Off to the North tomorrow

BlackSpur
BlackSpur Posts: 4,228
edited November 2010 in The Crudcatcher
I'm going up to Manchester Uni tomorrow for an interview, just starting to brick it a little bit! What's eveyone else up to tomorrow?
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  • whyamihere
    whyamihere Posts: 7,719
    My interview at Manchester was interesting. Everyone else got asked standard uni interview questions. What you want to achieve, why you want to go to Manchester, why you'd be good for Manchester to accept.

    The guy doing mine clearly couldn't be bothered with this, so he made me do a pendulum problem, then asked me to derive the equations for time dilation and length contraction in a relativistic state, with a few pointers as I'd never done it before. Fortunately for me, I was a lot happier with sitting doing physics than I would have been answering questions about myself.
  • thekickingmule
    thekickingmule Posts: 7,957
    Tomorrow I will be recovering from today as I'm having to work until 10 tonight due to no cover for the evening shift :evil: (I've been here since 8 this morning)

    Are you being interviewed for a job or a course?
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    tomorrow i am teaching same as today, same as yesterday. but i like teaching so its good.

    good luck at your interview but only so long as you are going to uni to be a scienist, engineer, doctor or nurse.

    for anything else: get a job.
  • DJIP
    DJIP Posts: 1,724
    Tomorrow I will be going down to the dole office to get some free money and praying a letter comes in the post letting me know if I got the job I went for an interview for last week!
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  • Kitty
    Kitty Posts: 2,844
    I shall be going back to uni, and rubbing it my friends faces that while they've done 3 weeks on the wards I went to Florida for 9 days instead!

    Then got my brothers parents evening to dash to at night.
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  • welshkev
    welshkev Posts: 9,690
    Kitty wrote:
    I shall be going back to uni, and rubbing it my friends faces that while they've done 3 weeks on the wards I went to Florida for 9 days instead!

    Then got my brothers parents evening to dash to at night.

    how did you manage to make 9 days stretch over 3 weeks...can i borrow your time machine please? :lol:
  • supersonic
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  • Kitty
    Kitty Posts: 2,844
    welshkev wrote:
    Kitty wrote:
    I shall be going back to uni, and rubbing it my friends faces that while they've done 3 weeks on the wards I went to Florida for 9 days instead!

    Then got my brothers parents evening to dash to at night.

    how did you manage to make 9 days stretch over 3 weeks...can i borrow your time machine please? :lol:

    9 x 14 hour days

    So I've done over the hours I need.
    Kitty's World
  • BlackSpur
    BlackSpur Posts: 4,228
    whyamihere wrote:
    My interview at Manchester was interesting. Everyone else got asked standard uni interview questions. What you want to achieve, why you want to go to Manchester, why you'd be good for Manchester to accept.

    The guy doing mine clearly couldn't be bothered with this, so he made me do a pendulum problem, then asked me to derive the equations for time dilation and length contraction in a relativistic state, with a few pointers as I'd never done it before. Fortunately for me, I was a lot happier with sitting doing physics than I would have been answering questions about myself.

    Yeah I think I'd prefer the latter as well! Still, from what I've heard the interview is generally pretty easy going.
    sheepsteeth wrote:
    good luck at your interview but only so long as you are going to uni to be a scienist, engineer, doctor or nurse

    Thanks, I'm applying for physics so I hope that meets your criteria!
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    you only need to meet my criteria for a well wishing good luck, if you were going to be on a pretend course i would have withdrawn my well wishes and replaced them with a chin up fella.
  • welshkev
    welshkev Posts: 9,690
    Kitty wrote:
    welshkev wrote:
    Kitty wrote:
    I shall be going back to uni, and rubbing it my friends faces that while they've done 3 weeks on the wards I went to Florida for 9 days instead!

    Then got my brothers parents evening to dash to at night.

    how did you manage to make 9 days stretch over 3 weeks...can i borrow your time machine please? :lol:

    9 x 14 hour days

    So I've done over the hours I need.

    ah, ok. it just sounded like they were doing 3 weeks work and you were only doing 9 days...in the sun aswell :lol:
  • MountainMonster
    MountainMonster Posts: 7,423
    sheepsteeth wrote:
    you only need to meet my criteria for a well wishing good luck, if you were going to be on a pretend course i would have withdrawn my well wishes and replaced them with a chin up fella.

