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Heh, that's pretty cool. The internet quality on my campus depends on where you live. Right now where I live, I get like 20 ping to NYC, which is great for playing Quake Live.

My dorm last year was terrible. Couldn't play anything online. I guess it's kind of good and bad though. I have something to occupy my time with good internet, but maybe it occupies a bit too much time.

Also, me not getting drunk tonight = sad :(

At 3/23/10 08:57 PM, milinko959 wrote: Also, me not getting drunk tonight = sad :(

I feel your pain man. I've got a massive Java assignment due next week, so that means no getting smashed on the town tomorrow night :(

I can't believe I forgot about this place and I was the one that created it. :P

This summer I had two online classes. I got an A in my Philosophy class and even though by the 8th week I was ready for it to be over I still feel that I enjoyed the class all around. I also had a History class that I got a B in, but I hated it with a passion. I actually would have gotten a C- if it wasn't for the curve that he gave everyone in the class.

Next Monday I start classes again. I don't know if I'm excited or what. It's my last year, but a big part of me is just sick of school now.

I'm off to University, starting 13th September and I can't wait! I'm pretty accommodated in the heart of the community in the City Halls Campus and can't wait to meet loads of people there. Doing a Computer Games Design Course at the University of Wolverhampton. So I should be updating this thread every so often as it's my first year.

I need to look for a part time job in Wolverhampton so I can actually have some disposable income down there.

I'm back October 11th.

Hope my flat is ready by then. It's being damp proofed before I start renting it.

At 8/23/10 06:13 AM, Dean wrote: I'm back to university on the 13th of September, so I only have 3 weeks before I go back. I'm looking forward to getting back, because I'll get to see all my university friends again and I will actually have something productive to do during the day again. I'll probably end up missing all the free time I've had over the summer. Since I never got around to finding a job, it's pretty much been a summer of doing what I want, when I want.

Yeah, there are a few people that I'd like to hang out with, but I guess the thing that bothers me is the block and student teaching schedule that I'm going to be going into. This leaves no time for me to really have a social life except for once a week and I'm guessing that's why I'm not too excited to go back at the time.

I'm sure once I get back into things it'll be alright though.

My grades from my first year of university came through a while ago and I did rather well. I got a separate letter to tell me I'm getting a certificate of merit, which are given to those with an average grade of A. I was rather pleased with this.

Great job on the grades.

At 8/23/10 10:38 AM, Ejit wrote: How do you make friends

Thanks

dont mind me just asking the internet how to make friends

How do you make friends? You don't. :) How I make friends is a different story though.

At 8/23/10 10:43 AM, DumbassDude wrote:

I need to look for a part time job in Wolverhampton so I can actually have some disposable income down there.

I won't be able to work during my schedule so I'm hoping that all the money that I made this summer lasts for a little while. I actually have to keep a budget... Hello real world.

At 8/23/10 10:47 AM, TheMaster wrote: I'm back October 11th.

Hope my flat is ready by then. It's being damp proofed before I start renting it.

I already moved almost all of my stuff in. It's just actually setting it up the way I want it now.

looking forward to next week.. ill be starting my second year or college which will also be my final year (uk college). However for the first time ever there will be four girls in my course. (my course is games development) its gonna be weird..and exciting at the same time

I'm trying to decide if I want to come home each weekend to work. On one side of the picture I have a very busy week and going home to work on the weekend would limit my social life to very little, but on top of that I have to worry about paying the bills and I need to start saving up for a wedding.

By the time I worked two days on the weekend I would make about a $30 to $40 dollar profit, but that would be an extra $120 to $160 a month that would pay the electric and TV/Internet bill quite easily. To me it's almost worth it, but like I said I'm still deciding.

Also, if I keep the job on the weekends like this then I'll be able to skip the rehiring process that I would have to go through if I were to come back on the holidays.

Well, I start College in september and since I failed most of my GCSEs I'll be starting off on a lower course for ICT.

I already have my College id and shit, I just need to fill out a bunch more paperwork to get EMA and so on.

Money wise, I'm just living off my loan and some cash I've got saved up.

Through pure luck I've ended up letting from a landlord who will only charge me while I'm actually there, so I'm only paying for the 9 months I'm at uni, while all of my friends have gone through letting agencies actually aimed at students, which force 12 month lets onto you, so you're paying over the summer holidays when you're not even there.

I definitely couldn't work as well as study, though. I was pushed to get all of my work done last year. In the second term I was going to lectures in the day, and then working on lab reports or programming assignments or problem questions or some other shit almost every night. Died down a little in the third term, but then I had to start getting revision in for exams, and ended up with no free time once again.

cool a college club, just started this year so i'm gettin the hang of shit. i guess i should run through the list
Community college
commuting
no dorm or appartment (my highschool fucked me outta dorms)
broadcast major (radio centric)

Catered in Birmingham was such a gyp, can't believe anyone would take it. Your card was loaded with £35 or so every week, if you didn't spend all of it you lost what was left at the end of the week. And people like me in the selfcatered could just go and buy the same food for the same price anyway, there was literally no benefit to going catered. It just meant I got to go and get a free meal off my friends at the end of every week if they hadn't spent it all.

