Orthoptics Applicants &#x27;09!

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Ed: I added you on facebook btw, I stumbled upon you when I was seeing if there are any orthoptist groups!

Ahh that was you! I ignored the request haha thought it was a randomer, i found you on the ortho group to so ive added you now! :biggrin:

rocketeer

Thanks Kiyoko, that's helped a lot. Think I'll go for Carnatic, McNair sounds good... closest to the canteen. That's priceless info! :tongue:

Thanks a lot!

I'm pretty excited about September, now I know that there are other people doing the course. :biggrin:

Glad I won't be completely lost.

Well FYI sailsbury is the next closest, then Rankin! those three are the closest to both bar AND canteen! haha. Just remember, dosnt matter which halls your in really... its what you make it ultimatly! you gotta search out the fun!

We shud defo all go out in freshers tho! ohhhhh cant wait!

I just wish it was september now, cannot wait to not be doing physiology anymore :woo:

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Kiyoko

Ahh that was you! I ignored the request haha thought it was a randomer, i found you on the ortho group to so ive added you now! :biggrin:

We shud defo all go out in freshers tho! ohhhhh cant wait!

I just wish it was september now, cannot wait to not be doing physiology anymore :woo:

lol i did think you would think that, but I'm pretty new to facebook, so I didn't know how to tell you who I was :tongue:

Oh well, sorted now!
We definitely should! We'll sort it all out when we first start I suppose. I'm dead gutted I'm not living at uni though, I'm proper gunna miss out, but I mean it's just silly when I only live about an hour and a bit away.
Same, everyone I know, including me, is proper bored of college now, and just fed up. I know my boyfriend is, it's driving him insane. Oh well, only another couple of months, same it's gunna be the hardest ones xD.

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Oh, and I just thought I'd share, I filled in all the info on the student finance thing, a bit confusing mind. But ahh well. I think it said something about it you're applying for a NHS bursary, you're automatically applied for a maintenance grant or something? =S But don't quote me on that. So I'll send off my birth certificate and let you know how I get on!

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lol i did think you would think that, but I'm pretty new to facebook, so I didn't know how to tell you who I was :tongue:

Oh well, sorted now!
We definitely should! We'll sort it all out when we first start I suppose. I'm dead gutted I'm not living at uni though, I'm proper gunna miss out, but I mean it's just silly when I only live about an hour and a bit away.
Same, everyone I know, including me, is proper bored of college now, and just fed up. I know my boyfriend is, it's driving him insane. Oh well, only another couple of months, same it's gunna be the hardest ones xD.

Awh dont be gutted! im sure youll always be welcome to kip on my sofa after a drunken night out! haha! :cool:

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Kiyoko

Awh dont be gutted! im sure youll always be welcome to kip on my sofa after a drunken night out! haha! :cool:

haha class! I've already told one of my friends I'm staying there during freshers week :tongue:

. I still have this textbook to get rid of though, the person didn't email me back =/ grr.

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shingy

Hey I was just wondering if anyone went to the orthoptics open day as i didn't make it cause i was ill, did i miss anything and whats the best place to stay in liverpool uni accomodation.

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Oladz

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shingy

Hey I was just wondering if anyone went to the orthoptics open day as i didn't make it cause i was ill, did i miss anything and whats the best place to stay in liverpool uni accomodation.

Post #98 on page 5 matey :yep:

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shingy

Hey I was just wondering if anyone went to the orthoptics open day as i didn't make it cause i was ill, did i miss anything and whats the best place to stay in liverpool uni accomodation.

