Pain

yes. lets moan. I hate the council thinking that I can't be a student because I don't live in a house of multiple occuplation.

I'd say stab them in the eye with a fork until they realise that students are people too. Although I don't know how effective that would be.

Possibly not too effective! We had a bit of trouble with the council assuming that we'd graduated in the July (3 months after we'd moved in) and not bothering to check. The post-graduate calendar means nothing to these people ("You finished in December? Oh, did you drop out?" etc etc). It was all sorted by going to the uni and asking them to print certificates proving we were full time students and didn't need to pay tax.

Ahh,,, is this the new moaning thread? If so then here goes. From the end of January I may as well say goodbye to my social life as I wil l have a higher volume of work then, than what I have noe (even though it's quite high at the moment what with placement, the palcement portfolfio, tutorial work & essays on top of that)

No job, no money, and a pointless 'back to work' session today which didn't help me in the slightest. Great.

i have to do a 2000 word essay by thurs, having not done an essay since my gcses like 5years ago!! well unimpressed

Physics did that to me in my first year, then screwed me by telling me all my referencing was wrong, and claimed I plagiarised the essay. They didn't actually do me for it, just knocked me down to 30% by giving me crap marks for all categories (including SPG which was perfect!). If they'd actually bothered to show me how to reference an essay I would have done far better, I couldn't have been the only person who hadn't taken any A Levels where it was necessary. The only reason I can do it now is because I lived with history/politics/theology students in second year.

Our department put on special lectures for us when I was in third year with people from the library that came to tell us how to research and reference properly. They did this mainly because we told them to at the end of second year. The only issue is they forgot to tell any of us that they were running the session or when and where it was. Anyways, long story short the session happened and unsurprisingly no one showed up. Following this our year tutor sent out a very angry email to the whole year saying that if we tell them to run sessions the least we could do is turn up. After about 70 people emailed her she still was adamant that it'd been advertised. To me, if you have 170 people in a year there will always be at least 1 person turning up to things, especially if it's something that was requested to be run.

We never did get a lecture on how to reference properly.

i have the oppostie problem, we seem to have those meetings at least twice a term... its very annoying and a huge waste of time for us

That's what happened to us too.

We had a whole module on 'study skills'

But weren't you doing music and therefore needed to be taught how to study?

Music is a high level course at Leeds.... not dosser subject!! ;_:

I could study perfectly fine ;p xD

i have a study skills module too, i do geography and geology so not really a doss... except for that module

I think the most pointless session we had was an hour lecture on how to use Google. In my 4th year...

This was then followed by an hour session on how to use Endnote, which we could only use for free at uni and would cost a fortune to buy. Besides, as physicists we used LaTeX anyway as it is far better. We ended up teaching ourselves to use it. We did suggest that they spent their time teaching us that, but I don't know if that happened.

WOOP! LaTeX FTW!

Of course! I love reading statuses on Facebook about people having trouble with Word not numbering pages correctly or other such things, and knowing there's no such problem with my lovely LaTeX. I know it's more of a scientist thing, but anyone can use it!

I don't know about that. There are a lot of people in the world for whom the concept of mark-up syntax would take a lot of getting used to

This post made my day

I wouldn't have thought musicians would have much call to use LaTeX...

Anyone who wants their work to look pretty should use LaTeX. Plus it's far better for images, and there's plenty of them in music.