University of Southampton

Toughness Second year[1] is very tough. I mean, I’m not saying that to scare you; ECS is a vibrant, fun and clever place but the point still remains that second year is hard. I’m sure that the third years, attempting to remember what their lives were like before the third year project hand-in, would disagree. [...]

Inconsistent naming scheme Meta is boring, we can have meta anywhere. Hey guys! What’s up?[1] I have just finished all of the exams for the first semester of part II. What’s interesting about that statement, is that it seems almost in the same vein as my last blog post almost a year ago.[2] Yes yes, [...]

Resuming where we left off The second year, so far, has been interesting. A cliche, but true. First, I must take a slightly more serious tone than the whimsical one that I normally use. The past couple of months have been quite difficult for myself. The stress of coming back to university, a troubling personal [...]

The return to Southampton Can you hear Southampton calling?[1] The three months of the summer have passed, and we’re in the last two weeks before everyone starts trickling back to labs for our second year. Hopefully, we’re all clean, tidy and refreshed; although I doubt it. It’s more likely that we, or at least I, [...]

Exams II To imply that this is a direct sequel[1] to the last blog post would not be technically accurate. It is more of a loose connection since this is the post-exam blog post, while the previous one was a pre-exam blog post. But there’s no need to be pedantic.[3] I guess what I should [...]

Exams (1) Is it that time again?[1] Examinations are the bane of the course. A sheet of paper containing questions that we do not know, and we have to be prepared for almost every possibility[2]. But that’s almost constant for any form of academic training, whether down to Java Certification[3], all the way up to [...]

Light, Warm, Comfort Sometimes, it seems odd to outsiders the strange dependency that we[1] have on our little slabs of silicon and metal. Sometimes it seems odd to us[1]. I recently went away, visiting family in a more isolated[2] part in this country, and when I returned, my peers greeted the concept with stunned amazement, [...]

I’m sure that at least three people have said “Happy New Year” to you already, so I don’t need to be the fourth. Enough discussion had been had on the contents of 2010, so I’m not going to waste bytes talking about what “The Next Big Thing” is going to be (and remember, Twitter existed [...]

I hope Helpdesk liked the banana bread Is it that time already? That was a rhetorical question, since my netbook informs me that it is the 10th of December, so bar ntp turning around and betraying me, I will assume that it is the correct date. At the cost of putting more pennies into the [...]

Footnotes Galore! When I was a young, moist behind the ears A-level student, examining choices for university, I looked at the website for the School of Electronics and Computer Science, and saw that there were student blogs, written for the people, by the people. People in this instance [1], meaning students. So, I will quickly [...]