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ravenI'm taking a break from essay writing - actually, I lie. I'm not. I have dispensed with essay-writing, as I had two plans to do this week rather than one essay for Politics. I write shite, omg! I did a vaguely okay plan on party dividing lines since 1945, and a hideously awful one on representativeness of parties since 1945. The hard bit is not writing a history of the Labour and Conservative parties since 1945, which would be of the boring, yes. Although there are some good bits in the books - one of them suggests Robin Cook didn't run for Labour leader in 1992 because of his resemblance to a "wee Scottish garden gnome", and another one, published in 1992, solemnly intones: "We must accept the fact that the British Labour party is doomed to electoral extinction."
Enough. I'm being boring. So before I go onto the maths, I'm taking a break and doing memes. First of all,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
daegaer gave me interview questions ages ago, and I've only just got around to answering them. Here goes:
1. Do you want to be Prime Minister when you grow up?
Well. After a point, I got fed up of people asking me what I want to do with my life, and now my stock answer is the sweetest smile I can muster up at the time and two words: "World domination." And when I'm being less facetious, I say I want to be Prime Minister. And when I'm being less facetious even than that, I say I don't know. My political ambitions are not very well-defined - I mean, I'm an Asian woman; being Prime Minister is not a realistic ambition for me - but one thing I do plan to do is to sit the exams for the British civil service and thereby exclude myself from political office for the rest of my life. Strangely enough, my grandfather always wanted one of his grandchildren to follow him into the civil service (the Indian Adminstrative Service in his case, although the name change after independence was purely cosmetic). I think he meant one of the boys, but never mind.
I do have such a tendency to ramble. Moving on:
2. What is your all-time favourite song?
I think it's still Konstantine. There's lots of songs I love, but that one is special.
3. What's the most unexpected fandom you found yourself falling into?
M*A*S*H. M*A*S*H is a fandom? I'm still surprised myself. But even more unexpectedly, it was my best fandom experience ever. TThere was a period of six months back then that was just my best time in fandom ever, because the people were so wonderful and the fic so fantastic and everyone so damn talented. And more than that, the people I met then are still with me now; they make up most of my flist, despite the fact most of us have moved onto new fandoms and other pastures new. All good stuff.
4. Is there any food you can cook particularly well?
Not really, but you can see my cultural influences in everything I cook. I loathe what you might call traditional British food - I mean, meat and vegetables, boiled, bland, no spices, urrgh. I like spices - chilli powder and turmeric and cumin and cardamon and ginger - and detest boiling things. Next year, when I'm living in either Cowley or Jowett, I plan to really get into cooking properly. Right now I've only ever really cooked for me, so it's going to be a fun challenge.
5. How many languages can you speak? Are there others you'd like to learn?
Good question. About one and three quarters, is the answer. When I was younger, I was bilingual with English as my second language - nowadays I speak English best, understand Hindi well but lack the grammar to speak it very well, and I have some basic GCSE French. I also did a lot of Latin at school, which I adored. I'd love to go back and learn Latin properly, as well as improve my Hindi and my French, as then I'd be able to speak to most of tbe world's population. After this degree, I'm thinking about making tracks. I might take a job with one of my aunts and spend a year living in India. I'd like that, and it would do my lingustic skills no end of good.
Now. Back to work. I'll interview the first five people who ask - the last time I did this I ran out of questions, hence the limit! - while I'm trying to do my maths. I feel like I've done no work today, though I obviously have. There is a document flying around somewhere entitled "What The College Expects From You", that always makes me feel very inadequate, because it discusses in very precise terms how much work I ought to be doing. Not "lots" or "a substantial amount" or even "day and night"; it actually specifies 40 hours a week. 40 hours a week is a lot. This week I counted. As it's now only two hours short of being a week since I started counting, it looks like I do, in a good week, 33 hours of work. See the inadequacy.
Anyway! Maths. In fact, differentiation and optimisation. Why, oh why didn't I do Maths A-level?
Enough. I'm being boring. So before I go onto the maths, I'm taking a break and doing memes. First of all,
daegaer gave me interview questions ages ago, and I've only just got around to answering them. Here goes:1. Do you want to be Prime Minister when you grow up?
Well. After a point, I got fed up of people asking me what I want to do with my life, and now my stock answer is the sweetest smile I can muster up at the time and two words: "World domination." And when I'm being less facetious, I say I want to be Prime Minister. And when I'm being less facetious even than that, I say I don't know. My political ambitions are not very well-defined - I mean, I'm an Asian woman; being Prime Minister is not a realistic ambition for me - but one thing I do plan to do is to sit the exams for the British civil service and thereby exclude myself from political office for the rest of my life. Strangely enough, my grandfather always wanted one of his grandchildren to follow him into the civil service (the Indian Adminstrative Service in his case, although the name change after independence was purely cosmetic). I think he meant one of the boys, but never mind.
I do have such a tendency to ramble. Moving on:
2. What is your all-time favourite song?
I think it's still Konstantine. There's lots of songs I love, but that one is special.
3. What's the most unexpected fandom you found yourself falling into?
M*A*S*H. M*A*S*H is a fandom? I'm still surprised myself. But even more unexpectedly, it was my best fandom experience ever. TThere was a period of six months back then that was just my best time in fandom ever, because the people were so wonderful and the fic so fantastic and everyone so damn talented. And more than that, the people I met then are still with me now; they make up most of my flist, despite the fact most of us have moved onto new fandoms and other pastures new. All good stuff.
4. Is there any food you can cook particularly well?
Not really, but you can see my cultural influences in everything I cook. I loathe what you might call traditional British food - I mean, meat and vegetables, boiled, bland, no spices, urrgh. I like spices - chilli powder and turmeric and cumin and cardamon and ginger - and detest boiling things. Next year, when I'm living in either Cowley or Jowett, I plan to really get into cooking properly. Right now I've only ever really cooked for me, so it's going to be a fun challenge.
5. How many languages can you speak? Are there others you'd like to learn?
Good question. About one and three quarters, is the answer. When I was younger, I was bilingual with English as my second language - nowadays I speak English best, understand Hindi well but lack the grammar to speak it very well, and I have some basic GCSE French. I also did a lot of Latin at school, which I adored. I'd love to go back and learn Latin properly, as well as improve my Hindi and my French, as then I'd be able to speak to most of tbe world's population. After this degree, I'm thinking about making tracks. I might take a job with one of my aunts and spend a year living in India. I'd like that, and it would do my lingustic skills no end of good.
Now. Back to work. I'll interview the first five people who ask - the last time I did this I ran out of questions, hence the limit! - while I'm trying to do my maths. I feel like I've done no work today, though I obviously have. There is a document flying around somewhere entitled "What The College Expects From You", that always makes me feel very inadequate, because it discusses in very precise terms how much work I ought to be doing. Not "lots" or "a substantial amount" or even "day and night"; it actually specifies 40 hours a week. 40 hours a week is a lot. This week I counted. As it's now only two hours short of being a week since I started counting, it looks like I do, in a good week, 33 hours of work. See the inadequacy.
Anyway! Maths. In fact, differentiation and optimisation. Why, oh why didn't I do Maths A-level?
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on 2005-11-26 11:18 pm (UTC)We don't get homework or tests (besides the occasional evil assignment) or anything so people don't usually do so much but when it's exams it's normal to start at 7 in the morning and to stop after midnight with short breaks for food and then still think you haven't done enough.