Writer’s Block

July 1st, 2009 at 15:46 in Fail

I can’t think of anything to blog about and I don’t want to post boring, today-I-did-this entries. So, please excuse my lack of posts until I can think of something substantial and useful to write.

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University

June 23rd, 2009 at 11:25 in Education, Life

I’ve been rather absent from blogging lately, so sorry about that! I haven’t been in the mood to write anything, and that includes in my paper and friends-only journals. Tsk!

Mainly what I’ve been up to in the last week is sorting out the last of my university application¹ and student loan stuff. Yesterday I went into the UoA campus to process² my Acceptance of Offer of Placement form, so I’m now officially enrolled at The University of Auckland. It’s pretty exciting!

After I sorted the paperwork out I had a coffee with a friend who’s at uni and she showed me around a bit. I have to go on a tour of the campus, but there is definitely a whole heap of stuff that only other students can really tell you about, I think.

Anyway, due to my Targeted Admissions status I’m only allowed to take up to three courses in my first semester, making me not quite full time (a pain when trying to sort out student loan stuff!). However, I’m pleased that I’ll be easing into the work as opposed to taking four or five courses to begin with and potentially becoming completely overwhelmed by it all.

My courses are as follows:

ENGWRIT 101: English Writing for Academic (I’m required to take this).
SOCIOL 100: Issues and Themes in Sociology.
STATS 102: Statistics for Social Science (pre-requisite to taking psychology as my major).

My timetable is pretty decent with the earliest lecture starting at 10am and the latest finishing at 3pm so, depending on when tutorials are, I’ll have plenty of time for the one hour bus ride into the city and back. I'm not looking forward to that part at all because I can't read while moving so it's like wasting two hours of my day.

^{1. I needed to accept the offer of placement.}
^{2. Usually you can accept online, but I’m a Targeted Admissions student because I did not have adequate NCEA/high school qualifications.}

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