Boring!

An excerpt from the wikipedia article on Found Poetry:

"---An example of found poetry appeared in William Whewell's "An Elementary Treatise on Mechanics":

"Hence no force, however great,
can stretch a cord, however fine,
into a horizontal line
which is accurately straight."

though when it was pointed out to him, an unamused Whewell changed the wording in the next edition.---"

I mean really! If I'd accidentally written a poem into my textbook and someone spotted it I would jolly well pretend it was deliberate! If engineers (and their cousins the mathematicians, physicists etc.) are ever going to lose the stereotype of being a bunch of boring old pedants they're going to have to start showing a little spirit.

Although... this gives me an idea. I'm going to try and turn some of my recent lecture notes into verses. I should probably study them instead, but then what I said above would become the pinnacle of hypocrisy, wouldn't it?

That's Just Not Cricket

Just got back from my first proper training session with University of Manchester Cricket Club. It was absolutely brilliant, couldn't hope for a better set of people to play a sport with, some proper coaching, loads of other Physics students (or at least it felt like there were,) and some good exercise without completely killing me.
Now I'm blasting some Future of the Left, as my neighbours were drunkenly singing Wonderwall and I needed to block it out. Luckily they seem to have stopped now.
It's been another week of lengthy derivations and working on problems that have been cracked a thousand times over. But, I comfort myself (ha!) with the knowledge that come second year, hell, probably even second semester, I will look back on this material fondly, as a dip of the proverbial toe into the (again, proverbial) edge of an ocean; too shallow for the sharks to rip my leg off.
Big smiles,
Jmalk x.