University of Southampton

Second semester and a summer job OK so it’s been nearly six months since I last wrote here. It’s something I’ve been meaning to do for the last five of them but never quite made it to doing – hence, now the exams are less than a week away, it’s an obvious thing to do!! [...]

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. [...]

“Allez Le Bleu!” It is indeed amazing how time flies; it seems just like not long ago we commenced the new academic year. With only few weeks away from the second semester exams one can only wonder what made time fly so fast. We are already talking about plans for the summer – internships, trips, [...]

Epic 2012 It’s been a long time since I last updated my blog here. Well, there have been lotsa exciting things going on. When I landed in Heathrow two years ago, that was my first time being abroad and I was doing just fine. So, I thought, hell yeah, put me anywhere on god’s green [...]

Having been back at home for two weeks already, the release of the dreaded summer exam timetable has inspired/frightened me into finally doing something productive this break after a lot of sleeping and catching up with friends! A blog entry might just fall under that description, and it provides a welcome distraction from memorising seemingly [...]

A Royal Visit During my time in Southampton I’ve been privileged to meet some very important people. Back in March 2009 the then Cabinet Minister for Science and Innovation Lord Drayson came to visit and I was asked to take part in a small round-table discussion about the state of science education in the UK. [...]

Easter vacation is here already and somehow I have managed to fill it up. With a total of about 4 days where I am not doing anything and 5 courseworks set intended to be done over the holidays I don’t know where I am going to find time to sleep. A week of kayaking in [...]

Woah, looking back over my last blog I’ve really realized how much I’ve settled in here at Southampton. I really feel like a true soton-ite. My last blog focused very heavily on the course, and about the concerns someone applying to Southampton might have, but this time I’m gonna talk about one of the main [...]

Today was a very eventful day. Aside from the less obvious (the music DVD I won arriving in the post) we got our exam results back! Looking back to a month ago (already?! these four weeks passed in an instant really!), when everybody was struggling to cram as much as possible into their brains, I [...]

It has been too long since I last updated this blog… my bad! We are now well into semester 2 – here we go again: The January exams went fairly well… fingers crossed; we actually get the final results back at the end of this week. We have a big night out planned at the [...]