First Week back at Uni
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Original Date posted: Fri, 09 January 2004 03:13:25
Post: Having been back almost a week, I feel it is time to comment on the events that have been and gone. I arrived and unpacked, shopped and put away purchases, boiled kettle and drank tea. Then the family returned home and I was left to be alone once more... alone with friends that is. Sunday was incredibly boring as everyone was doing all the holiday work that they hadn't done over the holidays. In a spontaneous bout of passion, we all went out to Rootes Social to have drinks and play 3-a-side POOL - the journey allowing me to sportingly show off my new Neo-esque Burton coat I now love.
Monday brought about the return of the university schedule. The lectures, the seminars and the labs. Although having 6 lectures a week instead of 8 is a good thing, the additional 3 hour labs and 2 hour seminars I have are a large price to pay in return. This term I enjoy the new delights of "Design and Computer Techniques" where I further my MATLAB and programming skills whilst learning how to design the layout of a house and create a national air traffic control software system through problem analysis; "Materials & Production" wherein I learn that a hammer is made of wood and metal, Rolls-Royce went bust because of birds flying into their engines, that aeroplanes have very expensive alloys within their turbines and that the National Grid could shut the UK down in a matter of six seconds if they so wished. While in my Professional Studies seminar, waiting for my 20-min group slot, I watched a magpie try and eat pebbles. My hour long tutorial on wednesday where we cover Maths problems lasted a record 13 minutes.
Today I was treated to a beauty: FIRST: 3 hour lab, followed directly by an Engineering Mechanics lecture which over ran. One hour break for lunch (corned beef and baked beans on toast plus cuppa soup). Modelling and System Dynamics lecture on the awesome topic of System Classification, a Professional studies test on Industry and industrial systems and finally an hour long lecture on Materials and production which also over ran. That's 9:00-13:00 then 14:00-17:00. Now I am back after cooking a LARGE and delicious meal for myself.
Saving the best bits til last, on tuesday night I wanted an early night, sadly I didn't get to bed until 1:30am which itself was a royal pain in the neck/backside/arse/elbow but following on from that - at the most undesirable hour of 3am the firealarm went off - waking me from my slumber and sending me out into the cold wet and dark of the night whilst security looked for the non-existant fire.
Need to read more books;
Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex
Chuck Palahniuk - Lullaby
Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions
Michael Moore - Dude Where's My Country
F.Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
Post: Having been back almost a week, I feel it is time to comment on the events that have been and gone. I arrived and unpacked, shopped and put away purchases, boiled kettle and drank tea. Then the family returned home and I was left to be alone once more... alone with friends that is. Sunday was incredibly boring as everyone was doing all the holiday work that they hadn't done over the holidays. In a spontaneous bout of passion, we all went out to Rootes Social to have drinks and play 3-a-side POOL - the journey allowing me to sportingly show off my new Neo-esque Burton coat I now love.
Monday brought about the return of the university schedule. The lectures, the seminars and the labs. Although having 6 lectures a week instead of 8 is a good thing, the additional 3 hour labs and 2 hour seminars I have are a large price to pay in return. This term I enjoy the new delights of "Design and Computer Techniques" where I further my MATLAB and programming skills whilst learning how to design the layout of a house and create a national air traffic control software system through problem analysis; "Materials & Production" wherein I learn that a hammer is made of wood and metal, Rolls-Royce went bust because of birds flying into their engines, that aeroplanes have very expensive alloys within their turbines and that the National Grid could shut the UK down in a matter of six seconds if they so wished. While in my Professional Studies seminar, waiting for my 20-min group slot, I watched a magpie try and eat pebbles. My hour long tutorial on wednesday where we cover Maths problems lasted a record 13 minutes.
Today I was treated to a beauty: FIRST: 3 hour lab, followed directly by an Engineering Mechanics lecture which over ran. One hour break for lunch (corned beef and baked beans on toast plus cuppa soup). Modelling and System Dynamics lecture on the awesome topic of System Classification, a Professional studies test on Industry and industrial systems and finally an hour long lecture on Materials and production which also over ran. That's 9:00-13:00 then 14:00-17:00. Now I am back after cooking a LARGE and delicious meal for myself.
Saving the best bits til last, on tuesday night I wanted an early night, sadly I didn't get to bed until 1:30am which itself was a royal pain in the neck/backside/arse/elbow but following on from that - at the most undesirable hour of 3am the firealarm went off - waking me from my slumber and sending me out into the cold wet and dark of the night whilst security looked for the non-existant fire.
Need to read more books;
Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex
Chuck Palahniuk - Lullaby
Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions
Michael Moore - Dude Where's My Country
F.Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
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