I'm doing a degree now (it's a foundation degree but it counts!) and I'm very happy about it. We also don't have a uni thread as far as I can see, so here we are.
I'm doing a degree now (it's a foundation degree but it counts!) and I'm very happy about it. We also don't have a uni thread as far as I can see, so here we are.
I doubt there's enough of you to sustain an entire thread.
This will be Spoonsky's diary in a year or so.
We have a fucking DIY thread, so we're having this. Spoonsky and I will have all the bants in here.
Currently writing a yearly report for the NSF. Making so much shit up 'cause truth is, I've achieved fuck all this year.
Going to have to start writing UCAS references soon. Weird to be on this side of it.
I'm in the midst of applications at the moment. I'm probably going to apply early to Columbia, but today my dad did one of those financial aid calculators and it said that we'd still have to pay $30,000 a year. Fuuuuck. For the first time in my life I have no idea where I'll be in a year from now, which is a strange feeling.
I'm at uni for 2 years doing a counselling course, albeit only 1 day per week.
What course are you doing/where are you studying Simon? And is the plan to do a full degree afterwards?
Starting a maths masters this year and I have to hand in a ten page plan on the dissertation topic I've chosen next week after having never even met the tutor yet.
I've been meaning to finish my dissertation for about 18 months now, but work keeps getting in the way all the time. Really need to get it done by the end of the year or I might have to take some units again due to possible (likely) changes in the course.
I'm in a similar boat. I just need to get it done as having the MSc opens doors but I find the subject matter so fucking boring.
Leave it for a week and go back to it (unless it has to be in tomorrow).
I know you're really dying to go hipster it up in NYC, but you will have plenty of time to do that in your life, plus you will enjoy it way more once you turn 21 anyway. Paying 30k a year for it is not worth it, especially since I am sure you will have cheaper alternatives in other cool cities at a fraction of the price.
EDIT: Would you be taking loans, or would your parents pay? If they're paying then might as well go for it.
Re: the first point, idk actually, NYC is expensive as fuck. Maybe in Queens or something (which would still be cool, don't get me wrong).
I really, really don't want to take on any loans, and certainly not any substantial ones. 30K is probably pushing the far borderline of what my parents could pay. If it was 20K, plus scholarships and whatever my grandparents kick in, then we might be able to fenagle it.
I'm getting increasingly annoyed at the bad English of some of my teachers. It just makes it impossible to concentrate.
So I've started thinking that this counselling course is a bit much to be taking on alongside a full-time job. It's only the second week so there's still time to adapt, mind you. I'm gonna be having to do a placement on my day off though and also get counselling myself as part of the training, so it could get a bit full on.
That's true. At least now you know you will be in college, even if you don't know exactly where it will be located.
My plan after college is to go crazy for a little while and move to a Craigslist apartment in somewhere like Istanbul. Or get a job on a cruise ship, that's a big goal of mine.
Monday: 10-12 English Grammar Workshop
Tuesday: 10-11 Writing the Past Lecture, 18-19 Writing the Past Seminar.
Busy year...
Although I do have to do 3 pieces of coursework from last year, I don't know when those need to be handed in, if they will make me do some extra classes on those etc etc.
Leo just wants to get laid. Bless.
$1 beers, mate. And you can save virtually all your income that you don't waste on alcohol. (If the cruise ships is what you're referring to).
And all the staff are sleeping with one another.
That's because you get fired if you sleep with a passenger. There's a trade-off.
Do you know someone who works on one?
That sounds miserable spoons. Get better ambitions. You don't need to leave land to do something like that.
It's not exactly a career ambition, it would be a way to save a lot of money (relatively, Mr. Big Oil Man) without needing a lot of qualifications, and while still hopefully having a good time. If it was indeed miserable then I'd obviously quit, but I think it sounds sort of fun.
My friend's brother works as a photographer on a cruise ship and seems to be making mega-bucks. It doesn't sound like he was particularly experienced or even talented before he started, so you should look for an in there.
lol at Foe
I have to submit an author biography of 'no more than 50 words' to go in my book. I said I would rather not, because 1) privacy; 2) self-indulgence in books annoys me; 3) unemployment, but they told me earlier that it is MANDATORY. In that case I'll probably just list where I have studied, but I am open to lol suggestions.
Mention this place, we might get a few newbies out of it.
With Lofty as Slim Pickens riding the bomb as the cover image.
They sent me a load of stock images to choose from for the cover, but they're all shit, and this would cost me five-hundred quid to licence (lol), so bollocks.
You actually get to choose the cover?
They will pay for a stock photo, or you can use whatever you pay for yourself, and then you give them loose instructions of how you would like to see everything designed around it. If I can't charity case an old photograph out of the archive I'll just ask for white letters on a black background, otherwise they will come up with some right GCSE textbook-looking shit.
I meant that I was surprised you got to choose the cover rather than the other academic that you're publishing it with.
This is for the one I'm doing myself. I'll just go along with whatever for the other one.
"Apart from his academic work, Betts writes a blog at thethirdhalf.co.uk." Academia loves blogs these days. Or make a Hillsborough joke.
I've always wondered why academic books have such shitty cover designs and images. Is it just because they're too broke to get a proper image? You've got to be able to find something.
Use the Spoonsky picture of him an Amigo or the Lofty rollercoaster.
Also - where is the big man?
Go on.
What's the subject Lewis? Is there any better item for a TTH Competition?
Has anyone ever mentioned that Taz looks like Rowan Atkinson in Mr Bean form?
The title is Duncan Sandys and British Nuclear Policy-Making, and it's about Duncan Sandys and British nuclear policy-making. I wanted to call it The Impossibility of Defence: Duncan Sandys and British Nuclear Policy-Making, but I'm not big enough to go around adding cold opens to otherwise tedious academic texts.