So, why blog? Note this is not, why do I blog? (Answer; I like to write, I like to believe people care.) But rather why should other people blog? For your everyday folk like me there are a few very good reasons, it hones your skills of written communication, it gives you a public forum [...]
Archive for the ‘Student issues’ Category
Why blog?
Posted in Blogging, Education, Life, Student issues on May 16, 2007 | 8 Comments »
moving on more
Posted in Life, Student issues on May 3, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Applied for university accommodation today. Opted for the student village in the end. With a large room in a mixed flat as my first choice. Hopefully this will leave me room for my van loads of stuff I have accumulated over the years! All I need do now is sort out the complications with the [...]
Moving on
Posted in Life, Student issues on May 2, 2007 | 1 Comment »
With student loan forms out of the way May comes around, trailing in its wake a letter from the university regarding accommadation for September. I can apply online starting from tomorrow (the 3rd of May) and I intend to get my application in asap to ensure I get what I want. So now I have [...]
Forms and frustration
Posted in Finance, Politics, Student issues on April 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Following on naturally from my last post I wish to talk about the student loan. Firstly, I don’t like it. I never liked it. I wouldn’t like it if I wasn’t a student and I doubly don’t like it because I am going to be one. Essentially my dislike stems from the fact that I [...]
Fiscal frolics
Posted in Finance, Life, Student issues on April 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It may be time to reveal that I have ‘done’ university before. I don’t think it would be an unfair to say that I was not a good student. In fact diabolical is a term that would not be out of place. I did not attend lectures, I missed practicals and I was responsible for [...]
