University of Glasgow blether thread

Applicants Day tomorrow. Bring on the crowds... :rolleyes:

Reply 1022

Haha, I'm avoiding it like the plague. I'm working instead, woo.

Reply 1023

TheOneWho

Haha, I'm avoiding it like the plague. I'm working instead, woo.

I may resort to hitting them if they get in the way of us trying to prepare for fieldclass presentations...
Come lunchtime I'll be in no mood to be welcoming and polite.

Reply 1024

Student2806

I may resort to hitting them if they get in the way of us trying to prepare for fieldclass presentations...
Come lunchtime I'll be in no mood to be welcoming and polite.

Just try to avoid the library, they all cluster in little groups. And if you do go to the lab watch out for the geomatics people, I hear they aren't too happy with the third years.

Is the snow really bad up there? I'm meant to be working tomorrow, but if the trains are messed up because of it then I might wrangle myself a day off..

Reply 1025

TheOneWho

Just try to avoid the library, they all cluster in little groups. And if you do go to the lab watch out for the geomatics people, I hear they aren't too happy with the third years.

I imagine it's because some of my year have been hogging computers. Would I be correct?
I don't fit into this category - my group camped out in the L1 lab from 10-10. We were the last ones out of the East Quad tonight...

TheOneWho

Is the snow really bad up there? I'm meant to be working tomorrow, but if the trains are messed up because of it then I might wrangle myself a day off..

It's coming down pretty heavy, but thankfully it isn't lying. Yet.

Reply 1026

Student2806

Yep, and making a general nuisance of themselves whilst they have deadlines. I think they do have quite a lot on at the moment so are needing to do work. L1 lab is so underrated, I quite like it in there. That's where I go if I don't need a computer.

Hmm, forecast is heavy snow tonight and tomorrow. It's been raining here though, so might take a while to lie. I don't really mind going to work, but it'll be a pain in the arse if I can't get home!

Reply 1027

Buecherwurm

I am going to help out at the open day tomorrow, I can really do with an additional 50 pounds this month somehow.
Last time I did it most people were nice but I got ask whether students would really be expected to walk from Queen Margaret (you should have seen the horror in their faces when I said there isn't a regular shuttle during the day), whether it would be ok to leave the dishes for the cleaners to do (once a week, lovely) and whether there is a certain class system concerning the accommodation. Haha, took me a while to get he really meant what he was asking. So yeah, it was great fun for me :smile:

Reply 1028

Meltdown30

I'm also surprised at the number of people wondering if there's buses from Murano/Queen Margaret in the accommodation threads. :rolleyes:

I'm definitely avoiding the campus then - home studying it is!

Reply 1029

The walk from Murano is fine - I used to quite enjoy it. Better than my current 35 minute tramp along Dumbarton Road :dry:

Reply 1030

Meltdown30

I'm definitely avoiding the campus then - home studying it is!

I really need to head into the library tomorrow instead of staying at home; this new revelation is starting to depress me!

Glad I checked this thread now, at least I'll be expecting it.

Reply 1031

Celtic_Anthony

I really need to head into the library tomorrow instead of staying at home; this new revelation is starting to depress me!

Glad I checked this thread now, at least I'll be expecting it.

You'd probably be fine as long as you avoid going into the library or using any of the machines between 11-1. That seems to be the prime time for tours and the like to go on.

Reply 1032

TheOneWho

You'd probably be fine as long as you avoid going into the library or using any of the machines between 11-1. That seems to be the prime time for tours and the like to go on.

avoid going into the library

That's where I was planning on going.

Ah well, I guess I'll be a genuinely brilliant advert for the Uni, seated something like this:

Reply 1033

Celtic_Anthony

That's where I was planning on going.

Ah well, I guess I'll be a genuinely brilliant advert for the Uni, seated something like this:

I was meaning if you could get in before the crowds and manage to get stuff you need, then you should be ok. I've had the pleasure of negotiating the library when there have been about thirty 'goals' groups about. Everywhere I went they were there, with people refusing to move or just ignoring me.

I think we're all excellent adverts with our moaning about freshers.

Reply 1034

0404343m

I think I'm going to go bury myself in the Adam Smith library or the Thurso Street Archives (or just bury myself). Either that, or I'm donning the Oxford hoodie and acting like the good offer holder that I am, and asking all sorts of daft questions to people who know that I know the answer. Where is the Beer Bar...

Reply 1035

sparklysparkles

It's such a rotten day; I don't know if that'll have put some people off...

Reply 1036

0404343m

Aye- British summer time brings with it cold weather, sleet and gales, for the same three days that both a major international conference and the open day is held. The sterotype of Glaswegian weather will leave with reinforcements in the minds of quite a few people this week...

Reply 1037

sparklysparkles

It's such a rotten day; I don't know if that'll have put some people off...

It put me off, still in my house after my moaning last night :biggrin:

Reply 1038

sparklysparkles

Celtic_Anthony

It put me off, still in my house after my moaning last night :biggrin:

Apparently it wasn't even that bad in the library... I've been home all day too, but have my spies :wink:

EDIT: realise that was slightly nullified by Fyrefight's statement above... oh well.

Reply 1039