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AAARGJ!!!!!
   at 19:59 on Wed 14th April 2004
I don't normally swear in my blog... but FUCKING HELL!!!!

I had a fantastic Birthday weekend. It was great to see everyone and all, but that's not what I came to my website to discuss...

What I wanted to talk about was fucking University and the shit load of work they make us do. The bollocks about Students having so much free time is just that, utter crap.

I've had four weeks holiday. The first two were spent working for my proper job. The second two I had allocated for Uni stuff. But then I had my birtday weekend. We recently moved house, so my parents have forced me to help decorate and renovate the house (it was in a state when we got it). On top of that, I've had a funeral to go to and my PC has been out of action for periods due to the electricians being in this week.

So basically, tonight is the first real night I've been able to get some work done. And I realised just how much crap there is to do. I have a deadline for next Tuesday, a fucking shit HCI thing. Depressing. I also have promised work for my SEG (group project) and I've no idea what I promised. It's all so annoying and stressful and I wish it'd go away.

I'm totally against (in my present mood) this whole idea of homework bollocks. You don't get homework in the real office world. You have fucking text books and manuals if you can't recall something. You're just not required to do all the shit we have to do right now.

I can't wait for Uni to end. I love my job and despite having deadlines and proper responsibility, it's far more enjoyable than the drivel University constantly makes me do.

I just switched through the browser windows I have open, to double check what I had to do.... and I now feel like crying. The weight I had on my shoulders before the Easter break just came crashing back down.

Bollocks to it all. I'm tired, now upset, and wish they'd set something even remotely interesting if they insist on giving us coursework. Here's to a late night in misery.

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by Mac at 09:56 on 15th Apr 2004
Hey man, chill out, take it easy. We're all in the same boat, and we'll all get through it in the end. 25% of 1/12th of the year is hardly worth stressing over, just go and buy a pack of your favourite biscuits and calm down. You'd prefer 100% exams, then?

by Matt at 15:00 on 15th Apr 2004
I already ate out the cupboard of those custard creme things. Damn.

I'm more stressed that I haven't had a proper chance to chill out this Easter. But 100% exams, I suppose, would be equally as annoying. I like the idea of Coursework, really. I just don't like the idea that I can't allocate -enough- time using my elite time management skills to it. It also annoys me that the little time I do set out for it, always goes tits up because of some unexpected this or that.

I think I'll move on to the bourbons now. Hope you're well, Mac. :-)

by Mac at 22:56 on 15th Apr 2004
Now, y'see, all I seem to have done is chilled out - well, not exactly chilled, but I've done a lot of generally partying and rocking out. Things are pretty good for me, although circumstances mean that I have to write 1600 words of HCI tomorrow. It's going to be a massive steaming pile of bullshit, but hell, it's uni, that's what we do.

by Gordon at 14:33 on 01st May 2004
Hey, I know the feeling. Generally as soon as you *have* to do something it stops being fun. This def applies to my project at the moment, and I have this really nasty suspicion that it will happen to my Job. At least for me tho' I'm starting to realise that I'll miss uni. Well, some of it. I doubt i'll miss 'Specification and Verification II' though :)