Bicycle. I really wish I'd had one of these.
This is the Century Of The Fruitbat. If you've got to university age without learning about the disk fairy, then you deserve what's coming, surely?
(Good advice, though)
You would boggle at the number of students who appear in the office in a state of *mild* panic on hand-in deadline day who cannot get their dissertation/essay/poster/plans for world domination printed because their computer has crashed/burned/been stolen/their mate thought it would be funny to delete the only copy.
There's an old sysadmin saying: "You can lead a luser to clue, but you can't beat them to death with it".
Students railcard, free membership of Scottish YHA, mini fridge (fridge not cooler) bike as above, decent lap top, mobile phone, it goes on........
Oh, and impress on her that she mustn't ever leave opened tins of tuna in a communal fridge because they make everything stink. Tupperware ftw!
If you did the sending a recipe a week/month thing one thing you could include is "how to make cheap punch" we did that a lot as students :)
... The hall of residence was right behind a Tesco metro and she (and many other students plus local homeless) fed herself out of their bins (the food they threw out was double sealed in plastic bags and perfectly edible) for quite a while, until they padlocked them. So, I guess this will not be an option now.
Don't think it is about food poisoning, but about removing the attractiveness of putting good merchandise out by the bins for collection later. A well known ruse.
Then there was the2423 hr computing centre at the Mappin Building in Sheffield which was shut for cleaning from 8-9am each day (just before many hand in deadlines)
SNIPITY SNIP
I digress to tell this story because I don't think many people know that these kind of services exist at uni- I certainly didn't and I'm a teacher. I should point out that one of the reasons she was referred was because she was a very hard worker, and the work she did produce was excellent, yet she struggled to complete work on time and became severely emotional and stressed- this was why her tutor referred her. Not just because she didn't get her work done , being too busy living the student life. There has to be a real problem. But if there is, help is there. Make sure your child knows that if they re struggling, support is there.
... Suggest to her that she stores food in hall fridge in forms that cannot be immediately eaten ...
Sewing kit - one of those little ones on card. Amazingly useful - cause when a button falls off, you can reattach it.
... Suggest to her that she stores food in hall fridge in forms that cannot be immediately eaten ...
One of my flat mates, when I lived on campus (some of the "Halls" were actually comprised of 6 and 12 person houses and flats), took to putting blue food colouring in his milk, to dissuade people from borrowing it!
Warwick uni does seem to exist in its own little bubble, though. They still haven't worked out that they're actually in Coventry, so it wouldn't surprise me if they were a bit out of sync in the fourth dimension, too. :)
Term doesn't start until next week, but these are going to be mostly second and third year students wanting to get a head start on the drinking during freshers week.
Warwick uni does seem to exist in its own little bubble, though. They still haven't worked out that they're actually in Coventry, so it wouldn't surprise me if they were a bit out of sync in the fourth dimension, too. :)
Is Warwick backwards?
No1Son doesn't go for another fortnight...
I believe Warwick also has a good reputation for maths.
I delivered my son to Plymouth on Wednesday with all his stuff. I know he's still alive because every day he gets tagged in his new friend's photos on Facebook. So far he has been captured:
- swimming in the sea (brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr)
- at some kind of a white T-shirt party where their T-shirts gained more and more graphiti as the night went on (and then they were writing on each others stomachs with sharpies)
- having a pillow fight on wheelie chairs in their kitchen area and corridor
- lying face down on the pavement somewhere
- Lying on the draining board in the kitchen
- at some kind of party where they are all wearing identical blue T-shirts
- teaching his new roomie called Charlotte to make pancakes
The last post on his wall asked him if he is still alive.
I am still waiting for a reply to thursday's text message asking him for his postal address!
That's why he's headed there. He toyed with Cambridge/Kings/Imperial but decided a) Cambridge was too much like hard work and b) he didn't fancy London- too expensive.
That's why he's headed there. He toyed with Cambridge/Kings/Imperial but decided a) Cambridge was too much like hard work and b) he didn't fancy London- too expensive.
Ah, but our students don't start for at least a week, so he got that wrong. :)
I'm trying to enjoy the peace and quiet, and relative availability of bike parking.
It'll take a while for the bike parking to get busier, they'll need their passes enabled for access to it.
Which is where we started.That's why he's headed there. He toyed with Cambridge/Kings/Imperial but decided a) Cambridge was too much like hard work and b) he didn't fancy London- too expensive.
