Yeah, it's true - telling other people your tentative decisions makes those decisions suddenly a lot less tentative. Perhaps it's like coin-flip decision-making - if you tie a decision to a coin-flip, and the result suddenly feels wrong, then you know which way to go, no?
Lots of universities offer "history and law" or "history with law" or variants thereof, but Oxbridge doesn't. I suppose this must be annoying. Oxford does offer History and Politics which is as close as it gets, i.e., not close.
There is History and English [literature]. Double schools!
I completely agree - particularly on coin-flipping. I think saying things aloud is my way of burning bridges: once you've said it, it's harder to go back on it, whereas if you keep it to yourself, it's nebulous, mutable according to your own whim (or indecision
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My UCAS application is simply spectacular. LSE, Economics - declined. UCL, Economics - declined. University of Warwick, Economics - declined. On Christmas Day, that one.
York, PPE - AAB. Nottingham, Economics - AAA. Mind you, I only picked these two because they were at the next two on the ranking table.
(... say, why do you only have five choices?)
I rewrote my statement virtually from scratch twelve hours before the UCAS submission dateline, and mailed my written work one day late. Go me. See, not all's lost for procrastinators.
To be fair to the three Economics heavyweights that wantonly abandoned me, I did write my personal statement with Oxford (i.e., PPE) in mind. Be warned: all the people who applied to different subjects at top (Oxbridge and London universities, with some exceptions like Warwick) got screwed. I blame the statement.
... try applying for History at the others?
Interview: harrowing yes, written work no, academics yes, and
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Thanks! This is very helpful - or, informative and terrifying, anyway, but I'm sure those are good things. WAIL
PPE: didn't even occur to me when I made my flip remark, actually! I was trying to think of some clever way to justify my double standards (double schools are half-baked but PPE is fine?) and realised I've just always thought of PPE as a single subject. A UNIFIED WHOLE. ... or maybe I've just never considered doing any of its individual components as a course (not good enough for any of them!) so it doesn't occur to me - whereas, say, having considered both History and Literature separately as full degrees I'm conscious of them as half-courses in the double schools.
PSC scholarships: MFA HAS MY SOUL. Not sure what else I'll apply to. Whoever will take me? I want to have foreign affairs, etc.
Applying to different courses in different universities: well, shit! Is there any way around it? No - Oxford History and Law everything else is my only viable compromise with my parents - History being pansy, impractical, a
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SHIFTING THE BURDEN OF PROOF (!!! clearly i am all academic and ki saturated)
anyway
1. do you actually want greg to think dirty thoughts about you?!?! 2. WERE YOU OR WERE YOU NOT THINKING DIRTY THOUGHTS ABOUT HIM 3. consider: he *might* have been thinking dirty thoughts about you. blood simply rushed.. somewhere else
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Lots of universities offer "history and law" or "history with law" or variants thereof, but Oxbridge doesn't. I suppose this must be annoying. Oxford does offer History and Politics which is as close as it gets, i.e., not close.
There is History and English [literature]. Double schools!
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PSC scholarships! ... which one?
My UCAS application is simply spectacular. LSE, Economics - declined. UCL, Economics - declined. University of Warwick, Economics - declined. On Christmas Day, that one.
York, PPE - AAB. Nottingham, Economics - AAA. Mind you, I only picked these two because they were at the next two on the ranking table.
(... say, why do you only have five choices?)
I rewrote my statement virtually from scratch twelve hours before the UCAS submission dateline, and mailed my written work one day late. Go me. See, not all's lost for procrastinators.
To be fair to the three Economics heavyweights that wantonly abandoned me, I did write my personal statement with Oxford (i.e., PPE) in mind. Be warned: all the people who applied to different subjects at top (Oxbridge and London universities, with some exceptions like Warwick) got screwed. I blame the statement.
... try applying for History at the others?
Interview: harrowing yes, written work no, academics yes, and ( ... )
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PPE: didn't even occur to me when I made my flip remark, actually! I was trying to think of some clever way to justify my double standards (double schools are half-baked but PPE is fine?) and realised I've just always thought of PPE as a single subject. A UNIFIED WHOLE. ... or maybe I've just never considered doing any of its individual components as a course (not good enough for any of them!) so it doesn't occur to me - whereas, say, having considered both History and Literature separately as full degrees I'm conscious of them as half-courses in the double schools.
PSC scholarships: MFA HAS MY SOUL. Not sure what else I'll apply to. Whoever will take me? I want to have foreign affairs, etc.
Applying to different courses in different universities: well, shit! Is there any way around it? No - Oxford History and Law everything else is my only viable compromise with my parents - History being pansy, impractical, a ( ... )
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you know you fill up the blood faster when your blood pressure's up
you know your blood pressure's up when you think dirty thoughts
so
WERE YOU THINKING DIRTY THOUGHTS ABOUT GREG??????
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IF GREG TOOK SO LONG TO FILL UP HIS BLOOD BAG
DOES IT MEAN HE WASN'T THINKING DIRTY THOUGHTS ABOUT ME???
SPURNED
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skilful attempt, but YOU CANNOT FOIL ME
SHIFTING THE BURDEN OF PROOF (!!! clearly i am all academic and ki saturated)
anyway
1. do you actually want greg to think dirty thoughts about you?!?!
2. WERE YOU OR WERE YOU NOT THINKING DIRTY THOUGHTS ABOUT HIM
3. consider: he *might* have been thinking dirty thoughts about you. blood simply rushed.. somewhere else
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