Oxbridge

Tell yourself whatever helps you sleep at night, friend :)

I'd also make a comment about how someone from a "rich" family is Veeky Forums loser, which is significantly worse than a public school user being on Veeky Forums :^)

also
>Exeter
>any career other than a starbucks barista
I hope you are happy with your life at least, user :)
Anyways, I have to go speak with my PI, I can't waste any more time today on Veeky Forums with people who are beneath me intellectually

>have made it a goal to do better than my oneitis
>she went to UCL

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

I went to one of those but I don't deserve anyone's respect.

I respect you.

You guys care way to much about university. Once you graduate and get into your job you will see how childish bragging about your place at university was. Grow up!

I literally can't express how much better my life has been since I attended Oxford. I went to a state school and gradually became the stereotypical moody, withdrawn sensitive type who both despises the quality of his immediate culture and feels a weird pride for having been raised in a sort of anti-intellectual and brutal environment. I was all set to take my Russell Group humanities BA and spend my life working as an anonymous, insecure wageslave forever thankful of being offered a job and forever too insecure to pursue my creative ambitions. The chip on my shoulder had become something of a wedge, and I felt too out of place regardless of my environment, too resentful and bitter to even attempt to make it in the artistic world. Then I finally applied for Oxford and got in to study an English MA, with reassurance that should I work hard enough a career in academia or within one of Oxford's affiliated companies would be almost guaranteed. I turned up as apprehensive as usual, and the first few days were spent regretting my decision and desperately feigning a cultured personality. But then I realized that the people there were just interesting and that the snobbery and exclusivity I had anticipated was just a myth borne out of my working class upbringing. I've since graduated, having spend the year dining in grand halls with groups of interesting people, dating several girls (one of whom, a petite Russian whose family traces back to the aristocracy, is now my fiancee). I work four days a week at a publishing company and earn £38k a year. I regularly meet up with friends from my college and visit Oxford for nights out and for meetings with my professors. The Martin Eden-esque novel I have been writing for two years has been selected for publication at a major British publishing house and, honestly, I could not have imagined a few years ago how great life could be. I come on Veeky Forums and see how pathetic you all are and just shake my head and chuckle. If I saw you guys on the street I would of course throw you a penny or discuss Bukowski or whatever "realist" writers you enjoy, but ultimately I would be able to tell within ten seconds if you're an Oxbridge grad and would dismiss you as a potential source of good company if you are not. I never thought I'd know what it was like to be objectively better than somebody else, for the value of my existence to be superior to the value of a stranger's, but now I do and I've never been happier. People are awed by power and prestige. All I need to do is mention the university I attended (if only for a year) and they immediately begin to hunch and look at their feet because they know they are in the presence of greatness.

>You guys care way (to) much about university
mhm, go on, go on

Spotted the Glasgow student, that should be nowhere near Durham/Warwick/UCL level, let alone Oxbridge

>If you don't buy in to British middlebrow bourgeois elitism then pseuds wont respect you

TRAGIC
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>Rejected from Cambidge
>Settled for Warwick
>Postgrad at Durham
>Still so butthurt that I'm applying to Oxbridge and nowhere else for a PhD

not even lying tbqhwyf

kek

>this is what private schoolkids whose teachers wouldn't let them apply to Oxbridge because they knew they didn't stand a chance and would tarnish the school's precious Oxbridge applicants-to-offers ratio and so sweetly suggested that they would be much happier at Exeter actually believe

Fuck "Oxbridge". Cambridge or bust, you pussies. Oxford is for inbred elites with no smarts.

>tfw you take the bait

this is quite moving, congratulations on your success

it also deserves to to be replicated into infinite pasta to the point of meaningless tho, if it is not pasta already

this is to obey the cosmic balance of things

>I never thought I'd know what it was like to be objectively better than somebody else
>wew lad

Oh you really an angry fellow. My father could buy this thread and everyone in it seven times over.

>unironically siding with Parliament during the Civil War

Says it all about Cambridge """""""""""""university"""""""""""""" really

Name the three biggest contributions to human knowledge Cambridge has had a hand in in the last 25 years.

