Two Offers

I have two offers now for postgraduate study- one from Nottingham and one from Hull- both on the condition that they receive a satisfactory reference from the other of my listed academics. Along with a request for it to be sent, and a promise of a stupidly huge and expensive box of fresh coffee, I have also requested they both send another (glowing) reference for another application. The latest is to the Manchester Business School for a management course they run.

As for funding, I am still wondering how I'm going to afford this. One of my offers has granted me a full fee waiver and a sum for the year- not extravagant, but enough to live off (and that's all I need) if I take a place with them.

As soon as I have a clearer idea of exactly what options are possible, rather than just dreams, I will be straight on the telephone to find a sponsor. Failing that, the bank will be my friend.

"Yes Mr Bank Manager, in this economic climate, I need a loan of £x000 to live for a year and pay my fees. Yes I'll be working. Yes I won't be able to start paying it back until after I, fingers crossed, graduate."

I wonder if being an ex-employee of a certain lender might help with the interest rate? The fact that I left them over six weeks ago now has not deterred them from sending me packs and application forms to buy shares in their company at an employee price.


In other news, I suspect training as an emergency nurse might actually be more appropriate; one of my friends told me today that his young daughter and mother had been the victims of an armed attack. Thoughts are with the family, and thanks are owing to the fact that no-one got hurt. What kind of coward attacks a woman and small child?