If you could go to/back to uni what would you study
If you could go to/back to uni what would you study
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JDMTim

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1,138 posts

250 months

Sunday 8th February 2009
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As the title suggests, if you could start uni in September what would you study?

Nobody You Know

8,422 posts

222 months

Sunday 8th February 2009
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I think I am going to study politics! I want a piece of the all expense paid, job for life pie.

Penny-lope

13,645 posts

222 months

Sunday 8th February 2009
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I'd go back and complete my 4th year of Biotech frown

Before I got 'baby brain'

t11ner

7,511 posts

224 months

Sunday 8th February 2009
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Philosophy.

Airbag

3,466 posts

225 months

Sunday 8th February 2009
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Penny-lope said:
I'd go back and complete my 4th year of Biotech frown

Before I got 'baby brain'
The least the bio side of that helps to explain the baby brain.

polus

4,343 posts

254 months

Sunday 8th February 2009
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Physics. Studied Engineering last time.

escargot

17,123 posts

246 months

Sunday 8th February 2009
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Something related to Mechanical Engineering. Or Law.

singlecoil

35,825 posts

275 months

Sunday 8th February 2009
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Something where the majority of the other students were female.

GuinnessMK

1,608 posts

251 months

Sunday 8th February 2009
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I'm back at Uni doing a second degree, 16 years after I gradated from the first one.

(First degree was just a way of getting cheap foreign holidays, avoiding work and getting laid / drunk etc.)

This degree is specifically related to my job / career. Building Project Management.

TBH when I went to Uni last time there seemed to be a reasonable range of subjects to study, but this time it seemed that there was a course for everything, even down to specific job roles.




escargot

17,123 posts

246 months

Sunday 8th February 2009
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singlecoil said:
Something where the majority of the other students were female.
I didn't realise they offered a degree in ironing these days?

funk odyssey

1,983 posts

258 months

Sunday 8th February 2009
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singlecoil said:
Something where the majority of the other students were female.
wouldn't those courses be one of those "useless" university courses?

ali_kat

32,152 posts

250 months

Sunday 8th February 2009
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History/Archaeology

Glade

4,510 posts

252 months

Sunday 8th February 2009
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Engineering Design MSc @ brunel (or similar)

I did product design & manufacture at Loughborough and am now a manufacturing/process engineer.

I'd like to brush up on modern CAD software, and do some advanced FEA, control stuff, with experience of designing mechanical/consumer goods to a brief... Then move into a design job, with senior manufacturing engineer or process engineering manager/ continuous improvement manager as a backup building on existing skills.

... Not that I've thought about this much of course!

DangerousMike

11,327 posts

221 months

Sunday 8th February 2009
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biochemistry/biology

AJS-

15,366 posts

265 months

Sunday 8th February 2009
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Politics Philosophy and Economics. Interesting subjects and I think that would play to my strengths more than BSc Economics, which I studied for my first degree. It was great to conquer my fear of maths, but I think I ended up not getting as good a degree as I could have, and studying a really fairly boring subject, and the bits that I've used could have been covered in a couple of modules.

S13_Alan

1,392 posts

272 months

Sunday 8th February 2009
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Mechanical Engineering or Chemical Engineering probably... I've a BSc in Computer Science, had various offers for courses to do all three. Still not quite sure if I made a mistake though, but at least I enjoy what I do now.

172ff

3,775 posts

224 months

Sunday 8th February 2009
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JDMTim said:
As the title suggests, if you could start uni in September what would you study?
Sleeping around.

Snake the Sniper

2,544 posts

230 months

Sunday 8th February 2009
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I wish I had picked a better course when I was at uni. I got offered a place at Imperial College doing Aeronautics, but for some reason turned them down! If I went back, I'd probably doing Physics, as it's what I enjoyed most at school.

Trevelyan

729 posts

218 months

Sunday 8th February 2009
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I'd train to be a vet, or possibly go into agricultural engineering. I've got a masters degree in mechanical and manufacturing engineering, but can't honestly say that it's lead to a job I get much satisfaction from.

The Moose

23,672 posts

238 months

Sunday 8th February 2009
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I am seriously considering going back to uni to study for a second degree.

I would study Meteorology (sp??) and once completed said degree, go and get a place in central USA and chase tornados for a couple of months of the year.

For the rest of the year I would do as I'm doing now.

:-)