maandag 22 december 2014
Exams
The next two weeks will be pretty boring. I'm spending most of my time revising for my exams or having the exam. So the next two weeks the messages will be really short. Wednesday spend some time invigilating an exam. Which had an exciting bit where someone sneaked in some paper. Not very nice especially because they are really strict here. If it is their second offense then they can be expelled. Thursday I had my own exam where I forgot some important bits. So I'm hoping for the best and spend some time cursing myself on how I could be this stupid. Friday first slept in a bit. Breakfast became lunch instead. Great fun. After lunch I spend some time writing a report. Saturday spend most of my time baking a cake. It was literally blood, sweat and tears. Cut myself between two fingers when I tried to pierce an orange. Something fun during in the rest of the week because the wound didn't heal that quickly. Had a Christmas party in the evening. Great fun. Sunday went to Roslin for the Christmas carols there. Great atmosphere and I would certainly recommend going here. Monday spend most of my time writing a report and making a presentation. Tuesday I had to present something and wanted to listen to the presentations of my classmates. Mine went ok but still I think there is more to the topic. I'll learn most of it over the course of the next year. In the evening went out for dinner to a nice Italian place. Thursday I had my final exam. Was difficult but that was expected. In the evening went to the Christmas carol of HW. The band was really good but the choir of UoE was better. Friday spend most of my time relaxing and finding Christmas presents. If you're going home for Christmas you can't arrive empty handed so I bought fudge and a hat. The whiskey was already bought in advance :). In the evening went out for dinner again. Saturday spend my time cleaning a flat and in the evening went to a ceilidh. At night celebrated the birthday of my girlfriend. Had to get up again early morning the next day to fly home. In the end I was too early at the airport. Really interesting. I was this early that I had to wait until the baggage drop off opened. That all for these weeks.
dinsdag 9 december 2014
Kilt and last lecture week
Yes this was the week in which I got to wear my first kilt. The annoying thing is that I'm writing this message halfway through the next week and the week after that :). But anyway. Most of my lectures have finished by now. Which means that I can spend time in the library to revise stuff.
Monday. In the morning I tried to get a robot to work but the only thing it said was: "computer says no". After sending the parcel home I spend most of my time in the library revising stuff. The thing was that I forgot about the system they have to place the books. Which meant that I spend the first half hour running around trying to find a particular book and than running to a computer to find that book. Only to figure out that I was on the wrong floor. Anyway this happens every once in a while.
Tuesday. Given that most of the lectures have been finished by now so this one only produced stuff that might come in the exam a.k.a. pay attention because this will be in the exam. In the evening spend some time to make a nice and simple bolognese saus. Could do better it was a bit too runny for my liking. Anyway it tasted nice and it was food so I'm not complaining :).
Wednesday. I was trying to get some code running because I wanted to show some results to my mentor on Thursday. Only I found that the code wasn't running and this I saw on Thursday because the code took longer than I expected.
Thursday. After my lecture I saw that the code wasn't running and also I saw that my mentor was in the same room. So whilst he was speaking with someone else I was frantically trying to get my code to work. Resulted in another computer says no and my mumbling about what I did find. No dancing in the evening. There was something else going on so we met in the pub.
Friday. First I had to pickup my kilt. Quickly tried it on and cycled to HW. Where I had a presentation/meeting about building a robot ourselves. It sounds cool and I definitely want to do it. But not now not just before the exams. After this meeting I finally found a way to get the code running and got some interesting results as well. First going out for dinner and then going dancing again. One has to make up for the loss of last night :).
Saturday. Quickly filled my backpack and fixed some stuff to it (with shoelaces :) ). Placed my sleeping bag on my kilt and went to St. Andrews. This time for SUSCDF (Scottish Universities Scottish Country Dance Festival). Met a crazy amount of new people in one weekend and saw an awful lot of dancing. We (as in me and a couple of friends) could stay the night at a mutual friend of theirs. With staying I mean sleeping on the ground hence the sleeping bag and mat :). Ah well it's just for the night and when your tiered of dancing you can sleep almost anywhere. First time a kilt and I think it is really nice. A bit cold a first but liberating. Also the freedom you have is a bit weird at first but anyway you'll get used to it.
Sunday, we went out and about in St. Andrews. Seeing some great views like the castle and a big tower. After this it was time to head back to Edinburgh for the first carol service. This is something I'm not used to because we don't have such a thing in the Netherlands. At least not that I know of. Great fun to see and you get a lot more singing than we used to get when I went to church. Only the people that dragged me along where complaining that there wasn't enough singing involved and too much talking.
Monday. Yes you're getting now two weeks in on message. Spend most of my day in the library revising. In the evening I went to ceilidh dem. Great fun to do and the last time I could where my kilt. So made great use of it. This time it was us (me and some others) demonstrating for a group of Asians. Still great fun to do.
Tuesday. My last lecture for this semester. Again revising stuff that might be in the exam. So paying extra attention to this. Went back in the afternoon to bring back my kilt. It was rented so I had to say goodbye to it.
