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Scipio90

Aargh, my phone is ****. Sometimes the buttons either don't work or register twice, and occasionally it refuses to send texts... :frown:

Can't afford a new one or ask parents for one for christmas/birthday since they got me a bike at the beginning of term though, grr.

You can get a perfectly adequate basic one for less than £20. Hell, you can get a new phone for £5 if you really have no cash!

Reply 7221

Craghyrax

Tom

You can get a perfectly adequate basic one for less than £20. Hell, you can get a new phone for £5 if you really have no cash!

Exactly. And if you can't be bothered to hunt down a super cheap handset, then you can easily get an unlocked £20 specimen - as Tom says - in Carphone warehouse or Phones4U (or whatever) on the high street!

Catsmeat

I don't think we are expected to have anything definitive, or even foundational, yet. My supervisors are relatively relaxed about it, just expecting me to get on with it. Next term is when the real slog begins, though, when I have to spent long nights hunched over SPSS and GIS software.

I feel quite uncomfortable because I don't know what ours expect.

Supermerp

I got the impression that going to America (for academic stuff, anyway) is a good idea because there are lots of people who are good at what they do there (since their universities have lots of money)

Well sure. Its just that its not a motivation I have very much respect for. I am sceptical and depressed by people who selected Cambridge to start with solely because it would improve their careers or life chances. I think its a bad priority to have because I honestly believe that if you choose something which is bad in all senses other than that, it won't be enough to make the experience worthwhile.
So if you happen to like the US as a place and culture, and then it also has all the other advantages such as great facilities and teaching, then I would be supportive because it implies that the person might actually have fun while they're there.

But if somebody is about to sacrifice five years of their life living somewhere that they hate just because of an overblown sense of how important or necessary a prestigious qualification or a good supervisor is, that would be truly tragic.
And you do see that in Cambridge with people who genuinely seemed to choose it for such reasons despite having no true love for their subjects, and they hate every living second of it :s-smilie:

Sorry for the rant. Bottom line is: yes America has leading Universities, top rate teaching, good resources.. but if that's all it has going for it and none of the other features of it are also conducive to a good experience then I question whether its worth it. Some of those negating factors for me are the culture and country, but the length and cost of the courses would almost certainly neutralise any benefit if I didn't happen to already dislike the prospect of having to spend any significant length of time there. I get a bit frustrated by people who seem to react to high status labels without stopping to think through things properly.

Reply 7222

brimstone

Scipio90

Aargh, my phone is ****. Sometimes the buttons either don't work or register twice, and occasionally it refuses to send texts... :frown:

Can't afford a new one or ask parents for one for christmas/birthday since they got me a bike at the beginning of term though, grr.

The phone I'm using at the moment is an old Alcatel thing which I bought for £10 at the start of this term from the Orange Store on Petty Cury.

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harr

Stratocaster

Does your diet change massively during term time compared to when you're at home? Do you find yourself eating more or less healthily?
I can't tell. :s-smilie:

For some reason though, I've developed a like for yoghurts since I started here, which I've never really been a big fan of before.

My diet changes from pizza and potato* in the holidays to pizza and chocolate during term (don't kill me Craghyrax -- I never claimed to eat healthily); potatoes are too time consuming to cook and working makes me eat chocolate.

Craghyrax

All I really wanted to establish was that animal products (and so high saturated fat) had been a large part of our evolutionary history and of healthy hunter-gatherers (50% calories for Tokelauns, 33% for Masai). The articles you cite don't challenge that, just that some healthy societies eat large amount of carbohydrate and that HG's ate less meat than Cordain says. (It's also worth noting that whereas all animal products-ignoring milk- are all protein and fat, plant products are not all carb- even a 100% spinach diet would be 30% protein and 14% fat).

Cordain et al: “Whenever and wherever it was ecologically possible, hunter-gatherers consumed high amounts (45–65% of energy) of animal food... Most (73%) derived >50% (56–65% of energy) from animal foods... 14% derived >50% (56–65% of energy) from gathered plant foods...High reliance on animal-based foods coupled with the relatively low carbohydrate content of wild plant foods produces universally characteristic macronutrient consumption ratios in which protein is elevated (19–35% of energy) at the expense of carbohydrates (22–40% of energy)”

I agree that saturated fat has been a large part of the diet of some peoples (the Inuit are the most extreme example I can think of). This means that humans have evolved to cope with it (though pandas have been living off bamboo for ages and barely manage to extract enough energy to cross the road to get to the next bit of bamboo) and that it's not going to kill you young. It doesn't mean that it's good for you though. I don't know enough about it to come to a conclusion (and I've heard that the Inuit and Maasai tend to have pretty healthy hearts, even if not from sources that I particularly trust), but I don't think that the fact that hunter-gatherers favour the most energy dense food available can tell us much.

*I don't know the name for what it actually is: you get a baking potato, bake it, split it in half and take out the flesh, mash the flesh with cubes of mature (or extra mature) cheddar, put it back in to the halves and bake until the surface is brown.

