Durham General Chat Thread

Hopping Mad Kangaroo

Afternoon Tufts :wavey:

Sup dood?

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Tufts

Sup dood?

Been having a lazy day (albeit now a rather drunken one), yourself?

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Hopping Mad Kangaroo

Been having a lazy day (albeit now a rather drunken one), yourself?

law books

I'm lucky in that I love law.

Although somedays it would be nice to chill on the wii now and then :p:

Whatcha been drinking? :beer:

Reply 8325

Tufts

law books

I'm lucky in that I love law.

Although somedays it would be nice to chill on the wii now and then :p:

Whatcha been drinking? :beer:

I am supposed to do working, but am more than happy to let my inbox fill up with emails stating that I have not done homework X.

Been drinking Leffe and Cider. Too much of it perhaps.

Reply 8326

Christophicus

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Hopping Mad Kangaroo

Hmm, I am pondering giving Physics a miss next year. What exactly does Hampshire do?

He tends to pick on people to answer questions during lectures and in example classes he will keep asking you questions until you get something right. When you get into the example classes, he doesn't even give you time to think about the question, he just dives straight in. Don't let that put you off though because the course itself is very interesting.

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Hopping Mad Kangaroo

I am supposed to do working, but am more than happy to let my inbox fill up with emails stating that I have not done homework X.

Been drinking Leffe and Cider. Too much of it perhaps.

heh heh good for you :smile:

Were you drinking in Durham?

Reply 8328

Tufts

heh heh good for you :smile:

Were you drinking in Durham?

Yup, I spent the night in the college bar and went out to Revolver :smile:

Been up to much asides essay writing recently?

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Christophicus

He tends to pick on people to answer questions during lectures and in example classes he will keep asking you questions until you get something right. When you get into the example classes, he doesn't even give you time to think about the question, he just dives straight in. Don't let that put you off though because the course itself is very interesting.

It probably is, if I get to take it. Because of the way I have taken my Nat Sci if I stick with Physics I dont get any choice of modules. Partly the thing that is tempting me to switch, there are areas of Maths I really like and want to do next year.

Its a pity, I reckon I would enjoy having Hampshire. Interactive lectures are way more fun.

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Hopping Mad Kangaroo

Yup, I spent the night in the college bar and went out to Revolver :smile:

Been up to much asides essay writing recently?

Tell me about Revolver :redface:

I live out.

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Tufts

Tell me about Revolver :redface:

I live out.

It was ok I guess, I should have done Planet the night before. Cant you stay in Durham the occasional night now and then?

Reply 8332

RobbieC

A nice overview... full of profanity, would be really useful if you could.

I'd rep you for it, but you'll have to wait... I've been rep banned for 3 months.

Please help me get back the 2000pts they stole from me. I was so near a yellow!!!!!!

Every little helps! Hehe

Well the major thing is obviously the project. What you spend your days doing is greatly dependent on what your project is. Mine is at the theoretical end, so i spend most of my time doing maths on a sheet of paper until I can get to something that a computer program will do for me (of course I then have to create the program myself *sigh*). It’s still quite fun though if you like that sort of thing.

People at the more experimental end tend to spend days in the lab. Not necessarily Durham labs either, I know a guy who goes to Sedgefield once a week because they have an astrolabe there apparently.

The rest is 3 modules in which you have two lectures a week each. I take Advanced theoretical (which isn’t as bad as it sounds), theoretical astronomy (which isn’t too bad) and particle theory (which is an absolute frigging nightmare).

The first term has no deadlines (beyond weekly problems) and people just spend time getting on with their project really. It’s the second term which is the crusher, I handed in a 10 page prelim report last Thursday, have a seminar to give next month and an oral exam to prepare for around the same time. It is fairly spread out though so if you manage your time effectively it can be handled with a minimum of stress (unless perhaps you have a catastrophe in the lab or something)

and yeah, do tell why you got rep banned. were you being a dirty filthy rep whore? :p:

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Christophicus

He tends to pick on people to answer questions during lectures and in example classes he will keep asking you questions until you get something right. When you get into the example classes, he doesn't even give you time to think about the question, he just dives straight in. Don't let that put you off though because the course itself is very interesting.

He gets worse in third year, he gives some unlucky soul a piece of chalk and gets them to answer questions on the board I have heard.

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Itchynscratchy

He gets worse in third year, he gives some unlucky soul a piece of chalk and gets them to answer questions on the board I have heard.

Has anyone rebelled so to speak at this?

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no idea to be honest, I didn't take moudles he taught in third year.

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Itchynscratchy

no idea to be honest, I didn't take moudles he taught in third year.

Did you delibrately avoid him? He isnt that bad surely?

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I didn't deliberatly for that reason. I had the choice between astrophysics and condensed matter, and I hated condensed matter.

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*River

I curse medieval heresy even more than trying to sort out housing.

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RobbieC