Posts from ‘May, 2007’

For those at PC, I emailed saying I’m going. It’s

My Structure of Matter lecture today was a complete farce. The guy who does it is easily the worst lecturer we’ve had this year; he mostly lectures from printed notes with the aid of the blackboard to do a few derivations. He claims he does this because it’s easier for him, which undoubtably it is, [...]

I saw someone reading Isaac Asimov’s Foundation in the lift down to the platforms at Cally Road tube station today, and it made me happy, because it’s great to see people reading such an excellent book.
For the uninitiated, it’s about a future in which humanity has spread out across the galaxy, setting up a vast [...]

So exams are over for the next 5 weeks, and I’m, rather frighteningly, already going after the revision. I went into the exams a little more unprepared than I’d like, so I’m going to have a crack at the books early and with any luck I should really nail the last three exams. Also this [...]