Holy shit what.
I know the UK is more expensive to study in than the rest of Europe (I studied there myself) but how on Earth are you getting into £50k worth of debt?
Tuition fees/loans + Maintenance loans, four years. There's also the bursary, but I don't have to pay that back. My flatmates' boyfriends'...friend has to pay £53k, I believe. Let's not even get into money I had to spend (ahem textbooks exceeding £300 ahem).
That's insane.
I went to the University of Glasgow for a BMus and my loans only totalled about £20k (granted I had free tuition because I'm European/Scottish father and Scotland likes to fuck over English students for no real reason).
I just looked into this and looks like English folk need to pay ridiculous fees. You would have been cheaper studying at my University in the Netherlands, it's well respected in law and science with a recent Nobel laureate on roll and your tuition fees would have been less than half what most English universities seem to charge you, with a bonus of most courses being taught in English or German as well as Dutch (although Brexit will probably fuck that up for UK students coming here and I don't think England lets people take loans outside of the UK, although I know Scotland does for certain universities)
Well, I'm visiting the Netherlands for my year abroad so maybe I'll just stay permanently . I've already been told that the year abroad is safe, regardless of the outcome of Brexit, but I still have to fund parts of the overall expense. Also, I'm not even studying Law when I go abroad because to study Law in a foreign country would be mostly useless, possibly confusing & detrimental at worst, so instead I'll be learning about Dutch social sciences.
Doesn't help that I'm also planning for a postgraduate, which is fucking ludicrously expensive too.
What university are you going to? I am studying at RUG/University of Groningen and it's pretty rad.
The city is something like 1/3 students and there is a huge mix of internationals too, although the internationals are mostly Irish or German.
Liverpool, and no, I do not have a Scouse accent. It's an...'eh' university. Russell Group, but that doesn't mean much considering how many times I've complained about my uni to friends, family & Facepunch. I also carry around what I can only describe as guilt, in that I never had Liverpool as my mental first choice, and rather I just had to accept that it was the best I was going to get. Thank you shitty British education system.
If it makes you feel any better when I was at University of Glasgow they tried to charge me for absolutely everything, their systems never worked and lecturers just couldn't give a shit half the time.
I'm surprised I got my BMus at all, even though it's worthless and I now do water science shit and only do music as a side gig.
My lecturers are fine, and that's the problem. People consider university as a solely academic place, which it might as well be, so they don't pay attention to the remaining broken shit, à la administration. A lift broke in my accommodation and it was broken for 10 weeks. Not too bad, you might initially think, except I live on the top floor, up 18 flights of stairs. It was a fucking nightmare, and it's recently started creaking again so I'm preparing for the INTENSE leg exercise again that I did not consent to in the slightest the first time round.
On the topic of a career relevant to your degree, I've quickly realised I don't want to be a lawyer. Do they get paid tonnes? In corporate, yeah, except I've never wanted to work in corporate law because it's full of the closest existing interpretations of Disney villains. Plus, it takes so fucking long to achieve anything. So now I'm looking into American PolSci, hence the desire to visit Georgetown, except I expect that that also will require almost decades of collecting credentials.
Goddamn, it's been 1.5 months of 2019 and already I've gone past the 40 hour overtime limit (that our system has) at work.
I've asked them to reset it and give the hours to me as money, which they did a few days ago, and now I'm already at 5:49 overtime.
And I'm just told to not put every working hour in there, to which I've basically replied with "Fuck you, I will."
The problem is that if the 40 hours gets filled too many times within a certain amount of time it kind of breaks a few laws and shit. But it's not my problem, it's my boss who is getting to explain why.
And at the same time, that very same boss keeps yelling at us how we do nothing all day and how it was ACTUALLY intense and busy back in the good ol' days.
He is retiring this October, thankfully. Maybe his follower is still sane and is at least little bit in touch with reality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SjOkb3kVgI
How many fucking videos need to use this song? Looks like "Let The Bodies Hit The Floor" and "Bring Me To Life" have some obnoxious competition.
Creative Commons License + Decent Music + Youtube cracking down heavily on any copyrighted stuff as of late.
I've masturbated for 15 years every day no problem and now out of fucking nowhere it just doesn't work anymore and my dick feels horrible even at rest what the fuck
i've taken citalopram for a tiny couple of months a year ago and apparently that completely fucked some shit up in my body permanently
everyone is like "oh haha it's just temporary xd" but it's been a year now
i'm barely 28 and its already over for me. holy shit kill me
My grandma is trying to reconnect with me after nearly a decade of radio silence.
