Review Tests!

Today I had economics and accounting for managers review tests. The accounting one is worth 30% of the overall grade in economics and the accounting for managers is worth 20% of the overall grade for the unit. I believe that the economics one and that the accounting for managers one went good. I think that I should not fall below 70%, however you never know as the review tests were multiple choice questions.

Both of the tests were a total of 40 different questions each. There was a couple of ambiguous questions as always, when there are multiple choice questions. For some of the questions the answer could have been either of two choices, depending on how the question was approached. So for some of them I was not completely sure about what the correct answer was.

We haven't gone out for a couple of nights now as most people have had to study, but on saturday I believe that me, ash, lachlan, kev, alistair, james and company are going out, because next week is a lecture free week and thus we do not have Uni stuff going on. During this one week off I'm going back to lachlan's place to checkout the country-side a bit. However sadly ash is going back to Sydney, so we won't see each other for a whole week (OMG right?). Anyways I've been going to the gym everyday and fallen asleep a couple of times afterwards.

Well that's all for this time... :)

News News News ! ! !

Yea thats right, it's been a long time since last time. But I'm back here again. There has been a slight re-arrangement here at UC. Between me and Ashlee that is. Yeapp it's what you think it is. I've finally got myself a girlfriend. Her name is Ashlee and yes it is the girl that lives in the same apartement as me and the other guys and girls.

Ash never gets angry and is almost always happy unless something sad/bad has happened. So I basically come home after Uni to the apartement and what do I find??? Ashlee :)

Thats the major changes here around campus, otherwise I got 45/50 on my IT assignment for programming and the Java programming which I am handing in today is as I believe it...going to be good aswell, so now I have an average of 91.2% in IT :)

Update It ! ! !

Yea that's right, it's been a while since my last update. However now I have something to talk about. Daniel is here in Australia. We went out last night (thursday night) and we had heaps of fun. We first went bar hopping because we were very early out and then we decided to play pool for an hour and then we hit up the clubs around civic in Canberra.

During thursday, me and daniel went and bought a basketball and a ball pump. Then we and Kevin, this dude from Sydney went and played some B-ball. As we were playing I was reaching for the ball and at the same time Daniel slipped and kinda kneed my hand so that my wrist got completely pushed together, so now it hurts. Today I went and got a elastic bandage sorta thing to keep it stabilized, however it still hurts when I type on a keyboard and stuff which is really annoying.

Well today manny people have left to go back home during the weekend, so ash, alistair amongst others have gone home for the weekend. But that's perfect cause this means we have enough beds here for Daniel too, so we are all sleeping in real beds instead of sleeping on the floor.

Hmm what else is there... Oooh yea, done with my economics presentation which if I'm not wrong is the only economics presentation that I have to do during this unit for economics. However for the presentation I and one other girl had done the same question, so I was only allowed to expand on her discussion of the first question and I basically only needed to present one question, which was very easy.
I even have to correct the tutors definition sometimes, which sorta buggs me a little bit, but it's alright.

Well now we have started learning the Java programming language and soon we will have to create a Graphical User Interface for something. So IT is getting a bit more fun, however making the website was quite fun as well, since I've never done a real website before. Interestingly enough I think I did good on the assignment. FYI (For Your Information) I ony have one single Accounting for Managers assignment for the whole unit, which is really interesting, so that assignment is about 30% of our total grade for the unit.

Right now it's 00:25 and I am soon off to go to bed and tomorrow I would like to play some basketball again if my arm allows me to do it. The weather has to allow for that possibility aswell, because today it has been raining the whole time and it's been a very boring weather.

Lastly is that I think I will get my braces off really soon which is gonna be ... Wait For It ... AWESOME!!!

The 24th...

Went to the gym today again and I am going tomorrow aswell as I´ve gotta get Lachy starting on the gym. Right now the girls are getting ready to go out for a night at the lighthouse, however to everyones suprise I am not going out tonight. Have to do some studying and recap some subjects that I should have done last week, nothiing major though, just small stuff. Today I´ve finished my Economics assignment and one of my ISO assignments. Both which were quite easy. Now I´ve gotta start on my IT assignment. This is gonna be a little trickier but still nothing majorly hard.

Otherwise whats happened this week? Well Sunday and Monday I felt really bad, probably had some kinda small sickness, because I couldn´t study or concentrate on anything for a long time without getting a headache. But that´s all good now. The units I am doing feels very easy, but I am not sure that they should feel very easy and therefore I think I have to study some more in order to see if they are easy or only portrayed as being easy.

