scott wrote:

> Where I come from, you don't use any numbers in a maths degree :-)

Heh. It wasn't until I left school that I realised that maths isn't just 
arithmetic.

But then, at my school, maths lessions consisted of working through 
those huge double-sided sheets of long division problems. I mean, sure, 
you need to know how to calculate stuff. But practising the same kind of 
calculation, over and over again, for hours on end, for an entire 6 
years of my life... seems... like overkill.

Needless to say, it was extremely boring. It wasn't until I reached 
college that I discovered the far more interesting concept of "algebra". ;-)

> Seriously though, I think that wording means that they don't require any 
> specific subject, just that it's vaguely technical (maths, engineering, 
> physics, computer science, etc).

I was hoping that's what it meant.

> And the longer since you graduated, 
> the more interested I suspect they will be about what you have done 
> recently.

...so they won't be remotely interested in me then?

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