Personal statements, how do you work?

Must. Finish. Essay. That one that was due in months ago, but shhh. And then I can figure out how on earth citations work (I go through this ritual every time I write coursework. One day it'll sink in). I have such a fun evening planned, you wouldn't believe. However, if I finish this thing for tomorrow, I'm allowing myself to go read something fun ( Read more... )

Something that amuses me: I've read 20 books this year, but in terms of pages, Cryptonomicon accounts for about 17%. I like Goodread's various widgets - yet another aid to procrastination! But now I'm actually going to go and revise for my French mock. I loathe discursive essays - give me the historical or the literature one any day.

I am now markedly less terrified about the Warwick interview than I was, having discovered that they only interview about 60 out of 800 applicants. I have honestly no idea how I've ended up this far along, but I'm definitely not complaining. I hope to god they like my portfolio and commentary (sending it off tomorrow!) and that they don't scorn the ( Read more... )

*repeated headdesking* I have at least three barely-begun short stories on my desktop at the moment and for some reason I'm not getting any further with any of them. I suspect it's the feeling of 'If you get this done, you will have been efficient and well-organised.' My brain wouldn't be able handle the shock.

(Also, I really want to run off and ( Read more... )

 Huh. This week has been very up-and-down-y, but I think I've come out further up than down. I mean, there was the Tuesday minor freak-out, and then finding out I didn't get either of the library jobs I was interviewed for, but apart from that it's been pretty good. The Physics exam didn't go as dreadfully as I'd feared. (Well, I say that. Whilst ( Read more... )

Life has decided to go insane on me of late, what with putting the final touches on my EPQ (the presentation was far less nerve-wracking than I'd expected - I'd forgotten how much of my meetings with my supervisor were basically us squeeing over Wodehouse, and the dreaded question session at the end was just more of the same), and driving lessons, ( Read more... )

Is there actually a word processor that makes writing formulae easy? Because if I have to go through another line, carefully selecting each little number to subscript or superscript, I will cry. (This is code for 'OH GOD, PHYSICS COURSEWORK, WHAT?! I WANT TO STAB IT WITH SOMETHING POINTY'. Currently, I'm showing how to to derive the Schwarzschild ( Read more... )

We, ah, may have epically failed on the whole 'let's do a meet-up' thing. Next time we need badges, or t-shirts, or something. February was easy - I walked up to the girl painted green, said 'ONTD_startrek?' and there we were. But how can you tell if we all look like normal people? Eventually spotted audiograms because we spent time freezing to death ( Read more... )

Alors, we have returned from France (or nearly. Actually, we're in Reims, about three hours' drive from Calais), which means soon I will have my own bed and my own room. Tonight, I'm stuck sharing a bed with my sister, which is not going to be fun. Not because she's a restless sleeper, but because I know I am and will therefore spend hours holding ( Read more... )