I suddenly found this on my computer and it made me lol. This was written last Christmas, so before I went off to university-land and living at my hall of residence. I was trying to think of reasons why I should start worrying about it all.
The little text is from me, today. Right.
- I have developed a taste for shooting water guns, but these have been specifically forbidden from my hall of residence.
- O Week. >_> I wish I was going to some other hostel, where you get to swim around like sperm, and ta-da! You’re initiated. The place I’m going to? We build houses for the poor! Or something.
My group painted graffiti off a fence… and got in the newspaper for it. Was rather good.
- Paranoia that if I played music even on laptop speakers that the lyrics would offend someone from Japan. Or that some Japanese person will laugh at me for liking Gackt. WHICH HAS ACTUALLY HAPPENED TO ME. WHAT.
…They laughed and they asked if I thought Gackt was good looking.
- Continuing with the above: I wouldn’t be able to listen to cracktastic songs by myself without someone walking past going “….is that….Disney?”
Headphones are amazing.
- What if the people are all passive aggressive psychos?
Only one is, lolololol.
- Won’t be able to pour tomato sauce on everything like I like to do.
- What if there’s not enough room for my stuff? I want my room to be chock full of my stuff, and just things that make me happy, but what if my room is too small for even the basics? o.o
You’d think so, with my room being the size of a shoebox, but no!
- What if everyone else’s whiteboards on their doors have lots of nice messages, but mine…. nothing?
Awww, that didn’t happen at all. ♥
- What if everyone there is incredibly ~*~MORAL~*~? Terrifyingly so?
Even Wikipedia has the place down as being very religious.
- Both TV rooms being booked, when I really want to watch House. Aiiiyyy!
When three quarters of the people you’re living with want to be doctors, this never happened.
The above? Proof that the great majority of what I ‘worry’ about is really really funny. Also worth saying that these, the greatest fears of mine, never happened. I like that.
I’ve actually got people coming here searching “First Year Health Sci”, mwaha, so let’s get the people wanting to do Laws101 at Otago. Cos if you’re a supernerd like me, you like reading all the insider’s knowledge like this.
classes
There’s one lecture a week dedicated to legal history, and two lectures a week to legislature in the beginning of year, and then case law for the rest of the year. There’s also one tutorial a week, which has you and a group of people practising skills you’ve learnt at the lectures. It’s also not scary (and I’m afraid of everything).
And stream-hopping’s awesome. Do I feel like going at 2pm or 4pm today? You’ll probably only stick to the lecture time assigned to you at the very beginning of the year – then laziness will hit..
reading
This is the sort of stuff you have to read before lectures, the background information. When I first sat down for some Legal History reading, I ran into a friend’s room (also doing LAWS101) and we had a panic attack together. Now I’m looking back the reading I had to do for my first legal history lecture, and I’m like “…Why was that so hard?”. It’s like that. Terrifying at first, but you get used to it, and to be totally honest – compared to Arts papers, the amount of reading’s not intimidating at all.
assessment
Two exams at the end of the year. Three hours each. That’s worth 100%. As the year goes on, you also get the bonus of hearing about people at Canterbury writing essays on legal history which are internally assessed. Bah!
but i heard _____ is a better law school!
Whoever told you that was lying. Haha.
Inter-law school rivalry exists to a mild degree, but some of us LAWS101 students at Otago love to hate other New Zealand law schools for having tests throughout the year. We get rather smug about it – as if we actually suffer because we don’t have to panic about getting into second year until the end of the year.
Also, lol to the guys at Victoria who claim that they’re at the top Law school in New Zealand. Apparently these people exist. I just don’t see how the Parliamentary buildings can give you the magic ability to make you a brilliant law student, just by being in the same city as you. srsly, gaiz.
(That seemed to be the #1 reason to study at Victoria, which isn’t convincing at all – unless that meant it attracts ASTOUNDING lecturers, but they didn’t mention that! Totally heartbreaking, because I did so want to study in Wellington..)
perks
- Being able to say: “Listen to me, I’m a law student!“
- Saying the above, and then advising them on their consumer rights, because they listen to you more that way. Even if all you’re saying is pretty dodgy. Hee hee.
- Finding a use for all that Latin you studied in high school.
- Not being a Health Sci, and therefore no lectures at 8am. Yus!
This is a tribute to the first lot of exams I went through at university. Such a landmark! One semester of university had me learning more things than I ever had to for an entire year of high school. This is what my room turned into as a result.
The political studies notes
This doesn’t look quite as impressive as a certain second-year’s room did, whom I stole the idea from. A lot of these notes were pointless when I was in the exam too, but never mind. Making things difficult for myself is a hobby. My results for this will still be horrible, by the way, regardless of all the notes I stuck up. Woe!
the tab energy drink
The yummiest drink in the world, and it’s been discontinued! This led to me and my friend conducting a search and buying all the remaining TaB in Dunedin. These bottles are all empty, haha. Who knows how I’ll survive exams at the end of the year without it..
The boxes
I had to pack everything up and out of my room, and then shift it into the creepy basement. The rooms on my floor are all being redone in the semester break; can’t wait to see what they look like. Maybe they’ll get bigger!
Before I moved out, however, I was stuck with a big pile of empty boxes to get in my way. And I needed more than this, too.