Here we all are
I am at the front, 4th from the right, in the purple top. That photo was on the front page of the catholic weekly. I said to my nana 'I bet I was the last grandkid you expected to see in that paper'. She just grumbled. She likes to try and ignore the fact that I have an extremely different belief system to her.
I don't really know what one word descriptor I should use. I could say 'good' but that doesn't really say much. I won't say 'brilliant' because there was far too much work and freaking out involved. I think that I will have to stick with 'interesting', but said in that drawn out not so sure what to say way.
Monday and Tuesday were pretty routine boring kind of days but because everything was new and exciting I wasn't bored at the time. They were just introduction lectures, each new person coming in and explaining how their section was the most important. Things got more interesting from Wednesday as we started PBL (problem based learning). We have groups of 8 and we are in the group for a whole year. My group is 5 girls 3 boys and I am the 2nd oldest. Within the group there are several people who know sooo much more than me. They have really relevant past degrees and experience. I am finding that having a chemistry degree really does not help at all. I am going to need to do a lot of work to keep ahead of the 8 ball. We all walked away from this freaking out a little bit because we had lists of things that we had to research and investigate in order to present to the group on Friday. There was a lot to be done and not much time. One of our group members Sarah was really kinda freaked out afterwards saying that she didn't realise that it was going to be so much work or time. I didn't see her in the lectures that afternoon or the labs on Thursday and she wasn't in PBL on Friday so now I am worried that she got scared off. I hope she didn’t. It seems like a lot of work to put into getting into something only to quit as soon as it starts. I hope she comes back this week. Thursday was UTS day. The uni has an agreement with UTS so we have 1 day a week there in the labs and receiving lectures from their people. At first we were all told that we would need to be there at 8am which we were all dreading, luckily it was revised to 9am. The timetable had us in 'Orientation' from 9 till 1 then labs from 2 till 6. Orientation took 45 minutes. By 9:45am we were done and just had to 'hang' till 2pm for the labs. 4 hours to kill. I used some of this time to do the stuff I should have done when I was in my procrastination phase (see previous post). It was still annoying. I mean why not have just put the orientation lecture at 1pm? It was very basic, anyone could have done it. Friday was clinical skills, PBL and more lectures. I was sooo glad when the week was over because I was just buggered. I have to start it all again tomorrow.
I CAN do this it is just going to take a lot of retraining myself with my study habits and I will need to start using my time more wisely. I should get to studying.
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