(Read at own risk!! Don't say that I didn't warn you that it's a LONG babble!!)
Ok. I’ve been in college for four weeks now (orientation week does not count) and I have to say that I’ve gotten quite used to the whole idea of college and am not as freaked out as I was before.
But seriously, let’s be honest, it was not easy getting used to it. I had so much to go through before the whole idea didn’t seem as absurd as I thought it was before. For the first whole week, I was so dependent on my sister, I have to really thank her for not ditching me then, though now she gets to tell all her friends what a spoilt brat I am and bad mouths me whenever she get the chance. However, seeing as she did help me and stuck with me through it all, I’ll be the bigger person and forgive her. Hehe..
Though I think I can consider myself quite lucky as I managed to find a bunch of friends that I would always hang out with when in college, somewhere around the second week (when tutorials began). I was so scared that with my awkwardness around strangers, my incredible bitchy, stuck up looking face and pissed off aura (due to lack of sleep) would scare people away. Yeah sure, it was still a little awkward in the beginning but it all got better in a few days. Us, girls and our need to gossip cured the whole thing. Haha..
[You must now be thinking that how on earth, with my
interesting personality, can I be shy and awkward around people? Ah-Ha!! This is where you’re wrong. Even with my wacky personality, I’m terrible at meeting new people. It is unfortunately a flaw in my program. But rest assured, it’s the only flaw I have. Haha..]
About my tutorial group, my course is divided into three tutorial groups and I’m in the first group, just like my friends. In the beginning (like the first two weeks of tutorials), I can honestly tell you that my impression on my group was not pretty. I thought that we were all a bunch of stuck up beings, unable to show any hint of emotions. After two weeks of classes together, you kind of would think that we mix around and make new friends.
But nope, no such thing. We all didn’t bother to walk out of our own ‘cliques’ (if you really want a name to call it), all of us just went our own separate way, doing our own thing. And the thing is, I noticed that only the people in my group were like that, I noticed that the other groups got along just well on their first week of tutorials alone.
However, now that it’s been four weeks, I can officially say that my first impression on my group was totally wrong. I’ve never felt so relieved to be wrong before in my life. I mean, I’m going to have to spend my next 2 or 4 years with them. So, the nicer they are, the better my college life will be.
Really, it just turns out that we all were so awkward and not used with each other, that in a way, our instincts just kicked in. In other words, we were just so shy, nervous and being extra cautious that it made us seemed like emotionless, stuck up people (in my opinion). Tutorials are more fun nowadays, we all are visibly more comfortable with one another now and the class does not seem as divided as it was before.
Also, I’m taking accounts this semester and I have to say that I have never come across a more complicating and confusing subject ever. This totally beats physics, the subject that used to hold the number one position in my list of complicating/confusing subjects before it got kicked down to number two by accounts. I have other tough subjects too but accounts have evidently been my suckiest one ever. (I’ll do my best to not fail anything!!)
Seriously, I now have this whole newfound respect for accountants. I always thought that their job was boring and draggy. But with all the difficulties they have to face just to do their job, I am grateful for the people who does accounts. Because it’s evident that I’ll never do my own taxes when I grow up, I’ll hire an accountant for that.
Besides that, I’ll let you in on a secret, out of 5 of my lecturers, 3 of them are a little on the insane side. College is really like high school, in my opinion. [The difference being that we get to wear casual clothes to college while we have to wear a hideous piece of cloth, the government calls uniform to school.] So, I guess crazy teachers are necessary to complete the whole thing.
I guess you can say that I’m coping with college pretty ok now. It’s fun at times and tiring most of the times.
