An update, university year 2
2:18 pm
Original Date posted: Sat, 09 October 2004 04:19:07
Post: It seems to have been forever since I added anything remotely worthwhile to this site. My journal has lacked and I have yet to even mention my new house and its continuing chronicles. I have been reading over my past entries for just over a year now, cringing at the literary skills I possess. I guess I am forever critical.
Right now I am in my second year of university (Warwick, UK) studying electronic engineering. Last year was easy and I was unchallenged, the exams were trouble-free and my average 81% mark that I achieved without checking through my exam papers clearly illustrates this. This year’s course seems to be following in the same vein. I am not being challenged and I really feel like I am wasting time. I’m studying 4 out of 10 modules this term; “Software Development” (aka C++, something I have spent evening classes learning prior to university), “Analogue Design” – the inner workings of semiconductors and such, “Applied Linear Algebra” – math’s and lots of complicated matrix work and finally, “Starting a Business” which is proving quite interesting.
My timetable has scheduled me with a whopping nine hours a week, compared to my girlfriend’s biochemistry 22 hours and a mate’s 24 hours of math’s plus hordes of assessments. Life is awfully hard. I don’t know, maybe they will pile on the work next term. The most idiotic part of my timetable are the lecture times – on Monday I have a 9-10 lecture, a 10-11 and then a 5-6 in the evening. That’s a 6 hour gap. On Thursday I have a 9 o clock and I finish the day with a 6-7 lecture. Meaning I leave for uni at 8 in the morning and get home at 8 in the evening, providing I don’t go to the student cinema or various society groups.
I now live off campus, so I travel in each day by bus. It takes about an hour each way and the bus is usually full and stuffy. However this time does give me a moment to sample new music on my iPod, two albums a day. I paid £190 for my three term bus pass that entitles me to unlimited travel on Stagecoach buses.
Post: It seems to have been forever since I added anything remotely worthwhile to this site. My journal has lacked and I have yet to even mention my new house and its continuing chronicles. I have been reading over my past entries for just over a year now, cringing at the literary skills I possess. I guess I am forever critical.
Right now I am in my second year of university (Warwick, UK) studying electronic engineering. Last year was easy and I was unchallenged, the exams were trouble-free and my average 81% mark that I achieved without checking through my exam papers clearly illustrates this. This year’s course seems to be following in the same vein. I am not being challenged and I really feel like I am wasting time. I’m studying 4 out of 10 modules this term; “Software Development” (aka C++, something I have spent evening classes learning prior to university), “Analogue Design” – the inner workings of semiconductors and such, “Applied Linear Algebra” – math’s and lots of complicated matrix work and finally, “Starting a Business” which is proving quite interesting.
My timetable has scheduled me with a whopping nine hours a week, compared to my girlfriend’s biochemistry 22 hours and a mate’s 24 hours of math’s plus hordes of assessments. Life is awfully hard. I don’t know, maybe they will pile on the work next term. The most idiotic part of my timetable are the lecture times – on Monday I have a 9-10 lecture, a 10-11 and then a 5-6 in the evening. That’s a 6 hour gap. On Thursday I have a 9 o clock and I finish the day with a 6-7 lecture. Meaning I leave for uni at 8 in the morning and get home at 8 in the evening, providing I don’t go to the student cinema or various society groups.
I now live off campus, so I travel in each day by bus. It takes about an hour each way and the bus is usually full and stuffy. However this time does give me a moment to sample new music on my iPod, two albums a day. I paid £190 for my three term bus pass that entitles me to unlimited travel on Stagecoach buses.
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