<p>I’ll probably be starting university in September and I’m not particularly excited. You might argue that my lack of enthusiasm could be down to my choice of institution. But you’d be wrong, I think I made the best possible choice.</p>
<p>Just look at the USA. Imagine studying at the University of California, Berkeley. You’d have the sun shining on your face, the turqiose sea will provide pleasure to the eye and the mediteranean atmosphere will leave you with happiness.</p>
<p>You don’t get any of this in the UK. You get the miserable grey sky leaving you utterly depressed, the pelting rain will force you to buy clothes you don’t like and the cities are nothing short of dull.</p>
<p>You just don’t get the full experience in the UK. The US is on a completely different level to us and to be quite honest, I am jealous. I long for the warmth of the sunlight on my skin, I long for the beautiful sea I can spend my afternoons in, I long for the sense of excitement of a major city with all its colour and wonder.</p>
<p>Just look at the differences between them. I know where I’d rather be. I know where I’d rather like to spend my time shopping, exploring and having fun.</p>
<p>If you don’t like American football there are still plenty of other alternatives, such as basketball. They have huge basketball stadiums aswell. We have nothing. Our student unions look like nurseries compared with their entertainment.</p>
<p>Their beaches are filled with happiness and the feeling of a dream come true. Our beaches have no hope or ambition. They are grey, miserable and ice cold, every bit of life gets sucked out of you in our coasts. And let’s not forget the girls.</p>
<p>haha i don’t really get what initiated this rant but</p>
<p>not every part of the us is warm and sunny with beautiful beaches…there are some great schools in cali, and some in the south (few beaches though) but the overwhelming majority of highly ranked of colleges tend to be concentrated in the northeast, where the winters are usually long, dreary, miserable and grey. basically anywhere from yale in CT to middlebury in VT you’re going to have snow and freezing temps for most of the time you’re at school.
and if you want to be in a city, you’d usually be sacrificing the traditional college campus
and since the sun and beautiful weather seem to be the major point of your argument against UK schools, the fact that the majority of american schools don’t have great weather kind of refutes it.</p>
<p>plus soccer is much better than american football, and there tends to be many more great rock bands from britain than here.
case in point: because i won’t be in a major city next year, I’ll be missing out on the first chance I’ve had to see Muse live. This makes me very very upset. Now, if i was going to school in the UK i doubt this would be a problem, since they often go on european tours!
see! + for your school, haha</p>
<p>and idk about the girls, but british guys are great, with the accents and all</p>
<p>so yeah, i was thinking about going to school in the UK, but money/practicality got in the way. definitely will be studying abroad though! (hopefully when Muse is touring…)</p>
<p>I’m a California native(will probably attend to UC Berkeley this fall), and I long for cool, wet weather. In fact, I love the climate of the British Isles, although my experience does not extend past Ireland. I have a love/hate attitude towards California weather…mostly hate in the summers.</p>
<p>You might be thinking of UC Santa Barbara or UC San Diego because you can’t just see the ocean from most of the UCB campus and the weather is pretty temperate. Cool and foggy in the summer, pretty falls, rainy winters. And the ocean is sooooo cold. My dad lived in Stinson/Bolinas area when I was growing up and unless it was a hot july day, it was too cold to swim much!</p>
<p>The US has many lovely places (as does the UK) but don’t overglamorize it. Most of the US is just like the UK. Pretty regular with nice places and dreary places.</p>
<p>* If weather’s your top priority you should really take a long hard look… at your priorities. *</p>
<p>I don’t see what the problem is with that. Why live somewhere where you are miserable? There are also a number of psychiatric conditions related to weather.</p>