Fighting our way through 1st year uni (starting Sept 17)

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Continuing the previous thread.

Exams, assessments, essays, etc.

Support, or lack of it.

Will they all get accommodation for next year and can they cook a balanced meal yet.

Haffdonga DS is also panicking about exams and is another one for whom a retake would be a big confidence dent. He has worked so hard and thinks he has probably done enough to pass, but it’s such a tough course. Luckily he has done well on his coursework and he is going into his last exam, tomorrow, knowing he has already achieved the module pass mark. One of the other ones though was a really difficult paper. The only consolation is that everyone else thought it was horrendous too. He is also dreading the thought of retakes, and has arranged his internship around being free for them which is typically pessimistic!

I have no idea when they get their exam results. I assume before the end of term.

It's not really that people had extra bus fares through the strike but the non monetary disruption.

Quite. It's a drop in the ocean isn't it? Better than free ice cream maybe?

Morvah and Haffdonga - hoping for good news.
DD thinks late July for results. I hope she means late June!
Eve, well done to your DS, my DD has her test soon.

Surely ice cream promotes well-being.

It does in this house :-)

Brizzle thanks for the link - will send to DD. I doubt she had extra costs but she missed out on virtually all of her 9 hours tuition a week over however many weeks it was. We can afford to support her, but what about others (including friends of hers) whose families are scraping money to help or who have to work as well as study, etc. It is truly crap for them.

BTM, but have you factored in the ice cream?

Brizzle (may I belatedly say that is a great username) "DD thinks late July for results. I hope she means late June!" I suspect it may be late July. Certainly DD say she will only have a week to revise for resits, scarey as failing the occassional exam is quite common on her course. I had though this was because they are sitting their exams so late, but it could equally be a University wide thing.

Have I missed that UoB are actually giving out free ice cream?!

12-2pm today and tomorrow at the Senate House BTM

Needmoresleep thank you, I'm quite partial to Brizzle. Less so the drizzle. None so far today though, it's hot and humid here.

DS has his property law exam tomorrow - this law lecturer was his only 1 that took part in the strikes and therefore a lot of lectures were missed.

The lecturer has said no allowance will be made in the exam questions or in marking for this and told students if they don't like it take it up with the uni.

DS and his class are very cross over this, and think they are being used to make a point.

"Have I missed that UoB are actually giving out free ice cream?!"

Really? You can't make this stuff up sometimes, so many places peddling sugar like a drug! Why can't it be something nice and for good for them?

Lol Xenia - what would you allow them to enjoy?

Don't worry, they won't listen to me anyway. I am just not a fan of people pushing free sugar on to everyone left, right and centre. Mind you alcohol is sugar too so I'm sure they've had their fair bit of that this year.

Mind you alcohol is sugar too

No it's not, but most alcoholic drinks contain sugar .

I'm firmly of the opinion that ice cream is good for emotional well-being. Like puppies... are any unis doing the dog destressing thing this year.

I'm feeling guilty about the ice cream I had tonight now. It is very good for emotional well being. Only thing keeping me sane during A Levels, finals and first year exams.

Really? You can't make this stuff up sometimes, so many places peddling sugar like a drug! Why can't it be something nice and for good for them?

A bit of what you fancy and all that. I know what you mean though.

Talking of which, would you eat a tub of ice cream which had defrosted and frozen again? (Xenia, I know you probably wouldn't !) :-)

Newcastle did the puppy cuddling thing last year I believe and said they were having kittens too ☺️

Ice cream is ALWAYS acceptable in my world - whether I'm stressed or not!

DS had a 3hr exam yesterday and said it was 'ok'.

Eve - hope the exam goes ok. With any luck, the tutor was just making a point about the importance of independent study.

Last exam for one of mine today of the term, I believe.

(Errol, very good point. Zero sugar although unless you have it all neat most people take a fair bit of sugar in with their alcohol and I am certainly not telling my children to move from ice cream to vodka for health reasons; I will shut up about sugar now)....

They could have vodka ice cream ?
Hope the exam goes well.

Thanks and I hope everyone else whose children are doing exams this week find them okay. Now there's a thought for a new ice cream.

Vodka tastes of nowt, but I'm sure there's a gap in the market for artisanal gin ice cream with lots of lovely botanicals, or maybe sorbet would be better?

Just for you Errol
www.ocado.com/webshop/product/Judes-Gin--Tonic-Dairy-Ice-Cream/285934011

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5724961/Twiglet-Cambridge-Jack-Russell-helps-students-stress-left-exhausted.html

For Errol.

Vodka tastes of nowt, but I'm sure there's a gap in the market for artisanal gin ice cream with lots of lovely botanicals, or maybe sorbet would be better?

I've never had vodka so I didn't know that. I had a sloe gin ice cream once, 'twas delicious.

Awww, poor Twiglet.