21 November, 2011 in Personal by Aonghas

Summer is Just Around the Corner!

It’s been just over a week since my last exam and it’s been so refreshing to have some spare time for a change. The semester just gone sure did have its moments of stress, and at times I wondered how I’d ever make it through to the end. Thankfully I survived three exams and, fingers crossed, hopefully I managed to pass them as well. Now that I have three and a half months off before uni starts again next year, it’s that time of the year to plan what I want to achieve over the summer break. So straight off the top of my head, let’s see what I can think of:

• Finish all the video projects I had to put on hold
• Start cycling again; go to the gym regularly
• Sort out all my paperwork from uni this year
• look into setting up a green screen studio
• find a summer job for engineering
• revise everything I learned this year at uni

Summer is just around the corner so don’t let it pass by without achieving what you set out to do! Hopefully I can listen to my own advice!

2 November, 2011 in University by Aonghas

An Extra Day’s Grace

Today I woke up later than I wanted to (again) to start another day’s study (again). After a couple of hours I decided that I wasn’t making much progress and the fact that Jeremy Kyle was trying to give advice to another set of bogans on TV in the background didn’t help either. My mum tried to keep me awake by giving me some green tea but I still found it hard to concentrate and actually make some progress. I decided to take a shower and go into uni so that I could start studying with a fresh mind away from anything that might distract me.

When I got into uni I walked through the quad and bumped into Vas and Sushi who were both having lunch. They told me that they had already had an exam and that Systems and Control was their last exam next Wednesday (which is my first exam). They said Wednesday. And I told them it was on Tuesday. But they insisted it was Wednesday so I checked my phone and sure enough they were right! Suddenly a micro sigh of relief passed through me, because it meant I had an extra day to study (believe me, I can do with ANY extra time to study right now), although it also meant I had one less day to study for my other two exams. But that didn’t matter at that moment, because I was most worried about Systems and Control. I headed to the undergraduate labs and found a space to study. There were a couple of other people in the room when I arrived but they left a few hours later. For the rest of the evening I spent my time looking over Laplace transforms and I was pleased when I managed to do some questions I was stuck on last night.

Slowly but surely I think I’m learning. I just hope I’ll be somewhat ready this time next week! Tomorrow I’m planning to go to uni early in the morning, so it’s early bedtime tonight!