The End of the Begining

With my first year of university long complete I find myself sitting here wondering how everything went.

The Course:

Well, to start I’m certain that I have barely passed some of my modules this year because of a horrible trap that I, like so many others, have fallen into. The trap involves the grading system that my course runs and it basically entails that the first year has little or no meaning to the overall course result.

I mean what could be more disheartening than being told that your marks for the first year are merely regarded as either:

Pass - 40% or over
Fail - Under 40%

This fact caused me like so many other intellectual people to lose interest in the quality of our work and to succumb to a lazy, procrastinating first year.

As many of my friends on my course will tell you (namely Nick and Connor) I’m not unable to produce A* work but give me little reason to do so and I will take the easy road.

So ye, not that fantastic in relationship to my own performance in my course, however I might also add that my modules were otherwise very easy xD

The Student Life:

So ye at the start of the year, I felt that ever cooking would result in a great catastrophe of spoiled food and poisoning.

Alas my predictions were in vain as I have somewhat successfully albeit more recently completed numerous meals cooked by my own hand and not that are not aided by the technological age we live in (the microwave).

So far I’ve cooked (Menu del Julian’s Halls):

A whole tonne of Sainsbury and Tesco ready meals,
All day breakfast in a can (was a godsend while I was unable to cook),
Pasta! (a student’s best friend),
Pizza (with a numerous number of failing),
Rather Burnt Burgers (ready prepared),
My mother’s luscious Burgers,
Salmon fillets,
Bacon Sandwiches (Weep),
Chicken breast fillets,
Pork Steaks with steamed veg,
Chicken breast with steamed veg,
British Sausages in baps (Julian’s personal Burnt BBQ style).

Sure I'm no chef but I certainly can get by, next year I just hope to cook for cheaper.

I really wish I had gone out more this year as it was defiantly on my list of what I wanted to do, alas I find that my friends from back home tend to stick to Caerphilly, my friends from University sparsely organise a night out and I’m stuck in the middle.

It’s not been bad, certainly not so during fresher’s, Christmas and after the first few big deadlines but not quite what I expected.

The money side which my parents seemed to want me to worry drastically about hasn’t been a problem to me one bit since I started, which leads me to think they have taught me very well over the past few years how to control my money.

It also leads me to think about my Job, which I believe is probably one of the best student Jobs in all of Cardiff. After all I have hundreds of discounts in more stores than I can remember, I have a fantastic hourly wage, I get 1.5 time on Sundays and I get a massive bonus which is worth about 2 months wage every March.

Not to mention that I really enjoy working on my department, which for anyone who doesn’t know is mainly toys although each weekend I dabble in Electrical, Nursery and Sports amongst other areas of the store.

It's going to be sad seeing as most of my colleagues go, as they all have either finished their courses or are moving to different departments. But
for anyone interested, there is word about that there will be vacancies in September just as university begins xD.

Sorry about the Late Blog, I Promised Xanthe I would finish it yesterday (before 12 AM).