One week of stuff done
Hello again,
Now why isn’t anyone commenting? Something could be wrong here… or maybe I’m just that boring 
Well, a week of fun and prepartory stuff has gone past, all in this mystical “Week 0″ which makes it sound like the all and end all of things that I really *should* be doing now that the week has started. My first lecture is at 9 o’clock in the morning, so the fact that I’m writing this at quarter past 1 in the morning, again perhaps I should make this quick and just go to bed so I don’t feel too shattered in the morning to actually turn up. Speaking of that, I have heard somewhere that in other unis, some people have been kicked out already for not turning up to any lectures. That shocks me somewhat, me here hours before my first lecture starts and there are people being kicked out already.
So, obviously I haven’t given up writing yet, because how else will Mark get his spam quota into my website, I mean a week without a comment, jeez I might have died or something!?! Anyway, the last week has kept me rather busy, which I like to be honest, Sunday was my day of finding my way around, and I did that quite well, found where I needed to be for most of the week, and by looking at my timetable I really only need to worry about this one room, PeelLT, which I think is in Geographical Sciences, but I will wait until Wednesday for that to make itself clear. Only issue is the fact that I need to walk like a mile and a half each day to uni all uphill, though there is a plus side that the going down is downhill but I’m sure a few shortcuts will come in useful by the time lectures really start.
Monday, well that was a good day with little to do, just signing up for my course, well my new course (I think?) because I am now doing “Computer Science and Electronics” instead of “Computer Systems Engineering“, which is basically the same course but apart from that it just gives me some more freedom into the third year between focusing on the computer science part (cryptography sounds fun) and the electronics part (like computer architecture) and stuff, I also quite like the new name, which helps a little . I also realised Monday that I didn’t have lined paper, which would be really useful for taking notes, so I went down into Broadmead and found a WHSmith and bought some, it seems they now charge for plastic bags, which I think is a very good idea, stops people wasting alot. How did I find my way to Broadmead? Well, I found this good website called walkit.com which is like navigation for cars finding a route, but gives the quickest way of walking from one place to another. It also has estimated times and how much energy you use and save in carbon emissions, I find this really interesting site and I should bookmark this for later
Tuesday was signing up for the faculty in the main union building, which really is the furthest away for anything that I will have to do, this basically involved me picking up my student card and flash drive, 512MB is really titchy compared to the 8GB one I have on order that I should get this weekend. One thing about that flash drive, part of it acts as a CD drive which is really weird, it only has the year handbook on but I find it really interesting, how did they do that, maybe I will be able to do that some day, or maybe I’m just a noob and should flash more stuff .
Tuesday night I went down to the Carling Academy for a few hours of listening to music and enjoying myself, being tea total really makes the night different to most peoples view, who just tend to drink down pints and pints of whatever weird drink they fancy drinking next. My feet really started to hurt by this point, from all that hill walking, so thankfully I went home a bit earlier than the closing time, only by about half an hour, but my feet were really killing me. Also, someone else wanted to go home early too, so I wasn’t a party killer! Woo!
Wednesday was some stuff from the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, which mainly consisted of me being told a few times that as an engineer, if we screw up people die, just think if my software for an aeroplane crashes in the air then people are screwed really aren’t they. :/ Hopefully I won’t be doing something like that anytime soon lol! I also had some stuff with the department that needed doing, which was basic group exercises, like make the tallest paper tower in 1 minute. Well our one kinda had epic fail written all over it, and just fell to pieces, as we tried to rush it too much during the minute, even though we had quite a bit of time left, so we could have tried it a different way. Again, I am a Computer Scientist not a paper tower builder, which well based on my performance then it is just as well. Wednesday evening was the Northwell House barbeque which was good fun, we had an adult bouncy castle, and I’m sure I would have enjoyed it a bit more if my feet hadn’t have been really killing me by this point, not even soft plastic underneath them could stop them feeling like they were going to fall off. Got a few good pictures though of people trying hula hooping, and a video of Spez I might upload to facebook at some point…
Thursday was a case of more departmental stuff, as well as the introduction to the computer labs, which mainly just consisted of making sure that I could log onto the linux system and set up Thunderbird to check my emails etc. all the basics so I can code properly when it comes to starting code. Although I didn’t really learn much there it was quite good, got things set up etc. and I got to change my password from their default xP. More departmental things that afternoon, including a “Meet your tutor” which would have been better if I could have met my tutor but apart from that, another stupid quiz, which we only did well in the computing section, and lost epically but that was fun. Pizza and wine was on the menu after this, me being me I had pizza but left wine. I don’t drink emulators anyway. Thursday evening I gave doing things most night a rest and just relaxed a bit, because I really need to stay off my feet because they are really killing me. No seriously, they are out to get me :O
Friday was the Freshers’ Fair, which I didn’t spend much time in, it was too crouded for me, but I had to go anyway just so I can make sure I know where the union is, I didn’t join any societies because I couldn’t really find any that I find interesting, though I now know that there is a computer game society that I didn’t find before, where the hell was it!??!? Hopefully they take late entries, if not I might try persuading a couple of people to the great ship Techious . By then I felt really really tired so I came home for the weekend, not to run away as I originally planned a week ago, but just to get off my feet because well, they were on fire by this point. So Friday evening I got a trip home, so I could rest during the weekend, and bring some more stuff down ready for the great proper Uni experience.
Saturday I slept through mainly, and Sunday I come back, and here I am writing this. Being its about half 1 in the morning, perhaps I should go to bed before my first lecture at 9. Cyall,
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