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Birmingham - there's only 2 (5 if you include related courses) in the UK, Brum and Sheffield and Birmingham's actually a place I considered for my undergrad, it's near home so I could commute and also has a more geological slant than the sheffield course which is more engineering based.
As for funding, I will hopefully get work this year which will be able to pay for most of it and then hopefully a career development loan should cover the rest if I need any.
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I did my undergrad in Sheffield its an amazing city to be a student I miss it everyday. But I guess with MSc's you have to base them more heavily on your career aspirations.
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I have nothing against Sheffield, I've been there quite a few times and it is a good city! Money and course sway me to Birmingham though. I might apply for Sheffield just in case.
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I hate having access to the internet, it just makes me want to buy a bunch of stuff that I think I need but have no money to afford. It's been near impossible to get any kind of part-time job this summer. I've applied at so many places, never got hired. My crappy income at the moment comes from helping doctors update their databases at the hospital which only happens once a month.
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Japan Legal System: Fucked?
My housemate has been in jail since Saturday morning for being unable to pay a taxi fare. A TAXI FARE. Apparently, in Japan, they can hold you for up to 23 days without conviction, without even attempting to convict you.
Our company is trying their best to sort stuff out and help him, asked us to pack some clothes for him - of which they took 2 t-shirts, 3 pairs of boxers and 3 pairs of socks, because the rest had printing or patterns on them, which are not allowed - cause he`s been wearing the same stuff since Sat. They didn`t even let him have a book, or the pencil and copy we sent.
On top of that, legally, only one person can visit him a day, for 30 minutes, and they must speak in a language that the guard can understand and no one in this station can speak English. My mate can`t speak Japanese though. So he has no idea what is going on and apparently isn`t doing too well. I asked my boss, who is taking care of the situation as best he can, if we can visit him. The police said they`d refuse us on the basis that we will speak English. They don`t seem to be even trying to provide a translator.
Where`s the embassy in all of this? No where to be seen. We rang them up on Sunday to report him missing and that`s how we found out he had been arrested. My boss knew before I had.
Apparently Japan has a 95% conviction rate. A guilty until proven innocent attitude. A "Well here you are in front of a judge, you MUST have done something wrong." attitude - which really defeats the purpose of having a bloody legal system in the first place. Anyone can be arrested on suspicion and held for 23 days. It`s wrong.
It`s just plain wrong.
Edit: And I`m really impressed I managed to only swear twice in that.
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Jesus fucking Christ. That's awful.
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I did my undergrad in Sheffield its an amazing city to be a student I miss it everyday. But I guess with MSc's you have to base them more heavily on your career aspirations.
And I'm there at the minute. I completely agree with you too, it's an unbelievable city. But then, yeah, I guess you need to focus more on what's best for the career in your situation.
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Japan Legal System: Fucked?
My housemate has been in jail since Saturday morning for being unable to pay a taxi fare. A TAXI FARE. Apparently, in Japan, they can hold you for up to 23 days without conviction, without even attempting to convict you.
Our company is trying their best to sort stuff out and help him, asked us to pack some clothes for him - of which they took 2 t-shirts, 3 pairs of boxers and 3 pairs of socks, because the rest had printing or patterns on them, which are not allowed - cause he`s been wearing the same stuff since Sat. They didn`t even let him have a book, or the pencil and copy we sent.
On top of that, legally, only one person can visit him a day, for 30 minutes, and they must speak in a language that the guard can understand and no one in this station can speak English. My mate can`t speak Japanese though. So he has no idea what is going on and apparently isn`t doing too well. I asked my boss, who is taking care of the situation as best he can, if we can visit him. The police said they`d refuse us on the basis that we will speak English. They don`t seem to be even trying to provide a translator.
Where`s the embassy in all of this? No where to be seen. We rang them up on Sunday to report him missing and that`s how we found out he had been arrested. My boss knew before I had.
Apparently Japan has a 95% conviction rate. A guilty until proven innocent attitude. A "Well here you are in front of a judge, you MUST have done something wrong." attitude - which really defeats the purpose of having a bloody legal system in the first place. Anyone can be arrested on suspicion and held for 23 days. It`s wrong.
It`s just plain wrong.
Edit: And I`m really impressed I managed to only swear twice in that.
Holy crap, that sounds like an absolutely nightmare situation. It's made me scared to go to Japan now. I can't believe they can actually do that though, and just for a taxi fare too! :O
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I just fucking hate it when I like an artist for a long time (usually not so big in the world yet) and suddenly I see the largest douchebags from school listening it on Spotify. And then they have their 'scoop' with; check out this new band blablabla...
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Oh those people are idiots. Best thing to do is ignore and the second best thing to do is to make sure you know the B-sides and if you're ever in conversation with them keep dropping them in and watch their faces as they get more and more owned by superior music knowledge. Finish the conversation with 'oh, you must just be a more casual fan' and wander off.
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I had a vaccin yesterday on my arm and now it hurts and it's swollen 
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My mate is still in jail. If he gets prosecuted he`ll be deported.
Over not paying a taxi fare worth less than 14 pounds.
That is fucked.
...the fact that it been chosen makes me thing it`ll be pants and were getting NSC 2. - Me, about Survival.
Its not elitism, some people are just better than others. - Joe.
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Fuck jobs... I just can't get fucking anything. Another rejection, more fucking applications to fill in, more hoops to jump through for fucking jobseekers.
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I woke up this morning with a lot of pain in the back of my neck and I can't look up or down because it's hurts too much, so I thought showering would help but I actually got out of the shower earlier because I it just hurted more. Ugh. And now I can't do anything today and Saturday is like the only day in the week I actually have time for anyting 
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I miss my uni friends so much. I wish I could be at that peak moment of happiness when we're all together and we're dancing and everything is so much fun!
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It was my birthday night out last night. I broke my arm at the predrinks,
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I guess I NEED to say this...
I'm really sad (or angry, I really don't know what to think). My girlfriend broke up with me last Friday, we had been dating for quite a long time, I was there for her when her dad died recently. Before said tragedy, she used to say she loved me so much, that I made her strong, that she didn't know what she'd do without me, that she didn't want to lose me... So yeah, she broke up with me on friday because she thinks she's not the same since the accident happened, that she couldn't love me anymore, that it was all gone... So yeah, I tried to talk to her but she said she doesn't want to talk to me for a long time... I really dont know what to do, I love her so much...
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Sounds like your ex-gf is confused emotionally. And she has the right to, maybe she just wants to be alone for a little while, just to sort thinks out. Especially the death of her father.
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Yeah, I guess I'll wait, if it's meant to be, it will be. right?
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How is it even possible for my face to be producing this much fluid/gunk? Ugh, this is repulsive.
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They didn't have the sandwich that I like when I went to the shop this morning. Fiddlesticks.
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I think there should be two vent threads.
I mean you got lucky today, there was no overt drama going on and you got to complain(rightly so I might add) about the sandwich situation.
But there are occasions when sometimes I have wanted to moan about old people or pickles and you look in the thread and the poster aboves family just where killed by a drunk or they found cancer in their tit or something like that.
Which then it would make you look like a right bastard if you went on to post about the old person who smelled of pickles in the lift.
Even if you did throw the obligatory  s at them.
I propose there should be a real vent thread and then a depressing one.
Really I guess that's a vent in itself, the fact that some peoples genuine misery can at times affect my need to bitch about a minor discomfort.
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I think you're underestimating just how seriously I take my sandwiches.
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So you're saying we need a 'life was ok today but I still want to rant about something fairly inconsequential' thread?
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AND JAMES SAID IT TWICE. 
