Journal entries tagged "University"
Remembering stuff
When studying for exams, you usually stick to your method if it’s worked in the past. But perhaps, with a little luck, you might end up discovering something new that seems to help a whole lot more.
Usually, you then smack yourself on the head for not thinking of this other method beforehand.
Well, it happened to me three days ago.
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!
The blocus has arrived
There are a couple of periods in a student’s life when he or she gets to do something completely different for a while. There are the holidays… and there are the exams.
Belgium happens to have one of the most cruel systems I’ve encountered, though it seems that this system is becoming pan-European: exams in January, and studying time at Christmas and during the New Year.
So, tomorrow, I start my “blocus”, as we say in French. Three weeks of “non-stop studying” (well, theoretically – historically, I’ve been able to write a lot during these periods, because I just can’t study all day).
Good luck to all in the same situation. To others, I have but three words: I envy you.
UCLouvain lecture notes
I have finally decided to make a standalone page for all the stuff that’s available to my fellow students in Law.
Note: because it’s a French-speaking University, the rest of this short post will be in French.
Tous les recueils et toutes les notes de cours sont donc disponibles à partir d’une page centralise, www.arpia.be/ucl/
Même plus besoin de s’enregistrer sur Droides.info (mime si je le conseille).
La Résistance lives on
Last year, Peter Craddock decided to write his lecture notes electronically, using the MacBook his parents had offered to him for his 20th birthday. And one day, coming back from university, two girls gave him the idea of putting his notes on the web, accessible to all the other students.
He did it, and was rewarded by a hugely positive response. Over the course of two months, many of the 400 students downloaded the notes over and over again, amounting to over 3000 downloads by Christmastime.
To study further or not
It’s that time again. University application time. September approaches, and thousands of students all over the world are either applying for their first year at university/college, or are preparing to compile application files to send to universities for next year (in Anglo-Saxon countries mostly).
I’m about to enter my fifth year at university, and though theoretically this application business should be well behind me, I find myself struggling with it once more. This time, however, it has an added twist: should I study for an extra degree or not?