| Term 3, exams etc. |
[May. 26th, 2006|06:51 pm] |
I really should get round to updating more often...
Well, it's Term 3 now and it's quite hard to believe there are only four more weeks of first year left. Right now I'm in the middle of exams, which isn't brilliant, but things are going okay generally. I had Linear Algebra today and Probability yesterday and both were quite reasonable, although next week's three in a row look scary.
Not much news other than that really. How boring. |
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| Time for an update |
[Mar. 23rd, 2006|11:42 pm] |
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| | Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet Overture. | ] |
I think it's about time I actually wrote something here. Now that it's the holidays I need something to distract myself from revision (although, obviously, I'm trying to spend as little time on that as possible anyway!).
So I've been back from university for almost two weeks now. The first was spent on tour with the University Symphony Orchestra in Italy, around the Verona/Milan area with a stop-off at Geneva on the way. They called it a tour, but it was much more of a holiday than any of the tours I've been on before, e.g. with my County Youth Orchestra. Still, we did manage to fit some music in amid all the sightseeing with two concerts in Bergamo and Brescia as well as some chamber music in a hotel in Geneva, which got us a free buffet.
The weather was nice, if a little windy at times; Venice particularly was considerably more comfortable than the last time I went, in the middle of summer five years ago (on another orchestra tour, in fact!). Plenty of ice cream was eaten. I didn't get round to trying "Mozart" or "English Soup" flavours, though. If I had a digital camera, I would probably have a lot of photos I could potentially upload here... but I don't.
Since returning to Oxford from the twenty-hour coach journey back on Sunday I haven't really done a huge amount. I have managed to watch some of the Commonwealth Games — I was actually completely unaware they were going on until it came on the TV — play the piano quite a lot and generally not do much really, until today when I did some Relativity questions. On the subject of the Games it amuses me a little how varied the programme can turn out. I don't know if it's entirely intentional or not, but today there was lawn bowls, where both competitors were grandmothers in their sixties, followed by men's super-heavyweight weightlifting, followed by women's netball. You can't ask for much more of a contrast than that!
As for revision, I'm not going to talk about that, but I'm a bit worried I'm actually going to have to do some this year. Oh, and I got a — long overdue — hair cut on Tuesday.
I'm thinking about moving my blog over to Warwick Blogs, although I'll still keep my account here to post comments on other people's entries. My other blog can be found here: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/jonathanelliott/. I assume it is accessible to non-Warwick students. Please let me know if not. |
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| Yay! |
[Feb. 14th, 2006|11:26 pm] |
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I just got elected treasurer of the university Scout and Guide club, unanimously (with one abstention, my own; I wasn't sure if I was allowed to vote for myself), but not surprisingly as I was the only nominee for that post. Today must have been the first time I've had a three course meal for a while.
This week is rather busy really. I have to go house hunting again in Leamington tomorrow, finish my analysis and linear algebra assignments, as well as "Maths by Computer", sort out my travel insurance and pay my instalments for the symphony orchestra tour at the end of term, go shopping for food and probably loads more. Oh well. |
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| Test |
[Feb. 5th, 2006|06:40 pm] |
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I just want to see where LiveJournal puts this post in relation to the last one. |
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| Puzzle |
[Feb. 2nd, 2006|01:35 pm] |
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What's wrong with this entry? |
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| Time for an update |
[Feb. 2nd, 2006|12:05 am] |
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| |  tired | ] |
| [ | music |
| | "Die Fledermaus" Overture | ] |
I think it's about time for another update. It's well into term now at university and various exciting things have been going on, supposedly. In the midst of the Students' Union elections (voting opened today) I have found myself having been persuaded to nominate myself to run for the position of treasurer of the Scout and Guide club in next week's societies' elections, which I will presumably win by default as it looks like I'll be the only candidate.
This comes right after a great weekend camp at Horley campsite near Banbury, where I have been many times before. I thought it might be quite odd going somewhere I know so well with different people, but it was completely different; I haven't camped there with frost on the ground and no-one else on site in the middle of January before.
Something else exciting is the formation of some sort of bassoon ensemble/quartet that seems to be finally getting off the ground, albeit slowly. The last two times we had planned to meet up to decide a time only half of us had turned up, but hopefully we'll get round to actually playing some music before too long. It should be fun to play some good music, particularly as my Symphony Orchestra part allocation this term is so crap: I get to triple Bassoon 3 in one piece out of three. Woohoo! I'm starting to think my audition must have been only just good enough to get me in. It is Mahler 1, though, which is quite nice.
As for work, it is now week 5 of term 2 (or, depending on which timetabling system you follow, it could be week 19 or week 15) and some of my courses have finished (Electricity and Magnetism, Probability A and, after tomorrow, Intro to Particle Physics). I need to decide whether to take Probability B or not. It looks pretty interesting, but it is more work, and I don't find probability very easy. Still, I will have fewer lectures in the second half of this term, which is good as analysis and linear algebra are starting to get hard. |
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| New term |
[Jan. 5th, 2006|01:26 pm] |
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Well, I'm back at university now and it's been a while since I updated my blog, mainly because I don't usually have much to say. Nor do I have anything interesting to say today. |
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| His name is Oliver Steed: loud and large! |
[Nov. 26th, 2005|02:39 pm] |
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Tonight I am going to a murder mystery party, and I must wear something or bring a prop to represent my character, a drunk womanising actor. Any ideas? |
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| Moscow Philharmonic |
[Nov. 16th, 2005|10:54 pm] |
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| | satisfied | ] |
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| | [up till ten minutes ago] See above. | ] |
I just went to see the Moscow Philharmonic perform Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony, as well as the Russian Easter Festival Overture by Rimsky-Korsakov and Prokofiev's Second Piano Concerto. It was absolutely brilliant, plus they gave no fewer than four encores. The soloist for the concerto also gave an encore. |
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