h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Well, I am studying science and my speling is aweful, so I don't quite know why.But, what you say of science students believing all art students are doing easier subjects and are therefore thick; I find that the same is true within the sciences; those doing chemistry and physics think biology is not a real science and easier than chemistry.. And the same goes for biologists to ecology or environmental science students in some cases..I just respect anyone who is
studying anything, cause it ain't all that easy, pretty much, although some subjects certainly have a far lower work load, at least I have fnd at Uni.

Immunologist, eh? I know a bit about that too, sadly. Which university are you at?

The thing I've noticed about science A-levels is that it's very much "this is a fact, you remember it" - ie. that cellular membranes follow the fluid mosaic model. Strictly speaking, this is no longer the current model, but we have no way of arguing a point or seeing science as an unknown quantity; A-level science does not allow you to think or argue, whereas arts subjects I find provode much more scope for personal opinion and research. Okay I would say that, since I'm (hopefully) doign English Lit. at university, but still - you get my drift.

Not if you spell doing... doign!

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Arnold J Rimmer

Sod off Pat. I only noticed the typo after I'd posted the damn thing. Anyway, no one's perfect; just some of us are exceptionally close...















No, I'm not really that conceited. It was a joke. Honest. Please believe me. Help...

I'me currently at Manchester Uni, which sucks, although I probably shouldn't knock it as I'me doing my MSc here..

Does all of Manchester Uni suck? It's just that I had a place there for next year, and am wondering whether it's worth reapplying.

My Dad teaches MSc and others here in Birmingham - just picked the new PhD students. What's the title of your course?

No, I don't think it is the whole of the University; probably more likely that I've just had a bad experiance, which doesn't necessarily therefore mean that everyone will. I know several people here who love the university and their course, and the city itself. I am doing MSc immunology and Immunogenetics, which is actually a pretty good course, although I am still not 100% sure its the course I should have picked, but thats my problem, I never have a clue as to what I want to do, and it was an off-the-cuff desicision at the end of my BSc to do a MSc at all, and I haven't the faintest why I picked this one in particular, or indeed why Manchester University. My main problem with theplace is that I don't like Manchester itself too much; too many trendys impressing each other with their new mobile phones, trainning shoes and rip-off expensive designer clothes. The other main reason I don't like here is because of where I am living in halls, there is loads of halls of ressidents, but I'me definatly not in the best one. So if you do come here, pick housing/halls very carefully, especially if you are going for private sector; make sure it is in a "good" area of Manchester; crime and violent crime especially is so high here (here the news today?).
They certainly have good facilities, computing/library ETC., but the University as a whole isn't too well orchistrated, which I guess is hardly supprising as it is so big; the left hand doesn't often know what the right is doing to coin a phrase.
So, as for you doing a course here, if you think (or know) you will like Manchester as a place; and if you have found the right course, just pick accomadation very carefully, and it shouldn't be too bad.

Ever heard of a bloke called Mike Salmon?

F-I-S-H that's how you spell fish

Thank You we know we know...

Don't forget to do that funny wobble and pass out again, after that it should all come flooding back.

Well, both myself and my girlfriend have found that our spelling and typing abilities hit rock bottom since we stepped through the gates of Wadham. I think that basically, it's the accelerated learning, the stress and the change in lifestyle take their toll on your coordination - I think I'm having to think so fast that I'm pre-empting myself and therefore typing the end of a word, or even the next word, before I get there.

Anyway, consider Hell. Even if it's growing, it must be doing so at some finite rate (because us Physicists don't like infinities). Now consider two religions, R1 and R2. Religion R1 says: "If you're not a member of our religion, you're going to hell." Religion R2 says: "If you're not a member of our religion, you're going to hell." Now by the definition of religion, it is impossible for a unit (person) to be a member of R1 AND R2 (or P(R1 intersection R2)=0), therefore every person in the world must be going to hell. The population of Earth is growing at an exponential rate, and therefore the number of souls entering hell must also be growing exponentially, and therefore at some finite time there will be souls entering hell faster than hell can expand (assuming no souls leave hell, |dN/dt|>>|dV/dt| where N is the number of souls and V is the volume of hell). This gives us two eventual outcomes:
[H0] If Hell is endothermic, it will be absorbing heat energy at an exponential rate and unable to emit is until it explodes and all hell breaks loose.
[H1] If Hell is exothermic, it will be emitting heat energy at an exponential rate and the consequence of this is that it reaches absolute zero, i.e. hell freezes over.
Now given the statement that was offered to me by Lisa Ellis in lower sixth, and the fact that I haven't had sex with her, we can clearly see that H1 can be instantly rejected, so we accept H0. The conclusion is that hell must be endothermic.
Quod Erat Demonstrandum <- gets Yikesed for posting in Non-English

We have digressed too long, i fear.

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Exams are definately getting easier

Can i just point out that not all religions are the same? Almost all religions are the same, but here is the exception to the rule:

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(right I'me board of that....)

Sorry, can't be bothered to count - how many times was that?

Emily, who is taking a break from ecology revision...

I finished one of my multiple-choice exams early (these are the worst!)because my prof. said that it was really hard and no-one in his other classes finished it. I didn't want to look stupid, but I went back through it and wrote comments on all the questions such as "I learned this definition from Monty Python; what about all the poor people who haven't seen MP and the Holy Grail?". Turns out that one of my peers graded it and that the prof. only took the score and never looked at the exams. Grr.

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Don't panic Emily, I can't be bothered to count either; counting is so boaring, bit like revision, which I don't have any more of to do any more; Ha ha ha, (sympethy goeing out to everyone who has, cause I know what its like)

I am mad, mad I am, am I mad, I am mad, mad am I, I mad am, am I mad, "squergel" "Churp" "neap"
(Damm diversion again)!

Not all religions are the same - [url removed by moderator] Not all exams are getting easier - look at Physics prelims over the last five years and they're definitely at exactly the same level. Anyway, even if exams ARE getting easier it doesn't mean jack - you just get to a point where you OUGHT to know something from, say, A-Level and if you learnt it you learnt it, easy exam or hard exam. The exam's just the end of the course you've got to do the rest of it too.

Yeah; all this squid about exams getting easier is useually spouted by old-gits, who just whant to make themselves look more clever. Its fairly obvious, at A level and Degree level, because look at the explosion in knoweldge; sitting a A level biology exam before discovery of DNA; wow tat must have been really hard. As you say, to pass any exam and be fairly sure of doing so, the only way is to cover the whole of the course, so you know it even if it doesn't come up on the exam. Although my feelings on GCSE's and the half A levels are not so sure, as I don't really know, I guess I can't comment with commitment on such issues.

DIGRESSION AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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And thats except;
(only kidding!!!!
I AM A FISH!!!!

Whose exams are easier? Yours or mine? I am seriously worried about the fact I am a guineepig in a system whose consequences have not fully been thought about. The boards can't even define a bloody AS. How are they to get the sylibus to the right level?!?