Why do people in UNI think their better than everyone else?

Flipz4Rollz · 28-09-2008 03:43AM

Logically enough UNI students are intellectually better than IT students
But how does being brighter make you a better person(as some people on this seem to think):rolleyes:

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 28-09-2008 03:47AM

cson wrote: »

I learnz to copy and paste goodo :pac:

They didn't have "copy and paste" when those jokes were invented... They had to be written on dried parchment with animal blood :pac::pac:

BlitzKrieg · 28-09-2008 04:31AM

i remember those jokes.

except when I heard them it was proletariat and bourgeoisie

oh good times...

animaal · 28-09-2008 12:16PM

How many of you think your Inter/Junior cert results are important now? For 99% of people who've been out of school for a few years, even Leaving Cert results don't mean anything much.

Well here's the thing. I've hired plenty of graduates over the years, and what I find is that the details of your qualification become less important every year after you've earned it, and experience becomes more relevent. After, say, 5 years, having a relevent 3rd level qualification is a handy indicator of a person's interest in the area, and perhaps an indication that they have a general knowledge of the context of the work. In my opinion, the score they got is of little importance after a few years, and the identity/address of the institution is only useful to me if I know somebody else from that class, who may be able to give an opinion of the applicant.

People who honestly feel superior because of their alma mater, or insecure, are probably fresh out of college, without much experience of the real world.

SV · 28-09-2008 12:22PM

They think they're better because they don't know what the real world is like

:rolleyes:

tman · 28-09-2008 12:24PM

FruitLover wrote: »

Because they know the difference between "their" and "they're"?

They also look down on people who start sentences with "because"

Darragh29 · 28-09-2008 12:28PM

I've been in NUIM and also in DIT Bolton Street and the ONLY time I met people looking down their noses in this regard was people who were in Trinity. I've seen people who just had a place in Trinity starting to lose the run of themselves, they hadn't actually started the course, just the fact that they had secured a place was enough to start the ball rolling!

Zzippy · 28-09-2008 12:44PM

Darragh29 wrote: »

I've been in NUIM and also in DIT Bolton Street and the ONLY time I met people looking down their noses in this regard was some people who were in Trinity. I've seen people who just had a place in Trinity starting to lose the run of themselves, they hadn't actually started the course, just the fact that they had secured a place was enough to start the ball rolling!

Fixed your post. I went to Trinity and can honestly say the vast majority of my classmates didn't have that attitude. And anyone who does have that attitude will quickly realise they're not superior to anyone when they start working after college and they're on the same money as everyone else....

The_Minister · 28-09-2008 12:46PM

I finished doing my degree in UCD, and am now doing a postgrad in DIT.

My first day in DIT, I thought it was dress like a pirate day, until I realised that they were actually dressed-up pikies, with their earrings and doublets...:(

Terry · 28-09-2008 12:56PM

Get over yourselves.
You're all going to be working in McDonalds with that orts degree anyway.

Darragh29 · 28-09-2008 01:08PM

Zzippy wrote: »

Fixed your post. I went to Trinity and can honestly say the vast majority of my classmates didn't have that attitude. And anyone who does have that attitude will quickly realise they're not superior to anyone when they start working after college and they're on the same money as everyone else....

Well the small number I met were walking around with their heads st*uk up their arse. I remember one individual who couldn't intorduce himself without saying, "I'm studying classics at Trinity"... There is another jumped up yuppie I knew who was doing some course called MMSSIM or something like that in Trinity and had convinced himself he was the next Michael O' Leary. Walter Mitty's the lot of them imo!

sickpuppy32 · 28-09-2008 01:09PM

Flipz4Rollz wrote: »

Logically enough UNI students are intellectually better than IT students
But how does being brighter make you a better person(as some people on this seem to think):rolleyes:

they are brighter at that age of 17/18 - (thats also why girls get higher points) but a lot more people get smarter as thay get older. A masters from an IT is consdered a lot better than one from a UNI and everyone knows the trinnity ( bought) masters is a big joke

28-09-2008 01:15PM

Terry wrote: »

Get over yourselves.
You're all going to be working in McDonalds with that orts degree anyway.

Or you'll be teaching it.

28-09-2008 01:17PM

sickpuppy32 wrote: »

A masters from an IT is consdered a lot better than one from a UNI

Generalise much?

