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The_Eyeball_Kid
Joined: 20 Jun 2007
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| Mary-Jane wrote: |
| Any other Oxford punters out here? |
I would venture that anyone who went to Oxford University would have a proper job. |
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Mary-Jane
Joined: 22 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 2:20 am Post subject: |
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I would venture that anyone who went to Oxford University would have a proper job.
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Meh. 3 years of being grilled and I was happy to avoid a 'proper' job for the past 6 months. |
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bobbyhanlon
Joined: 09 Nov 2003
Location: 서울
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| Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 2:51 am Post subject: |
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| mary-jane, i did.. what college? |
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darkcity
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: SF, CA
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| Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 3:18 am Post subject: |
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| mine's nowhere to be seen on the list. not that i'm surprised. useless photography/creative ad/visual culture degree. |
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little mixed girl
Joined: 11 Jun 2003
Location: shin hyesung's bed~
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| Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 7:24 am Post subject: |
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| 21. i don't agree with umich being ranked lower than the UCs. UCLA and berkely are not better than umich. |
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Ilsanman
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Bucheon, Korea
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| Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 10:55 pm Post subject: |
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JustJohn
Joined: 18 Oct 2007
Location: Your computer screen
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| Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 12:35 am Post subject: |
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Me too. Do I know you? |
I doubt it...its a big school, unless youre that *beep* from bumfuck WI who I went to orientation with.
what was your major? |
Zoology. Did you come through the thing Sandra Arfa runs? Or ever live in Witte? |
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just another day
Joined: 12 Jul 2007
Location: Living with the Alaskan Inuits!!
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| Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 2:28 am Post subject: |
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| little mixed girl wrote: |
| 21. i don't agree with umich being ranked lower than the UCs. UCLA and berkely are not better than umich. |
Cal, Michigan, and UCLA used to be ranked top 10 in US News in the 80s.
A lot of lower tier ivies that produce about 1/10 of the research of those three heavyweights complained and whined, and got the endowment statistic overweighted. It's a very flawed system, as federal cash flow is not seen as the same as interest cash flow from an endowment.
Overall, PhD rankings are still kept rather pure. Which is probably the last bastion of unpoliticized rankings. In that category, Cal, Michigan, and UCLA does very very well.
Those three schools also did very well in London Times Rankings last year and its first year as well. But it seems like even the London Times is not past the politicization process unfortunately.
I never understood how universities like Northwestern, Brown, Emory do well in the US News rankings. They have like zero top ten ranked departments. |
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Hyeon Een
Joined: 24 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 4:25 am Post subject: |
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| The_Eyeball_Kid wrote: |
| Mary-Jane wrote: |
| Any other Oxford punters out here? |
I would venture that anyone who went to Oxford University would have a proper job. |
What's up with people like you saying this drivel? Not everyone is here for the money.
I know a Cambridge grad (normally ranked 1 or 2 in the world) who came here last year. Why? Why not? Why not get a bit of life experience in a rarely explored Asian country. (compared to China, Japan or Thailand this place is pretty exotic for British folk)
The idea that people ONLY come here to pay their college debts is CRAP spewed by N.Americans (mostly Canadians) who can't get a job which will allow them to pay off their debts at home. Normal people who are out to 'discover themselves' or 'explore the world' - as a lot of Uni grads are - are discounted as freaks or plain unbelievable by people who've been forced here for economic reasons. Also, there's actually some people here who are fascinated by the country; hard as that is for cynics to believe.
I'm not criticizing people who are here to pay off their Uni debts, I'm criticizing people who claim that this is the ONLY reason to be here and that graduates of decent Universities should be in a 'real' job already.
People who graduated from prestigious Universities have just as much right to be here as anyone else. Don't knock them for it just because they're not paying off debts or because they've delayed getting a high paying job back home for a year or two. Chances are they know exactly what they're doing. |
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Julius
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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tsulami
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 6:54 am Post subject: |
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| anyone else go to #35? |
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zappadelta
Joined: 31 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 7:07 am Post subject: |
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| #202? Ouch. Anyone else? |
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cubanlord
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
Location: In Japan!
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| Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 2:43 pm Post subject: |
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number 51 in THE WORLD BABY!!!! WHOOOOOOOO
Let the flaming begin...  |
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cubanlord
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
Location: In Japan!
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| Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 2:46 pm Post subject: |
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wow. The closest one to number 1 that Korea has is SNU
151-202
Seoul Natl Univ
Asia/Pac
South Korea |
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little mixed girl
Joined: 11 Jun 2003
Location: shin hyesung's bed~
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| Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 6:26 am Post subject: |
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| Hyeon Een wrote: |
What's up with people like you saying this drivel? Not everyone is here for the money.
I know a Cambridge grad (normally ranked 1 or 2 in the world) who came here last year. Why? Why not? Why not get a bit of life experience in a rarely explored Asian country. (compared to China, Japan or Thailand this place is pretty exotic for British folk)
The idea that people ONLY come here to pay their college debts is CRAP spewed by N.Americans (mostly Canadians) who can't get a job which will allow them to pay off their debts at home. Normal people who are out to 'discover themselves' or 'explore the world' - as a lot of Uni grads are - are discounted as freaks or plain unbelievable by people who've been forced here for economic reasons. Also, there's actually some people here who are fascinated by the country; hard as that is for cynics to believe.
I'm not criticizing people who are here to pay off their Uni debts, I'm criticizing people who claim that this is the ONLY reason to be here and that graduates of decent Universities should be in a 'real' job already.
People who graduated from prestigious Universities have just as much right to be here as anyone else. Don't knock them for it just because they're not paying off debts or because they've delayed getting a high paying job back home for a year or two. Chances are they know exactly what they're doing. |
i never knew that there was a stereotype that people go to korea to pay off their debts.
i HAVE heard that people go to teach english because they can't get a job back home, or they want something "easy"...if we're going to be talking about common stereotypes.
...don't really see any reason as to why you would be hating on people that have debts to pay back. it's not as if brits have no university debts. and regardless of whether the person is teaching english in korea or working at a bank in their home country, if they have debts then they will have to get a job to pay them back.
to be honest, i see a lot of recent grads in asia who are somewhat interested in paying back debt, but VERY interested in living in a foreign country so they can put that down on their resume back home, or in their statement of purpose for their grad school apps... |
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