I have applied for my tier 4 student visa sponsorship! Hopefully the Institute will grant it to me (I mean, they will...unless they have a sick sense of humor). Then I may begin the application process for a tier 4 adult student visa so that I may traverse the trails of the EU and the location of my study trip (?!) legally and without problems should I come to a border.
Hopefully this time, when going through customs, my official and awesome-looking visa will encourage the person checking my passport NOT to play a joke on me, claiming that I am submitting a passport that is not my own. Oh wait, that only happens in the US.
In the meantime, I still need to figure out where I'm living, and with whom. And how to do that while a few thousand miles away. Hmm...