Pretty sure I'm gonna stay at Fenner and study next year now lol (I did say that I'm indecisive). I haven't changed my mind for like, 3 whole days so I might actually stick with this decision (or not).
I'm so far behind on my lectures, which is really annoying and entirely my fault. I need to catch up really soon though because I have another exam in a couple of weeks (organic chem should just stop being a thing already).
I haven't been going for my morning rides lately. Which isn't good cos I get way more stressed & anxious when I don't. But also getting out of bed in the morning is hard when I can barely sleep at night (and sleeping is easier when I've been exercising at least a little, but that would require getting up early which requires sleeping and so on). So that's unpleasant.
I really need to actually submit my lab reports for chem and bio on time this week. Or just submit them at all at least. But there's a bunch of questions in my chem lab that haven't been covered in the lectures I've watched so far. It should have been in the lectures from the first half of the sem, but either it's not or it's all just crammed into the last one that I haven't watched yet.
Assuming the processing times are accurate and I didn't fuck up anything on the form, my name change should finally be done this week (hopefully). Although they're saying it can take a week after that to send me my new birth ceritficate
. That'll be nice. But also stressful because then I have to fill out a million tonnes of paperwork to change everything else to match and some of that is probably going to require changing things in a certain order which will be annoying and I'm going to have to tell so many people. And I don't even know how that's meant to work for some of my classes, cos like, they have paper rolls and they use them for marks for some things, so then idk if I need to keep putting my online submissions under my old name or if they'll just think to use my uni id rather than name. And I'll have to get a new student card which is frustrating for even more reasons and ugh. And like, I'm gonna have to get a new bank card, which means a different number, and I don't even remember if I have anything connected to it, I don't think so but ugh. And I have to go in person to change my name on federal government stuff (you'd think they could just figure it out amongst themselves
) and that will take an entire day because they always have insanely long wait times and not enough staff.
PF's life tip: If you want to change your name, do it in between high school and uni and don't do what I did and decide to change it halfway through the year lol.
Also then I'm eventually gonna get another birth certificate which isn't gonna have my birth name on it so I won't be able to prove that it used to be my name so rip if I forget to change anything before then (although whether something requires proof of connection between names seems to be a bit hit and miss lol). That's gonna take forever though
(they still haven't even updated the website or their forms to allow it yet which is a bit sad).
tl;dr I am very stressed about everything and I do not like it.