Back to the grind...
What-ho, all!
Monday was my first day back at university - back to learning! - and so far so good. I think I've made some pretty good decisions about my classes and I'm liking them so far (though it's still way too early to tell, lol). I think I've gotten especially lucky with English...My thoughts so far are leaning towards majoring in Linguistics (yay) and I was a little worried about English this semester, since I didn't do as well as I had hoped I would in my last exams, but goodness and hurray are on my side it seems. This semester's English course is Language, Text and Time, which is fortunate, because as it turns out, it's basically more Linguistics!!! So, it's almost like I'm doing two Linguistics courses, which is stupidly enjoyable, lol. The only downer is that my English lecturer is....Dry. Arid. Without the healthy moisture of a well-modulated voice. He seems very intelligent and knowledgeable and all that - humourous, even, from time to time - but wow...Not interesting.
Linguistics this semester is all about sociolinguistics, which is where I hope to be some day (either something like that or functional grammar - don't laugh!), and the lecturer is awesome. She's really funny and likes to lighten the mood up by getting us to watch or listen to different things (Snoop Dogg in the first lecture and the Catherine Tate Show featuring David Tennant in the second). At the moment the focus is on dialect and looking at the different kinds of Englishes out there. Much fun.
I had my History lecture yesterday (two hours!!!) and that was cool too. Again, cool lecturer, but what was even better was that she spent a bunch of time going through the upcoming primary source essay, explaining the sorts of things that we'd really need to check out and how we could get this thing done. Better still, she got the Faculty Liason Librarian (whatever the sweet, frilly heck that is) to show us how to use the electronic source search engine on the USyd site, which was immensely helpful and cool...I didn't even know that particular page existed!
This leaves us with JCTC (Jewish Studies, for short). Because I - yet again - have a clash in my timetable, I'd have to make a decision about going to either the JCTC tutorial (which is compulsory) or going to the Linguistics lecture (which is not compulsory). Ordinarily, I'd go to the tute and not worry about the lecture because I could catch it up online...Except that this particular lecturer doesn't record them. So I spoke to Suzanne, my JCTC lecturer, about it and she said that she'd might be able to actually move the tutorial to another time so I'd be able to go....How about that?! It's pretty fortunate that there are, oh, ten people in this entire course, lol, or else I wouldn't have been able to work out that clash.
Also, I have a pretty sweet timetable this semester (clashes aside)...Monday and Tuesday are pretty easy, Wednesday is busy but not awful and on Thursdays I only have to go in for an hour, which means.....THREE DAY WEEKENDS!!!!! The learning gods are smiling on me.
So that's the uni stuff done with. The life stuff hasn't been anywhere near as interesting, seriously. It's been raining like a bitch here lately which is making my knee play up. I'm on top of uni stuff so far, so there's no extra stress going on. There are no irritating people I have to deal with lately, I feel pretty decent, everyone seems to be in pretty good humour - more or less - so I really can't complain, which is awesome. Even if it does make for a dull journal entry.
Major love xoxo
Monday was my first day back at university - back to learning! - and so far so good. I think I've made some pretty good decisions about my classes and I'm liking them so far (though it's still way too early to tell, lol). I think I've gotten especially lucky with English...My thoughts so far are leaning towards majoring in Linguistics (yay) and I was a little worried about English this semester, since I didn't do as well as I had hoped I would in my last exams, but goodness and hurray are on my side it seems. This semester's English course is Language, Text and Time, which is fortunate, because as it turns out, it's basically more Linguistics!!! So, it's almost like I'm doing two Linguistics courses, which is stupidly enjoyable, lol. The only downer is that my English lecturer is....Dry. Arid. Without the healthy moisture of a well-modulated voice. He seems very intelligent and knowledgeable and all that - humourous, even, from time to time - but wow...Not interesting.
Linguistics this semester is all about sociolinguistics, which is where I hope to be some day (either something like that or functional grammar - don't laugh!), and the lecturer is awesome. She's really funny and likes to lighten the mood up by getting us to watch or listen to different things (Snoop Dogg in the first lecture and the Catherine Tate Show featuring David Tennant in the second). At the moment the focus is on dialect and looking at the different kinds of Englishes out there. Much fun.
I had my History lecture yesterday (two hours!!!) and that was cool too. Again, cool lecturer, but what was even better was that she spent a bunch of time going through the upcoming primary source essay, explaining the sorts of things that we'd really need to check out and how we could get this thing done. Better still, she got the Faculty Liason Librarian (whatever the sweet, frilly heck that is) to show us how to use the electronic source search engine on the USyd site, which was immensely helpful and cool...I didn't even know that particular page existed!
This leaves us with JCTC (Jewish Studies, for short). Because I - yet again - have a clash in my timetable, I'd have to make a decision about going to either the JCTC tutorial (which is compulsory) or going to the Linguistics lecture (which is not compulsory). Ordinarily, I'd go to the tute and not worry about the lecture because I could catch it up online...Except that this particular lecturer doesn't record them. So I spoke to Suzanne, my JCTC lecturer, about it and she said that she'd might be able to actually move the tutorial to another time so I'd be able to go....How about that?! It's pretty fortunate that there are, oh, ten people in this entire course, lol, or else I wouldn't have been able to work out that clash.
Also, I have a pretty sweet timetable this semester (clashes aside)...Monday and Tuesday are pretty easy, Wednesday is busy but not awful and on Thursdays I only have to go in for an hour, which means.....THREE DAY WEEKENDS!!!!! The learning gods are smiling on me.
So that's the uni stuff done with. The life stuff hasn't been anywhere near as interesting, seriously. It's been raining like a bitch here lately which is making my knee play up. I'm on top of uni stuff so far, so there's no extra stress going on. There are no irritating people I have to deal with lately, I feel pretty decent, everyone seems to be in pretty good humour - more or less - so I really can't complain, which is awesome. Even if it does make for a dull journal entry.
Major love xoxo