22.09.04

For the past week I have basically been on a road trip round different parts of the country with my mum viviting open days at different universities. Actually had a quite good time - but i'm exhausted.Really liked most of the ones that I saw - I have to say that I liked Bristol and Southamton best... they really seem like the kind of place that I could live in for the 3/4 yrs.
Bristol seems to be a great city... large, loads of shops... and the computer science department seems nice. The uni precinct(rather than campus) is right in the city as well, which I liked. However the only drawback is that most of the halls are right up a big hill!
I think that one of the main issues with me for uni is not to go to anywhere that is too small - I think really that living in London I'm spoilt with things to do... and I really love the size... many people don't - "too many people, too impersonal" but it makes me feel at home. So basically anywhere that I go is going to be smaller than London... but I have been looking at City unis so that i'll be happy.
Went to southamton today, and was impressed there as well. The computer science is exellent - one of the top in the country... and the labs are really nice... they have the nicest labs of the unis that i've visited (not that they did any tours of the labs at bath...) and the campus was large, the accomadtion close and the city not far away and it seemd to have good travel links.So I've just got to finish all my ucas stuff (which of course also involves starting...) and get all my applications in so that i can be accepted... :)
Going now because I'm tired, and I have a gym induction at 9 in the morn 2moz!!!

14.09.04

So i failed my driving test today...
My actual driving was fine... I only got 8 minors... but it was the two majors that failed me... really for observation. The first at a really tricky junction where the left turn is practially on top of a rounderbout... which i then had to turn right at... :( tis mean, oh and the other was for kinda obstructing the road... when 1 car was reversing on my side of the road and another onto the road on the other side and another car from the opposite direction. Now the car on the other side of the road shouldn't really have been reversing out, but can't really blame that... i'm just kinda pissed now coz there not 'major' majors and i could really have avoided them... :(
oh well got to miss chem and maths... which just means that i'll have to copy up :(
oh well...

03.09.04

Just went to see 'The Terminal' - Thought that it was really good! I think that Tom Hanks is just a brilliant, believeable actor. This may have something to do with the fact that although he is in no way ugly - but not super gorg - and relies on something other than his looks in films. Catherine Zeta-Jones however was quite ordinary. Somehow her acting cannot compare to Hanks'. Though truthfully i may be a bit hypocritical, because I do admit to going to watch films that, though may not be my kind of film, do have some nice looking guys in them... like the cinderealla story which i saw last week with some friends and my younger sisters mainly because chad micheal murrey was in it. I'm kinda over those teen flicks but at least this one wasn't as bad as some of the ones i've been to over the years... i mean it had some kind of plot... popular guy falls for social outcast who is actally really pretty and we discover new depths to guy... ok so the plot was the same as many such movies but really it was just a bit of fun and didn't pretend to be anything else! So it seems as if i'm a budding film critic... actually i think i'd be quite like the job - getting paid to watch films... any offers?