Post by ambersalamander on Oct 17, 2007 17:42:08 GMT
My bloody uni is bloody useless 
I've just started the second year of a two-year part time MSc course. It's a miracle I managed to find my way there, because despite my emailing the course office twice (and getting no reply), I was only informed of the date of my first lecture four days in advance. I say "informed" - I had to hunt around a website that hadn't been updated for months until the details of my course, time and venue etc appeared in a completely unexpected and hard to find place on this website, the weekend before the first week back. I haven't even had it confirmed whether there are any other lectures I'm supposed to be attending. And the website also implies, without being totally clear, that I was supposed to do a Basic Mental Health essay last year as part of my course, but nobody ever informed me of this
The last straw has just arrived through the post with a King's postmark. At the start of term I checked my "fees status" on my personal details page and it said I had paid for my course in full. I had assumed last year that the fees I paid then would only cover the first year, but as it said earlier this month that I had paid in full, I thought that perhaps it was for the whole course, as it would only have lasted a year if I'd done it full time.
But no. They have ONLY JUST sent me a letter telling me I have to pay 2275 (the pound sign isn't working on my keyboard), which is more than last year, preferably by October 31. They like to give us plenty of notice, clearly
This means I will probably have to drop out, because I can scarcely afford to feed myself at the moment. This annoys me, as if I'd been informed a couple of months ago I might have been able to set up a "Send Sal Back to Uni Fund"
Gits.
I've just started the second year of a two-year part time MSc course. It's a miracle I managed to find my way there, because despite my emailing the course office twice (and getting no reply), I was only informed of the date of my first lecture four days in advance. I say "informed" - I had to hunt around a website that hadn't been updated for months until the details of my course, time and venue etc appeared in a completely unexpected and hard to find place on this website, the weekend before the first week back. I haven't even had it confirmed whether there are any other lectures I'm supposed to be attending. And the website also implies, without being totally clear, that I was supposed to do a Basic Mental Health essay last year as part of my course, but nobody ever informed me of this
The last straw has just arrived through the post with a King's postmark. At the start of term I checked my "fees status" on my personal details page and it said I had paid for my course in full. I had assumed last year that the fees I paid then would only cover the first year, but as it said earlier this month that I had paid in full, I thought that perhaps it was for the whole course, as it would only have lasted a year if I'd done it full time.
But no. They have ONLY JUST sent me a letter telling me I have to pay 2275 (the pound sign isn't working on my keyboard), which is more than last year, preferably by October 31. They like to give us plenty of notice, clearly
This means I will probably have to drop out, because I can scarcely afford to feed myself at the moment. This annoys me, as if I'd been informed a couple of months ago I might have been able to set up a "Send Sal Back to Uni Fund"
Gits.