At 8/29/10 07:55 AM, Dean wrote: I'm quite looking forward to going back now.

I get a half day on wednesday, then I get thursday and friday off.

Guess I can officially post in here now that I'm in college :P I must say, it's incredible! I'm majoring in Computer Programmer and I love it!! I'm in the library/comms hanging out on NG till my classes start. This semester, I'm taking:

- EAC150 (English)
- APC100 (Communications)
- IPC144 (C Programming)
- IOS110 (Operating Systems/Windows Server 2008)
- ULI101 (UNIX/Linux and The Internet)
- IAC002 (Computer Applications)

For obvious reasons, my favorite classes is the C and UNIX/Linux classes and they are AWESOME!!! :P

Schedule:

Monday: EAC150 (8 - 9:45), APC100 (10:45 - 11:35), IPC144 (11:40 - 2:20)
Tuesday: ICA002 (2:25 - 3:15), IOS110 (3:20 - 5:05)
Wednesday: APC100 (9:50 - 11:35), ULI101 (11:40 - 1:25)
Thursday: EAC150 (9:50 - 10:40), IPC144 (1:30 - 3:15)
Friday: ULI101 (8 - 10:40), IOS110 (11:40 - 2:20)

So yeah. I love college!!! :P

I've decided to work every other weekend back at home. My electric bill is somewhere between 20 to 30 dollars a month and my TV/Internet bill is 80 dollars a month. I work like 11 hours a weekend so every other week is just enough for me to not deplete my existing bank account.

I'm going to make and share my schedule with you guys. I'm just swamped with so much work right now.

At 9/14/10 07:25 PM, Fro wrote: I'm going to make and share my schedule with you guys. I'm just swamped with so much work right now.

Nice man. I gotta say, college is where it's at!! xD

At 9/14/10 01:41 PM, UnknownFear wrote: Monday: EAC150 (8 - 9:45)
Friday: ULI101 (8 - 10:40)

Starts at 8? Ouch, that's pretty vicious. My timetable is

Monday: nothing
Tuesday: 12-1, non-compulsory labs from 2-5
Wednesday: 10-11
Thursday: 10-11, 12-1, non-comp labs 2-5
Friday: 10-11

The 10-11s are on Operating Systems, and the 12-1 is intelligent robotics (and so are the lab hours)

Yeah that's pretty awesome. but then I've got my final year project to be working on too so that'll eat up my free time.

My initial timetable, changes later on in the term:

Monday:
10:15-11:15 - Maths IV
17:15-18:15 - Lagrangian Mechanics

Tuesday:
10:15-17:15 - Experimental Lab VI

Wednesday:
9:15-10:15 - Numerical Methods
11:15-12:15 - Particle Physics
12:15-13:15 - Numerical Methods (only for first two weeks of term)

Thursday:
10:15-11:15 - High Energy Observational Astrophysics

Friday:
10:15-11:15 - Lagrangian Mechanics
11:15-12:15 - Maths IV
12:15-13:15 - Lagrangian Mechanics
13:15-14:15 - High Energy Observational Astrophysics
14:15-15:15 - Particle Physics
16:15-17:15 - Maths IV problem class

Seriously man, fuck Friday. 5 hours on, then an hour break, then back for another hour!

Although, I skipped most of my Maths lecture last term, because the lecture literally just read through the notes, which he put onto the intranet anyway.

But yeah, not a nice timetable. I have a bunch of one-off lectures, too. Looks like at least one per week. At least there's only the one 9:15 start, and Monday and Thursday aren't that bad.

Before you read the classes I'm taking you should know that they are all education classes. I'm not necessarily learning math or science, but instead how to teach math and science.

Monday/Wednesday

Breakfast - 7:50 - 8:10
Library - 8:10 - 9:00
Social Studies - 9:00 - 10:30
Language Arts - 10:45 - 12:15
Lunch - 12:15 - 1:15
Computers - 1:15 - 2:45
Gym - 3:30 - 5:00

(Breakfast, library, lunch, and gym are clearly not classes.)

Tuesday/Thursday

Breakfast - 7:50 - 8:10
Library - 8:10 - 9:30
Science - 9:30 - 11:00
Math - 11:45 - 12:45
Lunch - 12:45 - 2:00
Environment - 2:10 - 3:25
Gym - 4:00 - 5:30

(Breakfast, library, lunch, and gym are clearly not classes.)

Friday

Some Fridays are off and others are spent inside the classroom participating.

Sky contacted me today to tell me they've moved my phone line and broadband installation date from the 20th to the 25th.

I go back on the 11th. I don't know if I can last 2 weeks without internet!

we've been trying since july

still no internet

At 10/7/10 07:49 PM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote: we've been trying since july

still no internet

It's not just I need the internet to not go insane and starting chewing the walls, I get timetable updates all the time, emailed out the night before, or even in the morning. When I say all the time, I mean like once a week. Can't afford to be missing lectures.

Wish I'd been able to get this sorted sooner, but I didn't get the keys until the 2nd, and this was the earliest they could do it.