I've never used the term 'Uni' in real life. It's all 'College' for me.

The_Minister · 28-09-2008 01:17PM

sickpuppy32 wrote: »

they are brighter at that age of 17/18 - (thats also why girls get higher points) but a lot more people get smarter as thay get older. A masters from an IT is consdered a lot better than one from a UNI and everyone knows the trinnity ( bought) masters is a big joke

We don't have a raised-eyebrow/sceptical emoticon, so I'm just going to go ahead and say that your assertions come from that dirty place where the food leaves you.

dresden8 · 28-09-2008 01:24PM

If you're getting grief from a Uni head ask them why they couldn't get into "Trinners".

If they're from "Trinners" just box them in the head.

Simple solution.

brianthebard · 28-09-2008 02:07PM

Myth wrote: »

Generalise much?

I've never used the term 'Uni' in real life. It's all 'College' for me.

Sometimes I say school, people get so freaked out and offended!

Smyth · 28-09-2008 02:29PM

Civil Engineering for 3 years in dkit on the advice of engineers who said that the hands on experience would stand to me.

load of twat.

It was the slowest, most boring 3 years of my life. They go over everything at nauseum and speak to you like you're retarded.

I'm now in the University of Edinburgh and I couldn't be happier. Everything moves at a much quicker pace and if you don't understand something...go learn it yourself. Unlike dundalk where people would constantly interrupt to ask retarded questions, thus slowing the whole process down. In one lecture at Uni, we covered enough content to keep dkit going for a good 2 or 3 weeks.

The services in dkit were awful. One lecturer had his notes available online. Other lecturers were still handing out handwritten notes. The engineering techniques they use were also outdated. Alot of the engineering lecturers there don't keep up to date with what they're supposed to. There are one or two outstanding lecturers at the same time.

The guy · 28-09-2008 02:59PM

Flipz4Rollz wrote: »

I go to an IT and when I ever visit my friend's in Uni its like im being looked down on.
EDU doesnt define someone......does it?

I only know one person who is snobby about their Uni and they go to UCD.

ninty9er · 28-09-2008 03:12PM

Myth wrote: »

Generalise much?

I've never used the term 'Uni' in real life. It's all 'College' for me.

+1

reggiethefirst · 28-09-2008 03:20PM

My friend who goes to DIT, doing a level 7 course, is constantly telling me how much better his degree will be than my level 8 DCU one. He makes out that DIT is by far the superior college and that the only people who go to DCU are people who fail to get into DIT.

Complete role reversal there.

Edit: Score. Century.

genericgoon · 28-09-2008 03:42PM

While, I have seen a wee bit of joking about the whole Uni/IT thing, anybody who takes it seriously is a fool. The quality of education varies from place to place and from faculty to faculty.

Flipz4Rollz · 28-09-2008 07:51PM

Terry wrote: »

Get over yourselves.
You're all going to be working in McDonalds with that orts degree anyway.

:rolleyes:

Riddle101 · 28-09-2008 09:33PM

lol if you think IT students gets grief from UNI students, imagine what it's like for us students who go to a higher Education school..... Yeah

ejmaztec · 28-09-2008 09:33PM

I'd be more inclined to ask why the dole-sponging asswipe, who lives down the road from me, and has never done a legit job during the 30 years since he left school, thinks he's better than anyone else.

Poccington · 28-09-2008 09:45PM

I don't go to a University or an IT but I consider myself better than all of you.

That will be all.

Zaph · 28-09-2008 09:47PM

There's no difference between those who go to university and those who go to an IT. They're all feckin' students and should be scorned equally.

Krieg · 28-09-2008 09:47PM

Ive only encountered this crap from Arts students, which is kind of odd...
(Im in an IT btw)

phantom_lord · 28-09-2008 10:03PM

the important thing to remember is that at the end of the day, everyone else looks down on all students equally.

ejmaztec · 28-09-2008 10:14PM

I think that students having a superiority complex is quite natural. When I was a student, I looked down on everyone, especially my elders. I could see that they'd been around for a long time, and that they were all useless because they hadn't changed the world. I was going to change the world, but unfortunately it didn't quite work out how I had planned - in fact it's ten time worse than it already was. Sorry. :eek:

Why do people in UNI think their better than everyone else?

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