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The End

steven — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 21:35:02 +0000

The end of my 3rd year has now arrived. The group project went well, and I am fairly happy with my exams, so hopefuly I will pass and progress into my final year.

Again I have managed to be rubbish at looking for a job which is more relevant to my degree, so I shall be spending a 3rd summer working for conferences. Hopefuly it will be busier than last year, but slightly less than in my first year. Despite having my current flat until the beginning of september I have still taken up the offer of free accommodation, as it means I shall be slightly closer to college (not as much as the last 2 years), and there are also normally alot of social things that occur in halls after work which I would miss out on if I was staying in “The Bush”.

Group Project

steven — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 18:44:25 +0000

For the last couple of weeks I have been busy with the ISE3 group Project. The specification was extremely vague, in the way that many university projects are. The project has the whole year working together, although we are split into 5 competing groups there also needs to be alot of co-operation between the groups to make the project a success.

Yesterday was a reminder as to how hard it can be to get a large number of people to agree on things. We had a meeting to decided what “features” should be added to the project over the next week, and it took almost 2 hours to decide on 5 things that we would implement.

Exams and Sport

steven — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 16:45:00 +0000

I have now done 1/2 of my exams as I had 4 in 4 days over the last week. The next 4 are slightly more spread out with ones on Thursday and Friday this week, and then wednesday and Thursday the following week.

What with the weather getting nicer we decided to have a BBQ on saturday, the difficulty of course being the fact that we don’t have a garden (or rather access to the garden). That didn’t cause any problems as there is a little courtyard outside the front of the house so I set the 2 disposable BBQ’s up on the little cupboard that has the electricity meters in and cooked out there. We then ate in the lounge which was a little cosy as there were 7 of us, and our lounge only just fits a 3 seater sofa and the TV. I shall be going to another BBQ tomorrow (3rd of the year), hopefully it will be a little more spacious.

Today I finally got around to going and picking up the sails for my boat from my Aunt’s house, which I had been meaning to do ever since I got the moped back. I then went to the Sailing club to renew my membership, as it was due a month ago. Unfortunately the racing had finished by the time I got there, but I decided that I may as well go for a sail as I was there and it wasn’t raining. There wasn’t a great deal of wind though it did pick up for a bit, though having checked the online stats since getting home it has now annoyingly got windier. Never mind though as I should get some nice windy sails, as I hope to go sailing most weekends unlike last year when I only made it twice before the moped packed in making it about Â£50/hr, This year I have already got it down to about Â£80/hr.

It looks like I will be quite busy now in the evenings and weekends as I have discovered that the wednesday night skates have started (in fact I have missed at least 2). I also hope to give the friday night skates a go too, though the second half may be a bit fast for me (there’s only one way to find out!). This will mean that my weekly schedule is likely to be:
Monday – Climbing or Swimming
Tuesday – Bar
Wednesday – Skating
Thursday – Climbing
Friday – Skating
Saturday and/or Sunday – Sailing.
All this for someone who isn’t really that sporty.