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palfrey at 01:14am on 25/01/2005
palfrey at 01:14am on 25/01/2005Well, I've survived the supposed worst day of the year with only minimal damage. I was pleased that it started to snow a bit last night, but things did manage to start off rather badly this morning with a chunk of icy road managing to force me off my bike. Got away with what felt like minimal damage, but my back on my left side is *still* bloody hurting, so I'm now less optimistic.
Spent 3 hours this afternoon invigilating for an exam. This is one of the points at which I realise the difference between the Dutch and English degree course schedules. This exam was for 2nd year computer scientists (i.e. they've spent 1.5 years minimum doing CS), with 4-option multiple-guess and full open book (we're talking the book, a set of lecture slide printouts *and* the guide booklet for the course from the lecturer in a number of cases), and for some reason a 50-60% pass rate. Now, this material is about the sort of standard that we on the Bristol CS course were doing in the 1st year (Haskell + a bit of predicate logic work), and that with no multiple-choice and no books in sight, and with a pass rate a slight higher that 60%. And I wonder why this course takes 5 years to do the master vs. 4 years for most english courses (admittedly this is mainly 'cause they don't do any selection before you start a degree). There was a brief interesting moment when I realised we had this guy sitting there wearing a 'I did Paris Hilton' baseball cap sitting in front of a girl in full hijab (as in External Hijab, the one marked "Hijab (3)"), but otherwise fairly boring.
New (to me) bands I've been enjoying: Senses Fail (any band which does a song called "Angela Baker And My Obsession With Fire" is fun in my book), and Our Lady Peace (with the entertaining album Happiness Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch).
Spent 3 hours this afternoon invigilating for an exam. This is one of the points at which I realise the difference between the Dutch and English degree course schedules. This exam was for 2nd year computer scientists (i.e. they've spent 1.5 years minimum doing CS), with 4-option multiple-guess and full open book (we're talking the book, a set of lecture slide printouts *and* the guide booklet for the course from the lecturer in a number of cases), and for some reason a 50-60% pass rate. Now, this material is about the sort of standard that we on the Bristol CS course were doing in the 1st year (Haskell + a bit of predicate logic work), and that with no multiple-choice and no books in sight, and with a pass rate a slight higher that 60%. And I wonder why this course takes 5 years to do the master vs. 4 years for most english courses (admittedly this is mainly 'cause they don't do any selection before you start a degree). There was a brief interesting moment when I realised we had this guy sitting there wearing a 'I did Paris Hilton' baseball cap sitting in front of a girl in full hijab (as in External Hijab, the one marked "Hijab (3)"), but otherwise fairly boring.
New (to me) bands I've been enjoying: Senses Fail (any band which does a song called "Angela Baker And My Obsession With Fire" is fun in my book), and Our Lady Peace (with the entertaining album Happiness Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch).
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