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National Grid is blaming dodgy building work by BT for a gas explosion in Shrewsbury that injured 12 people, according to a report. The BBC said it has seen legal correspondence from National Grid's solicitors that names the cause of a crack in a gas main at a town centre junction as a concrete "chamber", constructed on top by …
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Give BT a good old shafting, right up the concrete chambers
Why have you put the word chamber in quotation marks?
... of the word "concrete" - "National Grid have provided no substantive evidence"
Much as I hate to defend BT
Wouldn't any construction work like this require planning permission or something similar? If so then wouldn't whomever authorised the construction be at fault here? Or is that BT as well, in which case go ahead and sue BT for all they're worth.
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Is a minefield. BT probably have an exemption for "critical infrastructure" works, etc.
They don't need PP for installing telegraph poles and roadside cabinets AFAIK, or for digging holes and burying things. This may be affected by things like conservation areas, etc, but by and large I would expect them to be exempt.
I don't know if the rules have changed but it used to be that mobile phone operators had the same kind of exemption for masts - they had to notify the local planning authority, but they couldn't really object to it.
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...of BlueStake program?
Nothing scarier than a bunch of Suits in hard hats looking down a hole.
I don't see why comments from national Grid are a problem for BT
BT could just delete any unfavorable comments and ignore anything else nat Grid says - a bit like they do over comments about Webwise (ptah) and Phorm (Gretch)
Reputation managment fails
BT normally trawl forums doing their utmost to remove negative comments. Simple facts with BT. You are dealing with penny pinching, lazy morons. It's almost certain any manhole chamber was built by a third party contractor for the lowest possible fee.
That said, and for all their ills, it's unlikely they would be negligent to this extent. How about National Grid moleploughed that main in forcing it under the chamber when they struck an obstruction?
Just a thought......
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Its highly unlikely that chamber was there when the main was put in, and also unlikely it was moleploughed in place, it would have been a trench job. The main is metallic and that means its been there for some time.
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[1]"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot." ~ Michael Altshuler
In January, I was sitting with Jack Love publisher of Internet Retailer as he was being interviewed on WebMasterRadio [2]. Jack told my friend Jim Hedger that it didn't take much to look good over the last 6 or 7 years in the ecommerce space while industry growth was 25% or greater year after year. A rising tide lifted all boats. Most people could just be on auto-pilot and their business would grow.
Times have changed.
We are no longer experiencing that explosive growth, and in these turbulent times I still see many people hoping to pilot their business using auto-pilot. I have bad news for those people. If you want to avoid a crash and burn over the next few years you are going to have to roll up your sleeves, maintain control, and maneuver yourself to safety.
This week at the "New Rules for Engagement [3]" breakfast Forrester analyst Patti Freeman Evans [4] played the following humorous video (just wait till the commercial ends) from the Daily Show with John Stewart for the 50+ retailers in the room:
In every bit of humor there is underlying some truth. I am seeing so many businesses relying on "Emergency Christmas", offering huge sales (20+% off) week after week. You probably can see many of those same offers in your inbox. This show of panic to move merchandise is not the way to a safe landing.
I urge you not to stay the course, the times for easy money [11] are over. Sully could have crashed in the middle of NYC, but he stayed calm with effort, some close calls and real precision he could succeed. So can you [12].
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I just had to sit down and get this written while I could. As y'all know, I'm both a Stephen King fan and a Ghost Hunters fan but what you may not know is that I'm also an avid Nascar fan. I especially root for Tony Stewart and have for the past 11 years now, ever since he started out in 1997. Today is the culmination of what they call "Daytona Week" (yes, it's in capitals! hehe). Today is the Daytona 500! The first of 36 races.
