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Graduation day, University of Glasgow
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sparklysparkles
...until it comes to the week before an assignment is due and the books are being hogged by your lovely peers for days at a time? I remember laughing when the law department told us that people had been caught deliberately putting books back where they weren't meant to go so that nobody else would be able to use them, but after experiencing assignment/exam time, I can believe it!

Did they tell you that was the reason we have to do all these group assignments? Law students were being too competitive (hence hiding the books) and employers were complaining they didn't know how to work together.

I agree, though, that if I knew how to use the library better (putting "stops" on books, or whatever, reserving them) I wouldn't need to buy the books, or as many as I do.
Graduation day, University of Glasgow
University of Glasgow
Same thing happens in the medical library. It's a non-lending library so the books have to be in there somewhere. In second year, you only get a week to do coursework so people were hiding and stock-piling books! I found a big pile in one of the project rooms and put them back on the proper shelves - I also felt like leaving them a note telling them to grow up!
Aurora.
Ah sorry, I didn't know it was online. I'm doing biology, chemistry and psychology for first year. Going to have a look now, thanks :smile:



I'm assuming you are doing Biology as your degree? I would personally just get the Biology textbook if so. All your information will be in your lectures.
Rizzletastic
I'm assuming you are doing Biology as your degree? I would personally just get the Biology textbook if so. All your information will be in your lectures.


Ah, thanks for the advice :smile: Yep, doing a biology degree. I'll start with that one and then if I feel like I need to get either of the others I'll look into it then. Or make friends with the library.
God this thread has been silent for 3 days... shock horror.

To add a bit of spice, I move into my new flat on the 1st of September right at the library :woo:

also my timetable is as follows

Mon 12 - 2
Tue 12 - 3
Wed 12 - 2
Thur 12 - 3
Fri 12 - 3

(this is without tutorials, so i'll try get them in at 11 :smile: )

I also got myself and internship over the summer which I worked for 3 and half months; Monday to Friday 9:00 - 17:30. So saved up quite a bit of money from that and today is my last day. I have been invited back by the owner any time :biggrin:

I'm happy :biggrin:
^You've got it made man, well jealous.

I got an email saying that, after all the changes at the University, nothing has changed. Excellent.
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munn
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they've got rid of loads of courses for my 4th year that were previously available, but i don't think it's to do with the university changes.
Having resit 3rd year just there, I can say it was completely different from my first 3rd year, and apparently everyone else in my class's 1st and 2nd year were completely different from mine too, so i think this is just a planned restructure that's been going on for 4 years.
That said, I'm still not happy, some of the courses that were available to 4th years this year were courses that I had available to me last year like Probability (actually that's the only one that they've gotten rid of that I really wanted to do) are gone. Shame because I passed that exam first time around in 3rd year (only just though) despite attending zero lectures and having another exam on the same day, so only actually studying for it for about 4 hours beforehand.
Imagine how easy it would have been this year putting in effort
Steverockin
God this thread has been silent for 3 days... shock horror.

To add a bit of spice, I move into my new flat on the 1st of September right at the library :woo:

also my timetable is as follows

Mon 12 - 2
Tue 12 - 3
Wed 12 - 2
Thur 12 - 3
Fri 12 - 3

(this is without tutorials, so i'll try get them in at 11 :smile: )

I also got myself and internship over the summer which I worked for 3 and half months; Monday to Friday 9:00 - 17:30. So saved up quite a bit of money from that and today is my last day. I have been invited back by the owner any time :biggrin:

I'm happy :biggrin:


Not bad at all, Last year I had the worst timetable ever. 9-5 3 days a week, no day off at all and a 50 min lecture on a Tues and nothing else.

I've just been working a pointless retail job over the summer, I really need to get some related experience in, I've applied for a work exp year so i'm hoping to get invited for an interview for that (hoping that grades aren't the defining factor). Failing that I need to get an internship between 3rd and 4th year.
lol yeah i know im pretty lucky to have that timetable.

Just wondering, is there anyway that you can get into any fresher events when you're not a fresher? (muhahaha) as a couple of my best mates are coming to the uni this year.
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CJN
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How did everyone get there timetables?!
CJN
How did everyone get there timetables?!


Look up your course on the course catalogue and it says when you have lessons...
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Z-6H820
my timetables not too bad either, Wednesdays and Fridays off, on Tuesdays and Thursdays I have a lecture at 12pm 2pm 4pm and on Monday it's 10am 2pm 4pm. Other than Monday it sounds all good, not too much waiting about :smile:
Ah, reading Tindall & Shi and Merriman again in preparation for teaching American and Modern History. Everyone jokes about the students knowing more than the tutor, but this might actually be the case this time.
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stevo23e
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Ah, reading Tindall & Shi and Merriman again in preparation for teaching American and Modern History. Everyone jokes about the students knowing more than the tutor, but this might actually be the case this time.


you gonna be one of those hip young tutors who banters away but doesnt teach anything, or the ones who never smile, dont like jokes but who makes you actually do the reading so you learn something?
Just typed up my timetable there, so I know when I can work shifts. Both semesters I have 2 days off and another with only one lecture. 9 hours of lectures in semester 1 and 6 in semester 2. Tutorials will bump that up by only a couple. Seems like the number of contact hours is dropping next year, which I'm actually glad of.
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C274
Can Freshers' Pass application forms be handed in in person with cash, or do they have to be posted with a cheque/postal order? Yes, I will phone and ask tomorrow.
I'd phone and ask



If it's like 2 years ago, they can be paid on the day
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lanne
C274
Can Freshers' Pass application forms be handed in in person with cash, or do they have to be posted with a cheque/postal order? Yes, I will phone and ask tomorrow.


I've had the same problem http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=429381293200
stevo23e
you gonna be one of those hip young tutors who banters away but doesnt teach anything, or the ones who never smile, dont like jokes but who makes you actually do the reading so you learn something?


Banter overload probably. I'm going to utilise everything I've learned from being a freshers helper and hold tutorials in the pub. This works best for everyone I think, because that way no one will notice I don't know anything either. Hell, I got through Oxford this way, and pretty much waffled my way to a first at Glasgow, so I think everyone should be fine.*


In all seriousness, I had a good bit of chat with my students in Ox, about such related topics to the 18th C economy as the election and whether Britain is really so shallow to not vote for the dour, ugly guy. That's fine when people are doing the work, but my ass gets kicked if everyone fails, so if they're not, I have to cut the chat and actually force people to do something. And no one wants that.







*unless you aren't as good as waffling as I am. In which case you're f--ked
C274
Can Freshers' Pass application forms be handed in in person with cash, or do they have to be posted with a cheque/postal order? Yes, I will phone and ask tomorrow.


Handing the form in on day one of FW is fine, but you will have to bring passport photos and stand in the mother of all queues, because half the freshers have the same idea.

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