When I was a student, a million years ago, it would take me up to 2 hours to get to uni. I guess my parents lived in an inconvenient spot (‘Keilor’ aka ‘the middle of nowhere’) where I had to catch a bus (or two) and a tram to get into the city. During my first year I kept eye-balling a girl who looked really familiar (no, she was not hot). Eventually we worked out we were doing the same course and lived fairly close to each other. We didn’t become friends but eventually as we both got cars we became carpooling buddies.

We split petrol and carparking money. Even though she did give me high blood pressure by always running 10 minutes late we had a beautiful relationship.

My ‘carpooling buddy’ knew people a year ahead of us doing the same course who sold their old textbooks to us. Yes, it was a beautiful relationship.

Throughout my whole degree I wished I could move closer to uni and my part time job of bartending in South Melbourne but could never quite hook up with the right people in the right house. I really needed NOT to spend my whole term reading the rental section of ‘the Age’ and reading little bits of paper stuck in the window of a book shop in Lygon St advertising for a roomie.

Being a student is tough. You are no longer a kid so no one is financially responsible for you (unless your ma and pa are millionaires). You have to try and do it cheap. Apart from the monetary reasons we should be trying to contribute to a sustainable future.

Cheeries to making a uni student’s life a little easier with a nano bit of technology....and a good sql search statement.

Signed, the website programmer