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University 2020 :8: Use the CAGs, don’t use the CAGs...

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MillicentMartha · 16/08/2020 10:26

...if you can use the mocks, then use the mocks but not if they're higher than the CAGs.

And hopefully on to university!

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www.mumsnet.com/Talk/higher_education/3993327-University-2020-7-Results-tombola-roll-up-roll-up-pick-a-prize?pg=39

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ThingDoer · 15/09/2020 22:51

@CornflakeMum Didn't spot a single trunk in Hiatt Baker in 1976! You must have been in Wills!

@GaribaldiGirl sorry to hear that catered is so rubbish in Edinburgh. Like @ClerkMaxwell I dropped my dd at her flat of 5 yesterday and they are all doing stuff together and with others in small groups. She's finally picked out her options too!

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MillicentMartha · 15/09/2020 23:26

Hmm, new thread title? It’ll probably slow down once they’ve all started. Hopefully they’ll get some fun before coronavirus buggers things up.

How about ‘And they’re off - making hay while the sun shines?’ A bit of optimism to jolly things along.

Or ‘Nests may be empty - but Christmas is around the corner?’

Dropping DS off on Sunday at Manchester. May not hear from him again until Christmas!

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Monkey2001 · 16/09/2020 00:26

Those are very upbeat @MillicentMartha!
"Studies in a Time of Covid"?

Sostenueto · 16/09/2020 07:10

2 suitcases I holdall 1 box I large rucksack and 1 small.

Sostenueto · 16/09/2020 07:11

Oops thread moved on!

Sostenueto · 16/09/2020 07:20

Dgd has now found 3 flatmates on group and subject chat and they are zooming and whatsapping so she has at least familiar faces to look out for. She has a Welsh, French and one from hereford. Only another 2 to find. She is not allowed on campuses unless they have to be there for library lab or small subject seminar and student Union. Everything else on line. Already been doing tasks sent to her but no timetable or allocated tutor yet and she goes Sunday.

Ironoaks · 16/09/2020 07:41

The 2019 intake already have a thread going called Study in the time of Covid, so I don't think we should use that.

LIZS · 16/09/2020 07:45

That's a shame @GaribaldiGirl. I think dd is having similar issues, mainly because the Bubble has been defined as thise sharing a pantry (12 or so) but the ones in adjacent rooms seem to already know each other and she feels quite intimidated. Those she has found more friendly are on other floors/bubbles so limited mixing opportunities. She sent me a copy of the email from uni and it is quite intimidating. Probably not aimed at her but she feels scared at threat of suspension or expulsion from accommodation if caught out of line. Pm me if you like where your dd is, maybe they are close enough to chat. I doubt she is alone in feeling like this.

ThingDoer · 16/09/2020 07:51

[quote ThingDoer]@CornflakeMum Didn't spot a single trunk in Hiatt Baker in 1976! You must have been in Wills!

@GaribaldiGirl sorry to hear that catered is so rubbish in Edinburgh. Like @ClerkMaxwell I dropped my dd at her flat of 5 yesterday and they are all doing stuff together and with others in small groups. She's finally picked out her options too! [/quote]
What a typo! 1986

CornflakeMum · 16/09/2020 08:24

@ThingDoer Wasn’t Wills all male then?!

No, I was in one of the Clifton halls. I remember two friends who shared a room using their trunks as a kind of room divider.
Also all the students who’d had a ‘gap yah’ covered theirs with colourful batik-type sarongs from whichever countries they’d visited!

Hoghgyni · 16/09/2020 09:03

It's got to be upbeat please Millicent Let's leave the weeping & wailing to WIWIKAU. They've had a fairly horrible time so far this year, so they need positivity.

TudorChimney · 16/09/2020 09:13

@GaribaldiGirl

My daughter went up to Edinburgh last weekend and is having a totally rubbish time. They have to eat at exam style tables in her hall, there are no club meet ups or activities (other than on Zoom) and the university is being strict about any groupings. She didn’t know anyone when she went and is now feeling really lonely and isolated. She’s a little shy but not painfully so and I feel desperate for her. She was so excited before she went. How on earth do they think students will make friends?
My son is the same in his huge hall in Exeter. When I saw the exam-style tables in the dining hall I wanted to turn round and bring him home again. We were so excited when he got his first choice (very expensive) hall, but now I think he would have been so much better in a smaller hall, self-catered based around a small flat with 8 students he could get to know properly, rather than be one of 20+ in a long corridor with limited space to socialise. His hall has a lovely terrace with a great view, but they have taken away the tables and chairs. He appears to have just 3 hours of zoom academic sessions a week. I am worried about his mental health, this is not what we imagined for him.
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MillicentMartha · 16/09/2020 10:39

I'm glad DS is in a hall with 8 to a kitchen and shared bathroom. I was a bit worried about him having to cook, but actually, that will make him have to socialise.

I'm sure even in a catered hall, they will find opportunities to socialise, though. There must still be bubbles of some sort?

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GaribaldiGirl · 16/09/2020 10:44

TudorChimney - my daughter is saying she wishes she was in one of the flats. Her accomodation is eye watering expensive and in normal circumstances would be lovely but she’s stuck in a room on a corridor, hardly anyone around her and no face to face contact with anyone. What’s the point of being there?!
She was so excited about the whole thing and so far it’s a crushing disappointment. There seems to be absolutely no thought for their well-being. Better to do the degree from home if this is what it’s going to be like. Cheaper too!

ThingDoer · 16/09/2020 10:44

[quote CornflakeMum]@ThingDoer Wasn’t Wills all male then?!

No, I was in one of the Clifton halls. I remember two friends who shared a room using their trunks as a kind of room divider.
Also all the students who’d had a ‘gap yah’ covered theirs with colourful batik-type sarongs from whichever countries they’d visited![/quote]
Nope, was mixed but posh is 86 - I don't remember any single sex halls?

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tantamountto · 16/09/2020 10:46

DD has made friends online before starting university - there seem to be a lot of chats and zoom meetings with people doing the same subject, and with many of them doing the same pre-uni online course. She expects to be in the same bubble as one other young woman doing the same subject, which I think will help a lot. Presumably she'll meet up with others away from her accommodation. No-one can stop them meeting up outside. Once there's a small gang of friends they're sorted. She's already met up with 2 people during the summer holidays, though one of them lives a few hundred miles away, and expects one of them to become a firm friend. Her subject is vocational, so the people on the course tend to have a lot in common.

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TudorChimney · 16/09/2020 11:01

GaribaldiGirl - think we are in exactly the same situation. Can only get better! Off to the new thread where I will try and be more positive!

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