First of all, I would like to briefly introduce myself, the Department of IC Mathematics and Computer Science, with four years of bachelor's and master's degrees, graduated in 2018.
IC's four years of life should be an experience that cannot be replicated in life.
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Panopto is a place to watch lecture recordings, but its two major disadvantages are, first, it is not real-time, and second, some professors will choose not to record lectures, or to force you to come to class, or to consider their own rights and interests, etc.
The Department of Mathematics requires professors to record lectures, but the Department of Computer Science is entirely up to the professor.
At the beginning of a course every semester, there are always people who try to theorize with professors who don't record lectures, but they basically fail.
At the beginning of each semester, I always tell myself that I want to go to class seriously, but I always slowly indulge myself and start to follow in the footsteps of Panopto.
Blood's experience tells us that if you choose to rely on lecture recording to take this course, you must make up for the recording as soon as possible after this class, otherwise, the debt will only increase.
"Elect a courseChoose well, such as the college entrance examination at the end of the year".
Isn't there a popular saying in Chinese universities, "If you choose a good course, the end of the year is like the college entrance examination". Under the premise of interest-oriented, course selection is also a science.
IC doesn't say that there is such a thing as rushing classes, even if a class like the history of mathematics has only one student taking the exam at the end, as long as the professor continues to teach, the class will continue.
There is not much room for freedom of choice in the first and second years, but in the third and fourth years, each course is optional.
In general, the following principles can be followed in the selection of courses
The content taught in this course is full of dry goods, such as machine learning back then, so no matter how difficult the exam is, because the course content will also be chosen.
In order not to embarrass yourself when it comes to the exam, look at the difficulty of the past **, and choose a few easy exams.
There are also a small number of classes, which are judged by the scores of several projects in daily life, and there is no summer term exam, which is also very popular.
UK universities have three semesters:
autumn term, from the beginning of October to the end of Christmas, almost two weeks of holidays;
Spring term, from after Christmas to before Easter, there are almost more than three weeks of holidays, the specific length depends on when your first exam is, but in fact, it also varies from department to department, the computer department will put the exam in the last week before the end of each term in the third or fourth year;
Summer term, the Department of Mathematics will put the exam at the beginning of the summer term, basically from the beginning of May to the end of June, and the rest of the time will be reserved for group projects.
The department allows you to take a few more courses during the Aumtum Term, and if you don't get a satisfactory result in one of the courses after the Spring Term is announced, you can take a new course.
While professors generally recommend not dropping the course if your grades aren't particularly low, it's good to have an extra layer of security.
If there are only a few knowledge points in this course, then he will definitely meet you in another form for this year's exam, and it is essential to familiarize yourself with it in advance.
But, but, but, not all past ** comes with an answer! The answer depends on the mood of the department or the professor.
The Department of Mathematics requires all past ** to be attached, and the Department of Computer Science requires that all past ** cannot be attached, mainly because there are too many knowledge points in mathematics and you are not afraid of rote memorization, and the computer exam questions have been memorized by rote, and the department feels that there is no meaning.
The debate over whether or not to answer has never stopped in my four years of study.
And the phased solution is that a well-meaning professor may intersperse lectures with the answer to a question in a certain year, or everyone in Piazza, the answer to the question on campus.
In addition, the revision lecture before the exam is very important, and the kind professor will tell you the questions that are not in the past ** this year in another form on the revision lecture, so be sure to go!
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The system of IC calculation and scoring is still relatively clear.
The results of the IC Computer Science Department are delineated as follows: a full score of 100 points, 70 points correspond to the first class, 60-70 points correspond to the 2:1 class, 50-60 points correspond to the 2:2 class, 40-50 points correspond to the third class, and the score below 40 points fails.
And your final degree is the result of a proportional average of each course.
The grading of each course in the Department of IC Mathematics will also take into account the overall average score of the students, and sometimes the passing mark may rise and fall because the questions are too difficult or too easy.
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First of all, the school has a special tutor for career planning, and the level is uneven, and it depends on who you have made an appointment with on the system that day.
At least let them check the CV to make sure your resume doesn't fall into the dust.
The school basically holds career fairs for different majors and grades every semester.
Some students will go to each booth to chat with the company's HR and technology to understand their recruitment process, requirements, etc.; Some students choose to sweep quickly, go to each booth to get a leaflet, go home and watch it slowly.
Anyway, it was helpful to go there, and my first job was to take a flyer from the booth and go back to hand it out.
If you want to have a more relaxed final year, you can just worry about graduation**, and vacation internships are essential.
Just like applying for a job, you also need to go through layers of interviews and screening.
If you find a summer internship in London and perform well, you will basically have a job after graduation.
Having said that, four years of group projects and exams are not enough to give me a headache, but every summer vacation when I have to think about living next year, it makes me crazy.
In the big city of London, the land is like Beijing and Shanghai, and IC is located in a wealthy area like South Kensington, adjacent to the Natural History Museum, Science Museum, and Harrods, soThe dormitories offered by the school are limited.
The location is optimalprinces gardens(Cross the street to the IC South Kensington campus).Accommodation is only available for first-year studentsevelyn gardens(20 mins walk to IC South Kensington Campus),Accommodation is available for students who are not in their final year.
I was fortunate enough to be assigned to a dormitory in Princes Gardens in my first year, a room for two people, about 145 pounds a week, ** okay, but I had a snoring roommate, fortunately I slept *** otherwise the first year was quite tormenting.