My father used to fuck pigs with the Bullingdon Boys, you peasant scum.

What is it with Veeky Forums and all the shit tier education and wealth bait threads? You sound like resentful losers who could only afford their hometown state college in the US.

Part of a good education is the manners and sense that come with it, you pseuds.

Respect is a meme, none of those schools are good.
There are no elites there, just pseuds.
Knowledge doesn't exist.

>siding with the winning side

Oh no how embarrassing!

>caring about the last 25 years

It must have sucked to not be admitted to study the Historical Tripos at Cambridge but your hurt doesn't excuse your myopic presentism.

>Knowledge doesn't exist.

How do you know that :DDDDDDDDD

Manners are for plebs and sycophants. As a Nietzschean I reserve only disdain and pity for those who refuse to assert their will on life without reservation or hesitation.

I don't, it just is.

OK, last 75 then.

The Cambridge school of intellectual history is more important than any contribution of the so-called "university" of Oxford.

you really believe UKians are respected anywhere in the world?

Wow you type like a faggot.

But OK, care to specify some examples?

Neither of you go to a good school, get over it.

Pocock's breakthroughs on the trans-Atlantic republican tradition, Skinner's insights on the development of the theory of the state and the concept of republican liberty, Lasslett's successful study of the chronology of Locke's authorship of the Two Treatises, Hont's groundbreaking 'jealousy of trade' thesis, Forbes' work on the Scottish enlightenment.

Too much to list!

the structure of dna springs to mind

I'm a Fulbright Scholar at MIT. My dick is 20 inches and my IQ has been measured at 182.

So suck on that.

>Pocock's breakthroughs on the trans-Atlantic republican tradition

Literally no one has ever heard of Mr. Poo-Cock.

>Skinner's insights on the development of the theory of the state and the concept of republican liberty

>Implying anyone gives a fuck

>Lasslett's successful study of the chronology of Locke's authorship of the Two Treatises

>Implying studying the minutiae of one of the philosophical greats from Oxford relegates you to anything but confirmed cuck-status

>Forbes' work on the Scottish enlightenment.

Literally nothing but more British inbreeding.

Wow, that was four. So hard to list.

>Skinner's insights on the development of the theory of the state and the concept of republican liberty

>skinner
>anything other than Burckhardtian levels of trope trash

MIT is garbage.

Fulbright gives money to anybody that non-white and doesn't have a dysfunctional family that prevents them from doing anything outside of school.

>tfw I go to a non Russell group "party school"

lmao

I don't care so much about jobs, but...
If I go to Oxbridge, will I get a gf?

Bullshit, Oxford actually have entrance exams. iirc Cam only has an exam for maths, and that's after the offer is given.

Applying this year

Never gonna get into Oxbridge because retakes and mediocre (all As) GCSEs. Have a chance of getting into Edinburgh because they don't care about that kind of thing.

How fucked am I?

'City, University of London' reporting in

gj drowning in debt faggot

;_;
tfw the journalism course is supposed to be the best there is but actually it turned out to be shit

good thing I'm an engineer STEMlord and nobody in the industry gives a shit where you went as long as it's top 100, and you have a good GPA and internships

Don't fall for the meme. To become a journalist you read English at Cambridge and then go to City for a postgrad journalism course.

at least that's how it works for Guardian """""journalists""""

>tfw my pleb "HND" will never get me into a good Scottish uni even though it's at a higher level than secondary school subjects
I wish I had never bothered.

Actual journalism doesn't require a degree. This is because actual journalism sucks

Answer me faggots reeeeeeeeeeee

I don't want to go to a place where the men all wear skirts if it isn't even worth anything.

I think everyone applying has at least straight A's. They'll probably take a look at your extracurricular achievements and that certain thing that makes you special.

>tfw York
It's a good feel, actually.

My man I mean if I actually get into Edinburgh.

Too late ;_;

>implying any of those are as influential as cultural studies at Birmingham

>tfw going to a uni higher rated than some of those listed, but its small and relatively unknown
Not sure how to feel.

