As soon as I overslept for my Thermodynamics Exam i knew my final year would be certainly a difficult one. I was fortunately able to start my final year despite failing the prerequisite module. Doing that mean, I would be doing 8 modules at once..... Engineers get it bad at the best of time. There is so much work to cover, its very rare to have a one semester module, like the rest of the university.
Normally, semester 1 would start off at 8 modules, with 1 or 2 finishing that semester, leaving 6 modules in the second semester. I however have all of mine across both semesters. Very very heavy going. I knew it would be tough but the past 4 weeks has pretty much killed me.
This is my work hand ins for the end of this semester
Week 8 - Aerodynamic Technical Review
Week 10 - Chassis Engineering Adam's Viva Coursework
Week 11 - Diss Interim report, Thermodynamics Diesel Engine Lab Report, Engines Data Analysis
Week 12 - Group Diss Interim Report, Motorsport Vehicle Performance Cwk
I am thankful that my MVP lecturer messed up on VLE so the hand in is now Monday week1 next year, in addition to that I have Aerodynamics WInd Tunnel testing to do...
So the past few weeks.... Have pretty much consisted of me going to uni for lecturers, staying their till 8/9 then coming home and attempting to do work. At first, doing work in the living room worked well, then it just didn't. So the Library become my new home away from Wheatley.
My Aero report had a 3 day extension, which was slightly annoying, i literally handed it in with 5 minutes to go, when my motivation had gone from doing it.
I am grateful that I managed to make a start on my literary review for my interim report early. I had read Tremanes, Science of Safety, which gave me lots of inspiration to write alot. If you get the chance, read that book, its an incredible journey, emotional no doubt but a great insight how how F1 got to where it is today.
Week 10 I had my Adams assignment. Adam is a dynamic modelling software, which i found very difficult to understand. Admittedly being behind on the practicals didn't help matters. I spent most of week 10 doing my best to avoid it. Luckily Ryan came in on Weds and shut my laptop forcing me to go to Uni. Annoyingly i didn't do any Adams but caught up on Chassis lectures I had missed. Thursday evening came, and I would miss my first Karaoke of the year. I had slowly figured out what was needed and caught the last bus back home. The next day was our interviews, I forced myself up at 6:30 and got the first bus to Uni (7:30). To a deserted Uni, i carried on with my work. I entered the viva (interview) under prepared and with the attitude of marks are marks.... somehow I ended up with 56%.
By this point, I had already spent the past 2 weekends in Wheatley, and staying till 8/9 working. Week 11 was deadline week. My week consisted of the following sleeping pattern
Thurs Sleep at 2am
Fri Wake at 6:30 Sleep at 2am
Sat Wake at 11am Sleep at 5am
Sun - Wake at 10am Sleep at 2am
Mon - Wake up at 8am Sleep at 3am
Tues - Wake up at 8am Sleep at 4m
Weds Wake up at 8am Sleep at 4am
Thurs Wake up at 8am Sleep at 6:30am (in the library)
Fri Wake up at 7:30 - Passout at 11:30
Sat Wake up at 1:30pm!
So pretty much running on steam. Thermo i got the majority of it out of the way Sunday (thankfully). My interim report became a living creature, finding new things to talk about and 7,500 words later I am very proud of what I have written. You can view the 44 page beast here. An all nighter (bar an hour snooze in the library) didn't help matter. Then I had engines, what a horrible bit of data analysis this was. I just didn't expect how long this would take, I prob spent a good 20 hours on it, most of it figuring out what to do.
Engines was due on Friday, so I printed out my interim, got it bound and carried on with engines, hoping to finish it. Come 5pm, i still hadnt finished it and uploaded whatever I had done onto VLE. I then spent the rest of the weekend trying to find any form of motivation to finish it. Thankfully I handed it in on Monday (My lecturer is in India and the lecturer who was gonna pick them up had hinted he might not do it till Monday).
So here I am now, on Tuesday of Week 12. I spent today with Jamie, slotting in our group project report together. Its nice to know that by tomorrow that will be out of the way stress free. However I must, finish writing up the concept selection method. But I can't, I am close to finishing, but I am exhausted, completely drained. i Just want to sit down play ps3, chill with friends. anything but uni work. I have till 12 to finish it, it wont be hard.
