Assignments, rockets and interesting sandwiches
Dec 12th, 2007 by Toby
ladies and gentlemen, students and employees, it is time for another bout of poor spelling and grammar, courtesy of me. perhaps it is just my university, perhaps just my course, but whereas everyone seems to be either rushing to meet deadlines with assignments, or revising frantically for exams, my end of term is quite relaxed. I had one exam last week, and one assignment in for this friday, which isn’t even a proper assignment, but a ‘home problem’ as our lecturer tadeusz stolarski puts it. unfortunately, over that all looms the large pile of work on the desk next to me, consisting of somewhere in the region of eight assignemtns in for january and february time. christmas break should be fun.
despite the dark shadow that looms over my ‘relaxing’ break from university, this week is still fairly relaxing. myself, aswell as the entire of the school of engineering and design have the week off to conduct our multidisciplinary project. this entails being put into groups with other students from such other aspects as design, electrical and communications engineering and designing and building something they tell us to. wit hthe majority of my group being aerospace engineering students we were assigned the task, as you may now guess from the title, of buildign a rocket. alas, ’tis not a real rocket, just a model, and we have to load it up with sensors etc and blast it off into the un-depths of the sky. however, we were told our group couldn’t strap four engines to it for safety reasons, i mean honestly, they’re only solid fuel rockets, and another excuse was that we were too close to heathrow. what rubbish! anyway, we launch on thursday, should be interesting, if not haphazard, especially with this weather. with two cameras and an altimeter, all should hopefully go well.
being a student, well i don’t know about the rest of you but i have certainly fallen into a rather sporadic eating schedule, i have just eaten dinner. so i decided to make a sandwich, but a rather interesting and unusual sandwich. most of you would probably repulse at the idea, a cheese sandwich. but not just any cheese sandwich. i thought i’d be different. i went ot the fridge, got out my ingredients, bread, butter, emmental cheese, and put togther what i thought would be a regular sandwich. after making it i had an inkling that something was missing. so i opened up my cupboard and scanned the shelves. then i saw it, a jar. i unscrewed the lid, dipped in a knife and spread contents over one side of my bread. thats right folks, a cheese and honey sandwich. it was goooooooooood. most of you will go on to not try my idea, just like the bacon and milkybar (taken from a pub menu!!) or the raspberries and burger sauce. those who don’t are missing out.
 well, there we go, another pointless, poorly splet rambling from the darkest depths of my mind. hope you were terrified… i mean enjoyed. have a good break all.
 forgot two things: 1) fencing rocks
2) tammy and i went to see tinsleworm on the 30th nov., at wembley arena. (for those who don’t know it was bill baileys show). hilarious.
 toodle pip
The rocket sounds amazing! Only wish I could be there to share it with you. Not so keen on the idea of a cheese and honey sandwich but cheese and chutney is nice so I’m thinking it’s the same sort of cheese/sweet flavour mix :happy:
You have a Polish lecturer?! :V Yay!!
My sister and brother-in-law also went to see Bill Bailey. They’ve seen him about 4 times now- they love him!
Glad to hear you’re having a relaxing time :happy:
Ooh, good luck with the rocket launch! That sounds so much more fun than our grammar masterclasses…
Hmmm actually I can see why cheese and honey might be nice, as Robyn says cheese and mango chutney is a very good mix, which is probably a fairly similar cheese/sweetness combination. Yummy.
I think I was actually quite lucky to have so many assignment due for my last week of term, because it means I only have one essay to write over the holidays and just a load of bits and pieces and some reading for my other modules. Good luck with your holiday work!
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Rocket! You lucky so and so!
Let us know how it goes!
I’m glad your semester is coming to a calm conclusion though. Shame about all the stuff in for the new year.
As for the sandwich, as soon as I get some honey, I’ll try it. And Bill Bailey, yay :happy:
Back to the rocket, do you think you’ll be able to get hold of the footage it records to upload to youtube or somehow share with us here? I’m excited already! I trust it will be as exciting as the Top Gear rocket launch?
Rockets are cool. They both burn AND explode and that is all I have to say on that. As for bill bailey how many times have you seen the guy now? you must practically be one of his many stalkers.
As for the honey and cheese i’m afraid I tried it before you. I had it while on holiday to france they take lumps of fresh goats cheese and dip it in honey, yum. So alas you are not origionaland are, infact, slightly french.