Glad to see you're setting in! I'm excited to read your entries this year :)I love it! I've lived in inner Melbourne all my life too - it's actually one of the reasons I decided to come here. I came up for the open day a couple of years ago and really loved how peaceful it is compared to Melbourne. It's so easy to ride around everywhere, the streets are relatively quiet, and there's a lot more nature around than in Melbourne city. I don't enjoy being around crowds anyway - having said that the shops seem to be quite busy all the time, probably due to the lack of opening hours
A few questions, just because I'm curious :P
How are you finding Canberra life? I visited last year and found it a little too spread out and quiet for my liking, but this is coming from someone who has lived in somewhat inner Melbourne all their life!!
How does your accomodation work? Clearly you're in residence with other students, but do you cook or is it catered/provided? Are there dining halls, shared cooking spaces, etc? Are you staying in your own apartment/room? I hope you're liking the accomodation!!I'm in a self catered hall - there's some that are catered but I'd rather make my own food. First floor is reception and a cafe/bar, second floor is kitchens, laundry, study areas, then the building splits into two towers - north and south. North tower has 7 dorm floors (so 9 floors total), south tower has 5 dorm floors (7 floors total).
What are you most excited for in regards to your studies/course? :)I don't really know, this isn't very specific, but I think I'm just looking forward to learning interesting things again - feels like it's been a while since I've done that.
Also. Get yourself a rice cooker!!! You won't regret it. Just chuck rice and water in, press the button and soon you'll have amazing rice. It's so much less fiddly than doing rice any other way 😍I got a rice cooker today! I even bought rice. Probably going to cook some tomorrow whilst I'm eating brekkie and chuck it in the fridge to use later. Don't actually have any veggies or sauce or anything yet, but I'll have to go get some before dinner tomorrow.
Scientific communication is a major element of GC so I'm interested to learn more about how it's taught in your course.It's always been something I've found somewhat interesting but I never realised it was something I could study until I started looking through elective lists haha. I'll give you some more details after we've had some more classes!
re: jobs - if you worked at Woolies in the past, would you just be able to transfer to a store nearby?Yeah I could have - I'd imagine it'd be hard now given anyone else moving to Canberra would have done the same thing. The process for transferring at woolies is basically just going to a store and telling the manager you're from another store. If they want more staff they'll give you a trial shift and maybe a job after that. I didn't do it initially because I was really busy for the first couple of weeks but also because the pay is shit and it got really boring, I'd rather do something else assuming I can find a different job. Obviously there are benefits to it too - like the staff discount I've been making the most of whilst I still have it
Most subjects will have aspects that are interesting and parts that are really boring lol. The first few weeks might be a bit slow because obviously not everyone is coming from the same knowledge base so they have to go over some things that are just a bit of a yawn. It'll improve soon!!Yeah I was kinda expecting it, still sad though. I'm somewhat worried I'm going to be too complacent with bio given I've learnt it before, problem being I don't really know this stuff well enough to do a test on it atm so I'm going to have to make sure I'm still paying attention.
For doona covers, try the clearance section of spotlight and catch of the day (online)! Kmart also has some really nice stuff and I've found it pretty good quality. I bought a cheap fitted sheet from them and there hasn't been any pilling, yet I bought a more expensive one from Harris Scarfe or something and it's already got so much pilling and I don't know how! Kmart is the uni student temple.I'll have to try there! There's a Big W and a Target at the closest shopping center, haven't really been exploring any further than that though (I think I'm going to spend tomorrow arvo exploring canberra a bit more, still barely been anywhere except uni and the shops).
"I actually have class now as well, but I'm not there."So classic that I haven't been to any of the lectures for that class since I'm almost up to date on the recordings though.
Absolute classic.
It's funny, I think we all create an image in our minds of what we think uni will be and it tends to turn out quite differently to what we expect :)I think, in a way, uni is exactly what I expected, I'm just not really reacting to it how I expected to, which is incredibly frustrating.
Are Access and Inclusion kinda like a disability support services thing? I'm registered with the Monash equivalent and although I'm sure it's different for each uni, I've found it to be super helpful, it's really nice to have someone to advocate for you and it makes applying for special consideration and stuff easier.Yeah they are. I guess I know that it'd be helpful, it just seems way more complicated than it needs to be and it means I have to go talk to yet more people, which I'm not looking forward to.
Be gentle with yourself, PF, and take care. Your health is the most important thing of all. Transitioning into uni (and moving out!) is incredibly difficult and I think you're doing a fantastic job of it, for what it's worth x<3
Re: doctors close by, have you tried your uni health services? You might also be able to get some recommendations if you have a facebook group for where you live on res. I found my current GP through a rec from my res FB group :)Yeah, my uni's health service is where I have been going. They're run through the national health co op (which, despite the name, is almost exclusively a canberra thing) so they bulk bill. They've always got super long wait though.
Yeah, my uni's health service is where I have been going. They're run through the national health co op (which, despite the name, is almost exclusively a canberra thing) so they bulk bill. They've always got super long wait though.do you have a healthcare card? I think a lot of places that don't bulk bill are usually willing to bulk bill a healthcare card holder
There's one place nearby that's very well recommended by everyone, but of course they aren't taking new patients. They also have a sister center, but the vast majority of doctors there don't bulk bill (even students :'( which is a bit frustrating).
