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[-] RiderExMachina@lemmy.ml 60 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I mean, you could probably put a short version of your title like "How Polluted Are Our Waterways", but you should have a tighter title that's not a question like "Our Polluted Waterways and the Threat They Pose".

[-] SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago

Threats posed by Waterway Pollution?

[-] Squirrel@thelemmy.club 19 points 10 months ago
[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago

"Dirty water bad. Clean water good?"

[-] jcg@halubilo.social 11 points 10 months ago

Use emojis for extra brevity.

πŸ­πŸŒŠπŸ‘Ž. πŸ§ΌπŸŒŠπŸ‘?

[-] RiderExMachina@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

That's a good one, but I believe OP wants it to be personalized to their area

[-] Darthjaffacake@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah you're marked on how focused the essay is. Also since they've already submitted the essay this is just to help it be found so it has to have the same title

[-] dave@feddit.uk 8 points 10 months ago

Is there any good reason to limit a text field like that these days? Although, UCAS probably still rocking a System/360…

[-] SuperIce@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

In 2015, I had a part time job managing some parts of my University's IT. We still had 2 Sparc64 build servers that were like 15 years old and had a dual socket MB with 2 physical CPUs and 2 GB of RAM. Top of the line when it came out. It took like 10 seconds for ls to run. Most infra had moved to x86_64 CentOS machines (from Sun Microsystems still, so like 10 years old), but we were still routinely building updated dovecot packages for the Sparc64 machines managing internal email.

[-] CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I agree. It's supposed to be the title, not an article. πŸ™‚ Posing it as a question does help to pique interest, though. Could do... "Are polluted waterways a major threat?" Boom. Done.

[-] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 31 points 10 months ago

I never expected UCAS to turn up on here. I thought Lemmy was for middle aged Linux users?

[-] hellfire103@sopuli.xyz 17 points 10 months ago

There are plenty of queer 17-year olds like me here, too!

[-] z00s@lemmy.world 28 points 10 months ago
[-] hellfire103@sopuli.xyz 22 points 10 months ago

UCAS is the organisation that deals with applications to higher education (e.g. university) in the United Kingdom.

EPQ stands for "Extended Project Qualification", and is an A-Level enhancement subject. In this subject, you pick a topic in September and spend the next few months writing an essay on it.

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

A-level? Enhancement subject? Is that like something you can hand in for extra credit?

[-] hellfire103@sopuli.xyz 8 points 10 months ago

A-Levels are a British standardised exam, at the same level as the American SATs. However, they are much harder.

An enhancement subject is (AFAIK) a way of getting more UCAS points, which increases your chances of being accepted at some universities.

[-] Koen967@feddit.nl 1 points 10 months ago

He's trying to stay within the maximum amount of 50 characters for the title.

[-] Darthjaffacake@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

I'm pretty sure for the subject you just put "mathematics" or "chemistry" that's what I did and I hope I didn't mess it up

[-] hellfire103@sopuli.xyz 3 points 10 months ago

If I messed up, my representative should return the form in due course.

[-] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 10 points 10 months ago

Thames Water casually pulling strings at UCAS. (Or at least, truncating them)

[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 8 points 10 months ago

And MS won't let me create an accout (for Minecraft) with email alias. Imagine, everyone can now handle aliases, except the billion dollar company.

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