University of Southampton

Doing a PhD straight after an undergraduate degree brings both good and bad connotations about yourself. Particularly in Malaysia, jumping straight from a BSc to PhD is fairly unheard of, thus they automatically assume that you’re some intelligent overachieving prodigy. On the flip side, grad school has been famously caricatured as a way to put [...]

OK, I know it’s been absolutely AGES since I’ve last updated this. Two months and a bit. It’s a disgrace, I know and I’m terribly sorry. I’ve been busy. I was probably busy doing stuff other than work, but nonetheless, faffing is still an activity At least we’ve got loads more bloggers to fill in [...]

Last Wednesday, I was a student helper for the IT, Science and Engineering Careers Fair. It was massive; we had 85 exbihitors spanning across two exhibition sites. Another company was unable to take part in the Careers Fair because all the spaces were booked so they had to set up shop in Zepler instead. I’ve [...]

Full Circle Who would’ve thought that after a year, I’d still be blogging right here. It feels oddly surreal. My summer was absolutely amazing. I went back home to Malaysia for three months and I got to spend some quality time with family and friends. I also had the chance to do an internship in [...]

I just got my exam results and I did waaayyy better than I would’ve imagined, thank God The thing is, I was quite a mess right before the exams. I was so emotionally unstable that I got to the point where I didn’t care about what would happen anymore. My exams were getting closer but [...]

Now EXAMS ARE OVER! Wheeeeeeeeeee A couple of weeks ago we had a short talk on relationships. It was run by Eric Cooke (a.k.a. The Legend) and Sarah Cove from Zepler Reception. We covered so many topics, including how you should learn to love yourself. Eric brought out this book with a bright yellow smiley [...]

SEG IS OVER! For the uninitiated, SEG stands for our Part II Software Engineering Group project, where we spend a whole semester working on a piece of software while embracing the trials and tribulations of group-based software development. It all started when we were told our group allocations. The groups were randomly chosen, so if [...]

Yesterday was April Fools’ Day. After years of torment by my old schoolmates, it’s usually the day when I sit quietly in my room and cut all ties with the outside world in my bid to spare myself from any humiliation. Did it help this year? NOOOOOOO.. 1) Google TiSP (Toilet Internet Service Provider): Fancy [...]

Time sure flies. I got my previous semester’s exam results last month. I always seem to get my Semester 1 results on or around my birthday. It’s kind of scary; if the results are good, I would definitely feel like celebrating, but if they’re not, it will just ruin my special day. This year, thank [...]

Exams. It’s the time when you start reassuring your parents that you will ace them because you’ve been working hard all this while. *cough* One thing that amazes me is how my exam schedule would always put my killer subjects last. My schedule would start off with relatively easier papers first before building up to [...]