The rest of the week was more on revising stuff for exams and not doing anything special. Apart from figuring out how programma's and algorithms work.
Friday night went out to the pub to see some people I met last weekend and to have some drinks with them.
Saturday. The trip to Gullane of a couple of weeks ago was nice so I decided to do it again. This happend in the morning. Spend the afternoon fixing the bike of a friend. The bike decided that it was old and I couldn't fix everything. Somethings had to be done in the bike shop to my regret.
Sunday morning went up one of Edinburgh hills. Had a great view from there. It was a bit windy and chilly but still a great view. Spend most of my afternoon fixing another bike. The shifter got stuck but it wasn't anything a bit of WD40 couldn't solve. In the evening went to a carol service of UoE. This one was better than the one from last week. More singing and a lot busier. It was in the same place as a ceilidh a couple of weeks ago. So a great hall which was full. So full of people that some stood during the whole service.
Sorry the days are getting shorter and so are these messages :)
Monday. In the morning I tried to get a robot to work but the only thing it said was: "computer says no". After sending the parcel home I spend most of my time in the library revising stuff. The thing was that I forgot about the system they have to place the books. Which meant that I spend the first half hour running around trying to find a particular book and than running to a computer to find that book. Only to figure out that I was on the wrong floor. Anyway this happens every once in a while.
Tuesday. Given that most of the lectures have been finished by now so this one only produced stuff that might come in the exam a.k.a. pay attention because this will be in the exam. In the evening spend some time to make a nice and simple bolognese saus. Could do better it was a bit too runny for my liking. Anyway it tasted nice and it was food so I'm not complaining :).
Wednesday. I was trying to get some code running because I wanted to show some results to my mentor on Thursday. Only I found that the code wasn't running and this I saw on Thursday because the code took longer than I expected.
Thursday. After my lecture I saw that the code wasn't running and also I saw that my mentor was in the same room. So whilst he was speaking with someone else I was frantically trying to get my code to work. Resulted in another computer says no and my mumbling about what I did find. No dancing in the evening. There was something else going on so we met in the pub.
Friday. First I had to pickup my kilt. Quickly tried it on and cycled to HW. Where I had a presentation/meeting about building a robot ourselves. It sounds cool and I definitely want to do it. But not now not just before the exams. After this meeting I finally found a way to get the code running and got some interesting results as well. First going out for dinner and then going dancing again. One has to make up for the loss of last night :).
Saturday. Quickly filled my backpack and fixed some stuff to it (with shoelaces :) ). Placed my sleeping bag on my kilt and went to St. Andrews. This time for SUSCDF (Scottish Universities Scottish Country Dance Festival). Met a crazy amount of new people in one weekend and saw an awful lot of dancing. We (as in me and a couple of friends) could stay the night at a mutual friend of theirs. With staying I mean sleeping on the ground hence the sleeping bag and mat :). Ah well it's just for the night and when your tiered of dancing you can sleep almost anywhere. First time a kilt and I think it is really nice. A bit cold a first but liberating. Also the freedom you have is a bit weird at first but anyway you'll get used to it.
Sunday, we went out and about in St. Andrews. Seeing some great views like the castle and a big tower. After this it was time to head back to Edinburgh for the first carol service. This is something I'm not used to because we don't have such a thing in the Netherlands. At least not that I know of. Great fun to see and you get a lot more singing than we used to get when I went to church. Only the people that dragged me along where complaining that there wasn't enough singing involved and too much talking.
Monday. Yes you're getting now two weeks in on message. Spend most of my day in the library revising. In the evening I went to ceilidh dem. Great fun to do and the last time I could where my kilt. So made great use of it. This time it was us (me and some others) demonstrating for a group of Asians. Still great fun to do.
Tuesday. My last lecture for this semester. Again revising stuff that might be in the exam. So paying extra attention to this. Went back in the afternoon to bring back my kilt. It was rented so I had to say goodbye to it.
The rest of the week was more on revising stuff for exams and not doing anything special. Apart from figuring out how programma's and algorithms work.
Friday night went out to the pub to see some people I met last weekend and to have some drinks with them.
Saturday. The trip to Gullane of a couple of weeks ago was nice so I decided to do it again. This happend in the morning. Spend the afternoon fixing the bike of a friend. The bike decided that it was old and I couldn't fix everything. Somethings had to be done in the bike shop to my regret.
Sunday morning went up one of Edinburgh hills. Had a great view from there. It was a bit windy and chilly but still a great view. Spend most of my afternoon fixing another bike. The shifter got stuck but it wasn't anything a bit of WD40 couldn't solve. In the evening went to a carol service of UoE. This one was better than the one from last week. More singing and a lot busier. It was in the same place as a ceilidh a couple of weeks ago. So a great hall which was full. So full of people that some stood during the whole service.
Sorry the days are getting shorter and so are these messages :)
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