{"id":325,"date":"2012-01-25T21:28:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T21:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ecs.soton.ac.uk\/blogs\/jack_edge.php"},"modified":"2013-05-27T12:03:46","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T12:03:46","slug":"27-january-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/studentblogs\/27-january-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Brief Reflections on a Blurred Second Semester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inconsistent naming scheme<\/p>\n<p>Meta is boring, we can have meta anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Hey guys! What&#8217;s up?[1] I have just finished all of the exams for the first semester of part II.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s interesting about that statement, is that it seems almost in the same vein as my last blog post almost a year ago.[2]<\/p>\n<p>Yes yes, I appear to be doing Part II again. I supposed I should dedicate some paragraphs to this.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to lower the emotional tone too much, and to be honest, considering how well I&#8217;m doing at the moment, it seems a little unnecessary to be too gloom and doom about it.<\/p>\n<p>My depression got really bad, and frankly, I don&#8217;t remember much of semester 2. Luckily for everyone involved, I have an incredibly supportive group of friends around me, and the school has been really supportive.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I have the opportunity to redo the year without prejudice, and it&#8217;s all great, and I&#8217;m having a good time.<\/p>\n<p>My old year group is still around, having a &#8220;fun&#8221; time with their third year projects, and management[4] (paper handins, wooooo).<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;ve got a chest bumping, hyperactive, constantly orange[5] new year. So that&#8217;s all good.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;ll keep up with the blog posts! But who knows, that&#8217;s a meta discussion. 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