I should really eat new potatoes too to be patriotic, but I don't like them.

Reply 7224

Craghyrax

harr

Lol have you not seen my pitiful H&R thread where I asked people for advice on how to deal with my insane chocolate addiction? :p:

harr

*I don't know the name for what it actually is: you get a baking potato, bake it, split it in half and take out the flesh, mash the flesh with cubes of mature (or extra mature) cheddar, put it back in to the halves and bake until the surface is brown.

Potato Boats according to my childhood cookery book :o:

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Scipio90

Tomorrow I am having a lie-in. Yay for waking up at a time when "6" is not the first digit in the time.

Also, if I came into posession of a bag of ice, how long could I keep it as ice without a freezer? I'm guessing it's going to be of the order of hours, even with attempting to be clever by doing stuff like wrapping it in tin foil.

Reply 7226

Craghyrax

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Just got home from a stint in the library, and TSR is empty!!! :motz:

Read a retarded book on modernism, and filled out my application form. Just the research proposal to add and three passport photos and I can send it in.

I'm here.

Scipio90

I'm here.

I think we posted at the same time :five:

I'm also looking into a lie-in, although I rarely wake up before nine or ten :p:

I've got an essay crisis. 8 books to read and an essay to write by Monday. But I can't really muster up much stress about it because after that I have an entire week to do a really easy essay and then that's it :biggrin:

Reply 7229

Scipio90

Craghyrax

I'm also looking into a lie-in, although I rarely wake up before nine or ten :p:

I've been generally getting up earlier this term than last year (mainly because I've decided to make an effort to get to more lectures), and I think it's definitely making me more productive and less tired in general.

Reply 7230

visesh

Scipio90

The ice should last a day or two. Just make sure it's double bagged with shopping bags to prevent the inevitable leakage.

Reply 7231

Craghyrax

Scipio90

Yes it should I think. I think making sure that waking hours overlap as closely as possible with daylight optimises energy and productivity because our circadian rythms/melatonin release and stuff happens as its meant to.

I've been trying to do the same, so this past week I was getting to bed before midnight and waking up at 7 or 8 which is practically unheard of for me. I'll get off TSR in ten mins. Need to juice as much out of tomorrow as possible.

Reply 7232

Tom

If I remember my year 9 science, wrapping it in egg cartons or foam or something will work well...

Reply 7233

brimstone

Hmmm, not feeling too tired. Weird, as I've been severely lacking in sleep over the past couple of days.

Am really craving cheese and chocolate (not togther!) right now, but don't have any. :bawling:

Edit: My friend has just had a pizza delivered. This is making me crave pizza too. But can't be bothered to order it.

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smilepea

I dislike bops, I now have a headache and an essay to read for/write tomorrow, fail. Today has been a massive fail, story of my term.

Reply 7235

Catsmeat

2.5 essays written in two days is now my official record. It's time to stop, however, so that I can complete this final one for tomorrow afternoon. And then, one essay left until term ends. This is where I should probably voice some concern about my destroyed sleeping pattern ...

Reply 7236

alex_hk90

It could be lupus

Yeah, we have 4. I thought most colleges had more than just 1, mainly to allow as many students to go to it as possible. There are 200 tickets for each formal at Trinity, which wouldn't even cover all the fresher undergraduates, neither mind the whole of Trinity.

That makes more sense - we have one so at most a quarter of the college can get tickets. I tried at 12pm today but they were all sold out already. :frown:

Ah well, I'll do our own more substantial pre-drinks for the Christmas Bop. :yep:

Reply 7237

Blaah Blaah

smilepea

I dislike bops, I now have a headache and an essay to read for/write tomorrow, fail. Today has been a massive fail, story of my term.

To be fair thouh, you got to see my simply mind0bb0oggling costume. so it was talotally worth it

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Tyrotoxism

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Reply 7239

SoapyDish

Urgh, I'm so tired...got woken up by NHSdirect calling me. I rang them last night because my friend (visiting from another college) had what Google tells me is called unilateral facial paralysis. Numbness and paralysis on one side of her face...she couldn't smile or blink on that side. I got her to do the second of the stroke tests, lifting your arms, but she could do that fine and wasn't slurring her words, so it probably wasn't a stroke. But when I Googled her symptoms, it said there were three main causes in adults: a stroke, Bell's Palsy, and a brain tumour...so we panicked a little bit! Rang NHSdirect, they got her to do a load of tests, looking in the mirror and trying to move that side...determined it wasn't urgent, and said they'd ring back in the morning.

Stupidly I gave them my number :rant:

Just looked up Bell's Palsy...apparently it can be caused due to an inflammation of the facial nerve. She's been on Tamiflu since Tuesday, which makes me think it might be a reaction to it...I was watching the Occam's Razor episode of House yesterday (which obviously makes me an experienced doctor), which basically revolves around the fact that getting two separate conditions at the same time is so unlikely, they're probably linked...

Don't expect anyone to read this, just monologuing a bit :biggrin:

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