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teyla ([personal profile] teyla) wrote2008-01-11 02:30 pm
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Application

So I've been working on my UK uni application yesterday and today - yeah, I know, late as always. But hey, I think I'm getting there. I've written my statement, and I've called the UCAS hotline to make them reassure me that I'm not doing it wrong. OMG, those Brits are nice! And helpful! Over here, when you call a hotline like that, you usually a) don't get the information you want, and b) get yelled at. When I called the UCAS hotline, I got a very nice guy who had the most gorgeous accent, and who actually made some conversation with me! It was awesome. I could have talked to him all day, just to listen to that accent \o/.

Apparently, I wasn't the first German to call today, because when I got to the subject of the reference, he was all like, oh, I know what's coming. Because apparently, I need a reference. WHUT? No uni over here wants a reference for anything, so that's something completely new to me. I asked the Guy of the Gorgeous Accent, though, and he said, yeah, I do need a reference. So I composed two emails and sent them off to two profs of mine - whom I barely know, lol, they'll have to pull that reference out of their ass, but hey, they're the two profs I still know best of all the guys who taught me so far. Of many of them I don't even know the name. THIS IS HOW IT WORKS OVER HERE IN ANTI-SOCIAL GERMANY!

Anyway, now I'm sitting here and checking my email every other second, waiting for the profs to reply. I have the advantage that they can't really refuse, because they know my dad and probably don't want him knowing that they refused to help his daughter. Poor guys, lol. They do have the option, though, of simply ignoring my email and pretending they never got it. I'm pretty sure one of the profs will do that, because while I really liked him a lot in the seminar, he seems to be sort of relaxed about his job at times. The other one seems to be rather reliable. The problem is that he's a scientist, while the other one is a psychologist. I'd rather have the psychologist evaluating me, because I'm sure he's better at pulling stuff out of his ass. Well, I'll see what I end up with.

I can be done with this now plz? Oh, how I hate bureaucracy.
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[identity profile] wihluta.livejournal.com 2008-01-11 02:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Guy of the Gorgeous Accent
HAHA! See! I told you! You will become addicted to this kind of stuff. And then you have to leave this lovely country again and one day you find yourself doing the dishes and you suddenly remember some stupid scrap of stuff and you end up wanting to wail over your dish-water, because you so fucking miss it.
life=unfair


BUT YOU WILL BE THERE LATER THIS YEAR! AND I TOO; IF EVERYTHING GOES AS PLANNED!
*starts praying*

oh, and btw, I just whiled away half a day talking to you and doing nothing very productive at all. That's amazing. I will feel so guilty tomorrow. BUT I DON'T CARE!!
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[identity profile] wihluta.livejournal.com 2008-01-11 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
one of my customers just now smelled exactly like my british landlord. And I wasn't sure if I wanted to throw him out of the shop, because he made me homesick again, or if I wanted him to never leave, because he reminded me of Britain.
It's a strange, strange world... :-)

[identity profile] euclase.livejournal.com 2008-01-11 05:21 pm (UTC)(link)
You didn't ask me for a reference?!

It could have been GREAT. You could've had a shiny American reference in your application. But noooooooo.

Ugh. I'm so hurt.

So, so hurt.

:P

Good luck, babe! I'll root for you!

[identity profile] maddoggirl.livejournal.com 2008-01-11 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
You have filled my head with images of being screeched at in German by a very stern helpline lady :0

Good luck getting that reference! If they can't be bothered ... I suppose you're too mature to get your daddy to muscle in and get it sorted for you? ;D

[identity profile] chaoskir.livejournal.com 2008-01-11 07:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I still have my crossing fingers. For you and for Wihluta. So, and I know you will get all the references you need. Also from the scientist.

Here is what my little stupid brain cell is picturing:
Maybe the gorgeous-accent-guy thought: "Wow! That girl has a gorgeous accent. I will talk a ot to her and I want to listen her for hours" and than your conservation begun. I imagine you and he with the same thoughts and he told you a lot of stuff with big and long explanations just for hearing your big and long answers. And maybe ... just maybe you don´t need the references because he told you that with just the reason to talk to you and to listen you answers. *lol*

God, I´m soooooo .... argh, forget it. Just forget it.

But still crossing fingers for you that all will working out in a way you wish.

[identity profile] aryshtin.livejournal.com 2008-01-11 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey, that's so awesome! I hope the porfs will do that for you. Sometimes it helps when you write the reference yourself and just go to them and say "sign here, please". :-D That's at least how it works at Wannabe Almighty Biology Faculty. ;-) It's terribly awkward (who wants to write praise about themselves? Ugghh. Ridiculous.), but speeds the process up a lot, since the profs usually don't have a clue what you actually need the reference for and therefore don't know what they should write.

But for all else... God, it's so exciting! :-)

[identity profile] hibernia1.livejournal.com 2008-01-13 02:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Just to wish you good luck with this! *hugs*