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    If I may...

    ...can I be haughty for a second

    Finally, 7 years after screwing up my academic future by dropping out of college to join the army, I have been accepted for all 5 of my University choices included the highly esteemed institutions of York and Bristol.

    I have just confirmed my firm choice as Univeristy of Bristol

    A University that is top 10 in the UK, 27th in the world and boasts a higher reputation among employers than Princeton, Cornell and UPenn.
    It has 9 Nobel laureates and Prince Albert II of Monaco among its alumni.

    I'm so ecstatic and was seiged with an urge to brag
    The hard work has finally come together (7 years late)

    And now I leave this thread to plummet into obscurity.
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    Congratulations, sir. I hope you succeed in making the best of your forthcoming education.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Armel P View Post
    Congratulations, sir. I hope you succeed in making the best of your forthcoming education.
    Thank you squire. I was utterly ebullient yesterday when I clicked on UCAS tracker and saw their offer. Sore throat for most of the day.
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    Congratulations Patrick!
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    Anybody that has as their avatar Patrick Bateman would normally be ignored by me, but I appreciate that you have worked hard to achieve your objective and I wish you well in your, 2nd time around, academic career.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Emil Miller View Post
    Anybody that has as their avatar Patrick Bateman would normally be ignored by me, but I appreciate that you have worked hard to achieve your objective and I wish you well in your, 2nd time around, academic career.
    Actually my avatar is a depiction of Lensky and Eugene Onegin's duel
    I think you meant 'screen name'.

    But your well wishes are warmly received
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    Congratulations! Great achievement. What will you be studying?
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    That my days have been a dream;
    Yet if hope has flown away
    In a night, or in a day,
    In a vision, or in none,
    Is it therefore the less gone?..." E. A. Poe

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    congrats! My question too, though, Veho: what will you be studying?
    One has to laugh before being happy, because otherwise one risks to die before having laughed.

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    Hey, congrats.
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    History gentlemen.
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    Well done indeed!

    It just goes to prove that it's never too late to go to university. I'm sure you'll have a wonderful time!
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    You may! Congrats. I unreservedly admire people who study hard after a certain age (the kind of study that is required at university followed by exams!).
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    the magician longs to see
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    'Fire walk with me.'


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    Well done, top move!!

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    A small part of me still wishes I had experienced the university life.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Armel P View Post
    A small part of me still wishes I had experienced the university life.
    7 years of regret on my part.

    It is never too late. I may only be 25 but I know of people in their 30s and 40s who are embarking on Uni courses this year.
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