h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

... I remember you! When I was a newbie, I found the Majestic City! I set up a shop there before I realized half of you had Elvised.

Thats soo cool, but weird! This little community is so strange!

I think M City went a bit wrong ...

What have ye done since then?

Just hung out. I joined up a few RPGs, some adventures... ended up in the Atelier just recently. I've written a few guide articles as well, and they're on my space.

I hear geography is really difficult in UK schools. One of my professors- I can never remember if he's irish or scottish, and he always yells at me for it- wanted to do geography, but couldn't handle it, so he went into geology. Here, it's the other way around.

Cool, I went away cos I didn't have internet access in my dorm last year... am in a student house this year so it's all good

Geography is really different here, and is more widely studied. I think there are only a few schools that do it over your side of the pond. It's a lot wider discipline, ranging from physical geography [which would probably be your geology, with environmental management, rivers, rocks etc. etc.] and human geography, which is what I do, which includes development, social issues [crime, health etc.], GIS [which is business and mapping it] etc. etc. Most of it is really interesting and useful, but some of it is absolute bull!

No internet access in the dorm! Speak not of the horror!

I'm actually taking GIS this semester. Our school has a license with ESRI, so we're using Arc. Have you ever tried GRASS? I'm looking for someone who has.

I did a bit of GIS last year, but didn't choose to carry it on, and am glad I didn't: all those that took it say it is rock solid!! We used MapInfo, which was pretty easy to use, I've not heard of GRASS weird! What other courses do you do?

It was pretty horrific Apparently they have all got access in their rooms over the summer, the lucky things! Are you in a dorm this year? Uni works a tad different here, you are guaranteed a room in the first year, but don't make rooms available except in special circumstances, which leaves me in a grotty student house

Nah. I stayed in the dorms for the first two years, and got my own apartment my junior year. They gouge the students around here, especially those that can't find a roommate in time!

I don't know what I'm going to be doing next year. I know over the summer I'll be staying with my parents, which is going to severely limit internet time They have the worst dialup I have ever experienced. Meh- there's always the library!

It's expensive? Mines just like that too, they funnel all the students into one big area and then hike up the prices. Leeds is in the North of England, and in Britain the South is twice the price of living than in North. When I went to stay with a friend in London, who was renting as a professional rather than a student, and it was the same price!

I can beat you on the internet access stakes! Over the summer, I go to work in the States at a summer camp and they have a satellite for the internet... which if gets as much as a leaf in the way crashes!