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AIBU?

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Original poster

to dislike the word uni ?

166 replies

MaryAnnSingleton · 30/09/2007 12:54

it really irritates me and I'm sure it's unreasonable, but it does.

OP posts:
3andnomore · 30/09/2007 19:14

must admit I never ever would have thought that it could irritate anyone so much!

Tinker · 30/09/2007 19:17

I went to a poly when they were polys. But I did do exceptionally shittily in my A levels.

codswallop · 30/09/2007 19:17

its form australia isn it
no one said it beofre nighbours

bookwormtailmum · 30/09/2007 19:18

I have no A-levels . Being a mature student helps no end in beating the admissions criteria....

toomanydaves · 30/09/2007 19:22

yanbu.

RustyBear · 30/09/2007 19:23

MB - are A2s really much harder than ASs? And if so can you tell my DD so?
She got 5 As at AS with no apparent work and seems to think she can carry on the same way.....

Blandmum · 30/09/2007 19:24

A2 Biology is harder than AS. But the biggest jump in the science is from GCSE to AS.

That said, once they have done AS most kids realise that some wotk is requiredd

UCM · 30/09/2007 19:29

Sorry to hijack but I too, found some people from school on Friends Reunited who said that their nicknames were things like 'Downyboygetdown' and 'madbloke'. They weren't. These people are kidding themselves

RustyBear · 30/09/2007 19:30

To be fair, I have noticed a bit more application in the last week or so - maybe because her new bf is at university (see I typed the whole word)so there's not so much distraction. Also I think he's encouraging her, which is a change - her previous boyfriends have all had the academic ability of a miniature poodle.

sallystrawberry · 30/09/2007 19:33

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fizzbuzz · 30/09/2007 19:48

What is it with knitwear design or knitting ffs?

Who designed the jumper/sweater dress, cardigan/tights/socks/childrens cardis/tights/socks/etc etc that everyone is wearing???

Knitwear designers are paid a fortune and travel everywhere. I know because I did it for a bit. Talk about subject snobbery! Next time it is cold, try reaching for your Shakespeare/algebra/petri dish, and see where that gets you

MAS I did fashion at Manchester Poly. Where did you go?

3andnomore · 30/09/2007 19:51

Sally...didn't think college and University are the same...although...possibly are...lol...

bookwormtailmum · 30/09/2007 20:03

Oxbridge are divided into 'colleges' though aren't they?

bookwormtailmum · 30/09/2007 20:03

Is not are .

Oenophile · 30/09/2007 20:06

My DD2 is off to uniVERSITY tomorrow for the first time and quite reluctant she is too bit of a mummy's girl I'm afraid.

She REFUSES to call it 'Uni' and loathes the term. Mind you she is not that keen on any references to it at all, so we are forced to call it 'the U place'.

What she is dreading most is 'Freshers' Week' - another horrible phrase. We call it, you guessed it, 'eff double-u'.

Peachy · 30/09/2007 20:08

I wouldn;t worry about freshers Week- all we knew of Freshers Fortnight ws yet again we lost a wing mirror from the car (living between pubs in a student village....). As a student you wouldn't even notice, frankly, unles you specifically sought it out.

Oenophile · 30/09/2007 20:15

Well I hope you are right about FW, Peachy, but we have a schedule and it includes some obligatory things like 'formal drinks with tutors' and 'meet your college "parents"' - all will be torture to her. But on Friday they are touring Zoology and getting their Dissection Kit, which is much more her kind of thing

3andnomore · 30/09/2007 20:17

I suppose so...but then mostly colleges are places where you do diplomas and certificates..aren't they, and maybe do GCSE's...rather then degrees...
oh it is confusing it really is, lol....

Bluestocking · 30/09/2007 20:26

Blimey, MB, I didn't realise you were a Hice alumna. You must be proper posh.

Oenophile, is your DD by any chance off to a uniVERSITY where they wear red gowns?

OldieMum · 30/09/2007 20:33

My 85 year old mother went to university during the War. All through my chilhood, she referred to it as "uni". It always sounded very old fashioned to me, then - a bit like saying "gosh". How about that, then?

pointydog · 30/09/2007 20:37

what about varsity?

bookwormtailmum · 30/09/2007 20:40

Did they keep teaching degrees throughout the War? Seems a bit odd in retrospect when half the world were probably fighting somewhere or making munitions. Must have been mostly women there then. Maybe 'uni' is a word that goes in and out of fashion.

OldieMum · 30/09/2007 20:40

Even oldiemum's old mum isn't old enough for that one!

3andnomore · 30/09/2007 20:44

I have been known to use the word "gosh"...lol...

OldieMum · 30/09/2007 20:44

Bookworm, they were far-sighted enough to realise that they would need an educated labour force, whatever happened. My mother trained as a French teacher. Her first job was in a boys school, replacing a teacher who was in the forces.

The joke was that in the first year at university (1939), the women said:

What a man!

In the second year, they said:

What? A man?

In the third year, they said:

What's a man?