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Natasha.97:

--- Quote from: paigek3 on March 12, 2018, 11:19:35 pm ---What’s OLE?

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They're "Open Learning Environment" units, which can be either completely online or have a few contact hours in addition to the online work :)

Potatohater:
Which, to add to Jess' answer, for me are all online. I'm doing HTML + CSS, JavaScript and project management for 2 cp each

Potatohater:
 18/03/18 - Week 2 shinanigans

Wow, I've been so caught up in the last week I havn't even touched my bullet journal since Wednesday morning!
* A bullet journal is what I use instead of the more traditional diaries/planners. You can look them up on YouTube, although mine is certainly not as fancy as the ones that dominate the platform *
So here we go!

Monday
Click me!Had a performance lecture followed by a 2 hour break in which I texted 2 pre uni friends and hung out with which ever texted back 1st, so I ended up having lunch with someone I originally met at year 10 drama camp. Then was my 1st performance workshop. Before it started a girl with short blonde hair approached me. I'd seen her in my performance and creative lectures and at SUDS, and had a feeling I'd know her from before. She also had this feeling about me. Turns out we both met briefly at the party of a mutural friend, and so we started talking. She has 50% of the same classes as me - PRFM1601 and ENGL1014 so I reckon I'm gonna try and make friends with her properly, just gotta keep meeting with her in class from now on I reckon.

The workshop was rather interesting. !st we did one of those classic ice breakers where we talk to the person next to you and then introduce that person to the class. I got to talk to a guy with the deathly Hallows tattooed to his foot. The majority of the lesson was playing a game and the game was this;
The tutor would ask us to use the space in order to answer questions about ourselves. The was a corner for abstaining due to uncomfort and a corner for not knowing the answer, the rest of the space was fair game. He asked basic questions at first such as height order, age order, how far we travel to uni (I was the second furthest away haha) and degree etc. Then they started getting more personal, touching on socio-economic status, Religeon and politics, with questions such as "how expensive are the clothes you are wearing?", who we voted for in the last election (not many were actually of voting age at the time so I was only 1 of 4 participants for this round) what our mother and father's income was, what religion we were etc. This made a few people uncomfortable, but I was perfectly fine with exposing it all. I am who I am and I'm not ashamed of that.
We then did a debrief for the last hour, discussing the purpose of the task and how it linked back to Brecht, as he is the main practitioner we are studying this semester, as well as general housekeeping things for how to function in this unit. Overall it was really fun and I really look forward to my future workshops.
Wednesday
Click me!Today started off miserable and raining. I only had a 2 hour lecture so I almost decided not to go. It was very tempting to just watch it from home but in the end I was just like "ARGGH the train is in 20 mins make a descision Taylor!" And so I went just in case. It was cool that I ended up talking to the person next to me in the lecture and I thought we were getting along, but I only know his 1st name and with the amount of students taking GEOS1001 I figured I probably won't find him again, or often. I then hung out with my commerce friend while she was on her break just to make the trek into uni more worth while.
Thursday
Click me!Today was just a 1hr Creative writing lecture and then Quidditch practice. During the lecture I hung out with the girl I met at performance which was nice, then went down to the park for quidditch. Training was so intense, I was tired within the 1st 10mins, and gosh I looked like an idiot in that 1st drill. They all think I drop the ball cause I have a broom between my legs, HA! NO! Ok, maybe that is a factor, but really I just lack hand eye coordination, which is gonna have to improve if I wanna get on one of the higher lever teams. At the end of the session we played a game and I was chaser, which was super fun, to the point I was exhausted from running and the person leading my team was like "Taylor are you good? You can sub out if you need" but I would say I'm fine and keep going, and he'd ask again, and I'd keep going, and then the 3rd time I inured he really wanted me to sub off rather than push myself too hard so I went off. Our team won, yay! But it sent us over time by 15 mins and consequently made me 30mins late for work, so I reckon I'll have to arrange for work to start at that time every week just in case this happens again.
Friday
Click me!My first 9 am start. My first experience of USyd on a Friday. Man it is so much more quiet on Friday than throughout the week. I had my 1st Geo prac which was rather awkward and boring. Everyone seems so quiet and isolated, and apparently there was a reading I didn't know about so when we discussed in small groups my group cut me out of the discussion cause I hadn't read it. Honestly, I didn't realise it was there, I'm not lazy and trying to leach off your knowledge, I promise! Then we did a turn it in practice task which we had a suspiciously long amount of time to complete so I deliberately tried to take as long as possible cause I didn't want to be sitting there doing nothing for a whole hour. In the end I took 40 mins to do it, and she let us go once it was submitted. This gave me ample time to work out where I was going next - The Elliot Millier Studio for a free MADSOC Ballet Class!

