Tim's Bits and Pieces

Wonderful, looks like the Labour government wants to reintroduce compulsory student Union payments for university students. Back to forcing people to pay for services they don't want or need. The student union never did anything useful for me; the only time I was ever in a situation where I might have needed a union, I was forced to join a special "club" as part of being a student, the student union was the actual problem. Sure they called it a union, but it was basically just a special club I was required to join, even if I never used any of their facilities. Isn't the whole point of unions preventing such things? To my mind mandatory union membership is a violation of the very purpose of unions.

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I finally graduated on Saturday; only about six months after my last exam!

Just a quick note too let you know I'm back. I've been away in Tasmania for about a month now, which should explain the lack of posts :-). I'll do a write-up on my holidays in the next couple of days.

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I received an amusing letter from my Uni today, apparently I have achieved a GPA of "5.5499999999999998". I mean come on, no one needs, or wants, to know their GPA to that level of precision, why not just round it off to 5.55 or something?