Jenni's diary: Given up chocolate!

I've just had an email from Imperial saying 'congrats, you're in'.



























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I'M GOING TO LONDON!!!!!!!!!!
 
Of course, this is assuming they haven't messed their email system up again. :mad:

A few weeks ago I got an email aimed at international students. :rolleyes:

But a few people have said they haven't had it so maybe!
 
Yep, it's official! I'm going to London! :D

3 hours until I get my results. Jon has gone back to bed for another hour or so before he's coming to pick me up :p he refuses to check UCAS!
 
wooo, well done!! Was thinking of you when I was listening to Chris Moyles this morning and everyone was phoning in! You must be on cloud 9! well done angel!! xx
 
Congrats :) ... Fabby News :) xx
 
Thanks everyone :D it's just about starting to hit home that I'm going!
Went out last night of course ;)

Saw loads of old friends from my old schools. One guy I hadn't seen in a year or two was saying about someone he knew who went to Imperial to do maths and hated it, left after a year, hah.

I think the thing is that this girl couldn't find anyone who wanted to do anything other than work :rolleyes: but I've already spoken to a few people over the internet who definitely want to go out 1/2 nights a week. I spoke to someone who went out 4/5 nights a week in his first year!

I'm so excited! :bliss:
 
Are you telling me that you actually plan to have a social life while at university - how radical of you!

I can't believe that some students don't go out - that they just work....I might have stayed in 1 or 2 nights a week.....do you think that had any bearing on my getting a 2:2 or was business studies at Leicester Poly just exceptionally hard in 1987? ;)
 
Less Rotund One said:
Are you telling me that you actually plan to have a social life while at university - how radical of you!

I can't believe that some students don't go out - that they just work....I might have stayed in 1 or 2 nights a week.....do you think that had any bearing on my getting a 2:2 or was business studies at Leicester Poly just exceptionally hard in 1987? ;)
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I'd rather go out more often and get a worse degree if you ask me. ;) I'm only half going for the degree, and half for the experience :p

xx
 
I suppose it depends on what you want to do with the degree when you finish, but I have to agree with you that, for me anyway, a big part of the university experience is being away from home and learning to be a grown up and standing on your own two feet....its a shame that so many students now can't do that because of fees etc - "in my day" we all got grants so it was so much easier.

London is going to be an expensive place, mind - but its one of those places that you think everyone should live in, once in their lives.
 
Less Rotund One said:
I suppose it depends on what you want to do with the degree when you finish, but I have to agree with you that, for me anyway, a big part of the university experience is being away from home and learning to be a grown up and standing on your own two feet....its a shame that so many students now can't do that because of fees etc - "in my day" we all got grants so it was so much easier.

London is going to be an expensive place, mind - but its one of those places that you think everyone should live in, once in their lives.
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To be fair, people with a household income less than £whatever get a full grant or partial grant. The whole point of it being less for people with a higher income is that the parents can afford to contribute :rolleyes:

So in my household, we're over the limit by a bit, but my parents are paying for accommodation and tuition fees. I'm taking out the full loan, and so I have about £8000 a year to spend on clothes, booze and food :rolleyes: more than most people who get the full grant!

The only way in which the system fails is when people with an income of more than whatever and their parents refuse to help. :(
But not my problem! :p
 
Well done Jenni heres to your new life. As an official boring old fart am I allowed to say enjoy the experience to the full but that doesn't preclude you from getting the best degree you can. It can be a bloody hard world and everything you can do to provide you with money to enjoy it is is well worth pursuing even to limiting going out to 4 nights a week.

Good luck

M
 
CCPM said:
Well done Jenni heres to your new life. As an official boring old fart am I allowed to say enjoy the experience to the full but that doesn't preclude you from getting the best degree you can. It can be a bloody hard world and everything you can do to provide you with money to enjoy it is is well worth pursuing even to limiting going out to 4 nights a week.

Good luck

M
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Listen to M, she talks a lot of sense - unlike myself!!!

I think you are really lucky that your parents can afford to support you to that extent - particularly in London - I know I wont be able to next year when my oldest goes off - he will get a right old shock when he has to manage his money better.
 
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