Everyone that completed our Student Buying Habits Survey was entered into a draw to win a Brother printer or 5 Ryman stations packs worth about £85 each. Well we just drew the winners and they are:
1st prize of Brother printer – Kaytee9912
5 runners up: FadedJade; GurlGamer and 3 Guest users of TSR who haven’t yet given me their name (i’ve emailed you all though)
Congratulations to you, there’s a slim possibility you’ll get the goodies before Christmas!
Thank you to everyone who entered the draw
J
This weekend we had our annual official moderators meeting. There was bowling and most of sunday was spend talking through opportunities and plans for TSR. The highlight for most however will have been the saturday evenings boat party down the Thames. At one point in the evening awards were given out to recognise the moderators that have gone above and beyond the call of duty and the winners were:
Best Mod Newcomer – letsdothetimewarpagain
Lifetime Achievement Award – Helenia
Moderator of the year 2009 (as voted for on the night by the other moderators) – randdom
Acumen Intern of the year – Jonah Ramone (JR)
Runners up in Mod of the year category were: Ilex Aquifolium, daniel_williams, F1 Fanatic, Rainy, Dalimyr, Athena, Helenia, Wildebeest, -skyhigh- and Craghyrax
Thanks to everyone that attended for making it such a fun weekend and congratulations to those winners, the runners up and the whole team for being brilliant!
Do you have strong opinions about what it’s like living as a student or young person in the UK today? Do you feel your views are being represented adequately to people that can influence government policy that relates to students and young people?
We have a survey running on The Student Room at the moment to find out how empowered students and young people feel and whether TSR could have a role in providing them with a more direct voice to government.
Complete The Student Room political representation survey here
Complete the survey to be in a draw to win one of 8 £20 Amazon/Topshop/Topman vouchers.
We’ll be publishing the findings in the new year…
Another week, another blog, because I’m free, and no one else is. Basically. Little Henry the ball is still outside, and probably freezing his proverbial gonads off in Brighton’s winter weather. That’s right, we’re nearly at Christmas and our weather is cold and almost perpetually raining. What else would we expect? Actually, today had been pretty dry, surprisingly, so it’ll probably rain when I am walking home from work or something. Not that I want to tempt fate or anything.
So what’s NEW I hear you cry? Well, today I’ve been looking over the post formatting of the TSR awards, which I am sure everyone will be glad to hear, should be up and running pretty soon. Whilst half of last year’s successful people are now gone (who the hell was WOLLSMOTH and how did he ever come 3rd in most famous? Who even still remembers him? These questions will abound if you look at last year’s winners) some are still around and likely to be fighting it out for those awards again. Obviously I don’t mean actively fighting, that would be absurd.
Since my first main task of completing the Further Education page that I linked last week (actually it may have been the week before) I’ve been working on a couple more pages. First, I’ve been helping with the finishing touches to a newly designed careers hub, which is well on its way and should make it nice and easy for people to search jobs through TSR. Imagine that. Job searching without even having to stop procrastinating? If only TSR had an essay and revision bank you could even study while procrastinating. Oh wait, it already does…
The second thing I’ve been working on is a set of resources for students in university who are considering ‘dropping out’, which when it’s finished should be a really great resource – since the majority of the General University Discussion forum has confirmed that there is very little help for those considering dropping out.
It’s December now, and pretty scary to think that another year is almost through – thinking back to where I was this time last year is a pretty interesting thing. Dissertation on the horizon, graduation still seeming far away on the horizon… Who knows where I’ll be this time next year? Maybe I’ll break into the staff blog to give you my update, or maybe (probably) I’ll still be floating around on TSR being all immature and stuff. Most likely the latter.
But, what does December bring every year? That’s right, Christmas! And things are heating up round here, while the world outside gets colder, as we’ve lots of exciting Christmas parties and things to have while you all do your mock exams, revise for real exams or work on essays when you’d rather be feasting on all that glorious turkey.
Elsewhere in the office the others are typing furiously to meet their deadlines, so thank god there should be a couple of new arrivals in the new year to relieve the work load. I’m sure you’ll hear more about that from Chris or Jamie when the time comes.
Whilst I feel typing away like this is a wonderful use of my time, I better stop rambling. Not very time efficient, and that’s bad for business. Until next time, stoke me a kipper.
