Day 2

Another great day of classes. I had Statistics, Circuits, and Fluids today, and would normally follow it with Circuits tutorial, but tutorials don't meet during the first week of classes. Nonetheless, it was a four-hour chunk of classes in the middle of the day, and it did seem to stretch on a bit.

My ELEC1112 course, Introduction to Electric Circuits, is treated as a first-year course here (typically third-year at Michigan). Well, I don't think I was ever a freshman if this is what constitutes "freshman." These kids come in a half hour late, right, and instead of sitting quietly at an empty seat in back, climb in through the conspicous door in the front of the classroom, spy a sole beautiful seat directly in the middle of the packed lecture hall, and proceed to slam their metallic water bottle and clunky backpack straps in everyone's faces before they crash down in their seat and have a little coughing fit, carelessly checking the time on their retro-chic calculator watch. Poor chaps, they've probably never lived on their own before. Then the kid behind me was sending Morse code signals the entire lecture with his clicker pen, but unfortunately no one in the room acted on his messages - shame for us, all over our heads...

I will miss lunch every Tuesday, because class runs 10am-3pm, and lunch is only available from 12pm-2pm. UNSW has a great policy where they make bagged lunches (and dinners) for students who can't make it during dining hours (which are quite restricted, I find). So I talked to a woman who prepares the food today, to ask if I could get a bagged lunch. "Yeah, just fill in a form at breakfast the day you need the lunch, and we'll have it ready for you by noon." I didn't get it. If I could be there to pick up the lunch at noon, I would just eat it. And I'd probably take my time. But that's the whole reason I need a bagged lunch, because I don't have time! So I'll have to solve that one when it comes around.

A humourous day here in Terra Australis.

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