Quote: EllieJP @ November 12 2010, 3:47 PM GMTI had a £5,000 student loan. I was lucky enough that my tuition fees were paid for and my accomodation - and I worked throughout uni, yet still had a £5000 loan!
Drugs?
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What once annoyed me as a manager, a young 23 yr old came in two ranks higher than me because she had a degree in zoology. What running a business has to do with knowing about the lesser spotted meerkat is anybody's guess, unless you work in a zoo or vets and of course she was constantly picking my brain as to what she should do with this or that.
I do think uni should be free though and get rid of half the civil servants/MOD etc
Quote: Marc P @ November 12 2010, 3:58 PM GMTDrugs?
Or a severe pot noodle addiction.
Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ November 12 2010, 1:31 PM GMTrestricting my course for example to Shakespeare, Carol Ann Duffy and Ian McEwan.
That sounds like a really uneven syllabus: a massively overrated poet, a once great novelist who's lost his way and a genius.
In what order is that in, please?
Quote: Godot Taxis @ November 12 2010, 4:11 PM GMTThat sounds like a really uneven syllabus: a massively overrated poet, a once great novelist who's lost his way and a genius.
Elliot told me off for even putting Shakespeare in the same sentence as the other two, but point being it'd end up as a syllabus of 'popular' works and ones which people tradionally associate with the course, not anything different.
Two of them are superlative literar geniuses
the others a woman
Her being rubbish and her being female are entirely unconnected, for the record.
Quote: Godot Taxis @ November 12 2010, 4:11 PM GMTThat sounds like a really uneven syllabus: a massively overrated poet, a once great novelist who's lost his way and a genius.
To be fair, how many writers, or artists of any kind, manage to maintain their genius over a prolonged career?
Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ November 12 2010, 4:27 PM GMTHer being rubbish and her being female are entirely unconnected, for the record.
This.
Quote: Marc P @ November 12 2010, 3:58 PM GMTDrugs?
Nope, don't do the stuff or ever have.
I think just things like books, food and living and fancy dress outfits.
I dunno I saw a bit of Brigette Jones once,, wasn't that written by a woman? It wasn't very good
You try telling women that! They loved it.
Quote: sootyj @ November 12 2010, 5:03 PM GMTI dunno I saw a bit of Brigette Jones once,, wasn't that written by a woman? It wasn't very good
At least women can spell Bridget. 
It's his keyboard.