When asked to write what it was like to be a first year student on an Electronic Engineering degree course I thought to myself this should not be too hard and switched on the word processor. Unfortunately I was to be proved wrong. ‘Why should this be so?’, you may ask yourself. It was nothing to do with the lack of substance of the degree course that I was undertaking, or a boring life as a student. In fact it was quite the opposite; there was too much for me to write about.