Writing grant applications is difficult to do when you have a migraine. All of your attempts at coherency end up looking like something out of a lolcats macro. lolsshrcs? Whatever.
In happier news, my formal offer of study arrived in the post, finally. It is contingent upon me proving I have the funds to accept. Crapsticks. Good thing: GBP-CDN exchange rate. Bad thing: I still don't have $35k. OSAP will give me $10k, and I will have about $5-6k of my own (mom being sick this summer really was brutal). I can probably set up a line of credit at the Credit Union.
Funding: Ramen Noodle edition! Why do I want to go to England, again?
Right, I forgot about OSAP. OSAP won't release a funding estimate until they have a letter from York with an expense breakdown. So I have to call York, ask for that, send it to OSAP, wait for OSAP to reply, then I can reply to York that Yes, I have money. And THEN I can apply for housing. Somehow I'm beginning to doubt all this is possible before January. Lessons to Learn: start everything really, really, early.
I will be seeking out the cheapest possible accommodations, while I'm there. Prices range from £3,500-5,300. Guess which one I'll be going for?
It's very strange, looking over these UK residences. We can add "washbasin" to the list of words I'll have to switch over to. I usually think of a laundry sink when I hear "washbasin." That, or a porcelain bowl with a water jug sitting in it, a la Victorian period.
Anyway, the point is that things we take for granted over here, like phone jacks and internet... not so much, over there. My two first-choice residences have limited internet service and no phones in the rooms. My second choice has both. Fortunately, the first-pick residences are also the cheapest of the available housing. Unfortunately, they house a combined 53 students, and all of those spots are very likely already taken, since I'll be arriving in January. Regardless, all of the residences are within biking distance of my academic building, which is nice, and the York website says that the main campus is wireless. Whatever I get, I will deal with, but it has to be cheap, is all.
Ramen noodles.
Not BADD
11 months ago
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Don't just eat ramen noodles! You'll get sick and apathetic and gain loads of weight, and then end up with scurvy!
(Apparently people still do get scurvy, from lousy eating habits.)
I've heard of some poor college students going to free-food-pantry-dealies, just to supplement their diet.
I'll be getting my vitamin C, don't worry. I loves my fruit and veggies too much. I'll probably be vegetarian for a while, though. Meat's pricey.
The ramen is a long-standing grad student joke, and I'm just doing my part to ensure it continues. Ugh. I'll likely be packing a number of boxes of spice mixes, which mean I can eat almost anything if I add rice. Spice boxes are going to save my life.
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