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Urgh. I hate exam period. I feel like I'm the only person in the universe who doesn't have the self control or motivation to do any work until it's absolutely necessary. I have 2 assignments due on Friday, both of which have 2 parts, all of which I have yet to do. I know I'll get them done in time, but I should be able to do them before Friday so I can start revising for my exams, the first of which is 2 weeks today, followed by a multiple choice but abso-fecking-lutely terrifying synoptic exam comprising everything we learned (or didn't, as the case may be) in first and second year.
I came back to uni 2 weeks ago, the first week was a write-off work wise as I had a kind-of-but-not-really overnight hospital appointment and an interview at York (more about this later). Last week I was supposed to start working. What did I do instead, you ask? Oh, only watch Hollyoaks on YouTube. Yeah. Seriously. It's been an incredibly well kept secret that Hollyoaks is sort of my crack, but now the cat's out of the bag and I've unleashed a soap-watching monster. I can't stop. I'm going to turn into one of those fat people that sit in front of the TV all day and shout "I'm trying to watch my stories!" at people who talk at the same time. I really don't relish the thought of not getting onto a masters course because I spent my exam period watching TV. Especially really bad TV.
Anyhow, tomorrow I will get my forensics assignment done. I will not watch any television. I will also read my analytical chemistry paper - the extraordinarily catchy titled 'Time Resolved in Situ Liquid Atomic Force Microscopy and Simultaneous Acoustic Impedance Electrochemical Quartz Microbalance Measurements: A Study of Zn Deposition'. Isn't science fun? I should have done an English degree.
So Sophie and I visited the University of York last Friday. I had an interview and tour of the department - it was amazing. They have an entire Green Chemistry department attached to Chemistry and the lab's full of pimped out microwaves and stuff. Everyone was really friendly and welcoming. It was the first Green Chemistry course to be established in the UK (and Europe methinks) and the best one, so I'll definitely be going there if my application's successful. I gave up on wanting to go to Imperial a while back so I wasn't too emo when my application didn't work out. I also had a telephone interview with someone from Bath university last week, which went quite well. They have all these funded PhD positions for sustainable chemical research, so after I've finished my Masters I could hopefully do a PhD and get paid pretty well for it. The dessert shop may have to wait a wee while.
Apart from this not much else has happened. With the assistance of the lovely juuuude, as well as Chloe and Sonia, I've managed to lay down a few tentative plans for Steph's hen party. This is an achievement as I can barely arrange a trip to the cinema, let alone a weekend to celebrate the loss of someone's freedom. Anyhow, it is something to look forward to in a sea of a summer which pretty much involves 9 - 5:30pm data input and spending the evenings in my house by my onesies. I need to pass my driving test.
That said, I do have quite a lot to look forward to once exams are over. The summer ball's just over a month away (with my last exam exactly one month today), and after that the housemates and I may be going to Brecon Beacons for a week of walking, barbecues and wine. Then I go home at the end of June, start work, graduate, turn 24, have Steph's hen party and wedding, followed by my return to uni (hopefully), then I'm Sonia's bridesmaid in October. I'm hoping to go to Russia at some point too, but I've been saying this for years, and my Russian's still not good enough to manage by myself, despite getting 93% in my exam (I start lessons again on Tuesday, I'm excited). I'm sure I'll get there one day.
This week has been awesome for music. Procrastination certainly makes my iTunes (and, by extension, myself) happy. I'm obsessed with Does it Offend You, Yeah?'s album, as well as pretty much anything by Camera Obscura, Belle and Sebastian and Margot and the Nuclear So and Sos. I reckon my housemates are sick of me and wishing I'd go back to listening to Glee.
Right, I should get to sleep. I will probably update this more regularly as the need to procrastinate becomes more desperate in the coming weeks.
I came back to uni 2 weeks ago, the first week was a write-off work wise as I had a kind-of-but-not-really overnight hospital appointment and an interview at York (more about this later). Last week I was supposed to start working. What did I do instead, you ask? Oh, only watch Hollyoaks on YouTube. Yeah. Seriously. It's been an incredibly well kept secret that Hollyoaks is sort of my crack, but now the cat's out of the bag and I've unleashed a soap-watching monster. I can't stop. I'm going to turn into one of those fat people that sit in front of the TV all day and shout "I'm trying to watch my stories!" at people who talk at the same time. I really don't relish the thought of not getting onto a masters course because I spent my exam period watching TV. Especially really bad TV.
Anyhow, tomorrow I will get my forensics assignment done. I will not watch any television. I will also read my analytical chemistry paper - the extraordinarily catchy titled 'Time Resolved in Situ Liquid Atomic Force Microscopy and Simultaneous Acoustic Impedance Electrochemical Quartz Microbalance Measurements: A Study of Zn Deposition'. Isn't science fun? I should have done an English degree.
So Sophie and I visited the University of York last Friday. I had an interview and tour of the department - it was amazing. They have an entire Green Chemistry department attached to Chemistry and the lab's full of pimped out microwaves and stuff. Everyone was really friendly and welcoming. It was the first Green Chemistry course to be established in the UK (and Europe methinks) and the best one, so I'll definitely be going there if my application's successful. I gave up on wanting to go to Imperial a while back so I wasn't too emo when my application didn't work out. I also had a telephone interview with someone from Bath university last week, which went quite well. They have all these funded PhD positions for sustainable chemical research, so after I've finished my Masters I could hopefully do a PhD and get paid pretty well for it. The dessert shop may have to wait a wee while.
Apart from this not much else has happened. With the assistance of the lovely juuuude, as well as Chloe and Sonia, I've managed to lay down a few tentative plans for Steph's hen party. This is an achievement as I can barely arrange a trip to the cinema, let alone a weekend to celebrate the loss of someone's freedom. Anyhow, it is something to look forward to in a sea of a summer which pretty much involves 9 - 5:30pm data input and spending the evenings in my house by my onesies. I need to pass my driving test.
That said, I do have quite a lot to look forward to once exams are over. The summer ball's just over a month away (with my last exam exactly one month today), and after that the housemates and I may be going to Brecon Beacons for a week of walking, barbecues and wine. Then I go home at the end of June, start work, graduate, turn 24, have Steph's hen party and wedding, followed by my return to uni (hopefully), then I'm Sonia's bridesmaid in October. I'm hoping to go to Russia at some point too, but I've been saying this for years, and my Russian's still not good enough to manage by myself, despite getting 93% in my exam (I start lessons again on Tuesday, I'm excited). I'm sure I'll get there one day.
This week has been awesome for music. Procrastination certainly makes my iTunes (and, by extension, myself) happy. I'm obsessed with Does it Offend You, Yeah?'s album, as well as pretty much anything by Camera Obscura, Belle and Sebastian and Margot and the Nuclear So and Sos. I reckon my housemates are sick of me and wishing I'd go back to listening to Glee.
Right, I should get to sleep. I will probably update this more regularly as the need to procrastinate becomes more desperate in the coming weeks.