Long week

So far it has been a long week, but all of my lecturers are great and have a really nice sense of humor. My marine invertebrate biology class seems like it is going to be a pain though. Our professor says we need "graduate skills" so part of our homework will be doing things like applying for a job, turning in a resume, and learning how to make a poster. I think this is a load of bull and she should stick to teaching the material, but no. We also have to write an essay per week and turn in in depth essay outlines every Thursday at practical. The reason I do science is because I don't like writing papers and lab write ups are totally different. This whole things is a bit silly. Speaking of the lecture for that class, today we had to attend practical and have a woman speak to us about writing essays. She basically reminded me of a modern day Delores Umbridge (for all of you harry potter fans) and spoke to us like we were incompetent 6th graders. She gave us an essay example that said to discuss annelid feeding mechanisms and then asked how we would tackle it. We said we'd research annelid feeding mechanisms and she told us that was wrong. whatever, crazy woman. This lasted for 2 hours and I really just wanted to shoot myself. We did, however, get handouts that defined important words you could find in essay questions like "discuss, analyze, compare, contrast, investigate". Because honestly, I had no idea what those words meant before this.

Other than that disaster, today was a pretty good one. Before class at 3 I walked over to GR and had lunch with everybody over there and then decided to hit up the pool to swim a little. My current RA is involved in water polo here and the "lifeguard" there on mondays and thursdays so he hooked me up with a water polo ball to swim around with. After about 40 minutes I was getting ready to leave to clean up for class, but he offered to get in and pass with me so we chatted a little and threw. It was really nice and I was excited that he was shamelessly rocking a speedo because so many people hate on speedos these days.

After class I walked back to GR with lisa and had dinner there and then we did tonight's orientation activity. They chartered a bus to drive us to an ice skating rink that they had privately booked for an hour and a half. It was a ton of fun and it was nice that I actually knew what I was doing. All of the americans were pretty competent in the ice skating department and I only fell down when I was attempting to be like nancy kerrigan. Surprisingly a lot of the australians were doing well too, but they were all FREEZING and bundled up while we were at the rink. We got home from that around 9pm and then Lisa and I went to Dave-o's room and watched super troopers instead of going out again to the Tav. All in all it was a good night. I got to share a ridiculous movie with lisa and David because they had never seen it, but david was so exhausted he fell asleep part of the way through.

Tomorrow is friday and I only have class from 10-10:50 and then a few of us are off to the op-shop (the equivalent of our thrift stores) to get ridiculous outfits for the O-week op-shop party. I still have yet to hear about the room switch, nothing has opened up yet so I guess that means they haven't kicked the kid out of his room. The head of hall over at GR emailed me back today and ended it with "i look forward to having you as a resident" so hopefully that is a good sign!