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sighI haven't posted here for a while, so here is the update. We are nearly 3 weeks into uni, and I'm starting to strongly regret not doing an apprenticeship instead of uni. Not that there is a problem with uni as such, but I'm just struggling with motivation and enjoyment of really boring tasks.
I will give a unit by unit breakdown below:
ENG1090: Boring, basically Specialist, and so far it has been all the tedious and difficult stuff, rather than the interesting and difficult stuff, so it's not interesting. The lecturer is also not exactly riveting, and that makes it worse, and one of my classes is at 8am, so all in all, it's my least favourite unit.
ENG1002: Probably my second favourite unit, so far it is all about Chemical Engineering, which I'm really interested in, and so far it has not disappointed. The subject is well taught and interesting, though the assignment is a massive Excel flowchart, with 16 different systems to calculate. However, the team is really nice, so it's not too bad.
ENG1003: I dislike coding, having so many people in the family talking about it non-stop as I grew up, so this unit is not very interesting for me. Most of it isn't too difficult, and again the team I have is nice (as far as I can tell after one meeting...), so I'm not too upset about this unit.
CHM1011: My favourite. I loved Chem in Year 12, so I'm happy to be continuing it in Uni. So far it isn't too hard, though all the lab work is difficult for someone who did close enough to no proper lab stuff in VCE. However, I have a friend who shares most of my Chem classes with me, so that is a big bonus, as we are the only 2 from our school who came to Monash.
So far, my impressions of uni have been good, the social opportunities are fine (even for an introvert), the Matheson library has a good fiction section, and the only trouble has been the travel. On some days it requires leaving at around 6am, and getting home around 7:30pm, with 3 hours travel per day, so that is a serious issue that I may have to resolve at some stage in the year. From now on I will try to update either weekly or bi-weekly as I see fit.. Thank you for reading, and have a good day/week/month/hour.