After much long and painful consideration into the very apparent problem of excess of time, lack of classes, inablility to study and building mainia and stress concentrated on the this excess of time I have decided to joins sports and soceities at my universty. At my perious university this was never a problem. I had American football just about every day to occupy my time then afterward a small amount of time to complete class work. But hear class work is set in the long term and the short term asignments take no more then a hour or two every couple of days.
Not only have I found something to fill my time in the department of sport and soceity, but I have done so in what I like to class "straight up class." To acheive this staright up class title to my time consumption I not only had to join a sport but one that would confuse anyone I told it to. So searching through the extensive lists of sports and clubs to join I fell upon the wonder that is Curling.
Dont worry if you are confused as what Curling is, if your not confused, good for you. You either pay attention or are a know it all, which is fine specialy if you are the type of know it all that can defuse bombs using nothing but a peice of gum and a hair clip. Curling as I can best describe it as it shuffle board and if you havn't heard of that either then its like darts only on ice bigger and the boards are under sheets of ice and there are two of them about 25-30 yards away from eachother. Its a Scottish made sport so you know its good and yes its that thing you saw on the tv when you watched the Olympics. It has also acheived the class catergory because winners buy drinks for the lossers after the game, so being a beginner is not so bad.
Also on the straight up class listing is the chocolate soceity. Come on who doesnt like chocolate? If you dont thats fine I will have your share dont worry. This soceity includes having meetings and eating chocolate and also making things out of chocolate, like towers, fun things and then eating them. Plus its classy due to some group meetings with other soceities like the tea soceity and you just know that the tea soceity is classy.
As well as the Business soceity as a knotch on my shirt because of my lack of a belt, has joined my ranks helping my straight up class level. There not much to say other then they have their own sports team, have many socails, take interesting trips all over Europe to take alook at big businesses and being a member gets you moocho discounts all over the city, for like pizzas and other useful things of that nature.
I will end with my newest joining, the sailing club. Being a sailior and a sailing teamer I not only found it nessasary to join the sailing team, but to join in a classy way. Last night I went to the Irish bar that i had heard some of the team were having drinks at and talked up the University sailiors untill they gave me an application for the club on the spot and made me a promiss to let me tryout for this semesters competitive season, of which try outs were held roughly a week ago for.
With some wicked class and down grade of extreme free time my general mainia has subsided to the point where I have had to squeeze in my trips to the gym, I know right!
Thursday 13 October 2011
Sunday 9 October 2011
Classes and courses
I have noticed that most of my posting are of a negitive skew, but I do ashare you that my travels are not of a negitive nature, but those things that are most notable for a perpose have been the so called negitive happening of the last few weeks.
After this post I shall be writing of less unlucky events that have happened, but before that happy happenings I will bring to attention the current status of my acidemic sichuation.
Being accepted as a second year transfer student into the business department of the University here gives a guy not many choices for classes. Not many as in no choice at all. I was signed up for my classes by my DOS (director of studies). This would have been ok with me if the classes were not all first year classes that I had taken before and had not only gotten high grades in but was top of my class. This also would not have been a problem if my DOS was here at the university for me to go see him and change my course to something better suited to my learning. But there lies the main problem since the second day of the begining of the semester my DOS has been MIA. I have been unable to meet with him or receive any return emails from him. The business department will only tell me that he is with family, that I need to get intouch with him to switch my classes and give me about half a dozen email addresses that all dont work. Meanwhile my DOS information on my student web fille has now been replaced with "no DOS", every student has a DOS, event students that have graduated still have a DOS.
So long story sort I am in first year classes that are in base reveiw sessons with different terms only useful if I was going to work as a accountant in the UK, which is not one of my goals in life. Also with more time that passes the less able I am to replace my classes with better ones and also take on classes. I would very much like more classes because to be truthful I have much to much time at the ready and the student gym/weight room sees me to often.
But in the time these things have happened the weather in Edinburgh has been around 60 to high 50's F and rainsat least once a day. The leaves are slowly changing and the rest of the student body are slowly getting into the swing of the semester and calming down, thankfully.
After this post I shall be writing of less unlucky events that have happened, but before that happy happenings I will bring to attention the current status of my acidemic sichuation.
Being accepted as a second year transfer student into the business department of the University here gives a guy not many choices for classes. Not many as in no choice at all. I was signed up for my classes by my DOS (director of studies). This would have been ok with me if the classes were not all first year classes that I had taken before and had not only gotten high grades in but was top of my class. This also would not have been a problem if my DOS was here at the university for me to go see him and change my course to something better suited to my learning. But there lies the main problem since the second day of the begining of the semester my DOS has been MIA. I have been unable to meet with him or receive any return emails from him. The business department will only tell me that he is with family, that I need to get intouch with him to switch my classes and give me about half a dozen email addresses that all dont work. Meanwhile my DOS information on my student web fille has now been replaced with "no DOS", every student has a DOS, event students that have graduated still have a DOS.
So long story sort I am in first year classes that are in base reveiw sessons with different terms only useful if I was going to work as a accountant in the UK, which is not one of my goals in life. Also with more time that passes the less able I am to replace my classes with better ones and also take on classes. I would very much like more classes because to be truthful I have much to much time at the ready and the student gym/weight room sees me to often.
But in the time these things have happened the weather in Edinburgh has been around 60 to high 50's F and rainsat least once a day. The leaves are slowly changing and the rest of the student body are slowly getting into the swing of the semester and calming down, thankfully.
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