Agides wrote:Something else I wanted to ask everyone who has just started Uni (ordinarily, I would have chucked this in the 'Dear Diary' thread and made it go off at a tangent) - how are you enjoying it and is it everything you thought it would be?
Well up at 06.50 for a 07.20 bus isn't great, considering the bus takes well over an hour in the morning traffic, and when it leaves me into the centre of Belfast I have a 2 mile walk to my Uni.
Not too fond of the prices of having lunch in a capital city either. For a small black coffee to go it's £1.70!
I'm now into week four and have yet to speak a single word to anyone new! I'm only in three days a week, and only for a one hour lecture on one of those days, so meeting new people is proving to be pretty darn hard. As I don't know anyone yet, and I sometime have 2/3 hours to kill between classes, I find myself walking to the park to eat my lunch, or getting a bus into the town centre to have a brouse around the shops.
Then at the end of my day, it's another 2 mile walk back to the bus station.
As for my actual course, Film Studies & Modern History joint honours, I'm really enjoying the Film, but hating the history. I think next year I may drop history and do film as my single honours degree.
The workload has been non-existant so far. I've been assigned two 400 word 'essays' since I've been there, with a full week to do them in. Although, due to the postal strike, I have yet to receive any of my textbooks from Amazon, so I'm sure when they arrive I'll be doing a good bit of reading.
So far it's been a bit of a non-event for me. I've found it pretty lonely so far. It's not as if I don't speak to anyone, I do bump into mates from time to time. But the bus, the walking, the classes, the lunches etc,, I don't really get speaking to anyone.
3 years of this?! Get me to the Fire Service ASAP!!!