Summer on Radio 1

[Jono]

It gets a bit beyond the joke when you actually check it on a Sunday. Especially as no fool will be working through UCAS applications on that day.

[Ad]

Hello Jono, three questions to you young man.

1) Where have you applied to study?

2) What do you want to study?

3) Do they have a decent student radio station and/ or student newspaper?

The best of luck, UCAS are fine.

[Eyl9]

I'm always on the UCAS site and i don't have to sort that out until next september time haha!

[Jono]

Hello Jono, three questions to you young man.

1) Where have you applied to study?

2) What do you want to study?

3) Do they have a decent student radio station and/ or student newspaper?

The best of luck, UCAS are fine.

De Montfort University - Radio Production

University of Glamorgan - Radio

The University of Sunderland - Media Production (TV and Radio)

Nottingham Trent University - Broadcast Journalism

University of East Anglia - Society, Culture and Media

(It's the closest university, so it'd be nice to go somewhere local)

[Lucinda]

It gets a bit beyond the joke when you actually check it on a Sunday. Especially as no fool will be working through UCAS applications on that day.

You'd be surprised... I got a feedback sheet back about an essay the other day, it is signed and dated as having been marked on 01/01/2008. Academics work at funny times, although maybe that's why the comments are unreadable.

[Ema]

I'm always on the UCAS site and i don't have to sort that out until next september time haha!

Me too! I've got a load of 2008 prospectuses which is really sad cos they're kind of irrelevant.

[Riz]

Im developing a seriously bad case of UCAS addiction. Im on twice a day at the moment

[Jono]

Im developing a seriously bad case of UCAS addiction. Im on twice a day at the moment

Have you sent one off then? When did you do that?

[Riz]

Have you sent one off then? When did you do that?

Just before the new year, some of my friends are getting replies through already, so im hoping it wont be too long.

[Jono]

I don't think I'll get my UEA choice. Shame, as I'd really like to go somewhere local, but we'll see.

[Lucinda]

I still know my 9-digit UCAS number off by heart, that's how often I was checking it this time 2 years ago. The offers came in before the rejections in my case, I was waiting ages for Bristol to reject me.

[Behelzebub]

Haha, Bristol rejected me quite quickly in my case. B*stards.

[sebdevlin]

Haha, Bristol rejected me quite quickly in my case. B*stards.

As did UMIST to me but thankfully Leeds Uni accepted me but took an age to do it.

Good luck with your choices, our tutor allowed us to see what he'd written reference wise but its mainly your personal statment that its based on apart from results obviously.

[Jono]

Why do so many people apply to Bristol? It's clearly one of the toughest judging by the amount of people who have been rejected from it.

[sebdevlin]

Why do so many people apply to Bristol? It's clearly one of the toughest judging by the amount of people who have been rejected from it.

They all hope to bump into russell howard probably or its probably best in one specific subject i'd imagine

[axania]

I also applied to Bristol (like 2 or 3 years ago now) but I really wanted to go to RHUL, Bristol was too close to home.

They accepted me on both courses I had applied for and even matched my predicted grades. Was a bit surreal.

But they seemed really pompous and I really had fallen in love with RHUL by this point, so they got declined.

[Lucinda]

My mum wanted me to apply for Bristol, she was making such a big fuss about everything else so I just put it down. My entire tutor group got rejected, although one of my friends did get accepted but decided not to go there. People say it's full of posh people, but I also hear that they reject people from private schools these days.

My tutor said that they don't care about their undergraduates, only their own research, and their teaching is rubbish and there's no module choices on my course there. She might be slightly biased, or trying to make us feel better about being rejected.

[Jono]

I wish my parents interfered a bit with my UCAS. They have no clue and presume it's just a case of if you apply you're in.

My sister is now in the position where I am as of August, so they can't just put a one-sided opinion that I'm lame and not doing much, as I'll be in the same boat as her.

Sure enough they still do though. "Oh your sister has an offer at Leeds and we're sure she'll get into Norwich art school".

Her response to me? "Oh well I can't imagine you'll get in anywhere, so it'll be straight to work for you as you're just a failure". Hmmph.

[Lucinda]

That's not very nice. I'm sure they don't mean to be discouraging, they probably think that in some way they're helping.

I had serious battles with my mum and in the end had to get half the teachers in the school to persuade her to let me do Geography. I guess it meant I sorted things out for myself, because she was using subversive tactics to make me go to open days for other subjects and stuff. Then she tried to interfere with my UCAS choices and in the end I just did them and told her afterwards. My dad is happy to let me do what I want to do (as long as it doesn't involve smoking) but my mum feels the need to interfere.

My mum told me I'd end up living in the gutter because no one would employ me with a geography degree. Proving her wrong is my motivation.

[Jono]

I didn't apply to university last year because they discouraged me from it. Ah well, we'll see what happens.

Their opinion is I do a newspaper column, this website and a bit of talking on local radio, which I was doing during sixth form. Everyone seems to take interest in what I'm doing, but because I've not taken on anything else since, and because I've got a proper job they see me as a failure.

"We expected big things, and you've not proved yourself."

They just seem to think everything works at the click of a finger. Truth is I miss a daily routine. I don't want to work somewhere where I'm not going to enjoy it. But I miss going to bed early, getting up early, and taking a bus or train journey somewhere. I'd love to do that at the Uni in Norwich. That's why I've applied to university, as a decent job seems years off.

[midnight]

My parents and especially my mum are never happy with what I do. I got B1s for my exams nd my mum was disappointed because they werent As. Ive constantly been told that Ill never become anything and will end up in a council house stacking shelves in ASDA for the rest of my life. Im just want to prove her wrong.

[Lucinda]

Yeah, I know what you mean Jono, my mum just assumes I can find a job just like that for the holidays with no problems. She's stopped me from working while I was at school and also during term time at uni, yet expects that there'll be a job just waiting for me when the holidays come round. The last 2 summers have proved that jobs aren't like that these days.

I almost got a flexible term time job working for the university, I was already working for them in the summer and last term, but when they actually interviewed me a second time they decided that they didn't want me. My housemate, who is the most lazy, unmotivated and uninspiring drip of a person (and hopefully doesn't read this site!) got the job and kept telling me about how annoying it is and how it's so much effort. I shouted at him and said angry words and now he doesn't talk to me about it.

Every time I apply for something and get an interview, I feel more let down when they reject me. I know it happens to everyone and I shouldn't feel so bad about myself because of it but it really does get to me. It's not exactly related to university, but it is about my parents and the expectations they have and it affects what I'm likely to end up doing when I graduate in under 18 months time.

[Behelzebub]

I also know what you mean about jobs, I had so much trouble finding one over the summer that I just gave up in the end - why is it that it always seems to be the people who are far lazier, more unsociable and less competent than you who get all the jobs? (Not meaning to offend anyone on here, I'm sure you're all dynamic and motivated workers!!) Guess it all comes down to experience really, no matter how sh*t you were at your previous job(s) it's the experience that matters at the end of the day. Hmph.

I guess I'm quite lucky in that my parents have never put any real pressure on me as far as uni/getting a job is concerned, they just leave me to make my own decisions most of the time. But I would rather be in uni at the moment than working, however much I may complain about it sometimes, 'cos hopefully I'll end up with a worthwhile degree that'll get me a relatively interesting job.

[Ema]

Leeds Uni is amazing, their building new halls and the buildings sooo tall.

[Jono]

Leeds Uni is amazing, their building new halls and the buildings sooo tall.

Short buildings are so underrated these days.