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I recently joined a team with a seasonal interest. I received no welcome from them but I posted a personality-plus introduction on their thread. I did get one comment on my page welcoming me to the team but since then, I have heard absolutely nothing out of any of them. Just for fun I checked their leaderboard and discovered that as new as I am, I am ranked #3 on their points. I thought "WELL, I'm as good as they are! Wonder what is wrong with them?" Then I realized that that team just isn't one of those friendly teams that I feel at home with. I plan on quitting them very soon, I can do my interest without them, ya know?
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Oh, my, we really had a storm go through last night and all through the daylight hours today! The first line of high wind came through about 6:30pm and I thought for sure we would be without power, something would blow down. But, although the wind was VERY strong for hours, I was able to watch my normal Wednesday Ghost Hunters! The "Ghost Hunter room" used to be a porch and the wind was so hard I could feel the room swaying. A very strange sensation for sure.
Today was a very windy day too and with the sun up you could see the immediate effects more readily. I don't know where it came from but the sand or soil was flying by in big clouds and the bushes were bowed to the ground. But somehow the power stayed on through it all and now that the sun has set, it's calm out. That was one heckuva storm!
Thanks for reading this, y'all, I appreciate it.
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I thought I had better write this before the power goes out! Here in southeastern Ohio the temperature is up around 67, which is too springlike for February. They're calling for "tropical storm" winds and on our cable system they're running all the counties under this tornado watch. Of course, my county is in that group, as is the county where my family lives. But they're in a city and I'm hoping they don't lose power.
But here in this dinky little town they're not so professional. LOL Two weeks ago, during a winter storm, we lost power here for over 2 days. A neighbor of ours told me an hour or so ago that part of the town already doesn't have power. He said it's near the substation that went down 2 weeks ago. Please God, let that be wrong! But it wouldn't surprise me at all.
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Google has released version 1.0 of its Dart SDK, two years after first announcing the programming language.
The language soon found itself written off as a laughing stock for producing large amounts of JavaScript when translated.
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COLLIER COUNTY, Fla - Organizers of the 14th Annual Undy Sunday event are preparing for more students than ever to be in need of items to be ready for another school year. During August about 50 Collier County churches and synagogues will be asking their members to donate new underwear and socks for school-aged children along with donations of money for other necessary school items.
Participating religious communities will set out donation boxes on Sunday, August 15 and Sunday, August 22. Donors will be asked to bring new socks and new underwear for boys and girls sizes six through 12. Monetary donations also are needed to purchase backpacks and school supplies.
"It is undeniable that the economic problems that have affected us here in Southwest Florida are particularly acute among the children of the underemployed and unemployed," said Armando Galella, District Director of Catholic Charities of Collier County. The agency is organizing the event.
"In all of its fourteen year history here in Collier County, the 2010 version of Undy Sunday may be fulfilling the greatest need," Gallela said. "We are again fortunate in attracting financial contributions that will allow Catholic Charities to supplement the clothing donations with other useful school needs for the underprivileged children of our community."
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Since the initial Undy Sunday in 1997, the number of churches and synagogues participating has more than doubled. About 600,000 undergarments have been given to disadvantaged children in Collier County during the past 13 years.
A group of volunteers from Catholic Charities of Collier County will distribute collection boxes to participating local churches and synagogues prior to the two Undy Sundays. After the event, with help from students of St. John Neumann High School they will collect the donated items, and sort and distribute them to the elementary schools and social service agencies.
Donation items also can be dropped off at the Catholic Charities office located at 2210 Santa Barbara from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays and from 9 a.m. through 3 p.m. on Fridays. For more information about the Undy Sunday Program contact Catholic Charities of Collier County at (239) 455-2655.


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Group Chair: Victoria Kaspi, McGill University
High Energy Astrophysics (HEA), broadly meaning X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy, encompasses an extremely broad range of astrophysical science, with sources that include stars, black holes, neutron stars, white dwarfs, supernova remnants, the interstellar medium, galaxies, active galactic nuclei, galaxy clusters, gamma-ray bursters, all emitting via fundamental but extreme physical processes, including extremes of gravity, density, temperature and magnetic field. Many HEA phenomena are inaccessible at any other waveband.
