finland update

[cimorene]

so tys, the turku student village foundation, sent a letter about housing to my parents' house and it just arrived and... a deposit and a signed thing--signed by BOTH ME AND WAX--is due by 19 august.

9.9

these people!  what is it with their DEADLINES?  that's rather short even for natives--and it has to be because they have to have proof of registration first.  july is JUST TOO LATE to tell someone they've been accepted to a school that begins on 1 september.  and yet for all finland's public higher education, july 23rd is the last allowable day for notification.  wtff.

Comments

[mace-m.livejournal.com]

Well, the deadlines all come back to the fact that the matriculation examination ends in Early April. And because the system favours (or is supposed to) the newly graduated people, the entrance exams to universities can't be held earlier than beginning on June in order to give the new folks enough time to study for them. If the matriculation exams were held earlier, the time table for the whole would make a lot more sense. But the truth to be told, July 23rd is extremely late, and I don't know where they even post the results this late. In most place the results are published in early July (if not earlier).

But looking on the positive side, I'm sure you'll get your papers signed and mailed by the deadline. If not, Wax can always call them and explain your troubles, I'm sure they can extend the dead line a bit. After all, there are loads of Italian exchange students, and mail takes three weeks (I kid you not) to get from Italy to Finland, and they could never get their papers delivered on time. So, there must be some flexibility in the system.

Did the papers say where your apartment is: did they house you in the student village proper, or in one of the other areas the Foundation owns?

[cimness.livejournal.com]

okay, well that makes somewhat more sense, but is still immensely frustrating. mail can take two weeks from here too--that's why i've had to send things priority and express, which gets very expensive.

the apartment's in yo-kyla, according to the paper i just got, and is two rooms and only 46 square meters. o.0 the more i think about that the harder to believe it's right... how can a bed fit in a room that's less than half that size?

(they published the results in mid-july, but in the materials it said that other schools could give them as late as the twenty-third.)