22/02/19
Hallo meine Freunde!! Es ist schon eine Weile her!
The first week of uni has come and gone, and it's been a rollercoaster. At first I was really excited to go back and learn, but Tuesday came and I started getting stressed. Also, UNSW marketed trimesters as this great thing with 10 week terms and "better study-life balance" (not an exact quote but they did say something like that) but it definitely doesn't feel like that. A few comments:
1. They say 10 week terms, but it still feels like a semester. (1) you have to do readings before the first week, and (2) there's still a week 11.
2. Better study-life balance is so full of crap because contact hours have been increased and all content has been shoved into "10 weeks" so where is the life?? Ich bin sehr konfus
3. Apparently this has been done with research and consultation with students and stuff. What a load of crap again because (1) I haven't heard of anyone being happy about this change and (2) staff, particularly teaching staff have to rework the courses they teach into a shorter period of time.
4. I could finish uni at the END OF OCTOBER (nature of my degree is that I don't have many, if any exams) but noooooo it's the end of November now.
5. Not trimester related but how the HECK does a supplier run out of books for a subject lol
I think I'm done ranting about trimesters for now but that's just a heads up for anyone looking into studying at UNSW because trimesters are a bitch. Onto how my semester trimester is shaping up:
1. I'm in Monday to Thursday which is annoying because if timetabling was good I could've shoved everything into 2 days but alas I have 4 days.
2. Subjects: INST2003 - Research Methods in Intl Studies, MDIA2005 - Advertising and ARTS2510 - Intermediate German A.
My assessments aren't too bad because they're all pretty spaced out, which is something I wasn't expecting. However, for INST2003 we have to submit a research topic for all three assessments at the END OF NEXT WEEK which is a lot sooner than it used to be. Basically things that weren't supposed to come up so quickly are coming up sooner. What is good is that I don't have any exams this term because I get a whole month's break!
Now for this week -- surprisingly, my procrastination hasn't been that bad. Sometimes I leave readings really late so I don't complete them until after tutorials (really dumb lol) and complete homework-esque tasks the night before but I didn't do that this week! I'm hoping to maintain this work ethic throughout the term because it is good and now that I have a steady job with actual shifts I'll need to manage my time well. Today I've just been doing readings and rewriting my resume to prepare for internships :-) I've also sorted out all the subjects I'll be doing for the rest of my degree so it looks like I'll be finishing in Term 2 2022 instead of Term 3!!!!!! woot
Wow this was super long lol and I promise my other entries won't be the same except for the first one of every term??
I hope you've all had an awesome week.
Love,
fantasticbeasts x