Frequently Asked Questions about studying Geography.

This post is designed to be an informative jaunt through the various questions I get asked on a regular basis about doing a geography degree.

So you study Geography?

Yes, I am in my second year of a BA in Geography at Royal Holloway

Pah, isn't that just glorified colouring in?

Nope, we get to travel the world in the pursuit of knowledge. How does your boring degree compare to that, stud?

Where are your colouring pencils geographer?

I left the lids off my felt tips and they all dried out :(
N.B: we don't actually do any colouring in

I guess you must know all the world capital cities?

I have a friend that only just found out Egypt is in Africa and she's studying Geography. What we're really concerned with is how the world and the people that live on the world work and interact. Capital cities don't mean doodly squit.

Oh yeah you do all that plate tectonics and volcanoes stuff don't you?

... actually I'm a human geographer.

A what?

A human geographer. We study the way that human beings interact with each other and the planet.

That's not geography!

Yes it is. Please see above.

What are you planning on doing with your degree once you graduate?
I have literally got no idea at all, I considered opening a cake baking business but I would just become morbidly obese. Nothing would make it out the door.
I also considered a life as a musician, but then I realised I can't play an instrument. Although that never stopped Cheryl Cole.

What are you doing your dissertation on?

Nandos.

What?!

I am doing my dissertation on the way that Nandos peri-peri chicken restaurant fits in to the cultural foodscape of the United Kingdom. Sounds delicious doesn't it?

That's not geography!?

Watch this space for info on participating in afore mentioned dissertation! Gonna need some Nandos loving focus groups! There may be free chicken on the cards...