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[hawkwing_lb]

When curry goes wrong, it goes unpleasantly wrong.

It was a very tasty curry. Up until about 2 am this morning, when I discovered that curry? Disrupts my stomach like a disrupting thing.

(No, the curry didn't come back. I almost wish it had: at least then the unpleasantness would be over with.)

So far today I have had water. And a biscuit. And some glucose sports drink. On a five-lecture day this is not quite, precisely, convenient.

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[davefreer.livejournal.com]

I've always been a bit wary about curry since the elderly (circa 1910) pakistani cookbook I bought at a second-hand store "If meat is green do this. If meat is black it is too bad even for curry..." Some of the recipes are great, but I try to be sure that meat is at least reddish.
Forgive my curiousity, 5 lectures? How many subjects do you do?
My son does 4 a day (4 subjects) (as I did) and a tutorial or prac. Second year is 3 a day (more tuts, more assignements and essays), and the third is 2 a day. Oddly Honours was back to 4 a day One subject, but as they had to mix math and bio they needed the time. Our neighbour's son is at Exeter and does something silly like 3 or four lectures a WEEK and ONE subject. Pads GF Clare is at Jesus College in Cambridge and does 5 a week and also one subject. Undergrad one subject just seems ridiculous to me as that is not what I am used to. How does Trinity work it?
Oh BTW, there is a small chance the barbs and I will come to P-con in Dublin next year. Do you know anything about it?

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

I'm taking a two subject moderatorship. Which basically means I take three courses from each subject. At two lectures per week per course (apart from Greek, where it's three, and the odd weeks where they want to give you extra) that works out to between twelve and fourteen hours of lectures a week. (Seminar weeks, where they pile on the reading and reduce the lectures, are the exceptions.)

So I'm taking Greek History, Greek Archaeology, and the Bronze Age Aegean for my ancient history, and koine Greek, 'Judah Under Empire' and 'Prophecy in Israel'/'Apocalyptic, Magic and Mysticism in Second Temple Judaism' (half a year's worth each) for my biblical and theological studies course allocation. The lectures are all over the place, of course, depending on professorial availability, so you end up with two on Monday, two on Tuesday (one at ten and one at four), three on Wednesday, five on Thurday, and a nine a.m. on Friday. Or something very like.

If you are interested in the details of how the courses are assessed, that's on the various departmental websites. It's a tad mixed.

P-Con? I was there last year: tiny, but very friendly. Mind you, they like Wynn's Hotel on Lr. Abbey St. for it: all the old biddies and lads were in having the same lunch they've had for the last forty-fifty years and politely not staring at the SF weirdos at the bar. :)

(I'm thinking about going again this year: depends on Schols and essays.)

[davefreer.livejournal.com]

Ah. Our system is more regimented (surprise!) Your two subject moderatorship is obligatory here (2 majors) You are also expected to do 3 other subjects (often obligatory supporting ones - ie Maths if you are doing physics or CompSci, Chemistry if you are doing life or earth sciences) to at least first year level. If you are doing exceptionally well - firsts - you may be permitted to do 3 majors. There are 15 hours of lectures a week, 4 tutorials of an hour, and 2 hours of prac for each the sciences. You can expect roughly an essay a week for each subject, and a major assignment a term. It's quite tough, and quite regimented, academically. :-) more Edinburgh than Cambridge. (you know the story: Prof comes in to lecture at a Cambridge college -says 'Good morning' and half the students say 'prove it' and the other half walk out. Prof comes in a lecture in Edinburgh and says good morning, and half the students say good morning, and the other half are asleep. Prof comes in to a lecture in Aberdeen and says 'good morning'.... and they _all_ write it down :-))
believe it or not the Afrikaans universities are much more school-like. They produce well trained people but not much in the way of thinkers. Rhodes (my son's Uni) has a reputation for producing people who think and know what they're thinking about :-)
P-Con is a bit of a maybe. It's possible we might make it a family expedition, but that'll depend on the finances and if Pads is still going out with this lass in the UK.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Trinity is an outlier. The systems are different (and in general much more like each other) in the other universities. And, too, histories&humanities is different to business is different to science is different to medicine, because each of the faculties (in TCD, at least) have a lot of leeway to arrange things within their constituent departments.

If you do get to P-Con, let me know, and I'll stand you a drink. Or point you at some of the better touristy things to do.

Though be advised that the cheaper hotel rooms in the city run about E80 a night, and Ireland is in the top three most expensive countries in Europe for food, drink, and tranport costs. (It may even be number one.) Just FYI. :)