The chapters in the books are extremely long however... Sooo much text in each chapter hahaha :)

My Day Off...

I wish it was, today I have been learning HTML and I still have Econ assignment and my resumé to type up. The future is looking dark for me. No fun today work work work. But I suppose the Doriotos Nacho Cheese Chips make up for the bad parts and so do the chocolate chip cookies and the lemonade. However I am infact in pain. Working out two days in a row for the first time in ages does give you a very high dose of muscle pain. It even hurts when I laugh, so as I said before no fun today.

Overall the lectures are quite boring. The stuff they talk about is interesting but the way they talk is way to slow and there is not very much interaction going on between lecturer and students. The tutorials however are fun, because there´s lots of stuff happening and we are actually doing something instead of just listening to someone talk.

In terms of how hard the subjects are gonna be, I believe that Econ will be the easiest, then Information Systems in Organisations, Accounting for Managers and the hardest will be the Information Technology one, as 50% of the course basically is programming. While the other 50% is the theory behind programming languages and how programs are designed etc.

Soon I think I´m gonna take a pain killer cause it is hard to concentrate when moving your arm hurts all the time... :) that is all for this time...

Broken Ancle, scratched knees and glass cuts...

Well it can´t get any better than this, that is sure. Steph broke her ancle last night when she fell, because she was wearing very high heels. At first it didn´t seem as if anything was wrong, just like a twisted ancle I was told today. Later however she was unable to walk at all and then today when the girls went to the hospital with her, the X-ray showed that she had broken it badly. She might have to have surgery... tomorrow we will get to know if the surgery is necessary or not. At the same time as when she fell, she cut her hand a little bit on some broken glass. But it was still a good night out...

Running through the bushes to catch the bus from the Uni bus-stop Annika fell and scratched her leg, which now has become infected. So it was a hell of a night last night.

However I remain unscratched, un-hurt and perfectly fine. The night out was a lot of fun even though we had our times of damage. Tomorrow I think we might be headed for the coast if it is sunny and that will be a lot of fun and nice to get out there again.

Today we went to the Belconnen Mall and I got myself a haircut, the regular short cuts I always get. The hairdresser who was cutting my hair on the other hand was very unusual. She just couldn´t stand still and kept shaking her hands without stopping. She was also jumping around, so it was quite interesting to watch her. Finally we have a toaster now, instead of having to do the toasts in a hot frying pan. Now the only thing left to do is to check out what we are going to have for dinner...

That´s about everything that has happened today and yesterday night...

Week 1 of Uni...

So this has been the first real week of Uni. It is nice, however we are no learning anything in the lectures yet, as most lectures have been about what we are going to do and what the subjects themselves are about. For example in IT lectures we have "The Chocolate Question". This is just any random question that our lecturer asks at the end of each lecture and the question is about the lecture itself and the first to answer this question gets a bar of chocolate. I believe he asks these questions at the end of the lectures because it will keep people coming to the lectures rather than skipping them and watching them online on the Moodle site.

However it has been a very very hectic week. Lots of work, for example watching Gossip Girl (A TV serie) has been very exhausting. The watching of Supernatural (another TV serie) has also made our brains go into shutdown mode. This is the girls fault...because they love watching TV shows. But now I believe it is time to start studying and having a look at what I am actually doing. Fortunately enough for me, I have already done one of the units before and therefore I should have a very easy time in this subject. The unit that I have done before is the Introduction to Economics. Since I did this in the IB it should be easy. I am have also started looking for a job a Belconnen Mall, anything is good and I will be handing out resumé´s on Friday.

Today it is wednesday, there was supposed to be a pool party, but as not enough people were going this did not happen. It would have been fun though to have a pool party, perhaps there will be another one next week. Next week it is O-week for ANU and that ofcourse means more parties for the universities of Canberra. As the UC people still have to study I hope that the partying will be kept to a limited on the campus area as it´s hard to sleep if there´s people everywhere.

A quite funny thing happened the other day. Ash (a roomate) was washing the dishes and her hair kept falling down, so she asked me to get her a headband. As I could not find a headband I had no choice but the keep her hair up myself. However while doing so the rest of the people walked into our apartement. I was told that "I was already in Ash´s spell". Whatever that means... anyway all the people here with me are cool :) and we are having a blast prettey much all the time.

Since we are heading out tomorrow night again. I shall bring with me my new camera and take as many pictures as possible, to show everyone what goes down in Canberra City during the night :)

That´s all and keep the parties coming...