Goood Neeeeeeews!!
I found out that the project file /was/ submitted in the end, but the marker forgot to fill it out on the mark form. So instead of 0, I have a mark of 46 for that particular project, wooooo!! We were told we would've gotten a better mark if the whole thing hadn't been so plagerised, but at the moment I'm happy that we got more than 40 which is a passing mark : D
(Thank you sooooo much to those who commented on my last journal btw. I would reply to your comments, but I feel that because my argument is slightly more redundant now, I'd be complaining about nothing 8D; )

Sooo, other stuff....
-I'm going home in three weeks!! : D I can't waaait, it'll be so nice to see my family again *prances around like an idiot*.

-Camomile Tea is excellent for sore throats, and also very soothing in general. The canteen seems to have an endless supply of the stuff so I can nick some whenever I please, which is quite nice. I also got an extra pudding after dinner because the chef was trying to get rid of all the iced buns left over from today <33

-Transformers soundtrack is epic.

Hope you guys are all doing well! x

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Uuuh, this is not amazingly important, I just needed a place to get this off my chest and DA seemed like the best place : D

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So we had this group project assignment for my course sometime back at the end of Semester 1. We basically had to make a 5-10 min video about car emissions; what they consist of, how they are dealt with so as to cause less harm to the environment etc. etc.

Fun, right? (well, it was in my opinion) It started off fine. We met up with a lecturer who knew a lot about emissions and discussed with him what we were gonna do and he told us about emissions and catalystic converters and stuff. That was good.

What annoyed me was that after that, NOTHING happened. At all. No-one was organising anything and it was hard getting hold of all the group members. So I tried contacting them through e-mail, saying that we should start doing planning, even if it was through e-mails, so that we would at least know what to when it came to video-ing the project. Again, nothing. I tried contacting people in person when it came round to lectures but no-one seemed to cooperate at all.

Finally, the other girl in the group arranged a meet-up date to discuss what we were going to do. Only the two of us turned up out of the five possible.
Guy 1 was at home, and hadn't bothered to contact us despite the fact that he coud have quite easily checked his student webmail from anywhere with internet access.
Guy 2 didn't know what was going on because he hadn't recieved the mail. He made absolutely no effort what so ever to find out what was going on and in the end didn't even participate in the project.
Guy 3 was on some army training thing and again had made no effort to say anything about this before 'we' met up.

In the end "our" video, was a crap animation of a catalystic converter taken off of youtube at the last minute with our team members voices recorded over it explaining the processes. They all seemed pretty happy with it, but personally I was disgusted with the lack of effort they had put in, and ashamed to be part of the same team as them.
End of story, right?

No. Guy 1 who submitted the file, put in the wrong file type so that the marker couldn't access it. He sent an e-mail around asking us to re-submit it but with the right file type this time. I would have quite gladly done it myself, but I didn't have the file.
So taking initiative ( and I am pretty sure I'm the only one who did, because no-one else seemed to know what was going on at this point), I asked around to see who /did/ have it. It turned out that Guy 1, who definitely did have it, was on holiday with no internet access and so he couldn't do anything about it. He did tell me however, that Guy 3 in the group had it on his computer and to get him to do it. So I asked the Guy 3 about it, and he said he didn't think he had it and he'd have a look.

After that, figuring Guy 3 would have enough sense to seek help if he didn't have it/ was having problems, I left him to his own devices. Big mistake.
It turns out that /no-one/ re-submitted the file for our group in the end, so we got a 0 for this part of the module. Although I wouldn't have been surprised if we failed anyway due to copyright laws...

I MEAN WHAT THE HECK YOU ASS****S!. TAKE SOME INITIATIVE YOU IDIOTS, I'M NOT GOING TO FREAKING ORGANISE EVERYTHING FOR YOU; YOU'RE IN UNIVERSITY NOW, NOT PRESCHOOL. MARKS ARE NOT GOING TO BE GIVEN TO YOU ON A SILVER PLATTER BECAUSE "YOU TRIED". DO YOU NOT WANT TO DO THIS COURSE? BECAUSE IT JUST SO HAPPENS THAT I DO AND I AM NOT WILLING TO FAIL THIS MODULE BECAUSE OF YOUR F***ING LAZINESS!!

The least idiot no.3 could have done was tell idiot no.1 that he didn't have the file, and ask him to submit it when he got back.

*Sigh* I hate group work with these guys ¬¬

I'm going to go and see if I can find any accomodation for next year now. Hopefully I'll be able to find something reasonably soon or I'll be a homeless bum next year.

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I have been lurking in the shadows, watching. Always watching... >: D

I have had a temporary lull in the amount of homework that's been given to me, and my semester 2 ( Has England always had "semesters" or is this a sign of American-ization?! D: ) schedule also gives me most afternoons off. And so this morning I had an Electronics lecture, a Materials lecture and a Mechanics tutorial. I decided to skip visiting my tutor at 12 and proceeded nearly straight to the dinner hall, where I had some type of pasta for lunch. Afterwards, I went back to my room and decided to do something productive.

So far I have fiddled with my desktop so it looks slightly prettier (it has a green colour-scheme now instead of that hideous blue), changed my MSN colour to match it, downloaded an update for skype and dusted my room with a damp paper towel. I then decided that I should do a much needed 'cleaning' of my DA message box and spent about an hour checking/deleting messages, the oldest dating back to October sometime. Instead of a total of 700 or so messages, I now have none : D

And then I decided to have a cup of green tea with two teaspoons of sugar and two teaspoons of powdered milk, which was rather nice.

Which leads me to where I am now. Sitting at my desk, at only 4:30 in the afternoon, very bored : D

So how are you guys??
(I just realised that including this one, all three of my most recent journal entries have been posted on the 27th of their month. I think this is slightly weird but it was not intentional, believe me xD )

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[update] I'm going to uni now : D [/update]

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My sister some real life friends:


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