a day in the life of a .first-day-of-uni student

It's Friday,
and I've successfully made it through the first week of Uni.
Fun fun fun fun,
looking forward to the weekend.
But now I'm at the library.
Chilling.
#NerdLife

First day of Uni always feels great.
You feel/think you're gonna do a great job.
A new semester.
A new beginning.
You're gonna study hard.
But still have excellent work-life balance.
And first-days are perfect for just that.
The fact that you don't get any work on your first day
makes your work-life balance look excellent….
even though you've spent the whole day doing nothing.
Either doing nothing or doing something stupid.
One or the other.

This time,
I thought I'd do another one of those "A Day in the Life" posts.
WITH PICTURES !
(yayyyyyyy)
It was a fairly fun day for me.
Probably boring for all you readers out there.
But whatever !
#NerdLife

*DRINKING (WATER) GAME:
Every time you see a laptop/computer in any of the pictures,
take one sip of water.
If both appear in the same picture,
take two sips.
If you survive this challenge,
you'll probably need to use the toilet really bad.
But I commend you if you survive !


7.15am
Wakes up.
Mum had to wake me up
because my biological clock was still messed up.
It still is.


7.30am

Brekkie Time !
I had to choose between bread and cereal.
I went with bread.
Because if I had cereal,
with COLD milk,
I would freeze.
Plus,
I feel that a cup of coffee
for appropriate for the first day of uni !

*Shoutout to Miss Fashion for the awesome mug from Vietnam !


8.30am

Bus ride to Uni.
First day or not,
I always end up running to the bus stop.
And this time,
I was determined.
MUSN'T BE LATE
FOR FIRST LECTURE
OF THE SEMESTER !
The bus was surprisingly crowded.


9.00am

I barely made it.
I went into the crowded lecture theatre,
and just picked a seat in the front and sat there.
Too intimidating to go any further to the back.
So many strange, alien faces.
Our lecturer, who is Chinese,
gave us the first lecture.
We didn't get to meet our Unit Coordinator.
I found the lecture slightly boring.
And it was a little hard understanding him.
But he speaks quite well….
Until he starts rushing.


10.00am

Went round the campus looking for textbooks.
First to the Reid library,
then to the Secondhand Bookshop.
Trying to be thrifty and all.
Unfortunately,
Secondhand always fails me.
So I went over to the Co-op bookshop.
$80 for my Economics textbook.
And $130 for my Organisational Behaviour textbook.
GREAT !
Such great deals !
#SmellTheSarcasm


10.30am

Gave up on my book search completely.
And went to hang out with some friends.
Meet Miss Mum and Mr Dad and did....
nothing of any significance!
Miss Mum was very loud though.
And Mr Dad was swearing a lot.
And I was stuck in the middle.
Hmmm....
Sounds quite like a typical family to me...
#Creepy


11.45am

Stopped by at the Science Cafe to get lunch !
I don't actually go IN to the Cafe quite often,
despite being a regular at the Science Library.
Well, it can't be helped,
since they close at 3pm.
As if Perth going to bed at 5pm wasn't bad enough.

I settled for a Ham and Cheese Croissant.
My first "usual" at Uni cafes.
Got sick of said "usual" after a few weeks of
continuous consumption.
Needless to say,
it's not a "usual" anymore.


1.00pm

Walked ALL THE WAY to the South end of campus...
or was it North ?
Well, the Business end of the campus.
This semester I enrolled in
Organisation Behaviour (OB).
It's my first time doing a commerce-related unit.
So, things were pretty mind-boggling at first.
It still is...
But the whole lecture was dedicated to housekeeping.
I've heard rumors about the unit being super dry.
That lecture confirmed it!
In other words,
I'm looking forward to it...

Sadly, there won't be a picture for this time slot.
Because I was too busy snoozing.
It's a trend in that unit.


2.00pm

I met up with Mr Mum and Miss Mum to go hunting.
Tutorial classroom-hunting, I mean.
Why wait till your tutorial to get lost,
when you can just get lost on the first day of uni!
Miss Frozen tagged along as well.
So that was kinda interesting.
We ended up in weird places....


3.00pm

...like the Rock Museum.
Miss Mum didn't know about this place.
So her jaw dropped exponentially.
Miss Frozen was as well,
just not so much.
We stomped on the seismic detector-O-meter,
touched soils (my favourite part),
and looked at rocks.
Apparently, they were selling rocks too.
Shiny, colourful rocks.
Not the boring ones.
(If you're a Geologist, please don't kill me.)
Pretty damn cheap too!
I'm going back one day to get some.


4.00pm

We ended up at Reid Library, somehow...
And we chilled at the Reid Cafe.
Miss Mum and Mr Dad pretty much had a divorce.
It wasn't an ACTUAL divorce.
But it sounded a lot like one.
And as always,
the husband is the one leaving the wife...
Aside from marriage values being questioned,
nothing much happened that hour.


5.00pm

Time for me to get some work done!
Volunteer work, I mean.
ClimateWatch work, to be specific!
I spent 3 hours looking at roughly 150 sightings
of Australian magpies.
I found some rather interesting error in the dataset,
which made the work more interesting...
Unfortunately,
the error was actually caused by my carelessness.
One step closer to unemployment!


8.00pm

My eyes were twitching after staring at
TWO computer screens for THREE hours.
Silent bus ride home.
As usual.


8.30pm

I had my dinner.
And then my shower.
Nothing interesting here.
And you're definitely not getting a picture of me in the showers!

10.00pm

I get my daily dose of online cwap!
Reading random things online.
And watching pointless videos on YouTube.
It's a living necessity for me.
Good thing I had some strawberries to munch on.
Fruits and nonsensical social media go extremely well together!
Kinda like cereal and bananas.

12.00pm

I hit my sack.
Not literally.
I also pray that I won't oversleep the next morning.
Guess what,
I did.



Listening to Up All Night - Owl City

 

 

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