There's annoying neighbours, and then there's annoying neighbours with an incredibly loud motorbike that they keep parking outside my front window. Over and over again, in the space of twenty minutes or so. Rargh ( Read more... )

Okay, so immediately after straightening out how I'm going to catch up on Physics after the whole feel-worse-try-to-fix-experience-side-effects malarky and not being entirely sure how to feel about the arrangement that we came to - in some ways it feels a bit like giving up - the day just dripped ice-water down the back of my neck. And when I ( Read more... )

Extracting data from trajectory files :: successful ( Read more... )

Today there was a flickering light at the front of the lecture room, and by half-way through the revision session my face was numb and I had the full-body tired that made it difficult to keep my pen in my hand. By the end of the first hour I had my head in my hands going 'oh, gods, light and sound (Yvette's voice had a weird reverb effect on ( Read more... )

It's very rare that this happens on purpose. I don't think it's ever happened on purpose, actually. It's a problems class for one of last term's modules, which very few people in the class 'got' (me being one of them, because I was in a crazy-smart phase), and even fewer got in such a way that they could explain to others ( Read more... )

I think Tuesdays are going to be Good, organisation-wise. Today I had a 09:15 which never happened, because the lecturer never showed up, followed by breakfast in the RKC, then a StatMech lecture which was quite awesome, then I walked with James to the costcutter to buy a red pepper and some mayonnaise, and then I went to Hes Post Office to pay the ( Read more... )

http://community.livejournal.com/ontd_feminism/430267.html

^ Look, a post about the academia (/work in general) gender gap and an aggrivating factor thereof!

I got my second choice, and Claire thinks she did, too (can't remember her list). I've got Band Soc Ben as my partner, which is awesome - he's one of the few people who I've managed to have a proper completely work-orientated conversation with. (Most of us TPs submitted individually with the understanding that they'd probably get paired with ( Read more... )

I may have broken down a bit while on the way to a meeting with my supervisor. Um. Note to self: stop panicking. Four days of project left (three, now). Seven days 'till term starts. Not going to worry about buying my train ticket until I'm at the station on Saturday ( Read more... )

There seems to be a thing with code libraries (I'm using LAPACK) with which you spend as long trying to find the thing that'll do things for you as it would take to just code that thing in the first place ( Read more... )