The complete breakdown of all my results arrived today, here’s what I got for the second semester of the third year: Distributed Operating Systems: 58% Not too bad, and I can’t help thinking that I could have got a few more marks if the exam had been an extra half hour or so in length […]
Graduation meal
Now that everyone seems to have their results, would anyone be interested in going out for a meal somewhere late next week or the week after to celebrate the end of our degrees? I wasn’t thinking of anything special (unless people have a particular desire to get dressed up, but I’m usually in the minority […]
Degree result
Second class, Division I (2:1). Better than I expected (I thought I was going to get a 2:2, and I was having this horrible feeling on Sunday that I was heading towards a Third for some reason), and probably good enough to get me onto any postgraduate course I want. Now the only question remains, […]
Bricking it
Results are out tomorrow, $subject says it all really… Update: Just got an email saying that results come out at 10am tomorrow. Panic, panic, panic! If anyone wants me to text them their results, drop me an email with your library card/mobile numbers.
Back in print
Ten years after my last piece of work made it into print (a poem that was part of a compilation called All Aboard for Lancashire), I’ve got my book review published in the latest UKUUG newsletter, which came in the post today. I can’t really explain this to anyone who hasn’t had their work published, […]
Tory Wars
This is something the Megs came up with in the pub during my first year, basically it’s a list of who we think should play each character in Star Wars (the proper ones, not the dire travesties that have hit our cinema screens over the last few years) if the cast could only be composed […]
Last exam
I had my last exam of my degree yesterday morning, the joys of accounting and law. I thought it was going to be a fairly easy ride, having looked at the past papers and gone over the material beforehand. Unfortunately the law paper had nothing on intellectual property, crime or negligence (the three areas that […]
Another one bites the dust
I finally got my compilers exam out of the way today. I’ve been worrying about it for some time because I really couldn’t understand the notes when I started to go back over them, even though I seemed to have very few problems following the lectures. Thankfully the paper was slightly kinder to me than […]
Two down, two to go
Have got through two exams this week, with another coming up on Tuesday and one more the week after – on the last day of exams of all times :(. Distributed Operating Systems: I seemed to know enough material to answer any of the questions, which was reassuring. It was surprising to see no mention […]
Return of the Cybermen (and other things)
Doctor Who I managed to actually sit down and watch Doctor Who when it was broadcast this week, instead of having to mess around setting tapes or waiting for someone to upload it to UK Nova. I was glad to see the Cybermen finally return to our screens, although I think they looked a bit […]