| too much PSP and not enough QTB? |
[Jan. 28th, 2008|11:35 am] |
And so here I am, sitting in my QTB lecture. I'm out of breath because I ran the way here in fear of being late, and in the rush to leave my room I managed to leave behind all of my class work, including a copy of the weekly test that would have netted me a percentage towards my final grade. That 1.2% was my sole reason for getting up early this morning, so yeah, nice going, Alan!
Why am I even here? Four weeks in, and I've yet to teach myself anything about Quantitative Techniques for Business, so whilst it's mildly entertaining to watch my lecturer bark at every late-comer, it's not enough to warrant getting out of bed.
I doubt I'll learn anything today. The ~2 hours sleep in my body and the PSP in my pocket are just further proof of that.
Gah. Why can't I be motivated to study? I've so much work to do.. ;; |
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| Urgh... continued... |
[Jan. 14th, 2008|11:44 am] |
Okay. Something tells me alcohol isn't all that good for you. That dark rum must still be in my stomach, because I've been fighting the urge to be sick all morning.
The lack of sleep probably isn't helping either. Didn't get to bed until four this morning, and I'd barely slept by the time my 9:15 lecture rolled around.
Two classes later and I'm still dead-on-my-feet. I don't think I remember anything from either of them. I've vague recollections of seeing sigma signs, my QTB lecturer barking at some girl leaving the hall, as well as some mumblings in broken english about Government Debt. Meh.
Only Social Enterprise at 2:15 to go before I can finally go back to sleep...
*cry* |
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| Woo! |
[Dec. 13th, 2007|02:43 am] |
Exams are over!
Finally. I'm free. |
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| Two down, two to go! |
[Dec. 6th, 2007|01:54 am] |
I sat my Statistics exam yesterday. I'm happy to say that it wasn't a complete disaster. The exam comprised of 25 multiple-choice questions, with you scoring +4 for each correct answer, and -1 for each incorrect. Despite my long-time inability to work with numbers, all that cramming over the past few weeks helped me answer around 15 of the 25 questions. Given that I went in there looking to scrape a pass, that score deserves a medal.
Only IT and Law + Commercial Law to go before I can relax! I guess this my cue to get dressed and go cram until either my head gets sore, or I get hungry.
Whichever comes first. |
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| Distracted... |
[Dec. 4th, 2007|01:36 am] |
Ohmigod.
I'm just so distracted today it's unreal.
Well, it doesn't deserve too much of a fanfare, considering I've spent damn near the whole term dodging lectures, tutorial and general coursework, leaving me only slightly better off academic-wise than I was in September. All the skiving this term has left me with nothing to show academic-wise. At least last term I could almost justify my failure at maths with my As in both my Management Project and International Economics. This term, on the other hand, I've just been lazy. I can give myself the tiniest piece of credit for shuffling myself to the Library almost every day for the past six-or-so weeks, but when you're living one-hundred-or-so feet away, the impressiveness fades. Mergh.
I'd my first exam of second year today. Intermediate Economics. I went into that exam knowing only what I'd managed to cram in the past few days of scattered revision. I've only myself to blame there. Not the lecturer. Not the fud who wrote the paper.
Moi.
The slacker who, come 2010, will still be working in Mexx instead of gradutating.
Dammit, you. Shape up. |
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| Slight Paranoia |
[May. 18th, 2007|08:11 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | boredom, university | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  stressed | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | This Celluloid Dream - AFI | ] |
Meh. I've managed to convince myself that all my friends secretly despise me. It's might be just paranoia having it's way, but I can't help but wonder "Where they talking about me?" ever time I appear and the previously topic of conversation is hastily dropped. Cooome on.
Tell me whatever I did, and I'll work at fixing it. Please. I don't want to go back to being hated again. :( |
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| Mental Note: "Buy a Metronome" |
[May. 12th, 2007|10:01 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | music, university, work | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  bouncy | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Heaven Knows - Rise Against | ] |
Too much interesting stuff happens too quickly. So much so that I keep meaning to come back and write about it, but end up losing track of time. Then before I know it, I'm getting that nostalgic feeling of panic when I realise I only have four weeks of term left before summer. Not long now. >:]
Uh, so what's happened in the past 11(12?) days. Well, I finished my Economic Growth essay. Worst essay I've ever written. Finished it and submitted it. Couldn't be bothered doing any of the massive rewriting I usually subject anything I write to, so I'm predicting a grade in the 40-50% range. Ach well. It's over and done.
