h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I'm supposedly writing an essay... No really, I am... okay, so I'm not...
I just got my weekly problems out the way, no more to hand in 'till Thursday... But I need to get my act together...

We're quite lucky this year in that we don't have to do problems which are assessed. Then again, we have horrible threshold tests which I may or may not have told you about... basically they're pass/fail tests which contribute 5% to our modules, but only if you pass them first time! This is apparently an Incentive To Work.

Essay??? You're a SCIENCE student!!!

I'm a science student with a day off, as well... but its only 1500 words, not long

Day off? I don't believe I'm familiar with the phrase... Plus I had a couple of essays to do for History of Science last year, but they were between 2500 and 5000 words, so I think you're getting off lightly!

Hope you've had a good weekend. On Friday night I went to the Ark (our union bar) where Becky's housemate pulled a Random First Year (TM). This was mainly achieved through the medium of Becky pushing her into this bloke! I went to a party at her house on Saturday and got drunk, then got up the next afternoon and made a slide out of a mattress and some handy stairs and got drunk again.

If you can beat that, well, just try it!

my weekend was uneventful. I tried to work on sat. and sun, but failed...

So I can't beat that....

I'm going home for the weekend this week, though...

What a coincidence... I'm at home now!

It's the parallel lives thing all over again

Indeed... its nice to be at home for a change and not have to think what I'm going to cook this weekend! (or rather, which pizza place I'm going to get takeout from)

Pizza place?? I got a takeaway pizza out this weekend too! Scary stuff.

Things are speeding up as the exams draw closer... I have to give a presentation on a project in a week and a half.

Never done it before, though my girlfriend assures me it's really easy.
Easy for her to say... she's an arts student!

I have to do a talk soon. But the physics department have been real nice, and given me acetates...

Sorry it's been a while, but the work has really caught up with me this week.

I've had to sit on two meetings of Students' Union Council to deal with a booklet talking about the restructure of our Union executive. The Executive Review Working Group proposed a lot of motions, most of which were accepted, but the most controversial one (to remove the Environment Officer from an Executive post) was not. On Thursday the proposal was replaced with one calling for an Environment and Social Justice Officer, which was accepted by Council. This was last night, with the meeting starting at 7pm and finishing at 11:30pm. I was exhausted! And the work isn't much easier.

I've got a project "Chaos in a 'bouncing ball' electronic circuit" to do a talk on on Monday (yes they gave me acetates too!!) and hand in a report by the end of term (week on Wednesday) and also another one on designing an active sound suppression system using a microprocessor which I have to do the report for over Christmas. Fun fun.

Are you busy too?

I'm not too busy; I have a talk to give on Monday, Fortran to hand in on Wednesday, and then its the end of term, much rejoicing, etc etc...

When do you finish?

When do you finish?

This Wednesday. I can't wait...

Well, you've finished now I guess... of course, I'm still here. Don't go home till Saturday, and even then I'm going to London to visit Becky's fanily before returning to Yorkshire on Monday. But I have just finished a 4900 word 18 page project report on chaos in a 'bouncing ball' electronic circuit. And you thought I had no life...

Me? Think you have no life? nah...

4900... thats plenty... I'm looking for a topic to write a 1500 essay on... but it can't be astronomy. Any ideas?

I have finished; I also had a rather alarmingly easy train journey home...

Easy train journey? Shurely shome mishtake!
A 1500 word essay on any topic except astronomy... how about chaos? That's what I've been doing my project on, and if you need any help or ideas I'm happy to oblige!

oooh.. good idea, I think I may follow that one up...

Oh dear... I've taken ages to reply again. Sorry, my mind is all on the exams, which seem to be happening without telling me what's going on. Did you follow up the chaos thang? Who knows? Certainly not me.

Anyway, I hope you had a nice Christmas and New Year and stuff... I've been in Wales without any internet access, which excuses me for about a week, but I've been back at uni since before new year. And it's all happening now, with huge nasty exam things looming. Still, what can you do?

Looming exams is a good enough reason for me

Currently the choice is between chaos and lasers - my tutor suggested that since my last talk was relatively theoretical I might want to go for technological this time...
Happily I don't have any exams this term... but whether its a good thing or not re the amount of work I haven't done this holiday is another matter...

Christmas was better than I expected; new year's was fab.