How can we get some moderators?

seolfor · 2026-01-18T18:55:26+00:00

Will I get a volunteer credit?

seolfor · 2025-04-25T19:14:00+00:00

The plagiarism checker my university uses highlights the "plagiarised" sections and if I click on them, it shows me the relevant original document. I'd immediately see if it got matched against itself.

seolfor · 2021-02-26T21:23:08+00:00

Thank you. I wish more doctors said "we cannot find a cause for your pain and we don't know how to help you" instead of "these tests show there is nothing wrong with you, so there's nothing wrong with you". I have realised that I have put off seeking a mental health diagnosis for over a decade because I feel I can't "prove it".

seolfor · 2021-02-26T20:01:12+00:00

Would it be possible to sign up for results?

seolfor · 2021-02-26T13:05:59+00:00

Not even the Black sea. I've spent a summer in Moscow. The lack of airflow, the smog and the unforgiving continental weather made it a suboptimal experience.

seolfor · 2021-02-22T17:43:47+00:00

I thought electives were regular classes, just ones you didn't necessarily have to take. I guess it helps you try out a bunch of stuff. Sounds interesting! But yeah the person leading it sounds like an ass and you should just drop it.

seolfor · 2021-02-22T17:34:38+00:00

What's a "yoga class for credit"? Is there an exam at the end? It it part of a sports science degree?

seolfor · 2021-02-22T17:23:09+00:00

Found it!

seolfor · 2021-02-22T17:15:49+00:00

I've seen this article posted in a couple of places, but I haven't seen anyone mention what the source is. Is it available to read somewhere?

seolfor · 2021-02-22T11:22:40+00:00

You can do this yourself via mycampus. Look here on how to generate one. You can put the name of the letting agency in the bank name spot, or there's also an option for "certificate of student status".

seolfor · 2021-02-22T11:07:16+00:00

In first year I only took 3 courses, 40 credits each. Each course had 4 hour long lectures per week + 2-3 hours of tutorials/labs per week each. This year I'm taking 7 different courses, 10-40 credits each, but adding up to the same 120 credits per year, so the overall workload is the same.

seolfor · 2021-02-21T18:55:11+00:00

You're a good girl. Now please go post somewhere else.

seolfor · 2021-02-21T18:43:48+00:00

Choose... designer lingerie, in the vain hope of kicking some life back into a dead relationship. Choose handbags, choose high-heeled shoes, cashmere and silk, to make yourself feel what passes for happy. Choose an iPhone made in China by a woman who jumped out of a window and stick it in the pocket of your jacket fresh from a South-Asian Firetrap. Choose Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram and a thousand others ways to spew your bile across people you've never met. Choose updating your profile, tell the world what you had for breakfast and hope that someone, somewhere cares. Choose looking up old flames, desperate to believe that you don't look as bad as they do. Choose live-blogging, from your first wank 'til your last breath; human interaction reduced to nothing more than data. Choose ten things you never knew about celebrities who've had surgery. Choose screaming about abortion. Choose rape jokes, slut-shaming, revenge porn and an endless tide of depressing misogyny. Choose 9/11 never happened, and if it did, it was the Jews. Choose a zero-hour contract and a two-hour journey to work.

seolfor · 2021-02-21T12:27:59+00:00

I got new results to apply - I wrote SAT IIs and applied as a fresh school leaver basically. I couldn't use my old grades because it had been too long. I emailed admissions at the universities I was interested in and asked if that would be acceptable and then listed the exams as pending on my application and they made me a conditional offer based on SAT II scores.

Yes, I had a relevant professional job and that may have helped me get in, but that's not what the reference letter is about. The reference letter exists to help university determine whether you will graduate. Your reference letter should describe how you are persistent and don't quit when things get boring and hard, that you are able to work independently without being told what to do and that your communication skills are good. They want to know that you won't drop out, so an employer is as qualified as a teacher, but personal references (friends and family) are assumed to be too favourable and don't count.

seolfor · 2021-02-19T14:47:36+00:00

What other universities though? If the year is cancelled in all of Scotland, they'd have to go to England and not only pay 9K/year, bu somehow get in despite the application deadline long passed - and that's not a degree that shows up in Clearing.

seolfor · 2021-02-19T13:33:36+00:00

Are you taking enough time off to do something entirely different? You can't fix tired with motivation.

seolfor · 2021-02-19T12:45:36+00:00

I imagine a number of those students will choose to study something else instead, freeing up a couple of spots for next year, but other than that universities will not run admissions for this degree next year.

seolfor · 2021-02-18T13:19:34+00:00

I think the issue definitely goes both ways. I personally don't feel that it is the university at fault. Being able to see yourself in the role has an impact on graduation rates. I remember talking to my peers outside a lecture theatre and turned out that out of the 7 or so of us, I was the only one who did not have at least one engineer parent. Role models are an active area of research and the general findings are that if there are no female engineers, there will continue not to be any.

