Courses in general

Anyone who’s been to university will surely remember that seminal phrase from family and friends back home! Sure, you’re at university to have a good time, absorb the atmosphere, and generally to get a little ‘life experience’. But first and foremost, you want to come out of the other end of your course with a degree – that’s what you’re working towards. And boy do you work! Well, if you’re a Computer Scientist you do anyway – I just finished my second year after 10 (yes, that’s ten) exams, while some of my slightly luckier friends came out of the year with as few as 1. Oh well – that’s the way the ...

The course here is interesting in parts but is hardly thrilling stuff. Little effort is made to engage the student in the stubject. Lectures tend to be boring but well organised with useful handouts. Seminars are slightly more entertaining but the student gets few opportunites to study areas of particualr interest. The library is well stocked and runs smoothly - there is never much trouble getting books. It is the short day loan system that allows this but it never seems worth it at 9:30 the following morning when you have to get up to return books. The history society is pretty poor and hardly worth the membership fee. However the department is ...