It's been a long eight months or so since I began my Phd in what was originally meant to be Physics, but which over time has revealed itself to be mainly chemistry with some physics, some engineering and some fun social engineering at various conferences and events. It's exhausting, all-encompassing, challenging, exciting and infuriating, all ( Read more... )

In the last year I have ( Read more... )

Revising for Relativistic Cosmology nearly killed me but damn did it pay off. I think at most I lost 12% on that exam and a lot of people seem to have done badly, so that shouldn't get moderated down too much. Which is awesome to know I've got that one in the bag ( Read more... )

3. Suppose that in a standard reference frame the tensor Qαβ has as its only non-zero compo ( Read more... )

So I applied for a PhD in nanoscience back in February but various paperwork things meant it disappeared into the ether for a few months. Stuck in the middle of my exams, I'd half-forgotten about it, half pushed it to the back of my mind where it lurked, asking me what exactly i'd do next year if not it ( Read more... )

I've handed in my project report, finally, clocking in more or less exactly at the 10,000 word advised size, plus references(all 62 of them). It feels good to get it out of the way. All I have to do now is score ok in the six exams left before the end of my course on the 5th June. It's pretty tough going, doing 8 hours of revision most days to keep ( Read more... )

So I went along to the University Of Bristol Arts and Media Awards tonight, because of my work with the national student film festival, Screentest. We didn't have awards as such as ours were presented in the festival in february. But I went along to show my support for the other media products, the newspaper, film and photography societies and the ( Read more... )

I hope you guys are heading out to vote today. The whole world is watching wishing they could be too.

A quick question that's been bothering me for as long as I can remember ( Read more... )

Had my first exam of the year, Quantum Mechanics 4, on Friday. It went well, all things considering (I don't think i've ever said that about a quantum exam!) I can't see myself getting less than 65 unless everyone does stupendously well and it gets moderated down ( Read more... )