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 she has allowed me to hand it in on Monday. It annoys me that other people were aware that the deadline was for Friday, and appear to know it purely because those lectures are the only ones they turn up for. What’s worse is that it was exactly the same last semester for a similar module, and they also got better exam marks.
It leads me to wonder why I go. I already feel my understanding of these subjects isn’t as good as it should be.
A lecturer did concede to me during the week that his understanding of certain modules while an undergraduate wasn’t the best, but this didn’t prevent him from being able to answer exam questions on the subject. It should reassure me. But this is supposed to be my specialist subject, and what’s more is that I’m beginning to hate it. It is very technical and rather unforgiving when it comes to a lack of detail or making small mistakes.
Can’t wait ’til the Easter holiday!
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What shall we do next summer?
Furthermore, what will the England players do next summer? According to The Sun (via BBC’s Gossip Column), England’s players will receive £150,000 for not reaching the finals. That’s performance related pay for you. I suspect many will be spending their holidays as far away from the British tourists as possible.
Wouldn’t it be nice to have a paid holiday for being a failure? And isn’t it great that it doesn’t mean thing to be a failure, to let millions down across the country? As a certain Mr Gerrard stated after the game to Sky Sports, "well life goes on".
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It’s always good to see the old gang; and indeed the new gang. I met Nick’s girlfriend Belle for the first time, and she is very pleasant.
The holiday took a more casual tone this time round, largely down to the fact that everyone had some sort of ailment at some point in the holiday. Nick, Belle and I seemed to have picked up the same bug; Donna was a bit poorly; and Pete ran into the squash court, quite literally.
Quite a collection of wildlife came to us in our villa: various kinds of duck – including “Geordie Duck”, a black and white variety – moorhen, rabbits and a fawn came to the rear door. The ducks were rather friendly too, to the point that some were willing to eat bread out of my hand.
The beauty in going to Center Parcs at this time is that only parents with very young children are there, and the place is by far more peaceful. It meant that for much of the time there were tennis courts and badminton courts free. We should have paid really, but for the most part we didn’t bother. It did mean my badminton arm improved… slightly. My cricket arm didn’t, however.
Looking forward to next year already!
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I was thinking last night how you can measure the richness of a country’s history by the number of and by the degree by which its people are eccentric. Britain has no shortage of mad people: we are famous the world over for talking incessantly about the weather. And having produced the likes of Boris Johnson, Rowan Atkinson and my grandparents, that is the argument pretty much won.
This week, I shall be visiting another part of this country. This is my dad’s old stomping ground – Boston, Lincolnshire. I shall be staying there this week with my (maternal) grandparents. So I won’t be blogging any more until I’m back. Sorry!
Meanwhile, submissions for the SDC have now been closed. I’m hardly going to set the world alight with my three designs (apparently that’s not cheating…!), it was a good lesson for me to try to envisage and implement my own design to an existing theme… three times.
As for releasing my designs, I don’t know. Perhaps it’s best to see how well received they are before contemplating unleashing my monstrosities to the world. I guess I’m saying "If you like it, tell me", then I’ll do something about it. They will appear on the Designs page on 2nd August, I believe.
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What a waste of a holiday. I planned to write up my lecture notes in order to cover everything I had taken down in the term. Needless to say I failed hopelessly.
I just couldn’t settle down to work, and when I did, it was often interrupted. This week we have some revision lectures, which will hopefully be of use to me – they usually are, but given that I haven’t revised much over Christmas, it will be more a case that the lecturers will go through the questions and write down everything I see.
My trip to Japan is a bit of a permanent distraction now – not that I’m complaining! But I feel guilty for several reasons.
Firstly, I’m taking out my student loan in order to go. However, this is money I will pay back – with interest – when I am earning.
Secondly, I will be going to a comparatively exotic place. This is a position most students don’t find themselves in. However, many students will have gone on holiday plenty when they were children, and this is something I haven’t experienced, so this is my justification!
Thirdly, Mum. She has hardly ever had a holiday, particularly abroad. I feel guilty bringing it up in conversation, because she won’t be going. I should take her somewhere, but she’d probably persuade me not to. Won’t know until I try, I guess.
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A random conversation led to Waz suddenly asking me “Wanna come to Japan with me?”. I was initially rather dumbstruck! I haven’t seen Waz in just about 3 years now, which is really rather shocking!
The main stumbling block is cost. The cost of travel in fact. It will cost the best (read worst) part of £500. And there will also be the travelling to London, and travelling within Japan.
I am also fairly sure that neither of us have actually been to Japan, and my knowledge of the spoken language would only sustain conversation for less than five seconds, and my ability to read kanji and kana forms will only allow me to write my name…
So I’m not sure whether these plans will follow a similar fate to poogasm.com, but it would be great to go to Japan!
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If anyone knows where it is, please return it to me! 
It has most of my holiday pics…
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It’s been a long time since I complained about not seeing my friends on here. But the fact that I will be seeing them soon means that I can’t think of much else. They say that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but when they say that, you forget two things.
The first is obvious. You forget that it is true. So when you make plans to leave for a long time, you don’t anticipate how it will affect you. The second is that you will miss more people than you think. You might think you can get away with missing close family, but you will miss many more people than that.
Having said that, perhaps it’s just me. I miss my friends, but how much do they miss me? Sometimes it feels like I make great efforts to stay in touch, but the favour is not returned. Some of you might tell me to just make new friends. Well I have, but it doesn’t solve the problem. Perhaps seeing them a few times a year as a holiday will have to do.
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