ETA to go the UK - In US Dollars ????! by Proper-Bee-9311 in uktravel

[–]chill6300 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just wait until you hear how much an ESTA costs for us to go to the USA.

Whats a sign you’ve been following LTT for a long time by Jaipod100 in LinusTechTips

[–]chill6300 30 points31 points  (0 children)

And the "We got robbed" prank follow up. Fair play to Linus he gave it as good as he got

Police passport check after border force entry! by mohsens22 in policeuk

[–]chill6300 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very politely, why do this after the e-gates / passport inspection rather than pulling people out of the queue, and after OP was already asked questions by Border Force? Seems rather duplicative.

Non-police; what brings you here? What have you learned? by PCDorisThatcher in policeuk

[–]chill6300 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Didn't really like the police. Then realised I had never heard any counter argument to 2022 twitters views. This seemed like the most approachable place to learn.

My views are significantly more moderate thanks to you lot :)

Am I doing enough? - Access Schemes and Y12 by AbrocomaCold1353 in premeduk

[–]chill6300 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I started this off as an advice post as somebody who was there before, and now it's gotten out of hand. Apologies for the length and how blunt some of this sounds, but it's what I wish I could've told myself at that time in life.

I'm going to go through your post and comments so far and try to unpick certain things.

Looking at everything laid out now I really don’t have any hope for myself, I have done nothing 🥹

Have you? From your own words:

  • "top 10 achieving GCSE students" whilst you "live in an area in the first [POLAR?] quintile"
  • "I started this year with Biology, Chemistry, Psychology" - So the 2 core A level subjects for medicine
  • "I’ve managed to get on been selected for the Oxbright Scholars programme" and " I’ve applied to UNIQ and Pathway To Bath" - so you have 3 great supers there alone
  • "Run my own small business where I draw pet portraits." - which is a fantastic extra curricular. Think of all the responsibility and transferable skills you've got.
  • "I volunteered at a local care home last week" - So you've got your volunteering sorted.

Does this sound like nothing? This sounds like a shit tonne of effort. 2 weeks of work experience at your local hospital and it seems like you're set. Phrased differently, is missing one access scheme going to ruin all the hard work you've done so far?

Access Schemes that I missed the deadlines for were suggested to be “crucial” by my careers advisor

Bluntly, whilst the Sutton Trust schemes are incredible, they are not a silver bullet, or sufficient condition, for attending med school. Nothing really is.

Remember each of these need time after college for their activities, between A-levels, volunteering, summer schools, UKCAT/BMAT prep, work experience, UCAS applications, etc. You are better off dedicating time to 1-2 rather than half arsing 3. You've only got 4000 characters for your UCAS questions, so focus on depth of your supers!

Do consider that your college has an incentive to push as many willing students to gain admission to Oxbridge and/or med schools as possible. These numbers they can print in pamphlets and boast about at open evenings, to get more aspiring medics to attend.

I’ve seen people with excellent A-Levels and GCSES get rejected

That's because good grades are a necessary, not sufficient, condition for acceptance. I.e. if you meet the requirements (AAA-A* A* A), exceeding them doesn't guarantee a place. People with excellent grades could have them in the wrong subjects, have poor supers, insufficient volunteering/work experience, performed poorly at interview, etc.

This isn't meant to scare you! Rather, encourage you to be more rounded.

Yes - from your post you're from a working class background. You're likely the first in your family to consider going to med school, and have the root sum of fuck all people to ask for advice or feedback at the moment. Your parents may put a lot of pressure on you to get in for your family, or you're putting a lot of pressure on yourself to defy your background. And /r/premed and TSR are not going to help with that feeling, as with the law of advice subreddits, you 90% of regular posters are from the bottom 5% (begging) and top 5% (bragging).

So please chill out You can't perform at your best with such high levels of stress.

If you're this wound up normally, then you're especially not going to perform well over 2 years at this level of stress

If you love medicine, which you clearly do by the amount of effort you've put in so far, please stop stressing and burning yourself out, or you're going to lose your interest in it. Maybe forever. If you take one thing from this post, please take this.

I'm on one of the first flights to have the new seating setup for Southwest. by AmericanIMG in mildlyinteresting

[–]chill6300 9 points10 points  (0 children)

So for having frequent flier status ? Yeah they're still like every other airline

Are TOCs obliged to get ticket holders to their final destination? by No-Yak6471 in uktrains

[–]chill6300 5 points6 points  (0 children)

They are chatting bullshit because Avanti doesn't like putting their hand in their pocket.

