What the actual living hell is this?!

My first dose a month ago wasn’t bad; I did have a sore arm, but I got better within a few days.

BUT THIS ONE!!! 🤬 😡😤

I genuinely thought I was going to die... The jab was alright, but three hours in, I start shivering like crazy. My entire body felt sooo weak and I started to feel a little nauseous. Full on believed that I was going into hibernation, and that I won’t make it 😭😭😭

Idk, maybe I’m exaggerating, but I’ve NEVER had a vaccine go like this before. I feel better now, but idk what to say.

How did it go for you guys?

UPDATE: thank you for the award 🎉

im sorry this will be triggering to discuss but i have nowhere else to ask this and i dont know what to do. in april i was raped by my lecturer and now im dreading going back to university i dont know what to do i cry every time i think about it. i cant tell anyone, hes so popular in my department and i dont want to be seen as the crazy bitch who makes up this stuff. its ruined my life ive been so suicidal and its made my ocd debilitating. i want to drop out but i need to meet with my supervisor to do that and i know ill throw up or just absolutely lose it in front of her. its taken me months to even write this i dont know what to do please

Me and my best friend are looking at unis at the moment and I’ve had my number one picked out for about five months and recently she’s changed what she’s wanting to do and wants to go to my uni. Even though it’s not her number one choice, I’m lowkey a bit upset by it and I know it’s totally her choice and I respect that, but I would like to go to uni and completely start fresh and I just know that if we go together we will have to meet up all the time. I just want to meet new people and have a uni experience completely separate from my home town. Does anyone have any advice??

I just got my timetable for my electrical engineering degree and it is all 5 days a week 9-5 most days 9-4 on other days.

Is this normal? Idk why I thought it would be like 3 days a week with a lot less hours, I guess this is normal for engineering?

I need someone to be excited with me here, because everyone around me seems either indifferent or unhappy about me going to uni soon - out of love I know but I feel really bubbly right now. In school I always would take evry adventure possible for the sake of escape from home and constant surveillance etc and I'm so so so so excited.

In uni, I'll be in halls. I'll have my own room, and I can shut the door. WHENEVER I LIKE. I'll get to practise dance easilyer, and there will be PEOPLE :DDDD and!! THERE IS A BEEHIVE, A BEEHIVE, not sure if we get to help but I want to do eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevverything.

And bonus, I am so VERY excited to start my degree, its Mech eng, and I love engineering so incredibly much - my teachers have been calling me miss engineer for years, like year 6 to y13 years. I love maths and physics, I really hope that the exams are more depthy than examy because for some reason I'm good at the subject and not exams. But bonus!! It'll be so much easier to just go to the study counsellor or what ever and ask because they don't know me!

And, theres a woods nearby, it has bluebells in the summer! I can finally attempt to dye something with blackberries not in secret! If there are roses, I could try attempt rosewater non secretly. AND, I got my own mug! Its so pretty, it has a bird. Its fancy, and from john lewis :OOOO. I'm still forced to return every weekend, but I'm already putting plan etc in place to begin reducing the time at home. Don't get me wrong, I love home, but theres never room for a single mistake or you get lectured for the rest of your lifeeee and its quite a nuisance.

I also might try alchohol for the first time. Though I might not considering I react horribly (jitters+anxious feeling+ too fast thoughts+ jumpiness) to even a teensy bit of coffee so who knows.

I'm so excited to meet lecturers, also I want to meet physicists that can explain more about magnetism because its so strange. Also a geographist or whatever they're called because auroras are cool. Also I want to learn more BSL. There are so many societies too! Martial arts, also, you can swim! Its fun to bouncy up and down under water because your hair goes everywhere! AND THE LAB :DDDDDDDDDDDDDD, I'm already working on my clock but now I'll get to ask the technicians there hopefully for tips because its become kinda complex now. Also, I have a little bag of strontium aluminate (long story) that I'll finally be able to find a feasible interesting use for.

Also, I think the kitchen has a toaster! We don't. I love toasters, they go ping and the toast jumps out to suprise you like, a really aggressive VOILA CRUNCH TIME. Oh, I could put whatever I want on toast. Like biscoff :O, I could try making a mug cake again! (First time, I put everything back exactly the way it was but my mum still came home and noticed the faint smell of cinammon - fuckk). Theres no oven, but theres a sink inside my room! I don't know why thats cool but it is. Easy watercolour?

Not to mention there will be a real life shower - shared, yeah, but still! We currently (and evidently forever) use a bucket (everything in our house is constantly broken, including our freezer, theres no monetary reason not to fix this, just my father doesn't trust people inside the house - [he's a bit strange but aren't we all]) so that will be cool. Oooooooh, I could get a fancy smelling thing if theres enough money. Like, sanctuary spa pink stuff! It smells heavenly but I've never used it. OH, I could try an eyelash curler if someone lets me borrow one. But they look like tiger toenail clippers so I don't know. I'll get to put my ownnn shower stuff in my own little shower bag thats just for me and only me. I sound like a child that is bad at sharing but I don't caaare :1.

