CORNERLY UPDATE

[cornered_beef]

I am getting into SAIFIGH and it is some fun stuff. MACHINES AND SPACESHIPS AND ALIENS AND LASERS. I am already at work on my next project

Comments

[herbology_dork]

er, happy early birthday. sorry, i don't think i have any machines.

do you know anything about DIME's magical plant physiology programme? there doesn't seem to be much information about it available.

i am working on several applications, HIHML is my backup school, of course, but their herbology studies course is fair. i'm quite interested in the University of Wails' programme in herbological biochemisty, but i believe it's heavy on the potions, so i probably won't qualify. besides, their bansidhe mascot rather frightens me.
my top choice would be Southern England Magical University, they have over a dozen study courses realating to herbology, including mycology, herbological ecology, and even a rare magical plant genetics and breeding programme!

[cornered_beef]

The only programme I've looked into at DIME is their Applied Magic and Muggle Science programme and it looks quite interesting. It takes into account interests in Muggle science and is a comparative study of how Muggle science actually explains a lot of the rules of magic as well. It has also spawned a new program which is an in-depth study of magic to explain its existance scientifically.

[terryclothrags]

I read a paper on the physics of magic, the whole program strikes me as too muggle-headed. The only way to properly understand magic itself on a scientific basis is to use scientific and mathematical methods of analysis on magical phenomena, not to try to integrate magic into a physical framework. Magic has methods of acting, arithmancy proves that, but that doesn't mean it operates with particles and within conservative physical models.

[lookscomefirst]

Does a hair dryer count as a machine Michael?

[cornered_beef]

I suppose so. I could always tinker with it and make it more MACHINELIKE.

[lookscomefirst]

Oh Michael you can tinker with my machines anytime you feel like it.

[cleverlyanthony]

I don't have a machine, but I have applications! How many have you completed, Michael? I've only just finished with my seventh!

Oh, I'm not going to get into ANY Uni, and they'll see my grades from fourth year when I got that one B in Transfiguration...

I AM A FAILURE! A FAILURE, I TELL YOU!!

I might have a pencil sharpener, does that count as a machine?

[cornered_beef]

I've already submitted all of my applications.

I suppose I could always MACHINIFY your pencil sharpener like Patil's hair dryer.

[prefectlyernie]

I'm looking at dozens of prospective universities, and simply can't choose!

I've considered Ukranian Magical Institute for Grooming Aspiring Salient Hierarchs, but their courses are so very specific and wouldn't serve my short term goals. SEMU, as Longbottom has mentioned, seems to have an acceptable Healing programme and is appealingly near Home, however it is hardly of the sort of prestige a university I attend shall require.

HIHML is a suitable safety school, with their broad range of offered courses, but everybody applies there. It's far too mundane.

I ought not to have put this off for so late, of course, but I've barely had time to look through all the pamphlets I've been owled! Nearly every magical uni seems interested in having me. This is hardly a surprise, of course, but quite a bit of work to research them all.

[cornered_beef]

Do you know what you're interested in studying? Having a good idea of what you want to specialise in makes selecting a university much easier.

[prefectlyernie]

I'll be a Healer, of course. My eventual plans to rule over wizarding Britain are quite far away, and it will help to have such a form of service to Good to attribute to my campaign when the time comes.

[no_opinion]

I'm surprised you aren't applying to the Oxford School of Advanced Magic. I hope the petition succeeds to rename it Merlin College, to fit the naming pattern of the other colleges within the university, but I'm not sure what to make of the counter-petition to call it Gandalf College.

My parents sent off my applications for the best schools in India, but I'm slipping in the Oxford application on my own. I do hope I'm accepted there.

An early happy birthday, Michael. I really can't make it, though. I have an interview that day to get my former identity confirmed to help make my application look even better. You have to document these things.

[cornered_beef]

I was not impressed with the science programmes at Oxford, they seemed a bit too 'broad overview' for me.

My party will be the EVENT OF THE YEAR. I'm sorry you have to miss it!