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  • Barbeque Sunrise – A Student excentricity.

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThere are many things I have done in the past but having a barbeque at five am whilst the birds are tweeting and the sun is rising is not within my normal realm of experiences. It was nice, felt more like the end of a festival night than anything else. The party…

  • The Ten Thousand Word Project

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I woke up and within half an hour started working on my dissertation. For a few minutes, I added one or two more paragraphs of text before going on a search for interviews. I looked up Cousteau and arrived at the INA page. The INA is the french video archive online.…

  • To all facebook users please take this survey

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor the purpose of the last assignment in my last module please take this survey on how you use facebook. Click here to take the Online Survey Thanks for your time and see you soon

  • Life on earth – as told by David Attenborough

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesNatural history is an interesting topic to study although whatching the documentaries can be quite challenging. Today I decided to buy a piece of documentary result and as a result I have struggled to stay awake for over two hours. It is not that I do not like these documentaries and it…

  • An academic fox for university

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen you’re s student normal clocks no longer have any relevance to the way you live your life. Sometimes you go to sleep three hours after the sun rose and other times you have a nap at three in the afternoon. Occasionally you sleep from ten at night till 6 am. That’s…

  • First thoughts

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteYou know you’re a final year student when the last thing you think about before going to sleep is your dissertation. It’s also the first thing you wake up thinking of and to make matters worse you notice that a friend has joined a group called “my dissertation is driving me…

  • The foam party

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteLast night I went to the SU foam party but I was so tired that I only stayed till 2 am. It lasted till three am but the energy levels felt wrong.

  • Dissertation feedback

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I went for some dissertation feedback and heard that some people have not yet been to see their dissertation and if these people have seen no one then I am quite surprised. The reason for which I am surprised about this is that it’s a new form of writing which involves…

  • Dziga Vertov, the Kino Glaz and Web 2.0

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesHow many of you have a digital photo camera and how many of you have uploaded pictures you’ve taken to the web? How many of you have browsed through thousand of stranger’s photographs? I was in a lecture a few days ago and we were discussing jennycam and how it was something…

  • The advantage of being 25

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe advantage of being a 25-year-old student is the following. You’ve been insulted, you’ve been threatened, you’ve been in trouble, you’ve shown that you’re an honourable person and more. Tonight there was a party in my flat and I asked for the mess to be cleaned up and it has been.…