Cardiff and Mockery

Quote of the moment: "It's so life-affirming..." Another Koel classic!

As Rob said, an example of its many uses could be:

"It was so life-affirming I wanted to cry!"

:P

So... This week was mocks week at le college. On Monday I had a P1 and P2 double bill in the afternoon, which went pretty well! I ran out of time during the last P2 question, and today I found out that I differentiated instead of intergrating in the first P1 question! D'oh! But still, I got 88% in P1 and 85% in P2.

That's up from last year's impressive performance:

• P2 25%
• P3 25%
• M2 50%
• (AS year: P1 77%, M2 82%, D1 87%)

That means that to get a B I need to get 74 more overall, and to get an A I need 134 more. So a B is within reach, given that I got 71 more on the first two exams!

Today I took M2 in the morning and P3 in the afternoon. Unfortunately I wasn't particularly awake for the mechanics... It was kind of "I know how to do this... I'm just too busy yawning (and being annoyed by the sniffing people with no tissues) to actually work it out." P3 went ok-ish, as expected... nothing spectacular, given that I'm still getting it sorted after sorting out P2, but on the two together I should be able to add 3 more marks! If I get the P3 sorted by January, an A is reachable - not bad from a U last year!

On Monday afternoon after my mocks I took my executive car, with paternal chaffeur, across to the Welsh Border to stay the night with my granny. On Tuesday I had an interview at Cardiff University, which was basically the same as last year, except that I made it there in time for the bus tour of the city, with the Millenium Stadium, the new arts centre and the Welsh Assembly. Oh, how exciting! Welsh politics! :P

My interview was with a different Prof this time. This guy's research involves "creating computer programs for the monitoring of engineering conditions", and he looked like a stunted version of Mr Dawkins! It was more of a Q&A actually, including me getting confirmation that I can do a language (e.g. Arabic) instead of a couple of the management type modules. Hurrah! I also given some information on the OTC, but it didn't include what my dad told me on the way home: The new CO of either the Cardiff OTC or the overall Wales OTC (my dad was "merry" at the dinner when they last met) is a guy who was in the Royal Regiment of Wales at the same time as my dad! How handy! So he'll be like: "Poyntz... I recognise that name... Yes, I expect he'll be falling asleep all the time too..."

Random piece of amusing information: Ben, our (older) labrador, snores exactly the same way as my dad... LOL