Content tagged: university

Oh, the places you'll go!

Quite recently I officially graduated from University, so I am now Simon Elvery, BBus(Banking&Finance) BInfoTech(InformationSystems). As is customary at these events there was a keynote speaker. I believe the person appointed to this job is supposed to give a speech full of encouragement and congratulations to the students graduating (though I've heard they are frequently excruciatingly boring speeches). Our keynote speaker was Prof. Alan Underwood. Being an exceedingly smart man (well he is a professor and all), Alan was obviously aware that few of these speeches really make an impression, and more often than not simply bore people silly, so ... more

On leaving university and not being a student.

It was a big relief to finish uni last month. Anybody who's been around me for any significant length of time over the past year would know I was just ready for it to be over already. At the beginning of the year, I made the decision to start earning some money and switch from full-time uni and part-time work to full-time work and part-time uni. While I wouldn't actually do it any differently now, in hind sight it made things tough. There's nothing worse than coming home from a day (or a week) at work and then having to ... more

Well it's about time I actually posted something here.

Last Monday, exactly one week ago, I attended my final class at uni - and it feels sweet. I have two exams to go which I haven't started studying for yet. I'm sitting on 44.5% with a 50% exam to come for Multimedia Systems and 54.2% with a 40% exam to come for Information Technology Management. I think I'll start studying next weekend. Last week I signed up with a new hosting provider which was a totally fun experience. I'm yet to migrate this site and that should happen today1. The only downside I've found so far is that Dreamhost ... more

Damn this ambition to succeed!

It's week 13 at uni this week which is the last week of teaching before study week. That means that any student who knows anything about doing well in exams makes every effort to turn up because it's the week when lecturers are most likely to hand out exam tips. The end of semester is also the reason I've been a little slow at updating here of late. The past two weeks have been very assignment heavy1. Anyway, getting back to the point, week thirteen is generally important if you plan to do well in your exams. On top of ... more

Just and update

I have about fifteen posts just sitting there in draft form waiting to be worked up to a standard where I would feel comfortable publishing them. It seems I have plenty of ideas about what to post but no time or patience to sit there actually fleshing them out. The posts waiting for some work include: How to destroy a perfectly good pair of jeans WordPress Plugin for adding JavaScript1 A house in the country2 How lucky we are Some attempt at fiction Post # 108 html v. english Nerky? Geerdy?3 Post # 119. As a general rule I try ... more