During lectures, I get the very strong feeling that the lecturers are there to race the clock and rush through their slides. One of the lecturers is at lecture 8, has yet to start tutorial 2, but still has the majority of us clueless about how to tackle tutorial 1. I hope it doesn't become that extreme for the other modules too.
Sometimes (lots of times), I find myself zoning out. This happens in a few different ways.
Mind just wanders.
I stare at the slide, hear what lecturer is saying, get the idea, but when I try to repeat the method in my head, I get a lot of questions (maybe I'll note 1 or 2 down), and I lose track of whatever it was that the lecturer was saying.
I find myself paying attention but I don't really grasp the concept, but in a few minutes, I find animalistic noises coming out of my lecturer's mouth, and when I look at the slide, it seems to have nothing to do with those animal noises. This seems to happen more for certain lecturers, particularly if they sound like ducks and don't bother to enunciate their words.
Good thing I've got 2 people from my previous course to ask. They make up the majority of my company during lessons. Lessons start at 8.30am every day, so it kind of sucks to look at other people's timetables and see that they have days stating at 9.30am AND have blank days.
After lessons and stuff, I return to my hall (12) and during the travel time back, I always feel I ought to study. So after taking a nap, which is something totally new to me, I wake up, take out the notes, flip to relevant pages, stare at them for a few minutes, and then decide I'll do it later. X:
Within my hall, I still don't know many people, nor do I hang out with any, but I now know my neighbors (so that's a start!). The gender ratio is pretty skewed though, because except for the 2 units joining my block to another one, my floor is all guys (and no I don't know the people in the joining units).
As for CCAs, I think I've joined rock climbing. I wanted to join Judo, but they seem non-existent. Even though I don't need the academic units, I've started illustrating for the campus paper. I want to draw, but more of as a hobby, and I doing this should allow me to keep my basic drawing skills in check.
Also I tried something I never ever thought I would do: I auditioned for contemporary dance. I think I was the worst overall, but it was a lot more interesting and intense than I thought it would be. So obviously I didn't get in, but now I'm interested. I'm pretty sure that I could learn lighter footwork, and the flow of motion ("ability to link movements better").
One thing I feel that I need to get into more of would be 'leadership positions'. While I see other people in the hall running for committee, and writing down their past experience in similar positions, I realize that in all my work and activities so far, I have avoided taking up such positions. I think I need to get some experience before the working world looks and passes me over. I guess what I could do now, would be to try for some sub-committee, then if that goes well, a main position.
Now that I've finished typing this out, I think my post should be read in parts. It also contains a lot of 'I', and not enough 'we'. Maybe in future.
