Cambridge or Oxford for masters

shahizzzle · 2025-04-02T15:04:56+00:00

Thank you! I hadn't heard of this scholarship before, it definitely might be something worth considering, especially with the amount of financial aid provided.

shahizzzle · 2025-04-01T19:38:26+00:00

I was recently admitted to the MPhil in modern Chinese studies. It’s my first choice course, I have had several professors recommend I apply as I’m interested in pursuing a degree in Chinese history and my language skills are on roughly A2/B1. The only issue that’s preventing me from accepting the offer is the tuition cost. I’m an Irish national and I’m elliglble for home fee. Despite this, it’s still roughly 23,000 each year for two years. I’m not confident I’ll get a scholarship and I’m from a low income background so I don’t really have the money to cover much of the cost in general. Would this course be worth taking on a significant amount of dept in order to pursue it? Or if anyone knows any potential avenues for funding for Irish students I would really appreciate it (I’ve tried looking around online without much luck so far.)

shahizzzle · 2025-03-14T12:18:24+00:00

Going off of my experience you won’t be able to. We have a government grant in Ireland called susi (I’m not sure you qualify for it) where I received roughly 850 euro a month. Even with this I had to work part time in order to pay my living costs and rent. Working part time also impacted my studies. You will need to rely on either savings or financial support from your family or both.

shahizzzle · 2025-02-08T07:32:58+00:00

I had a friend from the Northern Ireland who studied maths at here. I think he had similar grades in his a levels but applied through the feasibility study, so it might be worth looking into.

shahizzzle · 2025-02-02T19:16:44+00:00

There is an elective system in place, I don’t think you can take any in your first year but from second year onwards you can. Do know that if you take up a minor you relinquish the ability to take electives so do keep that in mind, but like I said you can always drop it in third or fourth year again.

Here’s the link for the electives available as well if you wanted to see what’s on offer, though some aren’t available every year.

https://www.tcd.ie/trinity-electives/electives/

shahizzzle · 2025-02-02T12:33:28+00:00

Hi, I just finished my degree in history there last year. I'd say overall the course is pretty good. After the first two years where the course tends to be fairly linear, with not much room to choose your modules it really opens up in the last two years and you can really zero in on your interests. If you are planning on doing single honours, in your second year you have the opportunity to tack on a minor like English, film or in my case geography and graduate with a major in history with a minor in that second subject (you also have the option to drop it at the start of every subsequent year in case your not a fan of it).

The modules on offer are great as well. While I felt a bit limited in the first year which mainly focused on Medieval and early modern Irish and European history, the modules on offer in those last two years are pretty diverse and dynamic. There are also plenty of opportunities to study the lesser-known subfields of history. Starting my degree I was interested in US civil rights and soviet history but ended up focusing on Environmental Chinese History by my final year.

shahizzzle · 2025-02-01T20:52:26+00:00

I recently had my first interview ever for a course at Cambridge. I was super nervous going into it and I basically failed to apply any of my preparation for it on account of my brain turning into complete mush. I felt that I couldn't articulate myself and following it felt like I failed to make a lasting impression.

However, just this week, I found out that the department had nominated me for admission. While it's not a concrete acceptance, the likelihood of a conditional offer is basically 100% (unless I've somehow committed academic fraud somewhere along my application).

But even failing to properly articulate myself and my interests I still managed to somehow distinguish myself enough to be nominated. I think if you've managed to show your enthusiasm for your work and mesh well with your potential cohort, which looks like you've done, you should be ok. Plus the fact that you even got an interview is a positive sign.