What I desperately want to do, is gather enough money to train journey somewhere further in the UK on my own. A solo adventure, you have no idea how much I crave it. Though thats likely completely and utterly unfeasible, maybe in the future. I'd go to the yorkshire dales, orrr lake district to see. eep.

Sadly, my parents actually know one of my lecturers at the uni I'm going to (whyyyy), so theres never complete independence, and I'll have to make sure to figure out how to deal with that class but it always ends up fiiiiiiinnee.

I hope, that I am ground floor and that I will have a window that I can put a planter box in. And grow lavender. And help contribute to aforementioned bees honey. Oooh, do you think we get to eat the honey? Maybe I could try honey on toast! Is that actually good? I've heard its a thing.

Anyway, please do tell what you're most excited for in uni? Writing this hasn't actually relaxed the explosive excitedness in my heart so also share grim stuff you are notttt looking forward to, I'm too energified and I need a tamp dowwn.

This is a question for the people or people you know of who went to university and achieved a degree but still couldn't get a job in that industry. Im even more interested in hearing from people who studied a really tough course but didn't get their dream job. what do you do now. I hear so many stories of people who work so hard but dont get the jobs the deserve.

I'm in my final year of my undergrad degree, I'm predicted a 1st and hoping to go to a top school in Business coming from a bottom university (I didnt do well in A Levels).

So I've prepared my personal statement for my Master's application and email my lecturer and ask him for a reference but he says "how can I give you a reference if you haven't graduated?"

How could he say this and know a lot of unis open admissions in October and if you want to get into competitive courses you have to apply early. I haven't heard from him after emailing 5 days ago and I feel pretty infuriated.

What should I do?

edit: not angry just shocked and upset because hes advocated for me and always given me good marks but thank you for the advice

update: after mentioning this to my lecturer he gave a really good reference, must've been some miscommunication, thank you all for your thoughts and helping me in my response :)

Hey guys, I’m currently a 3rd year medical student in Manchester trying to find a side hustle and I have had quite a few ppl in general saying to me they hate cleaning their bathroom and wish they could pay someone to do it. Now for me I actually really love cleaning (yes even bathrooms) and I wonder if you guys think it would be reasonable if I started putting up posters and advertising my service of cleaning students bathrooms esp 1st year students who are away from home for the first time.

Do you guys think you would use this service or know people who would use this service bc I’m just trying to gauge if people would actually want that?

Let me know also how much u would willing to pay someone to clean ur bathroom (maybe even extend to room)

Hi guys, I start uni in around 2 weeks for my first year. I honestly just feel like my whole career is ruined. I can’t help but compare myself to other people on here and it makes me look sooo bad in terms of A levels and GCSEs. I don’t even know where I want to work towards because my degree is quite broad (Business management) but everything just seems soo competitive and I honestly don’t think I can get anywhere. I go to a semi target, I believe ranked top 10 in the UK. But simply looking at people’s CVs fills me with so much regret over how badly I performed in terms of GCSEs, my A levels are alright, but everything I’ve seen on here is better. I feel like if I don’t get spring weeks I won’t get internships and then I just won’t get a grad job. And at that point what do I even do. I just feel like even if I perform well during first year and actually try and put myself out there nothing will save me. I honestly can’t even handle this anymore especially with my social media being so negative in terms of the ability to secure springs and internships, let alone how bad the labour market is.

Ik this is a rant but I’ve had similar anxiety over a level results day for the past 3 months, which turned out to be fine but I just feel like if I’m stressing this much now my mental health will just be ruined throughout uni

hi! me and my boyfriend are long distance and he’s starting uni in manchester. his accommodation however says that guests can only stay 2 nights in a row, and i’m travelling from a whole different country and it’s really impractical because of travel costs (only 19) :( i’m wondering if anyone knows if this is VERY set in stone or if there’s a way one can get away w staying a couple of days longer. thanks

it’s entirely my fault and not because of anything else. even with a levels i only started starting like a week before the exams but obviously i at least knew all the content before that. literally before every single exam this year i knew barely anything about the module and did an all nighter to learn the module from scratch AND get 40%. guess what i failed 2 modules. i had my resits last month and guess what i did again. waited until the last day to study for them. Today I learnt I failed one of them and have to resit only that module next year and tbh i dont know what to do. if i failed because of things out of my control i would just try again but the only reason i failed was because i was a lazy bastard. i know i would definitely pass it if i started studying even a week before but i just cant get myself to study and now im thinking maybe im not meant to go uni. I dont really like my course and thought about changing it but i dont think they would let someone who failed his first year change his course and i already missed the ucas deadline so cant apply from scratch. i would appreciate any advice on what to do. (i go to exeter incase anyone knows someone that failed a year there)

September and October are the best months to be applying!! Websites like Bright Network, Trackr and Grad Cracker are good for finding opportunities!!

