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The First Day
Sep. 26th, 2005 08:31 pm"What a load of bollocks", a classmate announced as he walked past me out of Distributed Systems. I was waiting for my Artificial Intelligence lecture to start at the time, and that assessment made me even more glad that I had favoured it this semester. In fact, my timetable at the moment is a complete joke, with me having one lecture a day, starting 11 in the morning at the earliest, and two hours of Multimedia in the afternoons every Thursday. This will eventually fill up with the PSAC lectures, project and any practicals that come our way, but Honours Computer Science creates at least the illusion of having a relatively free timetable.
It happens that I'm now using Whitney's Mac to take notes in lectures. I know it's a bit of a turnaround from my attitude towards them last year, but it's clearly the more portable of the two laptops we have in the house (mine having no battery, a self-inflicted insane keyboard and a serious weight problem). The Mac got on with me quite well right up until the very end of the lecture when it decided to treat what I had saved to my pendrive as read only, and to convert all I had typed in to "I don't know this character" squares when I tried to save to the hard drive.
I've decided to start doing this because in the second semester last year we were lectured in the lab, with computers in front of us, and I typed vast essays out on to my own laptop as the lectures went on, and it behaves very well as long as it's kept static and gets a socket to itself. Now, though, the third years are being lectured in the left side of the lab (which now has no computers), our practicals are to be done on the right side, and we're being lectured in the Goldfish Bowl. It's a mystery to me why they did this, but I wanted to keep typing things out as we go along because I got my best marks ever last semester, forcing myself to pay attention and write something vaguely coherent.
It's also come to my attention that we weren't supposed to hand our proximity cards at the end of last year. I handed mine to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
quadralien to return, and now that I come to think about it, I never heard of my £5 deposit again.
It happens that I'm now using Whitney's Mac to take notes in lectures. I know it's a bit of a turnaround from my attitude towards them last year, but it's clearly the more portable of the two laptops we have in the house (mine having no battery, a self-inflicted insane keyboard and a serious weight problem). The Mac got on with me quite well right up until the very end of the lecture when it decided to treat what I had saved to my pendrive as read only, and to convert all I had typed in to "I don't know this character" squares when I tried to save to the hard drive.
I've decided to start doing this because in the second semester last year we were lectured in the lab, with computers in front of us, and I typed vast essays out on to my own laptop as the lectures went on, and it behaves very well as long as it's kept static and gets a socket to itself. Now, though, the third years are being lectured in the left side of the lab (which now has no computers), our practicals are to be done on the right side, and we're being lectured in the Goldfish Bowl. It's a mystery to me why they did this, but I wanted to keep typing things out as we go along because I got my best marks ever last semester, forcing myself to pay attention and write something vaguely coherent.
It's also come to my attention that we weren't supposed to hand our proximity cards at the end of last year. I handed mine to
quadralien to return, and now that I come to think about it, I never heard of my £5 deposit again.
