Posts Tagged ‘ school ’
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 ]
Before the iPhone 3G was released and the Apple App Store unveiled, people were performing a process called ‘jailbreaking‘ their iPhones – meaning that they were modifying the iPhone’s internal Operating System in order to install an extra program like Cydia, which could then be used to download extra applications of the user’s choosing to [ READ MORE ]
…well, perhaps not the reaction that most accurately describes what I did actually feel. But, in all fairness, this term is seeming to not be as such a big jump as last term. Having not done further maths, the huge jump from school to Oxford-style work was even larger than I had thought, but this [ READ MORE ]
Hi there. My name is David Lyness, I’m 20. Past: Grew up in Holywood, Northern Ireland. Went to Sullivan Upper School for 14 years. Present: I’m currently a student at Keble College, Oxford University studying mathematics & computer science. I have a girlfriend called Charlotte. She is awesome. Future: At least one year of university left. After that, [ READ MORE ]
For the past couple of weeks, most of the people I know have been going to Scotland, England and (gasp) Wales for university. I’ve watched it happen to all the people in the years above me in school, but I honestly never thought that the day would come when it would actually be… us. It [ READ MORE ]