    Does Economics and Foreign Relations meet your criteria?
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  • El Capitano
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    supersonic wrote:
    Writing up reviews of test kit for WMB!

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  • sharpybox
    sharpybox Posts: 25
    Whyamihere when did you graduate? I finished my Physics degree in Manchester in 2007. My interview was pretty similar i had to derive a formula for gravitational potential and estimate the height of the atmosphere. Not much about me personally which i much preferred as well.
    Wouldnt stress too much about the interview blackspur i had a fair bit of help in the interview they just want you to show you can grasp the basics and most of the staff are pretty sound in my experience.
    Best of luck with it mate. It's a great department to study in.
  • whyamihere
    whyamihere Posts: 7,719
    sharpybox wrote:
    Whyamihere when did you graduate? I finished my Physics degree in Manchester in 2007. My interview was pretty similar i had to derive a formula for gravitational potential and estimate the height of the atmosphere. Not much about me personally which i much preferred as well.
    Wouldnt stress too much about the interview blackspur i had a fair bit of help in the interview they just want you to show you can grasp the basics and most of the staff are pretty sound in my experience.
    Best of luck with it mate. It's a great department to study in.
    I'm in my second year at Birmingham. I declined my place at Manchester when I got offered a place at Birmingham.
  • 360
    360 Posts: 5,940
    whyamihere wrote:
    in my second year at Birmingham. I declined my place at Manchester when I got offered a place at Birmingham.

    wow!
  • whyamihere
    whyamihere Posts: 7,719
    Eh?
  • Tartanyak
    Tartanyak Posts: 1,538
    Given what I did at uni, completely failing at an interview, being socially retarded and leaning heavily towards falling in the Aspergers camp is counted as a plus.
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  • Torres
    Torres Posts: 1,266
    Good luck mate.
    I don't know if the system's changed, but when i applied last year for physics, if you got an interview at manchester you were pretty much made an offer; the interview would only lower their conditions if they were really impressed with you.
    :D
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  • CraigXXL
    CraigXXL Posts: 1,852
    I hope it has gone well as it too late to wish you luck now.
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  • bwfc4eva868
    bwfc4eva868 Posts: 717
    Being discontinued from University of Central Lancashire after two yeas doing my Nursing :(
    If it was for failiure to complete work i wouldn't be so mad, but its because i hae had 2 Hernia's and kidney stones. No help and support at all, just confrontation bout when i'm.

    So going to be applying for Salford University.
  • Kitty
    Kitty Posts: 2,844
    bwfc4eva868
    They kicked a girl of my course because they would support her through what they called "minor surgery", which was major open heart surgery.

    But then some of the lectures have been great with me after I had a year off due to sickness.
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  • BlackSpur
    BlackSpur Posts: 4,228
    The interview really was just a chat, I got asked a couple of simple mechanics questions and a bit about a project I mentioned on my personal statement but that was about it! They told us when we got there that we all had offers anyway and that the interview is really just there in case you don't make the offer in the summer. It seems to be an excellent department and a lovely campus in the middle of the city, the only negative factor is their standard offer is likely to be A*AA, which I can't really use as an insurance offer, so it looks like I'll have to choose between Manchester and Cambridge for first place (assuming I even get an offer from Cambridge, which at the moment I'm king of hoping I don't!).
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  • angry_bird
    angry_bird Posts: 3,787
    I've had some interesting interviews over the last few years, had one where I was given a little tube of "urine" and asked what was wrong with the animal it had come from. Then I got grilled on ethics.
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  • bwfc4eva868
    bwfc4eva868 Posts: 717
    Kitty wrote:
    bwfc4eva868
    They kicked a girl of my course because they would support her through what they called "minor surgery", which was major open heart surgery.

    But then some of the lectures have been great with me after I had a year off due to sickness.

    I'm going to be making an appeal to them, i have supporting evidence from the consultants i'm under the care of and also my GP.

    I tod them i could not attent a discontinuation meeting on the 29th as this was the date for my pre op for my operation on the 18th of this month.

    I think its a disgrace really.

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