Higher Options RDS 19th-21st September

ShatterResistant

Is there many people going, my school isn't but me and a few mates are going up ourselves? Anyone who has been before, anything particularly worth seeing etc.?

bscm

Thousands of students go each year, it's the only time you'll have almost every college/institution in one venue so it's worth going to if you're not sure you can attend open days.

It is worth the trip IMO, you can pick up literature from various courses/departments/colleges, and have any questions answered by staff and students.

There are not only colleges there either, other groups and organisations are also at the exhibition (ranging from study/work abroad groups, to careers in certain sectors), so you can get information on what you can do during/after your studies.

Also, since it's early in the year, missing a day of school won't be as detrimental as it would later on (after Halloween your workload and stress will shoot up)

amyleaving

I went last year , it really depends i knew the college i wanted to go to so i went to the open day , you get to see around the college so open days are the best also there were speakers in my school from college so i didn't really learn anything new that i didn't know, but if you aren't planning on going to open days / don't have speakers then maybe go , you can ask anything you want ,sometimes students doing the course go too which is good, i think open days are better as they are specific but if you don't know what you want to do go to it.

mulciber

Is anyone here going to the higher options tomorrow?

LostBoy101

mulciber wrote: »

Is anyone here going to the higher options tomorrow?

Aye I'm going in for the I.T and Games Development talk.

mulciber

LostBoy101 wrote: »

Aye I'm going in for the I.T and Games Development talk.

I'll probably be going in for that talk too.

TheyPreferTom

LostBoy101 wrote: »

Aye I'm going in for the I.T and Games Development talk.

Ahh, I'll be heading to that talk tomorrow aswell!

LostBoy101

I thought Higher Options was a complete waste of time as there is just too many people crowded in the place and the only positive thing about is that you can get all the prospectus for your courses in the one place.

ray2012

pretty much agree with LostBoy101 .. Was there today and it was jammed, could barely walk around. Got stuck in a 'traffic jam' for a round 5 minutes, literally. RDS was roasting too, jaysus! Got the prospectuses though which is grand, didn't get to chat to any of the colleges lecturers or students though, was almost a queue or a big huddle around them.

N64

I was there today and It was pretty crappy. As what the other posters said, there was far, far too many people at it and it was hard to get around.

That being said, I did really enjoy the games technology lecture, and it was a nice bonus having the entire day off school :P

user.name

I didn't really like it. I didn't find any new courses and pretty much want to do the same ones. The people at the stands just read out of the prospectus and didn't say much when I asked them about a course
However I did find the lectures good and the CAO one to be boring, but helpful

RML

Well i have to say, the only thing i found interesting was L.A makeup academy's topless model...

D3luka

RML wrote: »

Well i have to say, the only thing i found interesting was L.A makeup academy's topless model...

thats what my girlfriend said :P

overall biggest waste of time