Going to university (2019/20 academic year) - wave goodbye to family, say hello to fellow students and key uni staff and they're settling in (hopefully)

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Previous thread. Possibly a little precipitous but for some of our DC their university start date is only just over a fortnight away. Yikes!

Laniakea lol!

DD had to take a photo for her uni ID pass. Wouldn't use passport photos as her hair is now a different colour obvs. Cue 2 hours in hair and make-up but I went out and came home to it being done , uploaded and accepted. I dread to think how many were taken before the chosen image was deemed acceptable. To DD not uni!

Aw, thanks just !

@Benjispruce
Edexcel

They have the advantage that the teachers get copies of all the exams. She'd asked to see them, thinking she'd have a quick glance through to see if there was anything that got those two extra marks, but hadn't got round to it.
Then she got a call from her further maths teacher to say that they'd looked at 3 of the papers and one of them looked like it definitely should go up 2 marks, one of them looked like it should go up definitely 1 and possibly 2, and one of them might go down 1.

I'm not sure when she'd got it back. She put it in around a week ago, but has been away for a week until this morning. Wretched child didn't tell me until I asked her if she'd heard anything!

It's the first time I've been impressed with anything done at her college, so that's a good thing. And I think it's given her confidence back which she lost when her year 12 further maths teacher kept telling her that she wasn't any good.

So she put the first into remark.
Apparently she'd multiplied a bracket out earlier in the working than the mark scheme showed and had been docked for accuracy. I think I dock that marker 2 marks for accuracy too
Thay hadn't looked at the other papers.

Flying lad has bimbled off to work on his birthday. He loves his lego set and has been happily building his London bus. Have now got his timetable but he has a session at 9.00 am on a Monday which means getting back from Sunday night work very difficult. He needs to go and see if he can move his hours so more adulting to be done with me pushing. This is all exhausting!

Sounds as if you had a productive day sussing out Lincoln @Piggywaspushed.

Happy Birthday to your DS @Flyingarcher.

Sounds as if your DD's teachers have been super helpful @Witchend. Fingers crossed for her.

Piggy Lincoln scored against Everton within the first 20 secs!

I know! Everton have now scored. We did wonder whether Everton tired themselves out by ill advisedly walking up Steep Hill and then having a Nandos, perhaps.

This is a boring question BUT can anyone advise on what type of clothes storage you’ve bought your dc for uni? Is it one those flat pack ones that need a vacuum to blow it up? Or something else.

I’ve also lost the link to the lovely lamp someone posted (before results came out), it had colours etc and I think it was from eitherJL or amazon.

Thank you.

No point in getting anything for DS. he has a floordrobe...

A minor annoyance... we cannot find out when term ends at Lincoln. The website says 23 December with a disclaimer about differing dates.

Surely no uni finishes on Dec 23rd??

Can you see if there’s an end date on his uni accomodation? If it says 23rd then that’s it.

That was a good idea but it just says July 31st...

Hmm..that when the academic yr ends I presume. Ds’s Accomodation has 3 separate dates for each session.

I don't know why DH wants to know so much but it seems to be annoying him.

Have you seen this:
Lincoln term dates scroll to the bottom.

It seems 23rd is when the holidays start. Bit odd I agree, I’ll check when ours is. DS sleeping right now so can’t get anything.

Shimy this lamp?
www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B01AP9HRLA/ref=ppx_yo_mob_b_inactive_ship_o0_img?psc=1&tag=mumsnetforu03-21&ie=UTF8
Dd has it but I think there’s a newer version now.

Yes, that's where I am getting 23rd from . I reckon those are office opening hours. I am sure I have seen some YouTube videos where they go for a last day at the Christmas Market which is about December 8th.
It's a Monday, too..

We have tickets for a lovely thing at The Globe and to look at Spurs' new stadium on the 23rd...

In my experience they usually finish mid December, this year that would be 13th December, but I guess they won't all be the same (some will be early December as well).

Don’t they get a wardrobe in their rooms???

Yorks finished for Christmas on 6th Dec and goes back 6th Jan.

DS finishes on the 13th methinks. If they didn't finish until the 23rd and went back on the 5th of January, they would have a shorter Christmas break than schools, wouldn't they? Am aware that some terms are shorter than others (Oxbridge ones being just eight weeks) but thought that term lengths were generally more standardised now than they used to be. When I was a student, many moons ago, the polys used to have 13 week terms, contrasted with university ones which were on average only 10 weeks..

DD finished 13th December I think - that sounds a likely bet for most unis?

So in terms of re-marks, do they actually re-mark or just check that every bit of each question has been marked and if they've been totalled up correctly? Friend says the latter only

@bigTillyMint sure they don't remark but just review the marking.

DS starts on the 9th of September and doesn't finish 'til December the 21st but he is off for virtually the whole of January.