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It's something of a relief to realise that the labs are open next week, so I don't have to waste time just now clearing out my cupboard. In fact, I was reminded of some very good news today - the lab deposit. I should get between £40 and £50 once all my equipment's handed in, which is very welcome especially after the week of hard work for the end of the term, doing everything that I was supposed to be doing throughout the semester all at once.
Our group got the last of the experiments pretty much finished today, but there's something far more exciting to report - after a huge struggle that involved trying to email or FTP to accounts that I have throughout the University (the computer was having none of it), I finally have on my hard drive the legendary GLC presentation! Eventually it was Angelfire that was the solution, I had to upload the 5MB ZIP to it and then dash home before they deleted my account.
For those people who haven't done Chemistry, the GLC presentation is a file that the lab technician put together just after he'd discovered Powerpoint. Coupled with the fact that he was trying to liven it up for the first years, what resulted was simply a masterpiece that many thought was the most disturbing experience of their lives. I won't put it up anywhere as it's not very immediately funny, you have to wade through a lot of tedious drivel about vague chromatography ovens to get to the good bits, but if you're a chemist and want to have this work of art for yourself, just ask.
I finally got my module choices submitted for next year, along with a request to change to just Computer Science. That alone looks rather daunting, though, being four modules in the first semester, three in the third, and a group project as well. They certainly don't make the process easy - being sharp enough to select the right modules in the right order was almost a practical in itself.
I've noticed that I have recently developed a bad habit, especially in the correct-English-obsessed environment of The Sinner. I keep missing out full stops at the end of sentences. That's something that I'll have to try and correct
Our group got the last of the experiments pretty much finished today, but there's something far more exciting to report - after a huge struggle that involved trying to email or FTP to accounts that I have throughout the University (the computer was having none of it), I finally have on my hard drive the legendary GLC presentation! Eventually it was Angelfire that was the solution, I had to upload the 5MB ZIP to it and then dash home before they deleted my account.
For those people who haven't done Chemistry, the GLC presentation is a file that the lab technician put together just after he'd discovered Powerpoint. Coupled with the fact that he was trying to liven it up for the first years, what resulted was simply a masterpiece that many thought was the most disturbing experience of their lives. I won't put it up anywhere as it's not very immediately funny, you have to wade through a lot of tedious drivel about vague chromatography ovens to get to the good bits, but if you're a chemist and want to have this work of art for yourself, just ask.
I finally got my module choices submitted for next year, along with a request to change to just Computer Science. That alone looks rather daunting, though, being four modules in the first semester, three in the third, and a group project as well. They certainly don't make the process easy - being sharp enough to select the right modules in the right order was almost a practical in itself.
I've noticed that I have recently developed a bad habit, especially in the correct-English-obsessed environment of The Sinner. I keep missing out full stops at the end of sentences. That's something that I'll have to try and correct
