the one with the REAL first day
So that's what sitting through four hours of lectures straight is like again. I'd almost forgotten how awful it is (I do realise that other people have waaaay more lectures than me) and how utterly drained I am when i return home. Going into the city afterwards to get a new messenger bag probably didn't help much either.
So.
Yeah. That was totally not as awesomefun as I'd been unrealistically hoping. They're remodeling our block (who knows why, probably to make it more shiny for the architecture students that share our incredibly small block) and it's all freaking different and unsettling. I was wandering through to where room 460 used to be but is now moved sliiiightly down the corridor with no numbers on the door, and one of the aural lecturers was walking behind me. I slowed down because, omg everything's different where do I go, and she was all "Hurry up! It's the same building!" because she's snippy like that. I was actually so disoriented that I almost snipped back at her, which wouldn't have gone over very well. The renovations probably will make the building less...early 80s in style, but I liked the homey-ness of it before. I don't approve of these damn lecterns which the stupidly large UQ crest on them. Dudes, we know, we're at UQ, you don't need to show us that every lecture. Then there's the new tech that no one can work because frankly, the old tech was difficult enough for the lecturers to work (music lecturers are sadly not that tech savvy).
And it smells weird. But enough about the renovations.
Musicological Research Methods proved to be not so great. I swear to God, if you don't already know how to do all the things we apparently need to be taught, I have no idea how you passed your undergrad degree. For realz. Apparently you need to reference things. Who knew... Dr Collins also makes us read out the freaking bits of quotes and it makes me REALLY REALLY anxious. So I never volunteer, but unfortunately he knows me, and will just request that I read out a passage. We have a ridiculously easy assignment due in two weeks time, but I will do it tomorrow. So it shouldn't be impossible to pass. Because I have teh grammaz and apparently know to capitalise the first letter of a sentence.
Music in Film and Television was balls. It is apparently a film studies course masquerading as a music course. While I don't have anything against film studies, this annoys me. It's the only other course I can take this semester so I can't even change out of it. I am not really a "film studies" kind of person. The lecturer also seems to be not..so great. He gets lost in rants and says "like" waaaaay to much. As in, more than I do when I do a presentation. Because you're not supposed to, because people aren't there just to listen to you talk like a valley girl? Sigh. And more sigh. I don't know how awesome I'll do on these assignments, sheerly because I don't think my writing style is compatible with what he wants out of a "film studies" essay.
Note to self: stop buying so much freaking stuff from Sportsgirl. How I manage to spend what I spend without a credit card, on youth allowance is beyond me.
So.
Yeah. That was totally not as awesomefun as I'd been unrealistically hoping. They're remodeling our block (who knows why, probably to make it more shiny for the architecture students that share our incredibly small block) and it's all freaking different and unsettling. I was wandering through to where room 460 used to be but is now moved sliiiightly down the corridor with no numbers on the door, and one of the aural lecturers was walking behind me. I slowed down because, omg everything's different where do I go, and she was all "Hurry up! It's the same building!" because she's snippy like that. I was actually so disoriented that I almost snipped back at her, which wouldn't have gone over very well. The renovations probably will make the building less...early 80s in style, but I liked the homey-ness of it before. I don't approve of these damn lecterns which the stupidly large UQ crest on them. Dudes, we know, we're at UQ, you don't need to show us that every lecture. Then there's the new tech that no one can work because frankly, the old tech was difficult enough for the lecturers to work (music lecturers are sadly not that tech savvy).
And it smells weird. But enough about the renovations.
Musicological Research Methods proved to be not so great. I swear to God, if you don't already know how to do all the things we apparently need to be taught, I have no idea how you passed your undergrad degree. For realz. Apparently you need to reference things. Who knew... Dr Collins also makes us read out the freaking bits of quotes and it makes me REALLY REALLY anxious. So I never volunteer, but unfortunately he knows me, and will just request that I read out a passage. We have a ridiculously easy assignment due in two weeks time, but I will do it tomorrow. So it shouldn't be impossible to pass. Because I have teh grammaz and apparently know to capitalise the first letter of a sentence.
Music in Film and Television was balls. It is apparently a film studies course masquerading as a music course. While I don't have anything against film studies, this annoys me. It's the only other course I can take this semester so I can't even change out of it. I am not really a "film studies" kind of person. The lecturer also seems to be not..so great. He gets lost in rants and says "like" waaaaay to much. As in, more than I do when I do a presentation. Because you're not supposed to, because people aren't there just to listen to you talk like a valley girl? Sigh. And more sigh. I don't know how awesome I'll do on these assignments, sheerly because I don't think my writing style is compatible with what he wants out of a "film studies" essay.
Note to self: stop buying so much freaking stuff from Sportsgirl. How I manage to spend what I spend without a credit card, on youth allowance is beyond me.