Agides wrote:Something else I wanted to ask everyone who has just started Uni (ordinarily, I would have chucked this in the 'Dear Diary' thread and made it go off at a tangent) - how are you enjoying it and is it everything you thought it would be?
Moon-Crane wrote:Might as well post this about the best and worst places to live in the UK as decided by those eejits on that Property Show, Location, Location, Location. Seems to be the usual supsects.
Having regularly visited St Albans, i do wonder what makes it a short-listed contender for the best place? I guess that it is ideal if you own a mortgage free property there - then you can sell it for a ridiculously overpriced amount and then move somewhere without 24-hour traffic jams
Beer Necessity wrote:They had a Labour councellor on 5Live this lunchtime and the only good thing he could say about Middlesborough was that it hosted Premiership football games!
Beer Necessity wrote:Some people get in a right tiz about these lists - exactly the intention of Location, Location, Location's producers I'm sure.
Moon-Crane wrote:Going off on a tangent, i do like watching Grand Designs sometimes - a much more interesting show.
Agides wrote:Something else I wanted to ask everyone who has just started Uni (ordinarily, I would have chucked this in the 'Dear Diary' thread and made it go off at a tangent) - how are you enjoying it and is it everything you thought it would be?
Nervosa wrote:Agides wrote:Something else I wanted to ask everyone who has just started Uni (ordinarily, I would have chucked this in the 'Dear Diary' thread and made it go off at a tangent) - how are you enjoying it and is it everything you thought it would be?
Well up at 06.50 for a 07.20 bus isn't great, considering the bus takes well over an hour in the morning traffic, and when it leaves me into the centre of Belfast I have a 2 mile walk to my Uni.
Not too fond of the prices of having lunch in a capital city either. For a small black coffee to go it's £1.70!
I'm now into week four and have yet to speak a single word to anyone new! I'm only in three days a week, and only for a one hour lecture on one of those days, so meeting new people is proving to be pretty darn hard. As I don't know anyone yet, and I sometime have 2/3 hours to kill between classes, I find myself walking to the park to eat my lunch, or getting a bus into the town centre to have a brouse around the shops.
Then at the end of my day, it's another 2 mile walk back to the bus station.
As for my actual course, Film Studies & Modern History joint honours, I'm really enjoying the Film, but hating the history. I think next year I may drop history and do film as my single honours degree.
The workload has been non-existant so far. I've been assigned two 400 word 'essays' since I've been there, with a full week to do them in. Although, due to the postal strike, I have yet to receive any of my textbooks from Amazon, so I'm sure when they arrive I'll be doing a good bit of reading.
So far it's been a bit of a non-event for me. I've found it pretty lonely so far. It's not as if I don't speak to anyone, I do bump into mates from time to time. But the bus, the walking, the classes, the lunches etc,, I don't really get speaking to anyone.
3 years of this?! Get me to the Fire Service ASAP!!!
CatNamedRudy wrote:HOT DAMN!
I got a shitload of work done today!
::::does happy dance:::::
Cake for Brains wrote:Agides wrote:Something else I wanted to ask everyone who has just started Uni (ordinarily, I would have chucked this in the 'Dear Diary' thread and made it go off at a tangent) - how are you enjoying it and is it everything you thought it would be?
Uni is a mixed bag so far. Good parts and bad parts. I quite like living alone, and having free roam of Manchester and some independence. I've met some nice people doing the same course as me too. And I've had lots of free time to basically just do what I want. Downside, miss certain people, find certain things daunting and the course is a bit harder than I expected.
Moon-Crane wrote:Some people really are professional complainers.
Moon-Crane wrote:Nervosa wrote:Agides wrote:Something else I wanted to ask everyone who has just started Uni (ordinarily, I would have chucked this in the 'Dear Diary' thread and made it go off at a tangent) - how are you enjoying it and is it everything you thought it would be?
Well up at 06.50 for a 07.20 bus isn't great, considering the bus takes well over an hour in the morning traffic, and when it leaves me into the centre of Belfast I have a 2 mile walk to my Uni.
Not too fond of the prices of having lunch in a capital city either. For a small black coffee to go it's £1.70!
I'm now into week four and have yet to speak a single word to anyone new! I'm only in three days a week, and only for a one hour lecture on one of those days, so meeting new people is proving to be pretty darn hard. As I don't know anyone yet, and I sometime have 2/3 hours to kill between classes, I find myself walking to the park to eat my lunch, or getting a bus into the town centre to have a brouse around the shops.
Then at the end of my day, it's another 2 mile walk back to the bus station.
As for my actual course, Film Studies & Modern History joint honours, I'm really enjoying the Film, but hating the history. I think next year I may drop history and do film as my single honours degree.
The workload has been non-existant so far. I've been assigned two 400 word 'essays' since I've been there, with a full week to do them in. Although, due to the postal strike, I have yet to receive any of my textbooks from Amazon, so I'm sure when they arrive I'll be doing a good bit of reading.
So far it's been a bit of a non-event for me. I've found it pretty lonely so far. It's not as if I don't speak to anyone, I do bump into mates from time to time. But the bus, the walking, the classes, the lunches etc,, I don't really get speaking to anyone.
3 years of this?! Get me to the Fire Service ASAP!!!
Just get into the student bar and chat to the people who work in there. They'll keep you right - and you'll meet plenty of other people that way. Of course, if you don't really want to be there, it'll be difficult i suppose.
Have you watched any more films for the course yet?
Moon-Crane wrote:Some people really are professional complainers.
CatNamedRudy wrote:We have awesome secretaries where I work!
They feed us!
Today is Boss's Day and they put out this whole great spread of munchie stuff for us all day long!
Bad for the diet but it's yummy!
Beer Necessity wrote:We have yummy secretaries where I work!
Beer Necessity wrote:CatNamedRudy wrote:We have awesome secretaries where I work!
They feed us!
Today is Boss's Day and they put out this whole great spread of munchie stuff for us all day long!
Bad for the diet but it's yummy!
We have yummy secretaries where I work!
Moon-Crane wrote:Beer Necessity wrote:We have yummy secretaries where I work!
Was it one of the secretaries that you embarassed yourself in front of a few weeks back
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