Year 2, Term 1, Week 6: Apparently I’m here to get a job…?
This week saw the continuation of teaching myself PHP / MySQL, finding it a fair bit easier than other programming languages – probably due to both their nature (being web-based) and the fact that I’ve had a year of computer science at university to instil some kind of core concepts. Anyway, that’s coming along well, and surprisingly the maths seems to be going fine as well – not 100% standard at all, but significantly better this time last year – no lists of death in sight! (Can’t say the same for next term though…) We had a meeting about what maths options we’re all taking for the rest of the year, and unfortunately (?) I can only take two full courses, so I’ve decided to do Probability and Integration, both are apparently very useful for any Actuarial careers. On the job front, I went to the financial career fair on Wednesday, and came away with not so much a broad understanding of what careers were available, but a hefty load of pens, t-shirts and mints.
Friday was the ARCO room ballot, in which I was below the cut-off point for getting a room in college for my 3rd year… but since some people about me decided to live out, I was able to get a room! Yay! We also went to see S1L3NC3 (“magic Simon”) at the Burton Taylor Studio in Oxford, and I was somehow cheated out of an 80% chance of winning £100, darn. But the show itself was really good, definitely up to usual quality. The following night I was treated to a dinner with Charlotte and her mum, and then we went to see West Side Story, an amazing play which I would encourage anyone to go and see, even if not musical-inclined (like me).
Final thoughts: managed to book in for Christmas dinner, despite getting up at 8am to find the server going ridiculously slow. Also, Doctor Who. “I’ve gone too far.” You think?
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