I can't particularly advise you on accommodation, but listen to oladz advice :p:

On the actual day [I went in Dec, I don't know if there's been once since?] we sat around in the lecture theatre for a while, and some woman played some videos to do with the actual university, and gave us some info and funding and that [didn't really tell us that much tbh]. Then we went and got some scoff and then we sat and just had a bit of a talk about orthoptics, Dr O'Connor just said the basic ins and outs, where an orthoptist would work and stuff [stuff you should know if you're applying tbh! :tongue:

] then one of the researchers [he specialised in neurology] and just talked more about how the brain works and how that affects the movement of eyes and stuff and some of the research they're carrying out about it, and some optical illusions too and how they work. Then we went and split into two groups, one talking to some of the students and stuff, and the other talking to Anna. The students where just telling us about placements and that really. I can't really remember much about what they said, 'cept at first you're not really expected to do anything on placement, just observe and that, but more and more you learn what to do and stuff. And you always go on placement with someone else, so you're not on your own! =] And Anna said that where possible they always try and let you stay with family and that, to minimise expenses. Anna didn't say that much tbh, I remember asking her about how the timetables are set out, she said because it's a research department, some of the lecturers are mooching off all over the place, to the timetable is different every week. And then they had the campus and accommodation tours [I went to neither]. To be honest, if you have any questions about the university itself, you're best asking kiyoko, seeing as she's already there, and anything about the city centre, feel free to ask me and her, cause I'm not too far away =]
Sorry for the rant, but I'm just tryna give you as much detail as poss!
Also, I do remember reading somewhere there was another open day in Feb or Jan? So if someone could let us know if they found out anything different, that would be great!
:biggrin:

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shingy

Hey I was just wondering if anyone went to the orthoptics open day as i didn't make it cause i was ill, did i miss anything and whats the best place to stay in liverpool uni accomodation.

Oladz

Post #98 on page 5 matey :yep:

Hey hey,

Yeah you didnt miss much on the open day, most of what hey saud can be found on the websites for orthoptics and the uni itself.

As for accomodation i wrote huuuuuge post befor about like wheres good to stay and stuff, check it out :cool:

I always say catered is better, you dont have to worry about getting fed, or being able to afford food haha and after a long day in uni u dont have to cook...but you can if i want as each halls does have kitchens on each floor.. so in my opnion caterd is much better! Gives u an excuse to get out ur room aswell and go meet people! AND if you butter up the canteen ladies you might get an extra slice of lasagne haha, funnily enough when we moved to our house in second year we actually ended up next door to a carnatic dinner lady! freaky!

But yeah, if you wana know anything specific just ask and i shall do my best to answer =]

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Oladz

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YAY, got my liverpool offer today :smile:

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rocketeer

Oladz

YAY, got my liverpool offer today :smile:

Nice one. Congratumalations. Gotta go to Liverpool, now, go on... :yes:

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shingy

Hey anyone got a email about applying for accomodation at liverpool. and where is everyone going to go as in halls

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rocketeer

Nice one. Congratumalations. Gotta go to Liverpool, now, go on... :yes:

lol, im feeling the pressure now :tongue:

, im gunna go to all my open days to see if if id like to stay there for the next few years and ask what the workloads like :yep:

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Oladz

YAY, got my liverpool offer today :smile:

Yayy! Congrats! :biggrin:

And listen to rocketeer! He speaks wise words!!

shingy

Hey anyone got a email about applying for accomodation at liverpool. and where is everyone going to go as in halls

Yeah I did, I presume everyone who got an offer and has replied to them will have. I'm not staying in halls though =[ I'd love to, but I just can't afford it :frown:

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shingy

oh and did people get a student Id cause i did not get one in the email

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rocketeer

shingy

oh and did people get a student Id cause i did not get one in the email

Yeah! Same thing happened to me! I emailed them, no reply yet, though.

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shingy

oh and did people get a student Id cause i did not get one in the email

Nope, it just went 'your personal Id number is .' I was like..oh, okay. haha. Email them and they'll probably sort it, but if everyone has emailed them they'll probably just send another.

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Im so confused about all the finance stuff. Has anyone applied for anything yet? The NHS stuff is what most confuses me...how do we apply for our tuition fees to be paid? I found the application thing for the NHS bursary but theres loads of stuff on it i have nooooooooo idea about!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH :woo:

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