Communal University Journey Journal

[RuiAce]

Overloading may have been a mistake.

[Joseph41]

Overloading may have been a mistake.

Obviously 20%, but how much more of a burden is it qualitatively?

[RuiAce]

Obviously 20%, but how much more of a burden is it qualitatively?

You know, it's actually not too bad in itself.

It's dealing with life on top of it that makes it a struggle. I feel like overloading doesn't add on to the burden; it multiplies it. (So if you didn't have much of a burden to begin with, it's actually fine.)

[Joseph41]

Interesting!

I never overloaded or underloaded, so it's actually sort of difficult for me to conceptualise haha.

[RuiAce]

Interesting!

I never overloaded or underloaded, so it's actually sort of difficult for me to conceptualise haha.

Here's the story to why I chose to overload.

My degree is a bit ****ed. They added in an extra course that every B Adv Sc and BSc (Adv Maths) student must do. For single degrees, this is okay, just that the course is very uninteresting.

For actuarial/maths, there's complications. This one little extra course means that I have to stay back for one extra semester just to do one course. Gross.

Plan B was summer term, but UNSW Business School likes to rip us off. They charge us the full $4000 for a course if we do it in summer. And the maths department don't offer any second year or above courses in summer either.

So I didn't really have much of a choice. With trimesters coming to UNSW things might change a bit, but I had no clue they were going into trimesters last year.


Yet, as masochistic as this sounds, I think I might be overloading again...

[strawberries]

20th April

- IR tute
- politics tute
- philosophy lecture
- did IR quiz, got 5/5
- made flashcards for IR terms
- did philosophy reading, only half understood
- briefly skimmed politics textbook

Needs to get on with doing work

[sweetiepi]

21st April

I may have taken "mid-semester break" a bit too literally. #oops

Too tired* to do anything much, so I'll just flick through my flashcards for the rest of the afternoon and avoid that essay I need to start soon.

(*I stayed up until 3 the other night and the lack of sleep is getting to me now 😂)

Edit: typo

[HopefulLawStudent]

Thought I'd get on board!

My uni experience as a uni student of 7 weeks:

[strawberries]

Time for an update

27th April
- IR tute
- quickly skimmed philosophy reading
- philosophy lecture
- did IR quiz, got 5/5
- made some flashcards for IR
- made some flashcards for politics + read over notes
- wrote IR position paper 

[sweetiepi]

27/4
- 9-5 (but I finished at 3:30 because the 3 hour workshop took 1.5 hours to complete)
- had 4 back-to-back lectures (so brutal day)
- The 3 hour workshop was quite obscure and challenging, I was so glad that it finished early.
- Discovered that I shouldn't sit near the table tennis table in the rec room, those matches are actually quite intense and I narrowly missed high-speed ping-pong balls hitting my head.
- Typed out 70% of my essay, which is due soon and I shouldn't of been up late to do it because rn I feel so drained, haha.
- Finished my prelab questions for tomorrow's lab.

[elysepopplewell]

Uni journal...

Note to self: eat more vegetables that aren't potatoes.

[Joseph41]

Uni journal...

Note to self: eat more vegetables that aren't potatoes.

Work journal...

Note to self: consume more sustenance that isn't coffee.

[strawberries]

Uni journal...

Note to self: eat more vegetables that aren't potatoes.

this omg!!

[Sine]

been sick for the past few days so didn't do much work
This week i need to:
Finish  my literature review
study for 2 practical tests (3.5% each)
Catch up on some lectures

[elysepopplewell]

Actual uni journal:

I've got an exam tomorrow on the contemporary history of Venice - and I'm excited to study for this (will start shortly) because it's so interesting, but I'm bothered I need to study it within the bounds of what the exam wants because it's just so interesting.
Have two exams next week - Italian language and Italian culture.
It's getting to the crunch but the most difficult part is that I have no idea about what is expected in an Italian University exam. When I ask about marking criteria, or anything like that, they are so relaxed and say "just do your best" which is incredibly not helpful in any form. FUN. TIMES.

But, I drink lots of great Lavazza coffee from a vending machine at uni for 50c and its always delicious and always makes me happy.