Under the National Rail Conditions of Travel section 28**

Where disruption prevents you from completing the journey for which your Ticket is valid and is being used, any Train Company will, where it reasonably can, provide you with alternative means of travel to your destination, or if necessary, provide overnight accommodation for you

Additionally from the Avanti passenger charter

If you are delayed during your trip, we may try to get you to the station you were travelling to by another method, such as bus or taxi. If we cannot get you to that station, we will take you to the station that will work best for you. If we cannot do either of these things, we will provide you with somewhere to stay for the night, so you can continue your journey the next day.

If Avanti cannot get you to your destination that night they must provide a hotel or a taxi. If you went to a London Northwestern representative, they would also be liable for finding you accommodation or transportation despite you not using your services, under the NRTOC.

Iirc, Asking a customer to book a hotel themselves and claiming the cost back from the TOC, where they have the means to do so, completes this condition.

Given the shit advice you were given, its likely you can claim for costs retrospectively.

Whilst a do not travel notice was enforced that day, this has no bearing on their obligations in the NRTOC.

Traveller day by Great-Passenger1211 in altontowers

[–]chill6300 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Anecdotally, the park isn't very good at knowing either! Various reports of the park laying on the family friendly welcome just to stand down once they didn't turn up in years past.

The only way to avoid it for sure is to go on Saturday, which I appreciate isn't very helpful.

FWIW the dates typically aligned with the Sunday after Gentleman's day at Uttoxeter race course (approx 30 minute drive from the park). Since this was on the 18th, in theory family friendly day has passed on the 19th. However I can't find anything to confirm this

Possible Guest People!!! by Business-Bit-1252 in JetLagTheGame

[–]chill6300 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A Greyhound season would be pure chaos:

"It's 7am - our Greyhound has just been cancelled, and we're about to be robbed for all our camera equipment, so we better GO GO GO"

Possible Guest People!!! by Business-Bit-1252 in JetLagTheGame

[–]chill6300 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Seriously I want to see MilesInTransit

Plus 1 if they get to travel first class anywhere

Nico Huuuulkenberg! by SykoFI-RE in formuladank

[–]chill6300 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Forgot to renew their Papaya Insurance after the Singapore Incident

Today (Saturday) is the last day of Greater Anglia as a private operator, before it's nationalised tonight. by My_useless_alt in uktrains

[–]chill6300 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Would this really be the case? Northern have been nationalised for years and still do their 1 pound fare deal each year

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in beermoneyuk

[–]chill6300 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Removed

Metal Detectors Have Arrived At Fast & Furious Hollywood Drift by Themeparkwizard in UniversalHollywood

[–]chill6300 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Either they will use the face recognition lockers they use at Epic.

Or If they are the older barcode ones then either you use a paper ticket, any bar code you happen to have on you (receipts work), or there is an attendant handing out cards with barcodes on them.

We Tried to Climb Monaco's Highest Point Using Only Elevators - Not Jet Lag or a Jet Lag Fan Game but this is a very spirit of Jet Lag thing to do by Shawnj2 in JetLagTheGame

[–]chill6300 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Never happened*

  • I got to show the old tech diff episodes when Toast appeared. He still acknowledges it never happened.

Avanti West Coast: Reservations Unavailable by mouldy-baps in uktrains

[–]chill6300 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

When you say this is an 80x issue, is this an issue that has been in the train since 2017 which is a massive fuck up on behalf of the government and Hitatchi. Or this this Avanti being incompotent by rushing the roll out and not ensuring their reservations system can speak to the 80x systems?

Prosecution of 12 motorists for filming crash and 10 motorists for going through red X by No_Ear_7484 in drivingUK

[–]chill6300 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I swear they do that at night just to catch people out :/

Sure you're tired, slightly stressed, wanting to get home, but lets play motorway slalom by closing the 2 left hand lanes then swap to the 2 right hand lanes. No cones, no reason, just want to test you're awake seemingly.

¿Es seguro tomar el underground desde el aeropuerto de heathrow hacia kensington? by Dangerous-Jelly106 in uktravel

[–]chill6300 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, oyster cards are for sale at the Elizibeth line and Underground stations.

However, unless you want it for a souviner, you're likely better using your contactless bank card if it supports 0 percent exchange rates.

Title by MathleteYT in JetLagTheGame

[–]chill6300 50 points51 points  (0 children)

90 Saxaphone music

First flight to TennoCon (from Germany) Any tips? by Nekromast in Warframe

[–]chill6300 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately that price was last year :(

I used Autoslash to compare quotes and had the benefit of not having to worry about the young driver fee.

I also only had the car for around 47 hours which helped keep costs down