So got back to Manchester a couple of weekends ago to two weeks of exams...oh the
fun. I had four exams this semester - three core and one option module. My option was Lagrangian dynamics and although scarily hard :-S we seemed to win on the timing of the exam...a lot of the other options were the day after the last core exam which was a bit mean we thought! I think we find out our results early March so a while now where we don't have to think about them anymore :o) although can't relax just yet...our department (true to form - in first year Fresher's week we had a maths exam, and over the Summer we had a vacation essay to do - I don't know any other people who had work over the Summer grr!! lol) have given us a lab report to do for Monday - which I'm starting today :-S (hence a blog post! lol).
As well as stressing over our exams we've also had Flax and Co. (our house rental agency) trying to let our house out from under us. We want to stay next year, but I got back last week after an exam and found a huge to let sign on the front of our house. I rang Flax and told them we wanted to stay at which the lady told me to go down to the office as soon as, to resign the contracts and pay the difference in the deposit because although she would put a note on the file, they couldn't guarentee they wouldn't organise viewings. They are useless - we at least thought they would have told us they were putting the house up for next term so that we could go and stop them, but oh no, that's apparently too difficult for them, grr. Incidentally when you type 'Flax and Co. Manchester' into google, the first hit that comes up is 'The Worst Student Landlord in Manchester?' 'nuff said really. Maybe we should have googled them first :-S ahh well, we like the house lol. Also we got back from Christmas to find a nice big hole in through to the roof tiles where they apparently wanted to put in a Velux window lol. It's in now and they have come back to finally finish the plastering - to start with it was appauling! But I get the feeling now we're keeping the house they won't be back to paint! (And yes that is snow on the outside of the window in the second picture :o)
Tash on my course had an end of exam house party/gathering last night which was really good, especially as I think the entire student population was out last night celebrating end of exams. We went to 5th Ave on Thursday and it was very very busy (although as Jen works there now, I got queue jump and free entry, woo!) and I can imagine last night would have been even crazier! There were certainly a lot of people out as we went to Tash's and music coming from every other house lol.
We were going to go to the Trafford Centre today, until we rememebered that it's a Saturday and that' probably not the best idea as I would be surprised if it's anything short of insanely busy! So the plan is to go at some point in the week which should be good hehe, even if I can't really buy anything :-( haha.
Right so, back to the lab report and Edser-Butler fringes...
