<p>I also have boards right after apps. Gah. Which board, Quasi? ISC, I presume?</p>
<p>I was in London some years ago. Spent a week there. Thought it was totally awesome, liked it better than NYC to be honest (NYC just scares me way too much). But I only have a very superficial liking of British stuff, I don’t know the finer details of anything haha.</p>
<p>Meh. I’m on Team Julius Caesar. </p>
<p>I like Coldplay. Also, I love Skins and Dev Patel. Does that count?</p>
<p>I’ve been to London, but all I remember is this bookstore called Waterstones.</p>
<p>THE ACCENTS ARE HOT.</p>
<p>The accents are smokin’ hot! I would date a British guy just for the accent <em>sheepish grin</em></p>
<p>Seriously, JC over MB? Why?</p>
<p>Haha, go to one of our town centres in Manchester or Bradford late on a Friday evening :D. Not a nice sight, to say the least. I think binge drinking is much worse in Britain than it is in most other countries.</p>
<p>We do have some really pretty, unspoilt areas in England, though - I went to Snowdonia (which is a mountain range in Wales) last autumn, and loved every bit of it. The English countryside is lovely, but most of our cities aren’t so nice (London being a notable exception).</p>
<p>P.S. The day when I find out why people are so into British accents is the day I get into Yale, Princeton, Harvard, MIT, and Stanford, plus get a $100,000 a year grant from each. :P</p>
<p>The binge drinking and pub culture scare me. Actually, they’re two of the major reasons why I’m not considering really British universities.</p>
<p>I would kill to live in NYC. I wish Columbia was my numero uno choice.</p>
<p>ISC-ers unite. :]</p>
<p>I just like the speeches in JC. I hate how Lady Macbeth and Macbeth basically reverse roles in Macbeth, it makes me angry.</p>
<p>Are you from London python?</p>
<p>Yes, most British people tend to socialize by going down the local pub or nightclub, which means that if you’re not that kind of person (like me), you’ll find it hard to fit in. I’m still applying to Cambridge, Warwick, Imperial, and LSE, though - but I would pick Williams or Middlebury over one of them any day.</p>
<p>And, no, I’m not from London, but the West Midlands, close to Warwickshire. “Shakespeare’s County,” I believe it’s called. :D</p>
<p>While we’re discussing all things British, have you seen the history boys?</p>
<p>I don’t like JC because it distorts history. Now, people only know Shakespeare’s version of Roman history. I hate it when pop culture tips over history (as much as I live on pop culture and detested history) because it just isn’t fair on the past. Besides, JC just had a…tamer plot, for lack of a better way to put things.</p>
<p>Macbeth enthralls me. I think it’s cool how LM and M reverse roles, haha. It takes real mastery over the language to be able to do that so flawlessly and naturally. Act 3 Scene 1…wow, it’s just…I don’t know…so different from the previous Act.</p>
<p>Shakespeare country! Haha :D.</p>
<p>I haven’t seen the History Boys. It sounds awfully familiar though. Refresh me a bit?</p>
<p>No, what’s that? Seems like you know more about Britain than I do, lol :).</p>
<p>Have any of you seen the Apprentice (UK version)? It’s this great business show that made me fall in love with London. You can find all the previous episodes on YouTube.</p>
<p>Really? You thought JC had a tamer plot? I actually enjoyed it more, couldn’t stop reading it whereas with MB I read a few pages a day. </p>
<p>I’m beginning to think I just like war in any shape or form. Although I’m also a HUGE fan of Wilfred Owen.</p>
<p>Hey tetris, what are your subjects?</p>
<p>The History Boys: “critically-acclaimed” movie that was mainly about sexual experimentation, clever boys, gay history teacher who teaches in a different way to help said clever boys get into Oxford, and literature teacher who likes to feel said boys up. Oh, and Dominic Cooper.</p>
<p>It was funny, though.</p>
<p>I felt that JC had a tamer (not tamer, damn, wrong word choice) plot because it was a lot more straightforward. I mean, Brutus and Cassius said X and Y were gonna happen in a blunt manner, and X and Y happened. In Macbeth, it’s a lot more veiled, nothing is done directly (except Duncan’s murder). If Macbeth says A is gonna happen, you think A is gonna happen, but then B ends up happening and you go like ‘Ohhhhh if I’d looked at things that way this seems plausible’. Makes any sense?</p>
<p>I’m taking science with bio. You?</p>
<p>Gawd, the movie sounds like a bastion of liberalism and sexual offence. I’ll check it out on IMDB.</p>
<p>Totally. To some extent, I enjoyed the straightforwardness of JC. I think I would’ve liked Macbeth a LOT more if I hadn’t been so disconcerted by the abrupt change of Lady MB from a ruthless shrew to my dearest chuck, which I guess I said already. I mean, I know what point it was trying to make, but STILL. Although I guess Cassius and Antony also sort of reversed roles in JC, and it wasn’t as character-consistent or well-explained as Macbeth’s was. I could agree with Macbeth being the better book - I just enjoyed JC more. I liked the characters there more too. Brutus was so much more human than Macduff. </p>
<p>Humanities - History, Psych, Soc, Literature in English.</p>
<p>Ah well, to each his (her :D) own I say!</p>
<p>I wish my school let me combine science and humanities. That would’ve been rippin’.</p>
<p>@tetris,
you are an Indian right? Are you currently in India OR residing somewhere else ?? BTW, I’m your neighbour.You’ll know the country soon…</p>
<p>So, let’s see how many International students (Class of 2014) are using this forum(more specifically this thread!). Let’s start :
** Username (Country)**[ul]
lluvia:con:fuego (tetrisfan’s neighboring country) [/ul]</p>