In this report, we consider Canadian priorities for HEA, specifically focussing on astrophysics accessible primarily through X-ray and gamma-ray observations. Importantly, most observations in the X-ray regime and in most of gamme-ray regime can be done only from space; it is this space-based arena on which we focus here. We also briefly discuss some relevant particle-astrophysics (see §7).
This report is timely given that HEA is currently the fastest growing subfield of astronomy in Canada. Over one dozen astrophysics faculty hirings have been made in the past 10 years in HEA and related fields, including five Canada Research Chairs. Considering the cadre of postdoctoral, graduate and undergraduate student researchers these faculty employ, the HEA community in Canada now includes nearly 90 people. Thus the community is young, active and growing. While the last Long-Range Plan (LRP; 2000) for astrophysics in Canada made no mention of X-rays or gamma-rays, the Mid-term Review of the LRP (2005) specifically noted the growth of Canadian HEA, identifying its potential "to lead the way to a new area of exciting space astronomy in Canada."
We believe that significant Canadian involvement in one or more forefront HEA missions is essential for nurturing and retaining the vibrant expertise and talent of the Canadian HEA community. We therefore recommend that the CSA pursue involvement, both technical and scientific, in one or more of the following planned or envisioned international HEA missions (which are described in more detail in Appendix A):
- Short-term (present-2014) Ordered Priorities:
- Involvement in a focussing hard X-ray (E > 10 keV) mission with excellent angular resolution (< 1') and spectral resolution, and ideally good (∼100 µs) timing resolution. One particularly attractive opportunity is the upcoming JAXA/NASA Astro-H (formerly NEXT; PI T. Takahashi, JAXA) mission, with planned launch 2013. This has the advantage of also carrying a soft X-ray microcalorimeter, having modest sensitivity and excellent spatial resolution. An alternative for a focussing hard X-ray instrument is the ESA Simbol-X mission, with planned launch 2014.
- Involvement in a broad-band, modest sensitivity X-ray polarimeter operating anywhere in the 0.1-100 keV band. Focussing ability is a plus that would allow extragalactic work. Good (100 µs - 1 ms) time resolution is also important. We note the Phase A development of the GEMS X-ray polarimetric mission as part of the 2008 NASA Small Explorer competition (PI J. Swank, NASA/GSFC).
- Long-term (2014-2020) Ordered Priorities:
- Involvement in a soft-band (0.1-10 keV) mission having excellent sensitivity (effective area > 10× XMM-Newton) and excellent (R > 1000) spectral resolution with good (< 5'') angular resolution and good (100 µs - 1 ms) time resolution, such as IXO, a joint ESA/NASA/JAXA mission (formerly ESA's XEUS and NASA's Constellation-X). Project scientists on this mission are A. Parmar (ESA), N.White (NASA), and H. Kunieda (JAXA).
- Involvement in a mission with excellent sensitivity (effective area > 10× XMM) and excellent timing resolution (< 10 µs), with modest angular resolution and spectral resolution, in the soft/hard (2-100 keV) band. Possible implementions are the envisioned wide field-of-view all-sky survey EXIST mission (PI J. Grindlay, Harvard), or the proposed AXTARmission (PI D. Chakrabarty, MIT).
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So, just how do you say 'the mutt's nuts' in French?
But why are we translating it literally?
- surely we need a phrase in the other language which means "something really good", and which is also slightly rude in that language. A literal translation won't carry the positive meaning of the English.
And anyway, how come a description of a dog's gentleman's parts means "something really good"?
Is it by analogy with the "bee's knees"? Which doesn't make literal sense either.
And while we're there, is it a dog's breakfast or a dog's dinner to describe something that's a bit of a mess?
I'm confused. And I'm a translator.
How many translators does it take to change a lightbulb? - Depends on the context.
Dutch doctors replace woman's skull with 3D-printed plastic copy
Re: The Other Half
I'd guess any thickening in the lower half of the head wouldn't be as serious, as it's not compressing the brain.
