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Cool Thing Of The Day

Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #36:

(1) Recieve an e-mail from your Personal Tutor, asking to see you in his office in ten minutes. He knows I check my e-mail 1440 times a day, but dragging me to this level of nerdity is ridiculous…
(2) …make it to his office, cross campus, within eight minutes of him sending the e-mail… Okay – so I *live* in my anorak. I don’t care. =o( I’m going to go and sit in the corner and sulk now.

The ‘cool and interesting things’ were originally published to a location at which my “friends back home” could read them, during the first few months of my time at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, which I started in September 1999. It proved to be particularly popular, and so now it is immortalised through the medium of my weblog.

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Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #31:

Pass your first exam… with a worldsmashing score of 90%. Your lecturer, apparantly, during a pre-test, scored 95%. The pass level was 36%. Happy bunny? You bet!

The ‘cool and interesting things’ were originally published to a location at which my “friends back home” could read them, during the first few months of my time at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, which I started in September 1999. It proved to be particularly popular, and so now it is immortalised through the medium of my weblog.

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Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #29:

Stay in and do some work.
Scary but true – this theoretically means that I haven’t done this until now. Eek.

The ‘cool and interesting things’ were originally published to a location at which my “friends back home” could read them, during the first few months of my time at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, which I started in September 1999. It proved to be particularly popular, and so now it is immortalised through the medium of my weblog.

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Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #27:

(1) What with being excessivley busy, and a network failure last weekend, fail to get out a “Cool Things”. Feel the need to apologise to everybody (SORRY!), and give them three “Cool Things” to help make up for it.
(2) Be elected Communications Officer for a confidential telephone listening and advice service.
(3) Take your first exam. Gulp. Still – 20 questions, and only 36% required to pass. From the results of people in my class who’ve done it earlier this week, marks range from 30% –> 80%. Remain confident. My result is out on Monday.

The ‘cool and interesting things’ were originally published to a location at which my “friends back home” could read them, during the first few months of my time at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, which I started in September 1999. It proved to be particularly popular, and so now it is immortalised through the medium of my weblog.

Cool Thing Of The Day

Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #26:

Go out and get pissed with the second years from your floor. Bloody hell, those guys can drink about (originally read “drinkabout”) four times their weight in lager. As a result I’m probably going to have to (originally read “tpo”) proofread this several times before sending it. I’m having difficulty sitting up straight in my chair. Bloody hell

The ‘cool and interesting things’ were originally published to a location at which my “friends back home” could read them, during the first few months of my time at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, which I started in September 1999. It proved to be particularly popular, and so now it is immortalised through the medium of my weblog.

Cool Thing Of The Day

Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #24:

Take a pillow to a lecture. =o)

The ‘cool and interesting things’ were originally published to a location at which my “friends back home” could read them, during the first few months of my time at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, which I started in September 1999. It proved to be particularly popular, and so now it is immortalised through the medium of my weblog.

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Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #18:

Play drinking games and ‘dare’ in a pub on an Outward Bound weekend… with your lecturer. Laugh as he has to ask the bar staff if they’re virgins, announce he’s gay, and go into the ladies toilets with his trousers around his ankles. Laugh slightly less when you have to shout “the Welsh are all sheep shaggers” at the top of your voice, and subsequently get lynched. Ah well: you win some, you lose some.

The ‘cool and interesting things’ were originally published to a location at which my “friends back home” could read them, during the first few months of my time at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, which I started in September 1999. It proved to be particularly popular, and so now it is immortalised through the medium of my weblog.

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Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #17:

Attend a lecture in a shirt and tie, and carrying a bag full of clothes, and leave 20 minutes before the end, to catch a coach to Aberdyfi, and sit on it and sing! (actually, this hasn’t happened yet – but this afternoon, it will!)

The ‘cool and interesting things’ were originally published to a location at which my “friends back home” could read them, during the first few months of my time at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, which I started in September 1999. It proved to be particularly popular, and so now it is immortalised through the medium of my weblog.

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Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #15:

Find a quaint little shop in the middle of nowhere, in a quaint little town in the middle of nowhere, and buy a really awful tie. Truly awful. Plan to wear it to a (course-compulsary) team-building weekend to take the piss out of a lecturer who’ll be going who wears really awful ties. Odds are, this occassion will be the first time we’ll ever see him without one!

The ‘cool and interesting things’ were originally published to a location at which my “friends back home” could read them, during the first few months of my time at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, which I started in September 1999. It proved to be particularly popular, and so now it is immortalised through the medium of my weblog.

Aberystwyth Admission

This photo was originally published to a closed group and republished to this blog on 25 May 2019.

Head Sizes

Is there a correlation between head circumference and intelligence, as measured by GCSE scores? Our research says no.

