University of Southampton

Tidying up the mess of a desk that I left during the last exam period, I found, behind several other ‘post-it notes’ one that had “BLOG!” written on it. It then came to me, it surfaced on my brain, the meaning of that simple word, blog. It meant, tell people what has been going on, [...]

A few minutes ago, a good friend of mine recommended me this brief piece of poetry. I thought I’d share it here. It did make me smile. SCOOPING THE LOOP SNOOPER A proof that the Halting Problem is undecidable Geoffrey K. Pullum (School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh) No general procedure [...]

When I am very close to the end of my second year’s first semester I can’t avoid realising that it was not as bad as it sounded beforehand. Obviously, first year must have been a pretty good training for the following one. Although, I must admit that more than once already, I have found myself [...]

Summer is gone. Every once in a while I tend to look back in time, as our own ECS legend would say, ‘I like regressions’; and this seems to help me explain and understand a lot of whys. In that way I can see myself working hard in New York only a few years ago [...]

Hi all. My first year is over, in fact, it has been over for a while now. But I couldn’t avoid taking my mind out off ECS for a while. I must admit that even if it is supposed to be the easiest one, year one knew how to stress me out from time to [...]

Just a quick thought: The b-method is cool, nice, clean, simple, fairly easy to understand and it does make sense. The level of discrete maths to be applied in it is not to0 hard, at least yet. It’s roughly set theory, functions and relations so far. Happy about it. I have a variety of feelings [...]

Well, back after a long time away from the blog. Why? Holidays and exams. The end of the semester hit me quite hard, I went on holidays planning on revising for the exams and doing coursework, and truth is I tried, but it didn’t happen. Therefore, by the time I got back everything was on [...]

Week number four is dying; week number five is showing its face. If I think about it, I’ve only just started my degree; but I am already well submerged into it. Things get more interesting by the minute, lectures become more complex, coursework and tests become an everyday matter. For some reason, even if at [...]

As this is my first blog, I would like to keep it short and interesting rather than oversized and boring. At some point a few months ago, I found myself digging within this student blog trying to get some answers, trying to understand what was coming, trying to be prepared; and I have to say [...]