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Having embraced Facebook as my primary online platform for socialising (and by using my birth name discarded a considerable amount of online anonymity), I have had little to say on Livejournal lately, despite the past two months having been quite eventful in academic terms. Long story short: I failed my Chemistry labs due to abysmal attendance and lab reports. The University of Sheffield's Chemistry department has an odd — and in my opinion unfair — policy of not allowing re-takes of the year for anyone who has failed a semester of labs. Thus, having unsuccessfully applied for transfers to several different departments (including Linguistics, Engineering and once again Japanese Studies), I have un-enrolled from the university (though still living with Shadow in the same Sheffield flat) and am now submitting the third UCAS application of my life: I am applying for electrical and electronic engineering at the University of Southampton, Sussex, Sheffield Hallam, Oxford Brookes and Manchester. In the case of Southampton, Sussex and Manchester, whose A-level maths requirements exceed my achieved grades, I am applying for courses that include a Foundation year. This time, I am also going to make sure that there will be a disabilities support framework (e.g. mentoring) in place from day 1 (which I did not have here), to help me cope with problems arising from my autistic spectrum disorder. And now for something completely different: A link to an interesting Facebook discussion thread (I checked: you do not need to be logged into a Facebook account to read it) on the topic of "Why do you hate Christianity even though you have Christian friends you get along great with?": http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?topic=7991&post=33258&uid=5494567031#post33228Was there anything I neglected to mention? Tags: academia, facebook, sheffield
Current Location: Sheffield
Current Mood:  creative
Current Music: 酒よ
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As discussed in this Ubuntu Forums thread (which in turn linked to this UShef Free Software Society forum thread), I recently tried to install Ubuntu 8.10 as the second party in a dual-boot arrangement on my desktop (or rather tower, if we go by case as opposed to non-laptop) PC. First GRUB didn't want to install at all, aborting the setup process. Then when I turned my intended root partition primary instead of logical, it suddenly did, but the GRUB written to the MBR was made of fail and durrrr-me-smart. So, to see if it would make any difference, I decided to change the order of hard disk drives in the BIOS. The PC did not appreciate this sort of intimate attention at all, it seems, as even though I did nothing out of the ordinary that I can think of, it suddenly stopped recognising more than two hard drives at a time. What's more, the Ubuntu installation CD wouldn't even boot up anymore. And yes, before you ask, the disc had been checked for errors. Using Super Grub Disk, I managed to restore Windows to its former position as the only bootable system ... well, sort of. It tends to take two to four reboots to make my Windows XP start up properly again - otherwise it stays at a black console screen with nowt but a flashing cursor on it until the Power or Reset button is hit. Also, all the partitions on the three drives now invisible to the BIOS are obviously no longer accessible in Windows. The fact that the remaining drive letters have not been altered is a small blessing, though. The two drives that my BIOS seems to have settled on wanting to keep are the one where my Windows C: partition resides and another that holds my Linux root partition (but alas not the /home and swap partitions). Any suggested solutions would be greatly appreciated. Tags: computer over. bug = very yes.
Current Location: /home/sheffield
Current Mood:  thoughtful
Current Music: Eric Prydz - Call on Me
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The flat I now share with ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) tz119 is positively huge - larger than the one I used to share with five other students back in London. The only annoying thing about it is that the storage water heater is either not big or not powerful enough. The neighbours are very friendly and pretty international - so far I've found one Swede, one Austrian, two Greeks and an African. Now that I have my own Karaoke machine, I'm contemplating setting up another karaoke society here - still looking for members for that one, though. Failing that, I am also auditioning for the gospel choir and a barbershop band. On another note, I'm pleased to report that NoDDSoc, the local RPG society, runs a Paranoia campaign as well as Marvel, Werewolf and Edgewalker. Sounds like interesting times ahead. The language course is currently aimed at absolute beginners, so those are sadly quite boring for me. Chemistry is being very shiny to compensate for that, though. On a completely different note, I've finally succumbed to the prodding from different directions and got myself a Facebook account. May Cod have mercy on my sole. Tags: sheffield, uni
Current Location: The Source, University of Sheffield Union
Current Mood:  cheerful
Current Music: tap tap clickety-click taptaptap
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