SUCS Beach Party 2006Last night was the annual SUCS (Swansea University Computer Society) End of Exams Beach Party.  Weeks of gathering burnable material comes to an end with a ritual BBQ and bonfire on the beach outside the university.

Frosty and Elsmo attempting to build the bonfire and getting it to light provided some of us with entertainment, while a huge game of Frisbee took place for others.  Bizarrely digging a humongous hole provided entertainment for another group of people.  At least it got filled in before everyone got too drunk or people could have been waking up down there this morning.

There were so many people there I didn’t know, including some people who had graduated back in 1998!  I had a decent chat to a few people I didn’t know before, and discovered that the department has a scarily large number of people from Pontypool – including Kat, Nick and Tom.  Incidentally, Kat’s mum works in the same college as my mum – it’s a very small world.

All in all, it was a great night and a welcome break from revision!  Some photos from the night can be found in my media section.

While on the topic of revision, most of my exams are now over – only one more to go.  These exams haven’t gone as bad as I expected and I feel as if I’ve done quite well in a good number of them.  Operating Systems and Data Communications have both gone very well and I was really pleased with both of them.  Computer Graphics went pretty well as well.  Computability Theory I expected to be absolute hell but I think that the paper was very generous.  Instead of coming out of the exam thinking “oh my god I’m screwed” I came out quite happy with how I did.  System Specification has so far been the worst exam, I think if I’ve failed any of them, its System Spec.  Oh well, not much I can do about that now – just have to concentrate on Compilers for the exam tomorrow (Monday) morning.

That’s all for now, off to make some food then go do loads of revision.

Edit:  Photos of the beach party have started appearing online from various members of SUCS.  Here are some of the links:
Rollercow (Chris)
Talyn256 (Sean)
Akyan (James)