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So the Uni finally got around to sending me my resit results, which arrived yesterday...

I passed :D

Hopefully I won't have any useless lecturers this year, especially not Old Man Death.

Last week I got a couple of letters in the mail.

One was a load of junk from the student union which went straight in the bin. It's like physical spam mail, wish you could get the postman to filter it D:

The other was from the Department of Computer Science (the area in which I study), giving me a time table of the events I need to go to in the next few weeks before we go back to Uni.

It's just stuff like when to go in to register myself for the new year, to sign off the modules I'll be taking this year and other stuff like that.

I'm hoping that this means that I am definitely in this year without having to use a compensation mark thing...

Well, if I ever get my results I'll know for sure.

No idea when that will be though...

Woo, finished my exams! Now I just have to do any resits that might occur :<

Anyways, 4 months of freedom can't be bad.

Time to catch up on some projects!

I had my Programming 2 exam today, the first question was easy, second question was ok (but very long winded - I had to hand write a huge amount of code) and the third question was quite tough...

Hopefully I did well enough to pass.

Just the Quantitative Methods exam to go now a week on monday :(

Finally got all my projects done and handed in, but now I have very little time left to revise.

My first exam (Human Computer Interfaces) is on Monday and the next (Programming 2) is on the following Thursday. I then have 10 days to revise for the last exam (Quantitatve Methods).

Fun fun :(

Just a quick post today.

Had my 08101 (Programming 1) exam today, it wasn't as hard as I expected, which was nice.

Still got my 08123 (Computer Systems) exam to come, not looking forward to that one as the lecturer we had for it was appalling. He can't teach at all.

I had to demonstrate my snake game today. I got a lift into Uni with Olly for about 2ish (his demo was at 2:15). As he was leaving to give his demo I saw my friend Kayleigh, so we went into the Uni pub and had a pint - Great idea to drink before giving a demonstration, I'm sure.

Anyway, it got to 4 and I went and sat down in the computer lab and got everything ready on screen. At about 4:10 the lecturer who would be marking me asked if anyone was ready to be marked. I raised my hand, he came over and we went through my demonstration. As I'd only had one pint it didn't affect me at all, I was just a little worried about the smell of it on my breath, but he didn't say anything.

After about 5 minutes of going through my documentation, source and playing the game a couple of times he gave me an estimate of my grade for it. 90%. Get in.

I'm glad all the work I put into the game paid off, woo! Shame I've got work in a couple of hours... Ah well, not like it'll be busy tonight. Never is on a Tuesday.

I've decided that I'll make some entries relating to Uni life and work.

I'm a first year student, meaning that September was the first step to the rest of my life, I guess.

I'm taking Computer Science with Games Development, but the first year is just generic computer science for all compsci students. Next (academic) year is when we get to start doing the games development stuff.

We've been working on a C# project a lot recently. The project is to make a basic Snake game (the kind you get on Nokia phones). You get more marks the more complex is, so I've put quite a lot of work into making it fancy - high scores, colours, easy to use menus etc.

Other lessons aren't suite so good, I've had to take Maths for the third time running, joy of joys.

Uni seems to be a lot more laid back than when I went to college and school, which is quite nice.

All in all, Uni life seems pretty cool. Next year supposed to have a lot more hard work, but we'll see.