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And you think an emotional crutch like a confidence tutor will change that?

and you haven't retreated into a quivering ball of indecision that needs to be told to buck up every ten seconds? Are you sure you need one?

A picture is meant to tell a 1000 words. it was meant to lead into the picture of the plane having crashed and burned. There used to be a better pic than that but alas it's lost on the information super highway. As for the advice, at the very least you can get a good fish supper along the way.

... and I still haven't learned the secrets of immortality, but you don't see me bloody complaining. Do you really need one? I suppose it's a bit of a trick, if you have the confidence to actually ask for one to be assigned, then you probably don't need one.

ouch so you: then. No worries mate, plenty more fish in the sea. Then again fish tend to spunk randomly in the water and don't get cosy by the fireplace with the missus, so in that sense I've never really seen the relevence of that particular phrase.

Aye, we are talking about a generation that considers the ninties 'retro'...... baby faced b*****ds

What were you expecting, the Margaret Thatcher Glasgow appreciation society? While generally fashionable for students to go to the left as a default setting (to the point where it almost embarrases me into a right wing position on occasion ) I challenge anyone to find much sympathy for the conservatives in central Scotland regardless. You could always start your own lil'Tories of Scotland club, the unions do give start up money for societies, don't they (they do at HW anyway)

I bonded with a guy who became my best mate through a shared love of danger mouse, Everyone was in the same boat, no real connections to anyone else so we just got on with it, I'm still good mates with all of them. merely worms I'd wager.

1) As responses go that's up there with 'I know you are, but what am I" i.e around the mental age of a prepubescent girl.... 2) It's very easy to treat yourself with distain, self loathing isn't uncommon among those who seek psychiatric help across the world and really isn't an achievement.

Ya big paedo.

My PHd. I have a meeting with my supervisor today that from my perspective at least, is slightly doom laden. I think the entire concept of my work is now almost fatally hamstrung by the munufacturing limitations of the facilities available to me. He will probably attempt to fob me off with some vague reference to contacts that can get it sorted for me... or possibly worse he will agree with me. I want to discuss with him where he thinks the PHd is going and what I can expect from the year ahead. At the moment I am completely demotivated and I think any talk on the subject of year long plans is too heavy for him.... Added to that there is a job going in Stirling that is right up my street, designing embedded systems for near patient biomedical devices. I can do it and as far as I can tell, have pretty much all of the qualities they desire apart from familiarity with the particular microcontroller they use (something that I can overcome).... I would no doubt be far down the list for getting the job and to apply and get it would mean the end of trying for my doctorate, to apply and fail would mean letting my PHd supervisor know I was looking for an out with all the complications and motivational hazards that would have in my current occupation. I'm pretty much falling between two stools on this.

Aye, but if he's going from Heriot Watt, he's only really got the choice of the 25 and the 34

your best wth the 34.

I actually don't, it's one weekend where my girlfriend can't give me absolute hell for not being around

nae luck

I've completely fucked one of the process steps in my project, leading to repeated sample failures. Kids.... don't underbake your AZ9260 photoresist.

The man indeed talks sense, fabricating micro mechanical devices sounds like fun until you try it.....

You just mash the keyboard with your face and hope something legible comes out a la the infinite monkeys with infinite typewriters argument. Something I've accused undergrads of before when they've been e-mailing me their type written assignments. Not that I'm accusing you of that heinous crime, merely clarifying the point. I still owe you a pint I think.....

Little dark secrets, never to be told. The kind that haunts you at 3 in the morning..... Have to say though, it's a rare occurance in my experience, the whole freshers week thing turns so many heads as people realise that they can exist outside the small parochial social group they've had for years in their home towns. I was single when I started uni, so was able to have some small distance as I watched relationships break down in hours, days.... a few weeks at the outside. One couple knee jerked into an engagement two weeks into uni so insecure were they (it didn't help in the end). Of course, it might work out.... I simply wouldn't bet the house against it.

No relationship survives freshers week, well no honest relationship survives freshers week......

What's the topic? I remember sitting through a whole afternoon of sessions dedicated to incremental improvements in distribution of solder. I was ready to commit murder that day.....

She wasn't taking the piss, she was making an observation. Get over it.

It's Dumfries and Galloway, the region known as the borders - traditional Rugby land - is further east. Neither is Dumfries 'low'......

Steppenwolf - magic carpet ride. A nice change of pace

Rage Against the Machine - Wake up.... oldies are the best.