nikhedonia – if only [nicola]
So I believe that things are slowly beginning to fall into place – ok, so perhaps a routine hasn’t quite been established yet, but there are certain routes one takes to classes and there are people whom one routinely spots in lectures. (There is a guy in my bio lecture who I see 3 times a week, he goes on the same train/bus as me, and I STILL haven’t talked to him! He probably thinks I’m the biggest snob ever, but then again he’s made no effort…)
The general consensus on how everyone is doing so far (due to extensive research with whoever I happen to be sitting next to – watch out) I’m getting responses like ‘downward spiral’, ‘thinking of quitting’, ‘I’m in some ploy to cut student numbers’ and the ever popular ‘don’t talk to me about it’. I agree with most of the above.
Coming to this point of desperation I was avoiding the first year learning centre for quite sometime, being wary of the tutor’s reaction if I said, “I don’t have a question for you, because I know nothing.” (Hence I haven’t been able to do any questions) Sitting down with me and picking a random problem (or should I say the easiest mcq there was available) to test how much I did know. They soon found out that I knew nothing and proceeded to guide me on a few basic principles, (‘what is force?’) which I should, but didn’t know. It’s not going to make me pass physics, but it still is a step in the right direction.
This week I keep bumping into my Christian Union friends – what is good? My first thought that it was the absence of evil, but I don’t think thats’s right. Therefore, is then evil is the absence of good, like cold is the absence of hot, or dark is the absence of light? (Albert Einstein). They are quite interesting questions to ask oneself.
Onto other things – I now have a job! I think I mentioned in one of my earlier posts that job hunting was on the list (of things to do) and this week I started as… a telemarketer! Yes, yes I am the annoying person that calls you just as you sit down to eat dinner. mm..Food…
Ciao!
*looking out of the window
I apologise in advance if i tell you to ‘go away’ (in somewhat less polite terms) and hang up on you, if you do happen to call my residence. Never take anything anyone says to you on the phone personally!!! But congratulations for getting a job in the first place. As for academic thought, i seem to be doing just enough work to go well in my assignments for calc and the like, but not enough to remember anything for more than a week. I find this thought quite disturbing, since i have 3 mid-sem tests looming. O well, life of a uni student! Have fun!