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02-05-2008, 12:41 AM
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Studying Social Science and Criminology! Very interesting and involved, I have to be switched on or I tune out completely! Anyone else here study such or similar subjects? I may need help!
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02-05-2008, 12:45 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Pittsburgh | | | woo. go social science! |
02-05-2008, 12:46 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Pittsburgh | | | i mean, good luck! |
02-05-2008, 12:51 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Baltimore, MD | | | How come people that aren't American call college a Uni? I understand it's short for University, but damn it has always bothered me for some reason. |
02-05-2008, 01:00 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Melbourne, Australia | | | Because thats what its called. University. Well, in Australia it is. Believe it or not, America are the odd ones out in alot of cases, things that you find weird in us, are actually more viewed as weird by a higher percentage of the world lol. Oh well.
Wooh, theres a pub round the corner from Uni with great student rates and every monday and tuesday I have a two hour break so I have some pots and play some pool. I love being grown up.
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02-05-2008, 01:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Adelaide, South Australia | | | So many hot chicks at Uni... |
02-05-2008, 01:04 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Melbourne, Australia | | | Amen. Some god awful dropkicks though. But definitely some hotties!
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02-05-2008, 01:28 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Pittsburgh | | | get drunk and sleep with a fatty |
02-05-2008, 01:32 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Tampa, FL | | | I'm not the exact major (Political Science / International Studies), but I'm taking a class right now called: Law, Society, and the Criminal. It's awesome. Having seen a billion episodes of "Law and Order" has actually really helped me to visualize everything.
And yeah, the amount of chicks in college is insane. It's something like 70% female at my school. Of course, my wife is in that 70%.
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02-05-2008, 02:48 AM
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Originally Posted by Oxblood  How come people that aren't American call college a Uni? I understand it's short for University, but damn it has always bothered me for some reason. | We have Universities AND Colleges. They are different. A Uni is a big place where you can study loads of different subjects - there are often 20,000+ students, and hundreds of different courses.
Colleges tend to be more specific - you get 6th form Colleges, which is where you can go to do A Levels, while some colleges only allow you to do Btecs, which are like A Levels but you only do one subject. They generally only have a few courses, nowhere near as many as a University. You also get some Colleges which allow you to do a degree, but specialise in one subject.
For example, in Leeds there is a College of Music, a College of Art and a College of Technology.
What I have never got is why Americans call a Conservatoire a 'Conservatory'. To us Brits, a Conservatory is a light, airy, glass extension on the back of your house, which looks something like this: 
It has always amused me when people say that they are going to a Conservatory to study music... 
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02-05-2008, 02:48 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Melbourne, Australia | | | What uni you at, most don't start till March, I know mine (Melbourne) and msot of my friends don't?
Though the pub comment, Swinburne?
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02-05-2008, 04:40 AM
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Originally Posted by Oxblood How come people that aren't American call college a Uni? I understand it's short for University, but damn it has always bothered me for some reason. | In some countries, universities and colleges are separated in different ways, so it's a different thing to say you study at a uni than in a college. For example, the Scandinavian system, Finland included, has a dual-system of universities (scientific B/M/PhD degrees) and polytechnical colleges (B's on applied fields like engineering or nursing), so there's a class difference between the two. Although now the polytechs want more prestige, so they've decided to start calling themselves "Universities of Applied Sciences". Bah.
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02-05-2008, 12:15 PM
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02-05-2008, 12:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Oxblood How come people that aren't American call college a Uni? I understand it's short for University, but damn it has always bothered me for some reason. | We dont, we call college college and university uni.
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02-05-2008, 12:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Bass Junkie We dont, we call college college and university uni. | +1
Tho, you do sometimes get colleges or schools within a university.
Im at uni, studying biochemistry, which is a part of the college of life sciences. Quote:
Originally Posted by Oxblood How come people that aren't American call college a Uni? I understand it's short for University, but damn it has always bothered me for some reason. | What gets me, is why do americans call universities college, seems you guys are the odd ones out 
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