Raw data:

MALE	Head Size (cm)	GCSE Score	TOPLINE	BOTTOMLEFT	BOTTOMRIGHT
	60.4	45	12.87	115.025625	21.855625
	57.2	48	31.605	56.625625	2.805625
	57.5	44	1.565	61.230625	32.205625
	56.4	41	-18.83	45.225625	75.255625
	57.1	44	1.485	55.130625	32.205625
	56.6	42	-12.465	47.955625	58.905625
	54.9	42	-9.405	27.300625	58.905625
	55.3	38	-32.625	31.640625	136.305625
	55.6	49	30.81	35.105625	0.455625
	57.5	42	-14.085	61.230625	58.905625
	56.9	43	-5.78	52.200625	44.555625
	54.3	41	-12.95	21.390625	75.255625
	57.4	42	-13.905	59.675625	58.905625
	56.9	42	-13.005	52.200625	58.905625
	53.5	44	0.765	14.630625	32.205625
	56.7	40	-26.695	49.350625	93.605625
	58.3	39	-41.4	74.390625	113.955625
	57.7	43	-6.42	64.400625	44.555625
	53.5	40	-14.535	14.630625	93.605625
	60.3	40	-40.375	112.890625	93.605625
	57.2	45	9.03	56.625625	21.855625
	53.6	47	12.56	15.405625	7.155625
	58.6	51	64.26	79.655625	1.755625
	52.3	53	24.15	6.890625	11.055625
	55.1	40	-20.615	29.430625	93.605625
	54.0	36	-33.735	18.705625	187.005625
	54.1	43	-3.54	19.580625	44.555625
	57.1	49	38.61	55.130625	0.455625
	53.6	45	4.71	15.405625	21.855625
	54.4	46	10.395	22.325625	13.505625
FEMALE	56	38	-36.685	40.005625	136.305625
	60.0	47	33.04	106.605625	7.155625
	58.8	40	-34.675	83.265625	93.605625
	56.1	53	59.11	41.280625	11.055625
	52.1	37	-16.49	5.880625	160.655625
	53.0	37	-22.61	11.055625	160.655625
	56.5	49	35.49	46.580625	0.455625
	55.9	45	7.47	38.750625	21.855625
	56.2	36	-50.895	42.575625	187.005625
	55.0	37	-36.21	28.355625	160.655625
	52.5	51	20.34	7.980625	1.755625
	55.0	40	-20.235	28.355625	93.605625
	58.8	37	-62.05	83.265625	160.655625
	56.1	44	1.285	41.280625	32.205625
	55.9	48	26.145	38.750625	2.805625
	56.0	50	39.215	40.005625	0.105625
	52.7	48	12.705	9.150625	2.805625
	57.2	45	9.03	56.625625	21.855625
	56.7	39	-33.72	49.350625	113.955625
	60.2	41	-29.47	110.775625	75.255625
	53.4	40	-14.155	13.875625	93.605625
	57.9	41	-23.03	67.650625	75.255625
	53.9	50	26.195	17.850625	0.105625
	57.5	51	56.34	61.230625	1.755625
	59.1	40	-35.815	88.830625	93.605625
	57.7	44	1.605	64.400625	32.205625
	52.3	53	24.15	6.890625	11.055625
	58.5	50	54.715	77.880625	0.105625
	58.5	46	19.415	77.880625	13.505625
	60.0	47	33.04	106.605625	7.155625
	2980.5	2628	-34.3	2864.3825	3362.5375

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Went into college for Pure Maths, and for the first time in 1999, arrived on time (as opposed to one or more hours early)! Went out for tea to McDonalds with my dad and sisters in the evening. Went to my mum’s house, and spent five hours (almost breaking my personal record of 5 hours 27 minutes) on the phone to Fay, and, after failing to go to sleep afterwards, sat up and watched the sunrise before dropping off. If anyone asks about why I was on the phone to her at that time of night, I’ll tell them that I’m running a phone sex line as a way of making extra income. No – that won’t work… It was my call… Hmm… Let me think of an explanation, then…

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Maths in the morning. How is it that the first lesson in a new module always makes so much more sense than any other one? Went home for lunch in my three-hour break, returning for Psychology. Watched a video on “Eyewitness Testimony”. We’ve seen the same one three times now. Alecia took the second half of the lesson to preach to us – usally the kind of activity for Monday’s Psychology lessons – and persuaded Richard and me to come with her to church on Sunday. Promised I’d go, and I think I’ve persuaded Rik too, as well (even though he let her down on the Carol Service). “You can’t knock it ’til you’ve tried it,” I told him, with my usual democratic tact.

Couldn’t sleep again tonight – same as last night – watched TV until about 4:30am…

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Psychology in the morning was low-tone, and everybody seems to be under excess stress. Bunked off General Studies, because the recently-done exam paper hasn’t been marked anyway, and it’ll be cancelled as usual… Everything seems to be this week. Instead, took off into town with Fay, browsed the shops, put in my application for a Switch card at the bank, and ate hot potatoes for lunch. Returned to college at 2:00pm for my Mechanics exam, arriving just on time by taking a short cut through the building site. The exam wasn’t too bad.

Universities!

From my UCAS form:

1. Y50        UNIVERSITY OF YORK
   MEng Honours in Computer Systems and Software Engineering
   GG67       MEng/CSySE

2. A40        THE UNIVERSITY OF WALES, ABERYSTWTH
   MEng Honours in Software Engineering
   G700       MEng/SE

3. M20        THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
   BSc Honours in Computer Science
   G500       BSc/CS

4. E56        THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
   BEng Honours in Computer Science
   G501       BEng/CoS

5. CLANC      CENT. LANCS
   BSc Honours in Software Engineering
   G700       BSc/SE