Tag: education
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Chez Geek Card Of The Day
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I'm about a quarter of the way through my dissertation. I have to have it finished, printed and bound by Monday morning.
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Typically Busy
[this post was lost during a server failure on 11 July 2004; it was partially-recovered on 13 October 2018]
Another couple of weeks of academic nightmare coming up, followed by the Easter Break (during which I'll be working, ho hum). I've got to do my second "poster session" presentation for my dissertation a week on Wednesday; … -
Christmas Is Coming, The Exams Are Getting Written
[this post was lost during a server failure on Sunday 11th July 2004; it was partially recovered on 21st March 2012]
I haven't done any yet.
I'll start tommorow. Better call my mum and get some tips on what my sisters are into this year. Becky's typically quite easy - she usually just wants the most violent … -
First Aid
Yesterday was a long day. After nine hours at work, had two and a half hours of First Aid refresher training at Aberystwyth ambulance station.
On the upside, I'd forgotten how subtly dark paramedics' sense of humour can be... when one particularly overmoral woman expressed concern at a particular element of the training: "But they could … -
Science Graduates Earn More, Live Longer, Smoke Less
This report by the BBC, published yesterday, gives evidence that we science/engineering graduates live longer than our artsy opposite numbers. Made my day.
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Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #50:
Sit up 'til 5:00am coding for a project that doesn't have to be in until a week on Friday. On the up side, discover the root cause of the bug that was holding back the progress of the Group Project, … -
Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #40:
Fail to get elected as one of the two student representatives of module CS12320 (Concepts In Programming). What else could I expect? I was nominated against my will, gave an awe-inspiring speech, that declared that "if I get this position, … -
Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #36:
(1) Recieve an e-mail from your Personal Tutor, asking to see you in his office in ten minutes. He knows I check my e-mail 1440 times a day, but dragging me to this level of nerdity is ridiculous...
(2) ...make it … -
Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #31:
Pass your first exam... with a worldsmashing score of 90%. Your lecturer, apparantly, during a pre-test, scored 95%. The pass level was 36%. Happy bunny? You bet!
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Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #29:
Stay in and do some work.
Scary but true - this theoretically means that I haven't done this until now. Eek.
The 'cool and interesting things' were originally published to a location at which my "friends back home" could read them, during … -
Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #27:
(1) What with being excessivley busy, and a network failure last weekend, fail to get out a "Cool Things". Feel the need to apologise to everybody (SORRY!), and give them three "Cool Things" to help make up for it.
(2) Be … -
Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #26:
Go out and get pissed with the second years from your floor. Bloody hell, those guys can drink about (originally read "drinkabout") four times their weight in lager. As a result I'm probably going to have to (originally read "tpo") … -
Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #24:
Take a pillow to a lecture. =o)
The 'cool and interesting things' were originally published to a location at which my "friends back home" could read them, during the first few months of my time at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, … -
Cool Thing Of The Day
Content Warning This archived blog post has been flagged as containing content that treats or depicts people negatively based on their appearance or identity. This wasn't okay at the time and it isn't okay now. I don't believe it's acceptable to pretend I didn't write them by removing them from the Internet - insofar as …
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Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #17:
Attend a lecture in a shirt and tie, and carrying a bag full of clothes, and leave 20 minutes before the end, to catch a coach to Aberdyfi, and sit on it and sing! (actually, this hasn't happened yet - …