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0404343m
Cheers. I've still got e-book access, and some of the staff (including one vice dean of faculty) I know very well- so I currently have one of their copies of the book that I wanted! Apparently this shouldn't be a problem to set up, but I'm betting the registry could find something to go wrong...


£500?! Not that I'm jealous or anything. Somehow I can't see my dissertation being of prize quality. A few different offices are wanting a copy though, so it needs to be half decent.

I hate e-books. I can't read a book on-screen. I need to print off journal articles before I can read them too. The only time I use an e-book is if I have absolutely no other option.
Graduation day, University of Glasgow
University of Glasgow
I love eBooks... when doing my AH dissertations, I found them far easier to use than paper copies as I copied and pasted parts accross when making notes rather than highlighting and coming back to them again and again.
I don't like eBooks either, unless I'm only using one. I usually end up using 2-4 textbooks at once and I'd need several screens if they were eBooks!

Congrats on the prize 0404343m! :biggrin:
I am home at the moment. Couldn't find a job because apparently 3 months is not long enough. Even volunteering seems to be difficult because, as I was told, there is not a lot of stuff to do during summer... well, so much for at least working on my CV. So the next 2 months look kinda boring for me, I do not have money to do any travelling and will therefore just count the days till I can go back to Glasgow :smile:
I should probably use all the time to do some reading etc
Buecherwurm
I am home at the moment. Couldn't find a job because apparently 3 months is not long enough. Even volunteering seems to be difficult because, as I was told, there is not a lot of stuff to do during summer... well, so much for at least working on my CV. So the next 2 months look kinda boring for me, I do not have money to do any travelling and will therefore just count the days till I can go back to Glasgow :smile:
I should probably use all the time to do some reading etc


Same here for me, and I live in Glasgow! Got quite few applications in the past few days so hopefully I'll have an interview lined up when I come back from T in the Park.
I got invited to only one interview but it didn't work out. I live in a small town with nothing really close by so all i could do is done and no one wants me.
Good luck with your interview though!

I might want to try to get a job when back in Glasgow. Does any of you work next to uni? How is that working out for you? Any problems with doing enough work for your classes?
I've been offered 20 hours a week for 3 weeks, but that's it.
Luckily the place I used to work at in Glasgow have said they'll take me back in september, so I'm not desperate for money (although it would be nice!)

Today I realised how long the summer really is. It feels like I've been home for ages and yet I've only been home for 3 weeks - with near enough 2 and a half months left until we go back. I drove past a school and realised they haven't even broken up yet!
In another month or so when I finish my all too brief employment, I'll be demented at the thought of having a month of having nothing to do (although with any hope the excitement of going to New York will start to kick in by then :biggrin:)
Buecherwurm
I am home at the moment. Couldn't find a job because apparently 3 months is not long enough. Even volunteering seems to be difficult because, as I was told, there is not a lot of stuff to do during summer... well, so much for at least working on my CV. So the next 2 months look kinda boring for me, I do not have money to do any travelling and will therefore just count the days till I can go back to Glasgow :smile:
I should probably use all the time to do some reading etc


It sounds like you're in the same situation as me. :frown: I'm going to concentrate on not spending money instead.

I also think I've screwed up my student loan but not telling Student Finance that my year is 9 weeks longer than it was last year...urgh.
I've not go much planned either. There's not much jobs going round and my local charity shops don't have any volunteering available, oddly. I'll probably just do some reading, help around the house and brush up on my sign language.
I'm one of the lucky ones who found a summer job without any trouble at all. It's on a large Pick Your Own farm and manned exclusively by students back home for the summer. It's also incredibly easily and fairly well paid. Loving it.
FyreFight
I'm one of the lucky ones who found a summer job without any trouble at all. It's on a large Pick Your Own farm and manned exclusively by students back home for the summer. It's also incredibly easily and fairly well paid. Loving it.


I would actually love that sort of job! Sadly there's nothing like that near me.
Dr Zeuss™
I've not go much planned either. There's not much jobs going round and my local charity shops don't have any volunteering available, oddly. I'll probably just do some reading, help around the house and brush up on my sign language.


I tried to find some volunteering opportunities too and no one seems to need anyone!? What's up with people not wanting free labour? :confused:
FyreFight
I'm one of the lucky ones who found a summer job without any trouble at all. It's on a large Pick Your Own farm and manned exclusively by students back home for the summer. It's also incredibly easily and fairly well paid. Loving it.


Nice one! *air high five*

I was almost the same - I applied for a job as a museum attendant and made it to the interview stage but didn't hear back for a number of weeks so I was dreading having to either go back to my old security guard job or finding something somewhere else...But they eventually rang up to say I was the "preferred candidate" and they'd send me out some forms to fill in! :smile: It was the Disclosure Scotland that messed everything up (as it usually does) so my starting date must've been delayed by 2/3 weeks. I love it, though, especially since it's 28 hours a week guaranteed till I go back to uni and the 5 hours I got on a Saturday are time and a half and the 3 hours on a Sunday are double time. :biggrin:
I see Revolution and Cheesy Pop are still on during the summer. Anyone know if they are ghost town or not?
Rizzletastic
I see Revolution and Cheesy Pop are still on during the summer. Anyone know if they are ghost town or not?


Cheesy Pop is "Cheesy Pub" for the summer, as it's being moved up to Jim's Bar. Rev is on as normal. I can't see either being busy tbh! (I miss Cheesy though. :frown:)
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Toni_bean
Revs busy! All the non-university people come out during the summer, guess they must not like students much!

Cheesy is very dead though. But what can you expect, it's a night dominated by students.
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stevo23e
i went to a cheesy pop in the middle of the summer last year and to be honest it was much better than usual, no effectively having to fight for a seat upstairs, talking to randoms easier as there were so few peeps there, you dont lose the people your with and dancing like a fanny is for some reason much easier on a deserted dancefloor cos people think your being ironic
Sometimes going in the summer you can strike lucky- if you're going with a mahoosive group of your mates it can sometimes be really good, other times there's about 30 people in the building and its gash. Could be worth going up just before 10 and kicking around to see what its like by midnight, if its rotten its cost you nowt and you can get a taxi into the city centre.
0404343m
Sometimes going in the summer you can strike lucky- if you're going with a mahoosive group of your mates it can sometimes be really good, other times there's about 30 people in the building and its gash. Could be worth going up just before 10 and kicking around to see what its like by midnight, if its rotten its cost you nowt and you can get a taxi into the city centre.


I'm finding most places in town pretty crap these days, any recommendations for nightlife in city centre?
Rizzletastic
I'm finding most places in town pretty crap these days, any recommendations for nightlife in city centre?


During the summer, not really. Weekends in ABC are still good, but midweek is a bit dire to be honest. Garage is always guaranteed to be relatively busy, as are most places in that neck of the woods as you'd expect, but the amount of clubs Glasgow has actually works against you, and most places end up a third full- and the non-student presence is much higher than usual. I've really grown to dislike Bamboo and Kushion, you'd be better (and this probably age talking) seeing if you can round up a couple of dozen people and having a house party, until September they might well be the best bet.

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