Quite a different day.
I thought Swinburne (my charming university) had totally destroyed it before it began. This morning bought an email letting me know – two days before the official term goes back – that one of my classes had been moved and that the one I originally chose simply now no longer exists.
My timetable up until now has and always has been very carefully orchestrated to maximise work time, homework time, spare time and to minimise days spent traveling. That is, I try and squash my full time load into two days preferably, this time I had it down quite satisfactorily to three.
As things are, my beautifully structured Thursday now has a gaping 3hr gap in the middle (of me stuck at uni) and my Monday has a 1hr lecture scar in my mid afternoon. I was ropeable and so close to writing a cranky email back asking them to pay me for the extra half day’s work that I lose. Class options for the change became: Monday or Monday. Thank you for the endless choice.
In honor of Analise (Boy I hope you see this): Monday Monday Monday, I say damn your mood swings.
This now (best case scenario) means that I go to work on Monday and leave at midday’ish to make my lecture. Go to work Tuesday. Do an online class on Wednesday mornings, now cue ‘homework afternoon’. Go to uni on Thursdays have a 1hr lecture have a three hour gap have a three hour tute. Go to uni on Fridays freaking early and have solid classes for 4 or so hours then I am free for the weekend.
As I don’t live exactly close to uni this is less than desirable. I often wonder if my attitude (which sucks by the way) would change if I lived across the road. Probably not.
Dear Rebecca, in truth you have a sweetly small full-time study load.
Anyway, my day turned happy by me going off and doing something quite different by hanging out with my sister-in-law Anita and her two bridesmaids-to-be for dress shopping. No I am not going to be a bridesmaid and it was still a fairly painful memory to re-engage in, because it was pretty painfully similar to my unsuccessful hunt, but I had a lot of fun. I got along well with Julie and Tash and it was great to finally spend some proper time with Anita.
well i’m glad i make you laugh… 🙂
my timetable is quite okay really mon, tues and wed are relatively full (but never starting too early or finnishing too late). Thursday is completely free. Friday i have one lecture…which i may not always attend b/c in reality i’ll spend one hour in a lecture in the middle of the day for 2hrs and 40minutes of travel…not necessarily desirable…but overall a happy timetable
That is frustrating! My ideal situation would be to have Friday off along with the weekend. I have known a few other people who have gotten that to work but it never has for me. A three-day weekend every single week? How lovely would that be? Alas, I must be content with a two-day weekend. Haha. I hope the new classes go well!
That does suck rather a lot! Mainly the fact that they changed it AFTER you were happy with and had got used to the nice timetable… I hate days with only one lecture!
I however am very happy with my timetable..: for the first time (in the last two years) I have a WHOLE day off (Monday.. yay!), and no breaks longer than one hour. So I’m not wasting heaps of time at uni… I also have Wednesday and Friday afternoons off, want to catch up one of those days??
Oh, and I
I say damn your mood swings
Damn your mood swings!
Thats a bit of a pain in the proverbial.
I sooooo do not miss uni.
You never used to say (or write) the word ‘freaking’. Wonder where you picked that one up from? 😛
can just say how incredibly lucky you are!
heres my uni timetable:
monday: tute then 4 hour break then my one hour long lecture.
wednesday: lecture for 2 hours at 8.30am, a 6 hour break during which im stuck at uni, then a tute
thursday: tute at 10.30, break for 2 hours, and then a lecture.
friday: tute at 8.30am, 6 hour break during which im stuck at uni, then a tute.
it is most sucky to have incredibly long breaks.
perhaps become friends with the uni res students. you could hang out in their rooms in between breaks… and sleep 😀