Term Dates and Holidays :)

[EmmathePiper]

Heya ^^ I'm coming in September and I'm just asking when the holiday dates for St As are? Any help would be appreciated

[Hennessy]

That sig is dangerously colourful even for a geography student. Someone else will help you, my eyes need to mend.

[orudge]

This document (from here) may be of some use.

[EmmathePiper]

Thanks for the link ^^

Is there a "holiday" between the two semesters (so when exams finish and before Candlemas starts?)

And the sig, well, I use other phpBB forums and it's my sig there. So suffer it you shall have to

[orudge]

Yes, you have typically two-ish weeks free (although in your later years, you may well be expected to do project work or essays in that time).

[Ruru Hedgehog]

Yes, you have typically two-ish weeks free (although in your later years, you may well be expected to do project work or essays in that time).

And by "free", orudge means you're expected to do work, by sub-honours students don't really bother...
Not that they bother throughout the rest of the semester anyway. =D
But I guess, for geography students, that would involve practising and honing your colouring-in skills for Semester 2. Wouldn't want those skills to go to waste over Christmas, now, would we? =P

[orudge]

But I guess, for geography students, that would involve practising and honing your colouring-in skills for Semester 2. Wouldn't want those skills to go to waste over Christmas, now, would we? =P

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[EmmathePiper]

Oh don't worry, my colouring skills have been perfected over many years of colouring in maps this past year

*wanders off to sharpen crayons*

[ojk6]

I've always taken it to compensate for the the fact that there's a pile of revision to do over X'mas...

[Iain]

Can I just register my disgust, in fact, utter disgust that you come from Dingwall and aren't taking Geology!!! Didn't the cheery Aberdonian tones of Mr. Strachan appearing a few days a week have any influence on you?! Oh well.

(Left DA in 2003)

[Hennessy]

Can I just register my disgust, in fact, utter disgust that you come from Dingwall

(Left DA in 2003)

Until this thread I wasn't sure if human habitation was possible north of Inverness. We live and learn.

[EmmathePiper]

Lol! I took Higher Geology with the good ol' Mr S actually, and I'll probably do Geoscience in first and second year anyway! He took me for Geography in first year (2003 ) and I loved it - so he does have something to do with it!

He's got quite a good success rate really, one of the other girls in my Geology class is off to do Petrolem Geology at Aberdeen - so he's pleased with that!

And Hennessy - to be honest I'm not sure myself there is any human habitation up here!

[Iain]

I was just surprised Hennessy considered there to be civilisation north of Perth! Glad I eventually escaped to Cardiff via St. Andrews.

Glad to hear it, Emma, and good luck with your course (you never know, rocks might turn you). By the way, Colin Donaldson, one of the first year lecturers, is friends with George so say hello! I hear from the man himself that Miss Forsyth is taking over the geology from next year... sad times.

[EmmathePiper]

Lol! I've been getting stories about Colin ever since he heard I was coming XD

And yup she is! She was sort of learning the course whilst teaching us this year (Only had Mr S twice a week), though she was bamboozled by all the same stuff we were so I suppose she'll get a better feel for it next year! But yes, it'll be sad not having Mr S going back into the school - he was helping the others in my Adv. Geography class with their studies so he was a huge help there too.

He can go home to a life of retirement - or just go on more field trips by himself!