Today marks
the start of the new semester and a new selection of modules for everyone to
dig their teeth into. Although the first couple of days will mainly consist of
introductory lectures outlining syllabuses, recommending texts and detailing
the various methods of assessment, I’m sure by the end of the week my workload
will have returned to its normal trend. The module I’m most intrigued about
(albeit with equal amounts of apprehension) is my computing labs course, which
I opted to take instead of the traditional practical physics labs. I’m guessing
this module will not be too dissimilar from the kinds of things that fellow
blog writer Robin deals with in his course and hence I may be calling upon his
help sometime in the near future!
Ever since I
finished my exams over a week ago, time has simply flown by. It’s rare for a
student to receive the same freedom during term time as you have over the
summer break and as such I really tried to make the most of it.
Last Monday,
as I mentioned in my previous blog, I travelled across to Wales to investigate
a graduate level medical physics course, which I found to be really useful and has
definitely helped me to understand where my future might take me. The most
surprising thing I learnt was just how high the competition per place is, so
although I would really love to stay in Southampton, I think I’d settle for any
offer of a placement.
As if an
eight hour round train journey wasn’t enough, a couple of days later I got on another
train to go home for the weekend. On Saturday we travelled up to Barnet for my
Grandad’s 80th birthday meal, where nearly everyone from that side
of the family was present, including my Aunt who I hadn’t seen for about seven
years. Needless to say it was fantastic to see them all again!
Tonight I am
going out to celebrate the end of exams with some of friends, but bizarrely,
it’ll be as part of a joint History and English social! I should probably
mention that both my twin sister and my girlfriend study History at Southampton,
so naturally this is not the first History social I have taken part in. We are
heading into Bedford Place to go to a club called Ninety Degrees, which I have
never actually been to in my two and a half years at Southampton! It should be
a fun night.
As with all
good socials, it has a fancy dress theme – historical figures for the
Historians and fictional characters for the English students. Considering I was
technically neither, I opted to go down the music history route (since that’s
what I know best), eventually deciding upon David Bowie’s alter ego Ziggy
Stardust! The great thing about my choice is that it has both historical and
fictional elements, so I will be able to fit in with both crowds!
Getting
prepared for my Ziggy Stardust transformation
Before I
went home on Thursday, a couple of housemates and I went into the city centre
to find our fancy dress outfits for the night out. It’s not every day that
three men go shopping and between them manage to buy a flat cap, white tights,
neon orange fishnet gloves and a pink wig! Since we are all part of the fancy
dress society, we thought we really need to show these History and English
students how to do fancy dress properly and start semester two in style!
James
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