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Results Day and UCAS

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MotherOfGirls · 06/08/2013 12:03

Eldest DD is expecting A level results on 15th so this is my first experience of UCAS. She seems to think her results will go to UCAS before they are emailed to her by her school, and so she will find out if she has made her offer by checking her UCAS account. She also thinks this happens at midnight. Can anyone confirm any of this, please?

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MABS · 18/08/2013 17:41

dd not even glanced at list..

noddyholder · 18/08/2013 17:59

God they are hopeless! I am going to get on his case this week. My sister is hoping to offload some stuff!

Jins · 18/08/2013 18:57

Just returned from a walkabout near the hall DS will live in. 15 minutes walk to aldi. Convenience store, pharmacy and health centre on the doorstep. 3 minutes to local train station. 25 minutes to clubs and bars. 10 minutes to department. Pretty good location I think.

Pans, crockery and cutlery provided in hall so no chance of offloading my old stuff this year unfortunately. TV in each flat so no need to even think about a TV licence.

DH and I were at uni in the same city and dragged him to a few of our old haunts. He looked repulsed Grin

eatyourveg · 18/08/2013 19:59

Noddy - ds has to find his own accommodation as halls were massively over subscribed and they aren't taking anyone onto the waiting list. The TSR and the FB housing group are full of people in full panic mode advertising themselves for flatshares. The uni are even organising a speed date style flatmate search event. DS seems to be functioning in a parallel universe and the nearest he has got to doing anything is to buy an A-Z. Apparently he will not be selling himself online to anyone!

CleverlyConcealed · 18/08/2013 22:25

eatyourveg - see if his uni have a Fresher's FB page - loads of spare rooms flagged up on dd's last year.

I sent old stuff with all of mine - 'familiar' bedding, towels, crock and cutlery. I had new Smile and lets be honest you'll never want to use thosetowels again once they've come back. ds's were given to his brother for the dog!

CleverlyConcealed · 18/08/2013 22:27

Best piece of advise from me - don't look at the packing list on TSR. You'll need to lie down in a darkened room.

ijustwanttobeme · 19/08/2013 01:06

Mother of girls- snap! my DD is also off to Birmingham to do Sports and Exercise Science.

Did most of the Uni stuff shopping today, with info from this post it made it a fun experience. (Saw many a dazed and confused parent plus student teen, in Ikea this afternoon.)

Thanks x

MABS · 19/08/2013 08:12

I looked at it Cleverlyconsealed!! :(

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MotherOfGirls · 19/08/2013 08:19

How exciting! They are bound to meet. Although I have a no idea how many are on the course. Where will your DD be living, ijustwanttobeme? And what are you buying? Feel I'm missing something!

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duchesse · 19/08/2013 08:51

DS has managed perfectly well for two years without most of the things on that list. I mean, who in their right mind takes a mixing jug to university?? What are mugs for?

ExcuseTypos · 19/08/2013 09:21

My dd has a mixing jug duchesseBlush.
However she loves cooking and baking she also has a food mixer and scales

She whizzes up cakes, muffins, etc in 5 minutes flat. She also cooks all her meals from scratch. Will people think she's mad? (Worried now)

alreadytaken · 19/08/2013 11:45

anyone who wants to cook for friends, mugs are too small. However the cake in a mug recipe e.g. allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/7622/5-minute-chocolate-mug-cake.aspx should maybe be on everyone's uni list?

alreadytaken · 19/08/2013 11:46

oops - forgot excusetypos people wont think she's mad but they may try to leave all the cooking to her and that can cause rows. I suggest she offers to teach others to cook.

ExcuseTypos · 19/08/2013 12:49

She actually loves cooking for people but I will maybe warn her against doing lots to start with, otherwise she may be taken for granted.

duchesse · 19/08/2013 12:52

Agree with Typos- DS fondly imagined a cooking rota. In his house there were lucky if anything got cooked after the first week. Or washed up. Or cleaned.

Fairdene · 19/08/2013 18:51

DD1 and DD2 both lived out in their second year and had a cooking rota for when the whole house was in. And a shopping rota. And a cleaning rota. It worked for both houses very well. But when they lived in they took they took a minimal amount: clothes, wash stuff/ make-up stuff, duvet and covers, books and files and a few pretty thing plus mugs. Some large family cars arrived stuffed to the roof with pots and pans and whisks and blenders and all sorts of unnecessarily complicated stuff which I'm quite sure never got used. And involved a huge amount of heaving to and from some inevitably far flung room, with a multitude of fire doors to negotiate. Cardboard boxes have a habit of collapsing mid-carry, IME at least.

MABS · 21/08/2013 10:19

she all registered, filled all in, tenancy agreement signed, 250 deposit paid, off to Asda shortly for first shop of essential stuff etc...very real! she far more interested that she found 6 new people on fb and TSR going to same accom, so bought 3 fresher events tickets so far... priorities huh??!!

ExcuseTypos · 21/08/2013 10:33

Yes it is becoming very real!

My dd has had a gap year and although really looking forward to starting uni, is suddenly panicking that she hasn't written an essay for over a year. She thinks she's going to find it hard to restart all this studying.

eatyourveg · 21/08/2013 12:09

ds has had a look at the welcome week events and doesn't want to go to any of them - says its a waste of money getting a ticket up until the second week Sad

chemenger · 21/08/2013 12:38

Be careful about deciding not to go to freshers week, here at least there is quite a lot of official business done in that week - completing registration, meeting tutors, picking up handbooks, induction talks, choosing optional courses. Students who miss that week are on the back foot for some time at the beginning of the semester and find it hard to catch up. It may be different in other places but even for returning students we have things they are expected to attend in induction week (as it is apparently now called here).

Ponders · 21/08/2013 13:16

Helpful information for anybody going to Sheffield - Ranmoor has lifts, Endcliffe doesn't

just sayin'... Grin

(at least this is true of the 2 buildings DS2 experienced; am assuming it's the same throughout)

JugglingFromHereToThere · 21/08/2013 13:24

Yes, I'd definitely go to freshers week eatyourveg- once there he can decide how much to go along to, there may be some necessary stuff to do as chemenger says, and just by being there he might make a couple of friends - he doesn't need to do everything that's on the welcome week programme I'm sure! Hope you can persuade him (and it won't be any more expensive really will it ? - as long as they don't party too hard !) Smile

creamteas · 21/08/2013 13:29

Eatyourveg At my uni there are two timetables for Freshers, one sent with all the social stuff and another sent later by the dept with the serious stuff on it.

Completing your registration during Freshers is the access point to so much important stuff, it is set up to take students through the bureaucracy. If she doesn?t go she will have a hard job getting everything done. Staff will all be busy doing other things the following week, and may not be able to assist her. For example, if she misses her slot for picking up her student card she might not be able to get into some buildings including the library.

She will also not receive her student loan until after the University has confirmed she has arrived on campus.

Is she in university accommodation? If she doesn't arrive on the due date without letting them know her room will be given to someone else....

MABS · 21/08/2013 14:12

Freshers seems to be dd's main focus!!

mumeeee · 21/08/2013 14:53

Eatyourveg, Your DD won't get her student loan until she enrolls and that usually happens at the beginning of Freshers week and it's also! the week that you get to know everybody and important stuff about the university. DD3 has already got an enrollment time and there ate uni talks that she has been advised to attend,