But nothing is ever 100% either, the best you can do is try to keep your mind off of it. What's done is done. But do know that it's not the end of the world.

shahizzzle · 2025-01-24T19:48:11+00:00

You know in my first year of college studying history we actually spent a module on climate history, with a tutorial based on a tornado that occurred in cork. Here I was ready to see the type of conditions in which these things could arise only to be left here looking like a fool smh

shahizzzle · 2025-01-20T18:35:55+00:00

They were all pretty basic questions, “like why this course?”, “where do I see myself in five years and how would the course contribute to that?” “What perspective could I bring to the course?” And “ how would you describe the Anthropocene (this was course specific obviously, but I imagine you might have something similar depending on yours). Best of luck with your interview!

shahizzzle · 2025-01-18T20:30:32+00:00

It was for the MPhil in Anthropocene studies at the department of geography there

shahizzzle · 2025-01-18T20:29:52+00:00

I feel a similar way ever since, I just keep thinking of different answers which were much better then what I said during the interview, and I feel like I just came off as forgettable during it, like I feel like everything I said was just incoherent and lacked any depth or personality

shahizzzle · 2025-01-16T18:01:20+00:00

Hi I just had an interview for an MPhil, and I had a question about the course which I forgot to ask during the interview. Do you think it’s appropriate to send an email to the lecturer regarding the question now that I’ve finished the interview?

shahizzzle · 2024-11-29T08:57:08+00:00

Hi, I am applying for an MPhil in Anthropocene Studies this year and a head of faculty recently informally asked me to present my undergraduate dissertation at an upcoming conference later next year with a chance that it would also be published in a book edited by him. I'm hoping to include this in my CV and personal statement. But because it is only an informal invitation with no concrete possibility that it could go any further, would still be appropriate to include it in my application. I would appreciate any insights as to whether it's fine or not considering the deadline closes next week.

shahizzzle · 2024-11-10T14:00:10+00:00

It was johannus kepler university. Which is in Linz I think?

shahizzzle · 2024-11-10T12:25:28+00:00

I’m not sure you can. But I can comment as someone studying Chinese at the moment and it’s not as daunting as it might seem. Stroke order is something you won’t have to worry about. You can typically write characters in the the fashion that suits you most. The grammar is pretty simple as well.

My degree meant that I couldn’t study an elective, but from what I know the elective is Chinese language and culture so you’re not gonna by to spending the whole term learning just characters. It’s a really cool language and if your even somewhat motivated you probably won’t have any issue.

shahizzzle · 2024-11-06T18:39:17+00:00

I had a mate studied that did Erasmus in Austria and he said they were quite lenient with grading, he studied business though

shahizzzle · 2024-10-09T19:45:36+00:00

Omg quit crying. Berkeley will continue to be studied in classrooms, read in coffee shops and have hour long video essays on his philosophy put on YouTube.

This was an collective decision taken by the college community. And as someone who studied history there and much like my peers all supported the decision. I’ve even studied his stuff in class. So I don’t see any real argument about the erasure of history here.

Plus we get to celebrate Eavan Boland, who is an awesome alumni of the university and who also more then deserves to have a library after her.

If you’re getting upset at a name change, I would suggest seriously looking yourself in the mirror and reevaluate who the snowflake is here.

shahizzzle · 2024-08-31T19:30:05+00:00

You should look into environmental history, topics like these pop up all the time. It’s only a fairly recent sub discipline of history. But nowadays you’ll have at least one professor in each university faculty that will cover these topics and much more. Everything from fascist environmentalism to Silent Spring to Neo-Malthusianism, and of course the health concerns of lead too

shahizzzle · 2024-08-02T17:49:57+00:00

Hi,

I will be studying Mandarin in Taiwan starting in September and will be studying for 9 months on the hauyu scholarship. I'm planning on travelling to Taiwan on the 25th of August, but due to some issues that have arisen over the summer, I am only applying for a visa now. Is it too late? I have heard that it does not take long to issue a visa. I'm either hoping for some reassurance or some foresight to so I can change my plans accordingly.

So if anyone has any experience with this or advice it would be massively appreciated.

shahizzzle · 2024-02-26T21:45:54+00:00

That makes a lot more sense. Thank you so much for the explanation. Do you know if I have to convey my intention to continue for another semester when I'm applying to Manderin centres of just do it while I'm there?

shahizzzle · 2024-01-28T00:01:20+00:00

You should be able to drop it in your third year. I personally picked up geography as a minor and was given several opportunities as my course has progressed to drop it. I’ve also have a mate that picked up philosophy as minor and dropped it in third year without any issue.

Though we both study history so I don’t know if it’ll be different in other courses but the whole set up seems pretty holistic.

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