Edinburgh Gig - I need to rant

[Rich T]

Apologies, but I need to get this off my chest.

I have had tickets for the gig on the 16th in Edinburgh since the day they went on sale. I t was all set up. I am doing a part-time Masters and the exams were to be the first week in April. I was then going to have a week off with my kids, culminating in a great night out with my wife at the concert, having converted her at Tina's last visit in October.

So all going smoothly, until...

Some wazzock at the Uni had failed to update the exam dates in the timetable so it was only last week that it was realsied that the exams were really in the second week of April. Not great but managable, thanks to the good grace of my wife.

Then the bomb goes up. They decide to move them to the 17-19th April!

Not a happy bunny! So much for the customer-focused approach to higher education in Britain.

The small sliver lining on this is that my wife is still going wth one of her friends.

:mad:

[Walrus]

That's fucked up. How can they just randomly move exams like that? What if people had travel plans or whatnot during that time? I would think that stuff would be fairly set in stone several months ahead of time. Sorry dude. :( That's laaaame.

[Phil]

Just go to the gig mate. You'll perform better in the exam if you're relaxed... and late night cramming never really did help anyone (although it might have helped me to blag some oral exams every now and then!). You have another 2 weeks to prepare....

Go to the gig... the constant Tinitus-generated ringing will help you zone out the rest of the exam hall then next day.

I once went to a Barenaked Ladies gig in London the night before an exam in Plymouth the next morning. Getting to the exam hall late on a National Express redeye. I failed, but thats not really the point.

Should I really admit to being a Barenaked Ladies fan? Too late.

[Rich T]

Always nice to hear from a fellow 'outed' Barenaked Ladies fan.

If it was my first degree I wouldn't even be thinking about not going, but as this is a second degree which I am having to pay for, with a little help from my employer, I, against my better judgment, am having to be sensible. :eek:

As for the set-in-stone thing about exams, well in a very British form of irony the course I am doing is on Project Management...need I say more!:D