A week left until exams start now. Calming down because I've realised how badly I can do while still getting the grades I actually need: I am on track for a first or a high 2:1 in philos, and because of how math/phil only requires you to be good at one of the subjects to do well, I can get away with getting an average of 50% or something in my four maths papers while still getting a 2:1 overall. Pretty sweet. Still not quite hitting philos questions as precisely as I need to but I can improve on that; I have plenty of knowledge now, aside from a couple of areas which still need some work but I can sort that. So it's mostly okay and soon to be over. Looking forward to a fresh start next year.
Notes from the Library
Camped out among the stacksThu, 17 May 2012
Mon, 14 May 2012
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Sat, 12 May 2012
Re-shelving books at my job at the Oxford Philosophy Library always makes me sad because I look at the amount of text that philosophers have churned out in the past century—mostly I'm reshelving 20th century books rather than classic texts—and wonder how much of it could possibly matter. My patience with academics and fellow students doing their subject just because they like it is quite low at the moment; I want capital-t Truth, it seems—how naïve—and I want them to want it too.
Last night I finished reading Atomised by Michel Houellebecq.
Thu, 10 May 2012
It turns out that Windows X11 servers are actually pretty sane: they can work with a separate SSH client. I thought that Exceed, the X server installed in Balliol, would require use of its own SSH client, which is broken here, but in fact it works straight away with PuTTY.
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