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On Friday I got the e-mail stating I was taking a year out while paying for tuition. I spent the weekend vaguely depressed (the food here continues to do that to me) and sent a response on Sunday evening in time for it to reach Durham by the morning. A few hours later I wake up and I have a new e-mail that starts my day of well this time.

“Firstly apologies for my short email earlier which has clearly caused upset and uncertainty. It was certainly not my intention to do this and I don’t want you to think you are abandoned in Canada.” blah blah blah “I reassure you that a degree programme called Computer Science (International Studies) is in the process of being created retrospectively and as such you will be awarded this degree on completion of your final year. Please don’t be de-motivated any further by what has happened and be assured the University is taking steps to investigate further what has gone wrong.”

So it seems that the previous message “Therefore no new programmes will created i.e. International studies.” is no longer the case. I am doing a degree right now, and I am in Canada, which will soon gain independence from Europe. I don’t know that this means anything for future Computer Science students, but even so I’ll be able to field any questions general students might have about studying abroad or UBC/Canada (fire away in the comments if you want).

The department staff back home are now interested in talking about stuff when I get back. I guess I better type up those blog posts I’ve mentally been writing for a while, so I have some notes to refer to when I see them. In other news it seems to be a week and a half where every class is giving out assignments and exams, I could get a respectable grade if I avoid collapsing under the overload.