I really like maths and statistics (and econ), but i DESPISE the idea of working in finance, are there any actual other career paths for this degree or am i just cooking my future? :’)

i would be interested in jobs to do with statistics but is morse ideal for that? i wanted to do it bc i like the curriculum

Hi All,
Any help or advice will be massively appreciated.
I have a disability and due to start an Open Uni course next month. I can’t attend the course without a student finance maintenance loan for living costs.
My GP is refusing to fill in the form even though I have all my medical evidence and email proof from a local University that they cannot support my studies.
I am completely stuck and feel out of options and most likely going to have to pull out of Open Uni before the start date.
Has anyone else experienced this and found an alternative route? I also tried an online GP which I paid for but student finance wouldn’t accept this.
Appreciate your support.
Thanks
Andy

To fellow academia residents - staff, students, dependents and more - welcome to 26/27, and good luck!

(And for those of us who have programmes that ran over the summer so we didn't really get a break - may the odds be ever in our favour...)

I’m 24, and my academic journey has been pretty complicated. After high school, I studied Law for a few months, then dropped out and started another degree in LLCER, which I also left. After that, I took a two-year break. I struggled to find a job, and eventually decided to go back to university, but the university initially refused to accept me. Last year, they finally did, and I started a first year of LEA. I genuinely love LEA (languages), especially the languages, but I might have to repeat my first year, which means being with students born in 2008, after already being with 2007s this year. The age gap bothers me because I’m quite extroverted and love making friends and having a social life. I also really dislike the city where my university is located, so I don’t know if I’ll actually repeat the year. Today, I regret some of my choices. My parents pressured me to stay at home because of their beliefs, and I feel like I lost so many years, including my youth. I’m torn between continuing something I genuinely love and starting over somewhere else.
What do y’all think about that ?

As a first year, did you have induction the WHOLE WEEK?

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Hi! I’m 16 and currently in S5 (Yr12), and I’m considering leaving school after S5 and going straight to university rather than staying on for S6. I’d be 17 when I started uni. My mother is heavily against the idea, however I have a few extended family members who are in favour.

I’m mainly interested in applying for Maths at Edinburgh, Glasgow and St Andrews. In S4 I got 7 As at National 5 and 1 A at Higher (CS):, and I’m fairly confident I could meet the 5 As required for the courses, especially as I already have one. I got full marks in my National 5 Maths exam, although I don’t have loads of Maths-related supercurriculars (I never did UKMT, for example). I have done a one-week engineering course at Strathclyde and generally just really enjoy Maths.

Medicine is the dream, but I’m unsure if I can go down that route. Most of my friends are leaving after S5, and I also have mild cerebral palsy, so I’m currently contacting medical schools to find out whether that would cause any issues with applying/going into medicine. I’m also considering applying for Maths and then deciding later whether to accept, defer or reject the offer depending on how things look with Medicine and potentially my UCAT.

I want to know if I'd even have a chance of getting a conditional, and whether there would be any massive drawback to going to Uni at 17. From my perspective, plenty of people who are young for their year do it after S6 anyway, and I don't plan on drinking.

Just so you English folk remember we get free tuition in Scotland, so the financial pressure is less.

I’ve considered clearing as an option to get into unis as a sort of backup option, but I want to know how reliable it is as an option to secure a place at a good uni?

I’ve quit my job, bought everything for uni, but part of me is kinda nervous or idk if I’m unsure. I like just working but I’m trying to broaden my horizons I guess and get a better job with uni. My course links directly to a job so I know what I’ll be doing after it but still part of me feels dread and impending doom. I’m not sure if it’s anxiety or me not wanting to go. I’m worried I don’t wanna waste my time going but I’ll never know if I don’t try idk. Any advice

for context, I got 28 on my LNAT last year and received an offer from Cambridge. due to extenuating circumstances, I missed my offer & got 4As.

Is it worth reapplying to ucl/kcl/lse law again & resitting a subject, but forgoing my unsw sydney commerce/law offer and risk ending up at a worse uni?

(Bear in mind I want to practice in the UK.)

So basically I’m starting uni in a couple of weeks and i’m quite torn as of whether i should take out a loan to cover my living costs.

For context I have about 10 grand in savings , my accom is £5000 for the year and my parents will probs contribute about 3/4 thousand pounds towards my accom.

so on paper I shouldn’t really take out a maintenance loan because it works out more costly because of interest but I just honestly don’t wanna see my savings go down the drain since I know uni will probably be expensive and i’ve also been looking for a job in my uni city but i’ve not had any luck yet.

My hearts telling me to take a maintenance loan since it saves the bank account but I know
it’s a smarter decision to just spend my savings since it means I won’t have any debt

Opinions and thoughts would be appreciated

moral of the story - Is the debt really that bad ? I wanna go into teaching after uni so I won’t be earning that much

IF I DO IM JUST TAKING OUT A MAINTENANCE LOAN

I'm staying at the university halls and I submitted a maintenance ticket for a non-urgent issue in my en-suite bedroom. The next day, I came back and found it had been fixed, meaning maintenance had entered my locked room while I was out.

I received no notice beforehand, and the ticket was only updated AFTER they had already entered and completed the repair.

I understand that submitting a ticket means maintenance will need access, but is it normal for university halls to enter your room without letting you know first?