I seem to be making next to no progress at my literature review. The papers are very dull, poorly-structured, and of only minimal relevance. I also need to pay close attention to them to avoid getting totally lost. Also, I get caught up in little details. Having spent a day or so on one line of algebra, I finally managed to leave it with a ( Read more... )

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When last you saw our intrepid hero, he was at the mercy of, um, anime and games. (Note to self: next time you stop updating LJ for months, at least leave a decent cliff-hanger.) That all may be up to date, I spent much of the summer working in the Cavendish, then wandered around visiting people before coming back to the same group for a PhD. ( Read more... )

My results came out today. Well, strictly, my results came out yesterday. I didn't check my mail and find this out until after everything was locked up, though. I got a 2.2, which at least confirms my Mark Prediction Technique still works.

This morning's exam concluded the assessed parts of my degree. I think I did "all right" at best, and am destined for a 2.2. I also keep coming up with little mistakes I made, which is kind of irritating as I thought I'd got three of six long questions Absolutely Right ( Read more... )

Hah! Another project falls before my all-nighter-ly prowess. And with whole hours to go before the deadline, too. It's probably bad when your project starts turning into cyberpunk while you're proof-reading it, isn't it?

Showed up at the CTS meeting just before it finished. Then, showed up at GamesEvening just before it finished. Now, as I feel I ought to babysit this code compiling (the last attempt failed. I have no idea how, as it decided to put a very large log file on the already-strained /var partition, and I foolishly decided "Everything will be fine" and ( Read more... )

Having declared that my advancing age was making all-nighters unworkable, I quite naturally repeated the experience. The events of the CURS 24-hour itself, in which an Abyssal fortress was stormed and Reality was broken, are more coherently chronicled elsewhere. I showed up late, as Getting Up Technique rapidly metamorphosed into Ceiling ( Read more... )

An update, rather delayed by Exammy Doom. Easter was generally enjoyable, and I even got to see my father. We've been cunningly arranging not to be in the same places for quite a while. Returned to Cambridge, and demonstrated my usual "get distracted a lot, and occasionally look at notes" approach to revision. It seems to have worked - I ended ( Read more... )