Four More Years, Four More Years, …
Posted on August 8, 2008 - Filed Under Career, College | 3 Comments
The drama is all over, I’ve accepted the Medicine offer, and I start on September 1st. I’m fairly certain that this is the right choice. Around 80% certain. So anyway, now that I’ve sorted out what I’m going to do for the rest of my life, I can return to blogging more regularly. Or maybe [...]
Medicine Offer
Posted on August 2, 2008 - Filed Under Career, College | 2 Comments
I got the place. I was told I’d know if I really wanted to do it when this moment came, but I don’t feel very much of anything. Not even a sense of relief. So I don’t know what to do. Goddamnit…
Randy Pausch
Posted on July 27, 2008 - Filed Under Career, College, Life-In-General | Leave a Comment
Apologies for posting yet another YouTube video, but I just finished watching this and it definitely deserves a mention. Sometime when you’re online and have an hour or so to spare, look up this video on YouTube (or watch it here). It’s a lecture about achieving childhood dreams delivered by a professor with terminal cancer. [...]
John McCain Doesn’t Know What “The Surge” Is
Posted on July 24, 2008 - Filed Under American Politics, College | 3 Comments
This story has been running for a few days, but I didn’t blog about it because it’s kind of technical. It relates to events in Iraq over the past 2 years. Basically, McCain doesn’t know when ‘The Surge’ (an increase in troop levels, and the adoption of a new counter-insurgency strategy) began, even through he [...]
Doing Medicine
Posted on July 23, 2008 - Filed Under Career, College | 1 Comment
I wrote a post about my reasons for wanting to do medicine and upon finishing it I was too embarrassed to publish it. Suffice it to say, they were not particularly lofty, commendable or good. Methinks a reappraisal is in order…
Welcome to Firstville, Population: Me
Posted on June 30, 2008 - Filed Under College | 7 Comments
Fuck Yeah!
Just got my results, and I ended up with 840/1200 marks, which works out as exactly 70 (i.e., a first), meaning I did exactly the bare minimum to get this degree. Hahaha, and the bare minimum amounted to little more than turning up at a friend’s place the night before exams and going over [...]
Obligations to Future Generations
Posted on June 13, 2008 - Filed Under College, Environment/Conservation, Philosophy | 2 Comments
What follows is a rather mangled essay that I lashed together in a hurry during the last semester. It seems vaguely related to other recent posts. All footnotes have been removed, so apologies in advance is this leads to any confusion. Please keep all “tl;dr” style comments to yourself.
“Those who have quitted the world and [...]
Hunter S. Thompson on Journalism
Posted on June 12, 2008 - Filed Under Career, College, Life-In-General, Media | 2 Comments
Towards the end of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and having just quoted disapprovingly from newspaper he encounters in Las Vegas airport, Hunter S. Thompson offers the following appraisal of journalism:
Why bother with newspapers, if this is all they offer? Agnew was right. The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not [...]
Bedtime and Blog Prospects
Posted on June 6, 2008 - Filed Under Blogging, College | Leave a Comment
That time, many hours ago, when I should have gone to bed. Instead I stayed up, watched rubbish, ate garbage, and then sat at my laptop, riding the web like a true idiot internaut. I didn’t even have anything to do, and I was in fact rather tired, but I still sat here like a [...]
GAMSAT Result
Posted on May 13, 2008 - Filed Under College | 3 Comments
I got 65, which according to some helpful chart places me in around the top 5% of all applicants who took the test. So I kicked its ass. And so I can probably do that graduate medicine course if I so wish, provided I don’t totally screw up my summer exams. So now I’m faced [...]
64%
Posted on April 1, 2008 - Filed Under College | 4 Comments
I can’t honestly claim that I deserve any better for the slapdash effort on my research essay, but 64% still stings mighty hard and throws my hopes of getting a 1.1 into serious jeopardy. Goddamnit.
Apathy
Posted on March 19, 2008 - Filed Under College | 1 Comment
This image macro sums up my attitude to college this year just about perfectly.
Running Dry on Bad Excuses
Posted on March 6, 2008 - Filed Under College | 2 Comments
Seems like I’ll be handing in yet another late essay tomorrow since I was still sleeping when the noon deadline passed today. What should I say this time? I’m not too familiar with this department, and as far as I’m aware the Philosophy department is relatively cavalier about this these things when compared its siblings, [...]
Procrastination #6,417,823,029
Posted on March 6, 2008 - Filed Under College, Music | Leave a Comment
4 a.m., 1,000 words to write, and feeling miserable. Time to roll out the theme song…
I hate my degree.
I Kan’t Study
Posted on February 27, 2008 - Filed Under College, Philosophy | 1 Comment
Before I was too tired and couldn’t stay awake; now I’m taken on too much caffeine and I kan’t concentrate on his Critique of Pure Reason. Yes, this post is all about the pun. I crack myself up…
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