Second week withdrawals

As the second week of university comes to a close, the work is speeding up and time seems to be getting shorter and shorter. Or I’m just losing motivation…..already. What I used to get done in about an hour now seems to take me a week. Even this how-ever-many words blog has taken me an hour.

Where did my motivation go?!

In all honesty, I love Melbourne University, and I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. I love my course, and most of my lecturers and tutors. And the weirdest part is, I enjoy doing my homework. That’s right, I actually enjoy doing homework. But my enjoyment doesn’t seem to be translating into making me want to study. It only seems to be once I actually start doing it I enjoy it.

…..Maybe lecturers should outlaw homework all together and instead give everyone take home exams. I think I’m onto something here!

While I’m on the topic of outlawing things; public speaking. I think I read the other week that it’s the #1 fear in adults (even above death). We should make those people do an oral presentation in another language. Let’s see how many break down in tears. I imagine there’d be a lot of used Kleenex tissues.

That’s what I’m grappling with this week. How I’m going to do a debate (that’s right a debate) in French and then the next we have to perform a play, also in French. The topic is ‘Should smoking be banned in public?’. A noble topic; yes. However, for the moment I can barely string together a sentence in French let alone a coherent debate.

There’s also something that I’m hearing more lately that’s causing me concern; my lecturers are stressing that they’re already behind on our study plan. Being only the second week; how is this possible? It’s not a good look when lecturers are stressed. It makes the students even more stressed. Maybe Melbourne Uni should introduce compulsory yoga classes to de-stress everyone…..Or maybe they can just give out free chocolate. What obesity epidemic?

It occurs to me now how single-minded this blog post has been. With the current devastation in Japan, my complaints are silly and pointless. So I’ll end by saying that my thoughts go out to anybody currently in Japan or anybody that knows somebody in Japan or the Pacific that may be affected.

P.S. Here’s a link to the top 10 fears of the average adult (I couldn’t find a more reputable source, unfortunately): http://www.speech-topics-help.com/fear-of-public-speaking-statistics.html but rest assured, it is true.