Now this would have looked nice in the previous blog post, but I only got the news today and its superb!

To make things short, I'm the chairman of my hall of residence and we started a campaign demanding compensation for the poor living conditions in this hall. The campaign has been running since November, we met up with managers from around the university to no avail. I managed to set up a meeting with one of the university's senior directors and last week the committee, some residents and myself expressed our concerns to him.

Well here is the news, today we got the response and they offered us almost £200 (almost $400) each, multiply that by the number of students here (300) and we got ourselves £60,000 ($120,000) compensation. Now how is that for a talking point during a job interview?

I'm glad it ended this way, if only for the monumental effort we put in to get this compensation. Needless to say, I will be drinking excessive amounts of beer today and organizing a party for the hall sometime soon! :D