Hey wassup readers,
I hope you're all doing well. Since the point of this whole blog is about telling prospective students how it is. I shall break down this very hard week.
Monday, as with almost every Monday I had to give in a report, this one was about the gel electrophoresis picture that I posted sometime last week. that was due at 2pm so I strolled into uni late. around 12 ish and was going through some finishing touches with my friend who was also my lab partner. we realised we accumulated some mistakes along the way and had to sort a lot out.
this resulted in us printing the work at bang on 2 and turning up 5 mins late to the practical itself. consequently missing the instructions for that practical. its Saturday now, the work is due on Monday and I still have no clue, simply because of 5 minutes. it's sad really. Life's unpredictable.
after the practical and after eating we had a study session in the library covering enzyme kinetics, or shall I say trying to cover enzyme kinetics. My poor maths skills let me down on a couple of equations.
Tuesday: normally I have a 9 am lecture which finishes at 11, followed by a tutorial which is then followed by a workshop. This week I skipped the tutorial and workshop and went to a society meeting instead. Because I hadn't covered the material I didn't see the point of me attempting questions. The society meeting lasted for about an hour, the student union had called for a meeting with all the societies and because im the secretary of the biological society I went. After that, this is 1 ish now. I started to finalise things with the gym and some girls, because im trying to make a girls only gym hour at the uni gym.
Following this, I started to research some prospective companies and speakers for an event I want to plan with the BioSoc.
And then I went to teach, it was a nice finish to a long day because on Tuesdays I teach my nephew. And he amazes me with his writing skills (MashaAllah) I wouldn't be surprised if he became a writer. No, I'm not trying to be biased.
Wednesday: This technically is my day off but I went into uni to try work on Mondays practical work and enzyme kinetics again. I understood and worked on more of enzyme kinetics, and made some neat notes. It doesn't sound like much but I was literally in the library for like 5 hours :/
Thankfully when me and my friend took a break there was a talk about Malcolm X and racism that we went to, this led to some sort of debate. Which was nice, but it wasn't my cup of tea.
Thursday: I went to uni quite late again because my lecture didn't start until 2. I got to uni around 12. this time me and a couple more friends tried to make sense of the work, not one of us understood it. When we did go to see our demonstrator she said she was busy and to email her. So we just went to the lecture instead. Thursday lectures are really long, theyre timetabled from 2-6 but most lecturers finish around 5 thankfully. Following this I went to an Islamic society event which I was looking forward to. This was literally the highlight of my week. The talk was very motivational, just what I needed. And I've met some more wonderful people. I got home around 10 pm for the 3rd time this week. Which would then lead to today
Friday: For the sake of my sanity I had a lazy day, I've done nothing university related at all. Just lounged around listening to poetry and watching TV. I honestly think the stress is getting to me, I've got a cold for the second time in 4 weeks.
Saturday: My Saturdays just make me cry, 9.30-11.30 I have Arabic lessons. 2-5 I have mosque, 5.30-7.00 Im teaching, the hours for teaching aren't even very formal and they do over run the majority of time, because were family friends etc etc.
Sunday: again I have mosque from 9-11, teaching 11.30-1.40, then again 6-8. This sunday though i'll be meeting up with a friend I haven't seen in a very long time. Looking forward to it inshaAllah.
That's literally my life right now as a second year, on top of that theres alsmo applying for placements. I've applied to 5 places so far and the status is still 'considering'. But I have this horrible gut feeling that I'm going to be rejected. Because for one of the positions the interview date is the 10th. If I was going to have an interview i'd be informed by now. *bites finger nails*
inshaAllah I hope it all goes well.
And waheey, I now have readers in Australia?
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