The Cambridge Chat Thread

That's good to know. The other thing I was thinking is that its really worthless to worry about being good in one subject rather than another at this stage (particularly in an arts subject). Michaelmas and Lent are purely about jumping through supervision hoops. I've found both years that the long stretches of time uninterrupted by stupid, pointless deadlines (ie revision season and holidays) are the times when the real learning actually happens. I've often found that some of my best exam answers were topics I hadn't actually prepared for supervisions but picked up and did reading from scratch for during Easter, and that's the time where everything balances out and all the missing pieces fall into place.
If you are naturally better at Russian then you will never full even them out, but at the same time these two terms are not at all indicative. I'm sure you'll be able to get a great mark with your Russian and a good mark for your Spanish which is all any of us can hope for with our different papers. There are always some we're much better at which bring the marks up, and others which are just about ok and we're happy to leave it behind the year after...

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I'm really hoping that I will be able to catch up And I've worked so hard on my Russian that this year it should be bumping my Spanish marks up rather than the other way around. Dear me. I've calmed down a lot now, I was in a bit of a state earlier but I think I've ranted and worried myself out. After this year I don't think I'll be taking any Spanish papers at all. It just doesn't excite me at all anymore

Thank you, that's good to know It's easy to get wrapped up in yourself and think that it's just you struggling when you're the last one in the library and you've been there since 2pm and you don't remember the last time you had more than 3 hours sleep I'm glad to hear it gets better though...

Oh **** sorry. I only did that as a reaction to what Alex said. My bad It was a very good game anyway, and definitely worth watching.

Again, apologies. I feel really bad now

How much milk does everybody consume in a week?

And how many people get these 'self assessment questionaire' forms to hand into their tutors at the end of term?

I forgot you can't have alcohol

Does anyone know if there's a way to get the new office to look like the old one?

Does anyone know if there's a way to get the new office to look like the old one? (I realise that it probably is worth my time to get to know the new interface in the long run, but it's not what I need when I actually need to get stuff done)

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Hmm, I wonder whether my inability to find anything in the lectures that vaguely resembles what the examples sheet is asking is due to mine or the lecturer's incompetence...

Does anyone know if there's a way to get the new office to look like the old one? (I realise that it probably is worth my time to get to know the new interface in the long run, but it's not what I need when I actually need to get stuff done)

Damn you for suggesting Project Euler for my time wasting! I'm now addicted again and have nearly got to level 2 (the cube).

There was a problem that I solved in Excel 2007 which would have been impossible in earlier versions.

I tend to do 2 or 3 and then leave it for months or years. Might have a better try at it after this algorithms course in Lent. Consequently, I had to go and look around to see what you were talking about with 'levels' and 'cubes'. There's a thread somewhere in the maths forum with hints and discussion, if you're interested. DFranklin, at least, usually has all the problems completed.

Oh well, not long now. It's just annoying to have a load of essays (and/or example sheets back in my natsci days) just when I'm at my tiredest and everyone else is finished.