Semester One, in the bag...a wasted journey...Joni sings (at last!)

So got the first Semester of this degree out of the way on Wednesday with the Object Technology exam, boy, it was tough. The whole thing with that subject, well at least as it is taught by this particular teacher, seems to be "here is my solution to this problem" as if his is the only correct one, but there's more than one way to solve the problems he presents, and that goes for the exam: I hope he gives his students a fair bit of leeway, because I don't think anyone will come up with (his) "right" answer, whatever that may be. I did make a fundamental mistake though, I thought the only way to answer the problem was to allow something I didn't really know how to do, and I couldn't write the code for it, but I could see no other way to do it! Anyhoo, we'll wait for the results.

I got an e-mail this morning respecting a prospective placement with a company called Serco, well, here it is:

"About Serco's entry.
Mrs Atkinson would like to see the following 15 students URGENTLY today re the above subject matter. Failing to do so will jeopardize their chance with a placement at Serco. She will not be available from 3 o'clock onwards today...."(15 students including me listed here)

Here's the thing: I live 13 Miles from Uni, and we had planned to go out for the day, but on receiving this e-mail, obviously I had to respond. So, into the car, to the petrol station, and on to town I go. Eventually finding a parking space I walk the ten minutes to Uni to find that Mrs Atkinson has just gone on her lunch, she would be back in an hour. So, off to the Uni cafe I go, to slowly sup coffee and ponder what revelations or urgent tasks lay ahead of me to enable me to secure this placement. So, back to Mrs Atkinson's office I go, to find some other students have beaten me to her: I sit outside, staring at an uninteresting piece of wall, for a further 15 minutes. Have I built this up enough? Don't worry: it's worth it.

"Would you like to come in John?"
"Thanks"
"Take a seat"
"Thanks"
"Well, the reason I've got you in....eeh,you're going to be mad....It's just your CV, I'd like you to amend this, look here:"

BEFORE READING FURTHER SEE MY CV HERE (click on the image to focus it if necesary)...look for a ring around a certain letter.

"Why have you capitalized this letter "S" here, why have you done that?
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(Mrs A. again)..."Sorry for dragging you all this way for this!"
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(stunned silence, I reply eventually, because I rely on her to get me a placement)
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"..yes...sorry about that, let's change it? Sorry again, yes these little things are important"

Obviously, I wanted to scream about the existence of telephone and e-mail communication in our modern age, but I had to bite my tongue, really hard.

Anyways, that was amusing, I Was thinking as it happened "this is good blog material"! Notice my capital "W" on the "was" back there, it's staying like that, OK?

To finish, I'm glad to report that Joni has finally let me record her singing (or I've finally managed to hide the recorder well enough whilst she sings, to be more accurate!). You can here my baby sing "Twinkle, Twinkle..." here and here.