100% on all homeworks this week. Happy times. Everyone's jealous. I'm about half way through Fermat's Last Theorem too. I rather enjoy all my time in the library this year.
The university cinema is having the Fright Night tonight but Liz and I have decided not to bother because last year we missed half the films due to falling asleep in the middle of them and it would mean tomorrow would be a tired and lazy day in which no work was done. Plus we didn't get cheap tickets earlier in the week; we didn't go to watch Lebanon because we couldn't be bothered with a war film with subtitles and we didn't go to see Sex And The City 2 because the trailer seemed to have all the best bits and it still looked shit.
Since Fallout: New Vegas came out last week I've spent a little time watching Chris play it. When I started watching I really wanted to get it myself to play but the more I saw the more I was able to resist. There are so many bugs and glitches and it has already had three patches. It's a bit pathetic to be honest. I'll definitely be able to go without it until it gets fixed. There a plans for DLC to be released around Christmas so hopefully it will be much more playable by then and there might be money off for Christmas. I've got Fallout 3 to keep me busy until then.
I need more black ink for my printer and I left the plug at home so I've had to borrow Liz's. The pin board in my room does not like having pins in it so it still isn't in use. I have the CRB application now and I'm going to need a load of documents to prove I'm me and that I'm a good person.
Saturday, 30 October 2010
Monday, 18 October 2010
Mouse < Elephant
I suppose I haven't quite fallen back into blogging frequently now I'm back at university. I'll try harder; I promise.
I've had a full week of lectures now. We have three modules on the go at once. 12 hours per week plus time taken for homework/revision.
MATH210 is a bit confusing. It is heavily focused on proving things rather than working out specific cases so everyone seems to be complaining about it because they miss school and college level maths. Also, no one likes the lecturer very much. I don't mind doing proofs and having a lecturer who speaks clearly and in an easy-to-understand accent though so I don't mind getting up on a Monday and Tuesday afternoon. Also, by "everyone" and "no one", I am, of course, referring to the small number of friends I have in maths lectures.
The first booklet for MATH220 is exactly the same as the first booklet for MATH114 from last year but with bits missed out so I haven't been able to concentrate on anything yet. Instead of listening, I spend lectures reading through my old notes and filling in gaps in the new ones. The lecturer seems like he'll be pretty good at explaining the new stuff whenever we get to it so that's something to look forward to.
MATH230 is Probability. Our lecturer is Spanish or Italian or something like that so she has a really strong accent and is difficult to understand. The actual work is easy enough so far though so it isn't too bad. The first week was mainly revision of MATH104 from last year and was easy enough to follow.
I was going to write a paragraph about how annoying certain ones of everyone/no one were when they were claiming, with the utmost confidence, that the notes were wrong, that the 210 notes are exactly the same as last year and that if we fail our Masters then we leave university with absolutely nothing but debt. The notes were unsurprisingly correct and only the 220 notes are the same. I don't know what happens if we fail our Masters but I'd be willing to bet we get our BSc if we do well enough in Part II, regardless of how we do in the fourth year. Instead, I decided to write a paragraph about how I was going to write a paragraph about it.
I don't know where my printer cable is for plugging it in so I'm borrowing Liz's for now while she has no use for it.
My phone froze today and when it unfroze it had decided to go through a few screens and reformat my memory card so I lost everything that was saved on it.
Chris and I have played the Halo: Reach Campaign and Firefight game modes to death so we decided to make a Mario Kart style race track in the map editor. We also made a bouncy cage of death in the middle of the sky for general having a laugh killing each other again and again with swords, gravity hammers, rockets and/or grenades.
Good, huge food in the White Cross on Saturday when my parents came. My guitar still isn't fixed because the machine head didn't fit. Lord of the Rings trilogy before Hazel comes and takes them back home next weekend. Cemetery Junction tonight at the university cinema. Bus to campus now before Liz goes mental.
I've had a full week of lectures now. We have three modules on the go at once. 12 hours per week plus time taken for homework/revision.
MATH210 is a bit confusing. It is heavily focused on proving things rather than working out specific cases so everyone seems to be complaining about it because they miss school and college level maths. Also, no one likes the lecturer very much. I don't mind doing proofs and having a lecturer who speaks clearly and in an easy-to-understand accent though so I don't mind getting up on a Monday and Tuesday afternoon. Also, by "everyone" and "no one", I am, of course, referring to the small number of friends I have in maths lectures.
