"Let's get down to business" (Pris)

*Swivles the chair around* Why hello, I’ve been expecting you… sorry, there’s never a chance to do that in real life!

Anywho, second week, eh? Sounds mediocre but I have learnt some valuable lessons this week:

1. Velcro is a very, veeeeery awkward thing to deal with in a silent library. VERY AWKWARD!
2. Macs are awesome. I’ve used mine for two days at uni and home without charging it once which means I don’t have to lug around a mass of cords to recharge it or look for an outlet. WIN! I think I’ll name my lappy “Barney” after Neil Patrick Harris’ character on How I Met Your Mother since you can’t help but love it!
3. NO ONE cares if you’re going to miss uni for days on end. I’m going on a roadtrip this year with Make Poverty History (WOOOO ROADTRIP!) and I thought “Well, I better let people know that I’m going to miss some stuff and maybe hand assessment tasks in late”. Turns out, the Student Centre doesn’t care (they gave me a ‘naw, that’s cute’ look) and neither do the lecturers or tutors (they gave me confused looks when I told them). So the moral is, just rock up to uni whenever…
4. When you change subjects and miss a few lectures, listen to the lectures you’ve missed before going to the next one. I just changed into linguistics and the first thing I heard was something along the lines of “This word is the same lexeme as this free morpheme; thus this is an inflectional morphology so it also depends on the syntactical context.” Now I did English and English Lit in Year 12 but not Lang so I was sitting there going “huh?” – then I used that 5 hour break I had before my next class to frantically listen to the lectures and take down notes. I’ve caught up. All good! 🙂
5. Mature aged students: let’s start this one with a disclaimer – don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against you guys. I’m just…how should I say this?…adjusting from high school where EVERYONE is my age to an environment where an english teacher is in my linguistics tutorial and correcting the tutor. Oh, and who else feels like their opinion is not validated or is going to be patronized when they’re in tutes with mature aged students who begin their sentences with “In my experience…”? Or am I just really insecure?

I think that’s all for me…sorry for the random word vomit but hey, my chest feels lighter!

Oh yeah, thank you to the Aa club for the free bbq yesterday! And to SportsGirl for the free ice cream today (although, I was disappointed your truck didn’t play music…can’t complain about free ice cream though!).

Ps. The title’s from Mulan’s “I\’ll Make A Man Out Of You“. Mmmmm Disney, so warm and fuzzy! The video’s a Disney medley by one of my favourite YouTubers – AJ Rafael.