Autumn Term Timetable

Tomorrow I officially start my second year of Computer Science with Information Security here at Royal Holloway, University of London. My timetable is actually a lot smaller than last years, but that probably means the workload is just going to be piled on top of us!

Monday

11:00 - 12:00 Object-oriented software engineering

13:00 - 16:00 Robotics Lab

Tuesday

12:00 - 13:00 Robotics

16:00 - 17:00 Object-oriented software engineering

Wednesday

10:00 - 11:00 Robotics

11:00 - 12:00 Algorithms & Complexity

Thursday

10:00 - 11:00 Algorithms & Complexity

11:00 - 12:00 Object-oriented software engineering

14:00 - 15:00 Information Security

Friday

09:00 - 11:00 Information Security

11:00 - 12:00 Algorithms & Complexity

So all in all, quite a good timetable for a first term. Friday mornings will be annoying, but at least I have an early finish. That said, I do not even want to think about the homework we’re going to get.

On 1st October, a load of our students are going to a “Microsoft Student Day” where we will be subjected to brainwashing Micro$oft propaganda interesting lectures on technology, as well as a speech from the devil himself Steve Balmer. Suffice to say, I will be sitting there with Gentoo Linux running on my laptop whilst Mr Balmer tries to answer my question about why anyone would actually purchase a Microsoft Surface computer.

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Written by Adrian Hayter

September 28th, 2008 at 3:21 pm

Posted in general, personal

Tagged with computer science, microsoft, steve balmer, timetable, university

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Comments to “Autumn Term Timetable”

Chicken Girl Says:
September 28th, 2008 at 3:51 pm (GMT)

Taking robotics, eh? Gonna build me a robot?

I’ve thought about trying Gentoo Linux but I’ve always thought it may be just a little too geeky for me. How is it?

Adrian Hayter Says:
September 28th, 2008 at 4:35 pm (GMT)

@Chicken Girl

Gentoo has a learning curve, but not one that is too steep for people who understand Linux well already. Luckily they have a very well written guide available. If you have a few spare hours and you don’t mind working without a GUI for a while, then you should give Gentoo a try. Because it is custom compiled for your computer it works out faster that every other distro out there.

Of course, the repos always download the newest source code of whatever program you are trying to install and then compile it. This gives you the advantage of the latest release, but the hassle of compiler errors.

Faryshta Says:
September 28th, 2008 at 9:15 pm (GMT)

I laught hard with the last paragraph.

Sorry but I am very dependant of the deb files to install EVERYTHING on my Ubuntu Hardy, if I change distro it would be a GnewSense because for me is the most hardcore of all linux (no USB sounds like a challenge to me jejeje)