It’s the end of week 3, and I am quite afraid. I’ve got 1 assignment and 1 tutorial due next week, a project that my team has yet to begin working on which is due in 3 weeks, and another lab session on Monday to hinder me from getting any of that done before the end of the week. I didn’t get much done today either. I spent half the day out of the house, and the other half constantly being distracted by everything around me, which made today another unproductive day.
Yes, another.
I’ve been really unfocused lately, and I’ve never really been able to warm up quickly enough to get on top of my work from the get-go like I have in all my previous semesters. Maybe it’s the lack of a real break since 2 semesters ago, or the riduclous schedule that I have this semester, but whatever it is, it’s leaving me feeling a bit knackered already.
And this is just the beginning…
The new semester is finally here, not that I’ve been looking forward to it. 6 modules again, but there’s physics this time, plus the MMC looks like it’s becoming a bit more demanding now, so this is going to be another hell of a semester. And I do mean “hell”. I shall finally understand the meaning of the term “Monday Blues” as I fast every other Monday. A full day from 9 to 5. No lunch breaks, no tea breaks, which means my face will turn blue with hunger. Or exhaustion, or both.
If there’s any consolation though, the “Chemistry of the Ocean” module seems rather interesting. The lecturer keeps pronouncing “salts are” as “salsa” (“The ‘salsa’ very concentrated…”), and at one point, he was advising us that “if you’re late, please enter through the backside… door… Enter the LT through the backside door if you know you’re going to be late.”
It looks very promising indeed.
I had a dream a few nights ago. I dreamt that I had 2 new things: a new phone and gray hair.
I woke up, and exhaled a sigh of relief as I looked into the mirror for reassurance that my hair didn’t turn gray. It’s been a hectic semester. Last semester, I was happy to get a day where I could do absolutely nothing. This semester, I’m happy to be able to spend just an evening not doing any work, which was what I did today. It could have been better though, if I had not fallen asleep in front of the television… This semester has been just too much work. 6 formidable modules with very formidable workloads, and I am still reeling from the effects of the first half of the semester even after the mid-term break and the relatively slow week after that. I SO can’t wait for this semester to end.
And I also can’t wait for the Sony Ericsson C905 to be released…
Photo: Sony Ericsson
That’s the phone I was dreaming of by the way. It’s got an 8.1 Megapixel camera. 8.1 million pixels of image and noise. Hopefully with more image than noise. And as if that doesn’t sound demonic enough, it comes with WLAN and GPS to boot, which makes it rather similar to the Samsung INNOV8, except the INNOV8 has no xenon flash and it costs a bomb. In fact, at $788, it’ll cost you several bombs, albeit very small ones. The C905, on the other hand, costs… Well, I don’t know how much it costs, cos it isn’t out yet. Hopefully, it’ll be out sometime this month, and it’ll be cheaper than the INNOV8, though my rational side tells be that it’s probably gonna be even worse…
I’m sitting here right now, updating the blog after a month of inactivity (of the blog), and feeling a fever setting in, which may explain the lethargy I’ve been feeling these past few days. I woke up this morning with a seriously sore throat. You know the kind of sore throat that makes you wanna dry-cough, and then it hurts when you dry-cough? Yea, that kinda sore throat. Apparently, Throat was sore because she was lonely, so she decided to ask Fever to join her. Hopefully, Throat will feel less sore when Fever finally arrives.
But then again, when Fever arrives, she may start irritating the hell out of Throat, and make her even more sore…
Anyway, I had to brave today’s Electrical Engineering paper with the sore throat, and it was bad – both the throat and the paper. I had to leave nearly 1 entire question blank because I just didn’t know how to do it! Math wasn’t any better; I had to leave a good (or rather, bad) portion of the paper blank because there was just no time to finish the entire thing. Kinda disappointing, because it’s like preparing so much for the tests, and then watching so many things fail in such a spectecular manner. Makes you wonder what exactly happened.
So it’s 4 down, 1 to go, which leaves me 80% dead. But come Monday, the last paper will be done, I’ll be full dead, and able to finally move on with my life.
Unless Throat is still feeling sore because of Fever…
It’s really over. The final paper is finally done, and I think I’m gonna die. And even if i don’t, I’ll probably kill myself anyway. The Physics paper was a blast. Really. It’s gonna be known to me as “that blasted Physics paper” because I couldn’t answer half the paper! And to think I actually liked Physics in JC.
I feel so betrayed…
But at least it’s all done. No more work for the next month or so, and no more worrying for the next 3 weeks! Until the results come out, then I’ll start worrying about how screwed I am, and whether or not I should explore other options for a degree. Everyone around me seems to have some sort of back-up plan in case things don’t turn out to be as peachy as they should be (i.e. a change in course/faculty). Well, everyone except me that is. I can’t really see myself doing anything other than Engineering. So I guess it’s do or die. And at this stage, “die” certainly looks a lot more probable.
I can see my motto for the next four years of my life now:
“Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.”
Nico 