In the second year, I began to live in a wandering rented house, and I rented a science school a street away, about 8 minutes' walk from a one-bedroom apartment, a bedroom, a living room, 300 pounds a week, if you add water, electricity and gas bills, it may be 400 pounds smaller, but divided by 2, it is also acceptable.
A brief introduction to the house rented at this price - according to the neighbor's grandfather, the house was built by Indians when the British colonized IndiaThe age is awe-inspiring, and at the same time, the poor quality of the house also makes people vomit bitterness.
There was no exhaust system on the toilet, there was no drainage area underneath, and it was often so humid that mushrooms grew, so after four or five months of repeated requests from my roommate, an exhaust fan was installed. A hundred-year-old house, the foundation is a little crooked, and it is reasonable to sprinkle a little water, you can clearly see the direction of the terrain, but this is a trivial matter.
One day, the kitchen water pipe suddenly burst, like a small waterfall, filling the whole house. The water pipes of the entire building burst at the house I rented, and no one was lucky with it.
However, the tenant on the first floor was even worse than me, and the water in his house was dripping from the roof, and the house was not moving. The water was cut off for two days, and the workers came to change the wooden floor for three days, and the days of that week were not very easy.
In the third year, my friend applied for a single room in the above-mentioned Evelyn Gardens, although the house could only be used to live, but in order not to move, I chose to stay, but fortunately I chose to quit the rent during the summer vacation, which can save a few months of house money.
In the fourth year, I chose a studio three blocks away from the school, about a 15-minute walk, about 270 pounds a week with water and electricity, that studio, I just want to complain a little, the whole house is much more inclined than the previous one.
In 2017grenfell tower fireIn fact, it is not far from IC, while I can't help but worry about the quality of old houses in London, I want to say, friends, renting or modern apartments, the quality of life can be a little higher. It's okay to be far away.
After chatting about IC's boring study life and the painful experience of renting a house, the strategy of eating, drinking and playing in London is presented.
How to go shopping?
My shopping mecca, Westfield, Regent Street, Oxford Street, Harrods, and Covent Garden, are ranked in descending order.
Westfield has a direct bus, two floors indoors, the wind does not blow and the sun does not shine, from affordable to luxury, you can basically find the brand you want to buy.
There is a food hall, and there is a street of food, not afraid of being tired of shopping and having nowhere to eat.
The most important thing is that Westfield is open until 10 o'clock at the latest, so you don't have to worry about having dinner and not going shopping!
The following recommended route is my favorite when the weather is nice.
A London shopping route is included, red is a walking distance, orange is a bus journey.
You can go to China Town for lunch first, start with Piccadilly Circus on Regent Street, go to Oxford Street, take the bus from the northeast corner of Hyde Park to Harrods, then walk around or have a meal and go home, the perfect day is over.
The set before the start of the first half of the Harry Potter stage show.
The whole city of London is full of art
There are more than 40 theaters of all sizes in the city center, which stage major dramas and dramas throughout the year.
Since entering the pit in the fourth year, I have been stuck in it and can't extricate myself, and learning to be free is to study how to buy cheap tickets.
After brushing around, I found that my favorite is still The Wicked and Les Miserables, but the tickets for Les Misérables, a world classic, are too expensive, preventing me from brushing them for the second and third times.
The Wicked pre-opening set.
Here I would like to share with you a few ways to buy cheap tickets
Not all of the West End's perennial plays are booked the earlier they are booked, the cheaper they are.
For example, the ticket to Les Misérables, I bought a side but independent seat on the second floor the night before, more than 50 pounds, basically every moment to see the whole picture, and the space is relatively large.
Trust the lottery because you will win.
The luckiest one was to win a ticket for the Harry Potter stage play, £20 a game, and it was in the front row!
You must know that the slightly better position of this drama is usually more than 100 pounds. Dramas like Matilda, as long as you persevere, can win a 20-pound ticket.
Waking up early to queue up at the entrance of the theater to buy tickets is the hardest, but the most powerful way.
Like the wicked，On weekdays, I arrived at the entrance of the theater at about 8 o'clock in the morning, and the tickets were in hand.
Whether it is an online lottery discount or an on-site ticket purchase discount in the morning, it is still subject to the official website.
Do not buy it at piccadilly circus or the newsstand near China town.
I asked once, I don't know which seat for the ticket on the second floor of Les Miserables, and asked me for more than 60 pounds, too pit!
How do you spend your holidays?
The length of the vacation makes parents often complain that the tuition fees are paid in vain, because the long summer vacation, from the end of June to the beginning of October.
There are students who go out to play during the holidays, review at home, and intern.
Because I was too lazy to prepare visa materials, I was not pulled by my friends to France, Belgium, and the Netherlands until my graduation trip.
Most people will choose France as the first country to travel to on vacationBecause the French Schengen visa can be signed for the first time, it can be signed for multiple trips for a year, and you can have several trips that you can go!
As long as you make sure that when you use your visa for the first time, the first stop is to arrive in France, and the stay is the longest, so that it is the safest, and you will not be asked questions after that.
For the same visa fee, a student once went to Finland for Christmas, and the itinerary was written for a few days, and the approved visa was a few days, which was very cost-effective.
In just 1,000 words, the story of IC's four years is endless, and I will continue to share it with you next time I have the opportunity!