Well, what a long week it has been. I meant to make a post over the weekend, but was really busy at home working on the waterfront website and my brother’s new computer. I am supposed to be writing my initial document for my dissertation right now, but as usual I have decided that writing a blog entry is much more interesting (typical me!)
So… What have I been up to recently? Well, the week before last was Fresher’s week. James and I spent that getting the Waterfront website up and running as well as helping the Waterfront and SUCS (Computer Society) recruit new members. This all went very well with the Waterfront signing up over 100 new members and SUCS over 30.
On Monday we started the first 3 of our modules for the term – CS332 Designing Algorithms, CS338 Internet Computing and CS323 High Performance Microprocessors. All 3 modules seem quite cool and they are all taught by decent lecturers so should be very decent. We will have to see how they pan out over the next few weeks. In the evening, we had our first Editorial meeting for the Waterfront followed by a brief social with the team in JCs.
Tuesday’s are pretty lazy days for me this term – no lectures!! However I am supposed to spend this day working on my dissertation (it’s working very well, as you can see). James and I were introduced to the Front team – Waterfront’s sister publication in the evening, then I wandered over to Ceri’s and Jo’s to fix their broken internet. Took me 2 hours to get the damn thing working! Bloody NTL.
Wednesday and Thursday I continued my lectures and started CS307 Computer Graphics II. This one could be a bit (a lot) more difficult than last year’s graphics module. I might actually need to buy a book for this one. I also met with my tutor and started to plan my initial document.
Thursday night was the first official Waterfront and Front social. You can see photos of Andrew (senior editor) while very drunk at the top of this entry, and Charlie (features editor) not so drunk next to this paragraph. We started off in Varsity on Wind Street – which despite Andrew’s complaints, was actually a decentish bar. The table we had was short by a few chairs, which lead to a fair amount of entertainment. Whenever anyone got up to get a drink, someone would steal their chair. It certainly helped the group to get to know each other! After Varsity we headed over to the new Idols. A fair amount of drinking later and Tim (deputy editor), Charlie and I were up dancing. I blame Charlie buying me that 3rd pint on me dancing so early in the evening!
Eventually we headed over to Revolutions and yet more drinks – everyone starting to look a bit worse for wear. Someone (possibly me) suggested going to Jaks, so it wasn’t long before we all spit up and headed off. Somewhere along the line we lost everyone, leaving just Charlie, Tim and I in Jaks. A few others finally made it there, but I can’t remember who! I spent the rest of the night with Charlie dancing and drinking more (not the best idea in the world). Definitely had a great time though. I think I got to know Charlie quite well – she’s around the same height as me (which is always a bonus – nothing worse than dancing with someone twice your size!). Also, she didn’t seem to mind my drunken dancing too much, so i’m quite happy!
Walking into the Waterfront office on Friday morning, everyone seemed badly hung over. So it looks like everyone had a good night, some more than others *winks at the Sports Editor Matt Cannon*. I’m looking forward to the next one.
So, that’s pretty much everything that happened over the next week. I might see if i can get hold of some decent photos of the social and put them up online over the next week or so. Also, depending on how well this document writing goes, I might be able to make more regular entries, but I don’t make any promises. I’ve made that mistake before!
Wish me luck.
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