Being known is the only thing that matters.

how is this Veeky Forums, you tea-drinking faggot

>and get into your job
you do realize what everyone is majoring in, right

Don't worry, you won't.

This.

Unless you're actually doing it to learn, I guess.
Most of us are student or wannabe student faggots.
Are you sure? I have drugs. I'm not sure anything can stop an autist on amphetimines,

is actually literally impossible to go to a "high ranked but unknown" uni

if you're highly ranked you'd be known that's literally how it works

>bottom-tier Russell group uni
>studying humanities anyway

Feels like underachieving, but I'm not even sure I'll get funding for a post-grad anyway, so who cares.

This is a pretty goddamn awful thread.

t. Physics major at Cal Tech

>It's a britcuck circlejerk thread

timeshighereducation.com/news/winners-times-higher-education-awards-2016-announced LSHTM

Who else /warwick/ here?

Didn't even realize until I'd left that Nick Land made his name there

Literally never heard of 'Imperial' desu

Wut. Have you never watched University Challenge?

Applied to both Warwick and Edinburgh, and have an interview coming up next Monday at Oxford

Any tips lads?

If you think you've done well you've probably failed

I was convinced I'd aced the interview, I was rejected.

Be very attractive.

Brits aren't respected anywhere outside of Britain, so you're out of luck no matter what.

>tfw I get invited to interview with only two A*, and only two As at GCSE and only one A at AS

I probably won't get in but you should have at least tried mate

Yeah probably, I'm coming from a shitty state school so even getting to interview is a surprise for me, and I'd be happy to make it this far alone
Got that down, /soc/ rated me a solid 9 so I'm basically guaranteed places at all the unis I've applied to

But it was embarrassing! To tell the truth I had shocking A-levels.

>Brits
>respected in Britain
u avin a giggle m8?

What were they? My AS grades were ABBC, can't be much worse

>can't be much worse
Thank you for your faith.

CCCE. I had undiagnosed ADHD and had self-medicated by sinking into extreme egoism/socialism.

>/soc/ rated me a solid 9
So you're a 6 in the real world

You'll be okay, probably

Ah fair enough, what subjects?

Mine were respectively Literature, Language, Politics and Economics. Really reject taking language, it's fucking boring.

Tell me more about how socialism can be self-medication though, sounds interesting.

>his university isn't at least 600 years old

wew

I'm Veeky Forums, not sure if that will help or hinder

Yes, it will come in very useful for when they ask you to demonstrate your squat technique during your interview

You never know user. What if both of the interviewers are young, horny women and I have to show off my juicy glutes to get those sloots (and thus gain an offer)?

>young, horny women
>occupying any position of authority at an Oxbridge uni

Things aren't quite that bad yet. Your best chance on that score will be some old gay man. But most of them seem to prefer boyish twink-y types.

Hmm. Maybe I should cut before I go and try and pass off as a twink.

Lit, His, Bio and Chem. --I wasn't sure which route I was gonna go down.

When you have ADHD -- undiagnosed ADHD -- work is like ramming your head into a brick wall. And when you start A-levels you're given much more work than you ever had before. And then you realise that your whole life will consist of even more work. There's no hope for you, there is no out. It's like death by piling marble slabs upon your back.

That point of view naturally lends itself to socialism and nihilism, for the obvious reasons. I was going to join the Kurds, because I realised I wasn't going to be able to do anything otherwise. I even learned some basic Kurdish.

Then there's the blow to self-esteem you get when you start getting worse and worse grades. But I dealt with this by lunging into Veeky Forumserature, to feel smarter than my peers.

Best of luck.

I remember quite enjoying my Oxford interview however many years ago that was. It's a nice place to spend a few days.

St Andrewsfag detected

I respect most of those but I dont respect anyone ITT
>tfw including me

Now what would make you think that :^)

Who /sheffield/ here? Went to the book society for the whole of last year but couldn't be bothered with it this time round, plus a lot of the books they discussed were shit