Apple vows to add racially diverse EMOJIS after MILEY CYRUS TWITTER outrage
Oh no, Unicode Consortium taken over by cats
Looking at the Unicode listing given in the link above:
Tube be or not tube be: Apple's CYLINDRICAL Mac Pro is out tomorrow
Base model £2,499.00 on UK Apple store
Base model $2,999.00 on US Apple store
Google says "2999 US Dollar equals 1833.69 British Pound Sterling"
US sales taxes can't account for all that difference can they?
Virgin Media to hike broadband prices by nearly 7 per cent
"Also if you get one of those 'new customer' flyers through the letterbox addressed to the Home owner with a great deal in it, they'll match that, even if you are in the middle of a contract"
IF... what do you mean "if"? We get those flyers twice a month at least*. I'm collecting a year's worth just to be able to go up to their caravan sales thing in town, dump them on the table and say "Still no, thanks"
*26 of them since 1 Jan
GiffGaff: We've got no iPhones, but here's how to cut down your SIM
...network run by you
Is this the bunch that advertise themselves as the network "run by you"? I'd prefer a network run by people qualified and/or experienced at running a network.
Brussels could 'clash' with London over UK snooper's charter
"We do have a treaty which is called the Treaty of Lisbon and in this treaty – and maybe not everyone has understood this – there are no more pillars as there were before, where [for instance] you had a pillar for security and that was completely in the hands of the national states and where the rules of the protecting of the individual, which had to be adapted to this pillar, were a little flexible.
There's none of this anymore since December 2009. Now the rules are horizontal."
That was described as an insight?
Pillars? horizontal rules?
Sitting down all day is killing you
I was going to comment...
...but I've drunk so much tea I need to visit the euphemism.
Ten... FireWire 800 hard drives
Handy to have drives powered by the firewire connection, saves yet another cable and power sockets are in short supply in my "office" (2-bed Victorian terrace). Any ideas which of these might be?
Ten... e-cars and hybrids
Re: MPG?
"Up to about double" - is that like "unlimited" broadband?
I meant comparing between the models listed
For a comparative round-up, why no comparison of MPG figures (at least for the hybrids)?
Crap PINs give wallet thieves 1-in-11 jackpot shot
Re: Re: "repeated digits"
yes, for 4 repeats, but what about only 2 repeats, abbc, acbb etc. That's a far bigger pool of PINs potentially eliminated. Perhaps the original article was referring to all 4 the same rather than just 2 repeats within a PIN, but I didn't read it like that.
"repeated digits"
The article mentions "repeated digits" as part of the "not-so-random" codes. Why? Surely random codes would occasionally* lead to repeated digits, and forbidding them would reduce still further the available pool of numbers.
*someone with better stats than me can work out the frequency of occasionally.
Cable thieves wreak havoc for cops, BT punters
Pretty sure that the signals fail safe, i.e. default to red, like a lot of other things on the railway are designed to.
But yes, the disruption is enormous, and "something must be done"
Ten... Valentine's Day gifts for him
To be honest, I'm not sure it does.
As a Reg-reading bloke, my reaction was a bit meh.
Don't get privates trapped in Facebook's silos, warn experts
Lifelogging a dead horse...
after the stable door was bolted in mid-stream, to mangle a few metaphors
Survey: '4 million' Brits stung by ID theft
sample of 2,002 in fact
A footnote at http://www.crimestoppers-uk.org/media-centre/news-releases/2011/identity-fraud-continues-to-rise-with-4-million-victims-in-uk-alone-65446565446
says "For this report, quantitative research was carried out with 2002 Great British adults aged 18+ as part of an online consumer omnibus survey"
and it was weighted for sampling deficiencies.
Still don't know what it actually asked though
and another thing...
how do you adjust for the probability that it's the more gullible/susceptible to fraud who will fill in surveys and the paranoid who won't?
