My abstract for APCHC was accepted, woohoo! I really didn’t expect this to happen so it was fantastic when I got the email about it. The conference is a great place to present my first proper academic paper and having done something like this will probably look good if I apply for a PhD at […]
Paperness
I’ve just sent in an abstract for the Annual Postgraduate Conference in History and Classics. The conference is supposed to be a place where MA and first year PhD students can present their research in a friendly environment, so it will hopefully give me a chance to present a paper for the first time. I’m […]
Where to from here?
For the last couple of months I’ve been worrying about work, jobs and further study, but now it’s being mentioned a lot more within my department and people keep asking me what I want to do when I finish my masters. The honest answer is that I don’t really know, which worries me somewhat, although […]
General busy-ness
I’ve been stupidly busy the last few weeks, so here is just a quickly hacked together update of what I’ve got up to. MA stuff Last week I got told the results of my mid-semester Latin test, which ended up battering my confidence to pieces when I found out that I’d only got 34%. I […]
Birthday weekend
My youngest sister amused me this weekend by buying a copy of ‘Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis’ (the first Harry Potter book, translated into Latin) for my birthday. She’s a big Harry Potter fan and is always trying to get me to read the books, although I don’t think my Latin is quite up to […]
Catching up on the last few weeks
The useless organisation that is British Telcommunications plc has managed to stuff up my phone line in various ways over the last two weeks, leaving me with no access to the Internet for the most part and a huge backlog of emails and RSS feeds to catch up on, and this is a minimised update […]
Book review online
The UKUUG have finally got round to publishing my book review on their website if anyone is sufficiently bored to want to read it (I haven’t posted it here because they own the copyright, in exchange for letting me keep the book). Annoyingly they didn’t send out a list of books to review for the […]
Course fun
Just a quick update to say that I’ve got through the first week of my MA and I’m having a great time studying Classics and Ancient History. For the first time in years I’m actually wanting to do background reading and work, whereas in Computer Science it was always a case of “I want to […]
Struggling with Greek
I’m really struggling with learning Ancient Greek at the moment, partially because everything is pronounced and spelt using a completely different alphabet. I don’t really like the tutorial group sizes as I think they’re a bit too big and if you pause for even a few seconds it feels like everyone is looking at you—plus […]
Friends of the Earth conference
I spent most of Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Friends of the Earth Conference with eleven other members of the Manchester group. The whole weekend was a bit of a strange experience. For starters, all the expections I had were exceeded, especially when it came to the food arrangements. I wasn’t surprised to find […]