Which is essentially sitting in a room and having the subject and modules explained to you. This might all seem like stuff you can read in the handbook, and indeed some of it is, but it is a good way to find out the stuff not in the module books.
Unfortunately the main thing I found out today is how to spend monies...
- The needed texts for subject 1 have changed from the two I was told about before the summer to add a third. In the onsite branch of Waterstone's you can buy as a set of three, relatively cheaply, but the third on its own was 52£. Luckily Amazon works on my phone, and was 4£ cheaper.
- A lab coat to be purchased. The most depressing garment known to mankind. Bought over the phone this evening from a jolly Yorkshireman, who assures me I will have it before next week. I hope so or I won't be allowed in the laboratory.
- And then a series of slightly strange items for playing with rocks-a clinometer (tell me I'm not the only person finding that equipment name implausibly suggestive), a fine hat to make me look like a doozer and some other stuffs.
- Mandatory fieldwork to which you have to contribute to...which comes to a total 500£ in a four month period.
The last point has meant having to change one of my modules because I can't afford to do it. I was going to do an Ecology module that has a four day fieldwork, but two trips in such a short time means there's no way I can justify it :-(
This is one of the slight disadvantages of a not rich from research type uni. From some heavy handed googling I've noticed that some universities fully subsidise mandatory field trips, and notably they are big research led universities.
Lets see how much money I can spend tomorrow...
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