Bank emails punters asking for their, er, email address
Isn't that what the banking home page is for?
or whatever you call the page you get to after logging in?
Surely better to remind people when they log in, as my bank repeatedly does (we haven't got a mobile number for you...).
Russian Progress space truck crashes in Siberia
"quite reliable"
puts space travel into perspective against other kinds of travel when "quite reliable" is used to describe a rate of ~1-3% catastrophic failures.
(using the figures from earlier posters in these comments)
Punters favour Amazon to block Apple tablet flood
Minor point on the pie chart...
it asks "Are you planning to buy one this year" and **all** the answers are variations on "Yes".
Before 'the cloud' was cool: Virtualising the un-virtualisable
"bit like reading a book in a language you don't speak by looking up every single word in a dictionary.
It works, and with a good enough dictionary, you can understand it – this is how online translators like Google Translate work"
I beg to differ. You can look up every single word in a dictionary and still be none the wiser.
Faking reviews? You should fret about more than illegality
Re: "You didn't have to go on the day to write the review."
Yes, did consider some kind of exposé, but too much effort. Ended up just reporting the job offer to the site admins.
And to clarify, no, I don't write reviews for payment. The job alert just came through under a much wider category that I subscribe to.
Source of freelance income
I subscribe to a freelance job marketplace site which has had jobs posted to write reviews. Best one was for "experience days out" - hot air ballooning, drive round Brands Hatch etc.
You didn't have to go on the day to write the review.
Best Buy gives big boxes the boot
We have to reduce square footage with our existing stores by shrinking the footprint
... or make the shops smaller?
8m health records go walkabout
policy, procedure, implementation
"our policy is to manually delete the data from laptops after the records have been processed"
"The machine was one of 20 lost from a storeroom"
It was in a storeroom, waiting for records to be processed?
Russian computer programmer buries himself alive
How did he get a signal underground?
Should London Transport investigate?
Reg reader lost for words over blank HP keyboard
French letters
"with French letters on the keys" - that's not where they're usually most useful.
Cure for BALDNESS causes IMPOTENCE, says new study
"...a problem occurring in men as they get older."
Who says baldness is a problem? Next they'll be telling women they can eradicate the visible signs of ageing or something. Oh wait...
Facebook pulls naked smutty filth from NY Academy of Art page
happy, shiny idiots laughing
Excellent phrase.
The happy, shiny idiots laughing are taking over the world (at least if you look at TV ads, posters, displays in opticians)
NO-SH*T CURE FOR BALDNESS discovered by accident
Hair on mices' backs -> human heads?
Or will the this just cause any remaining hair in humans to grow, like those annoying bristles coming down your nose and out of your ears?
Google Translate for iPhone: hits and misses
Speaking as a translator...
...who makes use of google translate to look words up when I can't remember them, one thing to worry about is the implied assumption that there's a one-to-one correspondence between words in the source and target languages.
They only suggest one answer, when in fact there could be many answers, some subtly different, some very different in meaning.
In defence of Comic Sans
Bizarre Comic Sans sighting no342...
...labels on the on-screen buttons of the industrial control system for the hydraulic jacks used to launch the 1000s of tonnes of bridge deck for the Millau viaduct (source: Channel 5 documentary last night).
I make no judgement.
BBC Online ordered to be more 'distinctive' as cuts kick in
Apple chap knocks up ancient Lego computer
Playmobil operator?
Does it need a playmobil figure to operate it?
How I used Space Shuttle tech to insulate the living room
Want to know more about the dust
How harmful is that dust when working with it? Where does the residue end up after installation? Any danger of more dust if you want to put up shelves?
PARIS in 89,000 ft climax
Inky blackness of space
Liked the glimpses of the inky blackness of space as it spiralled down.
Vulture 1 sprouts wings and a tail
glueing together three sheets of bog-standard paper
... happens to me the morning after a curry
Seat in sexy e-sportster shock
2+2 = ... 2
Is the car industry the only one where 2 plus 2 equals 2, for all practical purposes?
