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[Monstrous]

I'm about to start my first year of Motorsport Engineering at UWE (University of West of England) in Bristol. I'm really looking forward to it, I think it's gonna be fun!

First year is the best year for Uni in terms of socialising, so make sure you make the most of going out etc.

However, in terms of the course, the first year is mainly getting everyone up to the same level, so there is very little motorsport at all, and is more like very advanced physics and maths

The second year gets a lot more interesting, with engines, turbos, aero, chassis design etc.

[richard29593]

in guna be starting uni at the University of East Anglia (UEA) next week and guna be studying for a bsc in environmental science with a year in industry

hope everyone gets on well with whatever they are doing

[miniman24]

Id love to do Motorsport Engineering but I didnt do maths at A level (I got a high B at GCSE but I knew I wouldnt be able to do the A level maths) so engineering was pretty much out!

However, I aimed for the next best thing, Design and Technology, which I am starting in 2 weeks at Hull, so Im happy

[a.south1234]

I'm starting Automotive Engineering with Motorsport at Hertfordshire uni at the end of the month

[MiniLuke]

I started a degree once, not knowing what I wanted to do. I promptly left after 4 months rather than waste anymore of my life. That was many years ago, and these days it is even more important that Uni is not a fall back position due to the expense it incurs. If you know you wnat to be something specific that needs that qualification, then obviously a degree is essential, but if you are unsure then think hard. I truely believe getting a job that trains you whilst earning, in whatever you choose, will put you in a much better position after three years than getting a degree and then doing something totally unrelated.

What I didn't tell you though, I met a girl the first week, we had a great 4 months and left together.

We have been together for 17 years now, married 14 years. We have two kids 8 and 10, and and I am still at the accountancy firm I joined in 1995.

So going to uni was not a bad decision all in all!

What makes you think tho, is that if it had cost as much as today back then I probably would not have gone!

[Ju Boy!]

Just successfully finished my degree in motorsport engineering at Derby university. Seriously hard work! Glad it's over good luck to evryone still studying!

[minidream94]

im currently at college doing motorsport engineering. Im in 2 minds what i want to do after ive finished this last year, whether to go to brookes unio and do motorsport, or to find an apprenticeship locally aand get into motorsport that way :/. Tb h im leaning more towardss the later option as im one of these people that looses focus after 5 minutes when sat in a class with aload of words and numbers and stuff in front of me :/ id rather be out in a garage/workshop tinkering and actually learning the hands on way

[kingbenvolio]

I start popular music and music technology next monday!
I would say study something that is closely related to your hobby!

[Bearface]

English Lit with the Open University.
Starting my 2nd year of Adult Nursing BSc at UWE in a couple of weeks.

[M J W J]

I finished my Mechanical Engineering BEng degree this year. Loved Uni so much I decided to go back and do it all over again.

Not really. I am starting my Automotive Engineering Msc at the University of Coventry. I wouldn't say that I particularly enjoy education but I have the motivation to get my qualifications so that I don't end up working for wilkos for the rest of my life (no offence wilkos-if your 17 they are great people to work for ).

To become a charted mechanical engineer you need 4 years higher education (there are other ways of becoming a charted mechanical engineer but this is one of the easiest). I didn't do particularly well in my second year so ended up dropping down from the MEng course I originally started to the BEng.

If you are going to University make sure you do it for the right reasons. Don't do it to avoid work or because you think it will be nothing but parties. The people who do nothing but go out usually quit quite soon as they run out of money and fail.

Also if you want to do engineering you will have needed to do A level maths and I would highly recommend doing physics and further maths. You will have the joys of learning PDE's ODE's, Laplace transforms, Fouriers transforms and matrix manipulation.

[skaterava]

I'm about to start my second year doing Law at the University of Kent. I'm happy i'm studying something i have an interest in, but a) the uni doesn't seem to provide much guidance considering how much i'm paying, and b) My peers are THE MOST pompous, self-righteous people i have ever met. They seem to think they're God's gift, and everything they say and do is fantastic.

Still, if in ten years time i've got a decent, safe job, and a sweet ride, i'll know it was worth the work.

[harryh733]

in guna be starting uni at the University of East Anglia (UEA) next week and guna be studying for a bsc in environmental science with a year in industry

hope everyone gets on well with whatever they are doing

Are you bringing your mini with you? if so you should come along to one of our monthly meetings in Norwich

I'm off to Wakefield in November to study 'Live Event' Production' at the backstage academy. Perfect for what I want and should hopefully let me get into lighting for touring gigs

[richard29593]

in guna be starting uni at the University of East Anglia (UEA) next week and guna be studying for a bsc in environmental science with a year in industry

hope everyone gets on well with whatever they are doing

Are you bringing your mini with you? if so you should come along to one of our monthly meetings in Norwich

I'm off to Wakefield in November to study 'Live Event' Production' at the backstage academy. Perfect for what I want and should hopefully let me get into lighting for touring gigs

not bringing the mini for the first year, but will hopefully have it in the second year but may still pop along

[harryh733]

in guna be starting uni at the University of East Anglia (UEA) next week and guna be studying for a bsc in environmental science with a year in industry

hope everyone gets on well with whatever they are doing

Are you bringing your mini with you? if so you should come along to one of our monthly meetings in Norwich

I'm off to Wakefield in November to study 'Live Event' Production' at the backstage academy. Perfect for what I want and should hopefully let me get into lighting for touring gigs

not bringing the mini for the first year, but will hopefully have it in the second year but may still pop along

Thats what I plan on doing hopefully. Might bring the mini to uni if there are any good runs planned up north. Going to go to the monthly FABMOC meetings though I think, I would miss the mini scene too much if I didn't keep it up

[richard29593]

in guna be starting uni at the University of East Anglia (UEA) next week and guna be studying for a bsc in environmental science with a year in industry

hope everyone gets on well with whatever they are doing

Are you bringing your mini with you? if so you should come along to one of our monthly meetings in Norwich

I'm off to Wakefield in November to study 'Live Event' Production' at the backstage academy. Perfect for what I want and should hopefully let me get into lighting for touring gigs

not bringing the mini for the first year, but will hopefully have it in the second year but may still pop along

Thats what I plan on doing hopefully. Might bring the mini to uni if there are any good runs planned up north. Going to go to the monthly FABMOC meetings though I think, I would miss the mini scene too much if I didn't keep it up

sounds like a plan love my mini so much but i share it with my twin so he is having it this year when im away