Digital Note-Keeping
April 6, 2021
When I began my degree, I was really jealous of the people in lectures who would take notes on their tablets and annotate PDFs with ease. Most of these tablets are really expensive and, coming from a working-class background, I couldn’t afford one and I even thought that they are just not worth the large …
How to Make it to your 9am
November 22, 2017
Now, as the saying goes, you are either a lark or an owl, aka, you are either a morning or a night person. Luckily for me, there is no better feeling than having an early night only to wake up two hours before is needed so that I can spend the morning doing whatever I …
Martial arts, sightseeing & a broken seat
April 8, 2013
Ni Hao! (Hello), I will dive straight in and tell you about my trip to 西湖, meaning ‘West Lake’. Located here in Hangzhou, the West Lake is a famous freshwater lake divided into causeways with numerous temples, gardens and artificial islands with
NEWSFLASH: Lecturers are People
March 20, 2013
In primary school, teachers are like robots. They can be kind of fun, help you learn – but your mind compartmentalises them into the “school” folder, in the way that cars are filed in “roads” and “garages” and flowers in “plants,” “gardens” and “vases” etc. Tell me I’m not the only one who thinks in …
A Bowl of Work
January 30, 2013
So lectures have started again. *Psycho music* They’re really interesting, relevant to my course and all of that – but full days (6 hrs a day) on Monday and Tuesday are pretty intense. Revising, exams, and Christmas holidays somehow make you forget what lectures are like and the natural phenomena occurred with them – so …
Is it me, or is time moving more slowly ?
January 29, 2013
You’d think, being halfway through my university career, I’d know where I’m going by now. Coates had other plans. Multiple staircases (I needed the extra phys anyway) and three different entrances later I finally found C29. Don’t ask me how I got there, lets just say I made a much better job of it when …
Keeping up with Life
February 1, 2012
Apologies again readers for my late blog post- seriously I won’t be making a habit of this. Let me reassure you that my blog entries are always on Tuesdays! ^_^ Explanation: Yesterday I got up early to prepare for Refresher’s Fayre for UNICEF Society, but I couldn’t stay for the actual fayre as I already …
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