Recession drives pies sky high
Pie chart?
The BBC teletext version of this earlier this morning had beef pies with 56% of the market and sausage rolls with 53% (or similar figures that add up to over 100). Either they're taking into account the amount of air in the pies, or they need someone to put that on a pie chart.
Cashpoint mugger flashes distractionary chesticles
Grammatical gender ≠ sex
As per title.
New 'Tolpuddle Martyrs' demand £50 a day
Might only be 2 hours a day, as...
... "The court and cells are open from 2 August – 31 August with tours at 2pm and 3pm, Monday to Friday (excluding bank holidays)." (http://www.dorsetforyou.com/387120)
There, I'll do some "research" for you. Took all of 2 minutes. Can I have a pay rise?
Garmin Asus Nüvifone M10
Heävy Metal Ümlaut?
Is thät a heävy metäl Ümlaut I see? Öh dear.
'Poo-powered' Volkswagen astounds world+dog
Monty Python flashback
"Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Association (ADBA) Chairman Lord Rupert Redesdale"
sounds like an interviewee on a too silly Monty Python sketch. (Nothing personal Lord Rupert, I don't suppose you chose the name)
iOS jailbreak howdunnit partially solved
"It's unclear weather..."
Foggy is it?
eBay whacked with giant patent suit
"Why do ALL American computer people seem to have weird names? Wozniak, Kernigan, Zimmermann..."
Suspect it's not just computer people. Many people emigrated from all parts of the world to America.
Leica Pinmaster rangefinder
£500 and you can't switch from yards to metres?
See title
Romford coppers try to stopper young snapper
Or get Visit London involved?
they have a "complaints" page at
where they say "At Visit London we are committed to promoting London as a world class city that provides you with the best possible tourist experience. However we understand that mistakes can happen. If you are unhappy with your experience in London please send us your comments by using this online complaints form."
Ten Essential... 500GB Portable Hard Drives
Power supplies?
You didn't tell us which of these are bus-powered and which need a power brick. Makes a big difference to portability
unless the sentence "Users of desktop computers too like their bus-powered plug-and-go convenience" means they are all bus-powered. Doh.
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What was your first year of College like?
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Is is hard living with a roomate? Did you get along?
How much harder do you have to work from hs? Did you constantly do Hw?
Do freshman drink even if they are under 21?
Are there cliques- like after the 1st week every1 is segrated into their own group?
Thanks for your help, just trying to get a heads up on what itll be like next yr.
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Well, I am still in my freshman year, but I'll post anyway.
I knew my roommate from high school, we were really good friends. Everyone told us we would end up hating each other and they were completely wrong. This year has been great and we are even living together again next year.
For me, the type of work is completely different. There really isn't much "homework", unless your in a math class. The main thing is reading. The first few months of college I thought my eyes were going to pop out of my head I had to read so much . The tests are also alot different, they are harder, but that is to be expected.
And, yes here people drink even if they aren't 21. But you have to remember that it is like the #7 party school in the nation, so it might be different other places.
I don't really think that "cliques" exist in college. Sure the greeks all hang out together, but they aren't like exclusive. College is pretty much what you make of it. If you want to sit in your room and do school work all the time you can, but I wouldn't recommend it.
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I was really lucky. I had the chance to meet my roommate before we started school when she came up to Milwaukee for preview, and we knew we'd get along great. We had a lot of common interests, and while we did have our moments, I'd say my roommate experience my freshman year was really good. I'd heard some horror stories about roommates, so I was lucky mine worked out so well. It's not like we're the best of friends, but we do still get along and talk every so often.
Now to answer your other questions...
How much harder do you have to work from hs? Did you constantly do Hw? I agree, there really isn't much "homework"- it is a LOT more reading. But for me, since I had a really competitive high school, I didn't really find the transition from high school to college work all that difficult.
