Control Freaks

This post was published in March 2010, so the information in the post or about me in the sidebar may no longer be correct.

12PM, Friday March 05, 2010

Tags: education, facebook, school, social

From a BBC News article today, “Schoolgirl fell to death from bridge after sex claims”:

[St Edward’s School headmaster Dr Andrew Nash] said he had later been told of “unpleasant comments” about Holly which had been placed online and in text messages.

But that was not something the school knew about at the time, he said.

“Facebook is something we worry about because it is so completely outside of our control,” he added.

At least he’s honest.

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Who?

My name’s Alex Muller.

I’ve completed two years of undergraduate study (in Computer Science and Maths) at the University of York.

I worked at GlaxoSmithKline, a large pharmaceutical and consumer healthcare company, from July 2010 until September 2011.

I'm nearly finished my final year of university, in which I learnt loads of Python, a ton of probability & statistics and took a course titled “Crypto, Attacks & Countermeasures”. And I had an incredibly fun final-year project to boot.

It’s brill. I've loved this year so much that I had to look up the source of a quote that keeps coming to mind. Turns out it's apparently Confucius: “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”