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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Mathematical Witterings
It has been a pretty bad week to be honest. It feels like it has just been a succession of kicks in the teeth. It started last Friday with my exam results.
I got a 52 and a 66 for the two modules I sat exams for in January. I wasn’t too happy about the 66 [...]
Anti-Climax
After lectures on Friday, I headed straight to Cheltenham by train for the first part of a job application. It’s a long train journey: stopping at Durham, Darlington, York, Leeds, Wakefield Westgate, Doncaster, Sheffield, Chesterfield, Derby, Birmingham New Street and finally Cheltenham Spa four and a half hours later.
Staying overnight in a Travelodge on a [...]
Sitting At The Back
One could be forgiven for being nervous before an exam: going through everything in your mind ensuring you haven’t forgotten anything you need. However, when you walk into the exam room and sit down ready to start your exam, you should be given an automatic fail if you fail to notice that you are sitting [...]
The King Is Back
Long Live the King! Kevin Keegan is back, and I, for one, am extremely glad! All Newcastle United supporters wanted was a reason to be optimistic. The city has changed in the space of a few hours. It’s brilliant!
Exam tomorrow… I bet the buzzing stops pretty soon!
Lesson of the Day
Get back, get back, get back [...]
No Pain No Gain
I awoke yesterday to a nosebleed. Nosebleeds are not unusual for me, I get them very infrequently but often enough to realise that I should carry a handkerchief or tissue with me. I am unsure as to whether there is some residual cause of these nosebleeds — are they caused by some hidden complaint? They [...]
Existence Of God
Well apparently there is one! He’s just been away for a few days. Today seems to be going well. Alan Johnston has been released today, and, after weeks of waiting I got my exam results.
Now, getting my results has been arduous process: postal strikes, delayed post, examination board taking longer than expected… but I got [...]
Dreams, Dreams, Dreams
I’ve been having some weird ones lately. Two of note were particularly odd. In the first, some people whom I do not recognise appeared to fancy me, which is rare in itself. In the second, the university appears to have hated me more than I could have imagined, setting some of my exams at the [...]