Month: July 2010
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Major major
Changed my major yet again, the joys of being a third year – and of course, the guinea pig year of the Melbourne model has its advantages. I’m writing this blog now and multitasking by listening to a neurobiology lecture that is hardly hearable in the background because the lecturer wasn’t standing behind the mic […] -
So University Strikes Back [Daniel]
Well my first week of University is officially over and dusted (much like my aforementioned tutoring job eeeep!) with me sitting next to a slowly dying fire, head rolled back in a position of exhaustion. The weight of knowledge (or much more likely morning runs) is just soo much upon my untainted holiday brain. But […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/seconds/2010/07/29/so-university-strikes-back-daniel
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Honey, I’m home!
After a good 3 months of summer holidays, which include much adventuring in the US and central america, an advanced SCUBA license (yay) but no phone, jewelry or any other valuables (a classic mexican experience), I returned to a country that had a new PM and unhealthy obsession with masterchef and once again walked under […] -
Haggling isn’t a dirty word [Daniel]
But it sure is necessary in tutoring, and I, poor, naive, foolish, cheap, undersold me, out of a misguided sense of fairness or perhaps pity, said that I would work for fewer than twenty dollars an hour for a month. Great, just great. Now I feel like the worlds biggest wimp, for not going for the […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/seconds/2010/07/21/haggling-isnt-a-dirty-word-daniel
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A Ghost town of activity[Daniel]
The internet cookies tumbled through the town like a bunch of tumbleweed, a haunting reminder of the promise this small town had in the corner of the internet. Some of them become entangled in my boots, grabbing on wondering if they could leave with me. I didn’t bother with a reply, or getting rid of […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/seconds/2010/07/16/a-ghost-town-of-activitydaniel