PPE

[raven]

To celebrate the fact I'm almost beginning to be well-disposed towards my own degree subject again, I'm going to take advantage of my insomnia and ask a question I've been meaning to ask for a while. When I'm here and someone asks me what I'm doing, I say PPE as a matter of course; it's the most popular undergraduate course in Oxford, so if they're not doing it themselves they invariably know more than one crazy person who is. But if I'm at home and someone asks, I always say it in full, because I never know whether anyone's ever heard of it or if it's really obscure. So, a poll. It's a little self-indulgent, but in the interests of not embarrassing myself more than I have to, I'm asking.

[Poll #608292]

And while I'm here, I just want to say thank you all for trying to cheer me up this last week. I know I've been a wet blanket and a pain, and I'm really grateful for all your kindness and patience. No doubt I'm going to fall apart again at the end of this week, but right now I'm happy and I know it's because I'm loved. [/hopelessly sentimental] Thank you.

Comments

[that_mireille]

I have been horribly remiss in trying to offer comfort over the past week, though I am blaming that on the fact that, well, I've not been a bastion of sanity and stability lately.

Still, I'm sorry about that, and I'm glad you're feeling better right now.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Hey, you're having education-related issues, too. I'm glad things are looking up for you now. *loves*

[that_mireille]

My solution was a bit drastic, but for me, the only one that would work.

And for the record, I am completely loving that icon.

[casirafics.livejournal.com]

I hope my only-replied-to-part-of-the-poll method properly inferred that I just didn't know and am therefore probably the dim one, and you're not a crazy person. ;)

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

*g* Oh, I am a crazy person. It's a requirement. :)

[robette-wild.livejournal.com]

I only know what PPE is because someone I know from college was insane enough to consider it as a degree. If it wasn't for the fact that I've always been friends with crazy people, I'd have no idea. :D

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

It certainly implies insanity, for sure.

(What happened to you last night? I hunted around to say goodbye, but you'd disappeared!)

[robette-wild.livejournal.com]

Sorry! I was dragged back to college by some people who were overly enthusiastic in their desire to reach the bar before it closed.

Also I had to do work. Which I'm still doing. D'oh. :/ At least I can rest safely in the knowledge that there is always someone, somewhere, who is more insane than me. PPE. I ask you! :P

We'll have to meet up properly again, when I'm not so insanely behind schedule. *twitches*

[rosariotijeras.livejournal.com]

And it's not so much that you're a crazy person so much as I live in America and in America, no PPE or simlar. Well, one could say that political science is quite, quite similar. And I do plan on majoring in that.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

PPE is an Oxford thing. People outside of here do normal subjects, which I thoroughly approve of. :)

[manynames.livejournal.com]

While I have all the mathematical ability of a squid with no arms (it can't do complicated sums by adding with them, see) several of my friends have applied for PPE and not got in, though fingers crossed that my best friend at college who has just applied for PPE does get in!

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Oh, I hope so. Which college has she applied to?