School/University/Work-Thread

I am so happy for you!
And I am sure that London will take you! I said your before your works are awesome and you are so talented!
Congrats!

congratulation Viper. You really deserve it and I´m happy for you!!

mrs v. viper wrote: When I was about 10 years old I said to my Mum "Mummy, when I grow up I wnat to study at one of those pretty old buildings, and be a fancy student amongst fancy art people at a recognozed art school."
the way other girls want to become singers, you know.

Oh I just love that!! Congrats Viper! Sounds like you are really doing what it takes to make your dreams come true. Keep rockin!

I would recommend all of those who says they are tired of their jobs etc. to try studying. It's so much more satisfying and stimulating than having a dayjob.

^ But how much money does it give? You kinda need something to live off. At least here, all you get for studying is loans that needs to be paid back. I dont get anything at all, so I need to have a job besides my school.

Sheila wrote: ^ But how much money does it give? You kinda need something to live off. At least here, all you get for studying is loans that needs to be paid back. I dont get anything at all, so I need to have a job besides my school.

Each month you get 2700 swedish kronor in subsidy(is that the right word?), but you may also take loans bascially without any interest rate. If so, you get about 11000 kronor each month. Not much, but totally handable.

GRAH! I hate my university!
The Spanish teacher just let us know that this is actually the wrong course and that we have to go to the Spanish Basic 2 course first. But there's no Spanish Basic 2 course in English, so that means, that I definately won't pass that course as it's way to high level or that I will have to work my ass off in order to be able to pass it.
This whole system such so much!
I maybe could to go a course which is held in Finnish, but GRAH!

*pushes the topic up*

Jesus Christ, Spanish is really starting to freak me out right now! I really really LOVE the language and I really wanna study and learn it, but I simply hate the way the teacher is just teaching it. It's like...you basically lern nothing at all! I mean, the native Finnish speakers' course is so much more intense. Some of my fellow students also took the Beginners Course last semster and ist was called "Espanjan Perusteet 1" (Spanish Basics 1), I took the "Spanish for Beginners 1' - course. Both courses are 6 credit points. Now I am in a course called "Jatko 1" (Continue 1) it's translated into Beginners 2, BUT my Finnish fellow students are just in "Espanjan Perusteet 2" (Spanish Basics 2). So I am actually missing a complete course and a lot of the fundamental grammar...I mean it's not like that, that this is not important...no NOT AT ALL (caution: being ironic!). And of course there's NO course in this whole fucking university which fills the gab between that "Beginners 1" and that "Jatko" - courses. I mean, there is, but only in Finnish. Next to that, the Finnish students learn SO MUCH MORE and do listening exercises etc. We haven't done a single one. I mean, we sometimes watch little clips but that's about all.
I am really pissed off right now as I am sitting here and try to understand that stupid past tenses and all the shit but it's just not very nice if you are missing a whole course just because your university is obviously not able to make a prober Spanish Schedule of foreign students...
So much about being treated equal!

Going to try to take one of that Spanish courses which are held in Finnish (which I think my Finnish just won't be good enough!) or taking courses from another university next semester....

Sorry I just felt the urge to scream it out!

ughhhh!!! My stupid teacher didn't show up today, she called in sick but never emailed any of the class so we are here and she is not. And we have to stay here and read. Kinda stupid. I've already read all of this stuff so I am just messing around on the Internet haha cool enough I guess.

mrs v. viper wrote: can you survive in swden on about 5000 sek each month including rent and everything without taking a job? It seems hard to imagine to me... I found out the erasmus program supports internships too so I will head to swden after england hopefully, and I'll have actually a bit more than that, but it still seesm tough considering how Damn expensive sweden is...

That's approximately how much I used to have in Finland (only converted in €)... Maybe a bit more... And I could managed... Barely, but I could manage... Sometimes I asked my family for help if something big needed to be bought...

I guess you can.
I believe the price-level Sweden-Finland is about the same and I get less than that an can survive. Always depends what you wanna do, how much you need for food etc.
I can easily live on 80 € food a month. No problem maybe even less but that would mean like no "extras" like juice, coffee, etc.

I'd say it depends on where in Sweden you're going to study.
I live outside Stockholm (close enough to study there) and my rent is 3400 SEK/month (I live alone & my appartment is 28 square meters).
However, I have friends who live in central Stockholm and pay about as much as I do, but most of them only have a room (12-16 square meters) and they share kitchen.
I know that it's cheaper in some other cities though.
If you are willing to share a room I guess you could survive on 5000 SEK.
Where are you going to study if you go to Sweden?

5000 sek would be really hard to live on, I'd say, but it's possible. You can get a room in Gothenburg for about 3000 sek. But then there are bus/train tickets, food, house stuff... but I guess if you want to, you can do it.

I would also recommend the site mediejobb.info/ to you, you can find a lot of webdesign/design jobs there if you have experience from working in Photoshop/InDesign. When would this be?

@mrs v.viper Sorry, I just assumed you were going to study since it's so common, there's a lot of exchange students living on the same campus as I.
In Helsingborg you could probably find a room for about 2000-2500 SEK/month if that's where you end up.
It's a beautiful city:) (& my hometown)

beautïful wrote: So, a lazy weekend draws to a close... the next days I will spend preparing for my midterm recording test on friday. And along the way I have to build and master operation skills for this little fucker: klick! And we don't even use it for the test!

To quote a friend of mine: HOLY SHITBALLZ!!! It looks quite complicated but for an "outsider" it just MIGHT look confusing... Guess since you're studying that it's not to you...

Seems as we're doing a project now for America we'll have to work the next weekends, too... *searches for motivation* At least this means more money and as long as they won't bother me working the weekend 10.-12.05. I don't really care

Aaaah, only 3 weeks left til the end of the semester and sooooo much to do...got 8 exams ahead (2 are done already), implementing a home-page + wrting a guide how to do it, 2 portfolios and 7 essays... (okay 6 essays and 1 portfolio have due date 31.st of may, but still...)
I WANNA DIE!

that's very sad that there is always this tendency of underrating other's people work.
most of people nowadays are so full of themselves and they think they know it all, so every other, even if it's more qualified, is surely wrong....

i work as a customer service, and i see that everyday! most of the time they don't even know what they're talking about, but well, they're right and you're wrong :/

Arrrghh, found out today that I, besides writing the exam, have to write an essay to pass the statistics course:/ Completely useless things to learn, nobody does those calculations by hand anymore, everybody uses SPSS or similar software. Statistics definately isn't my favourite subject!

Gonna have a simulation of one of the exams tomorrow, made up of 4 subjects. Whole programs. Still have to start. Not willing to. Kill me.

It's ridicolous how hard it can be to find a decent place to live in the bigger cities in Sweden.