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Exams are over for another year! Some of the exams were fine, others were worse than I might have liked, but never mind, I’m sure it’ll work out fine.

I don’t think that putting two subjects into one exam is a good idea at all, particularly as we don’t get a choice of questions… There’s just too much information to remember, and if you can’t quite remember one part, that can cause a big problem as you can’t just do a different question instead.

Now that it’s all over, I’ve finally got time to catch up on all the TV I’ve been missing for the past few weeks. There’s still a few hours to watch… I also went to see the new Star Trek film yesterday, which is really good, despite there being a few discrepancies with what we already know should happen in “the future”.

I’m probably going to be rather busy again for the next few weeks as our group project starts, but that’s only three weeks, and then I’m done for the year!

So, it’s revision time again…

In my opinion, the Easter Holidays should be a holiday. This would be just fine, were it not for the fact that I have exams as soon as we go back. This of course means that I have to spend my holidays revising instead of sitting around and doing absolutely nothing with my time.

Admittedly, sitting around doing nothing is not a particularly good use of my time, so it’s probably a good thing that I have something to do.

Getting exams over with in the first two weeks of the summer term is also good, as it means that we can just spend the rest of the term doing a project, and don’t have to sit doing exams when the weather’s hot and sunny (if it’s going to be… it is the British summer after all).

Well, that’s my rant about revision over… now on to what I’ve been up to recently.

We had a house party to mark the end of term which went quite well, although I’m not convinced that sending guests outside in the cold to cook Iceland burgers on barbeques is a great idea. People seemed to enjoy themselves though.

With the good weather in the last couple of months, I’ve been on a couple of picnics in Hyde Park. Martin made sure we had an ample supply of cake for the last one, which was much appreciated. We spent far too much time trying to estimate how far it was across the Serpentine, and none of the guesses were particularly accurate, but later investigation showed it to be 128m, more than the scientists of the group thought.

Hopefully my next blog post will not be too far away, but I can’t guarantee anything.

PS: If you really want to know what I’m up to, and can’t wait for my infrequent blog posts, you can follow me on Twitter…

I’ve added some photos from my trip to Munich at Christmas and the fireworks on Embankment on New Year’s Eve to my gallery.

For New Year’s Eve, I once again went to the fireworks on Embankment. This year, we actually got a good view of the fireworks, having arrived early enough to get into the correct area. Not arriving by tube probably helped, as most people were coming from different directions.

Beforehand, we had dinner at Anthony’s, which was nice, and then got on a bus to go to Embankment.

Good luck for 2009!

Merry Christmas!

I’ve spent Christmas this year in Munich, where my sister was on a work placement. As such, it actually snowed on Christmas Day! We went skiing in Garmisch today, which was good. It’s been too long since I last went skiing… A few more days of skiing would have been nice though.

I hope everybody got what they wanted for Christmas!