Do freshman drink even if they are under 21? Of course. There's always going to be those kids who want to drink. It also may depend on the school- if it's a big party school, then a lot more drinking will probably go on. I'm not a big partier, so I don't drink.
Are there cliques- like after the 1st week every1 is segrated into their own group? No, I would say there really aren't "cliques" in college.
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My roomie and I aren't best friends, but we get along well enough. We haven't had a fight or argument all year, but haven't become really close, either. The only issue we have had is that she stays up until 4am or so most nights, and I like to go to sleep around 1am, but she just keeps her desk and mirror lights on so I can still sleep in relative darkness.
About the workload...I am on a quarter system (10 weeks + finals) at UCLA, so it is pretty demanding. It seems like every week you have a paper due or an exam, or both. Its not a lot of busy work, though, just a ton of reading, ranging from 50-250 pages/week for each class. I prefer it to high school because although its a lot of work, its a lot less class time as well.
Drinking...yes, almost everyone I know that is under 21 drinks. Most of the people who don't drink are those who would choose not to drink once they turn 21 as well (generally very religious people, but I don't want to stereotype, there are exceptions!) I can't drink currently because of the medication I am on, but it hasn't been a problem, either, people have been understanding about it. (To be honest, its not much fun for me though to stay the sober one!)
Cliques...the Greek scene seems to form cliques pretty quickly if you pledge, but eveyone here is pretty friendly. The first week you should be pretty social, though, since everyone is really open to meeting new people then, and once school begins, things get busy. Its not that people form cliques, its that they get to know people and settle in with a group of friends. Everyone I have met since the first few weeks have been really friendly also.
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Thanks for the input! I'm a pretty good reader so thatll probably come in handy. TTYL
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My first roommate was HORRIBLE, but she left school entirely and I got a new one who I'm actually rooming with my Junior year next year.
Workload...it really depends on your major and the school you're at. Each program is different. This semester my workload is horrendous, fall semester wasn't so bad.
Drink? Of course. It's college. Lots of kids go nuts away from home and drink themselves into oblivion without their parents to watch them. Personally I drank in high school so I got the craziness out of my system before I got to college. I still drink, all my friends drink, but not too often. I really don't know of anyone who doesn't drink.
People are pretty friendly at first freshman year, everyone is in the same exact position!
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I didn't know my roomate before Igot to school and was terrified she would be one of those crazy psycho roomates you here about. Deffinitely not! We get along great and I'm sure we'll stay friends for a long time.
Workload is deffinitely different. Most stuff is "optional". The professor could care less if you do it or not (meaning its not collected or graded). However, they don't just assign it for no reason. Most reading/problems are going to help you on papers and tests and you'll probably do pretty bad on the tests if you don't do the work. Im a good reader too, but I found reading at this level is a lot harder. I got distracted easier and 10 pages would take me like 20/25 minutes whereas in high school that would take me like 5.
As to drinking...absolutely. I do know a few people who don't drink due to medication or just they don't want to. No one really cares if you do or don't, so that was nice. Theres not the pressure to do it like there was in high school.
I don't think that cliques form especially with fresmen because everyone is going through the same stuff. I know a lot of people who think the Greek system is cliquey but personally I don't think so. i have a lot of friends who are Greek and I think many people who don't know anyone in the system mistake the close friendships/connections they have with each other as a clique. If going Greek is something you are even remotely interested in i would say you should check it out. Rush is great way to meet people even if you don't end up pleding anywhere.
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My freshman year I was lucky enough to get a single so I never had to deal with a roomate. I was and still am one of the few people who just don't drink. I have no real desire to. As for the homework level, I went to a private Catholic prep school so I found college is MUCH easier for me. I have a lot of work to do, but nothing terribly hard, just time consuming. It also all seems to hit at once. I have 3 tests in a week or 3 papers due the same week, so it makes it harder to leave everything to the last minute. Like this week, (I'm taking 3 courses right now at 2 different schools) I had a History final and term paper due in one class, then in my other history class I have another final, a term paper, vocab and a powerpoint presentation due within a day of each other. In my Lit course I had reading logs, a term paper proposal and I have a midterm next week I have to study for. It's easy stuff, but it all happens at once.
