once again i'm a student

sure, you may question this statement; 'why amanda, isn't that what you've been doing?'
well, yes, yes, indeed it has been.
however, i've been a bit of a secret student.

26 october

alas no longer, i have enrolled at heriot-watt.

it took a lot of emails, meetings, and a few phone calls. plus multiple trips to multiple people's offices. but i'm pretty relieved to say, i am now enrolled at heriot watt.
and i'm trying to get over the fact that it happened 11 days after it was 'going to' which was about a month after it could have in the first place. but whatever, i was able to be working with adrian before, so now it's just official.

well official as it can be. i do have a new student id card (which is fantastic as my other one had a september expiry date). and they did fill out and stamp my council tax form, which is awesome because that adventure concluded with the office needing to reduce our tax and not bill us until december.

of course when adrian and i attempted to get me a key and log me on to the computers that didnt work. but my email/login now functions. and i'll hopefully get a key (which i'm really not concerned too much with) next week.

apparently even though i enrolled, somethings take more than 24 hours (what that pertains to you've got me because it seems odd but then again it's slow mind numbing bureaucracy ) so i couldn't pay them. maybe i won't have to pay them... that'd be awesome.

so anyway after my first attempt to register and, well technically my second attempt as well, i went for a walk around the forest-y area of heriot watt. what i was hoping would be my victory walk (it wasn't), but i'll post those pictures after i upload them from my camera.

anyway, yay for being a student - officially.

so on said walk, i went around behind the main building to the land area of campus. there's a lot of 'labelled' walks...only they're labelled well. at multiple points, i was apparently on the 'tree walk', 'art walk', 'history walk', and i want to say there was another. while following a path i came across an unexpected little cemetery. a private cemetery. then i came around the other side and randomly another student seemed to suddenly appear. i was alone in the woods and then suddenly wasn't. anyway it was a nice little walk through nature.