She made it very clear how her political and religious beliefs were paramount and everyone either needed to agree with her or fuck off out of her life, including her grandkids.
Now suddenly she wants me to come out there, promising "no politics or religion" but my sister already took her up on that promise years ago and it ended up being "I'm going to say really fucked up and ignorant shit and if you say anything back then I'm going to shout you down about how this is a politics-free visit!! Also you're coming with me to my creepy church three times a week where they talk about murdering liberal politicians and their constituents for hours." Fuck that.
Took Citalopram as well. Erectile dysfunction over a year. The second year it came back in its own way, but not really fully functional. Sexual attraction is also dead to me. This shit better not be permanent.
I checked Citalopram on WebMD (great source, I know) and it said if you had any erectile dysfunction that you should contact your doctor about it immediately. It also said the problem can persiste for over a year and in some cases can be permanent.
So go see your doctor dude.
Really love seeing pictures of aborted fetuses strewn across my college campus and not being able to do anything about it because "free speech, lol :^)".
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/214606/3fc32303-be7c-459d-a045-f7b76cdcf4dd/Capture.PNG
This isn't what I expected to see on my morning walk to class.
How the fuck did you masturbate consecutively for 15 years
Maybe you should have tried before you literally broke your penis
unless you did
We had no backups to our single sign-in for 90% of our applications.
That single sign-in has been down since Monday night.
We had 40+ calls waiting this morning about it.
WHY DO WE NOT HAVE A BACKUP SERVER OR BACKUP LOGIN OPTIONS FOR FUCKS SAKE
Semi-unintentionally wasting days off to sleep because having responsibilities means I have to only get 12 hours of sleep in one half-week
Sorry for the double-post, and this is something that makes me equally sad as well as upset
How easily people can just remove you off their friend's lists and you'd have no way of knowing about it until you went looking for a chat with that person. Makes it even harder when the person frequently changes aliases or avatars, making it a nightmare to reconcile with them.
Just because we haven't chatted in a couple of days, to a week or two; shouldn't be a legit reason to never want to talk to that person ever again. Especially after we've bonded in the past, just feels kind of petty.
"You don't respond enough", I try, alright? Sometimes I feel like having multiple online friends makes it a hassle to keep up with people. I find myself being comfortable keeping thoughts to myself, but really opening up when I have time to just sit around on my computer (which isn't often).
Doesn't make it hurt any less when people do that.
When disabled access toilets are really just used as storage rooms by staff so you can't use them.
All I ask from society is a place to take a shit wtf.
it's ok bro, im creative yet broke too
My mom came in and told me that someone who was test driving her car fucking wrecked it.
It really doesn't help that it's a relatively new car.
Games where you almost need to stay away from the multiplayer because everyone else who plays it is so ultra-mega elite at the game that you can't have any fun, because you keep getting crushed into dust within minutes.
Tried to get back into For Honor and can't fucking do it. Some of the same OP characters are still OP and the majority of the community tells you to "git gud" in response to their favorite/main character being called OP. Fuck this game and it's toxic community.
It ticks me off when people treat their taste in food objectively like they are an authority on all foods. Doubly so if they are intolerant of other people's tastes.
Was playing Eastshade, I 'demoed' it so I don't have the privilege of slapping a negative review on the store page.
I have no freaking clue why this game is getting decent reviews, but whatever float other boats I guess. I enjoy 'walking simulators' but this isn't a good one.
Game looks 2009 with excess foliage, chugs on my 1080, have trash terrain collision and crashes every half an hour but okay, I'm willing to discount technical issues.
If a game is about painting, don't do everything in your power to make doing that difficult with shit like scavenging, crafting and some dumbass 'inspiration' meter.
Another oppressed genre trying to shoehorn themselves with systems to appear more game-like.
I was interested in it because it was cited as "trying to make players appreciate game environments in an organic way", which I find fascinating because a lot of developers have trouble with that and they often end up forcing characters to walk, roadblock with characters talking, having long ass stretches, redundant 'lookout' spots, or scatter loot at corners (which defeats the purpose).
90% of the game I was auto-running doing errands because I don't have the resource to afford painting. When I do I just do it to fulfill a quest.
Good thing it is already February because this is my first biggest game disappointment this year.
I learned about corn dogs recently and they look really weird and they make me irrationally upset
These stupid "Similar to Posts You've Interacted With" thing on facebook must be sponsored posts being disguised because it's always from sponsored posts that I clicked hide on. Just as bad as the popular across facebook shit, keep the damn feed to my LIKED pages and friends ffs.
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Shit that makes you mad V. I hate the post limit