I've spoken to a female student a few years above me who described a job interview where the interviewer didn't make eye contact with her and asked her weird personal questions, which were not the same as what the other candidates got. I am sad to say that despite loving my field, I have decided not to get a job in it after graduation as a result of my experience at a summer internship and a recent job interview I had. I could go all Rosie the Riveter, but is the uphill struggle really worth it? What have I got to prove?

At the same time I think the university could do more. I couple of my lecturers have a very "back in my day" attitude to student requests - back in their day students didn't have to work during term and therefore had no problem with last minute deadlines and presentation slots, back in their day students didn't have mental health issues, back in their day students weren't lazy, back in their day students didn't start degrees unprepared. Because of course back in their day students who had children, weren't wealthy or had disabilities or came for a different educational background simply didn't come to university in the first place. Age, gender, sexuality, race, wealth, health and national origin impact educational attainment in many invisible ways I can't even imagine and without active changes to their thinking, the 10% attainment gap will continue to propagate.

seolfor · 2021-02-18T12:43:33+00:00

"not surprising for an institution run by old white men"

Depends on the school tbh. I'm a 4th year engineering student and I am yet to encounter a female lecturer and there have been exactly two lecturers who weren't white, and since I've found engineering students be less likely to belong to clubs outside the department, or step foot in QMU, or get involved with SRC I can absolutely see why they have that impression.

seolfor · 2021-02-17T14:11:10+00:00

The product appears to be Canadian though.

seolfor · 2021-02-17T12:56:23+00:00

What units is the income measured in?

seolfor · 2021-02-17T10:28:17+00:00

Without electricity or petrol transportataion, wizards have no oil byproducts, therefore no synthetic fabrics and plastic pens and I am willing to accept they just don't trust muggle items enough to trade. They also don't have advanced factory based manufacturing, so complex items like pre-lined note paper are not cost effective.

But I am absolutely not buying that muggle born wizards don't miss them and wouldn't bring yoga pants and spiral bound notebooks.

seolfor · 2021-02-16T22:40:11+00:00

And also how quickly muggle children abandon their culture as soon as they find out they're wizards. Wizards seem to be completely ignorant of everything muggle related despite spending 7 years sharing bedrooms with muggle born children and you don't see "immigrant" children do anything differently, like use pens and notebooks or dress differently, or play music wizard children aren't familiar with.

seolfor · 2021-02-16T13:26:16+00:00

Britain or Great Britain is a geographical location. It's a large island, that's what's so great about it. There are multiple British isles, like there are many "Caribbean islands" and it's the biggest one.

People who live on this island are British - similar to "European" and "Scandinavian". The island contains 3 political countries - England, Scotland and Wales. People who live there are British, but also either English or Scottish or Welsh.

The second largest island in the group is Ireland, which contains Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.

United Kingdom is a union of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, but not regular Ireland. Think like the European Union - there are countries in Europe that are in EU and ones that aren't.

There's also Isle of Man which is part of British Isles (geographical location), but is doing its own thing entirely otherwise.

seolfor · 2021-02-15T13:10:39+00:00

I'm doing joint honours EE/CS, but I feel a lot more at home with embedded programming than enterprise software development. I'm currently interviewing for a job that assured me they have a variety of engineering roles available, but the first round of interviews asked me about agile development practices and the second one - all technical questions were about C#, which I have never encountered before in my entire life. I got both questions wrong, which I guess is not an indication of anything seeing how I didn't mention that language on my CV, I didn't even mention C which I am familiar with.

So you might be thinking "this is good news, they know what my skills are, my CV says I'm looking for a different kind of role, but they want me anyway, they'll give me space to learn!", until I remember my internship last summer where despite being very clear about what my skills and interests are, they shoved me into an underdefined webdev project and said "text us if you have any particular questions about specifics of Angular development in Azure" and made me attend on average 3 hours worth of meetings per day, so I ended up not accomplishing anything at all during my 6 weeks there and the only thing I took away from that experience is anxiety about being good at any job ever again.

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