EPTDear Brits, Help me Pick a School - Page 2
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DannyJ
United States5110 Posts
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mooose
Japan200 Posts
With regards to accent, I guess it depends where you come from but I don't think the Bristol accent is particularly bad, and tbh most of the people I met didn't really have a very strong Bristol or west country accent. I stayed in student accommodation that is usually for international students (so the kind of place you might stay) and I really enjoyed it there too. It was in a good location close enough to the city centre and train/bus station and only a 10 minute walk from my classes. I couldn't really compare it in terms of cost to places in the north of England since I've never lived very far north, but it is at least cheaper than London (which is of course not much of feat because London is ridiculous). Also as someone else already mentioned you can pretty easily get to London or Birmingham from Bristol by train or bus. It also has its own airport. | ||
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Espers
United Kingdom606 Posts
socially london is probably the best city in the world for students, so much stuff to do (until 1am when everything closes) Imperial/UCL are great unis there but not on your list. obviously expensive though. | ||
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Skynx
Turkey7150 Posts
On November 11 2014 03:09 SixStrings wrote: I'm going to Istanbul in February, but only for a week or so.  haha I meant south of UK but Istanbul is nice too  | ||
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SixStrings
Germany2046 Posts
On November 11 2014 05:01 Espers wrote: obviously stanford academically, though not sure how much employers care about a year abroad at top 10 school. socially london is probably the best city in the world for students, so much stuff to do (until 1am when everything closes) Imperial/UCL are great unis there but not on your list. obviously expensive though. Yeah, I don't think I can afford it. They pay our tuition and some niggardly grand of 250-something Euros, so I'd basically have to find a way to set aside 10.000 pounds by August next year. Not something that seems feasible. | ||
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Jerubaal
United States7684 Posts
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Targe
United Kingdom14103 Posts
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Random_0
United States1163 Posts
Not only is this (arguably) the top-ranked university on your list, but Palo Alto is a super beautiful, laid back place. It's spring all year round in the Bay Area. | ||
GTR
51703 Posts
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SixStrings
Germany2046 Posts
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SixStrings
Germany2046 Posts
My advisor at the chemistry department hooked me up with a deal, giving me a place to stay on campus and a modest stipend for food in exchange for working 8 hours a week in some lab. So now I only have to come up with the money for the flights to and from America, should be doable. | ||
peanuts
United States1225 Posts
Best of luck with the finances! Definitely throw up another blog once you get here! :D | ||
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SixStrings
Germany2046 Posts
According to a friend of mine who went to Berkeley for a year, he really regretted telling people he was from Germany. Apparently he had to endure Nazi jokes pretty much every day, so he advised me to tell people I was French. But I reckon it's best to tell them I'm from some country they never heard about, like Belgium or Switzerland. I thought of Austria first, but I don't want to be corrected on my pronunciation of 'Australia' every day. | ||
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Bunn
Estonia934 Posts
On November 27 2014 05:41 SixStrings wrote: What country should I tell people I'm from? According to a friend of mine who went to Berkeley for a year, he really regretted telling people he was from Germany. Apparently he had to endure Nazi jokes pretty much every day, so he advised me to tell people I was French. But I reckon it's best to tell them I'm from some country they never heard about, like Belgium or Switzerland. I thought of Austria first, but I don't want to be corrected on my pronunciation of 'Australia' every day. Yeah... Don't listen to your friend. Lying is a great way to make first impressions /s Just be honest and act normally. If you do encounter a nazi joke, just be cool about it, no need to get worked up over it. If you don't want to speak to that person anymore, just move along and find other people. Definitely don't lie and be someone you're not. | ||
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SixStrings
Germany2046 Posts
I wouldn't even think about these things twice if I were going anywhere but to the USA, but without exception, any show on the telly I've seen, any programme about comedy, pretty much anyone trying to be funny, whenever it comes to Germans, a Nazi joke is sure to follow. Apparently that passes for wit over there. Seriously, make fun of our accents, make fun of hour humourless work attitude, make fun of the current political state of affairs, but just give it a rest with these Nazi jokes, just for a day or two. Don't you have your own genocide to confront? | ||
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KelsierSC
United Kingdom10443 Posts
It is funny that, despite sharing a language, I feel I have more in common with other Europeans rather than Americans. | ||
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Chocolate
United States2350 Posts
be careful about what courses you take at stanford. organic chemistry, for instance, is a somewhat complicated subject but isn't really too hard; however at most universities way too many people want to be doctors, and so the course is curved quite hard and the median grade ends up being somewhere from C to B-. at most public schools (other than Michigan, Berkeley, UCLA, etc.) that doesn't matter because the median student isn't really going to understand the material very well regardless, but at competitive schools, like Stanford, that can make it very hard to get a good grade. but I don't know enough about stanford to know which courses in particular may fuck you over | ||
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