The First Week of Many

Hey all,

It's Saturday morning over here and there's not really much to do so I guess I'll update my blog now.

First week of uni. Went pretty well I guess. I'll narrate from the beginning of the week.

At around 3am in the morning of the first day of school, the fire alarm of IH suddenly rang. And everybody, in their grumpy looking pyjamas, had to drag themselves out of their beds and follow the fire emergency instructions. Later it turned out...that it was only a false alarm -- dang it, oversensitive fire detectors!

Classes are so different from high school. All of my lectures are huge lectures, with at least 100 students in each class. Honestly, I don't like it this way... it's really hard to get close to anybody, including the lecturer. Sometimes when the lecturer asks a question and I know the answer, I don't even dare to raise my hand to answer because it'd be real awkward if I mess up in front of hundreds of other students. But one thing I like about the classes is that they don't feel much like classes at all. In high school, we would need to wake up real early, take a bus to school and just have class after class. But in uni, classes are pretty dispersed throughout the day so we could rest in between if we wanted to -- which I do since I live within school campus. And because classes are so dispersed, you get a sense of independence everytime you walk to lectures. 

Of all my subjects, I find Economics and Business Statistics the most boring. I think the lecturer thought it was boring too because he himself taught really boringly. He occasional tried to joke but nobody laughed. It was that pathetic... Other classes were alright, but most lectures this week were introductory classes anyways, so we didn't really learn all that much yet.

The weather hasn't been all too consistent this week. Rain came and went. One morning it would be raining heavily -- enough to flood one of my lecture halls -- and in the evening it'd be sunshine again. I checked the forecast everyday to make sure that I was adequately equipped for the storms and the sun.

Even though I told myself that I need to study, I haven't been doing much in the first week. I don't even know what I spend my time doing...really. The university's so big and there are so many things to take care of. Keeping updated with the Counselling and Psychology Department, Learning Centre, Career Centre, Clubs & Societies and what not. Oh, and I still need to get some of my textbooks via secondhand dealers.

Anyways, I'm going to stop writing here because I feel that I've been losing my inspiration to write. Over the next few weeks, I think I'm going to be updating this blog less and less frequently. Not sure if that's a good thing for you but it's definitely not a good thing for me. I want to write, but more often that not, I don't even feel like writing anymore.