Feel the Burn

[davidn]

I had forgotten just how exhausting two days of doing nothing at the Burn was. The reason that it's so tiring is that most people get about six hours of sleep during the whole weekend, with the rest of the time taken up by playing Monopoly, guitars, or anything connected to the projector. quadralien will no doubt be pleased that I demonstrated The Last Eichhof on it at one point, but when it came to put Zero Wing on I found my version of it didn't run. It's probably just as well - being computer scientists, we could have joined hands and recited it in unison.

The presentations this year seemed a lot more technically in-depth than last time, essentially meaning they were much more difficult to sit through. The one that I jointly gave, "The Junior Honours Project and Where It All Went Wrong", was one of the more well received, but it couldn't compare to a hysterical talk on Internet addiction, delivered deadpan by one of the new JH students. I may have terrible flashbacks of boards filled with 1337speak glossaries for days.

So with the Burn trip finished, my last year of university will soon be over as well. I know that sounds a bit premature, but it honestly felt like we had been there the previous week rather than a year ago, and if the next year goes as fast as that we'll be in the Real World™ before we know it.

Comments

[tweeasfuck.livejournal.com]

The Real World is rubbish. Try to become a postgrad and avoid it as long as possible.

[davidn]

If I go to Boston with Whitney as planned, I'll be able to ignore the outside world forever like most of the country does.