University of Glasgow blether thread

Original post by NonaxD

Ive been to see my Advisor maybe 3/4 times over the last two years. Went when I was told to arrange appointments and also to get a letter to get out of Jury duty at exam time. I prefer emailing him tho as he replies really quickly and I dont have to wait a week to see him

I had to get one of those too...they really should do jury duty some other way as it's clear we're not gonna do it over exams!

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NonaxD

Original post by greeneyedgirl

I had to get one of those too...they really should do jury duty some other way as it's clear we're not gonna do it over exams!

It got me out of it that time but a few weeks after my exams finnished I was called again :rolleyes:

Was pick to sit on two jurys so at least I dont have to do it again for another 5 years.

They should be able to see that we are student because even if we dont have exams, we still have lectures/labs/tutorials etc that we shouldnt really be missing.

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Original post by NonaxD

It got me out of it that time but a few weeks after my exams finnished I was called again :rolleyes:

Was pick to sit on two jurys so at least I dont have to do it again for another 5 years.

They should be able to see that we are student because even if we dont have exams, we still have lectures/labs/tutorials etc that we shouldnt really be missing.

Luckily I got my advisor to also include in my letter that I live in England and am about to go to Canada for a year so really am not a good choice for juror. Hopefully they'll agree and not ask me for a while!

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NonaxD

Original post by greeneyedgirl

Luckily I got my advisor to also include in my letter that I live in England and am about to go to Canada for a year so really am not a good choice for juror. Hopefully they'll agree and not ask me for a while!

Yeah youre really not a good choice :P No doubt they will still ask you again, pretty sure they don't really pay attention to peoples circumstances :rolleyes:

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Original post by NonaxD

Yeah youre really not a good choice :P No doubt they will still ask you again, pretty sure they don't really pay attention to peoples circumstances :rolleyes:

Probably not, but as I don't have an address in Scotland anymore I can hope I might be left alone for a bit! Found it very funny, all the English girls in my flat got asked for jury duty in Scotland but the Scottish ones didn't!

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I had jury duty on the 16th of May last year when my last exam was on the 13th (remember I graduated last year)

BULL****

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Original post by munn

I had jury duty on the 16th of May last year when my last exam was on the 13th (remember I graduated last year)

BULL****

ruined your partying plans?

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Original post by greeneyedgirl

ruined your partying plans?

Not really, actually, as my party plans were from the 20th onwards (almost all of my friends either did physics or astro, or joint honours maths with them, so they still had exams). It was just my plans to catch up on about 2 months of sleep deprivation that were ruined. Here's the bit that really kills though, I arrived at 9am (that's when I'd been told), only to find that they'd pushed the beginning of the trial back to 3pm and I wasn't needed until about 1. I didn't get picked in the end either, so my day was ruined for nothing

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Original post by munn

Not really, actually, as my party plans were from the 20th onwards (almost all of my friends either did physics or astro, or joint honours maths with them, so they still had exams). It was just my plans to catch up on about 2 months of sleep deprivation that were ruined. Here's the bit that really kills though, I arrived at 9am (that's when I'd been told), only to find that they'd pushed the beginning of the trial back to 3pm and I wasn't needed until about 1. I didn't get picked in the end either, so my day was ruined for nothing

that sucks :console:

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Original post by greeneyedgirl

that sucks :console:

haha, if you could only have seen my face when I got the letter through.
Fortunately it was only a day wasted and I'm fairly certain I got home, went to bed and slept until Tuesday.

Have you moved to Canada yet?

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Original post by munn

haha, if you could only have seen my face when I got the letter through.
Fortunately it was only a day wasted and I'm fairly certain I got home, went to bed and slept until Tuesday.

Have you moved to Canada yet?

Sleep is good :yep:

Nah, head out there a week on Monday :woo:

first of all gotta head up to Scotland for a few days cos I miss it too much :sad:

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Original post by greeneyedgirl

Sleep is good :yep:

Nah, head out there a week on Monday :woo:

first of all gotta head up to Scotland for a few days cos I miss it too much :sad:

Ooooooh exciting stuff. I start my new (London) job on Monday, though actually they're sending me to a hotel in Windsor for a week.
Right now I'm staying at my aunt's house near Reading while I hunt for a flat. Bored senseless :frown:

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Original post by munn

Ooooooh exciting stuff. I start my new (London) job on Monday, though actually they're sending me to a hotel in Windsor for a week.
Right now I'm staying at my aunt's house near Reading while I hunt for a flat. Bored senseless :frown:

Nice, perks of the job early on :tongue:

although I could never work in London, hate the city with a passion!

Yeah I can imagine you're bored, flat hunting is never fun! Dreading trying to flat hunt for 4th year while I'm in Canada...

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