Pretty much the past 4 weeks has 100% been Uni. I have had very little time to do anything but. Working at least 12 hours a day including the weekend with little down time to be me. Friday was horrible. Me and Ed decided to go to pub. The bus journey was so funny. Both of us dead to the world, even confusing ourselves to what bus we were on. That 14 hour sleep helped a treat, and a similar dose on Saturday night helped. Playing the PS3 was so nice, relax, relax, relax.
I want to be human again, i feel that I am no fun. I want to be me and Uni has taken over my life (not a bad thing) but in the quantity I doubt I could have coped much longer. I know I messed up a bit park way through the semester, I became ill then lost all motivation to go to Uni, I fought through it and lived it 24/7.
Christmas in in 12 days, I get to be with my family soo. I can't wait to get away, but I know in the back of my mind I should be working....
Wednesday, 14 December 2011
Tuesday, 15 November 2011
Life
I haven't been myself in a long while. I have lost all motivation with Uni, Im back to my old self by not waking up in the mornings. I am knackered, can't sleep till silly o'clock in the morning. I'm sitting here at 11:34 waking up only 20 minutes ago, missing yet another lecture and practical. Its week 8 and this can't go on. If it does I will scrap by with a 2:2 and thats not what i want. I need a 2:1 but thave at doesn't motivate me in the slightest.
I think there are a few things on my mind. Girls, i dont think is a major factor any more, however it would be nice to have a cuddle every so often.
I am in an unusual situation at Uni. I started in September doing 8 modules and will finish in May with 8 modules. It's begging to piss me off that people 'have too much work' doing 4 or 5 modules or with an honours component. I am meant to be in Uni
Becuase of the amount of work I have, I feel guilty about going out, my social life right now if Karaoke and Road Trip. Bar freshers week I have been out twice in 8 weeks.... This is getting my very down. As much as I can keep to myself, I do need people around me. My of my friends seem to have a lot of issues themselves, and I feel I can't really talk about how I am feeling. As well, my friendship group has shrunk alot, don't get me wrong, I love the guys I hang round with. I just need to expose myself to more different people. I am fairly fed up of talking about the SU constantly.... grrrrr
Money.... the vain of everyone's exsitance. p Student Finacne has really fucked me over this year. Firstly my grant amount got reduced down to around £2000. I knew what this was for and my mum has changed this. Then they said you can have your loan on this day. I ring them up on this day and say where is it. I needed to sign a form, which I didnt receive for 2 days afterwards.... Great. As well, they started looking into my earnings from last year, all because I filled in a question wrong. My loan came in and I paid a bit off my rent (thankfully I am with Brookes who take 3 or 6 installments a year rather than monthly), but I am still waiting for them to process they grant side of things. Not sure how long this will take.
I took a job at pizza hut in August, this is now my last week. I always know I would work it till my work load became too much. Cos of all the SLC cr@p, the money I earnt from pizza hut has kept me going. I have barely spent any money either. I have only earnt £511 (as of mid oct) from pizza hut in 2/3 months. Yes all of it is gone, some went into the bank most went on living for 2/3 months. Not too bad I think. So I have learnt not to spend unwisely recently.
So in general, I am down because... stress from uni, money worries, lack of social time, and lets quote Green Day "the lack of sex is bringing me down".
I think there are a few things on my mind. Girls, i dont think is a major factor any more, however it would be nice to have a cuddle every so often.
