Life

I haven't been myself in a long while. I have lost all motivation with Uni, Im back to my old self by not waking up in the mornings. I am knackered, can't sleep till silly o'clock in the morning. I'm sitting here at 11:34 waking up only 20 minutes ago, missing yet another lecture and practical. Its week 8 and this can't go on. If it does I will scrap by with a 2:2 and thats not what i want. I need a 2:1 but thave at doesn't motivate me in the slightest.

I think there are a few things on my mind. Girls, i dont think is a major factor any more, however it would be nice to have a cuddle every so often.

I am in an unusual situation at Uni. I started in September doing 8 modules and will finish in May with 8 modules. It's begging to piss me off that people 'have too much work' doing 4 or 5 modules or with an honours component. I am meant to be in Uni

• Mon 9-8
• Tues 9-5
• Weds 9-11
• Thurs 10-6
• Fri 3-4

In that time i also need to fit in 12 hours a week on my dissertation.... luckly some of the gaps on Mon and Tues help with that. The workload is heavy right now. In terms of tutorials, they are well behind, I am going to have to catch up with that over xmas, along with most of my diss work. I have a 4 page techincal aerodynamic review, where I need to read at least 10 articles.... I have 2 engines lab reports to do, approx 4,000 for my diss report. Prerpare matlab code, not even started on that, and write up a group report. On top of that, 4 weeks worth of Aero practicals, chassis and more.

Becuase of the amount of work I have, I feel guilty about going out, my social life right now if Karaoke and Road Trip. Bar freshers week I have been out twice in 8 weeks.... This is getting my very down. As much as  I can keep to myself, I do need people around me. My of my friends seem to have a lot of issues themselves, and I feel I can't really talk about how I am feeling. As well, my friendship group has shrunk alot, don't get me wrong, I love the guys I hang round with. I just need to expose myself to more different people. I am fairly fed up of talking about the SU constantly.... grrrrr

Money.... the vain of everyone's exsitance. p Student Finacne has really fucked me over this year. Firstly my grant amount got reduced down to around £2000. I knew what this was for and my mum has changed this. Then they said you can have your loan on this day. I ring them up on this day and say where is it. I needed to sign a form, which I didnt receive for 2 days afterwards.... Great. As well, they started looking into my earnings from last year, all because I filled in a question wrong. My loan came in and I paid a bit off my rent (thankfully I am with Brookes who take 3 or 6 installments a year rather than monthly), but I am still waiting for them to process they grant side of things. Not sure how long this will take.

I took a job at pizza hut in August, this is now my last week. I always know I would work it till my work load became too much. Cos of all the SLC cr@p, the money I earnt from pizza hut has kept me going. I have barely spent any money either. I have only earnt £511 (as of mid oct) from pizza hut in 2/3 months. Yes all of it is gone, some went into the bank most went on living for 2/3 months. Not too bad I think. So I have learnt not to spend unwisely recently.

So in general, I am down because... stress from uni, money worries, lack of social time, and lets quote Green Day "the lack of sex is bringing me down".

Retailers

How to make cash using your website!!

Own a website, or blog? Well use your site to earn some easy cash for yourself! There are a number of ways including google ads, amazon marketplace, but today I will talk about affiliating.

What is Affliating?
Quite simply it is advertising on your webspace. And in return you earn some cash. There are several companies out there who work with companies and website owners for advertising. By signing up to programmes, and placing ad's onto your website you can then earn money when people click in the website.

How do i earn money?
Once ads are on your site, when a user clicks on it a cookie is downloaded. Once the user makes a purchase, or completes the task then you earn the commission. Quite simply really.

Some examples

• HMV - earn up to 4% of sales when people click on the link
• Lovefilm - someone signs up through your ad and earn £10
• Offers click - earn 85p per sign up
• KingJackpot - Earn £30 when someone signs up and deposits £10

What affliating sites are out there?

Affiliate Future
Free to sign up, have over 500 merchants on offer.

Tradedoubler
Tradedoubler are an award winning affliating company. They have links with lots of well know sites.


So what do I have to do?

1. Have a webspace, make a useful website that people will visit. Some merchants will reject you if the site is not good, contains certain content or not their market.
2. Sign up to both Tradedoubler and Affiliate Future.
3. Create a profile and explain well what your site is about and how working with you is a good idea.
4. Search for programs/merchants and apply to their programs.
5. Once approved, start adding links to your site.
6. Tradedoubler has a nice feature called pools - what they do is group various ads together and will alternate the adverts on each load - useful for programs that require purchases for.
7. Figure out a way to promote the lead (leads are when someone does something ie sign up to a website) and promote it on your site. Give a reason for the user to sign up. e.g Deal of the day type thing.
8. Watch the cash flow in.
9. Usually there is a 2 month waiting period for the commision to come through, this is to ensure that the transactions are real or not have been returned.
10. Remember to submit your bank details so that you can be paid.
11. Once you have earnt the threshold, normally £30 you will be paid.

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