September 20, 2008
Flat 22
Photos taken badly using my laptop webcam. The resolution is shocking - I didn’t realise I could increase it until now.
Comments(2)September 19, 2008
Packed
CRT not going obviously. I just got carried away.
I can’t actually remember what half the things I packed are.
August 2, 2008
Universities Central Admissions Spammers
When applying to University in the UK you have no choice but to use the UCAS system (unless you only apply to Oxford and Cambridge). They charge you £15 for the privilege of using an over-complicated website which requires you to use separate login details to apply and then track the progress of your application.
Not only that but in the past 3 days they have sent me three separate letters containing nothing but an advert (for Lloyds TSB, some student housing company and for the Teacher Development Agency) and three letters explaining that they send us this junk to keep the cost down. This far from the only junk mail they have sent me though, I have had adverts for O2, numerous for yougofurther, BBC Radio 1’s “surgery” program and some shop called One4Uni.
Why are they using our future as a business? Because they can. Because £15 x 550,000 applicants (£8.25M a year) is not enough.
May 19, 2008
Completed Uni stuff!
Yesterday I completed, so far anyway, all the forms for my University application.
First I had to decide which accommodation I wanted which was actually quite hard as most of them are similar. For Aberystwyth this required ranking around 20 accommodation options in order of preference, leading me to having to decide whether I would least prefer to live at the bottom of the hill, with Welsh speaking people or share a room. What fun.
Then I finally completed the student finance form. Writing my parents details in and repeating myself so many times. It was ridiculously complicated.
But now it is done!
May 3, 2008
Choosing a laptop
Thank you Jon for sending me a link to this Macbook Air parody after we had talked about the impracticalities and style over substance nature of Apple’s latest product.
We were discussing which laptop we would buy for Uni.
April 24, 2008
Student Finance is a bugger
Having collected a large envelope containing several leaflets, a form and guide to the form last Thursday I must now try to apply for my student loan.
Reassuring myself that I am not the child of a Swiss national and therefore do not have to complete section 23 of form 7C, I filled in all the details that the Government already knows.