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by Aeolun 2023 days ago
> BBSRC paid me the princely sum of £1377 on 1 July 1998, and by the way, that was for that quarter

> £225 per month

Apparently, yes. We do expect parents to still be funding postgraduate students if they don’t want them to starve. £702 pounds per quarter seems kind of hard to live on. That’s like £8 a day to pay for everything except rent.

Actually, that seems kind of doable.