they do that to themselves as well, so don't worry too much about it.

ahhh ... nice having the sun set at 8





And the fruits people oddly term "sweet"



Tuan tuan & puan puan, welcome to the UK

This post has been edited by corad: Sep 24 2009, 06:48 AM

haha, indeed very good eyes !

was still bright enough to walk home about 8-ish though

lebara.

or if you prefer a "highstreet" provider, o2 prepaid with international bolts on is pretty cheap ...10p per international sms

anybody knows any good phone contracts ? ie: good phone, acceptable minutes ?

gone to e2save.com , but nothing very appealing in there. thinking of going for the iphone 3gs since its features have nearly made up for its price, and its the only thing that you can;t get in msia cheaper


any comments ?

wad?
Being in or out of the Russel Group means nothing. It dosen't affect funding or teaching. The only thing it offers is bragging rights, where other universities try to seem connected to OxBridge.

bristol, bath, loughborough, liverpool are generally considered to be top notch.




Disagree. Try applying to any reputable engineering firm like Airbus, 42Technology, British Rail, Rolls Royce, GE... you'll find competence is always better than "ranking".

Yes, but I still wouldn't place emphasis on which group a university in affiliated to. Look at KCL's engineering dept ... it was so bad they decided to close it this year. Wonder how their graduates must feel to find their department no longer exists (considering half the Strand campus was engineering).


wonder how that list was created. where are the russian, brazillian and german universities ?

Not for Bath, it's GDP 140000 for science courses : http://www.bath.ac.uk/international/financ...ition-fees.html

This dosen't include the exam fees.

IC is 150000 including all assesment fees.

Might as well go to Bath Uni .. tops for Engineering & Business

AND

the Malaysian Olympics team is training there ... ( as well as Japan, China etc ). Imagine bumping into their athletes on the way to lectures

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympic_games/8560023.stm

http://thestar.com.my/sports/story.asp?fil...0271&sec=sports

i don't blame them.

i'd say now is a pretty good time to be studying in the UK.

low exchange rate, cheap flights , falling house prices i'm probably living more comfortably now then when i'm back in M'sia !

EDIT : forgot to mention, still an undergrad ... probably different when working

This post has been edited by corad: Jun 4 2010, 05:50 AM

I live quite comfortably on ~500gbp a month. 300-ish for rent, 100 for phone,utilities, bus fares ... and another 100 for food & going out.

any savings goes towards my travel & drinks fund

I used to

1st of all, congrats !

and they won't kick you out if you're late ... but you'll have to stay back abit longer after term ends. some thing known as "keeping term" since every student needs to spend a certain number of nights on campus.

well ... I just hope you enjoy what you've applied to read ! otherwise , theres always college booze to keep your spirits up

I would think a minimum of 2:1 would be the standard requirement of any good post grad program. I won't suggest looking at league tables tho .. this changes (in big ways!) almost every year. Rather look at the uni website, they have the course layout there for public access ... see which suits you best.

Here in the UK , most people regard , Imperial, Bath, Bristol, & Cambridge to be good for their under&post grad engineering programmes ... again, very general .. but hope it helps !

I think not landing at Heathrow is actually a really good thing. Stanstead & Gatwick are so much more convenient.

Besides Thai, Brunei airliners have good fares too.