Saturday | January 20, 2007

Say It If It's Worth Saving Me

Everything's getting a bit hectic now.  The link to Perplex City has reopened, and through it seems to be sucking all my free time.  We have contact with our Perplexian friends again, and they're updating faster than ever in order, seemingly to make up for the past three month's lack of activity.  And what a busy few days it's been - Sente's been arrested, Kurt's been fired, Scarlett's been kidnapped... So basically, a lot's happened.
 
The "Cube Retrieval Team" on Earth has also been getting strange messages, from the Third Power, the schneeky group that's trying to find the Cube before us.  Something about them having something..  And the latest one, received today, says:
 
19012701215
To Earth operatives: Package aboard, in transit to secure facility. Not long now.
 
 No idea what this could mean.. But it may have something to do with yesterday's received message:
 
18012700448
To Earth operatives
We have gained access
A genuine non-repro Earth artefact dating from the time of the original theft has been discovered, confirming our initial hypothesis.
Our contact will schedule package pick up tomorrow.
Earth teams on standby - anticipate successful completion imminently
 
The plot continues.
 
Meanwhile, on the school front, I've been given a whole load more work to do.  I was leafing through a C1, C2, and S1 text book (Those are the AS maths modules), and they didn't look like the same syllabus that I did with the other exam board.  So I've been given the text books, and I've got to go through those and make sure I understand them for next year.  Ugh.  Still, not all bad news.  It also turns out that I've already done about 3/4 of the S2 work, which is next years Statistics module, in the S1 module of my previous exam board.  So next year's going to be nice and easy in pure maths =)
 
I've also been looking into open days at Aberystwyth, but strangely they only seem to accept open days from students that have already applied.  I know, it makes absolutely no sense to me either.  And I can't apply until mid-September, meaning that I can't go on an open day until next February. o_O;
 
In Computing, I have completed task 2, and task 3 parts a-c.  This is important for me to state repeatedly, because if I don't keep telling myself that, then I'll just keep redoing and redoing them.  No, I have completed them, and am NEVER EVER GOING TO LOOK AT THEM AGAIN.  Right, now that's sorted out.  I'm also the class swot in Computing, it seems.  I'm the only person that understands programming, think it through logically and can write structured codes, rather than just making a random collection of statements that doesn't work as a program.  So I'm the one that has to go around the class helping other people.  *sigh* The price of being good, eh?
 
I've ordered the three Torchwood novels from Amazon.  So those are going to be my first reads on my big 50-books-in-a-year list.  I should get through them all pretty quickly.
 
So, my 50 books for the year so far:
 
1) Another Life [Torchwood] - Peter Anghelides
2) Border Princes [Torchwood] - Dan Abnett
3) Slow Decay [Torchwood] - Andrew Lane
 
I'm also still waiting for Final Fantasy III for the DS that I ordered a few weeks ago.  *sigh*.
 
Mmm, this post's been very long, I should probably end it soon.  Actually, yeah, I will.  But first, I'll leave you with an awesome song, by Nickelback.
 
Nickelback - Savin' Me
 
 
Enjoy. 
 
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Monday | January 08, 2007

More Possibilities

More possibilities.  This post is mainly for me so I have the links at home:

Huddersfield: http://www.hud.ac.uk/courses/undergrad/ipp_pages00000506.htm
Hull: http://www.net.dcs.hull.ac.uk/ug/whatiscsgd.htm
Salford: http://www.salford.ac.uk/course-finder/course/368
Staffordshire: http://www.staffs.ac.uk/courses/undergrad/computingandit/tcm11012864.php
Northumbria: http://northumbria.ac.uk/?view=CourseDetail&code=UUSCGS1
Greenwich: http://www.cms.gre.ac.uk/undergraduate/CwGD.asp
Bolton: http://www.bolton.ac.uk/courses/course_display.asp?single=bsc_cgsd&mode=single&template=university

Ones I can't get on at school because the URL has the word 'Game' in it:

Suffolk: http://www.ucs.ac.uk/courses/bsc-computer-games-programming.asp
Teesside: http://www.tees.ac.uk/Undergraduate_courses/Computer_Games/BA_(Hons)_Computer_Games_Art.cfm
Sheffield: http://www.shu.ac.uk/computing/undergraduate/modules/sdgamesmodules.html

 

Some of these look very good.  These are the universities I'm considering based on the course.  I've not looked into any of the universities in terms of requirements, accomodation, how good they are, etc etc.

But these are the 10 I'm looking into.

I'm looking into Salford, Northumbria, Greenwich, and Bolton mostly.  Their courses look the best.  I hate the universities that don't put the syllabus on their site, that's annoying.

Greenwich university is VERY detailed.  I *LOVE* their website, and how it actually explains each part of the course.  Some don't even state what's in the course.  But yes, Greenwich is looking very good at the moment.  It's a great course, and a great website.  I'll look into that when I get home.

Only 1.66 years until university...

Anybody any comments/recommendations/advice?

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Saturday | January 06, 2007

The Forgotten Resolution

9) I will never use "I'm starting to think that" in any rant or argument, because someone will inevitably reply that whatever I'm starting to think is a well-known fact and imply that I'm stupid for not knowing it.

 

Hm, does university accomodation have a phone line? I need my internets.

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Thursday | January 04, 2007

Exams.. And Universities.. and Stuff

Ack, exams. Big exams. In 6 and 8 days. [Wednesday and Friday of next week].

Well, I'm going back to school today. Electronics and Mechanics. So I reckon I'll be spending most of Mechanics being revised at, and most of Electronics being ahead of everyone else. C'est la vie. I love Thursdays.

Also, yes. I have exams next week, thanks for asking. Mechanics [Wed] and Physics [Fri].

Mechanics is all about dynamics, SUVAT equations, projectiles, vectors...
Physics is all about dynamics, SUVAT equations, projectiles, vectors... conservation of energy, deformation of solids, and spring extensions.

So I figure that if I just revise for Mechanics, I'll get it all right. Yeah, that's about right.

 

Anyway, I spent the whole night looking at universities online, determined to not go to Bolton university [On the advice of my great uncle], in order to be "independant" and "live on my own" without being in the same town as Grandma. ...Yeah. You know how they say where there's a will there's a way? Well I willed to not go to Bolton, but clearly the universe hates me. The only good course I can find is in Bolton University. *sigh*

http://www.bolton.ac.uk/courses/course_display.asp?single=bsc_cgsd&mode=single&template=university

Well, I suppose if I get accomodation near the university, I can.. pretend it's a new town. Yeah. *nods* That's what I'll do.

Also, is it wrong to worry and be scared about something that's over 1.7 years away?

 

That's all. I leave you with a drabble, based on challenge #147 of the DW100 drabble community [A drabble is a short 100 word story] which is "Ice and Snow".

 

"Right! Earth, here we are then!" the Doctor said, excitedly, to Rose. "Ice age! One step out there like that and you'll freeze to death, go get changed!"

Rose ran off to the wardrobe room, while the Doctor looked outside through the scanner screen. Glaciers everywhere, a completely white scene. A scene that no human alive had ever seen. Rose ran back in, dressed in a snow jacket. She smiled at the Doctor, and then ran to open the doors, to see the icy scene she had been promised. The doors were opened, and…

…A perfectly healthy green field.

“…Ah…”

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