You know you're in uni when. . .

1. you miss out on blog deadlines!!
2. you feel that there is no logic when you have managed to sit for an exam which tests 2 years' worth of studying over 10 subjects and are now having problems with just 4 over a period of half a year


3. you find yourself in a lecture theatre with 200 other people you don't even know or recognise from your previous class


4. you have multiple lecturers and/or tutors to teach one particular subject within the same semester @@


5. your lecturers go by the name Dr. So-and-So and are usually too busy with administrative work and/or research *this goes the same to those not under science*


6. your tutorial only consists of 10% of the people from the lecture class


7. people you meet are highly dependent on your chances of having chosen the same time slots for the specific class


8. your schedule is too complicated to remember every location of lecture theatre/laboratory/computer lab/auditorium/classroom


9. your timetable is horrendously messed up with long hours in between due to clashing classes while planning which is done online and not on a first come first serve basis


10. hours are just a small unit of time


11. 4 hour breaks don't seem to be enough to finish any form of homework or online quizzes of a particular subject


12. procrastination is not an option and is a matter comparable to that of life n death


13. pre-lecture studies are required for any understanding of lectures to come and you will be tested before the topics are introduced during the lecture and also after the lectures


14. all notes are available either online or in the student drive of the school local area network and you are required to print them out on your own


15. your fees do not cover the printing of notes or handouts but covers RM15 worth of printing credit which only gives you about 150 pages of black and white printing out of thousands of pages you have to print


16. multiple online tests are available before and after lectures of which grades will be taken into finalization of marks


17. online tests have time limits of 12 minutes for 10 questions which comes to approximately 1.2 minutes per question


18. only your uni e-mail address is applicable for correspondence with the uni


19. textbooks cost you up to a total of RM500 for usage of only half a year and if you're lucky it can be used for your next unit and in rare cases one textbook can cost RM500+ but fortunately can be used for up to 3 years


20. the lift alarm goes off when there are only 10+ students carrying a textbook each


21. 3 hour labs are not long enough for the completion of report writing and conduct of experiment


22. labs are conducted concurrently and lab demonstrators aka honours students replace the lecturer


23. lab demonstrators have the rights to bullying and confusing new students who are conductiong experiments
24. odd feelings may occur when one finds oneself free of work
25. sleep hours vary and is dependent on assignment due dates
26. major assignments come in the very first month of uni and are due on the very same month
27. you wish you were dead or at least taking another course, say...pharmacy?
28. in cases where there is a medicine school in your uni: you get to meet a dead plasticised person

note to reader(s): the above list mainly applies to students of the science school, monash and may not apply to everyone and are just personal views; this is a blog after all~

signing off,

emily c

will be back 26 days later; if i survive the second month of uni