Archive for October, 2009
And so 2nd year continues… and thankfully, it seems to be much less stressful than this time last year – obviously there’s a smaller jump from 1st year to 2nd year than from school to university. Main event of the week: I went with Charlotte to see Frank Turner at the O2 Academy in Oxford! It [ READ MORE ]
Apologies for the lack of posting – it is currently the end of 5th week, and I realise I haven’t posted anything all term – so while these next few posts may be quite short, rest assured that longer ones will be coming in the future. So, week 1: lectures of 2nd year. First impressions: really, [ READ MORE ]
And so starts another year at Keble. While Freshers Week is designed to help the new 1st year settle in and meet people, I’ve found that the week actually lends itself much more to returning students that to new ones in terms of making friends – last year, I was introduced to so many people [ READ MORE ]
Usually I’m watching some TV show, usually one that has a lot of back-content available online. The current show that I’m watching is Alias. The first time I heard about it was when a woman came to give a talk at Castlewellan, probably 2005 or 2006. She showed a clip from one of the DVD [ READ MORE ]
According to Ron Burgandy, “that doesn’t make sense”. However, a deeper analysis reveals that it does, in fact, make sense, and furthermore that these are quite good odds for a cologne. First, we look at what we know: “60% of the time, it works every time” – if we think of it as Brian Fantana testing it [ READ MORE ]