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Warwick uni isn't actually in Warwick, and so by rights I think it should be called "The university of somewhere-in-the-east-midlands" but there you go...

Uni is great, campus is very nice, facilities are good.

What are you planning to do post- A levels? (as if there won't be enough people asking that question...)

Cool.
*marks 'definitely apply' to Warwick on bit of paper*

Uh, Physics or maths or both... And I might yet be persuaded to do some sort of engineering, but probably not.

What are you going to be doing? Or have I already asked that and forgotten?

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Erm, can't remember...

I'm going to do physics. A four year M-Phys. I very nearly applied for biochemistry though. Decisions, decisions... Nearly decided to put two peices opf paper with 'Warwick' and 'Bath' on them, and pick one out. Decided against it, as I'd probably end up going to the university os size 11 3/4...

Erm, can't remember...

I'm going to do physics. A four year M-Phys. I very nearly applied for biochemistry though. Decisions, decisions... Nearly decided to put two peices opf paper with 'Warwick' and 'Bath' on them, and pick one out. Decided against it, as I'd probably end up going to the university of size 11 3/4...

Cool.
I'll be attempting an MPhys as well. Or an MMath, depending on which subject I choose...

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Take as long as you need to make up your mind, but have a preset answer to tell teachers, it saves your brain so much work! lol

I originally wanted to do medicine, but I only have a C at GCSE grade english. My future career as a clinical academic ruined because my essays on "Macbeth" weren't up to scratch... Everything happens for a reason though, I'm really glad I'm going to do physics now.

Currently my default answer is "Physics or maths".

What do you have to have in English to do medicine then? And why?

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B at GCSE, and to communicate with patients.

Still, as I said, glad in a way it didn't work out like that.

Oh... then why is it you can never read doctors' handwriting?

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Special illegibilty training! *sniggers*

They have to write so much down it gets scrawly apparently.

Ah, OK then.

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When I went for a chest x-ray a while ago one of the nurses was saying how gps should have special handwriting courses, as none of their staff could tell what my date of birth was from my records!

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It's a great way to lose 5 years.

I'm sure it is, yes!

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Are you being unusually breif today?

Yes. I do apologise. I'm trying not to be perfectionistic about an essay I'm trying to write on a subject I hate, and basically I'm shortening everything I say except what goes into the essay, which is annoying...
Or at least, I /think/ that's what's happening...

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Fair enough. Damn work! What's the essay about? I've been doing biology all day.

"What are the moral issues surrounding abortion and euthanasia?" or something like that... bleah.
How'd the biology go?

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I was about to reply "beter than your abortion by the sound of it" but then realised that was the worst possible phrasing!

Fine, my notes now encopass the entire sylabus, which does make a change...