QMUL chat!

Two questions.
1.) Is attendance to seminars important? My attendance is below 40%, closer to 30%. Does this really matter? So long as I get good grades? Does this have any affect on future employment i.e. does it go down somewhere?
2.) The snow in my area is quiet ridiculous. I have no hesitation to take tommorow off, however I have an exam worth 20% of 1 module. Do you think Queen Mary will be closed tommorow? If it was to be closed how would I be notified? Student mail?
Thanks...

QM deffo won't be closed tomorrow. It was a blizzard before it shut last year. No chance.

Yes, seminars are important. In mine and most departments, you can't miss more than 3 a term.

Stop being so lazy and go to class. I live like an hour away and I make it.

If TfL refuse to run trains, will uni be a bastard about me getting my hard copy of my essay submitted d'you reckon?

there's SBCS beef involving lecturers and the vice principal... our lecturer was soo unprofessional "The vice principal is full of **** and a dishonest man... and i'm being nice"
we were all like
he was supposed to give us a revision lecture, but no he spent the whole thing ranting and saying if he isn't here next lecture insist on seeing him

there's this lecturer who was told he was going to be sacked (by the vice principal) because his research wasn't bringing in enough money, so our lecturer (who's a friend of his) emailed all the SBCS professors and staff for a petition... the VP called the lecturer for some kind of a disciplinary action meeting thing and apparantly everything of our lecturer's that was recorded in that wasn't what he actually said (this stuff was written, rather than a dictaphone being used) so our lecturer went to the union or something and they called for a meeting... the VP said he'd lost the papers that contained the misleading conversations and there's still not been a meeting... so our lecturer's accused the VP of being full of **** and dishonest and corrupt

s'all a bit long, but that's what i made out from the lecture... zoned out a bit here and there, but i think that's the jist of it... he said he'd told his 2nd years and 3rd year students about it all... and appaz the head of SBCS emailed all the post docs and phD students warning them about trusting our lecturer and he sent another email to our lecturer warning him to stop mass messaging the SBCS staff...

but i don't really know what to make of this guy... he hasn't actually ever taught us anything... and i'm pretty sure the module feedback we had to give for his subject will have enough repercussions of its own...

Got an email about my attendance today. Probably should talk to my adviser either tomorrow or after Christmas about how the fact that I'm constantly alone because I have no money and my housemates don't deem me worthy of acknowledgment and my "friends" on campus have, for the most part, turned out to either be frightful perverts or backstabbing ***** and how I'm always ill because I stay awake until 7am or don't even go to sleep at all because of a combination of these factors and then miss my lectures and seminars because I can't physically get there because my body needs sleep even if I don't think it does and then I sleep until 6pm and then cry and do it all again.

QM deffo won't be closed tomorrow. It was a blizzard before it shut last year. No chance.

Yes, seminars are important. In mine and most departments, you can't miss more than 3 a term.

Stop being so lazy and go to class. I live like an hour away and I make it.

Okay. Calm. Breathe. Stop.

Don't stress, and don't cry. It's Christmas, go back to Somerset, you can start next yr with a new beginning. What's up with your flatmates?

I'm 1hr 30 mins away. I'm also lazy. My seminars are held by PhD students with no power. Waste of time and travel costs.
The snow is gonna be heavy, I think there is a chance.

I'm 1hr 30 mins away. I'm also lazy. My seminars are held by PhD students with no power. Waste of time and travel costs.
The snow is gonna be heavy, I think there is a chance.

Stop being such a pussy.M
There's barely any snow, it's basically just slushy rain

Yeah, uh, so are everyones.

My whole road is covered in snow.

So where exactly do I benefit?

How do you not? Where is being taught by someone who knows alot more than you about your subject, for your degree, not beneficial?

I'm 1hr 30 mins away. I'm also lazy. My seminars are held by PhD students with no power. Waste of time and travel costs.
The snow is gonna be heavy, I think there is a chance.

For ****'s sake.

K. Well QM was my insurance so I couldn't live in halls, so myself and my parents came up to London straight away once I'd got my grades to try and sort somewhere out. Everything we looked at was awful, so we went for the last place we saw which at least seemed to be in a decent location etc. I originally lived with two medics (both male) whom when I offered to go out with them in the second week of living there because we hadn't had much opportunity to talk so far, they said "maybe another time". They've never invited me out since.

Then a third medic moved in about a month ago and straight away they were inviting him out with them whenever they were and playing Xbox with him and generally being a lot ******* nicer to him than they've ever been with me. The other night two of them came back and I could hear them talking about me and about how they'd wanted a medic to have my room instead of "just" a QMUL student and then going "yeah but she's fit though" and ******* laughing about me like I'm a piece of meat. They use my stuff without asking and never, ever clean it up afterwards and believe me I'd take it up with them but they're always out and I rarely see them so in the end I just do it myself. They're so cliquey and I find myself just shutting myself in my room. Also living off campus I haven't really managed to make any proper friendships with anyone so it's not like I get any relief, well I thought I did but they turned out to be fairly horrible people and idk. I don't exactly want to live in this house next year and I'm sure my housemates don't want me to either but how the **** am I meant to find somewhere else? Swear to God I've never been this lonely in my life and it makes me so angry that these people haven't even taken the time to try to get to know me and just write me off as some sort of bimbo. I made the effort for about a month but now I don't see why I should.

Sucks. I moved away from Yeovil where I had tonnes of friends and had a laugh every time I went out to this. Don't get me wrong I love the uni and it's not like I'm doing badly in terms of work, I've had straight 2:1s/firsts so far so I hope QM aren't going to ******* me too much. It's all this external stuff.

/long post is long

Whaat's that supposed to mean?