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PlaGuE_R
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
France1151 Posts
September 14 2010 13:21 GMT
#1
So I've got my room paid for in London, GB and I'm gonna be there soon! like end of next week!!! this is a really exciting yet really scary time for me >.< so this blog is actually a 2 part question to the TL community

1) when u left to go to university or work away from family how did u feel? how did u cope with this sudden paradigm shift?

2) any TLers living in London? got like 2 or 3 ppl there that i know but im gna b pretty much alone apart from them lol.

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illu
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada2531 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-09-14 13:33:10
September 14 2010 13:23 GMT
#2
Sigh. For a second I was thinking UWO..
:]
alffla
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Hong Kong20321 Posts
September 14 2010 13:25 GMT
#3
london is cool lol
and u live in france no probs go home on the eurostar EZ

when i left home to go to uni i felt the same
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streetclam
Profile Joined January 2010
Australia92 Posts
September 14 2010 13:30 GMT
#4
Isn't it like suuper expensive to live in London?
Should have done what all awesome people do and study in Australia
Vinnesta
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Singapore285 Posts
September 14 2010 13:40 GMT
#5
Where are you studying? It'll be my first year, studying at LSE!
Same difference is not an oxymoron!
PlaGuE_R
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
France1151 Posts
September 14 2010 13:45 GMT
#6
On September 14 2010 22:30 streetclam wrote:
Isn't it like suuper expensive to live in London?
Should have done what all awesome people do and study in Australia


hahahha my brother is actually going to uni in australia xD not a starcraft fan tho

and I'm going to London Metropolitan
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SoLaR[i.C]
Profile Blog Joined August 2003
United States2969 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-09-14 14:52:08
September 14 2010 14:51 GMT
#7
A slightly off-topic question: Why do all countries other than the U.S. call it "going to university?" Here we say "going to college." Is there a reason for this?
Rev0lution
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
United States1805 Posts
September 14 2010 14:59 GMT
#8
because college means school in every other language.
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shawabawa
Profile Joined May 2010
United Kingdom417 Posts
September 14 2010 15:10 GMT
#9
On September 14 2010 23:59 Rev0lution wrote:
because college means school in every other language.

College means school in English too, pity American's don't really know how to speak it :/
SoLaR[i.C]
Profile Blog Joined August 2003
United States2969 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-09-14 15:30:38
September 14 2010 15:30 GMT
#10
Well you are going to school in the most literal sense, so it still doesn't make sense why "college" is used in the US and "university" everywhere else.
PlaGuE_R
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
France1151 Posts
September 14 2010 15:41 GMT
#11
Because College in English is actually high school (i believe) and in French College means Middle-School. for example in france you have the 'ecole primaire' then 'college' then 'lycee' and then university.
In english its pretty much the same thing except in america
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SoLaR[i.C]
Profile Blog Joined August 2003
United States2969 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-09-14 15:52:48
September 14 2010 15:52 GMT
#12
The Wikipedia article sums it up nicely. I should've just started there.

"College (Latin: collegium) is a term most often used today in Ireland and the United States to denote a degree-awarding tertiary educational institution and in other English-speaking countries to refer to a secondary school in private educational systems. More broadly, it can refer to any group of colleagues, such as an electoral college, a College of Arms or the College of Cardinals.
The precise usage of the term varies among the English-speaking countries. In the United States and Ireland, for example, the terms "college" and "university" may be regarded as loosely interchangeable, whereas in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and other Commonwealth countries, a "college" is usually an institution between school and university level (although constituent schools within universities are sometimes known as "colleges"). In French, a "collège" refers both to 4 years of middle school and to a general concept of sharing an institution, and in the Commonwealth countries, some older private primary and secondary schools retain this sense of the word (for example, Eton College).
Originally, it meant a group of persons living together, under a common set of rules (con- = "together" + leg- = "law" or lego = "I choose"); indeed, some colleges call their members "fellows".


Is it the same in Asian countries too?
PlaGuE_R
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
France1151 Posts
September 14 2010 16:27 GMT
#13
i feel i got my blog derailed T_T
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tofucake
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Hyrule19139 Posts
September 14 2010 16:29 GMT
#14
I use both, because you can go to both (in America at least).

A college is like a Tier 3 school.
A university is a collection of Tier 3 schools (think a ball of Ultras).

For instance, I went to the College of Egineering at Drexel University.

But there was also the College of Arts, College of Information Sciences, College of Law, and College of Business (and maybe others, but I don't remember).
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Vinnesta
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Singapore285 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-09-14 16:31:17
September 14 2010 16:30 GMT
#15
In Singapore we also use the term 'universities' (and never college). However, in our post-secondary education, most people who intend to go to university go through "junior college", which is similar to year 11 and 12 (age 17 to 18), to take the 'A' levels.

Or you could be cool like UCL, and call yourself University College London =)
Same difference is not an oxymoron!
SoLaR[i.C]
Profile Blog Joined August 2003
United States2969 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-09-14 16:37:01
September 14 2010 16:35 GMT
#16
Sorry, PlaGuE. Didn't mean to go off on a tangent!

If it's any consolation, here are some threads about TL College Locations & TL User Locations
PlaGuE_R
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
France1151 Posts
September 14 2010 16:35 GMT
#17
T_T goobye blog about me going to London, hello American English vs Rest of world english debate!

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Chill
Profile Blog Joined January 2005
Calgary25986 Posts
September 14 2010 16:45 GMT
#18
I will answer your questions because you used the phrase "paradigm shift."

I am not that close to my family. I'm close in the sense that I love them, but not in the sense that if we are apart for awhile I feel sad. So going to university I didn't really feel bad about being apart. They were close enough (2 hours) that I could go home if I wanted. I think everyone has a time where they just get to university and don't know anyone well and they miss the comfortable feeling of being with their family. It'll pass.
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drag_
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
England425 Posts
September 14 2010 17:52 GMT
#19
College is usually the last 2 years of high school in the UK, where you do your A levels. Also known as "sixth form" (Currently living in London). I can give you some good tips about where to go if you say what kind of things you're interested in.
PlaGuE_R
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
France1151 Posts
September 14 2010 17:58 GMT
#20
On September 15 2010 02:52 drag_ wrote:
College is usually the last 2 years of high school in the UK, where you do your A levels. Also known as "sixth form" (Currently living in London). I can give you some good tips about where to go if you say what kind of things you're interested in.


I'm interested in SC xD i've always wanted to take up kendo, it'd be really awesome if there was a dojo somewhere in London :3 I also like movies, a lot, so a good cinema thats not too expansive wud be nice. For the other things like pubs i guess I have to wait and see where I live and what the area's like.

I'm gonna be living in Three Colts Lane for this first year, so if u know the area if u could tell me wat it's like, also advertising that any TLers in the area, i'd love to meet up and maybe do an improptu mini-lan once im settled ^_^
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