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Posted in School on Oct 29th, 2007
I’m hoping for a B.The Math 15500 midterm is scheduled for Friday, but my Geology 1003 final hasn’t yet arrived! I’ll have to see with LSU if the 30 days limit to take the exams count from the end of course or the day the proctor receives the exams.
Posted in School on Oct 3rd, 2007
One word: busyI sent the final lessons for Geology 1003 and now I’m waiting for my exams to arrive.At the same time my second year at bbk has started. This years subjects: Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology, Geophysics, Planetary Volcanism, Structural Geology, and -maybe- Advanced Topics in Planetary Sciences.
Posted in School on Jun 10th, 2007
I’m done with my exams for BBK!They hopefully left for London on Friday afternoon, but the results wont be out until second half of July >(For summer I have to finish up two LSU courses and some other stuff. I also got a pile of books to read.
Posted in School on May 31st, 2007
Today I wrote my first exam, Astrobiology and it wasn’t too bad.Tomorrow it’s Geochemistry which will be a bit harder I guess.
Posted in School, The Lapintosh Files on May 30th, 2007
Apple just announced a new feature in iTunes:iTunes UEducation evolves.iTunes U has arrived, giving higher education institutions an ingenious way to get audio and video content out to their students. Presentations, performances, lectures, demonstrations, debates, tours, archival footage — school is about to become even more inspiring.I have no chance today and tomorrow to take a good look at it, but I hope during the weekend to be able to explore it in depth.
Posted in School on May 29th, 2007
My first exam is on Thursday, Astrobiology, the second one on Friday, Intro to Geochemistry. I did chicken out from Planetary Volcanism, I’ll have to do it next year.A slight sense of panic is creeping up but so far I’m ok.
Posted in School on May 24th, 2007
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Posted in School on Oct 17th, 2006
Finally I managed to get things going!
I wrote to the program director and he got things rolling. I’m taking Geology of the Solar System, Intro to Geochemistry, and Planetary Volcanism this term and next term it will be the remainder of Geology of the Solar System, Fundamentals of Mineralogy, and one more which is not [...]
Posted in School on Sep 27th, 2006
Went on a small book shopping spree yesterday, three books 150 USD. I’ll probably need two more now, one of them is totally unavailable, and one more in a few months.
I haven’t heard anything else from BBK yet, I wrote to the administrator with a few questions, but I guess he’s too busy to write [...]
Posted in School on Sep 25th, 2006
I obviously got accepted into Birkbeck’s Earth and Planetary Sciences Program since I got an email today to log into the Student Portal and verify my information and pay!
I still have no idea which courses I will be taking or if they have accepted my LSU course in Geology for credit. I need to get [...]
