Nice people thread part 7 - a thread in its prime

zagubov

Here's a request. Sending some students to uni this year and feeling responsible for their degree.
I posted Simon11's good post last summer and wanted advice and good tips about going to uni or selecting degrees.

I recommend they join certain societies (the International Society) work in some travel (do a course with a field trip or work experience or exchange abroad if you've some language skills).
Buy books from senior students and tap their brains (my uni had a senior/bejant system, really helpful).
Turn up for as much as possible and dont' skip anything close to exams, and so on.
Anybody been to uni/college and any advice I could add?
I already include the obvious like don't cheat, don't count on deadline extensions etc.

Any suggestions?

LydiaJ

SingleSue wrote: »

Around 2am - 7am but it is rarely uninterrupted. I have had several nights over the last month or so of not getting to sleep until 4am as youngest is seriously unsettled and struggling to cope.

Oh no.

Are they still messing him about at school? We care about you, Sue, so do please give us an update - elsewhere if you don't want to put it on here.

And how about loverrrrr? Is all going swimmingly with him?

I think DD has finally gone to sleep. The "getting everything ready for tomorrow morning" process took ages for all of us as various items of PE kit etc had been lost over the holidays and DD had got her hair into a frightful tangle which took me ages to sort out. So she went to bed an hour late (10:30 instead of 9:30) and then spent a couple of hours not being able to get to sleep, stressing about going back to school, and getting herself into a state missing her dad.

Sleep for me now. Later than planned, but a whole lot earlier than it's been for the last couple of weeks.

Masomnia

Just agreed to do a 10k in April, two days after my birthday. I'm not a runner :eek:

I'm aiming to do it in under an hour. That'll definitely be tough, but I'd rather set the bar too high and fail than too low and succeed. I reckon it's do-able if I put the work in, my general fitness is ok-ish to start with.

I don't even own any trainers/running shoes so getting a pair is the first step!

Zag, if I could have my time at uni again, I'd get involved with more societies, meet more people etc. I'd do more volunteering. Make better use of the careers service and make more of an effort there; life was quite easy planning-wise until I left uni.

In terms of work the thing for me was structuring time properly. Planning around deadlines and working out what had to be read and by when etc.

Spirit_2

Zag

I would also tell them that not all freshers are joining everything, socialising madly and loving it. Tell them to 'give it time'.

Guide them to not feel a sense of failure if they are more introverted, do not like drunks and find little in common with their roomies.

Another broken night.

Generali

Phew what a scorcher! It's going to be hot, hot, hot. It'll be 43 in Sydney tomorrow and even hotter than that in the southern part of the state. I'm going to take the kids some places with air con and remain in them for the day.

They're telling people in the south to evacuate now, even where there is no fire burning. The bloke from the Rural Fire Service was on the radio saying that there will be fires tomorrow that will destroy property and anything in it before they can let anyone know about it. It's all quite frightening TBH. Everything is like tinder round here and there are already 80-90 fires burning in NSW with more 'dry lightning' forecast overnight.

michaels

Your temps got a mention on our BBC weather this AM but they also said by tomorrow the wind would shift and it would be back to 23 degrees so hopefully just one very bad day to get through.

SingleSue

LydiaJ wrote: »

Oh no.

Are they still messing him about at school? We care about you, Sue, so do please give us an update - elsewhere if you don't want to put it on here.

And how about loverrrrr? Is all going swimmingly with him?

I think DD has finally gone to sleep. The "getting everything ready for tomorrow morning" process took ages for all of us as various items of PE kit etc had been lost over the holidays and DD had got her hair into a frightful tangle which took me ages to sort out. So she went to bed an hour late (10:30 instead of 9:30) and then spent a couple of hours not being able to get to sleep, stressing about going back to school, and getting herself into a state missing her dad.

Sleep for me now. Later than planned, but a whole lot earlier than it's been for the last couple of weeks.

Well, the maths teacher has become a lot more sensitive since his meltdown in the class but on the whole, no, nothing has been sorted. The head now scuttles away from eldest (who is not backwards in coming forward when it comes to the care issues), as he is eek about being taken to task again about the failings in the support given to youngest....at least James has been able to talk to the executive head which is one better than me, I just get palmed off with phone calls from the under head in response to my request for meetings, or letters.

It's going well with loverrr, saw him Christmas day and New years Eve. We are having great fun discovering all the tea houses in the general area and castles a little further out (when boys allow)..it is so nice to find someone who has the same interest in history and historial architecture as me.

We go out maybe once a week during the day, although sometimes that is only for a very short time due to the demands on my time and his shift pattern. We can't do quiet nights in, in front of the telly either as the two younger boys can't handle other people being in the house (not even my parents!), which is a bit of a pain but with how youngest is right now, now is not the time to be tackling this issue...the house is his safe haven where he can finally relax.

Generali

michaels wrote: »

Your temps got a mention on our BBC weather this AM but they also said by tomorrow the wind would shift and it would be back to 23 degrees so hopefully just one very bad day to get through.

They call it the 'cool change' here. The weather gets hotter and hotter for about 5 days and then the wind shifts to the SE (blowing across the cold seas caused by melting Antarctic ice) and the weather cools right down for a couple of days before getting hot again.

It's quite a nice cycle as it makes very hot weather completely bearable as you just look forward to the next cool change.

The problem tomorrow isn't going to be the heat as such it's going to be that it's hot and dry and that it's the perfect environment for fires to start and then get out of control. We live across the road from an urban national park, 4km^2 of bushland. We've had to decide on a bush fire plan for tomorrow and at what point it gets activated.

lostinrates

Accountant wants me to resist the stuff we had before the business started. Epic, and tbh, lost track with stuff going on in the last seven months. Have to do it this week, obviously.

Grrrr. I had this all in with them AGEs ago and was feeling smug I was ahead of the game with my tax return.

I hate tax return and I do not love my accountants. I want someone who comes to the house I think. Too lazy?

Generali

Aussie weather update:

Tasmania, scene of devastating bush fires in hot dry weather, has snow on high ground forecast for Wednesday.