On Wednesday evening I was on the border of crumbling; I had an exam the next morning, and those of you who were talking to me at the time will know that I was on the edge. I had studied earlier in the week for the computer security exam and I felt really confident about it, however, after I then studied for and sat the exam for Distributed ( Read more... )

First of all - you may all be quite pleased that I have now demonstrated the mobile shopping list manager which means you'll no longer be hit by my frustrated posts about being a fail-programma! The bad news is that I have other aspects of university that will be eating my time instead of that. Ontologies, Natural Gestures in Usability Studies and ( Read more... )

I'm sure an area of my CV explains that I am a highly organised person. Since my first year of university I began to learn that the deadlines for my degree weren't something that I could just blag my way through. By the third year I had matured enough to recognise that it wasn't a good idea to leave an assignment to the evening before. To cope with ( Read more... )

I'm not sure how well American/Canadian TV is covering what's happening in Scotland just now, but this is happening: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11934219 . It's certainly making life interesting just now.


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I have a 65-page paper on something that I hope is interesting to read tonight to stay on track with my finish assignments before their due date plan for my final year of university. I'm tempted to whinge and say "I was just too BUSY to read the paper tonight" but that would be a lie. 65 pages of paper with a homework assignment for afterwards is ( Read more... )

The rest of my life has been happily trundling on despite The Big Jilt. It doesn't mean that I've been happily paying attention to it, but it's been there and I've been reluctantly responding to it.

Today I chose the classes I want to take for my final year. It feels horrible saying "my final year". I prefer to say "My Masters year" because it makes ( Read more... )

A lecturer can be assigned to teach more than one class, a lecturer can also share the responsibilities of teaching that class with a second lecturer and both lecturers can upload and update information on that class that can be accessed by students. The most helpful information a lecturer can make available to a student is information on the class ( Read more... )

Today I received an e-mail from the head of department telling me that my supervisor had approached her about what had happened. The lecturer who went to my supervisor to let her know what happened had apparently returned to the students who told him about what happened and said "She [supervisor] is livid ( Read more... )

I spent a good part of the morning upset today.
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