At the risk of looking over-enthusiastic… (Cristina)

I mean, it’s entirely possible that by the time I actually get around to publishing this, everyone else would have already uploaded their first blog; nevertheless, as the time of writing this sentence, there do not appear to be any other introductory blogs written by the 2010 First_Year@UniMelb bloggers. So I guess I’m first off the bat, hooray!

This is probably the first and only time it will happen, though. I have a habit of getting unnaturally keen on things when they’re new and interesting, but then my laziness eventually kicks in and most things become a chore. HOWEVER, I will not let that happen, faithful readers! I have at least two to three hours to kill before I’m off to an eighteenth birthday party, and I honestly think that writing my first blog for this site will be infinitely more productive than all the Minesweeper I’ve been playing recently (that’s what being an unemployed* VCE graduate in summer does to you).

Brilliant, two paragraphs in and I haven’t even introduced myself, which was basically supposed to be the point of this blog. Well, since you’ve already had to endure a small wall of text, I’ll break it down simply for you:

– My name is Cristina (no, I have not spelt my own name wrong, there really is no “h”)
– My birthday is November 1st (in case you want to leave me birthday wishes in the future)
– I will begin my first year of a Bachelor of Media and Communications at the University of Melbourne this year
– My interests include writing (o rly?),  reading, being practically married to my computer, the Interwebz in general, playing drums, music that doesn’t suck (at the moment I have been unable to get this song out of my head),  Wikipedia, YouTube, the Opera Internet browser, geeky pop culture, and irony.
– I’m not really a fan of broccoli, hypocrisy, fake tans, and Apple Macs.

So I’m kind of unnaturally excited about starting university. I don’t think I’ve ever been this excited about something education-related, at least not since Prep. I discovered my course in Year 10, I believe, and was initially hopeful of attaining the marks required to get in, then realised that I actually had no hope in the world of getting in, and finally ridiculously surprised myself with my final results, thus being able to get into the course of my dreams. I’m hoping it’s everything I’ve imagined it would be.

I don’t know much about how this year will pan out; I’m the first child in my family, so I have no uni experience to go by other than my mother’s, and that was in the Dark Ages. It will certainly be an interesting year, I’ll give it that. I mean, apart from the huge transition from a cliquey all-girl’s Catholic secondary school where you knew your place into the huge world of UniMelbz where you get lost after turning a corner, I’ll also be the glamorous-older-woman-at-university while my boyfriend of two years slaves his way through Year 12. Poor munchkin. It’s pretty funny, though.

Anyway, I’ve just surpassed 500 words, so that’s probably enough from me for now, otherwise I’m never going to have anything else to say. Basically: I’m a total noob when it comes to university, but I’m *totally* pro at blogging, so hopefully these two factors can combine to produce something wonderful, much like the combination of peanut butter with jam (which I would HIGHLY recommend).

Can’t wait for O-Week! 😀

Cristina.

P.S. If there’s anything else you’d like to know about me – not including my email address, phone number, home address, and cup size – feel free to leave a comment asking. I know you won’t, but I can live in hope, can I not?

P.P.S. I’ll try to make future posts much shorter than this one.

*My job starts in March. I’ll tell you more about it in the coming entries, when I actually start it.