The first booklet for MATH220 is exactly the same as the first booklet for MATH114 from last year but with bits missed out so I haven't been able to concentrate on anything yet. Instead of listening, I spend lectures reading through my old notes and filling in gaps in the new ones. The lecturer seems like he'll be pretty good at explaining the new stuff whenever we get to it so that's something to look forward to.
MATH230 is Probability. Our lecturer is Spanish or Italian or something like that so she has a really strong accent and is difficult to understand. The actual work is easy enough so far though so it isn't too bad. The first week was mainly revision of MATH104 from last year and was easy enough to follow.
I was going to write a paragraph about how annoying certain ones of everyone/no one were when they were claiming, with the utmost confidence, that the notes were wrong, that the 210 notes are exactly the same as last year and that if we fail our Masters then we leave university with absolutely nothing but debt. The notes were unsurprisingly correct and only the 220 notes are the same. I don't know what happens if we fail our Masters but I'd be willing to bet we get our BSc if we do well enough in Part II, regardless of how we do in the fourth year. Instead, I decided to write a paragraph about how I was going to write a paragraph about it.
I don't know where my printer cable is for plugging it in so I'm borrowing Liz's for now while she has no use for it.
My phone froze today and when it unfroze it had decided to go through a few screens and reformat my memory card so I lost everything that was saved on it.
Chris and I have played the Halo: Reach Campaign and Firefight game modes to death so we decided to make a Mario Kart style race track in the map editor. We also made a bouncy cage of death in the middle of the sky for general having a laugh killing each other again and again with swords, gravity hammers, rockets and/or grenades.
Good, huge food in the White Cross on Saturday when my parents came. My guitar still isn't fixed because the machine head didn't fit. Lord of the Rings trilogy before Hazel comes and takes them back home next weekend. Cemetery Junction tonight at the university cinema. Bus to campus now before Liz goes mental.
Saturday, 9 October 2010
Taking it like a man.
I've been meaning to write a blog about getting back to Lancaster all week but I've been busy spending time with Liz and playing Halo: Reach with Chris next door.
It has been a good first week back. My new room in Chancellor's Wharf is good and sharing the bathroom and small kitchen hasn't been a problem at all. I've met my flatmates and they all seem like nice people so I don't see why any of us won't be able to get on well all year. None of them have been having parties at 3 a.m. so it's an improvement on living with Kelsey last year. Becky and John from SSAGO live in the flat next door to continue the huge coincidences of people Liz and I know living right there.
I was able to get a new machine head for my acoustic guitar so my dad is going to bring it up next time he gets a chance.
Mike Davies hasn't had a great Freshers' Week and has gone home because he couldn't handle not knowing people or something. I'm not sure. He's coming back tomorrow before lectures start. I was under the impression that he was too shy to join in with a conversation and talk to people who already knew each other (so if everyone was talking in the kitchen he wouldn't be able to go in and get to know them) but he wasn't helping himself by pretending not to be in when the Freshers' Rep's knocked on everyone's doors to get them all chatting and getting acquainted. I had said I'd try and help him get settled in but I have no idea what I could do to help if he won't even talk to people who don't know each other already.
I'm going to go and play Halo: Reach again now while Liz is busy with arty things.
It has been a good first week back. My new room in Chancellor's Wharf is good and sharing the bathroom and small kitchen hasn't been a problem at all. I've met my flatmates and they all seem like nice people so I don't see why any of us won't be able to get on well all year. None of them have been having parties at 3 a.m. so it's an improvement on living with Kelsey last year. Becky and John from SSAGO live in the flat next door to continue the huge coincidences of people Liz and I know living right there.
I was able to get a new machine head for my acoustic guitar so my dad is going to bring it up next time he gets a chance.
Mike Davies hasn't had a great Freshers' Week and has gone home because he couldn't handle not knowing people or something. I'm not sure. He's coming back tomorrow before lectures start. I was under the impression that he was too shy to join in with a conversation and talk to people who already knew each other (so if everyone was talking in the kitchen he wouldn't be able to go in and get to know them) but he wasn't helping himself by pretending not to be in when the Freshers' Rep's knocked on everyone's doors to get them all chatting and getting acquainted. I had said I'd try and help him get settled in but I have no idea what I could do to help if he won't even talk to people who don't know each other already.
I'm going to go and play Halo: Reach again now while Liz is busy with arty things.
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