Handed it in at the coursework office the next day and found that they were clearing out books. Walked away with five random economics textbooks that'll probably sit in my cupboard until I throw them out. The next book I'll finish will probably be Harry Potter 7, not some 30 year old book on Urban Economics. Seriously, it's that old. One of my pals had a skim through it and a library receipt fell into her lap. Apparently it was checked out in September 1974, leaving me with the realisation that I had gained possession of an important piece of economic history, albeit one that now has a permanent home on the shelf above my belts.
Keeping on the subject of uni, our management group's going to pot and it's all my fault. I'm not a good leader, plain and simple. I'm too afraid of pissing people off, so I'm not being firm with some people, and just that fact alone is pissing people off. Bleh. It didn't help that I was a mess at our last meeting thanks to my new-found reliance on Diet Kick (a cheap 24p knockoff of Red Bull). All I got for fifty minutes was "Alan!" "Alan!" "Alan!" and all I was interested in was putting my head down and closing my eyes. I think all the Vitamin B12 went to my head. All 750%-of-my-RDA of it.
Sat my economics mid-term yesterday, and for once, I've been able to walk out of a midterm semi-confident that I did okay. Last year I only scraped a 6 (or was it 4?) out of 20, so I didn't have that much to beat this time around. Was in uni for 10:15, and sat in the library most of the day with my mates. Ended up giving up revision around 3 and just enjoyed the banter for the last wee while, much to the annoyance of the people who were actually studying.
I went to see Rise Against live for the second time on Monday night. After an hour-long storm around Glasgow during a fallout with Nicola, we made it to the QMU, which given that we're both Glasgow-n00bs, it was quite an achievement. The fact that we got a taxi there doesn't make it any less special. >:P
The concert is now ranked officially as the best gig I've been to. Never before have I had such a great time being kicked in the head and tossed around. I burst my lip, fell in the moshpit and sang (shouted off-key) until my sides hurt.
Pal took some sweet vids whilst I was jumping around <3
Give It All
Ready To Fall
State of the Union
I was also forwarded another video on Youtube. See the numpty clapping his hands off-key to the left? That's me. Haha.
Tour Song
All that adrenaline topped over to the next day, and I found myself getting another piercing. The top of my ear now hurts a lot. It sounded cool at the time, but I forgot about that whole six-weeks-to-heal factor. Daaaamn. Apparently it suits me, though. <3
Worked my usual shift today. Wasn't crap for a change. After spending an hour with one customer, and managing to get him to leave with 2 £100 suits for him and his brother, I spent the rest of the day doing the usual running-back-and-forth, and actually enjoyed it. Yet again, I blame the Diet Kick. :]
gogo caffeine |
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| Skies of Arcadia >>> Introductory Maths 3 |
[May. 1st, 2007|10:28 am] |
To anyone who asks what I’ve been up to these days, I’ll happily tell them,
“Yeah, I’ve been busy revising like mad.”
That’s pretty funny, considering that apart from the odd bit of reading and last week’s economic tutorial, I’ve did jack revision. I haven’t really gotten myself into the whole ‘REVISE-ALL-TERM!!!’ thing yet. There just always seems to be something far more interesting to do, like, uh, watching Doctor Who, going to some random concert, or spending my pay on eBay.
Meh. It’s alright, Alan. It’s only week three.
So yeah, last Thursday was when it was all happening. I got elected leader of my management group (GO ME!), then I went to see AFI at the Corn Exchange. T’was a pretty amazing performance. I’m sure a lot of people will agree with me when I say smaller venues like the CE and the Garage own larger places like the SECC. There’s nothing like it when there’s a smaller crowd and you can get about two feet from the stage. That paves the way for an intimate performance that you go home and tell your grandkids about, Uh, if you have any that is. :D
My only gripe about AFI was that the crowd was just too dull. At a gig, you need to leap about and have a good time. You can’t have a good time standing in the same spot for three hours with your camera or mobile in the air the whole time. Yeah, maybe the community of YouTube’ll thank you for your recording, but why pay all that money for a ticket if you aren’t going to bother enjoying yourselves? Jesus, no-one threw a punch until the last song, and the guy was steaming, so that doesn’t really count!
Pffffft. Today’s Tuesday and it’s kinda my day off. Kinda, because I’m really supposed to be at HWU for a Maths tutorial, but I haven’t been to maths since the first day of term. I’d rather sit at home, work hard and finish my essay about Economic Growth. Of course when I say that, I really mean ‘Play Skies of Arcadia on my Dreamcast’. Uh… didn’t I give up all gaming in favour of revision? Damn, I guess that didn’t really last.
I’m pretty sure that decision will be back to bite me come exam time. :/ |
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tired
relieved
cheerful
moody
hungry