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My kids brought home a lovely vomiting bug from the germ factory*. Saturday morning, they were staying at my mum's, and my boy woke up and puked all over her house. She brought him back pretty quick and borrowed our vax.
Sunday night, it was my wee girl's turn. Kept me up from midnight to 6 am. Took Monday off work to recover - I was utterly shattered.
The wife caught it yesterday, and me last night. I really shouldn't be in work today.
*school
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I really liked Under the Lake.
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When I heard Moffat was stepping down, my first feeling was relief. I don;t know why - this series has been really good. I just think he's starting to lose the plot and his big story threads are way over complicated.
I wasn't a fan of RTD's hoakey family guff, but it was much easier to buy in to than, say, the recent Timelords story.
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When I was at uni there was no online releasing of grades - they were put up on the course notice board. A table of registration numbers and grades. As I loved close to the uni it was fine - drive in during the holidays and keep an eye out. Must have been a nightmare for people living further away.
Now it's online. Ours get released this week and I'm expecting a few difficult meetings with students later in the week.
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Has anyone on here done Erasmus?
Went to Uppsala University in Sweden from August '99 to January '00. Great experience. Not sure if the scheme has changed at all since then, but when I went they gave me about £260 a month. It covered my accommodation cost and a little bit more. That, and a good old student loan saw me through without the need to take on a job.
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It's on Comedy Central in the UK.
Channel 5 are showing a UK version soon.
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Last night's new one was tremendous, with the guy in the burger place texting the manager to sack Murr. Hilarious.
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Coming back on in a few days time...
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I did it myself without much thought. Grew up in Alloa, went to Stirling.
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Honestly....One guy applies here with nowhere near our minimum entrance requirements. Out of curiosity I opened up his personal statement to see why he even bothered. The statement was basically a love letter to Glasgow Caley, saying why he always wanted to go there and thought their degree was the best.
I don't work at Glasgow Caley.
Funny thing in Scotland is people going to the 'local' university. Nowhere else has this. I get a lot of Glasgow applicants who'll never come as they get itchy as soon as they hit the motorway
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Yeah I think it is down to the uni's themselves.
You are right regarding deadlines. However we have a 12 week trimester and the essays have to be in on week 12, however week 1-11 is teaching, so we don't get all the information until a week before the deadline.
I'm sure someone more organised than myself would be able to start their essay with information they already have....
Surely you are given the recommended texts...The teaching (contact time) is only meant to be a small fraction of your learning.
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"What's your favourite Katy Perry song?"
"The one where she and the other girl are committing lesbionage"
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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.
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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.
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Is that on netflix or showbox ?
The jinx I download
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Had me in utter stitches last night. This show always does.
"It's a budda doing heroin"
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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.
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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.
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That said, the lassie in the other advert...wid
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Could be worse. Matthew Perry on Graeme Norton a few weeks back was either a) pissed or b) in the middle of a stroke