It's pretty similar - most places you need to submit your transcripts, a letter of motivation/personal statement, and sometimes you need to submit an example of your academic writing, along with getting a few referees. The biggest difference is that there's no limit on the number of places you can apply to, so she could in theory apply to every university in the UK if she wanted to.Oxford?
Not sure how the difficulty of the application process differs between BA and MA but I didn't see much change in Ruby since she started uni (or more lik eI see she's changed for worse). The Oxford rejection didn't teach her anything. All she does is rewriting notes and play pretend Anne with and e.
I guess we know why Ruby felt the need to switch to English lmaoThose kind of subjects require quite deep and critical thinking.
I saw a lot of people on the first year of my uni course trying to stand out and be original by "taking chances" on essays and they were all pretty privileged people who expected it to pay off by dint of them being special and naturally talented and I definitely see that in Ruby too.She's so arrogant even when she's disappointed in herself. 'I understood this material inside out.' The whole thing about 'taking a chance' and basically not doing what was asked of her. I think she thinks it makes herself look good that she's somehow working on a level above everyone else and doesn't follow the instructions.
To be fair my uni encouraged us to take chances and risks with essays in our first two years, because they didn’t count towards the final grade, and they actively wanted us to experiment and try new things when it wouldn’t damage our grades. Now we’re still encouraged by the English department to be creative in our responses to questions and prompts. I don’t know whether that would be the case with Theology and Philosophy, but if it was I’m sure she felt that she was following the advice. In that case when she got a 2:2 she was probably thinking ‘but I did what the teacher told me to, what do you mean i don’t automatically get top marks?’, forgetting that doing it isn’t enough, you have to do it well...I saw a lot of people on the first year of my uni course trying to stand out and be original by "taking chances" on essays and they were all pretty privileged people who expected it to pay off by dint of them being special and naturally talented and I definitely see that in Ruby too.
Exactly, like even in that case the reasoning is that even if you experiment and it goes wrong and you get a bad grade, it won't matter in the end. Ruby probably didn't fathom that the teacher's advice included the chance of getting a bad grade.To be fair my uni encouraged us to take chances and risks with essays in our first two years, because they didn’t count towards the final grade, and they actively wanted us to experiment and try new things when it wouldn’t damage our grades. Now we’re still encouraged by the English department to be creative in our responses to questions and prompts. I don’t know whether that would be the case with Theology and Philosophy, but if it was I’m sure she felt that she was following the advice. In that case when she got a 2:2 she was probably thinking ‘but I did what the teacher told me to, what do you mean i don’t automatically get top marks?’, forgetting that doing it isn’t enough, you have to do it well...
I think this is definitely true, and you can really see it in how both of them behave (Ruby obsessively trying to parent herself with unnecessary rules and regulations) and Martha being so self-consciously edgy and sometimes really rude to her family (remember that video where she asked her mum what her favourite sex position was?).I don't think Ruby's parents disciplined her and her sister very much growing up so she wouldn't be used to being treated as less than perfect.
Maybe she wrote a 'creative writing piece' rather than an essayI'm curious as to what she actually wrote about for that essay. For my degree subject (social sciences) we're very strongly encouraged to use original and creative ideas because the whole point of our field is to add original thought to it - I imagine it's like that for most humanities/social sciences subjects? Generally if you get a 2:2 or lower its because you didn't use enough references to back up your arguments so maybe it was that. Idk.
I wrote something similar to that, when I was 10. For God’s sake, Ruby, you’re not a child anymore.Buds sprouting in the garden, can’t wait to see what they hold inside! I mean smart money is on leaves of some kind, but you do you, RooBee. You do you.
Agreed! There is a big difference from getting a 1:1 at Oxbridge and a 1:1 at Exeter. I mean that in the nicest way possible too but it's true!Maybe she wrote a 'creative writing piece' rather than an essayI highly doubt she had a strong original argument.
She would've found Oxford SO HARD. Only roughly the top 25% of students get a first and it's so easy to get 2:2s in essays.
Yeah that’s not really true any more - it’s somewhere between 30-40%, some of which is obviously dependent on what college you’re at. That’s pretty similar to most other top unis in the UK, and actually higher than some. You also don’t have to be exceptionally intelligent to get firsts there, so much as you have to be hard working and efficient (admittedly not Ruby’s strong suit...). I think she would have struggled with the volume of work massively - having to write an essay every week, for it to be picked apart by your tutor, would have utterly destroyed her confidence - though maybe that wouldn’t be such a bad thing, given she’s currently unbearably arrogant. Plus you can’t spend your time writing and rewriting notes, and making 10 different to do lists, because there’s so much compulsory work every week. No way she could have coped with that.She would've found Oxford SO HARD. Only roughly the top 25% of students get a first and it's so easy to get 2:2s in essays.
Spain is chavvy, they'd go to the south of France or somewhere else more exclusiveNaaah they wouldn’t be slumming it in some spanish resort, if they were gonna visit Spain they’d go to one of the main cities and do expensive shit
Virgin Islands anyoneSpain is chavvy, they'd go to the south of France or somewhere else more exclusive
Looooool wtf, I live in Spain and it’s not ‘chavvy’! Nice classism and generalisation of an entire country. Yes there are some resorts which are the typical brits abroad type places, but it’s a whole country with an incredibly diverse culture, in fact ruby actually did a travel vlog of her family going to Madrid smh.Spain is chavvy, they'd go to the south of France or somewhere else more exclusive
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