I quite like random little anecdotes/stories/tales, so thought I’d share:
There’s an office here that the porters look after the keys for. If you want to get in the office when there’s nobody else around, you have to ask them for a key; they check your university card against a list of people who are authorised [...]
Posted at 15:25 on November 13th 2008, tagged as university, york, with no comments yet
Quirky lecturer thing: Maths person who pauses, says the word “right?” fairly distinctively and then continues. Lectures take five times longer because of this (technically, we get five times less stuff done because of this). I got so frustrated with it last week that I decided to put an asterisk in the margin of my [...]
Posted at 14:15 on November 8th 2008, tagged as life, university, york, with one comment
Well… I made it to the University of York, and survived Freshers’ Week; making my way through two fire alarms, a few dozen pints of Guinness and more free Dominos pizza than I care to remember.
The newsy-thing that came up today is the flyer that’s displayed to the right – UoY’s Computing Services are asking [...]
Posted at 17:37 on October 22nd 2008, tagged as computing, gmail, google, university, web, york, with no comments yet
