HI there. In my last 4 years at University I don’t really think I’ve ever really had any “all nighters” the day before a project is due, so just to make sure that I wouldn’t leave Uni without this valuable experience I decided to leave 90% of one project, 100% of another project and about 60% of my dissertation right until the week they are all due in. The 90% project went really well, and I completed on time. The dissertation is going ok… got about 1.5 days worth of hours on that… and the Project that is due in at 5pm this afternoon I started at 3pm yesterday- and apart from a quick tea, that is what I have literally been doing till I started writing this at 6:18am in the AB computer labs.
  THERE is nothing like a bit of pressure to focus the mind, but I think I’ve learned my lesson now…… actually I really doubt it… but hey. The only other annoying thing is that I have to try and figure out how to exit a locked building with a campus card that is snapped in the corner just making the metallic strip in operable! Before the holidays I said that I would tell you my poem that I wrote for Stalker Kate. Well here it is. Now I’m not that good with poetry, and I did try and rebel to start with any write something like “Roses are white, Violets are violet”… but it wasn’t going anywhere…. So here is my final tribute to

Stalker Kate:
Roses are Red,
Violets are Blue,
Your watching Me,
And I’m scared of You.

  THE fourth Easter 'holiday' of my University life has followed a somewhat predictable pattern, despite being rather more work-saturated than previous years. After starting relatively well on the dreaded coursework/revision/project/recital, I somehow descended into the normal 'film fest' that seems to take over the lives on many students each Easter. Several friends and I have recently managed to devour around a film a day… X Men, Roadkill, Red Dragon, and not to mention the horribly un-scary Halloween Resurrection have all graced screens across campus, all courtesy of the reliable Blockbuster machine outside the Union.
  THE aforementioned Halloween Resurrection must take the prize for the worst supposedly 'horror' film I have ever had the bad fortune to see. How do you rescue a failing teen-horror film series? Combine it with the most overused TV format ever - reality TV! Safe to say, some astonishingly bad teen actors, a haunted house, lots of TV cameras made for an absolutely terrible movie that was something like Big Brother crossed with Scream. Anyhow, to avoid this turning into a (bad) film critique, I shall move swiftly on.
  THOSE who head home during the holidays will probably be unfamiliar with the concept of closure week. This takes place at predictable times, such as between Christmas and New Year, but this holiday, the unfortunate late timing of Easter meant that although closure week was over the holiday weekend, it was also in the very last week of the holidays. Now, despite the good intentions of lecturers, I know very few people who actually do their work when it's set, and for the majority of my final year friends, the last week of the holidays saw the typical mad rush to finish projects and dissertations. But suddenly - there was no library, no postal delivery, no bookshop, no One Stop to fuel us during those hard earned breaks and more importantly, no Union or Chancellors in which to seek refuge! Surely whoever decided when Easter was could have been a little more considerate and put it right in the middle of the holidays?!