Communal University Journey Journal

[strawberries]

Was planning on doing so much this weekend. Have achieved absolutely nothing.

feels

6 August
- typed up my notes for 2 subjects from the lectures last week
- um, finished half of my readings for IPE
- ugh, tried to do some more research for my politics paper. just. can't.

[RuiAce]

They're converting base 10 numbers to binary and hexadecimal.

Me: That's cute.

[Shadowxo]

On the weekend I aimed to prepare some assignments for this week and get a head start. I
- Finished writing up one assignment (had already done the solutions just needed to make it look nice)
- Forgot I had a physics assignment due yesterday (oops)
- Didn't do the prelabs (so I'm doing them today )
- Didn't look over last week's notes
- Didn't do my pre-tute questions for later this week
- Went to bed late

So the whole "being organised" thing isn't working as well as I'd hoped...

[strawberries]

7 Aug: ummm...what did I do today?
I did some chores if that counts? xD

- so yeah, borrowed a book to read for my essay, read a bit lol
- did a bit more reading for IPE

So...unproductive lol.

EDIT: 700th post

[K888]

Another day of uni, another day of incurring HECS debt.

This time, it was for the pleasure of participating in "mindful raisin eating"

Yep.

[heids]

Another day of uni, another day of incurring HECS debt.

This time, it was for the pleasure of participating in "mindful raisin eating"

Yep.

It's a surprisingly useful skill, and probably worth more than most of your course, but it doesn't need to cost a cent (except for the cost of the raisins, I grant, but ideally you can just steal them from parents anyway so)

[elysepopplewell]

Panicked because I thought I'd do more Uni work today than I actually did, working 10-6 today, and then dinner with a friend. And then it occurred to me: I already did tomorrow's readings on the weekend. So thanking previous-me for being so on top of it on Sunday morning because Wednesday me is very extremely thankful.

[sweetiepi]

Summary of today: trying to make links between the 2012 "The Amazing Spiderman" and the field of pharmacology. Probably the most interesting part of this unit haha

[K888]

Summary of today: trying to make links between the 2012 "The Amazing Spiderman" and the field of pharmacology. Probably the most interesting part of this unit haha

Wow, I didn't know Joseph41 was one of your lecturers!

[sweetiepi]

Wow, I didn't know Joseph41 was one of your lecturers!

Neither did I
I swear this is *the* AN meme

[elysepopplewell]

Just using this space to type some thoughts and debriefing

I'm doing one subject, Communicating Nations, which I'm loving. There are three assessments, one is class participation (how good!), one is an individually assessed group task which is just facilitating discussion for one hour about the readings (legendarrrrryyyy) and then one 2000 word essay at the end. So, really happy with this because the content is really interesting: how do we construct nations? What is an imagined community? etc... And really happy with this because this is the least demanding assessment schedule in this world.

Then I'm doing data journalism...stressful. I'm doing a lot of work with statistics, data, and... (duh duh duhhhhhhh), excel. I'm slowly getting my skills up I think, so I'm happy, but it is very very very time consuming to follow data through in a million ways, reformat, trim it, etc...to find there's no interesting story at the end. Starting again... (If anyone has come across any interesting data lately lemme know...)

And then I'm doing Sexing Power as an elective - a gender studies class. Really interesting. This week's readings were on Chinese foot binding and its similarities in deformation and metaphorical ways to 18th century corsets. That was my favourite reading. There was also one about "Saving" women in Islam, which I found a lot harder to understand because of the American spin on it, so much about America's involvement in the Middle East and I just don't know enough. And then one nice and short one on Western Feminist theory.

[EEEEEEP]

Bored of uni, can't wait to get out of uni.

Skipping class. Rote learning for days.

Such a model student I am

[brenden]

Just using this space to type some thoughts and debriefing

I'm doing one subject, Communicating Nations, which I'm loving. There are three assessments, one is class participation (how good!), one is an individually assessed group task which is just facilitating discussion for one hour about the readings (legendarrrrryyyy) and then one 2000 word essay at the end. So, really happy with this because the content is really interesting: how do we construct nations? What is an imagined community? etc... And really happy with this because this is the least demanding assessment schedule in this world.

Then I'm doing data journalism...stressful. I'm doing a lot of work with statistics, data, and... (duh duh duhhhhhhh), excel. I'm slowly getting my skills up I think, so I'm happy, but it is very very very time consuming to follow data through in a million ways, reformat, trim it, etc...to find there's no interesting story at the end. Starting again... (If anyone has come across any interesting data lately lemme know...)

And then I'm doing Sexing Power as an elective - a gender studies class. Really interesting. This week's readings were on Chinese foot binding and its similarities in deformation and metaphorical ways to 18th century corsets. That was my favourite reading. There was also one about "Saving" women in Islam, which I found a lot harder to understand because of the American spin on it, so much about America's involvement in the Middle East and I just don't know enough. And then one nice and short one on Western Feminist theory.

538 is a website based on statistics - known for its political stats but also does sports and societal things like Spotify playlists.

Reddit has a subreddit called /dataisbeautiful. Download the Reddit app - don't even bother trying to use the website. Sort by "top posts this year" and see what other people have done.

Either of those things might give you data inspiration

[strawberries]

Bored of uni, can't wait to get out of uni.

Skipping class. Rote learning for days.

Such a model student I am

I actually wish I could be like you.
I wish I was good enough/had the courage to skip classes, but I'm so "bored" staying at home xD

There are three assessments, one is class participation (how good!),

can't tell if you're being sarcastic

[EEEEEEP]

I actually wish I could be like you.
I wish I was good enough/had the courage to skip classes, but I'm so "bored" staying at home xD
can't tell if you're being sarcastic

Please dont skip

I'm just at the point where I cannot be stuffed going in for classes sometimes.