Monday, 27/11/17. Reflections of JAFFYUni stuffYay!!! my results finally came out.
3 High Distinctions & 1 Distinction for Sem 2.
I actually jumped out of my chair & screamed a bit (lol, this what happens when you set low
expectations or worry the worst will happen. You usually beat them 9.99999999999999999/10 times. If you don't want to be disappointed in life, aim within the realm of possibly
).
2 of my High Distinction marks just squeezed in though so that was surprising and my Distinction was 2 marks to making it a High Distinction (just like my subjects from semester 1 as well).
But i'm surprised at the results since I spent a lot of time on this site helping students with primarily Medea and some Economics as well.
I also love how our GPA gets updated ~2-3 days before our results come out. So you can have a indication how you went beforehand. But it is uncertain if you failed a subject or not.
Well, it only gets harder from here. But I'll worry about that about a month away from university next year or when it starts.
Out of Uni stuffI've been just reading, journaling, goal-setting, learning and other "boring" stuff.
I haven't been out too much due to personal circumstances. But alas you make the most of what you have.
I'm just enjoying this break as following onwards, I'll have a reduced amount even none due to getting work next year.
I'm not too sure what else I should do with my life in terms of what should I be trying out now and not later like should I really learn how to cook actual meals or focus on learning about how to do taxes, investing, etc.
Too many things to learn and not enough me to go around doing it.
I guess cloning becomes a thing in my lifetime, but then how would I get the memories shared?
Hmmmm... something to look into when I'm procrastinating.
Oh also I really wish someone told me that the Harry Potter books are better then the movies. I'm surprised at the level of detail left out of the movies such as Harry gets his letter from Hogwarts in the Philosopher Stone to even the mention of a certain dog in the Philosopher Stone as well. Its like one of life's secrets that people don't tell you about.
Future of this journalI'll keep updating this for next year
Although I really doubt anyone reads these besides me to be honest and maybe the odd stalker. But i'll do every week as opposed try to update it every day like this year, I'll do highlights of the week as opposed to a full- breakdown of it. I'll also have a section on university related things & non-university related things.
Year 1 Overall reflection
I think I was extremely better off then a lot of my peers in the transition to high school to university. I think being disciplined and also just having great, well-established work practices like how to deal with procrastination, how to get a "social" life, how to manage the workload, planning a schedule, etc really helped with this.
I think also treating going into university as a fresh start and knowing that I didn't have anyone I knew in my course or that I wouldn't see other students from high school was the big push I needed to go and pursue things.
I'm always a very passive person. I didn't like putting myself out there and in general quite private as well. So I think knowing that I would be in an
environment where people didn't know who I was, let me go and change myself for the better.
Like taking student union positions, being a lot more vocal in lectures, voicing concerns & feedback to professors and even going to talk to strangers in my industry about their work was something I wouldn't imagine doing at all.
A big thing that helped was that the professors and my friends I made at university were very supportive of me and this ultimately made me enjoy the subjects I took and really understand the necessity of the work that can be done like Map-Making is a lot more intense and complex then people give it credit for like the difference between a "great" and a "good" map is quite astounding and also
the maps that could be made when given the time and also the support is truly amazing. I remember when I made a map using a GIS (Geographical Information System) software package and then comparing it to when we could use a graphics package like Adobe Illustrator to make a map. The difference really shows and I think people outside of the industry don't understand how big of an impact that can have on their map.
Also fun-fact: I have taken ~25 workshops regarding career related stuff like networking, resumes, job searching strategies, cover letters, interviews and still haven't gotten a job