Staff page update
Updated the staff page with updated ages and some new piccies of me from the Book of Face.
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Hey Robin, that's a mean rug your cuttin there and quite a hottie you got on your arm too. You sly devil you. 
Glad I am not the only one to notice the...shall we call it dancing? heh
Haha, that's me doing a little jig. My housemate runs the Propoganda DJ sets around the UK and DJ's at one of the local clubs, so sometimes he cranks out some tunes that I actually like. I've got to take up every oppurtunity to hit the dance floor when most of the music played in clubs in the SW of England is trash. I believe that was taken while Voodoo People by Prodigy was on, hence why I look like I'm about to left-hook my friend Chris 
QUOTE(Dark0ne @ Jun 26 2008, 10:57 AM) 
Haha, that's me doing a little jig. My housemate runs the Propaganda DJ sets around the UK and DJ's at one of the local clubs, so sometimes he cranks out some tunes that I actually like. I've got to take up every oppurtunity to hit the dance floor when most of the music played in clubs in the SW of England is trash. I believe that was taken while Voodoo People by Prodigy was on, hence why I look like I'm about to left-hook my friend Chris
So you learned to dance via time-traveling to 1986, did you?
Ha. I joke. Love a guy that will get out there and dance...good for you.
Wow, only 3 staffers for a site as large and busy as the Nexus? 
Did someone mention dancing?
Did someone mention dancing?
University of Exeter, eh? I'm actually considering applying there (to study Computer Science), whats it like?
Computer Science at Exeter? Don't do it, you'll lose the will to live.
First of all it's a jack-of-all-trades subject that's been over subscribed to in the past 10 years, which means reputable employers ignore it completely. Second of all Exeter was in the top 2 in the UK for Computer Science five years ago; when I left it last year to swap to Business Studies it was 63rd out of 64 in the tables; and with good reason. In my second semester of my second year I had one English lecturer out of eight, with two lecturers speaking practically imcomprehensible English. Not wishing to be racist but the subject was hard enough for me without having to try and translate what the lecturer was saying as well. Essentially it was like being taught by Borat with an even worse accent. Similarly the staff really couldn't care less about you and you won't get any support from them.
I love Exeter as a city and university. The students are good, the location is good, the facilities are good. But Computer Science was not good. If I were to do something computer oriented again at Exeter I would do CMIT modules (creative media modules that revolve more around graphic and website design) and then take one or two programming modules from the Computer Science course as well. It's much better to do a course that gives you lots of optionals so you can literally make your course a "pick-and-mix" of what you actually want to and enjoy learning. It's what I did last year with Business Studies and I highly recommend it.
Most of all do what YOU want to do. Not what your school tells you to do, or your parents, or anybody. University was the first time I had to pay for an education, and if you're going to be paying for it out of your own pocket make sure you're doing what you want to do. You'll appreciate it more, you'll enjoy it more and you'll work harder and want to do better because of it.
First of all it's a jack-of-all-trades subject that's been over subscribed to in the past 10 years, which means reputable employers ignore it completely. Second of all Exeter was in the top 2 in the UK for Computer Science five years ago; when I left it last year to swap to Business Studies it was 63rd out of 64 in the tables; and with good reason. In my second semester of my second year I had one English lecturer out of eight, with two lecturers speaking practically imcomprehensible English. Not wishing to be racist but the subject was hard enough for me without having to try and translate what the lecturer was saying as well. Essentially it was like being taught by Borat with an even worse accent. Similarly the staff really couldn't care less about you and you won't get any support from them.
I love Exeter as a city and university. The students are good, the location is good, the facilities are good. But Computer Science was not good. If I were to do something computer oriented again at Exeter I would do CMIT modules (creative media modules that revolve more around graphic and website design) and then take one or two programming modules from the Computer Science course as well. It's much better to do a course that gives you lots of optionals so you can literally make your course a "pick-and-mix" of what you actually want to and enjoy learning. It's what I did last year with Business Studies and I highly recommend it.
Most of all do what YOU want to do. Not what your school tells you to do, or your parents, or anybody. University was the first time I had to pay for an education, and if you're going to be paying for it out of your own pocket make sure you're doing what you want to do. You'll appreciate it more, you'll enjoy it more and you'll work harder and want to do better because of it.
QUOTE(Dark0ne @ Jun 27 2008, 06:24 PM)
Most of all do what YOU want to do. Not what your school tells you to do, or your parents, or anybody. University was the first time I had to pay for an education, and if you're going to be paying for it out of your own pocket make sure you're doing what you want to do. You'll appreciate it more, you'll enjoy it more and you'll work harder and want to do better because of it.
Isn't that the awful truth of it all. 
You should use your time in High School to figure out a general idea of what you'd like to do for the rest of your life.
You should use your time in College to find out exactly what you'd like to do for the rest of your life.
You should use your time at work doing exactly what you'd like to do for the rest of your life...or at least working towards it. Sometimes you gotta shovel dirt before you can direct 50 men at a construction site (for example).
Remember to find a way to enjoy what you are doing (even while shoveling dirt). Waiting to enjoy life tomorrow has an inherit problem of tomorrow never arriving.
More generic and overused crap that turns out to be quite true:
* People don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
* Man with itchy butt wakes up with stinky finger.
LHammonds
I'm glad that the staff page was updated. I didn't even realise that the Nexus was 7 years old! 
OT: By the way, what is the UK like? I am thinking of going there someday. Is it anything like Westport in New Zealand? I have made up my mind that I will most likely go to colege here in NZ, maybe in something like Bio-Medical Reasarch or Filmography.
Just wondering what your opinions are.
OT: By the way, what is the UK like? I am thinking of going there someday. Is it anything like Westport in New Zealand? I have made up my mind that I will most likely go to colege here in NZ, maybe in something like Bio-Medical Reasarch or Filmography.
Just wondering what your opinions are.
Cheers,
gman021
gman021
Thanks for that Dark0ne, thats one less university in my list of possibilities. 
I Definitely want to study computer science (or something similar), I just cant decide exactly where. 
And gman, there are certainly far worse places to be than the UK, thats for sure. I've no idea what Westport is like, so I cant compare them, but personally I like it here.
I Definitely want to study computer science (or something similar), I just cant decide exactly where. And gman, there are certainly far worse places to be than the UK, thats for sure. I've no idea what Westport is like, so I cant compare them, but personally I like it here.
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