Woo!
Am off to the Greenbelt Festival on 22nd of August. But, first I am going to Edinburgh for a week on wednesday! Have managed to get an apartment near the middle of Edinburgh, right next to a cinema/bowling/restaurant complex so should be close to enough places to go in the evenings.
Have been making lists of all I need to take to the festival and on holiday, it is starting to look a bit expensive but should be fun though.
My exam results are out on monday, scary!
If you come to my blog (or my website) and it looks a bit messy and all over the place, it is because I am currently redesigning everything.
At the moment the tree outside my bedroom window is covered with big white flowers bigger than my hand, my fish are doing fine.
Have just finished one of my modules, so I only have four left this semester.
I have got my placement sorted out for next year, I will be working at HP in Bristol from July ‘08 to July ‘09.
I have still got loads of coursework and other work to do, and I have a singing exam tomorrow! Scary!
Data Structure and Algorithms : 75% - A
Theory of Computation : 58% - B
Requirements Specification : 67% - B+
Systems Programming : 64% - B+
I have an interview at SN Systems in Bristol, and I am sooo nervous. The bit I am most worried about is the techincal interview, never done one before. I am really excited about the possiblilty of getting this placement.
About 7 or 8 weeks ago I went to the doctors because I had a horrid cough, he told me that I had a chest infection and gave me a weeks course of antibiotics. 1 week ago I went back to the doctors because I was still coughing and he gave me some different antibiotics, now I have nearly finished the second course and my chest hurts when I breathe or move or talk or do anything really. It is not fun. If I am not better by Wednesday or Thursday I will have to have a chest x-ray done. :’(
On a different note I have an exam on Friday and another exam the Wednesday after, so I haven’t got too much to revise for.
Planning to stay up late to get my data structures coursework completed tonight, so I will be needing large supplies of chocolate to help me to last! Once this coursework is completed all I need to do is finish my systems programming coursework on the train home tomorrow, and then I am done!
I am also thinking about redoing my website, as it is a little out of date. Any suggestions for content / styles / features / etc. would be greatly appreciated.
Love, from Beki.
Mondays I have lectures 1 - 4pm, and I work 5 - 10pm
Tuesdays I have lectures 1 - 3pm, and my singing lesson 4 - 5pm
Wednesdays I have a practical session 2 - 3pm, and I work 5 - 10pm
Thursdays I have lectures 1-4pm, and then I have the evening off !!!!
Friday I have lectures 9am - 12pm and choir practice 6.30 - 7.15pm
Saturday I work 10am - 5pm
Sunday I have church service and choir practice 10am - 12pm
So when do I have time to do my coursework??? I have four bits of coursework to be done before this weekend, when I go home. I have finished one bit, hoping to finish another 2 bits of it today. That leaves one bit to complete on Thursday, fingers crossed.
Love from Beki
Today I learnt that all coursework must be done when it is set, not a few days before the due date, because then it might actually get finished on time.
Got my results this morning!
Introduction to Information Systems mark: 61 grade: B+
Computer Systems mark: 80 grade: A
Structured Programming mark: 58 grade: B
Study Methods using IT Skills mark: 62 grade: B+
WOOO! Go Beki
See ya!
Love Beki
Got set first major piece of coursework today - have to create a relational database and front end for a club or society, so 5 of us are doing a project for the computing society. It is going to be an online support portal for computing modules and anything else computing based! Hope that we can manage it!
Something else that’s happening thanks to the society, a company has approached us about finishing off something called wxCocoa. It helps to make running the same software on multiple operating systems much easier! So… we are needing to learn C and objective-C for it, fun fun. So tomorrow we are going around to my wonderful friend called Dave’s place, and we are having a learn C session, then we are going to make a 1m long Curly-Wurly, then we are having a fruit salad with mars bar sauce, then a Japanese marinated chickeny thingy and a vegetable stir fry.
