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Reply 3100

Hoofbeat

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I thought Hodby was retiring at the end of this year?

Ooooo I hope so! I know he lectured superconductivity this year!

Reply 3101

Ventricles

Yup i definitely heard he was retireing! :smile:

Typical just after we had him :rolleyes:

(PS - ello everyone! i havnt been around for quite a while :smile:

)

Reply 3102

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Ventricles

Yup i definitely heard he was retireing! :smile:

Typical just after we had him :rolleyes:

(PS - ello everyone! i havnt been around for quite a while :smile:

)

I hear that Huffman may be replacing him for EM. They've got a new guy in for first year maths too, replacing Yeomans.

And yes, hello Lucy :smile:

Reply 3103

Ventricles

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I hear that Huffman may be replacing him for EM. They've got a new guy in for first year maths too, replacing Yeomans.

And yes, hello Lucy :smile:

Noooooo! But shes like the best one! :frown:

Reply 3104

F1 fanatic

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Ventricles

Noooooo! But shes like the best one! :frown:

yeah, I think they're bringing in a guy from Cambridge (and making the Bence, Phillips and Hobson book as the recommended text over Boas also)

Reply 3105

Morbo

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yeah, I think they're bringing in a guy from Cambridge (and making the Bence, Phillips and Hobson book as the recommended text over Boas also)

Ahem. "Riley, Hobson and Bence".

And I think Blundell is lecturing superconductivity now? Or maybe he stuck with magnetism, I don't know.

How are people's summers going? I have been interning for 4 days now, and know more than I would like to know about MS Excel and Powerpoint :s-smilie:

Reply 3106

F1 fanatic

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Worzo

Ahem. "Riley, Hobson and Bence".

And I think Blundell is lecturing superconductivity now? Or maybe he stuck with magnetism, I don't know.

How are people's summers going? I have been interning for 4 days now, and know more than I would like to know about MS Excel and Powerpoint :s-smilie:

Same difference, 2 out of 3 ain't bad. :p:

never really used it except for the occasional reference for Essler's course.

I'm the same as you, 4 days - though possibly with less to show for it. I have a pretty spreadsheet with lots of bright colours telling me what I'm going to be doing for the next 10 weeks and that's about it. It's going to be tough, I need to sift through copious amounts of data stored all over the shop without a clue of what Im looking at half the time. Still, it's not been too bad thus far.

Reply 3107

dancingqueen

11

Argh my entire degree ends tomorrow...excited!! :biggrin:

Reply 3108

Athena

6

I've done about 25 tours of Wadham in the last couple of days, as well as explaining to people about medicine, biology and arch & anth at Oxford about 4 times as often as I've talked about Human Sciences, held a sign outside Trinity pointing to Wadham and gained the key to the MCR and an invite to use it whenever I want, and to crash MCR bops. And I start work tomorrow...

Reply 3109

bikerx23

1

dancingqueen

Argh my entire degree ends tomorrow...excited!! :biggrin:

Mine did that about a week ago - scary!

Reply 3110

Athena

6

I passed Prelims :party:

Reply 3111

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Athena

I passed Prelims :party:

Well done

though was there ever any doubt that you would? ^o)

Reply 3112

bobin

4

Athena

I passed Prelims :party:

Well done (again!).

I got a 2:1 (happy, happy, happy!) and am now officially a graduand(?!)

:biggrin:

Surely a graduate...

Bekaboo

Surely a graduate...

Apparantly, one is not a graduate until the degree is taken (either at a ceremony or in absentia). So, when one is in between passing finals and taking the degree, one is a "graduand"!

(edit: although "graduand" could be a Cambridge word. I've also heard "supplicant" used, but I think graduand sounds better!)

Reply 3115

bikerx23

1

graduand sounds like it's come straight off the pages of private eye to me...

Reply 3116

Athena

6

Well, an initiand is someone in the process of initiation, before they become an initiate.

Reply 3117

bobin

4

I think we need some classicists to come in and settle this. Seems to be all they're useful for, anyway :p:

Reply 3118

bikerx23

1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graduand

As we supplicants should know by now, wikipedia is the answer.

Reply 3119

Feefifofum

16

Oi. We do have some other uses. Um. In some ways.

Yeah, graduand and initiand make sense according to the rules of Latin grammar. No idea whether they're used or not, though.
EDIT: Ah. Well, I did say I wasn't sure whether it was used or not. :p:

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