Post here if you're procrastinating - The Oxford Chat Thread

I've got two weeks left now. I can't wait to go home properly - I've only been back for two weekends since 0th week - it's now 16th

Trinity. I did like the college, I just didn't really have friends there, they were mostly at other colleges.

Yeah, pretty well, thanks! I'm slowly overcoming my innate incompetence, and hopefully I will start making my proteins this week. Assuming the peptide machine has been fixed... otherwise I've spent five weeks making amino acids for absolutely no purpose.

I'm so glad I'm an Arts student

Chemists make proteins??

Haha so am I before I remember I actually have to choose a career. I'm going into third year and starting to enter panic mode.
Please tell me I'm not the only one who thinks the Oxford careers service is crap.

have you actually used it?

Haha so am I before I remember I actually have to choose a career. I'm going into third year and starting to enter panic mode.
Please tell me I'm not the only one who thinks the Oxford careers service is crap.

I asked about something I had heard: that gangs of thieves steal bikes in Oxford to sell in Cambridge and bikes in Cambridge to sell in Oxford, creating a neverending pipeline of purloined bikes that are shuttled between the two college towns.

I get why people nick bikes, but I don't really understand the motive behind the massive amount of bicycle mutilation you see in Oxford. Is it hate at Oxford students (do people that actually live there all year round find us really annoying? I can see how we could be just as irritating as the tourists, in our particular way), or just bored/"rebellious"/etc people doing in in the same way they'd do unclever, ugly graffiti?

And commiserations at TarnishPenny, hopefully you can find a new one for not too much. I acquired a bike at the end of last term and have been scared for it ever since, despite the fact that it's been tucked away so far in the college bike shed.

Half the time it's other students that damage bikes. In term time, plenty of drunk students will kick bikes that are chained up.

Really need to finally start doing all this lawsoc stuff..

Yeah don't use Shirtworks - they do rip everyone off and do a lousy job! Most of the time the print comes off after a few washes.

I think some people use internet companies nowadays, but I'm not sure who. It's a long shot but try searching (if you can) for threads on the forums at www.ourcs.org.uk as I know it's definitely come up there before.

ARGHHH I have my viva today!!!