I am in an unusual situation at Uni. I started in September doing 8 modules and will finish in May with 8 modules. It's begging to piss me off that people 'have too much work' doing 4 or 5 modules or with an honours component. I am meant to be in Uni
- Mon 9-8
- Tues 9-5
- Weds 9-11
- Thurs 10-6
- Fri 3-4
Becuase of the amount of work I have, I feel guilty about going out, my social life right now if Karaoke and Road Trip. Bar freshers week I have been out twice in 8 weeks.... This is getting my very down. As much as I can keep to myself, I do need people around me. My of my friends seem to have a lot of issues themselves, and I feel I can't really talk about how I am feeling. As well, my friendship group has shrunk alot, don't get me wrong, I love the guys I hang round with. I just need to expose myself to more different people. I am fairly fed up of talking about the SU constantly.... grrrrr
Money.... the vain of everyone's exsitance. p Student Finacne has really fucked me over this year. Firstly my grant amount got reduced down to around £2000. I knew what this was for and my mum has changed this. Then they said you can have your loan on this day. I ring them up on this day and say where is it. I needed to sign a form, which I didnt receive for 2 days afterwards.... Great. As well, they started looking into my earnings from last year, all because I filled in a question wrong. My loan came in and I paid a bit off my rent (thankfully I am with Brookes who take 3 or 6 installments a year rather than monthly), but I am still waiting for them to process they grant side of things. Not sure how long this will take.
I took a job at pizza hut in August, this is now my last week. I always know I would work it till my work load became too much. Cos of all the SLC cr@p, the money I earnt from pizza hut has kept me going. I have barely spent any money either. I have only earnt £511 (as of mid oct) from pizza hut in 2/3 months. Yes all of it is gone, some went into the bank most went on living for 2/3 months. Not too bad I think. So I have learnt not to spend unwisely recently.
So in general, I am down because... stress from uni, money worries, lack of social time, and lets quote Green Day "the lack of sex is bringing me down".
Monday, 14 November 2011
Sunday, 13 November 2011
How to make cash using your website!!
What is Affliating?
Quite simply it is advertising on your webspace. And in return you earn some cash. There are several companies out there who work with companies and website owners for advertising. By signing up to programmes, and placing ad's onto your website you can then earn money when people click in the website.
How do i earn money?
Once ads are on your site, when a user clicks on it a cookie is downloaded. Once the user makes a purchase, or completes the task then you earn the commission. Quite simply really.
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- Lovefilm - someone signs up through your ad and earn £10
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Free to sign up, have over 500 merchants on offer.
Tradedoubler
Tradedoubler are an award winning affliating company. They have links with lots of well know sites.
So what do I have to do?
- Have a webspace, make a useful website that people will visit. Some merchants will reject you if the site is not good, contains certain content or not their market.
- Sign up to both Tradedoubler and Affiliate Future.
- Create a profile and explain well what your site is about and how working with you is a good idea.
- Search for programs/merchants and apply to their programs.
- Once approved, start adding links to your site.
- Tradedoubler has a nice feature called pools - what they do is group various ads together and will alternate the adverts on each load - useful for programs that require purchases for.
- Figure out a way to promote the lead (leads are when someone does something ie sign up to a website) and promote it on your site. Give a reason for the user to sign up. e.g Deal of the day type thing.
- Watch the cash flow in.
- Usually there is a 2 month waiting period for the commision to come through, this is to ensure that the transactions are real or not have been returned.
- Remember to submit your bank details so that you can be paid.
- Once you have earnt the threshold, normally £30 you will be paid.
Wednesday, 9 November 2011
Thursday, 6 October 2011
Summer loving
Right now, i just need to get my thoughts out there. I doubt anyone will see this but i have to get this out of my head.
Jimmy Eat World in cardiff, a night in June that changed my life. I spent the spring and beginning of summer trying to sort my head out. No girls, i don't need them till I am happy with myself. Then a space of randomness, i started dancing and singing with this girl. We then spent the rest of the gig together. At the end of the gig i ask for her number, she refused but gave me her BBM instead.
Not really expecting anything I drove back to Oxford. When i got back a BBM from this girl. Soon turned out she lived in Swansea and went to Aberswyterf (however you spell it).
I spent my summer getting to know this amazing girl, we clicked got on the house on fire, had loads in common, loved the same music, similar interests. Chatting for practically the entire day we were awake. A joke remark about going to see her in Wales, actually turned into something serious. Nervous as anything i traveled the 150 miles to see her. Only speaking once on the phone at this time. So she picked me up from the train station and after a slight bit of uhhh wtf. Our connect via a mobile phone translated into a connection in the real world.
