Satisfy Me
Mar0
As many of you probably don’t know, I’m a student representative at Lincoln. This means that I’m responsible for taking the questions and comments of everybody else in my department and putting them forwards to the departmental committees when they meet.
Trouble is, many people don’t even know that I’m there to do that job, and even fewer actually bother to get in touch with me about anything. When they do it’s always grabbing me in a corridor when I’m on my way to a lecture or workshop, where they gabble something incomprehensible into my ear which I promptly forget.
I do, however, believe I have found a solution in Get Satisfaction, a community-driven customer service website which looks like it would fit the bill of what the student reps do nicely. You can ask questions, share ideas, report problems and give praise. Anybody can answer (even if they’re not ‘official’), but those who are marked as official representatives of the university can have extra clout in answering questions. We can organise questions and comments by department, it lets us keep tabs on what Twitter is saying about the university, see how many people have similar problems and so on. Best of all we can remember what we’re doing and act upon it.
All we need now is for people to actually use it. Promotion campaign, ho! If you’re at the University of Lincoln and have a comment, a problem or a cool idea for us, let us know right now:
It’s not big and it’s not clever.
Feb0
I’d like to extend my personal thanks to whichever dick decided it would be a good idea to – in a drunken stupor no doubt – hit one of the fire break glasses in The Junxion at just before 1am today. As they are no doubt aware the fire alarm system treats the breaking of one of these glasses as a genuine fire and tries to evacuate the entire building and not just the block in question. Since this was the event which woke me from my peaceful slumber prior to my 9am lecture today they deserve my most heartfelt congratulations for currently being top of the list of people I want to see die slowly from smoke inhalation in a real fire.
I would also like to thank the assholes who think it’s entertaining to walk through the courtyard at 1.27am, 2.14am, 2.43am to 2.58am, 3.30am, 3.36am and 3.52am shouting, singing or yelling “yerwotyerwotyerwot” at the top of their voices. Your harmonious cacophony helped prevent me from getting back to sleep once awoken by aforementioned fire alarm. However, those numerous attempts to prevent me from staying awake during my lecture today pale in comparison next to whichever monumental twat decided to play Womanizer by Britney Spears, Up by The Saturdays and Single Ladies by Beyoncé at 4.08am, at full volume on what sounds like quite a powerful (if low quality) sound system, in a room not too far from my own. Truly, drunken students are the height of civilisation and evolution.
I still want to kill all of you.
Broke & Broken
Oct0
If you’re a student you’ll know first-hand that student finance sucks. If you know a student, you’ll almost certainly have heard them complaining. So why not support the NUS campaign trying to fix the broken financing system for higher education? I certainly will