Number 5 – An Odd Day (Georgie)
I suppose it’s easter eve (if there is such a thing) and I’m too awake to go to bed and too tired to do anything useful, so I thought, why not write, what I am sure will be, a riveting blog? I should actually be cleaning because we’re having an easter family lunch tomorrow with mum’s side and the house – namely my room and study – is still a tad messy, I’m thinking that I’ll have to get up early tomorrow and do my share of cleaning.
I spent what felt like most of this week in the baillieu trying to finish the essays I had due in on thursday. Luckily, my brother, who turns out isn’t too bad at all, let me crash at his place on monday so I didn’t have to go all the way home (he lives just across the road from uni). But the next two nights I loaded up on V and red bull and powered through my work and managed to get it all done.
I was semi-happy with my Australia Now essay, probably because I really enjoyed the topic (but not the book – The Secret River, don’t read it). But I really had no idea if what I was writing made sense or addressed the topic or was logical etc. etc. So I’m glad that it’s only worth about 25% of my mark.
My other essay was Mod Lit on Dubliners. I hated the book and didn’t even manage to finish it and so bullshitted my way through the essay and am hoping it will at least get me a pass.
I had this really weird day on Thursday. In the morning I went to my friend’s sister’s funeral. It was so horrible and I kept thinking, ‘f***, she was only 21, how is this fair? how is my friend even getting up in the morning? What the hell would I do if something happened to my brother?’ I bawled my way through the ceremony with a bunch of friends that had come for support and then had to go to uni. I felt a bit weird walking around all day with puffy, feral eyes.
Then I skipped my first lecture because I didn’t have enough time to study for my mid-semester spanish exam and so went to my second home, the baillieu. I blindly made my way through spanish and then went for a coffee with a couple of girls and managed to wind down a bit, so that was cool.
Am thinking I’ll spend most of the hols getting ahead in reading, starting and finishing my USA Today essay and fitting in as much sleep as possible.
Oh, and another thing, I was out in the city with some friends on thurs night and I was in a Maccas at like 2 in the morning and spotted this girl I had sat next to during enrolment week and had offered me mint m&ms, so had an odd, tipsy chat with her, turns out she’s in USA Today as well.
I’m off now, happy easter to all! Good luck to everyone with study etc.
Georgie
I am writing my Modern Lit essay right now. Modern Lit is an awful subject.
Liv – power through! We’re almost halfway through the subject and then we’ll be rid of modernism and modernity and equally as unimportant junk forever!
*Scratches head with a bamboozled facial expression*
Isn’t teaching unimportant junk the mandate of the Arts faculty?
Hope you had a great easter weekend,
PXW
Ergh, once again.. Modern Literature – WHY?!?!?!
I took that subject thinking, “Sounds good – studying a style/era of literature that I’ve never really done before.” But really, it is the most pretentious, dull, over-hyped tripe ever. The books themselves aren’t that bad, but the pedestal that the staff place them on is so stupid.
As for To The Lighthouse (you mentioned it in another post), I didn’t actually end up reading that one. But don’t discount Virginia Woolf – Mrs Dalloway used to be the prescribed text for that week, and I was disappointed that they didn’t do it in my year. However.. if you want a taste of Virginia Woolf in her finest form, try reading Orlando… it is utterly brilliant.
For me, Dubliners was interesting in a ‘disposable’ sort of way – I read it, then didn’t think about it again. The best texts of the course were probably 1984 (obviously, just don’t listen to ANYTHING they try to teach you about it), A Doll’s House, and Metamorphosis.
Next year, promise me you’ll do Literary Classics. Right now I’m writing an essay on Wuthering Heights and The Great Gatsby.. you really can’t get any better than those two.
But good luck with your essay – if you said ‘existential’ or ‘postmodern’ then you’ve probably already got an HD.