Well I think that I am due a blog entry after the first three weeks of university… Its been a strange few weeks.. So, firstly I got back upto St Andrews very easily it was a nice trip and I managed to move into retro 10 college street quite easily. The first week (freshers week) was very busy, I helped IT Services with the ResNet registrations and did loads of Bute stuff. I met loads of new people and I still keep seeing them, which is promising. I at the end of the first week I went to the first of the JASME committee meetings in Nottingham, it was strange to leave St Andrews so quickly after I had arrived. I am really enjoying JASME (see link to the side), it’s very interesting and the other medics who are on the committee are really lovely. So I have had quite a few bits of work to get done for that, but I have managed to get most of that done now. I also went to see Diana in Edinburgh on the sunday and have dinner, its so nice to be able to have a relaxed time with friends who you know well. During the second week we started our academic stuff, its very laid back this year and everything is reliant on us doing the work of our own accord… sometimes I find that quite hard! I was actually getting quite bored towards the end of the week, as we had not had much to do. It’s been strange in St Andrews the last few weeks; it’s just the same as ever but with all my medical friends gone and a very different pattern of work. However its starting to feel like its always been this way.. The third week has been much busier and I now have a much clearer vision of what needs to be done and when. We have had our web design courses and Steve Smart is great at teaching us how to use dreamweaver, watch out I may be doing a bit more to this site if I have time! We had a manically busy visiting day at uni on Wednesday, with over 520 applicants, that’s over 1000 people when you factor in parents and grannies! Mike the new ELO is making the visiting days an added stress at the moment as he is new to his job, but hopefully all will be sorted over time. As I write this I have managed to reduce my St Andrews webmail to a sustainable 81 messages in my inbox (I have a love/hate relationship with webmail, its so slow during the day, but so convenient at the same time), have updated my letts pocket diary (yes you read that right, Rupert has a diary) and have a POA (plan of action) for next week. So all in all quite satisfied. It seems as though the next few weeks will be busy with the website, visiting Manchester and going home for a Cambridge open day. And that’s before I factor in JASME, the ball, Dietary, open days, staff student council and general St Andrews life. Oh and by the by the new iTunes 7 software, not a fan, it crashes when I import CD’s, has downloaded loads of random artwork that does not match the music and is generally just like most apple software for the PC, badly written and has loads of bugs that they patch by releasing a totally new version that takes about 15 mins to install each time and tries to take over your computer. Also while I am on the topic of computers I am really looking forward to the new release of Microsoft Office 2007, it looks great. So I am looking forward to my next blog entry in a few weeks time, maybe even with a link to the website I will have designed by then.
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