The Ballet class was super fun and really challenging. I met a girl who I reckon I will try and befriend, because we were both standing outside talking about how we'd never done this before and were unsure weather to go in or not. Once we went in and more people came we introduced ourselves and how long we'd been dancing. Based off this info the teacher decided to teach to a "middle range' This started off pretty much at my level but then got more challenging as we progressed. Whilst it did get hard and I probably made a fool of myself at times I really liked it, and reckon it will push me a bit more than my dance school because I'm more near the bottom in ability here and have more experienced dancers to learn from. I will definitely be coming here as often as I can in the future.

Then was my 1st creative writing workshop. We 1st talked briefly about the unit and what was expected, did a quick 5 minute writing task and were then talked to the person next to us, which for me was an international student from China, and to me his perspectives on writing were really interesting because I'd never thought of some of his ideas before due to our different contexts. We then had a discussion of the week 1 readings based off the posts made to canvas (I think other uni's use Moodle? We use canvas - has all our lecture recordings, readings and stuff on there). I made a post to canvas but for some reason it wasn't there so I didn't end up having to tak about my interpretations, and I'm not sure if that is a good or bad thing. After this really interesting discussion of the readings and writing, what I means to be a writer, how to get ideas and how people approach writing peices, we did a few writing excersises. The 1st was to describe playing an instrument. Then pick an animal. Then use the metaphor of the animal to describe playing the instrument. I ended up with an elephant to represent playing the clarinet, which was quite challenging. The 2nd excersise was to write about our 1st kiss, day at highschool or day at uni fro an outsider perspective. I chose to do my 1st kiss from the point of view of my then boyfriend. For next week we need to bring in one of our writings from the course so far as a 300 word peice for peer workshopping, and I reckon I will bring in this peice cause it is quite a funny story, I think at least.

That night I also went to the USyd Revue - USyd AF, and it was AWESOME AF! It was so good, I loved it so much and it was so super funny I came out and I couldn't stop laughing! It was a show I would happily watch over again if I could! I especially love how they parodied a song from "the Book of Mormon" and instead of "this book will change your life" it was "this place will change your life" and it was about uni from a 1st year perspective so I found it incredibly relatable. I also discovered my 2014 highschool captain goes here since she was in the revue. Man I look up to her as inspiration so much...
Speaking of USyd productions, I also went to a SUDS production of "Punk Rock" which was also amazing. It had you comfortable and laughing then made everything tense and uncomfortable and back again. It was performed in such an intimate space and I empathised with the characters so much I was on the verge of tears at many points, especially the climactic ending (omg that ending!) and really was one hell of an emotional roller coaster!
So yeah, I guess that wraps things up for this week. But before I go, I've been inspired by Blasonduo's journal to include some questions I've come up with this week, because I find them quite interesting to think about;
1. Why do some people get offended on behalf of others?
2. Can we teach and practice imagination?

How will next week go? Stay tuned to find out  ;)

Tay edit: those classic Taylor typos & brain farts

blasonduo:

--- Quote from: Potatohater on March 18, 2018, 08:11:59 pm ---So yeah, I guess that wraps things up for this week. But before I go, I've been inspired by Blasonduo's journal to include some questions I've come up with this week, because I find them quite interesting to think about;
1. Why do some people get offended on behalf of others?
2. Can we teach and practice imagination?

How will next week go? Stay tuned to find out  ;)

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What a jam-packed week! Glad to see such enthusiasm in your life, I hope it continues! I wish my weeks looked even remotely like that.  ::)

Awesome! It's amazing to look out and ask questions about things we are curious about, maybe it could open a new world of amazement that was previously hidden! Where would wonder be without curiosity? Glad you're a part of that! ^_^

Potatohater:

--- Quote from: blasonduo on March 18, 2018, 11:26:50 pm ---What a jam-packed week! Glad to see such enthusiasm in your life, I hope it continues! I wish my weeks looked even remotely like that.  ::)

Awesome! It's amazing to look out and ask questions about things we are curious about, maybe it could open a new world of amazement that was previously hidden! Where would wonder be without curiosity? Glad you're a part of that! ^_^

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Believe it or not, despite this enthusiasm, I actually had a whole lot more enthusiasm during the HSC so I'm hoping to increase my enthusiasm levels once I get a bit more comfortable with uni and get some motivation back in terms of actually doing my work. (Gosh, I think I said enthusiasm too much just then) Hopefully you find some fun in your weeks too one day!

As for curiosity, that reminds me of some other questions I've had: why are humans curious?
I'm trying to make more notes of these questions cause not only are they intriguing but maybe the answers will give me some nice creative writing ideas to explore, and they certainly do make life more interesting  :)

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