Term has started whatHello again. I think that if I don't update this thread now I never will. A few things have changed since the last update. In decreasing order of notability, they are:
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I've finished my literature review - barely
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I've decided to join the Archery club
So yeah, moving out. That happened two Sundays ago, first time living away from home since first year, renting rooms in a house with two friends. It's
much easier going to and from campus now, although the time saved in commuting ends up being used for washing up and shopping. Been doing a lot of cooking, and a little bit of going back to my parents' to eat (and to see them and my cat). I've been trying to make the perfect fried rice; on Saturday I came quite close, but I need to buy some sesame oil to lift it up further.
The MSci project: I wrote my literature review talking about sea salt aerosol and its known effects on clouds. I'm not particularly proud of it because a) I finished it 10 minutes before the deadline (or 3 hours and 10 minutes before; it's not clear), b) a chunk of it was mostly just citing the physics of droplet growth from a textbook and I feel like that misses the point a bit.
This was the third time this year that I've set an early alarm to finish a deadline. I was walking around the campus like a zombie, drunk on work, with all the starry-eyed lanyard-wearing freshers milling about. Not a great day.
Societies: still on the committees of two of them, things are going pretty smoothly although I worry that for one of them, the Union put us in a bad location for the Welcome Fair and we may have missed out on a lot of sign-ups as a result.
I joined archery because I haven't fired a bow in years but I remember it being fun. And it's the last year that I could actually try joining a sports society. I'm not so keen on their training times, though; I think it's Sunday 6-8 pm and Thursday 7-9 am (!). I'm assuming they got unlucky when trying to book the spaces.
Other things: got my first lecture tomorrow, Fluid Dynamics, as well as some other "welcome back" lectures from the physics department, and a meeting with my project supervisor.
As for hot chocolate updates, I have only had the one since moving in. King's Ginger works very well in hot chocolate but I wouldn't have it every time. Next time I am going to try combining cocoa powder and melted chocolate, as well as seeing if adding a pinch of instant coffee makes a difference.