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Surely you are given the recommended texts...The teaching (contact time) is only meant to be a small fraction of your learning.

April in the USA. Every other season has started in January.

"What's your favourite Katy Perry song?" "The one where she and the other girl are committing lesbionage"

I contacted the council about the neighbour's garden. They got a new sofa before christmas. The old one is now in their garden (has been for a month) alongside old toys and about 20 black rubbish bags. Back garden little better - a dozen rubbish bags all piled up. So I made a complaint to the council.

Depends on the uni and their own rules as to when grades are counted. My degree was at Stirling and some grades in 2nd year counted, which went well against me as I had a big upswing in late 3rd/4th year. I know now that whenever I set a deadline, students will not look at it or think about it until about 20 days beforehand, and start work properly until (at most) 5 days before. Then I get panicked emails and calls, and then I get people handing in late with various dog-ate-my-homework excuses. None matter - my deadlines are hard and any lateness is penalised.

The jinx I download

Had me in utter stitches last night. This show always does. "It's a budda doing heroin"

I get asked a lot about the 'jump' from college to uni. The thing you have to remember is that students in uni going from year 2 to year 3 usually find it's a bit of a jump as well. Of course it'll be that bit more challenging. Overall though, college students tend to do a bit better (in my experience) than they expect. Mostly it's a work ethic thing - in my classes students who went to college tend to turn up every time, whereas some who came straight from school start thinking that they can get by using course texts and the VLE and skipping a fair chunk of the lectures. Some can, but I always think that in the end their grades do suffer.

I think school pupils all get told it's January or something. Last year the hard deadline where we wouldn't take anyone was the end of June. Anyone after that was in through clearing.

Back on in April

That said, the lassie in the other advert...wid

Spectre. Utter gash. Big let down after Skyfall.

I enjoyed the show and although it was certainly a skewed documentary, focusing on the few areas that seem clearly to show how he was targeted, much else was left out. I'm now watching the Jinx - similar sort of thing

Don't worry too much about it. I don't read them, and other admissions tutors I've spoken to don't either.

People are too precious about the show. You've never had - and never will have - a series of belter after belter. This isn't Breaking Bad. This season had some real highlights - I liked the opening 2-parter, Under the Lake, The Raven and Heaven Sent. The rest were OK (aside from that one with the camp lion). Not a bad hit rate for a series. Better than the last.

I enjoyed it a lot - series and episode

I for one am a fan of Alex Kingston, right back to her Moll Flanders days and through ER. I am waiting though on the time when the Doctor hands her a screwdriver and says cheerio as she bustles off to the library.

I hope they leave the timelords well out of it. Not everybody who watches now will have caught up to the 50 year backstory. Just have Gallifrey destroyed and leave that alone.

That advert on Channel 5 for their kids show, with the woman screaming "It's Noddy!". Don't like that. And heard one on the radio today for We Buy Any Car. Some old grumpy guy muttering about how he hates people who look at his car before not buying it. "As for the 'I've-just-a-few-left-never-to-be-seen-again-lot, I really hate them". I just wanted to say: calm doon.

Where they go to a singles night, and Joe tells a woman "I have to be quick, my wife thinks I'm at the movies"

The area I'm in doesn't matter as we are nowhere near being full. People with similar grades get similar offers. Our conversion rates (applicants that turn in to people being here) is about 19% so we just make loads and loads of offers and see what comes in. I've never had the case yet where I'm agonising over 2 similar candidates and have to make a choice - just does not happen.

Very funny show. So many examples that have me utterly crying with laughter. I saw one in the beer aisle of a shop where they told Q to throw balls at this utterly huge black guy. He was crapping himself.

Spy. My god...what utter shite

I review applications as part of my job. I hardly ever look at the statements. Don't worry too much about it.