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homeworkisapotato:
OH DAMNN Dorito! This looks like it's going to be an epic journal, very keen to follow along! I love comedy too, do you like Russell Peters? I find him hilarious! Do you have any favourite comedians?

Chocolatemilkshake:

--- Quote from: Dorito on January 16, 2021, 08:07:53 pm ---Hi, love the username btw. Right, if you're all going to be invested in this, it looks like I'm going to have to try extra hard to keep updating it! I play cello (took lessons in it), bass guitar (no lessons but it was fairly easy to pick up for me) and a bit of guitar (very poorly, but I need to pick up a second-hand one when I get to uni because I'd like to get better at it). You may notice a theme here with the stringed instruments, haha.

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Thank you - your username is pretty cool too! Also, I play the violin and my cousin is an avid guitar player so I'm also partial to the string instruments (plus I love the sound of the cello, it's so beautiful).


--- Quote from: Dorito on January 16, 2021, 08:07:53 pm ---Oui, je parle français. Et toi? Je l'ai appris au college pendant sept ans. Yeah, I'm ethnically Chinese so it made sense to learn it. And I fear I'm cheating a bit by putting Russian down as a language that I "know". I'm certainly learning it, but I can't really say that I know it, not properly yet.

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Oui, je parle français et je l'ai étudié aussi au lycée. Malheureusement, je ne l'ai pas pratiqué depuis l'année dernière donc je suis un peu rouillée!
Anyway, thanks for the response and again I can't wait to see your journey through med school!

Dorito:
2 weeks to go until move-in day and a month (well, 30 days) until the first day of classes. I'll be looking back on this post with a good chuckle at my own naivety within a year, I'm sure, but for now I'm genuinely excited to start a whole new chapter in my life. For me (as I'm sure it will be for everyone) this is a massive transitional period: moving out, moving to a new city, starting at university, etc, which I'm sure I'd be quite intimidated by if I wasn't so eager to start with the whole thing. I did get into contact with some teachers back at my high school who asked me to tell them what course I ended up getting into and where, and they were all massively supportive and happy for me, which has helped. Most funny was the guy who said I could learn now to surf in Newcastle. Thanks for the vote of confidence, sir, but I don't think I've got the coordination for that!

I got an email from Student Living yesterday and today someone told me that the timetables were coming out on the 1st of February, so everything is moving quite fast. Bit of a shock to the system having all of Christmas and a bunch of time before and after to relax and do nothing, and now everything's really starting up. I've heard that I've got pretty full days Mondays to Wednesdays, but only have to go in on alternating Thursdays and mornings on Fridays, which is an interesting schedule. Reckon it can't be too difficult to get used to though. Have also started trying to adjust my sleep schedule. You lot wouldn't believe the body clock I was on before; sleeping at 4am and waking at 12pm. Really liked it, but obviously that doesn't really jive with university life so I'm trying to shift that bedtime several hours back.


--- Quote from: homeworkisapotato on January 18, 2021, 01:21:09 pm ---OH DAMNN Dorito! This looks like it's going to be an epic journal, very keen to follow along! I love comedy too, do you like Russell Peters? I find him hilarious! Do you have any favourite comedians?

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Thank you for the positive judgement in advance! I haven't watched Russell Peters in a while, but I did find him hilarious a few years back. Might have to catch up on some of his newer sets. In terms of favourites, I don't have a specific favourite person but I do like Hannah Gadsby, Michael McIntyre, Milton Jones (actually my profile picture at the moment) and Ed Byrne (although more for his participation on panel shows than his stand-up).


--- Quote ---Oui, je parle français et je l'ai étudié aussi au lycée. Malheureusement, je ne l'ai pas pratiqué depuis l'année dernière donc je suis un peu rouillée!
Anyway, thanks for the response and again I can't wait to see your journey through med school!
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Je peux confirmer que je suis énormément rouillée aussi! Definitely have to keep engaging somehow with the language, I really don't want to forget it after putting effort into it at school.

I think my next update will be either when I've got my timetable or when I've moved in, or maybe when I've had a week or so of uni under my belt. If you're at Newcastle as well, I'm always up to say hi!

Dorito:
Quick little update to procrastinate packing to move up to Newy (hopefully there will be less procrastinating when I'm actually studying the course or we may be in a world of trouble!)

Got my first correspondence regarding the course a week ago, and the first week timetable yesterday. Apparently the timetable is not very much like what is on the uni website/Allocate+ which is somewhat inconvenient. And it is also subject to change so we're going to be getting a new timetable sent to us every week. So I guess I'm going to really have to develop some organisational skills quickly. The first week seems very introductory and getting us informed about medicine and how it is taught at UoN. I suppose we're being eased in, which is nice.

I've also seen the Resfest and O-week timetables (or at least what I think is some kind of draft of them), and it does appear that there are in-person events, which is lovely and I can't wait to meet new people and maybe make new friends (just kidding, unless... :P).

So everything is really kicking off now I suppose. This was a lot more of a feelings-based post rather than anything informative, so if you weren't interested in that I do apologise.

kauac:
Hey Dorito!

Sounds a bit tricky that the timetable is changing, but hopefully it will sort itself out soon! Our uni starting using Allocate+ this year, so I understand the difficulties!

Anything in particular you are looking forward to about O-week?

All the best for the move! I've been to Newcastle a couple of times and it honestly seems an ideal city to live in!

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