Well alright!
Hello everyone!
My name is Lois (pronounced Low-iss, like out of Family Guy/Superman… it’s not “Louis” which I get called a surprising amount), and I am a first year student blogger, beginning at the University of Melbourne in 2010 (in about… 1 weeks time?!)
I thought that as a first post, I should probably just introduce myself to you all, so you can perhaps understand my following entries a little better.
I’m doing a bachelor of arts, and this year I’m taking subjects in French, philosophy and ancient history – at the moment I think I want to major in French and philosophy, but I change my mind about once a week, as no doubt you’ll discover if you follow this blog! In my opinion there are far too many options in an arts degree, not that choice isn’t a bad thing of course, it’s just I want to try and do all of them. I also hope to do graduate law at Melbourne (the JD), and so I’m going to be a uni, for at least what, 6 years? So hopefully I’ll get to have some fun on the way!
For me, uni is far more than just about the academics – in fact it’s quite the opposite. Music, acting, sport, debating, and of course socialising; I hope to do all of them in good measure by joining (probably the majority) of the clubs at the uni, and the college which I’m moving into today… AHHHH! 😀
Moving from Perth where the rest of my family lives was a big decision for me, and basically was down to the fact that I wanted a challenge, and I wanted the college experience of living away from home in relative comfort! Why Melbourne? Aside from Melbourne Uni’s fantastic reputation for arts and law, I love acting and there are considerably more opportunities for that here than in Perth.
I don’t want to make this too long as this is just a quick hello, so no doubt I’ll post again in the next few days recounting the many bizarre occurrences of moving into a college, O-week and beyond.
If you have any questions/comments for me about anything at all (including more information about myself… if you’d want it?), ask away and I’ll get back to you- comments are love. ☺
Until next time!
PS. As I love music, most of my titles will be song titles… 50 points if you can tell me which band this title is from!
(I’ll give you a hint… they’re Swedish)
It’s Spoon who do Well Alright, isn’t it?
I am guessing sans-Google to test my knowledge… and can I hazard a guess that it was from the Dark Was The Night collaboration?
What college are you at…
Also, hooray for fellow Perthites fleeing the west coast!
Welcome to Melbourne, and to our University, Lois! I hope O-Week and beyond, is exciting and fulfilling.
I’m one of the lecturers in Philosophy, so I hope you have a great time with us. But you won’t see me in your intro philosophy classes, since Logic: Language and Information, a breadth subject, is the only intro I teach this year.
Hey Cara, it’s actually a song by The Hives. They are a fantastic punk outfit from Sweden, that are really quite amazing – I recommend that you check them out and thank me for it later!
And a big hooray for getting out of Perth!
Thank you, I am looking forward so much to philosophy, I’m so glad that we can actually study what we enjoy at university – it’s going to be a bit of a change from school.
You should listen to the Spoon song Well Alright, too! It’s supernice 🙂 The Hives are quite good fun too, fo sho.