Cody Fern

When I was at uni, I got good grades and went on to do honours, but I kept thinking, 'I shouldn't be here.' Something just didn't feel right. When I finished, I decided that every decision I make from this day forward will be purely based on intuition, and I'm not going to fight that.

Australian Actor

Lenny Henry

When you've lived in a country for 50 years and you pay your tax, you have a pension and insurance, you've raised a family and sent your kids to uni. To get to an age and be told you don't belong here and you have to go back to where you come from is really saddening and infuriating.

British Actor

Cara Delevingne

I love talking to my friends at uni and seeing what they are doing. They're just finishing their dissertations, and I kind of wish I could live their life for a second. I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.

English Model

Limmy

A guy playing pool in a pub once said to me that they should put me on the telly. It went in one ear and out the other. But then I started thinking about it. I wondered how it all worked, did you have to be best mates with someone at the BBC who you went to uni with in Oxford?

Scottish Comedian

Nikita Parris

You have to sacrifice time with your family, your time as a teenager. You don't experience life like any other, outside of football. When you go to uni, you can't live the uni lifestyle. But I've never, ever thought about quitting football.

English Athlete

Jenny Ryan

I was miserable at uni. There were months at a time when I wouldn't leave the house unless it was to buy food. I lost a lot of friendships. I later lost jobs because of my mental health.

English Celebrity

Gemma Collins

I didn't go to uni and although I don't have regrets in my life, I have two nephews and I'd encourage them to go to uni as I don't think you need to grow up too quick.

Eniola Aluko

If you're at uni just because your parents have said so... There's a lot of success stories of people who have dropped out.

Tony Abbott

Certainly, my uni days involved some statements that I wouldn't make today.

Australian Politician

Alastair Cook

If I was a second-team player, I probably would have gone to uni.

'Uni' is casual speech, more common among students and younger people.

Informal Usage

'Uni' is predominantly used in the UK and Australia, less in the USA.

Primarily British

Refers to the time someone studies at a university, often implying the associated lifestyle.

Life Phase

When related to food, 'uni' always refers to sea urchin, a gourmet delicacy.

Culinary Specific

'Uni' sushi is a Japanese term, used globally by sushi connoisseurs and in Japanese restaurants.

Japanese Origin

'Uni' as 'uniform' is mainly used in casual talk, not in official school or organizational documents.

Casual Conversations

Often pertains to school or sports uniforms when talking about daily wear or team identity.

School Context

'Uni' as 'unicycle' is mostly associated with leisure, circuses, or physical activity contexts.

Leisure Activity

'Uni' for 'unicycle' is informal; in technical or safety instructions, 'unicycle' is used.

Informal Speech

 writing, computers, that can be taken for granted in the developed world and in our cities. These students will have the chance to get an, sort of, equal footing almost with regards to uni admission, getting employment, anything other than poaching.

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 graduate work and the result has been this software called uni view and a company called schists in sweden this software allows interactive use and so this actual flight path and movie that we see here was actually flown live I

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 So I've experienced a lot of success in my life. Over a decade ago, I started a business straight out of uni with my mate, Scott.

Uni

Informal Usage

Primarily British

Life Phase

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