I'm now a junior and a commuter, I don't really know that many people from school because of that and I've met no one this term because I have been doing online courses due to health issues and so I can travel.
As for the roomate situation though, one of my good friends had the roomate from Hell freshman year. She was weird, didn't talk to anyone, scheduled classes around her soap operas, was bulemic and ate cat food (I'm so not even kidding.) After trying it for awhile it didn't work for her and she was able to get moved after talking to the RA because it was SO bad. The RA is there to help you if something like that should occour.
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I've been lucky with random roomate 3 diffrent times.... The first when I moved to college I was sopose to be trippled (lots of in comming Freshmen... but everyone would be detrippled @ x-mas time after people leave school for various reasons), but my third roomate never showed up (which was good... cuz they both did football, so they would of been there about 2 weeks before me and took up all the space :-P ). We wernt friends in the end... but we got along real well, and still will talk a bit if I see him around (which I havent seen him in about a year).
But I left after my 1st semester to do the College Program, and I got really lucky again, and he was awesome. We got along great and hung out a bunch..... I mean.. this isnt college but still being put with a random person....
And then the semester I got back, I got randomly put with someone who needed a roomate, and we got along real well.... not good friends or anything... but just like the first time, we lived well together.... although he did move out after x-mas break... but that was ok, my school never did anything untill about 1/2 through the semester :-P
As for drinking..... did I drink under age... no... and I still don't even though i'm 21... Do people do it under age? Yes.... are people smart about it? not all the time.... But if you don't want to, you don't have to, and if people force you to, ditch them and find someone else who is better (school is stressing enough as it is). But yeah... if you do, be smart about it and don't be the drunk person yelling in the hall at 3:30am at campus safety "i'm 18... I have rights.... I want to go down and get a soda, you can't tell me what to do... this is Bull**** blah blah blah... yada yada yada" (yeah.. that happened outside my door the other weekend...)
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well....not to scare you but i hated my freshman year in college. No amount of money would get me to go back and do it again!
My roomate: well she ended up suffering from depression, she was smelly, and she made all sorts of messes.
The workload: It was tough b/c I was on the varsity cheerleading team which took up 3 hours everyday. Plus I was pre-med and there is just soooo much reading. I highly reccomend doing the reading however, you'll do a lot better in your classes.
Drinking: everyone drinks, even if youre 12 year old little brother comes to visit you and stays in your dorm, lol he might even drink. But that's college for ya. Take advantage b/c the real world just isnt' like that!
As for cliques: my school was extremely clique-y. I graduated a few months ago and went back a couple weekends ago to visit some friends and the clique-iness still amazed me. However it was a really small school (about 4,000) so I feel that it all depends on the size of your school and the level of competitiveness there.
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Hey pixie dust you sound a lot like me, i might be pre-med and i want to do cheerleading . What school did you go to? Thanks!
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went to a small private school in VA. I'll leave it at that.
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Cool! My friend is going to going in VA at Hollins University, she's really excited. Ttyl.
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No roomates, since I live 5 mins away from college. Plus my college does not have dorms.
I loved my first year, made great friends. I am in biology (changed mayor to biomedical sciences last year, but not much difference) and it is alot of reading. And lots of lab work.
As for drinking, our legal age is 18, so drinking is usual before college.
There are some cliques, but we all get together just fine.
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i'm the only one who couldn't stand his roommate?
he was filthy. he smoked weed 3-4 times a day. he came home at 4am every night drunk and/or stoned - unable to open a packet of ramen noodles, so he would tear at the pack until tiny little shards of noodles exploded all over the carpet (for me to cut my feet on in the morning). he was racist. his friends stole my food. lots more. enough said. grrrrr....
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