)
He's an idiot.
(I wrote science in upper case to add emphasis.)
Stryke wrote:
> Heh. This might interest you. At the Warwick interview, the bloke said
> "We're 4th in the country really. LSE isn't a proper uni, it
> doesn't do science." That made me think of you, you poncy
> economics homo you. :D
Success breeds jealousy...
> Heh. This might interest you. At the Warwick interview, the bloke said
> "We're 4th in the country really. LSE isn't a proper uni, it
> doesn't do science." That made me think of you, you poncy
> economics homo you. :D
Success breeds jealousy...
RM18 wrote:
> ...it seems the more knowledgable I become, the more disillusioned I
> become with it. At school, it's like a constant battle to work hard
> and get the best grades to go to the best unis. Yet, as I get older
> and maturer, its like I'm reaching a higher state of conciousness - I
> know I'm hardly ever going to use this information, and as every day
> goes by its seems like a bigger and bigger waste of time and youth as
> the world outside the comfortable four walls of the classroom passes
> me by.
Know that feeling :) In one module I'm doing we've spent 8 lectures just about development in the third world. We sit, listen, talk in the seminars afterwards, and there's always a few people with the radical idiot ideas, then the ones who've done stuff all of the reading, and so on. My group sat and talked last week for two hours just agreeing with one persons point of view - it was to do with exploiting the third world and development - and he was saying such crap, and I knew it. All stuff like "America stopped development in every single country 'cause they wanted to make money from the oil" e.t.c i.e. bland, inaccurate, generalisations. Can I be bothered to point out anything ? No, I can't.
> I can picture my future - wok hard, finish uni, get a job, work hard,
> then that's it. And frankly I don't like it.
And whats more it's more likely to be a job where work has to be taken homw e.t.c. whereas loads of my old mates have jobs wherethey go to work, finish, and thats it until they go back.
~~Belldandy~~
> ...it seems the more knowledgable I become, the more disillusioned I
> become with it. At school, it's like a constant battle to work hard
> and get the best grades to go to the best unis. Yet, as I get older
> and maturer, its like I'm reaching a higher state of conciousness - I
> know I'm hardly ever going to use this information, and as every day
> goes by its seems like a bigger and bigger waste of time and youth as
> the world outside the comfortable four walls of the classroom passes
> me by.
Know that feeling :) In one module I'm doing we've spent 8 lectures just about development in the third world. We sit, listen, talk in the seminars afterwards, and there's always a few people with the radical idiot ideas, then the ones who've done stuff all of the reading, and so on. My group sat and talked last week for two hours just agreeing with one persons point of view - it was to do with exploiting the third world and development - and he was saying such crap, and I knew it. All stuff like "America stopped development in every single country 'cause they wanted to make money from the oil" e.t.c i.e. bland, inaccurate, generalisations. Can I be bothered to point out anything ? No, I can't.
> I can picture my future - wok hard, finish uni, get a job, work hard,
> then that's it. And frankly I don't like it.
And whats more it's more likely to be a job where work has to be taken homw e.t.c. whereas loads of my old mates have jobs wherethey go to work, finish, and thats it until they go back.
~~Belldandy~~
Heh. This might interest you. At the Warwick interview, the bloke said "We're 4th in the country really. LSE isn't a proper uni, it doesn't do science." That made me think of you, you poncy economics homo you. :D
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