11th October 2019

Today was planned to be the second Networks and security lecture first then the databases lab and lecture, but due to the professor having to go to the hospital, the networks lecture was cancelled. As bad as this was for the normal student, I and other classmates were going to miss this lecture to attend a talk on a scheme called Erasmus so luckily we didn't miss out on a lecture. there were only 4 people in the Erasmus talk so it gave me the chance to pick the brain of the man running the event, Andrew Hinchcliffe. He informed us of the number of European companies that are looking for UK
placement and graduate students for an entire year of work and the benefits that come along with it for us including the Erasmus grant and what kind of companies that offer this opportunity. Further, we got to watch a presentation created by former participants in the scheme. It was a very interesting talk as a whole, but hearing all about the scheme has helped me decide that I'm going to independently find a placement instead of relying on Erasmus or the uni. After this, we got out Databases lecture where we were introduced to the concept of entity-relationship models and how they're constructed. this lecture was fairly short and consisted mostly of the task to construct models based on scenarios. In the labs, we mainly focused on creating our first Queries in access. Surprisingly we didn't need to touch the SQL side of the application at all (although if you knew how it did make the application endlessly easier to use).