So it’s your first week of Uni.
I swear you better prepare to introduce yourself 1000000000 million bajillion times.
It’s actually ridiculous.
It’s like you should walk around with a piece of paper on your head that blatantly says:
What your studying.
Where you come from.
What your most excited about in your degree.
An answer to some basic little question that is subject related.
By now I pretty much have a copy and paste version (is that plagiarism?) that I have tweaked just a tad over the years.
But come onnnnnnnn we get it.
We are all new to this subject and none of us know each other, but here I have this preppy little school leaver sitting beside me asking if I had done the first assignment? Um what?
What first assignment?
IT IS THE FIRST DAY
You can see where my real problem lies here, I didn’t take my own advice and read up on the material before I go to class, so I was filled straight away with the dread of what did I miss. So I soon opened up my laptop ‘ah yes, there is was’ ‘the first assignment’.
I swear old love beside me swallowed about million flies as her mouth dropped to the floor when she watched me open up
Files
Documents
Saved
Copy
Paste
There you have it the first assignment done and I didn’t even miss one sentence of what the lecturer was saying because mainly because he wasn’t even talking some middle age student was telling us there life story and how they got to be here (not throwing shade, I am now an ‘experienced’ student but I keep my life stories to myself) but also MAINLY I was prepared and I know exactly how these first weeks go. This is not my first rodeo, I am actually surprised that I even still go to the first weeks of Uni seeing as I know exactly how they all plan out.
On a deep and meaningful level I think I would rather an actual assignment in that first week (I wouldn’t) then the fact that an introduction is a 1/5 parts used to give yourself 10% of the grade. Like it is 2 % of my grade, I know 2% is nothing in the grand scheme of things but in all reality it is. Like I am not going to wrap my head around this 2% but I also want to make sure that I do earn it. But after doing 4 units a session for a degree and half that is a lot of 2% and I guess that is main annoyance here.
However I worked my way through those feelings in my first degree, I thought it was cute my first year, annoying my second I mean I’ve been sitting with these same people for a year and then by my third year I had reached full annoyance I mean you wouldn’t even catch me there in the first week, mainly caus parking is horrendous but also because that was my introduction right there.
Hi my name is Ebony and I am an oncampus student who acts like an online student because introductions annoy me.
Heading into my second degree where it is mainly all online this little introductions are helpful (not really) and maybe from this introductions I’ll be able to one day put a face to a name at at Uni exam (I doubt it). I swear I could literally walk past one of my professors and they wouldn’t even know me or me them. So so much for introductions.
So sitting down to write this maybe I have not worked through my resilient feelings about these damned introductions but I do feel like I have certainly come to an understanding with how the system works and I am so glad that I am now finally back into studying and doing what I want to do.
Stay tuned for next week's Uni catch up.
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