Posted by alexandra_k on July 16, 2014, at 5:06:42
In reply to Re: court..., posted by alexandra_k on July 8, 2014, at 23:50:08
so... classes start back next week. i think i will keep the law paper. it might be a bit of a pick me up compared to labs and icky things for biology and maths for physics. i think it might be a bit of an illusion that i have more time to do better in less papers... i think that something... that made me feel... competent... would have helped me put more work into chemistry last semester. i think law will help me feel competent. it is a general education paper that is required for competitive entry to second year law... apparently it is the fun intro paper. the other one is more serious and that later one tends to be a bit dryer and put people off.
a bunch of noisy people have moved in. i mean really, very. bangy and slammy and 'OH MY GAWD!!! SO HAPPY TO SEE YOU!!!' in hallways every half hour or so.
I think part of the issue might be... This week is designated as 'orientation week'... But, uh, it's the start of the second semester of the academic year... So people arriving from the US have come from their summer break and they are (in their minds) waiting for the academic year to start... Most people... Aren't particularly concerned to make friends... Because they have been around for 6 months already... So then a bunch of people rock up with their gregarious happy faces on hoping to meet a bunch of new people... Finding only each other. So... Ur...
I guess I'll just have to put up with it for a bit... Hope that things settle down. I suppose it is reasonable for people to talk in the hallways... I guess the issue is that I wish they set whole floors aside for graduate students or 25 year + students so I didn't have to listen to all the 'OH MY GAWD!!! WHAT ARE YOU??? LIKE MY BEST FRIEND EVA!!!' type conversations of people desperately trying to make friends...
Perhaps the people who are on full year contracts... Then put the temporary people together since they are more likely to share common interests (OH MY GAWD!! YOU DECIDED TO COME HERE FOR THE 18 YEAR OLD DRINKING AGE TOO?)
Sigh. I know it isn't quite as bad as that... Things will... Things do... Settle down. It is just obnoxiously bad at the very start where people are keen to present a gregarious face to the world, where they're insecure about making friends, and where they don't have exams and assignments and tests to be occupying them.
Anyway... Fingers crossed things get better...
I have to move my bed away from the wall (only natural place for it) because I can... Feel the person in the room next to me lying next to me in bed. Tossing and turning and stuff... Ugh. Ugh. UGH.
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