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MEng Computer Science (second year)

Long Abscence

By Tom Hennigan |

It’s been an awful long time since my last entry in here, so I thought I should explain what I’ve been doing with myself since last January. Whilst I’ve been very lucky to have my parents support me throughout my course (so far!), I’ve also had a job pretty much since I started at Southampton. [...]

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Its All Go. Job, Exams and Coursework

By Tom Hennigan |

Okay, it’s 00:34, and I’ve just finished revising for a module test tomorrow. Suddenly the nice slow paced start to life at university has sped up to a run, and things are starting to take off. I’ve got a job (that was advertised through an email to ECS students), and I’ve just applied for another [...]

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Im Finally a University Student

By Tom Hennigan |

Hello, world! (or should that be System.out.println(“Hello, world!”);) It’s only in writing this blog, that it’s finally hit me that I’m a university student!? I know this may seem strange.. I’ve shopped for myself and cooked for myself, done my own laundry, gone to lectures, done lab work.. The list goes on, but still, it’s [...]

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How to Decide Where to Study

By Tom Hennigan |

System.out.println(“Hello World”); * And that’s how you start your career in software engineering! Among the many good decision that I have made in my life, l would rather say – short life one was to join software engineering and the other was to choose ECS for my MSc! I have an odd habit to delay [...]

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