Half-Way Through
I write this a week after term has officially ended, this means that I can officially say that I'm 'half-way through' my degree. That's two whole years done.
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Second Year – Over in the Blink of An Eye
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.
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Second Year is Very Tough
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. Actually, I distinctly remember an argument among some of them on this very subject.
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Easter Break ‘Fun’
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 endless lists of UNIX commands! So, despite the looming prospect of five exams in seven days (thank you, weekend, for existing!), I thought I’d let you...
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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.
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Coursework Submitted and Easter is Here
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.
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Exam Results Are Back!
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 have to say I enjoyed the exams. It was inevitably stressful and didn't always go as planned but in a way it was something familiar.
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Semester 2 – Here We Go Again
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.
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January Exams Are Over
It was a nice feeling to have a couple of days with no lectures and no work to do before semester two kicked off, restarting the cycle of lectures, revision, coursework and exams. The timetabling has not worked out brilliantly for us though. With a 9am lecture every day but Wednesday (and that starts at 10am) there will be no week day lie ins this semester.
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Brief Reflections on a Blurred Second Semester
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, I appear to be doing Part II again. I supposed I should dedicate some paragraphs to this.
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