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palfrey at 03:04pm on 05/04/2003
palfrey at 03:04pm on 05/04/2003Nice place, flat, canals, bikes, y'know all the generic stereotypes that you've heard before. So, what happened you ask? Well, I like the place. Delft is small (~96K ppl) and at points "quaint", but I think it's something I could really get used to, somewhere I could get to know fully. Both Bristol and London I've never known fully, just a section I happen to inhabit. Delft is small enough to explore all of it easily. It's a very university town - of those 96K, 15K are students at TU Delft where I'd like to go - which I like, university towns are *fun*.
Interview stuff went quite well, good impressions of myself, the vast blocks of commercial experience are going to help quite a lot (having 18 months of commercial experience at my age, while still going through all the A-levels/uni crap is fairly impressive), plus my experience with embeded systems helps lots. 2 glitches
1) There's someone else applying for this - interview in 2 weeks, so I'll know either way in ~3 (and I've just checked, Poland is a NATO country - you need to be a NATO citizen to apply for this - so the CV I saw on Koen's desk is the other applicant.... looked like a very academic CV, where as mine is generic "one-size-fits-all", so dunno whether that'll work for or against me)
2) I'm doing a UK-style 3 year BSc, and all of TU Delft's degrees are currently 5 years(!) so they've gotta check with assorted c'ttee's that I'm allowed to do a PhD with them at all, as they're not sure if I'm valid or not.... but as Bristol would accept me with just a BSc, they prolly will
So, 3 weeks to wait. Meanwhile, have meeting with Henk on Monday about project, so need to work heavily on that now....
Interview stuff went quite well, good impressions of myself, the vast blocks of commercial experience are going to help quite a lot (having 18 months of commercial experience at my age, while still going through all the A-levels/uni crap is fairly impressive), plus my experience with embeded systems helps lots. 2 glitches
1) There's someone else applying for this - interview in 2 weeks, so I'll know either way in ~3 (and I've just checked, Poland is a NATO country - you need to be a NATO citizen to apply for this - so the CV I saw on Koen's desk is the other applicant.... looked like a very academic CV, where as mine is generic "one-size-fits-all", so dunno whether that'll work for or against me)
2) I'm doing a UK-style 3 year BSc, and all of TU Delft's degrees are currently 5 years(!) so they've gotta check with assorted c'ttee's that I'm allowed to do a PhD with them at all, as they're not sure if I'm valid or not.... but as Bristol would accept me with just a BSc, they prolly will
So, 3 weeks to wait. Meanwhile, have meeting with Henk on Monday about project, so need to work heavily on that now....
hopeful