Week 2: The fun goes on

This week went so insanely quickly.. yesterday felt like it should have been a Wednesday not a Friday.

I've had crazily long days all week though. Monday was regular class starting at 8 and study study study all the way up to the 6-9pm population health tutorial that evening.

Chem tutorial didn't finish until 9:30 on Tuesday and Thursday's Bio tut went on until closer to 10pm. 

Wednesday was my easy day, but a mate of mine has had some immigration shit going down, so I ended up staying at his until sometime after 3am. So no early night for me. But that's all good :). Watched Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, which was mildly amusing. not a feat of cimenatography by any stretch of the imagination, but it was fun to laugh at. Later on we watched the Hurt Locker (this years Best Picture at the oscars, as well as best director and 4 others). I really enjoyed it :D. thought it was very sensitively done and definitely recommend seeing it.

Incidentally torrentfreak.com tells me that the movie has been online for over a year and has now been downloaded 10 million times total, with most of those downloads occurring in the week since the Oscars.

Just in case you were wondering about that...

The first tut I had was amazing - pophlth 111. it was so intense. We covered types of epidemiological study, how to interpret them, etcetc. Then the tutor took us through what sort of questions will be asked in the first test. By all accounts the first test is going to be ridiculously hard. This is a scary thought because the content is all pretty easy to get to grips with.. WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO ASK???? how am I going to know if I got the answers right?!? What if I'm totally misguided and actually don't understand the topic at all??

Then what? that's 20% down the drain..... *worryworryworry*

The other two tutorials were less awesome, mostly because the stuff we're doing in bio and chem right now is all old material. chem is the same as 7th form (not even kidding one little bit - we learnt what a double bond was and how to tell cis and trans isomers apart). 

And bio is..well, bio. lots of words to learn and remember in a short period of time and lots of definitions to know. Fortunately once you know them, it's super easy. George likes to remember things.

Classes this week have been pretty much as I just described. My other class, Health Systems, has been disrupted by the terrible bus service that's supposed to take us from city campus to tamaki (25 mins away). so far we have had four lectures and I have only arrived at ONE of them on time, because there aren't enough buses or the buses are late or the buses crash... and so on and so forth. the content is alright. not particularly ground-breaking, but relevant enough to want I want to do that it holds my attention.

I have to tidy my flat today. I should get up and start cleaning.

Fun times.

 - G