I wanted to talk about my graduation on Monday, but I am also going to talk about faith. Faith is a fantastic thing. Faith is the belief that something good will come of something. It isn’t really a tangible thing, and the degree of its existence is purely at the discretion of the beholder.
But what [...]
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Oh Come All Ye Faithful
Privileges for the Privileged
I read this morning about Lord Coe’s glowing view of the legacy of the 2012 Olympic Games. He says:
I don’t see a generation out there who are lost or are hoodies, I don’t see the world like that, when I go around that’s not what I see.
I’ve taken a rather pessimistic view of sport in [...]
All Over
Well the exams have passed. Now it’s a waiting game for the results. It wasn’t a great exam. Everything I had studied on Monday had pretty much vanished from my short term memory… perhaps occupied by recent events. I relied on my long term memory which thankfully wasn’t too shabby as usual, so I should [...]
Exam Before the Storm
I received an email from Newcastle University recently about the tickets they have allocated for my graduation. I was hoping to receive my basic allocation, plus the two seats in the TV relay room they advised we should apply for. This email told me that they have received more applications for these TV relay tickets [...]
Back With A Vengeance
I have returned — I have fixed the problem I was having, which seemed more to do with my host than WordPress itself. A lot has happened since my last post.
I’ve been told that I have been rejected a place on the PGCE course, to my extreme annoyance. It seems the reason for declining my [...]
Job Interview, Part 2
Applying for a place on a PGCE course isn’t as simple as just completing an application form then popping in for an interview, as I found out this week. The application process is controlled by an arm of UCAS, the university admissions service. As such, it costs £5 just to enquire. Furthermore, any correspondence you [...]
Replenishment
This week has been a pretty good one, all in all. My project is starting to take shape (it’s in for two weeks, so I haven’t exactly got all the time in the world), I’ve come to a decision that I have worried about the whole time I have been at university, and of course [...]
I, Antagonist
I’m writing this article a different person to yesterday. I received an unexpected email from my stepmother. I should be thankful really, as it made me realise a few things.
On reading its contents my mind switched swiftly to my graduation. I had made up my mind as to who I would invite: just not how [...]
For Want Of A Better Post
Things aren’t going well for me at the moment. It’s an odd feeling to have, since for the most part I can feel lucky the ways things have turned out. Right now, Newcastle United are staring up the nostrils of a double-barrelled shotgun; I have no idea how I’m going to earn my daily loaf; [...]
Damage Limitation
I’m becoming increasingly disillusioned, not least in my mathematical ability and my job prospects.
My most recent annoyance concerns one of the modules I am taking. I had some homework due in for Friday, but I didn’t do it. I didn’t catch the deadline and was given the impression the lecturer wasn’t taking it in. Fortunately [...]