My intellectual property
Sunday night was gorgeous on campus, the sky was a dark blue colour before the black swept in. When the buildings are lit up the place looks really good it's only by day that the place looks like communist china or a blade runner dystopia. Still i'm over the moon to be leaving. 5 years in education is enough especially if you don't want to be a lecturer/researcher.

I miss my bike, waiting for the bus doesn't suit me,it's unbecoming, also it was keeping me fit there is an actual muscle on the back of my lower leg after the year. I must admit I'm not too cut up, it was a second hand bike that I bought for 160. When I've been robbed in the past, or somebody has damaged my belongings I don't feel a sense of loss for the item I'm not that attached to any of my property ("we have a greed on which we have agreed"-Eddie Veder), I feel more angry that someone has violated my space and been through my things. I'll probably get a new bike now I don't have to chain it up in a robbers/hooligans paradise.

Anyway I have more immediate concerns. A guy in my class(he's created an imaginary relationship with me where we are friends although he knows nothing about me and we don't spend time with eachother outside of the cabin fever environment of the labs), two weeks ago I sent him one of my assignments, he has helped me out in the past and it's only right that I should help him the only problem is he chose to change the name on the work to his and submit it completely un-edited. Anyway he got an email from the head demonstrator asking him what was going on. Luckily the head demonstrator is a friend of the class and very sympathetic towards us so she let him resubmit it. Anyway it doesn't end there he sent me an email apologising for what he had done in case I got into any bother over it. That was fine except for one paragraph in the "apology email" where he went on about how I should pray for him because he wanted to do a masters and this might effect his chances. Well I ask you the guy has just submitted my work and he is telling me to worry about his future, what about my future?!! I don't want to do a masters but I don't get the same grades as him so I kind of want to pass! and excuse me it's my work what about my future plans. The current problem is before I knew about the plagarism I gave him some of my code for the main project. Now he's emailing me asking me to show him how it works i.e 'I have your code but I don't know how it works so I can't make it work for me and hence submit it'. So I told him I wouldn't show him and that I wanted assurances that he wouldn't use my work. To which he replied oh don't worry my html is different so it won't be the same. The code is the main part of the project it's what gives the forms created by the html an action. So I told him this and he has just ignored me so what can I do. When I get sent work by other people I take a look at the code see how it works and then delete most of it and adapt it so that it doesn't resemble their work, then I submit it. You'd never have this problem in arts students are capable of completeing their own work and it is so unique there is no point in copying. I spent hours, days, weeks on this project in the lab with everyone else and he doesn't bother showing up. I'm concerned because this module is worth the marks of two modules and I don't want to be penalised by somebody utterly foolish who is hijacking my intellectual property.