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richlitt:
Facebook isn't that bad. It's worth having for university, because it makes you work on having an established network.
So I'm almost positive that I'm going to end up in Germany next year. I got rejected from 9 universities for PhD places, which kind of sucks. I got into New Mexico, but that's not funded. I tentatively got into Auckland, but I missed the deadline because their site was wrong, so I won't know until too late. I got into to MScs in Edinburgh, where I live, but they're hella expensive and just not really an option for me, financially. So it looks like I'm moving to Saarbrücken for a year, and then Malta for a year, because I got a scholarship to do computational linguistics there in a double masters. I can reapply to PhDs after that, and it's fully funded, so...
Still going to California for August. Ain't no way I'm missing that.
Metope:
Why is my school so lazy? This was my last week of this academic year, I don't start again until late September. That's 4 months of no school! 1/3 of the entire year! No wonder a BA takes 4 years here, my last one was 3 years and even then I felt like I had a lot of spare time.
Method of Madness:
That seems pretty standard. The exams at my school usually start early-to-mid May, and then nothing until after Labor Day. Also, 4 years is standard in the States (not sure where you're from).
Metope:
The standard for the rest of Europe (and for the UK except Scotland) is 3 years. I'm from Norway, and the summer break usually started in early June and ended in mid-August. 4 months is pretty insane I think, can't believe the year is over already.
Tom:
How's yr Winter break, mines barely a month but my Summer is roughly 4 months. I've noticed that a number of the Uni's that do that have a summer semester.
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