We had an amazing weekend. Even watched her perform as a backing singer for a stereophonics gig. After a fun weekend, it was evident that we both liked each other, then we seriously chatted. Whatever happens over the summer as soon as Autumn begins we wont work out. a) we live 4 to 5 hours away b) we are both in our final years in demanding courses that wont allow us anytime to visit c) she will be doing plays and performances till Jan.
At that point I knew what I was getting myself into. We both wanted it to happen but distance, timing and circumstance couldn't let it happen.
I went to Europe for 2 weeks, pretty much chatted to her the entire time. She came and visited me at home and got on superbly well with my family. We then went to Boardmasters, albiet it was a difficult weekend it was nice to spend time with her. She then started working full time, and our contact became less. We met up one last time. We both knew it was the last time we would see each other. She explained that her summer was now over, she was focusing on work, uni and her performances and as much as she would like to... she couldn't.
I left swindon with her driving behind me crying down the phone to my friend. Quite simply i fell for her. But its one of the situations where, we would have both fucked it up. We had no time to make it work, i know its for the best and who knows what might happen after uni.
We have spoken a bit over the last month, but not alot. I miss talking to her, she is so full of life (then again to be expected with a drama student). I love how focused and determined she is.
Reason im writing this today? Well her first play is tomorrow night, i wish i could be there for it. I would love to go to Aber and suprise her being at one of her shows. I dunno how that would go down? Has she moved on or found someone else? On her facebook she uploaded a photo of flowers she recieved assumingly by a guy. Which shouldn't get to me, but made me miss her and what we had. There's a big chance that nothing will happen between us. The least i can hope for is that I keep her as a friend.
Jimmy Eat World in cardiff, a night in June that changed my life. I spent the spring and beginning of summer trying to sort my head out. No girls, i don't need them till I am happy with myself. Then a space of randomness, i started dancing and singing with this girl. We then spent the rest of the gig together. At the end of the gig i ask for her number, she refused but gave me her BBM instead.
Not really expecting anything I drove back to Oxford. When i got back a BBM from this girl. Soon turned out she lived in Swansea and went to Aberswyterf (however you spell it).
I spent my summer getting to know this amazing girl, we clicked got on the house on fire, had loads in common, loved the same music, similar interests. Chatting for practically the entire day we were awake. A joke remark about going to see her in Wales, actually turned into something serious. Nervous as anything i traveled the 150 miles to see her. Only speaking once on the phone at this time. So she picked me up from the train station and after a slight bit of uhhh wtf. Our connect via a mobile phone translated into a connection in the real world.
We had an amazing weekend. Even watched her perform as a backing singer for a stereophonics gig. After a fun weekend, it was evident that we both liked each other, then we seriously chatted. Whatever happens over the summer as soon as Autumn begins we wont work out. a) we live 4 to 5 hours away b) we are both in our final years in demanding courses that wont allow us anytime to visit c) she will be doing plays and performances till Jan.
At that point I knew what I was getting myself into. We both wanted it to happen but distance, timing and circumstance couldn't let it happen.
I went to Europe for 2 weeks, pretty much chatted to her the entire time. She came and visited me at home and got on superbly well with my family. We then went to Boardmasters, albiet it was a difficult weekend it was nice to spend time with her. She then started working full time, and our contact became less. We met up one last time. We both knew it was the last time we would see each other. She explained that her summer was now over, she was focusing on work, uni and her performances and as much as she would like to... she couldn't.
I left swindon with her driving behind me crying down the phone to my friend. Quite simply i fell for her. But its one of the situations where, we would have both fucked it up. We had no time to make it work, i know its for the best and who knows what might happen after uni.
We have spoken a bit over the last month, but not alot. I miss talking to her, she is so full of life (then again to be expected with a drama student). I love how focused and determined she is.
Reason im writing this today? Well her first play is tomorrow night, i wish i could be there for it. I would love to go to Aber and suprise her being at one of her shows. I dunno how that would go down? Has she moved on or found someone else? On her facebook she uploaded a photo of flowers she recieved assumingly by a guy. Which shouldn't get to me, but made me miss her and what we had. There's a big chance that nothing will happen between us. The least i can hope for is that I keep her as a friend.
Friday, 17 June 2011
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