The World We Blog

It’s been ages since I’ve even visited my own site, but life has been rather crazy here in Glamorgan. What’s worse is that I can barely remember exactly what I have been doing with myself during all this time. Time here seems to sort of just merge into one endless dream. Before you know it the minutes are turning into hours, which are then turning into days, and then before you know it, you’ve been here almost an entire term! Now I know that doesn’t sound like a very long time… and it’s not really. But when your stuck with a bunch of people, and you have no choice but to live with them, and then ontop of that have to somehow find a way to not only get along with them, but try to make them like you, it can feel like eternity!

The course is going alright, or at least the lectures I have been to have been satisfactory. As for those I’ve skipped, from what I’ve heard I haven’t missed much. Thats one of the main problems with the course for my liking – too much of it is what I’ve already done for me to be genuinely interested. And once I loose interest in a course or subject, I’m buggered. I’ve seen it coming for a few weeks now – I’m gradually attending fewer and fewer lectures each week as I gain the mentality that I can just go onto blackboard and take the lectures notes from there. To be fair, none of the lecturers actually teach anything but what is on the lecture notes. They all stick exclusivly to what is mentioned in the notes, and therefore attending the lecture begins to feel like a waste of your time. I don’t pay all that money to have someone read for me!
In general though the course is going ok, and what little work I do is of a good standard. Compared to half the people around me, I seem to have a rather good understanding. Considering some of them struggle with simple GCSE maths then I wonder sometimes how they got on the course?!?

Parts of me cannot wait until the end of term. Although I am really enjoying being independant and away from home, I am also beginning to feel the strains of not living at home, such as doing washing, buying food and finding things to do with myself. The parts of university life that no-one tells you about!
Almost as soon as you’ve put all your clothes in for washing it seems, they are all dirty again. It’s unbelievable how quickly you have to do your washing if you don’t usually do it yourself. Not only does it need doing regularly, but I rarely find a time when I can actually be bothered to scrape it off the floor and into a bag, take it to the laundret, and then put it all into the washing machine. What usually happens is it lays on the floor dirty for a while, up until the time when I either bag it all up and take it home for washing (about once every 3 weeks), or when my bottle of every student’s friend, ‘Fabreeze’, comes out to give the clothes a breath of fresh air… or so to speak. before long you find yourself struggling fto find clean clothes, and then it’s a question of how much do you care whetehr you smell a bit? Enough to go to the laundrette?
As for food, well it’s a well known fact that student’s live on take-away… one that I thought was a myth to an extent. Believe me, it’s not! If there is ever any food in our flat its a miracle! Don’t ask me how, but food seems to dissapear almost as soon as it gets bought. I can spend upwards of £20 in a week just on take-aways – simply because I have no food in the cupboard. The cupboards they supply are barely big enough to fit a cereal box and a few fruit in, let alone the fridge being tiny and somehow being designed to house food for 6 people! To some extent we are lucky because we have a seperate freezer, which ironically is twice the size of our fridge and gets used half as much. To explain this better, my diet over the past few days has consisted of ham sandwiches, chips, and orange squash… thats it. In 3 days I have got through an entire loaf of bread to myself… Normally I wouldnt get through that much in a fortnight.
The biggest shock that no-one seems to tell you about in university is the alone-time. Despite how things were in the first few weeks, life has certainly come to a halt since then. People now seem to be keeping themselves to themselves more, and I see some of my flat mates roughly once a week. When I’m not asleep or in lecture, I usually end up sitting in my room watching old tv episodes or listening to music. Nothing seems to happen anymore, or if it does I am either too tired to join in, or not in the mood after having a crap day. To an extent this is of my own doing, I should involve myself more, but then again if I’m not in a particulary good mood then I would be shit company anyway.