Life of University - Week 1

Although i had resolved myself to try to post daily when university started i had misjudged the work and tiredness i felt as a result of having to go to university. So as a result, i have decided to do weekly posts around the Friday mark because that is the time where i have space to breathe this semester. Anyway lets start by summarising what happened through each day of this week shall we:

Monday (Day 1)
So Monday was the 1st day to my new life as a university student and also begins a period of time where i have to wake up early for 8am lectures XD After a year of just sleeping in it is quite hard to adjust to. But on the first day i was able to do it somehow. So i caught the train to lidcombe where i then took the bus to Usyd. I dunno, the cumberland campus is good in the fact it is relatively close in terms of transport time but it just feels sort of isolated in the middle of nowhere compared to UNSW or the main USyd campus.

But yeh, moving on i made my way to the 1st lecture where i bumped into Brendan and he was full surprised by the fact i was doing Physio and we sort of had a catch up chat. Anyway he mentioned something about O-camp which i didn't even knew until he mentioned it. Mad. He met up with some of his friends he met on O-camp, a guy called Arkash. I was sort of intimidated by the fact i don't really know anyone and this campus is dominantly white so i find it quite difficult to fit in. So my 6 hour lecture in a row day began. My 1st lecture was about psychology and sociology, 2nd was about body systems and 3rd was about the musculoskeletal system. Today was mostly introduction for the first hour but the 2nd hour was filled with loads and loads of information coming at you. i experienced a bit last year at UNSW but experiencing it again is quite daunting. We go through whole objectives in freaking 1 lecture... Sigh so much stuff to learn is so little time. n
During the classes i was trying to look for at least some people i know and if not just looking for asians in general lol within the lecture theatre. I spotted a few but yeh. So it was 2pm when i finished and i decided to head on home for lunch...Cumberland has like no/limited food. So that was the first day, to be honest i am not sure how i will fit into this new environment, i can't imagine it yet at this point. Hopefully something will come along and help me meet new people.
  
Tuesday (Day 2)
So since the first week of University doesn't have any tutorials, today i had to get up at 6.30 to make a 1 hour lecture at 8am. It was a pain to do but the fact that i get to go home early afterwards was appealing. Antisocial much. Nothing in particular happened according to memory, just remember being flooded with new terms and concepts which i will do well to remember if i want to get a HD...sigh

Wednesday (Day 3)
Today was a bit better i had a 10am start but i decided to go to the 9am library class which taught us how to use the library system at Usyd. An extra hour of sleep really changes a lot, and i felt so much more attentive that day in general. After the 9am library class i made my way to the lecture theatre. Sat down on a spare seat and began to take down notes of the lecture. A bit afterwards saw brendan came in late and grab a seat a few rows in front of me.

After the lecture, i had a chat with Brendan and told him i would be grabbing lunch and then going to the library for the 4 hour break i had (because of no tutes in 1st week) to study and write notes. That 4 hour session was pretty good and i made a lot of progress with the notes. Anyway afterwards, went to the biomechanics lecture and it was pretty much introduction for the 1st hour and basic physics mechanics for the next. Honestly i didn't really learn anything new in that lecture and is probably something i can skip in the future maybe.

Ended at 5pm so me and brendan caught the same bus/train back home.highlight of the day, just as we reached liverpool station some drunk dude holding a bottle of black smirnoff came up to brendan and started swearing and threatening to smash his head with the bottle (or something along those lines). But We managed to escape without harm :D

Thursday (Day 4)
Last day of uni for the week and i was looking forward to the end of it. I need time to process everything i had learnt this week. We began at 9am with the anatomy practical (only class of the day). But the weatehr was horrible today. Raining/flooding all night and day which i found quite interesting because it's a rare occasion. In my particular group there were 4 tables and in the whole group only 3 guys...ah yep. and an even mix of white and asians kinda of girls. But yeh it's hard to get to know them lol. We spent the 2 hours examining bones and we saw a cadaver. In another group apparently someone fainted after seeing it.
Anyway afterwards again, caught bus and train with Brendan and headed on home.

So after a week I feel like i haven't really adjusted socially and only barely academically but yeh i guess it's ok. Though i do prefer to have at least one person i know and can talk to alot besides Brendan. Hmm...wonder what will happen next week. I don't really have a tute next week besides prac so it will be hard to meet new people. sigh what is uni life...

Outside of Uni
I haven't done much even outside of university. The things i learnt at university made me felt like i had to relearn and write notes as soon as i get home or i will definitely fall behind. So most of the nights of uni i had spent just writing up notes so i could spend the friday and weekends to revise them and be prepared for another week of hardcore learning. I guess i could say the friday is sort of my day off but even then i don't really have anything to do besides tv, reading a book and most other people are at uni, so sigh.

A side note: today is the very special birthday of our beloved kiddy Leader of SNSD, Kim Taeyeon :D yay. may she be happy and successful in this coming year.