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A Very Fiendish Technical Report

Merry Christmas Everyone! With my last lectures of term out of the way this morning Iā€™m now truly free to join in with the Christmas spirit! We have Slade blaring away in the background and Iā€™m about to wrap presents for my flatā€™s party tonight. Weā€™re hopefully going ice-skating in the town centre this afternoon too, which Iā€™m really looking forward to! Fast forward to tomorrow and Iā€™ll be back enjoying the creature comforts of home, though Iā€™m going to really miss being here. Continue reading →

Time is Always Against Us

ā€œTime is always against usā€. By Morpheus, in one of my favourite movies - Matrix-Reloaded). The beauty of the quote is ā€“ you can easily replace ā€œusā€ with ā€œstudentsā€ and still enjoy it ;) I would never be able to understand why we are given such a ā€œshort-timeā€ to complete our coursework ( e.g. ā€œjustā€ two weeks to write one-page table, three weeks to prepare a 15-slides presentation and a month to read 20-pages standard specification). Continue reading →

A Needed Break Over Christmas

Weā€™re back to the reality of university after a much-needed and in most cases much-deserved break over Christmas, where I for one spent so much time worrying about how much work I had to do that I didnā€™t have much time to do any - although I did find that mulled wine helped with this, in some way I just canā€™t remember how. Itā€™s all kicking off as the end of term approaches with coursework deadlines, exams to revise for and the almighty Group Design Project final presentation. Continue reading →