Do you ever just feel very lost and a long long distance from what you once knew you were ( Read more... )

Once again, after a weekend at home, I'm back in St Andrews. This is a good thing, as being home had been getting to me for a bit ( Read more... )

Jonny's final days studying at St Andrews, Pt. 1

"Then they played that song at the death disco, it started fast but it ends so slow, but all the time it reminded me of you."Argh! Everything's going so fast ( Read more... )

Zoe's Birthday party proved brilliant, even if I did end up, through no real fault of my own acting a bit stupid at points ( Read more... )

I had a very nice weekend: after hanging out with Owain on Saturday and bonding more with him than ever before, then spent a very enjoyable Sunday watching films and cuddling Emily, the girl I'm trying exceptionally hard not to get a crush on under a blanket in my bed. That was simultaneously exactly what I was needing and the least helpful thing ( Read more... )

I'm off to London to essentially get taken out for lunch and talk to someone about cool maths tomorrow. I've been not making a big deal out of this to hopefully avoid massively freaking out like at Oxford. The fact this isn't an interview, and I've already got an acceptance [with funding situation to be decided] there makes it calmer. Still, ( Read more... )

Life is proving crazy as ever. It's back to the all-nighters and trying my best to avoid screwing up my exams. Or exam, as it is this year: I've just got the one, which I've not been shouting about to avoid rubbing it in. And so I finish exams on the first morning, Saturday. And I managed to finish the representation theory reader course questions ( Read more... )

Well, I saw in the New Year in my traditional way, by doing maths. I managed to get so absorbed in one problem I, er, missed midnight ( Read more... )

( Lovelife as a form of comedy, Go, all-nighters and other ramblings: the last week of my semester from hell. )

I've now submitted my application for Imperial. With Oxford done last week, and St Andrews the week before, I've finally got my first set of applications in. Now just to wait for a call from Oxford about an interview, which might be in the next week or so, or after my exam in January. But I'm busy trying to learn all the things I said I knew on my ( Read more... )