Ah, but our students don't start for at least a week, so he got that wrong. :)
I'm trying to enjoy the peace and quiet, and relative availability of bike parking.
It'll take a while for the bike parking to get busier, they'll need their passes enabled for access to it.
From memory Warwick doesn't either. ISTR that it was almost into October before I found myself driving along the country lane known as the M45.
Ah, my bad, there are too many people in this threadinggetting their homes backemptying their nests, I lost track of who was leaving when.
I'm not sure how much more expensive living in London is, although there is certainly a much easier capability to spend money. I rarely talk to undergraduates about how broke they are, but I suspect that Imperial has more than it's fair share of well heeled students, and clearly has quite a lot of overseas students.
Yes. No1Son is grant maintained and scholarship & bursary material- (what a combo, dirt poor & a brainbox) and he'd end up with bigger debt from studying in London. He wasn't keen, as a lifetime working in the groves of academe doing Hard Sums isn't exactly renowned for generating income.Ah, my bad, there are too many people in this threadinggetting their homes backemptying their nests, I lost track of who was leaving when.
I'm not sure how much more expensive living in London is, although there is certainly a much easier capability to spend money. I rarely talk to undergraduates about how broke they are, but I suspect that Imperial has more than it's fair share of well heeled students, and clearly has quite a lot of overseas students.
From Directgov's student finance pages: -
Maximum Maintenance Loan rates for full-time students
- You live away from home and study outside London £5500
- You live away from home and study in London £7675
I'd guess that the numbers are assessed on the relative living costs
If you are buying a laptop or Mac for offspring going to uni it is about the only time I would recommend shelling out on a 3 year warranty/ return /repair/ accidental damage agreement.
Plus as others have said get them to back up work every day onto an external HDD.
Yes, all the students are back. What to take?
What you stand up in.
Stuff to keep you occupied and allow you to travel.
Then work out what it is you really need and sort it out the following weekend.
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Yes, all the students are back. What to take?
What you stand up in.
Stuff to keep you occupied and allow you to travel.
Then work out what it is you really need and sort it out the following weekend.
..d
I really dread to think what Chris is up to at Uni. The only info I have is based on his friend's Facebook taggings.... just like his mother ....
WTF is going on here?
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Chris has an ethernet port in his room, and is using it to Skype people on his laptop. Not sure which people, I am not one of them :facepalm:
Chris has an ethernet port in his room, and is using it to Skype people on his laptop. Not sure which people, I am not one of them :facepalm:
How often did you contact your parents when you went to university?
Previous generations wrote letters once per week...
Chris has an ethernet port in his room, and is using it to Skype people on his laptop. Not sure which people, I am not one of them :facepalm:
How often did you contact your parents when you went to university?
Previous generations wrote letters once per week...
When I left home for Uni I never looked back, but then I didn't have a good relationship with my parents and still don't. I see them once or twice a year if I have to (they want to visit their grandkids), and need to be drunk throughout their visit to survive it.
Looks like he is up to no good again tonight :o :o :oThere's an awful lot to be said for having grown up before the internet...
The new word seems to be 'mortal' :facepalm:
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There's an awful lot to be said for having grown up before the internet...
That maths room was also the first place I found an electronic calculator. It was about the size of a typewriter, it plugged into the mains, its display was dependent upon glowing wires and it was not clever enough to do square roots. I thought it was absolutely amazing, but this was about 1974.
That maths room was also the first place I found an electronic calculator. It was about the size of a typewriter, it plugged into the mains, its display was dependent upon glowing wires and it was not clever enough to do square roots. I thought it was absolutely amazing, but this was about 1974.I've seen an episode of an early 70s sitcom with Ronnie Barker (I think) which revolved around him waiting for delivery of an electronic calculator like that, and nobody recognising it when it arrived.
That's cool. Our talker wasn't[1] based on the novels of Mercedes Lackey. Which I've never actually read - someone warned me soon after joining not to bother.She's written one good book, about someone with autism. Speed of Dark.
Looks like he is up to no good again tonight :o :o :o
The new word seems to be 'mortal' :facepalm:
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Ye gods! What happened to just plain drinking BEER until you mysteriously wake up the next day, hopefully in your own bed?!Surely some mistake? :D
Ye gods! What happened to just plain drinking BEER until you mysteriously wake up the next day, hopefully in your own bed?!Surely some mistake? :D
Either that or he's taking up audax...
