News wrap: coseismal
Many things have happened these past days or will happen in a few days, and I thought I might as well write about them all in one go: King’s College’s conditional offer, studying for exams, watching an idiotic film, the announcement of a lack of a keynote by Steve Jobs at Macworld, the impending launch of MacHeist III, an interview at Allen & Overy for a summer internship and solving a legislation problem for the year below at university.
All of these are completely unrelated, yet somehow linked in time. And when you write the bolded letters together, it gives the word “coseismal” (“relating to points on the earth’s surface affected by an earthquake simultaneously”). Coincidence? I think not! We’re doomed!
On Friday, I received an e-mail from King’s College London stating that they wished to make me a conditional offer for an LLM (read: a Master’s degree in Laws) in Information Technology Law. This offer means that if I get 13/20 as an average for my current Master’s degree, I’ll be accepted into King’s. Doable, as I’ve never had an average under that level, though over-confidence is never a good thing.
The following day, I had to solve an interplanetary crisis. Well, not quite. But basically, I had to send an e-mail to all the “Master 1″ students (all 450-500 of them – e-mail lists rule) to tell them where they could obtain an electronic version of the legislation compilation I’d made for Social Security Law.
Sunday, I noticed that the MacHeist webboards had seen some recent activity, outside the “Lounge” section (which is basically “random ravings about different subjects”, and wholly unrelated to the MacHeist concept of unlocking free applications and getting a whooping bundle of a value above 400 US Dollars for 39-49 USD). And on Monday, the frenzy started again. MacHeist 3 will be launched very soon, so if you’re interested in free Mac software and a great app bundle, be sure to sign up.
On Monday, well, nothing special happened. Much like during the week-end, I had to study. I just love studying, don’t you?
Tuesday, two things: first, I watched Catwoman, with Halle Berry, just for the hell of it. I knew it had been voted many times over the worst film ever, so I had to watch it. I forced myself until the end not to switch channels. Hard, though, as the plot was “not great”, and neither was anything else in the film. Actually, the whole movie deserved its disastrous ratings. There was one nice bit though, when Catwoman steals a Jaguar.
Second, I read on AppleInsider and MacRumors (eugh, no “u” in Rumours?) that Steve Jobs will not deliver a keynote address at the upcoming MacWorld expo in January. Disaster! Perhaps not, but I so enjoyed watching Steve Jobs do his keynote presentations in the past to unveil cool products every six months (at MacWorld and the WWDC). Oh well. Hopefully, Apple will understand that there’s a problem with their pricing at some point, and that people who want OS X all wish they could pay less to enjoy it (though I know they have very good arguments backing their pricing plan).
And finally, this Wednesday, I had an interview with Allen & Overy, an international law firm, because I’m applying for a summer internship. Hopefully, if someone from A&O stumbles upon this post, they’ll take the randomness as the sign of a healthy mind: after all, it’s unhealthy to study 24 hours a day. You go mad. Mad, I tell you!
As you can see, my mind has gone bonkers. All because of this studying time. It’s gone seismic, with break points everywhere.
Coseismal, I told you.
Strange string of events.
And to think that my first exam is only on the 5th of January. And I finish on the 16th. I wonder in which mental state I’ll be by then.