Look! It's me in the Local PaperMost local papers will print any old rubbish. Far, far too many years ago I got into the Windsor, Slough and Eton Express after winning a fancy-dressed-bicycle competition. What they neglected to mention was that I was the only entrant.
What sad stuff have you been in your local rag for doing? Scan stuff in and show us if you can.
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chthonic, Thu 10 Feb 2005, 10:15)
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My college......entered every pupil on the Computer Studies course into the National IT User of the Year compo in 2001.
First there were the local heats, in which I came first out of everyone in the college.
Then there were the regional heats, in which I came first out of every winner of every college. Yay me.
At this point, these two articles appeared in the paper, arranged by my college:
Shropshire Star Article
Shrewsbury Chronicle Article
Note that I didn't say anything to the reporters about doing a degree in computer science. Journalism is great, ain't it?
Anyway, I then went on to the national finals where I again came first. Won a super duper £1400 IBM NetVista computer. And sold it. Profit!
Automatic entry into next years competition at the national level to see if I could get through to the International competition. Came second in that one. Bugger. Oh well, it was good while it lasted ;)
Oh, and my college basically tried to give themselves credit for teaching me everything I knew about Office. Gits.
//edit: Oh yeah, and I was 18 at the time. Who said research was dead, eh?
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GazChap, Thu 10 Feb 2005, 22:25,
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