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Sep. 23rd, 2007 02:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hathycolMy sixth form college is in the Observer.
I went to Winstanley College and I remember a lot of people being very convinced that the reason they didn't make Oxbridge was the accent. It's a pretty hideous accent, the Wigan one (I don't suffer from it, thank God) but, you know, I was one of the top-ranking students. Admittingly, Oxbridge wouldn't have been for me, but I know a lot of people who didn't get in that should have done. And yeah, we all swanned off into places in the other great universities in the country (okay, Edinburgh and York rejected me but I'm totally over that, honestly, BASTARDS) and we're all in Manchester or London or St Andrews and doing marvellously, but you have to wonder a bit.
It's an interesting point. And a depressing one, as I'm currently surrounded by Freshers with - surprise, surprise - not a trace of a Northern accent in them. My accent is going out the window, because there's no one to bounce it off. I love Scotland to teeny tiny little bits and miss it like homesickness when I'm not here, but dear lord I miss Northern sensibilities sometimes. (The dinner-tea vs lunch-dinner argument still rages.)
Anyway! Today is a DocSoc day, presuming any of my committee turns up; we're having a commentary session over The Talons of Weng-Chiang (I think? Maybe? Possibly Earthshock) and then going out to see Reggie Yates and be a bit fangirly. And tomorrow is the first big committee meeting where we organise the whole year; it's a bit scary, to say the least.
In conclusion, I should go and hit Morrisons. I am bribing my committee into compliance with pizza, gluten-free pasta bake and Irn Bru.
I went to Winstanley College and I remember a lot of people being very convinced that the reason they didn't make Oxbridge was the accent. It's a pretty hideous accent, the Wigan one (I don't suffer from it, thank God) but, you know, I was one of the top-ranking students. Admittingly, Oxbridge wouldn't have been for me, but I know a lot of people who didn't get in that should have done. And yeah, we all swanned off into places in the other great universities in the country (okay, Edinburgh and York rejected me but I'm totally over that, honestly, BASTARDS) and we're all in Manchester or London or St Andrews and doing marvellously, but you have to wonder a bit.
It's an interesting point. And a depressing one, as I'm currently surrounded by Freshers with - surprise, surprise - not a trace of a Northern accent in them. My accent is going out the window, because there's no one to bounce it off. I love Scotland to teeny tiny little bits and miss it like homesickness when I'm not here, but dear lord I miss Northern sensibilities sometimes. (The dinner-tea vs lunch-dinner argument still rages.)
Anyway! Today is a DocSoc day, presuming any of my committee turns up; we're having a commentary session over The Talons of Weng-Chiang (I think? Maybe? Possibly Earthshock) and then going out to see Reggie Yates and be a bit fangirly. And tomorrow is the first big committee meeting where we organise the whole year; it's a bit scary, to say the least.
In conclusion, I should go and hit Morrisons. I am bribing my committee into compliance with pizza, gluten-free pasta bake and Irn Bru.
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Date: 2007-09-23 05:22 pm (UTC)i wonder how many people actually applied, though? it works both ways.
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Date: 2007-09-23 06:53 pm (UTC)Oh, I hate it when people bring this up as a North vs. South or class thing. On the other hand, I guess this marks me out as clearly a Midlander, because I have no clue which meal is which. I call meals by a random name, dependant only on prevailing wind and phase of the moon (possibly). I even got told off for using the wrong meal name in French once, and oh, I do not know! Hmph.
Oh, Talons of Weng-Chiang is a good commentate-y one, it has a wonderful rat. Fantastic rat. :)
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Date: 2007-09-24 01:56 pm (UTC)I do, however, mix and match it all wonderfully; mostly I only say 'tea' to confuse people who don't know what context I mean it in. I think this makes me a bad person...
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Date: 2007-09-24 11:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-24 11:23 pm (UTC)I know there must have ben a lot less who applied from Winstanley, but still if I remember rightly it was around 30 in our year and I'm guessing closer to 30 than 8 in whatever year these stats are from.
I knew Oxbridge were biased, but really this takes the piss big style.
And "private schools have charitable status" WTF?! Surely they are like the antithesis of a charitable organisation?!
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Date: 2007-09-24 11:33 pm (UTC)