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Oxford University Department of Computer Science: Second Year Group Design Practicals · Strachey Lectures

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  I thought opera, opera and opera during the whole place is just kind of a sense of all really you get.
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  It's quite unlike any other university has been to and I thought at that point that I may as well try and apply to do the course,
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  the interest in the whole teaching system, the tutorials, the kind of student,
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  the amount of contact time that you get in groups of, of like two or three with the tutor.
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  It's quite unlike in any other university, I guess.
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  The group products are great for the students being able to work in a group, especially with people you've never actually worked with before,
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  which is something that happens in the real world and in the companies in real jobs.
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  So they actually get to participate in some really cool projects.
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  Although I've definitely enjoyed it, it was nice to be able to do stuff that wasn't just coding.
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  So threading around, working in a team, putting together presentations, thinking about how to sell the project.
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  I chose to do a project with Bank of America because I thought would be good
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  experience working with a big institution on solving a real world problem.
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  Whereas in the past, I've always worked on my own and it's been a good introspection to see how the different pressures arise for work.
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  Liberal people. Well, I didn't ever really consider any other course of the computer science.
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  I have been playing around with computers since I was really young.
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  So when I sold the course in computer science, I thought, That's it.
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  I always wanted to go to a good university, and I felt there was nothing to lose in applying to Oxford.
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  So I picked that as my first choice, and they never said that.