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Too Good to be True

Posted in Uncategorized on December 14th, 2008

Check in online, go through the motions, find nice seats, print out boarding passes and happily stroll to the airport early tomorrow morning - but no! “Your documentation must be verified by a staff member at the airport”! I can only hope that the settings for our seat choices were saved anyway, even if it didn’t let us complete the check-in process completely.

I don’t get it - why have online checkin if it just doesn’t let you do what it’s meant to?

Barack ‘n Roll

Posted in Uncategorized on November 5th, 2008

I think this website speaks for a lot of Europeans.

Now, just to see what the “Change we can believe in” entails.

I Really Should Send This to Private Eye

Posted in Uncategorized on August 9th, 2008
BBC presenter on the torch lighting ceremony, with images of the Olympic Flame Relay appearing around the ring of the stadium behind the torchbearer:
“The Chinese people didn’t see the security clashes, the troubles [during the relay, especially in cities such as London]. What they saw was their olympic flame traversing the world”.
Yes, that’s what we non-euphemists call censorship, i.e. not presenting the full picture of what is going on.

Touching Down

Posted in Uncategorized on July 17th, 2008

I’m still a bit overwhelmed at the results for 2007-2008. As I was walking around campus with a friend of mine yesterday, one of our professors walked by. Noticing us, he stopped and greeted us with “Congratulations, both of you. I heard you did well”. After a moment’s conversation it emerged that he held us as the contenders for the “best exam performance” that is apparently “more about the glory than money”. Now, I’m not in University for the glory, but the more I think about it it would be a nice recognition to get. I’m not going to go to next year with that in mind, though - I told my friend that I would happily let her have the best results but she wants to make a competition out of it and wants “to beat” me, the little nutter. Funny, that - within one day my relationship to University and studying has changed completely. Also, it is interesting to be noticed by academics as more than just heads or names on a register.

My other friends have told me I no longer have a right to complain about stress or exam anxiety. As terrible as it sounds, though, I feel that stressing myself half-dead is the way I steel myself to perform at the best possible level.