This link should provide the websites of the universities in Scotland, plus a couple of colleges.
Yes, and I’m currently typing on a Queen Margaret University College computer (but not for long); there are 4 unis in Edinburgh now.
Just promise me if you happen go to Scotland and you happen, on the whim, to go berry picking and you happen upon an old Aberdeener down a berry row who happens to ask you “have ya got ya peice hen?” that you won’t squeal like a girlie and run for help cause some old git is asking weird questions. Just promise me you will smile sweetly and say “why yes Sir I have bought my sandwich with me today and will not require ordering one and thank you for enquiring”
Believe me that advice may save you (and the old git) much embarassment. 
Well, if Newcastle Poly can turn into the University of Northumbria (which it did while I was there, most confusing … ) then Napier and QMC can surely do the same …
That’s enough of that, then.
Actually, yes, Edinburgh University is my main choice right now. I’ve looked into Glascow and St. Andrews, and they seem too… english for my taste(no offense, I’m going there for the Scotish experience, NOT the english…)
Don’t know how you reached that conclusion. You’ll find that Edinburgh & esp. St Andrews are a lot more English than Glasgow, which is more Scottish.
St Andrews is a small, so the numbers of English students are more significant. Edinburgh also attracts a larger number of English students, probably because the y think that because it’s the capital it’s automatically the best, which isn’t necessarily the case at all. A lot of what probably makes Edinburgh seem more Scottish to you is strictly for the tourists.
But I’m sure you’ll have a great time whichever you choose.
yeah. Well, the whole point of going to scotland is to get AWAY from Yellowknife… So, I’m going to apply to all of them, and whichever ones I get in I’l go to. I just have a good feeling about Edinburgh.
No pep talks are necessary - haggis is tasty. I had a very nice haggis (served with neeps and tatties) at a pub called the Bad Ass in Edinburgh (just off the Royal Mile). They also have a very nice beef and Guinness stew. What’s haggis taste like, you ask? Like a sausage with some strong spices and a bit of oat and barley cooked in - exactly what it is. Just a loose, Scottish sausage made with sheep, oats and barley that’s boiled until it’s ready to eat. Mmmmm…haggis…
Fried haggis is an interesting twist - take a spoonful of haggis, bread it and deep-fry it. Tasty, and it breaks the finger-food barrier.
Be warned, however - the most disappointing haggis I ever had was served to me in Inverness (hotel breakfast buffet at the Royal Highland Hotel - maybe the fact it was served as a breakfast dish should’ve been my first warning…). Just because it’s being served to you in Scotland doesn’t mean it’s good haggis.
Also, the best way to prepare yourself for spending time and eating meals in Scotland (or anywhere else in the UK) is to familiarize yourself with Indian food. I swear, the most common food you’ll find is some kind of Indian/Kashmiri/Pakistani curry dish. Even in tiny Highland villages, the first thing you see on entering town is a tandoori take-away joint. And Chicken Tikka Masala is apparently the national dish of Scotland now… Of course, this is a very good thing if, like me, you happen to enjoy this type of thing…
Now, black pudding…there’s a nasty little dish. Tastes like the “baked-on, burned-on mess” that the diswashing detergent advertisements insist that they specialize in removing…My advice is not to even go there.
My most useful advice: Whenever you get the chance, leave Edinburgh and explore the rest of Scotland. Go to Inverness Castle on Loch Ness (get there early to beat the tourist rush) - it’s spectacular. Check out Loch Lomond. Visit Aberdeen. Drive through Glencoe. Scotland is absolutely the most beautiful place I’ve ever been - or even seen pictures of. Do everything you can to see every inch of it while you’re there. I say this because it’ll be very easy to find so many interesting and fun things to do in Edinburgh that you’ll risk missing the rest of the country.
Same here… I fell in love with it from the pictures. I’m planning on just spending a month traveling around… Backpacking, I guess you could call it. I want to go to Cullodon, and see the stones at Iverness and… the list goes on and on…
sigh and it’l be another 2 years before I can do this… I have to graduate first, dammit. I wanna go now!
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I’ll not hear a word against black pudding; I’m just back from Spain where they eat even more of it than we do; yum!
You mean Urquhart Castle - Inverness Castle is just a 19th Century administrative building. But Urquhart is well worth going to. An even more spectacular one is the romantically restored Eilan Donan castle about 60 miles away; it’s often used in films such as “Highlander”.
Don’t forget to study at some point though - don’t spend all your time site seeing 
My recollection of haggis is that it’s actually quite palatable. On the other hand … black pudding? Ecky Thump!
decently made black pudding is gorgeous - its the cheap stuff that sucks arse.
More to the point, it was 30 old pence - 1/8 of a pound. Besides, isn’t a ‘bit’ an eighth of a US dollar?
The half-crown was an older coin than the 2s piece (‘florin’), which was the first creeping step towards decimalisation. Once upon a time, English currency included a coin worth a third of a pound, too. That was the beauty of a 240-penny pound - it could be divided into halves, thirds, quarters, fifths, sixths, eighths, tenths, twelfths and twentieths.
Since the half-crown had an exact decimal equivalent (bearing in mind that there was a 1/2p coin in the Seventies and early Eighties) it stayed in circulation for a while after 1971, although they had ceased minting them. It was a big ol’ coin, I remember it fondly.
As well as pricing in shillings for items worth more than a pound, ‘prestige’ goods were priced in guineas (£1 1s) and half-guineas. This included the posher kinds of tailoring, school fees, club subscriptions, horses, etc. But you wouldn’t price in guineas and some odd change, only whole and half guineas. Actual guinea coins hadn’t existed for a long time.
Racehorses are still priced in guineas, as the “Sales & Results” section of this site confirms.
I hope this doesn’t turn into another food-slamming thread.
Bleargh! I can’t believe I did that - of course I meant Urquhart Castle! It’s not even in Inverness, it’s in Drumnadrochit! Bah! Yes, go to Urquhart Castle. Give yourself a few hours to take in the castle and check out the visitor center. It’s also an excellent place for the tourist trinkets you’ll want to be sending home. My mom’s got a great tee-shirt with a silhouette of the castle tower and “Urquhart Castle, Loch Ness” on it.
More importantly (and more spectacularly while less crowded) you should visit Dunnottar Castle near Aberdeen - it’s on the coast near a village called Stonehaven, which is worth visiting in its own right. Dunnottar is incredible. It sits on a big rock outcropping that is surrounded on four of five sides by the North Sea, and…aw, hell, you’d have to see it to believe it. It’s one of those places that shouldn’t exist because it’s too fantastic.
Now why would I study? where’s the fun in that?
I’m there for the scenery not the books…
Heh. I still have to get accepted into a university there… one step at a time…
Yeah, they’re dead choosy who they let into Edinburgh …
:: scratches self and burps ::
Yeah well, I need to get an average above 68%, anyways…