I know the anu womens dept. has a spreadsheet with places that have been recommended, so i should probably have a look at that. The issue round here seems to be that you either get a well recommended doctor + short wait times or you get a bulk-billing doctor and you can't have both :'(
Edit: Chem HPO marks just got released. Got 20/35 which is about what I was expecting, although hoped for a little higher. Way above average though apparently lol.Was actually 20/25. Which makes sense given the entire exam was just 25 multiple choice questions 😂 they just entered it wrong.
Gonna sound like a broken record but please do make sure you follow up with a GP or counsellor, PF! You don't have to get through things just by yourself.I don't have a whole lot of choice about it anymore haha. To stay at Fenner whilst studying part time I had to get permission from the head of hall and one of her conditions on approving it is that I go back to the doctor, which I'm not particularly thrilled about, but I'm sure it's probably actually a good thing, even if I don't think so.
All the best for the next semester, I hope that things go as well as possible for you <3
I think I'm going to sneak into some bio lectures for other courses, problem is a lot of the ones that look interesting are in small rooms that would be quite difficult to hide in.
tl;dr I am very stressed about everything and I do not like it.<3 <3
My sister lives in England these days, so I suppose I could visit her at some point. I kind of want to go to Egypt because pyramids, but that's about the extent of me having plans. I've only ever been overseas once before and it was to nepal on a school trip (nice place btw, would recommend).
To be fair I am feeling better than I have pretty much all year which is quite niceHey PF,
Also, think you should 100% show us your new kayak! (and you can get so many good photos too, some of my favourite photos I've taken have been sunsets from a kayak)Oh that is absolutely the plan once I can actually use my kayak. Keen to go paddling around where I normally cycle to to watch the sunrise. Gonna be a bit chilly now that I’ve been stuck in hospital through the last of the warm weather (although we have a little courtyard with fake grass and I’ve been spending too much time lying in the sun haha)
I'm always so keen to get out of hospital but then I get out and I'm like ugh life again. Think I'm gonna try and fix that by doing more fun things rather than by dying this time though.
Said it before but it's worth reiterating:<3
so proud of you for calling the ambulance, proud of you for calling about volunteering, proud of you for taking steps to protect yourself and build a better life.
The mental health education in schools thing sounds interesting, is that ongoing or more of a one-off workshop-y thing? (or something else?)
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hello long time no seeHello pal, good to see an update.
I'm not doing great but at least i haven't been dragged back to hospital again.
There's lots of things going on at the moment - i'm about to start seeing two new mh services and im getting a new psychiatrist (sad because I liked my old one). It's all a bit stressful and it's making me quite anxious - it's also my birthday soon and that's not helping because I've never really intended on being alive this long ya know.
Hopefully I'll actually go to all the appointments I have next week. Very tempting to just lie in bed all day instead but probably not a good option.
at least i haven't been dragged back to hospital again.Spoke too soon. I spent last night in hospital. Was feeling better this morning so I went home rather than get admitted, which was probably a good choice given I would have been stuck in ED for a good while if I'd chosen to stay - psych reg didn't think there'd be any mh beds until monday or tuesday at the earliest.
It's my last day of being a teenager. How weird. Birthdays tend to be a bad time for me mh wise and the last week or so has been no exception but it looks like I'll actually make it to 20 without another trip to hospital.Send cookie pics :-*
I have an appointment with another new person today and two appointments with new people on Thursday and friday next week. Funsies.
Gonna go bake some cookies now cos I'm bored and figure it's probably slightly better than just buying myself a box of cookies.
It's getting warm again which is super strange because I've been in hospital so much this year that winter and autumn felt like they were only a month long each.
Absolutely love this! Glad you've found something you enjoy <3Too late :p
In b4 PF starts an etsy store ;)
Do you have many easy recipes to add to the ease of food prepping/cooking? I feel like I've asked this before but I can't remember the answer rnNow PF is enrolled in uni again they must subsist entirely on pasta. It is the uni student code.
Congrats on the course!A cat for a bit in november and december, possibly housesitting in late december and early january, and I'm meeting someone on friday about looking after her dog for a few days over the weekend.
Have you got any pets lined up?
Good luck for the convo with your cm, hopefully she takes what you've said on board as something to learn from.
Do you have many easy recipes to add to the ease of food prepping/cooking? I feel like I've asked this before but I can't remember the answer rn
Now PF is enrolled in uni again they must subsist entirely on pasta. It is the uni student code.I haven't bought any pasta since I moved out. (mostly because my brother used to make it almost every night and I got sick of it.
Now PF is enrolled in uni again they must subsist entirely on pasta. It is the uni student code.I thought it was 2min noodles? Or have I done uni wrong this whole time :P
TW: not surprising if you've read the rest of my journal but this post discuss mental health and suicide.
I haven't been in hospital for the whole year!
haha cos it's only been 2 days
So I decided I didn't like the number 9 and went and made it a nice even 10 trips to hospital for 2020.
I was in hospital over christmas and just got let out on new years eve. They gave us nice soap for christmas but even that doesn't help the stink when you've been wearing the same clothes for a week lol. They also gave us presents on the 30th?? better presents then they gave us on christmas??? and christmas crackers which they didn't give us on christmas????
I haven't progressed at uni
It's sorta funny that that all started on Jan 1 and now I got discharged from hospital on Dec 31.
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