I phoned my parents,with whom I have a good relationship, about weekly when at uni (late 90s, initially payphones, then acquired cheap parent-funded mobile with minimal credit towards end of course). Since then they have mastered email & more recently text. (and now L exists, mum invites herself to visit much more often, bless her :D)
Have sleeping 6 mth old on my lap at this moment; am gently boggling at the notion that eventually he too will be 18 & leaving home for uni or wherever & utilising new & strange slang on the new equivalent of the facebooks.
I took my parents' old fridge. I cannot recommend this highly enough. Not only will you have your own secure stash of cold milk and beer, everyone on your hall floor will come and worship at the altar of Freon.
Things have changed. I think mine was the last generation of students where you could get away with a sneaky fridge by being on sufficiently good terms with the cleaners.
Ye gods! What happened to just plain drinking BEER until you mysteriously wake up the next day, hopefully in your own bed?!
I strongly remember that the main point really was to try and wake up in someone else's bed.Unless it's the Coyote Ugly syndrome.
I've just done the five minute walk to the nearest supermarket, bought some stuff, and walked back. I live in a very studenty area. It seems that the entrance requirements for Edinburgh University students does not include the ability to look where one is going.
Finally - Term is starting at the "University of South Coventry but Warwick sounded nicer". Just got the daughter out of bed, the bicycle and a big lock are in the car. Just need to load 4 tonnes of food and the rest of her possessions and head up the M40.I doubt she'll ever meet No1Son- maths & art don't mix much, do they?
missing you already!
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Finally - Term is starting at the "University of South Coventry but Warwick sounded nicer". Just got the daughter out of bed, the bicycle and a big lock are in the car. Just need to load 4 tonnes of food and the rest of her possessions and head up the M40.I doubt she'll ever meet No1Son- maths & art don't mix much, do they?Quote from: text from fboabmissing you already!Quote from: reply from No1Sonyou loser
Bless.
Finally - Term is starting at the "University of South Coventry but Warwick sounded nicer". Just got the daughter out of bed, the bicycle and a big lock are in the car. Just need to load 4 tonnes of food and the rest of her possessions and head up the M40.I doubt she'll ever meet No1Son- maths & art don't mix much, do they?
Term start todays at Imperial. I can't quite see the logic of actually starting at the weekend, when they don't need to be in College before Monday, but I presume there is some reason why they do this (maybe they get an extra couple of days funding from HEFCE?)
... she's staying in some Catholic seminary just off Kensington High St that IC seem to have found as an additional hall of residence since my wife completed her Ph.D there ...
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Bless.
No he's not nice, he's a GIT.Finally - Term is starting at the "University of South Coventry but Warwick sounded nicer". Just got the daughter out of bed, the bicycle and a big lock are in the car. Just need to load 4 tonnes of food and the rest of her possessions and head up the M40.I doubt she'll ever meet No1Son- maths & art don't mix much, do they?
She is in a house that appears to hold quite a few new maths undergrads. Is he nice? Shall we try to engineer a romance? ;D
She's in Whitefields - about 30 seconds stagger from the bar and a similar distance from Costcutter - but a bit of a walk to where she's supposed to be working. Fortunately she has a bicycle!
He's at Bluebell, and also has a bike, but being from the sticks is still sans city-grade lock. So, for this week he's on a green pomp, and hopefully (we did nag & underline the importance, but, y'know) gets sufficient lock-age for that to remain so.He failed to get sufficient lock-age.
Hang on, we're going about this the wrong way.
What YACF staple is good at breaking locks, and you'd be a fool to send your daughter to university without?
That's right: Thermite!
And his father works at Faslane.
How's the cone? :)
PS White is a bad colour for bike frames, worse for saddles and bars and horrendous for rims. IMO. YOMV.
I don't think I've seen your white bike - only your black one and your titanium one! You might be right about frames - I was thinking mostly about saddles and bar tape, which tend to get dirty from use rather than mud.PS White is a bad colour for bike frames, worse for saddles and bars and horrendous for rims. IMO. YOMV.
Oi, I was riding my white bike today :P
It actually shows the dirt less than my black bike which can even look dusty in dry weather! I found the same with cars, my white mark 1 Escort looked reasonably clean most of the time whereas my black Mini needed regular polishing to look nice. My silver car however copes with being cleaned about twice a year.