Nagging questions
Why does the English language have no sex neutral word for "aunt or uncle", and no sex specific word for "cousin"?
Why is Louis Armstrong's recording of What a Wonderful World only used in films and TV to accompany montages indicating mass destruction and/or loss of life for dramatic irony?
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
Why did we invade Iraq, again?
Why are Westlife?
Does the fact I still think Alex Salmond is a bit slimy and arrogant due to missing his recent charm offensive reflect poorly on me for not following the news, or should I be proud of ignoring spin?
How is one supposed to avoid getting ones hair caught in ones beard?
Why does the maths department have such a ridiculous way of scheduling modules? There are no 3rd year courses offered in the second semester, and there are 3 pure courses each first semester and 4 each second semester, although because of modules on alternate years, there's actually 4 pure courses only offered in first semesters, and 11 in seconds.
This has just caught me out - last year they announced there was going to be a new course offered in first semester, which I was planning to take for means of balance. However I've just discovered it's actually going to be on in the second, which leaves my timetable for next year having 2 courses of interest in the first semester, and, er, 5 in the second, as well as a 40 credit yearlong project.
Fortunately, I've worked out I can actually take a decent timetable next year by, er, getting a degree that doesn't actually have any applied maths [well, no more than Advanced Highers], Statistics, Number Theory, Topology, Galois Theory, Euclidean Geometry [though some non-Euclidean Geometry, insanely], and finish with precisely the right number of credits.
If the uni will approve a timetable which only has 115 credits in a year, that is. Which would be nice, as it would mean that the bizarre, intensive and at points downright arbitrary over-crediting I've been doing up till now will actually have had a point.
[Oh, and while we're at it, I'm interested to note that the university doesn't let anyone take more than 160 credits of courses in a year. Since the maths department requires that MMath advanced standing students take 300 credits in 2 years, that's a worryingly narrow margin... not that I'd ever insult the intelligence of advisers of studies. Or repeat the stories I've heard of people not taking enough credits to graduate in their final year.
Seriously, though, that means that if something goes wrong, you end up doing one module less than needed, you're screwed. It's a very strange system. Degree plan makes not that much sense, really. Oh well, only a few weeks before all my planning of modules has to end. I'm going to miss it, in an odd way. ]
Why is Louis Armstrong's recording of What a Wonderful World only used in films and TV to accompany montages indicating mass destruction and/or loss of life for dramatic irony?
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
Why did we invade Iraq, again?
Why are Westlife?
Does the fact I still think Alex Salmond is a bit slimy and arrogant due to missing his recent charm offensive reflect poorly on me for not following the news, or should I be proud of ignoring spin?
How is one supposed to avoid getting ones hair caught in ones beard?
Why does the maths department have such a ridiculous way of scheduling modules? There are no 3rd year courses offered in the second semester, and there are 3 pure courses each first semester and 4 each second semester, although because of modules on alternate years, there's actually 4 pure courses only offered in first semesters, and 11 in seconds.
This has just caught me out - last year they announced there was going to be a new course offered in first semester, which I was planning to take for means of balance. However I've just discovered it's actually going to be on in the second, which leaves my timetable for next year having 2 courses of interest in the first semester, and, er, 5 in the second, as well as a 40 credit yearlong project.
Fortunately, I've worked out I can actually take a decent timetable next year by, er, getting a degree that doesn't actually have any applied maths [well, no more than Advanced Highers], Statistics, Number Theory, Topology, Galois Theory, Euclidean Geometry [though some non-Euclidean Geometry, insanely], and finish with precisely the right number of credits.
If the uni will approve a timetable which only has 115 credits in a year, that is. Which would be nice, as it would mean that the bizarre, intensive and at points downright arbitrary over-crediting I've been doing up till now will actually have had a point.
[Oh, and while we're at it, I'm interested to note that the university doesn't let anyone take more than 160 credits of courses in a year. Since the maths department requires that MMath advanced standing students take 300 credits in 2 years, that's a worryingly narrow margin... not that I'd ever insult the intelligence of advisers of studies. Or repeat the stories I've heard of people not taking enough credits to graduate in their final year.
Seriously, though, that means that if something goes wrong, you end up doing one module less than needed, you're screwed. It's a very strange system. Degree plan makes not that much sense, really. Oh well, only a few weeks before all my planning of modules has to end. I'm going to miss it, in an odd way. ]