Posted by alexandra_k on May 14, 2014, at 1:49:51
In reply to Re: focus..., posted by alexandra_k on May 13, 2014, at 2:53:48
well... i had an amble around the book store and the prize for the clearest course books goes to... engineering. lmfao.
i had a... very informal lunch with some people today... very nice... to chat about politics and university politics and... stuff... there is a bunch of university politics going on behind the lecture notes thing. everyones fearing for loss of jobs... trying to justify the existence of in person lecturing etc etc etc... i think... given the climate... the thing might be to approach the lecturers more discretely and ask for them to help me out, yeah. to... trust in their... love of their field... which is probably lurking in there somewhere even if university politics gets in the way sometimes... as to the significant majority of first years who are only there as the line of least resistance, or in order to get industry job, or they are (probably through no fault of their own) just dumb as dirt, really.
i'm going to try and get to at least one of the lecturers i'm meant to take next year... see how it is for myself. i've been... going off stuff i've heard students say because i had nothing else to go off... but i should know better... they're probably magnifying their story as they see me react to what they are saying... it could be that they never even made it past the first week and the attendance is more sparse now... who knows...
anyway... only 2 more lectures to get through and then it is back to what will hopefully be some lighter going stuff. less equations / novel symbols and a bit more story. hopefully. learning about species of particles and the evolution of heat lmfao. about how reactions are driven (all aristotelian like) by their desire to reach a state of lower energy. aaaaaaaaah, chemistry. not theoretically driven - just theory rationalized, apparently. i've never heard of a theoretical chemist...
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