Category: Social, personal & family life
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You'd think there'd be more Uni-related stuff to blog about.
Right now I’m threading through some music I re-wrote on Sibelius because they didn’t have the instrumental part in the library (grrrrr!). It’s the 1st Mvt of Shostakovich’s Sonata in D Minor, which I like because it invokes feelings of nostalgia. Granted, there’s an angry part in the middle somewhere – but at least it […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/first-year/2008/12/02/youd-think-thered-be-more-uni-related-stuff-to-blog-about
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Moving On. Moving Out. Moving In. (Gianina)
A week-and-a-half through my holidays (yeah, yeah i know. it’s getting obvious from my blog posts that I have this compulsion to always quantify stuff, especially time), I am slowly getting bored already. Uni takes up at least 60% of my time so once my classes ended, I am left with not much to do. One […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/first-year/2008/12/01/moving-on-moving-out-moving-in
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Ad astra [nicola]
Everyone has a thing, a vice, a small source of comfort. Mine is chocolate… having already written a post, praising it in all its glories at the start of the exam period, I’m now writing this the day before my last exam. This of course is the reason why I’m sweating over lecture notes, intermittantly […] -
In Limbo… interrupted (Gianina)
Imagine yourself in your last few weeks of 1st year uni. You have just gotten yourself a relatively well-paying job, and your other commitments are going well. Then suddenly everything goes upside down because of one word: Cancer. That’s what happened to me just recently. At the end of week 10, I was diagnosed with blood […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/first-year/2008/10/29/in-limbo-interrupted
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A Week Off (Gianina)
Pardon my absence here of late in the blog. I actually started a post a week and a half ago, but I never got to actually publishing the saved copy. You see, I was in the hospital for a week – which is really bad timing as there was just 3 weeks to go before […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/first-year/2008/10/19/a-week-off-gianina
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Time (Yuan)
This year has gone by surprisingly fast. Only 4 more weeks, swotvac, exam block and we’re done. Amazing… The med student’s much deserved 1 week off had come and gone (the other lucky students get 2, which is totally not fair). I spent it volunteering for SWOT (Student Welfare Outreach Team) and tutored VCE students […] -
Halcyon [nicola]
Like schools, we have the next two weeks off. The first day to celebrate the wonderful moments of following two weeks were spent wandering around Ikea with my family kitting out one of the rooms at home which has so far acted like a ‘whatever’ room. Now we just have to figure out how to […] -
The two week "break" (Gianina)
Although the 2-week non-teaching period for Melb Uni won’t be starting until this coming Monday, my ‘break’ has already started yesterday as I don’t have classes during Fridays. Here’s a rundown of my oh-so-fabulous day yesterday: woke up at about 9:30, eventually got up at 10 after unsuccessful attempts to go back to sleep, **fast […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/first-year/2008/09/21/the-two-week-break
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Smokin coffee
Cardboard model again, albeit in relatively more sophisticated lighting and geometry. Next week (and this weekend) is going to be a living hell. We’re talking about major assessments all due next week. It doesn’t help that mid-semesters for my breadth subject are usually done later than all other subjects; so that’s on next week too. […] -
Pray (Yuan)
Freedom! That’s the first thing I can think of when I sat down to write this post. The last two weeks have just been… hellish, to be honest. Last week, I had a 2,500 words assignment to write and for the first time ever, I actually had problem reaching the word limit whereas before, it […]
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