Thread 53 - Covid GCSE Cohort - Happy New Year 2025 to our fab young people

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New thread! Looking forward to traversing 2025 with this fantastic group 🎉😘

I meant to say the other day @Zebracat I'm sorry to hear about your DGC and the diabetes, that's a big thing for parents to cope with. But the technology is improving so much now. My DH was diagnosed with T1 at uni 35 or so years ago, with me having been with him for most of that time, he is in good health and leads an almost totally normal lifestyle, it was harder before continual glucose monitoring and apps came along but those have been a total gamechanger for him.

No, not at all! He's bought it himself!

His room he organised in Sheffield appears to have fallen through, though...

Oh dear @Piggywaspushed ! Dd has still not sorted a house for next year, but they’re meeting potential housemate no 6 on Friday and if they like her they’ll start viewing. The best houses seem to be 6 bed so hopefully this girl will be ok!

Yes, this is more or less why DS's might have fallen through. He agreed to take the room of a girl who is moving out of an established shared house. They have been messaging merrily but now she says her housemates want to meet him. I can see why they would but he isn't going all the way to Sheffield for a 10 minute meet up. This also now gives the impression that she has promised the house to several people. Really she needs to find someone to take on her room so he should be in the position of power.

You’d have thought in this day and age a group facetime would suffice. You take a chance on housemates whether or not you already know them, I remember some of the worst irritations in one of mine being with the person I knew best before moving in and one of my best was when I took a leap of faith and moved in with two blokes. My parents must have been having kittens over that scenario but they were lovely.

DD has secured her house for next year via FaceTime because she was in Austria! She’s moving in with a group she doesn’t know so fingers crossed it will all be ok

Yes, FaceTime or Zoom would seem fine to me!

Exactly, dd and friends had a facetime with two of the new housemates, to make sure they got on with them. I think they're abroad so couldn't meet in person.

Hopefully there will be plenty of other options @Piggywaspushed .

Gosh! has anyone read the thread about universities going bust? seems like one needs a Phd in HE spending and 50yrs working experience to participate in it. I'm a tentative lurker but some of the attitudes on there are shocking on both sides of the debate.

I only found one side with the shocking attitude, if I'm honest, but might have missed something.

It's certainly a thread that wasn't fully intended for lay opinion!

I'm on there and am hoping my posts have been fine. It has attracted the 'let them eat cake' brigade and I did think that needed calling out.

Shout ot to crazy for a v sensible post , which will be ignored! Because it's far too factually accurate!

It's certainly a thread that wasn't fully intended for lay opinion!1

@piggy You've hit the nail on the head. I think it started out as normal thread from a worried poster but has evolved into 'academic snobbery aka "Instead of posting your 'impressions'...)', basically this is a thread for those of us experts in HE matters! at the same time there's one very annoying poster there (won't mention names) who likes to pontificate like an expert on all academic threads but doesn't actually know a lot, I could tell you were getting annoyed too which made me chuckle a bit.

oh god, that thread, that poster. I dip in and out but won't post and can't always keep up, it seems to have taken off at a gallop again this week. As someone who's DC has very much needed student support, libraries etc but according to some of them shouldn't have been at uni in the first place it upsets me and of course I'm worried about it for DD too.

@ExpensiveDecoration Problem with topics re:HE is it has so many stakeholders - those working directly in HE, HE buyers, prospective parents, the butcher to the illiterate, everyone feels very strongly about it, so it can get quite heated but i think it would be helpful if people are more aware of their capacity within the discussion, and those who are experts should discuss in a way that doesn't alienate.

My favourite bit of those threads is when the fabulous Boys3 slides in ' oh, hi there! It's just me with, y'know , some actual data!'. Mic drop.

I’ve go5 to look for this thread now

I haven't looked at that thread, but I bet I can guess the poster! I have constant battles on property threads - last one about 2 days ago, where I was basically told that despite 40 years experience and professional qualifications I was wrong. She is an expert because her DH is in a related (but very distant) field.

Teehee. @Seeline , give me a clue, which thread?

@Zebracat property/garden level 😉

And was I right about the poster?!

Yes. Glad its not just me.

It's not just you @ExpensiveDecoration ! I have crossed swords on numerous occasions .

Hi all. I know exactly who you are referring to without reading the thread!

Ds2 has had his placement extended by a few weeks so will be fully occupied for the summer. He did have vague plans to do some travelling but none of his friends (who are about to graduate) have any money so it's just as well.

He's effectively living in a studio for final year but next door to the one friend who will still be there.

Is there anything that that particular poster doesn't claim to be an expert on? @Seeline that sounds very frustrating!

Good news about the placement @Decorhate - I assume? More money to go back to uni with? We've just discovered that Nottingham uni advertise summer internships with local SMEs, and dd has seen a couple she really likes the look of, so she's applied. She's already got a holiday booked in June though and a week serving as an officer on a kids camp, so I'm not sure if that will be an obstacle.