I started back to class on Monday for the short six week winter semester. Apparently most people tend to take the short winter and summer semesters off for holidays or part time work if they can find it, but there's still a surprising amount of people on campus, much more than I expected at least; I thought it would've been a bit of a ghost town.
The winter semester is basically three months worth of class crammed into six intensive weeks, so I assumed there would be quite a lot of work ..it's actually turning out to be even more full on than I expected. This is the first week of class and getting up at 6am every morning to get there in time, and already I have a calculus exam tomorrow which almost definitely counts towards my final grade, and what's more is we'll be having an exam every week. For some unknown reason the Professor won't tell us how much of our final grade is derived from these weekly exams though, which is frustrating. At least he seems pretty good at teaching calculus, considering what an abstract subject it can be.
IceQueen has taken leave from work and is gearing up for her important core exam in early February, so it's pretty much study-geek-ville at our apartment now; my homework usually keeping me busy to about 9.30pm or later, and Ice is going hard on the study all day (when her work isn't paging her to help fix some coding bug that is), so there probably wont be much news from this end over the next month or two. That's all for now.
peter mac | January 10, 2005 5:34 PM | Reply
hey fella
saw your comment on noizyboys site re old nz tunes - Flying Nun have been reissuing some of their compilations on cd like the Getting Older and Tuatara comps, both very good for that era. Check smokecds.com for audio samples etc.
Cheers.
peter mac | January 10, 2005 5:36 PM | Reply
oh, and dave dobbyns Loyal - that song got severely thrashed here last year as it was used for the NZ team on the Americas Cup TV ads, dunno why Dobbyn sold it to em, certainly ruined tthat song for me for a very long time (and for many other folk too) but I guess hes gotta eat. His music is also on a Holden car commercial at the mo.
Nereus | January 10, 2005 7:58 PM | Reply
hey :) sweet, thanks. I used to thrash that Tuatara comp, almost as much as I thrashed the first TripleJ Top 100 comp.
That's a shame DD let Loyal get butchered, just as well I wasn't there I guess. As you said, guess he needed the cash, or perhaps to revitalize his waning popularity maybe?
RWO | January 11, 2005 2:53 PM | Reply
Hey, good luck with the short semester. I start up again next week. It has been great having the break from school. i just wish i wouldn't have screwed up my back so I could have enjoyed the time off. Anyway again, good luck with the studies.