February 9th, 2011, (part 2) – The long, long road to university (Will)

Okay so now I’ve ranted on about my personal life and have survived my dogs recent fart that makes you gag from the pit of your stomach I believe its time to talk about the climb up to uni. Am I the only person that is actually wishing my life away (only 2 weeks) so I can go to whitley college.

Well anyway I’m going to recap to where I am now. So here goes my personal history lesson :]

In December I nervously waited at around 6 in the morning to get my ATAR, I was fairly positive I was going to get the score I needed especially with my mid year results (I got an A for physics and an A+ for chemistry and an A+ for studio art) anyway I dont know how i made that hour disapear and eventually I logged on and found out i got 92.o5 so I was so happy with that, I think anything high 80’s and any 90 is outstanding effort. So I litterally jumped for joy haha.

Anyway so now I jump ahead to January where I waited and waited and waited for those offers to come out gah it was so boring. I cant express how much I’ve disliked these holidays. It was all about waiting for three months to go by, I’ve been so impatient grrr. I cant believe that i can actually say I hate holidays, but i belive thats because I’ve just wanted uni to start so bad!!! It’s just so much different to school, so much more choice and experience to have fun with. Now back to where I was, I waited for the paper and looked up that science course code under my name, and shock horror it was there. Haha i never doubted it wouldn’t be, especially with that score :] so anyway now the next step was to wait to do all that administrative stuff.

So now im going to skip blabering about accepting my offer, that was pretty boring, but i did find out that I am not an Australian resident, I had to ring up 13MELB to ask about that but it turns out that only international people can be australian residents, i was a citizen so that confused me. So anyway dont worry if you get told your not an Australian resident :]. So now was the day of the accademic advice day. That was pretty interesting i quite liked it. So anyway i was staying at my grandmas house in newport so i got up and caught the train to melbourne central, I love that place, its so beautiful. Anyway then i made the most folish mistake of my life, i caught the wrong tram to get to the uni. So stupid of me (ive always known your sopposed to get the 19 north coburg), I’ve never ever done that before but anyway when we turned off at the vic market i got off and i saw that there were other Melbourne uni students that had made the same mistake because they had the little booklet planers. So i made my way to the spot lecture theater where every single one of the lectures i wanted to go to were. But really is that place overdone or what, a marble staircase, really! A light show of cubes everywhere on the roof of the theater. I put that down to the fact that its a commerce and buisness building haha. If you go look at the engineering buildings where my brother has lectures, they look like theyre made of duct tape and planks of wood haha.

So anyway the Alcoholics anomynous day sorry academic advice day was really good. Learnt a bit for my course and also my subjects so it was good. So i made my way over to the asia centre to get my ID card and diary, I’d already enrolled in a couple of subjects so I knew I could get my ID card. Anyway then I came to thinking after i got my card, how come whenever any sort of photo is taken, It looks terrible, seriously if you looked at my school photo and drivers license, they look terrible gah. Why cant I just look like I normaly look on a card haha. But anyway I got it so that was that done.

Anyway then on the 31st of January i made my timetable. That was an experience haha I went through and chose all my lectures, pracs and tutes for chemistry, maths and biology with no quams what so ever, but then it came to crimonology. That stuffed everything. Why did they make only one lecture available for each lecture. And they were where my pracs for chemistry and biology were. So then I had to make three hour gaps which became extreamly difficult seeing as there were stream lectures for chemistry and maths. So I fiddled with that timetable for a good hour trying to move biology out of the way to make room for these ruddy stream line lectures (oh if you don’t know, a stream line lecture are pre set sets if the three lectures so choosing say steam 1 would give you lectures from 9 to 10 on moday wedensday and friday). But eventually i got it all sorted out but i had made it so that i had only one prac on tuesday and thats it so once a fortnight i get tuesday off. YAY haha.

So anyway that means that ive got pretty much everything sorted out haha. But anyway i went and got a couple of things for my room at college in bendigo yesterday like a printer and a new desk chair. My new chair rocks its sooooooooo nice, and red my favourite colour haha. But anyway im getting my sisters small little fridge for all those drinks that need to be chilled, like water and softdrink and redbull and vodka cough cough haha my most favourite drink straight.

Anyway now i sit around again waiting for the 19th to come already!!!! I dont think i can take much more american dad (as you can proberbly tell i like from my name) skins (speaking of which i love the new 5th series so far, i love franky and grace and alo!!!! and mini) and scrubs and doctor who and dexter. Although i did get the I.T crowd the other day hoping that’d fill in a bit of time. I guess i could also try to to win Mass Effect 2 on the hardest setting to get that new achievement. Oh yeah I’m a rpg, shooter (to a lesser extent) and adventure pc gamer. A wee bit nerdy haha but i do have a life. Just not at the moment.

Anyway so now i wait to see who my host group is and i will keep you up dated :] hope you like reading.