From PHD comics:




I'm offended. Engineers have ethics. I mean, we care about the environment and stuff!

Now, the business fellas, they're the ones who don't think about the ethics of things...

I know PHD comics are mostly about people doing PHDs, but they appeal to the general university student, too.

This one's entitled: Read the abstract...


Unfortunately, this doesn't work if the paper you're reading isn't going on about an experiment.

HAHAHA this is so cute!

Taylor Swift rapping, yo!



P.S. More on concerts and awesome non-weekends later, if I can be bothered.
=D

I feel really sorry for...

The elderly man sat in the bus, who graciously gave his seat to another elderly man who walked with a cane.

When there were two teenagers sat in front of him, who didn't move an inch.

People these days, huh?

Look outside. Can you see them? Leaves the colour of sunset, orange and red and yellow. The crunch of fallen maple leaves underfoot. A tree in the midst of turning, so captivating you could stare for hours and still see something new.

Sweet birdsong outside your window in the morning. The rustle of leaves and the flick of a bushy grey tail. A squirrel's graceful scamper across the branches, up the trunk, a stop now and again to sniff at something.

The prospect of sitting outside on a clear, moonless night, watching a meteor shower that comes once a year, and lying with your back against the grass and picking out constellations.

What a wonderful, beautiful world God has created. I see creation and don't understand how anyone can look at it and not see Your work.

<3

The best part about walking past the lake to my department in the morning is catching sight of the squirrels and the rabbits.

Technical review isn't driving me crazy after all! I got a fantabulous idea to put some info in a table that I think will look very cool (as well as being informative and all that) and, lucky me, the sources to go with all those bits of info! And, the table is something that I will be compiling myself, not copied off an article.

=D

And my table of contents is looking very cool right now with all the sections.

Thank you for your recent application for our Industrial Placement Scheme.

Unfortunately, you have been unsuccessful on this occasion as we have short listed candidates whose skills and knowledge more closely match our requirements.

=(

Number two.

Man, I foresee applying for placements being as rejecting as applying for scholarships.

Filling in application forms are a pain in the butt! Long questions to answer, and you can't copy and paste, because they're different forms for different companies! And of course all the top companies have their own app forms you have to fill in...why can't they use the one the uni has =(

In other news, I'm watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer again, and Xander isn't usually what I would call 'hot' - he's a bit too, what's the word...uncool in the series. Sorry, but true. He's pretty good-looking, I'll grant you that. Anyway, he isn't normally what I'd call 'hot', but in the episode where the hyena spirit takes over and he becomes all serious and broody?

H-O-T.

Have a five hour break in uni today...we're onto hour three of five, and I'm sitting in the chem eng department's computer labs. Attempting to read through lecture notes and be a good student and all that, but...

It's effing hard when the guy on the table in front is conversing with his friend, and every sentence is littered with the word 'fuck'. Not one minute goes by when I do not hear the word. Other than the fact that this is detrimental to my attempt at being a good student, it's also really annoying. Really, how many times do you need to swear in a sentence? And why the need to sound so aggressive all the time?

Urgh. So laame.

And so annoying!

*steams*

Had the first lecture of the year of this module, and it's looking horrendous. It's all about finance and the business world, and GDPs and sub-prime mortgages and goodness knows what else.

Anyone who knows me will know that I don't do finance. I'm good with numbers but...Wall Street and credit crunch and all that are like Russian to me. And I'm going to have to learn all that? And read the business section in newspapers? And look up some Governer of the Bank of England's speeches?

Lecturer gave us a few questions to think about and answer:
1. MPC (Monetary Policy Committee) - what function does it perform and who is involved?
3. Are house repossessions in the UK rising or falling? Is this a good indicator of an imminent crash in the housing market?
12. RPI - explain, how is it calculated, what is the current rate, how has it varied over the last 4 years?
19. Minsky Moment - explain the term.

Me: ????

And then he goes and gives us an assignment to do (that doesn't contribute to our degree, but that we have to do anyway) in which we have to gather data on the financial state of the UK. Using 2006 as a base case, comparing data for 2008 and predictions for 2009.


On top of this I have technical review and mathematical modelling, and I AM GOING TO FAIL THIS UNIT.

Okay not fail.

But it's so...way out of my ball park. I have to read the effing business section of the newspaper, for goodness' sake.